Chapter 29
(3 years, 5 months later)
Hiccup Pov:
"It has been three years since we have seen the others, and now we are going back to school. We don't know what they look like, and they don't know what we look like," I comment to Astrid.
"Yes it has, I wonder if we will recognize them. The only contact we have had was when Jake dropped the new Motherboards off with Snotlout. We then went there and got ours and then installed the new OS. Along with the phones and that time they say they did not even see them. The only person they saw was Emma who was dropping it off," Astrid comments back.
"Yeah, thing is, we only know their identities, and not how they look. I wonder how everyone has changed. But still, I can't believe the software that Jake came up with. He built us solid backgrounds that can't be discerned from real backgrounds," I start out.
"I am a child of a family that lives on a neighboring island and I am studying abroad here, along with my Fiancées. My name is Fury Vast," I introduce myself.
"Whereas I am a family from the same island also studying abroad with my Fiancées. My name is Freya Fearless. Our friends are one Jake and Emma Wolf. Harper Surval is your sister and she comes from the same island as the Wolf's. You then have Hunter as Haydon Fort and Snotlout and Mia as Sir Ulgerthrope Rhaelpe and Elmia Visercherous who are also Fiancées from the same island, but the twins," Astrid says as she starts to laugh, as do I.
"I must agree with you on that. The twins, Tuffnut as Shtuffnut Ohmsffnut Elfffnut, and Ruffnut as Cackleffnut Grangruffnut Elfffnut. Are they even trying to hide, their names are in there as well. It is Laughable," I agree.
"Honestly, you two need to cool. Remember, stick to your backgrounds and stay like that. If it is found out that you two are who you are, let alone the rest, then you all are done for. Now, there are a few people who are there to watch you, but do not know who you are or your names. They are Fishlegs Ingermen who is a trainee for Stoick and one Charlie Firewest. We don't know if anyone from who tried to kill you from last time is there though," Thorfinns reminds us.
"Ok, but who is this Firewest person again?," Astrid asks.
"Oh, right, they are my apprentice," Thorfinn tells us with a smile nearly creeping us out.
"Yeah, we get it, now where will we be staying?," I ask, curious. We were on a ship heading for Berk during the night. The program silently hacked the registry of the island, so not even Stoick new our true identities, and said we had arrived on a ship. The only way to find out was to question the passengers.
We were not allowed to know how the others would arrive or when. We saw a cliffside in front of us, and as we approched I noticed someone climbing down. "Thorfinn, stop the boat, there is someone on the cliff," I whispered as silently as I could.
He was shocked at that and did so. With that, in the pitch black outfits we wore, we headed to the front of the ship and watched the person. Once they got to the rocks, they dived under, and never reappeared. "They may have seen us, follow me," Thorfinn said as he dived in, to which we obliged, knowing the ship had its anchor down.
As we followed Thorfinn, we saw an underground cavern, so we surfaced first. "Follow me, but stick to the shadows, we don't know what this is," Thorfinn informed as. We nodded and dived back down.
Entering the cavern, we surfaced as close to the outside as we could, away from the land part. But, we were not as silent as we hoped. "Whose there?!," Someone yelled, grabbing a light and pointing it at us. From what we saw though, it seemed this person lived here alone.
We dived before the light showed us, and we swam towards the shore. As we got there, we got ready for a fist fight, against the man standing at almost 7 feet. I myself was only 6 foot, Astrid 5'9, and Thorfinn who was even smaller at 5 foot. But he could break a Iron sword over his leg so there was that.
"Fury? Freya?," The person asked, making us freeze.
"Who are you?," We asked, wary.
"It's Hayden," The person said, surprising us. This was Hunter?!
"Wait, if that is the case, why are you here?!," We asked. We agreed to never tell others where we were hiding as a precaution. It would save us a lot of trouble in the long run. We climbed on shore and sat down at a table as he began telling us his story.
"I live here, ever since the incident with the house. My tunnel led me to the cliff and I jumped off. Breaking a leg in the process. From there, I lived off rations until I was sure I would be alright, setting up my equipment. Then I hunted fish and lived off of that for a while. The smoke would vent out through a shaft in the rock. It also lets me tell the time of day," He says, pointing to a black part on the wall.
"I don't get it, whats there?," I ask.
"I set a mirror up on that ledge, when it is light out, it reflects onto the ceiling and lets me know. It also lets in noise from the outside to alert me of helicopters and ships. But, what are you all doing?," He asks us.
"We were sneaking onto the island from where we have been living. It is a fishing island that is visited from time to time so we had to be careful of people," Astrid starts.
"Yes, it is a well known fishing island. Thankfully though, Thorfinn here had a secret base there," I finish.
"I see, well, you best move your boat and soon. Ever since that terrorist attack, Stoick has had patrol boats going around the island. Mainly to stop people from sneaking on. So I would move quick if I were you," Hunter informs us.