How To Train Your Dragon: Broken

Traitorous Trust

Kari and the gang followed Eret through the fort to the other side, where the Banquet Hall was. The angry growls and threats of the caged dragons roared around them endlessly. Fishlegs glanced around, the angry dragons making him worry even more.

"So," Kari tried to start a conversation, "This is a nice fort you've got here."

"Thank you," Eret held open a door to let the riders inside, "Took my men and I nearly a year to build."

"I beat that I could build a better fort," Tufnut thought out loud, which was received by an elbow punch to his side from Andres.

As the riders stepped into the Hall they were greeted with an amazing sight. In the center of the room was an elongated table that was decorated to the brim with fancy looking cloths. Even the chairs looked decked out.

These guys must make a lot of money selling dragons, Kari thought angrily.

"Please, sit." Eret gestured towards the table.

"You have so little food," Andres pointed out.

"It's perfectly alright," Eret smiled, "We have more. We just haven't brought it all out yet. Sit. Sit."

Something really bad is going to happen, Fishlegs groaned as he sat down.

The others sat down and, despite being only somewhat hungry, they ate.

"So, when did your village get destroyed and by whom?" Eret asked as he walked to the head of the table.

"Romans," Andres answered noted how many of Eret's men were in the room standing.

"Really?" Eret didn't sound convinced, "I didn't think Romans would come this far up north."

"Who knows how they think?" Ruffnut voiced her option with a mouth full of food.

"Right," Eret looked over to some of his men, "Fetch our guests some of our "special"." The men nodded and left.

Special? Fishlegs didn't like the sound of that, "Uh you know, I think I might go take a nap. Where would the beds be?" He stood up, knowing that something wasn't right.

"But you've barely touched any food," Eret's smile was now suspicious, "I thought that you all were hungry?"

Red flags started going off in Kari's head, Fishlegs was right to be wary. "No, my friend is right," she stood, "Besides we shouldn't take all of your food."

"Ah!" Tuffnut yelped, a sharp pain exploded in his body. He pulled a foreign object form his body, it was a dart. "Uh...does anybody else feel...sle-?" Tuffnut dropped to the ground.

The other Dragon Riders spun around and saw a group of Eret's men advancing towards them with bow darts.

Kari pulled out her axe and deflected the darts aimed at her but the others weren't so lucky. Ruffnut and Andres were hit almost immediately and it took two to bring Fishlegs down. Kari did her best but now all the darts were aimed at her.

One of the men gave a hard blow on his blow tube. The dart flew through the air and grazed Kari's axe. The sharp end dug into shoulder and released its sleep inducing toxins. Kari started to feel numb and her vision got blurry but she tried to keep fighting. Her axe slipped out her hand and banged against the floor. Kari eventually lost the feeling her legs and she dropped to her knees before finally passing out.

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Pain exploded inside Kari's head as consciousness started to swim back. She groaned loudly as she blinked her eyes open.

"You know, if Astrid was here she would say that we need to work on our stealth skills," a familiar voice spoke, "They saw us flying into the forest."

Kari looked around. When her vision came back she saw Snotlout staring at her, an "I knew that this was a bad idea" look on his face. "Sno-Snotlout?" Kari could barely speak.

"Morning sleeping beauty," Snotlout smiled sarcastically, "Welcome to Dragon Hell."

Kari pushed herself up. They were somewhere dark, very dark. The sad and angry cries of dragons echoed all around them. She held her head, it was pounding with pain.

"Ugh," Andres, who laid next to them, "What...what happened?" he blinked his eyes opened and slowly sat up.

"We got caught," Snotlout said plainly.

"Ugh, I knew that they were being t nice," Fishlegs ushed himself up and tried to shake off the effects of the darts.

"I thought that my acting skills were on pare," Tuffnut sounded a little hurt.

"What acting skills?" Ruffnut asked.

"Why did they put us all in one cell?" Kari wondered.

"All the others are filled with dragons," Snotlout explained," Including ours."

Andres scooted over the bars and tried to find Stormtwister but the place was so dark that to you couldn't see two feet in front of you.

"Meatlug!?" Fishlegs called out, "Meatlug are you there? It's me Fishlegs!"

'Fi...Fish...'

"Meatlug!?" Fishlegs wasn't sure if he should feel happy or sad, " What's wrong girl?"

"They knocked out the dragons with Dragon Root Arrows," Snotlout was clearly upset about being captured, "We haven't been down here to long before they threw you guys in here."

'Guys?'

"Toothless!?" Kari lit up, "Toothless where are you?"

'Over here.'

The riders had no idea where "here" was. They tried to look for the Night Fury but he blended to well into the ark area. "Are you okay?"

'Yea,' Toothless groaned a little, 'But what are you guys doing here?'

"We came looking for Hiccup, Astrid, Stormy, and you," Tuffnut explained, "I guess you can probably guess how that went."

"Toothless what happened?" Andres asked.

'Astrid and Stormy came to see Hiccup and me,' Toothless tried to remember what happened, the last bit of the Dragon Root effects still lingered in his body, 'I saw a strange looking boat following them and went to tell Hiccup. But I felt a sharp, stinging pain and I lost all control of my body.'

"Dragon Root arrow," Fishlegs confirmed.

'I called out to warn Hiccup but...they were still caught.'

"Is Stormy here?" Kari asked.

'No,' Toothless shifted his weight around, 'He managed to escape. I'm guessing that he's flying back to get Stoick and the rest of Berk.'

"Oh thank Thor!" Fishlegs sighed with relief, "Help is coming!"

"If Stormy can follow Toothless' scent properly," Snotlout leaned back against the wall, "He may be a Tracking Class dragon but he can't keep mind on anything he's tracking."

"Well just have to pray that he can do it," Andres sat back from the bars.