A/N: Guess what? I'm alive! And so is this fic. *Narrowly misses thrown tomatoes* Okay, I know I've been gone for a while, I blame it on College and requirements. Well, I'm graduated and decided to update in between job hunting. So here it is!

Disclaimer: I own nothing

Warnings for a bit-o-pedophilio. But nothing NSFW.

Chapter 07

Smothering Outcasts Part Three: Escape

Aster was overlooking the repairs of the ship as soon as the twins and Torch returned. Although he asked about Jack and the others, he gave in the first few times, all he was getting for answers were nonsensical things like fog monsters and retrieving weapons. The twins were never one for reasonable answers, and Torch was just an anklebiter.

For one thing, they had a lot of weapons in the store room. Gobber was smithing some new ones as they were repairing. For another thing...

A Fog monster? Aster would readily believe jotuns and the kraken.

"Toothless?"

Aster raised his head from his work at the sound of Gobber's voice, and he spotted the dragon. One of the only things he believed in their story was that Toothless was with them. If the dragon was back and they weren't...

"Oh strewt." Aster went to grab some weapons, "All right boys, I'm going off to find the Captain and the two other idiots. Gobber, you're in charge till I get back, Who else wants to come with me as back up?"

Before the men can speak up, suddenly the ship was flocked by dragons, with someone standing over the largest looking one, which flew and landed on deck.

"Oh, what now?!" Aster complained loudly. The rest prepared their weapons, but this seemed to make the dragons even angrier, flames ignited in their jaws. "Hold your weapons, men! We don't wanna rile them up more and burn the Captain's ship!"

Toothless growled, getting on a defensive position.

The stranger dismounted from the dragon and crouched, slowly approaching Toothless, dropping the long staff that he held. Holding a hand out, making a gesture. Snarling, Toothless followed it with his eyes before it widening and he suddenly dropped to the ground, sounding like he was purring even.

"Oh great," Tuffnut huffed irritably. "Our only fire power is down." He complained.

Ruffnut nodded. "We're doomed."

Torch frowned. "Aw come on," he whined. "And we just escaped the fog monster, too."

The stranger stood up again and face Aster, "Why do you have a dragon?"

"I could ask the same thing to you," Aster glared at the person. A large dragon behind said person nudged the staff, the stranger flipped it with his foot and caught it with his hand, pointing it at Aster. "Whoa, whoa easy mate." The pony tailed man made a placating gesture, "We mean no harm, Toothless is one of our own. Captain took him in when he lost half his tail and was left for death."

"Half its tail? What do you mean?"

Aster pointed at the artificial part Hiccup made. "He's been found injured not too long ago. That red part is hand made from a new companion; he, our other crew mates and the Captain may be in danger as we speak." He said sternly.

Sanderson made a look, gesturing to the whole ship.

"I'm with Sandy on that one," Torch nodded. "We're not exactly doing hot ourselves."

Gobber raised a hook. "Or we're doing hot, which might be the exact problem here."

The stranger was silent for a while, before raising his staff. The flames from the other dragons' subsided and they seemed less threatening. "Since you helped their kind once," he raised his hands to his mask. "It's only right that we return the favor." He took it off.

"Wait," Aster rubbed his eyes. "You're a WOMAN?!"

~o~

Hiccup struggled, probably as much as the other guys were. But he was struggling even moreso, given the fact that it was Alvin manhandling him and though he wasn't completely sure but he swore the creep was even groping his ass.

"Can you not do that?" Hiccup hissed, trying to push against Alvin's shoulder and get away from his clutches.

Alvin smirked, not obliging. "Why, does it bother ye?" he gave another hard squeeze, to which Hiccup yelped in surprise.

"Would he be kicking and thrashing if he enjoyed it, creep?" Jack growled, kicking himself to be put down. "Hands off!"

Alvin just laughed boisterously, delighting in their annoyance. "What's up with ya, lad? Want a turn?" he asked cockily.

"What?! I— No way!" Jack glowered indignantly. "He's my best friend's fiancé!"

Snoutlout rolled his eyes, "And yet, you would've left him hanging—literally—if not for the bribe." He deadpanned.

