The Gray Area (1/2) - A Viggo Love Story (HTTYD/RTTE)

14. Twin Watch

As Sessa fell to the ground, Viggo raced over to her. Nightshade squawked loudly, sniffing at her rider with concern. Once reaching her side, Viggo knelt in the wet grass. "Sessa!" He called her name as he felt for her pulse. To his relief, it was still there. Thunder roared above. Viggo lifted Sessa off the ground and turned to Nightshade, "we need to leave this place."

The devilish dervish hissed in agreement, lowering her neck for Viggo. He climbed on, keeping Sessa in the safety of his arms and lap. With one hand on the dragon's horn, and one keeping Sessa from falling, they ascended to the sky. Viggo let out a shrill whistle.

Lilith turned at the sound of the whistle. Noticing Nightshade flying off, she quickly began to follow. Charged with electricity, she flew beside the dervish until they'd left the storm.

• • •

Sessa woke in a state of warmth. Opening her eyes, she found herself wrapped in Viggo's arms, flying atop Nightshade. Above her, she saw the scar on Viggo's face, stretching down to below his chin. His eyes were fixed ahead, not noticing her waking. Sessa turned her head to look at where they were going.

Feeling her move, Viggo looked down in shock, "you're awake, thank Odin." There was an urgency in his voice that Sessa had never heard before, "you've been out for days."

Sessa blinked in disbelief, repeating blankly, "days..?" Confusion then struck her as she looked back up to see Viggo pulling his mask over his face. "Where are we going?"

Viggo became visibly uncomfortable at the question. "You need help, Sessa," he responded vaguely, "and I've no means to take care of you on my own, not with the state you're in."

The state she was in? What did that mean? Sessa looked down at her hands and examined them. It wasn't something she did often, but it was obviously that her skin had become even more pail than before. What the titan wing had told her was coming true, her body was beginning to fail her. Yet her emotions were in tact, for once, and she felt alive. And for the first time ever, she didn't question Viggo. She let him do what he felt he needed to. It was nice to know how much he cared.

Before long, Viggo muttered to her, "we're here." Sessa felt his body tense up as Nightshade landed, followed closely by Lilith. The scarred man hopped down from the devilish dervish, his boots thumping loudly on the wood of a landing plateform.

• • •

Tuffnut picked up a pebble from a pile he'd created on the edge of the clubhouse platform. He tossed it from the edge where he sat, sighing in boredom. "I hate patrol nights," he complained dramatically, "nothing ever happens."

"Couldn't agree more," Ruff responded, leaning lazily on the outer-side of the entrance. Barf and Belch were sleeping, all curled up and blocking the whole doorway.

Tuff threw another pebble, aiming and hitting Snotlout's hut. "Hah!" He snorted in amusement. He continued to throw pebbles at the hotheaded viking's hut, snickering each time he hit it. However, the fun soon stopped when he spotted a terrible terror flying his way. The small dragon flew right into Tuffnut, knocking him backwards.

After straightening his helmet, he untied the note that was attatched to it's leg.

If you don't stop doing whatever you're doing, I'm gonna make you regret your entire life in the morning.

- S.J.

Ruffnut watch her brother's eyes widen at the note and asked curiously, "what's it say?"

"Uh, nothing," he replied awkwardly. He quickly crumpled the paper and held it in front of the terrible terror. He flicked the dragon's tail, causing it to squeal and blow a flame, catching the note on fire. The dragon nipped at Tuff before flying away, leaving them with a small pile of paper ash. Tuff laid back on the plateform, "ugh, this blows! Oh, Thor, release us from this torturous boredom!"

As if to answer his request, lightnight began to flicker in the clouds. Tuffnut sat up and watched in disbelief. "..Thor?"

His sister rolled her eyes at him and crossed her arms. "It's not Thor, idiot, it's a skrill," she retorted, shaking her head in disappointment.

"Oh," Tuff watched the purple dragon approach with less fascinated eyes. Then, he recalled, "hey, sis, aren't we supposed to tell Hiccup if we see a skrill?"

"I don't know," Ruff responded, "do I look like Hiccup to you?"

Tuffnut observed his sister with scrunched eyebrows, then asked awkwardly, "do you..want, to look like Hiccup?"

"Nevermind," Ruff rolled her eyes again, nudging the two-headed dragon to wake up. She mounted Barf and signalled for her brother, "come on, let's check it out."

"Finally, something destructive," Tuff exclaimed as he climbed onto Belch. He punched the air and shouted, "this is what I signed up for, oh yeah." Then the zippleback flew out of the clubhouse with the twins.