Chapter XC: Song

Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, and the remaining members of the Furious Flurries were in quite a panic to see the state of Hiccup's health when he was brought back to the castle.

"Hiccup!" Valka exclaimed. She called over Jessica and Rapunzel and looked her son over.

"These are Snaptrapper bite marks; Jessica, I need you to drain the poison from his blood; Rapunzel, I need you to heal the holes the Snaptrapper's teeth punctured in his skin, his wing will also have to be bound for the bones to heal." Valka told them and she hurried off to get something to bind Hiccup's wound, and was quick to come back with cut up canvass meant to be put on ships for sails and slathered them in a healing balm.

Jessica, in the meantime, was busy draining the venom from Hiccup's wing and spitting it into a clay pot.

"Oh, Hiccup, you're going to owe me dearly for this." She murmured, pulling a disgusted look on her face. Not that Hiccup could hear her anyway, as he was unconscious.

With the venom drained, Rapunzel sang for him and that patched Hiccup up quite nicely, but the bones were still broken and that was when Valka came in with the canvass and bound Hiccup's wing. After her quick task was done, she spoke with a sigh: "Someone is going to have to tell him that when he regains consciousness he won't be able to revert back to human form until the wing has healed."

"Why is that?" Rapunzel asked.

"He won't be able to lose the wing if he does try to return to human form and the change will be painful. When I was in school, I knew this one girl who could turn into an eagle, and she did have an incident where she ended up breaking a wing herself. She was pretty miserable during that time. Now, we've done all we could for him, so we better get inside." Valka told them, and she led the group back inside. However, it wasn't like Hiccup was being left all alone, as Valhalla, Toothless, Silfrmáni, and Braveheart were there to keep him company.

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When Hiccup woke up the next morning, the sun was beating down on his navy and violet scales, and with Toothless looking down at him, purring.

"I'm glad you're okay. That Snaptrapper nearly killed you, but the poison is out of you now, the bite marks it gave you have been healed, but the bones are still broken." Toothless told him.

"I've also heard the humans say that you can't turn back into a human until your wing had been healed." Valhalla added. Hiccup set his head back down for a while. This was just great, he was grounded, but he was still stuck in his dragon form, but then he noticed that Silfrmáni was still with them, he looked up to her and told her: "I remember what you did to Drago. You were amazing, and you were the one who drove him away. Thank you for that, to see you stand up to him is something that will stay with me."

"You can consider yourself on a good road for redemption." Braveheart added.

Silfrmáni was taken aback, but she was clearly happy to have heard this; but the attention soon turned back to Hiccup.

"He should really eat something." Braveheart stated, looking down at him. Toothless and Silfrmáni urged Hiccup onto his feet and followed the other dragons to the cliffs overlooking the water. One after another, the dragons dove from the cliff and started bringing up fish, and a plethora of them, until they had enough to call breakfast all around.

"Go on, Hiccup, eat to your heart's content." Valhalla told him. The thing was that Hiccup didn't feel like he had much of an appetite. His wing ached, he felt a bit sick, and he was exhausted. After just eating one fish he felt his appetite come back, but he ate slowly to compensate for his nausea.

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Inside the castle, Elinor was in a slight row with Merida. The queen took one look at the scar Merida now bore and insisted that she should get it healed, but Merida argued that it was a badge fit for a warrior, and as far as the Vikings were concerned, scars are to be worn with pride.

"It's disfiguring, and it is not fit for a princess!" Elinor retaliated

"Ye can say the same thing with Dad and Hiccup's missing legs!"

"Merida!"

"Well it's true!"

Rapunzel entered the room and suggested that they compromise, she would fix Merida a potion that would heal the scar, but it would still leave a mark behind. To this, Merida agreed, and so did Elinor after much hesitation. So Rapunzel quickly fixed the potion and slathered it on Merida's wound, the scar healed, but the jagged mark remained. Merida thanked Rapunzel, and ran outside to find Hiccup. Only, Iago stopped her:

"Princess, I think I've got something for you and a brilliant idea!" Iago told her.

"What will that be?" She asked. Iago flew down and dropped the Dragonstone in her hand before making a perch on her shoulder. Merida looked to him and asked: "Now, tell me about this brilliant idea o' yers."