Jack glared heatedly at the guy. "Shut it, Snot, or I'm putting you through cleaning duty for the rest of the voyage." He threatened, till he was jostled roughly behind by Alvin's lackey. "Hey! Watch it!"

"You ain't the one giving orders anymore, lad, so just shut it and keep walking."

Hiccup huffed irritably. "Where are you taking us, Alvin?" he demanded.

"Hah, it's not so much where I'm taking you as to where you're taking us." Alvin finally dropped the brunette to the ground, and went for shoving him towards a series of caverns across a mountain's rough face. "And you're gonna get us out of this place, and help me capture that masked thief that's been stealing all our supplies and messing up with my plans, so that I can sell him in a slave market."

Jack elbowed the man behind him and rushed to Hiccup's side, getting to Alvin's face. "No way am I helping you take over my ship, scumbag." He hissed. "I don't know who you think you are, but you're messing with the wrong captain."

Alvin blinked before he burst out laughing. "Ah, I think ya got it reverse, lad. You're the one messing with the wrong captain." He smirked. "Don't tell me ya never heard of the notorious Alvin the Treacherous."

Jack just raised a brow. "The treacherous?" he repeated. "How many folks or places did you have to betray to get that name?"

"What?" Alvin gawked. "You seriously never heard of me?!"

Jack shook his head.

"He went rogue himself and left Burgess," Hiccup shrugged at his side. "And while he was making a name for himself, dad banished you from Berk for treason since you managed to actually commit crime and have wanted posters of yourself and your crew in each of the twelve cities." He added snarkily. "I wouldn't be that surprise that he hasn't heard about you, with you all being stuck here."

Alvin's lackeys looked irritated at the ambassador's sass, much to Jack and his crew's amusement. Much to Jack's annoyance, however, Alvin once again had his hands on Hiccup's suggestively. "That's what I love about ya, Hamish." He cooed. "Ya keep tabs on me and remember all my dastardly deeds."

"More like dad keeps me informed since he expects me to take his place one day," Hiccup scowled, pushing against Alvin, not at all pleased with the man's advances. "Anyway, whether or not he's heard of you, we're still not helping you get back out there just to raise havoc, at Burgess or not."

Alvin glared at Hiccup, before pulling out a knife and holding it against his neck. "Are ya forgetting who has the upper hand here, toothpick?"

"Hey, back off!" Jack glowered and stupidly charged in, forgetting he was in fact, weaponless. One of Alvin's men tackled him to the ground. "Ack!"

Snoutlout rolled his eyes, "When did he get so dumb?"

"That's funny," Daggur snickered. "Especially coming from you," he grinned.

Snoutlout glared at him, "Why don't you try and say that to my face?"

"I just did." Daggur said cockily.

Then they were both hit at the head by the men that held them. "Quiet, you brats!"

Alvin pushed the knife to Hiccup's throat once more, drawing blood. Hiccup winced but his glare didn't falter. "Let's try this again, lad." He said, "You are getting us out of this blasted island, and I might even be gracious enough to return you to your father."

"With ransom, I wouldn't doubt." Hiccup scowled. "Still no. Now, I'm warning you, we're in the middle of a voyage to save my fiancé's life, so if you screw it up for us—" he trailed off as Alvin hit him at the gut. "Agh!"

Jack struggled to try and help him. "HICCUP!"

"And I'm warning you; do not test my patience, boy." Alvin glowered. "I never had much to begin with. Or perhaps, you need a little persuading?" he snapped his fingers.

The man that had tackled Jack slammed his face with a hard kick. "Argh!"

"Jack!" Hiccup yelped, struggling in his hold, "Leave him alone!"

Alvin smirked. "Then give the right answer." He said. "Come on lad, it's a give or take exchange. My men and I wanna get the hell outta this dump and you want to live to see another day; so what's it gonna be?"

Hiccup glared at the man, but as much as he hated to admit it, there didn't seem to be any other way out of this. The only thing that can help them now is Toothless flying back with reinforcements.

Thor seemed to be feeling generous today, because a plasma blast was launched right behind them. The sudden attack caught Alvin off guard and that gave Hiccup the opportunity to get away from him and the others to push off their captors and start off running.

Another blast of fire was launched at Alvin and his crew.

