Scattered Hearts (~The Big Four/Hiccelsa~)

Chapter 13 : Assistance

My head was feeling dizzy like it never stopped. I tried my best to pull it off and I felt so relieved after I did so. The last thing that I could remember was trying to escape the catastrophic as it was trying to kill us.

Speaking of such a thing, WHERE am I? When I put to find it out as my intention, I found myself lying on comfortable and soft warm bed. I used all my strength to lift my weak body. During the process, I groaned. Feeling a sharp pain in my chest like I've been stabbed multiple times by daggers. Thing is, it's getting worse as I managed to make my body stand while my legs were resting. This forced me to lay down.

I noticed that a wound on my chest got bandaged almost every part of it. When I did, I kept wondering where was my armor. Then, someone appeared by the door. I couldn't recognize her face as I never seen her before. When I tried to get up from the bed, she stopped me from doing so.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." She spoke with low tone. I grunted in pain. Maybe I should listen to her if I'm not trying to hurt myself.

"Where am I? And who are you?" I asked, feeling a bit terrified when I looked at her standing in the shadow within the door.

It's an old woman.

She took a step forward from it. After that, her face has revealed. I'm feeling nervous from the inside. But from the outside, I did my best not to look like one.

"Tell me, child. Do you remember anything before any of this...?" She stood near my bed and gave a weak smile.

I didn't return that smile. Instead, I did what she told me. My mind couldn't find any memory that can be related to my current conditions. It gave me another sharp of pain in my head when I thought about it.

"I... I can't remember..." I replied with a sad look on my face as I couldn't remember what happened to me.

"You can't? Or you won't?" She asked, with a raspy voice as she spoke to me.

There's something disturbing my mind. Why I couldn't remember about it? I gazed my head down, facing my legs that covered by blanket which it took its time to heal. Man, I must've gotten hurt pretty bad although my mind couldn't find out about the 'accident' that caused me like this. Thanks to the old woman, chances of dying had gotten low on me. If it weren't for her, I'd probably be dead by now.

"Thank you... uhh..." I thanked her but couldn't think of her name which made my sentence unfinished.

"Gerda. Call me Gerda." She said, introducing herself and giving a warm smile to my face.

"Umm... My name is Hic-" A loud sudden cough appeared in my throat as it cut off my sentence.

I coughed really loud and almost spit some blood on my palm as I covered my mouth with it. That's surprising me. I looked at my palm. It's terrified me when I stared at it. I sighed heavily and blinked my eyes for once.

"You need some rest. A LOT of rest, child." She said, emphasizing the word 'a lot'.

"Where's Toothless?"

"What...?" She asked, looking confused by my question.

"My dragon. Where is he?" I said, trying to make her understand what I was talking about.

"You mean that black creature with wings? He's outside, looking after a girl. He's probably sleeping by now." She replied.

A girl? She might be Elsa and Toothless was looking after her?! Was she telling the truth? I need to confirm this.

With all the strength that I had within me, I got up while ignoring the pain that was trying to kill me. Gerda stopped me on my track but I didn't care anything about what she said. I knew that she concerned about my current condition but... no. Not until I had to see Elsa for myself that she's fine.

The pain in my chest had struck me. I dropped on my knees, trying to resist it. At the same time, I screamed in pain, causing me to lay on the floor.

Out of the blue, I heard a loud thud from outside. It's getting louder and louder like someone was running. Then, it busted the door open, letting out a loud roar vibrating the room. It was... Toothless.

He rushed towards me who was laying on the floor. He snarled at Gerda, blaming her for what she did to me. She looked panicked as she tried not to make a move or he would beat her to death. Toothless would do anything to protect me as I'm his master. You better not messing around with him especially when he sees me in danger.

"Toothless, stop!!" I commanded.

He did as I told him.

"She... she's the one who saved me. She saved US... Alright, bud?" I said, putting my hand on his head and giving him a smile.

"I'm sorry that I made you worried, bud." I apologized and hugged him before he growled at me, stating that I didn't have to.

Gerda finally calm herself at least. At the same time, she had tears in her eyes while watching our moments.

Toothless helped me to get on my feet. I thanked him for doing so. I asked him where Elsa was and he growled in response, saying that he knew about it. I smiled happily. That gave me some strengths and made me sighed in relief.

"Lead the way, bud." I said.

I carefully hopped on his back. The pain was less painful than before, thanks to Toothless's presence, knowing that he's still in one piece. Gerda helped me by putting my armor on. However, she still concerned about my condition which it might get worse. I replied to her that I'd be fine as long as I have Toothless by my side.

I exited the room through the door which led outside. As soon as I'm there, nothing had changed but non-stop fallen snows.

"Okay, bud. Take me to Elsa." I commanded.

Without any hesitation, we began making our way to her room followed by Gerda. Along the way, there's nothing but a silenced that entered the atmosphere. Sometimes I hated it every time it happened. So, I spoke up to break it out.

"Is she okay?"

"She... she's..." She muttered that made me worried of what she's going to say next.

I couldn't take any of this anymore. Gerda looked away from looking at me. She's testing my patience and it slowly getting burned out.

"She's what, Gerda...?" I asked, almost pronounced her name loudly.

I ordered Toothless to go faster, completely ignoring the woman on the track. She tried to keep up but failed eventually. As soon as we arrived, I hopped off from the dragon then quickly opened the door rather than busting it. After that, I went in followed by Toothless then I saw... her. Oh, no...

"Elsa...?" I whispered her name.

I felt like my heartbeat stopped.