The Queen's Mercenary

Chapter 17

Blood stained everywhere, the tables, the walls and the floor. Corpse of men littered the ground, the sheer numbers of them death puts even a grave yard to shame. Shallow breaths and cries could be heard in a rather feminine tone alongside screams of agony. That even death himself wouldn't dare to interfere.

"Mercy- MERCY! aahhAAHHHHHH-" silence come shortly afterwards as the once screaming man was cut silent by a black armored and masked figure. Wiping the blood off his knife with the clothes of his recent victim. His eyes slowly meet the shaken woman. To deeply paralyzed with fear to move an inch of her body.

"Ah... don't you just love it when powerless people get killed off? Hm?" He sigh sadly as he approaches the fearful woman and once he was near her he crouched down to her eye level and tilt his head slightly off to the right. "Ya... you loving doing that don't you!"

"Me-me-me-me?..... I-I have no C-clue wh-what yo-you are t-t-t-t" she stuttered miserably causing the mercenary to stand abruptly

"FOR THE LOVE GODS!" He screamed from the top of his lungs before violently kicking the chair next to the cowering woman causing her to choke up her sobs.

"please! I -I will never do it a-again!" She begged, her hands defensive above her head and her body shaking harshly

Hiccup began laughing loudly at her response. "Will never do it again? So you do know what I am talking about?!" Hiccup shake his head, a disappointed smile plastered on his face. He then lunged his hand forward and forcefully grab the inn lady neck and raise her off the ground. Both her hands held onto his own, in hopes of making him to let go of her. Her face slowly losing her color before Hiccup threw her harshly onto the wall. "You will pay for the troubles you have cost... like the rest of this... corpses." He said not pairing the evil woman a glance before throwing multiple daggers around the inn

"Please w-we only did it for the good of justice! We all saw the bounty on your heads. Especially for yourself and the former Queen's." She beg and begin justifying her actions. Her eyes were bloodshot from her crying and trauma and eye language was pleading, she doesn't want to die, her instinct for survival is kick into high gear.

"Justice? Or personal gains?" Hiccup stop to ask, only giving her slight glances to give her the illusion of unpredictability. "You have taken the risk to target us and that was already the first mistake you made crossing me!" He glared before turning his back on the foul woman and he made his way towards the exit.

"encender" Hiccup chanted before the daggers glow blood red and the woman could only stare at it in fear before the whole building ignited in flames.

"Araaaahhhhhhhh- AARRRRRAAHHHHHH!" Screams of agony can be heard as the inn collapse upon itself. Fire and rescue rush to the scene, trying their hardest to put the raging flames and the bystanders watched in horror, the screams sending chill to their spines. And Hiccup, he was no way near the scene. Vanish in plain sight

Under the cover of trees and green vegetation. The odd bunch of heroes rest. Not far from the set upon meet point that Hiccup appointed to. They were all tired, alive but extremely exhausted for the rest of the day but they must keep pushing, but for the meantime while awaiting for Hiccup's hopeful reunion, they rest for now.

Toothless howl sadly as he wonders whether or not his master will return or have completely abandoned them. Elsa gaze at the poor overgrown wolf, her blue ocean eyes lingered with a sympathetic look. She could easily understand how he was feeling right now, after all Hiccup left with no explanation, not even breath to Toothless who had been with him from tooth and nails.

"It's okay boy, I'm sure Hiccup will be back soon... he wouldn't leave us, he certainly wouldn't leave you Toothless" Elsa said reassuringly, a sad smile graced her beautiful face, her hair was tied into a simple bun and strains of hair lay rest on her face. She was laced with dirt from head to toe, for the past week she had been the dirtiest in ever but her appearance was the least of her worries.