Dragons, Humans, Gladiators, & Freedom

Chapter 4

Hiccup felt odd. He remembered darkness, but just felt off. Blinking his eyes open, a headache consumed poor Hiccup as he clutched his head in pain. He blinked a couple times to try and re-adjust himself. First thing he felt was numbness. Then it began to slowly fade as he felt something else between his fingers and on his face. It was hard but yet soft. Then his ears picked up the sound of water.

That was unusual. They had not heard that sound before while locked in their cage. Not since the boat ride that brought them to this place. That's when it hit Hiccup as his eyes sprung open.

"Toothless?" Hiccup slowly got up as he looked around for his brother. He could not see him anywhere. Fear struck the boy as he thought that those men might have killed him.

Hiccup began to look around and saw that he was in the woods. Trees stones littered the ground along with bushes. He could see a small creek that ran from under the mossy stone he was on through the trees ahead of him. They were some small fish in them but they were more like minnows that his father would use as bait whenever they went fishing.

He found that strange and weird that they would leave him outside. That's when the thought of maybe they wanted to hunt him, like some kind of animal. He heard from Dusty that some tribes did that for sport. They would allow their prey to try and run from them. Then they would go after them in the woods like they were hunting game. They would send the hounds on the trail and when the human was finally corner they would strike. A dark and cruel sport that Hiccup wanted no part of.

His thoughts were answered when he looked up to see that he was not free of his cage but instead put in another one. Above the tree lines were thick iron bars. Hiccup had seen ones that were similar to them. It was when little Hiccup was back on Berk. There was an arena that his father and Gobber would take him to, where they showed him where they kill the dragons. They wanted to show him that one day he be joining their ranks by killing a dragon here.

Hiccup highly doubted that. Even more now then back then. Back then when he was safe at home and protected by his father. Depression filled Hiccup when he thought about home. He missed his father....and Gobber, of course.

Hiccup was brought out of his thoughts when he heard a roar sound. He looked over in the direction it was coming from and thought it might be Toothless looking for him. He was about to walk towards it when he thought for a minute. It did not sound like Toothless's roar. It was a higher pitch.

Hiccup's eyes widen when he saw that out came from behind the woods was a red-ish blue Nadder. The dragon looked straight at Hiccup before it squawked 'HUMAN!' at him. The bird like dragon reared its head as Hiccup ducked from the coming blast of fire.

The bird like dragon kept screeching as she went after the boy. Hiccup ducked under and over rock and boulder to get away from the Nadder. It wasn't until he hit a dead end between some rocks. Hiccup was about to back track when the Nadder had cornered him. The angry dragon came closer as it mouth began to smoke.

Hiccup hit his back against the wall as tear filled his eyes. He was about to die. He saw the dragon reared its head and he closed his eyes to wait for the end. Instead he heard a high screech sound as a black blur came from above the rock behind Hiccup and at the Nadder.

Hiccup looked to see that it was Toothless. The Night Fury clawed at the bird dragon. They tossed and fought until the pushed off each other. They both began to circle. Toothless stopped and stood in front of young Hiccup. He growled at the Nadder to try and touch his boy. The Nadder scoffed and called him a traitor before leaving.

Hiccup was so glad to see that Toothless was alright. He ran up to the Night Fury and gave him a hug. They both cooed and purred happily. They were glad they found each other. But then Toothless began to scold Hiccup for getting into trouble that Nadder. He stopped when he saw Hiccup sadden.