Jack grabbed Hiccup's hand, since he was lagging at the back, and ran with him. "Toothless, Aster, talk about finally!" he called out, reaching out a hand. Aster grabbed for it and pulled them on, before retreating. "Huh? Who's the new guy?" He cocked his head towards their new companion.

Snoutlout yelped as he and Daggur were grabbed by the larger dragon's claws and plucked off the ground, flying right behind their friends' "Who cares?!" Daggur hollered. "This is awesome!" Suddenly, it flew even faster, surpassing Jack and the others. "OKAY, NO LONGER AWESOME!"

"WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Snoutlout screamed.

"Ack, that blasted masked thief!" Alvin grumbled. "Don't let them get away!"

Aster turned his head back, offering a salute. "Getting away," he said flatly.

"Come on now, bud, you're losing them." Hiccup patted Toothless' side. "I'm sure you can go faster than this."

Jack blinked, staring at Hiccup. "Uh, half his tail isn't the original, and I heard Nightfuries are crazy fast." He pointed out, "Are you sure that's a good ide—?" he trailed off as Toothless suddenly picked up speed. "AAAAAAAAAH!"

"Crikey!" Aster scrambled to hang on, almost falling over. "MORE WARNING NEXT TIME!"

~o~

When they got back to the ship, with several dragons hovering the front with ropes attached to the ship and them, Toothless came to a halt mid air, launching Aster right to the shrouds, where Daggur and Snoutlout were also dizzily dangling from.

"Hey! They made it!" Torch cheered.

Tuffnut grunted. "Hooray." He held his hand out, which had a coin.

"Hooray." Ruffnut agreed, taking it.

"Woah!" Jack yelped, getting knocked off Toothless as well at the sudden stop. Unlike the other three though, he managed to grab hold of one of Daggur's stray rope and swing around, landing right beside the wheel, grabbing at it before he could lose face and fall over. "Okay, next time, I drive,"

Toothless landed nearby and Hiccup dismounted from him. "It would probably be slower, though." He teased.

"Are you boys all right then?" A voice spoke up.

Jack and Hiccup raised their heads, seeing their masked companion standing on the ledge at the front of the ship. "Uh, yeah, we're good. But… Who are you?" The Captain raised a brow. "And why'd you help us?"

"Jack," Hiccup nudged him, narrowing his eyes. "The guy just helped us get away, show some gratitude first." He looked at the person. "Sorry, he lacks a sense of gratitude."

Jack groaned, rolling his eyes. "Are we back to that?" he asked. "Come on Hiccup, we were just getting along. I even help you get your helmet back. Remember that?" he said, taking said helmet/

"Well," The ambassador poked him, snatching the head gear back. "maybe if you remember that my real name's actually Hamish, I'll remember that too." Hiccup said, chuckling.

Suddenly, they heard something drop. They looked forward and saw the stranger had dropped his staff.

"Uh, are you okay?"

The stranger took of his mask… And turns out, he was a she.

"A woman?!" Jack gawked, staring at the lady with a strikingly beautiful face and long braided hair, like really long, now that he's looking properly he's wondering how he missed it. He blames it on the hood she also wore. "Okay, now I did not see that coming."

"Hamish?" She asked, wide-eyed. "As in… Hamish Haddock?"

"Uhhh, yes?" Hiccup blinked, exchanging a confused look with Jack. "Shoud I… Know you?"

The woman bit her lip, looking away. "No, perhaps not. You were, after all, so young at that time, to remember…" Then, she slowly lifted her head and looked at Hiccup right in the eyes. "But a mother… never forgets."

At that, Hiccup dropped his helmet in shock.

"Ooookay," Jack blinked, looking at the two, and somehow it was only then he saw the resemblance. "Again, didn't see that one coming."

A/N: Sorry if it seemed like I didn't put much thought into the escape plan. My only thought is to get this chapter over with at last. Since this is technically the only scene that's a divergent from the original Sinbad plot, I had trouble navigating it. (Hmm, 'Travel (trouble) navigating it' Wow, that's a pun worthy of Izuki-kun from Kurobas, haha!)

I'll try, keyword is TRY not to wait too long to get the next update out.

I forgot to do something with Jack's staff... Let's just say Toothless had it with him when he took off.