Goblin

Chapter 14

It had grown dark a few hours ago.

Barf and Belch snuck their heads through the bars of their cage and looked around, making sure there were no guards around, or that the ones posted outside the arena were deeply asleep.

"Are they asleep?" Hookfang asked, growing impatient.

"I think so." Barf replied. "Should we start operation 'out of jail'?"

"Just open the cages so that we can get the heck out of here!"

Barf carefully bended his neck down to the latch of the cage and removed it as quietly as he could, before he and Belch got their heads out of the bars and pushed the door open. Then the Zippleback proceeded to remove the latches of the other cages and let the other dragons out of their imprisonments.

"Finally!" Hookfang stretched all his limbs. "I was getting all rusty in there."

"What are you complaining about?" Goblin retorted. "At least they fed you while I'm starving!"

"Guys!" Stormfly snapped. "Now's not the time!"

"We have a little problem, if you haven't noticed. We're out, but we don't know how to get out of here, we're underground."

The dragons turned to Barf and Belch.

"What?" Belch stated. "Just because we broke us out doesn't mean we know the way out!"

"Actually..." Cherry Blossom whispered shyly. "I think I know the way out." She felt nervous when the dragons set their glances at her. "My kind possesses a good memory. I think I remember how they brought me here."

"Do you?" Hookfang narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

"Knock it off, Hookfang!" Toothless growled. "We have to stick together!"

"I agree with Hookfang, Toothless." Everyone turned to look at Goblin. "As incredible as it sounds. We don't know her, how do we know she is not leading us to another trap?"

"Any better ideas?" Toothless inquired.

No reply.

"Well, then, lead the way, Cherry."

The dragons silently stalked out of the underground arena, led by Cherry. She had to make sure there were no guards around, but the path out of there was clearly drawn in her memory. However, the other dragons had a small problem.

"Toothless?" Goblin whispered.

"What is it, Gob?" the Night Fury replied.

"What are you going to do when we're out of here? You can't fly by yourself, remember?"

The dragons stopped in their tracks when he pointed that little detail out. They had completely forgotten about it. Cherry Blossom perked her ears and looked back at Toothless; he couldn't fly? She glanced at his tail, and realized one of the fins was colored red with a skull painted on it.

"Guys, we'll think about it when we've escaped." Stormfly said, looking around in alarm. "Unless you want to return to that prison, we should hurry."