Chapter 23 [CAUTION!BRUTAL]

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[CAUTION! This may be a little extreme for some people! Read at your own risk or skip to Merida's POV!]

Blood. Blood everywhere. Screams filled my ears. Panting out of my own mouth. Where am I? Why am I running? What am I hiding from? My vision is blurry, so I close my eyes. I hear someone calling my name, but he's too far away. I stopped running and lean against a wall, or something. My heavy breathing melts my chest and my ears are ringing from all the screams and noises around me. I dare to open my eyes. I'm still at Berk, hiding between houses. I'm exhausted, sweating. Why is it so hot? I try to calm but I don't even know what made me like this. Like what actually? I look down on me. My clothes are torn apart. Wounds and scratches everywhere. I bite my lip just to wince in pain because it's injured too. I find a scattered window near me and use the glass to look at my reflection. Blood and bruises everywhere. What happened? What IS happening? The wind catches my attention. What are those noises? This sounds like... Flapping wings? It's becoming clearer. It's getting louder. It's coming closer. I can't stop myself from running. Out of the gap between the houses, searching for a new hiding place. I approach the streets and I see dead bodies everywhere. Blood. Blood everywhere. Dragons in the sky. People going crazy. I duck away under a dragon, falling to the ground. This can't stop me. I need to hide. Fast! I hear a cry. I child. I turn around to see a little boy crying at his parents corpse, sitting in a puddle of blood, begging his father to wake up. My heart breaks into several pieces and my eyes widen as I notice a dragon is about to focus the little boy. I must save him. I run and grab him. Just in time. I saved the boy from the dragon and I start running again. He's screaming my name again. I look up to the sky and see him. He's riding a dragon, but now his own. I stop to watch him but suddenly.... “NOOO!”, I scream out the last bit of air as he's falling from the sky. I try to run and save him, but I can't. It's too late. He's too far away and I can't reach him over the edge of the cliff. The child on my arms is holding me back to jump after him. Another attack. I'm close to fall from the cliff but I'm able to dodge the dragon and start running again. My legs hurt. They hurt so bad. I look behind me to see if they are following us. A sudden squeal from the boy on my arms made me stop. Dead end. I can't turn back. They are coming. This is the end. A dragon is rushing towards us with a high speed. I can't. I close my eyes and scream.

Merida's POV

I find myself in Hiccups room. Screaming. Sitting straight in our bed. Digging my nails in the covers over my chest. As I realized that I was safe, my screaming turned into panting. I was sweating, like someone put me into a furnace or something. This was such a horrible nightmare. I couldn't control the tears that rush into my eyes and I covered my face with my hands. I was just happy that it's over. I sensed a soft and familiar touch on my shoulders. “Shh... it's alright, I'm here, calm down.”, his voice was charming, he rubbed his hands up and down my arms to soothe me. There was this feeling in my throat that made me think I'm going to choke. It was hard to breath and I tried to swallow my own saliva, hoping it would remove this feeling. My hands lay on my throat and Hiccup rushed in front of me and his worried face made me panic a bit. I gasped for air and he cupped my face in his hands. “Alright... Shh.... I'm here. Merida. Shh... try to calm down...“, He talked slowly and clear and I tried to follow his instructions but I couldn't. He placed a kiss on my forehead. Tears spilling down my face but Hiccup removed them with his thumbs. His green eyes looked directly into mine and he whispered confident: “Shh.. OK, breathe. Try to breathe. Breathe with me, alright? OK? One, two... inhale... exhale.” My heart felt so warm by the way he was caring for me and after a few failing attempts to breath with him I finally found my rhythm again. The feeling in my throat was gone and I buried my face into his chest. He held me tight and the only thing I was able to say under my breath was: “Sorry I woke ye.” The sunlight shone through the window on our bed. That dream... that nightmare scared the living daylight out of me... but now I am save. “Don't worry about this. Are you feeling better now? What happened? Did you have a nightmare?”, he asked and a soft tone swung in his voice. I didn't want to answer his question properly so I just nodded against his shoulder. My head rose from his chest and my eyes looked into his. My lips turned into a smile by seeing him but his smile was brighter than the sun on our bedsheets. “We should probably get ready... we need to visit yer father.”, I uttered and a strange noise followed. It made me grin and I was at the threshold of laughing. Hiccup blushed and looked away because he was embarrassed by it. “Yer tummy rumbles.”, I giggled and he rolled his eyes. “Yes. And if we won't go into the kitchen and get something to eat, I'm gonna eat you.”, he said playful and threw himself on me, causing me to squeal and laugh, and started to kiss my neck. “OK! OK!”, I yelled between laughter, “Then let's go eat something.” I pushed away and he kissed my lips before we got up to get ready. 

(A/N: Ohhhh you know what guys. The end is coming cloooooseeeer! :O I can't believe it myself! But maybe I'm talking completly nonsense right now and you have like... 10 next chapters and I would still be like "I'm not even half done yet!!!", to my friends and they would get so super annoyed about it :DD AND "How to train your dragon 2" came aout today where I'm living, but my mum has no money and won't let me spend my last 10€ to go and watch it and I am SO MAD because I got SUPER SPOILERED Q_Q I will only be able to see it next week! If you watched it, PLEASE DON'T SPOILER ME SOMEHOW Q_Q Anyways, thank you for reading my story and thanks for all the votes! <3) 

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