"When I was with Jafar, he told me of a legend about something known as: The Cave of Wonders. The legend says that only one may enter, 'a diamond in the rough' this person is referred to. Now inside the cave there is a treasure beyond imagination, but isn't for the taking, except for a lamp. However, the cave from the story turned out to be the cave that Hiccup went through during the Triwizard Tournament, and that Aladdin boy found that lamp. I hope he hasn't used up his wishes though."

"So what're ye plannin', Iago?" Merida asked.

"I've got something in mind for Jafar. You see he is the most power-hungry being I know of. I'll find a way for him to get back to Agrabah and team up with Aladdin! I believe that he's a clever one, we'll find a way to outwit Jafar as I bait that villain with a quest for more power."

"Now why would I want him more powerful?" Merida asked.

"I've done some reading on genies, and I've heard legends that there are a few rules that genies have to follow: they can't bring people back from the dead, they can't make people fall in love, and they can't kill anyone! So, princess, I propose that I will lead Jafar on his quest in finding Aladdin's lamp and steal it from him. It may lead him to become more powerful, but there are prices for him, and once he is contained in his own lamp, I will fly back to you." Iago replied.

"Go, Iago, and if ye can pull this off, I'll reward you handsomely." Merida replied. With that the parrot took off and she found her way outside.

The first thing she noticed was that Hiccup had moved, or had been moved, and so she resorted to looking around until she found him laying down at the cliff side. With the Dragonstone in hand, she approached him, sat down and showed him that she had the Dragonstone.

"It's good to see that you're in better shape than I am." Hiccup spoke.

"Well it appears that yer well enough to be moving now." Merida replied.

"I don't like complaining, but I'm not feeling that well at all. If anything, I feel sick, and then there's still the broken wing. What exactly happened after I lost consciousness?"

"Jessica drained the poison from ye, vampire style; Rapunzel sang for ye, healing your skin; and yer mum wrapped up yer wing."

Hiccup settled into the grass some more, and Merida laid back with him and spoke: "Me Da' is plannin' a celebration for our victory against Mor'du an' Drago. I think he's even written a song."

Hiccup let out a chuff for a laugh, and Merida added: "However, he doesn't want the party to happen if yer not well enough to be a part o' it."

"You can tell him that he shouldn't hold off the celebration because of me." He replied.

"I will then." Merida replied.

A moment of silence passed between them as they were laying on the grass, but then Merida asked Hiccup: "Have ye ever dreamed o' just turning into a dragon one day and no' turning back until ye've flown all over the world?"

"Sometimes, Merida, I dream of turning into a dragon one day and I don't turn back at all. Tell you what, if we follow through on this engagement, and if you fancy it, we could spend the honeymoon flying around the world as dragons." Hiccup replied with a gummy grin.

"It does sound nice…" Merida trailed off.

"Oh dear, there's a 'but' isn't there."

"I still can't picture myself being with ye. Hiccup, I think I… No, it's stupid."

"Jack won you over, didn't he?"

"I'm not sure, but I do miss him dearly." Merida replied. Hiccup laid a forefoot over her hands, which were still holding the Dragonstone, and a bolt of magic shot through him, and he let out a shocked roar.

"Hiccup, what is it?" Merida asked. Hiccup searched through himself and announced: "I'm better! The stone, it healed me! Unwrap my wing, please!"

Merida did and Hiccup shot into the air and circled around the castle before landing in front of Merida and now they were off to find his false leg.

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They were celebrating now. Hiccup was human again, with his prosthetic back on his leg and as promised, Fergus had a song to fit the feast:

I've hunted for him high 'n' low; I've looked him in the eye.

I've dreamt about the perfect way, tae make this devil die.

Come taste ma blade ya manky bear for gobblin' up ma leg!

Then my daughter found ya, and she crushed ya, she would've hung yer noggin' on a peg!

Mor'du, Mor'du

Mor'du, Mor'du!

You're gone and dead, and fer my daughter we dance 'round yer grave.

Mor'du, Mor'du

Mor'du, Mor'du!

Now the time has come for all of us tae celebrate Merida!

The song continued on to praise the princess and there was another to praise Hiccup as Merida's guardian for the battle. The whole gathering ate and drank heartily too.

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Drago had entered the room where Pitch Black was waiting for him. At his sides, there were Jafar and Gothel, and he got up when he noticed that Mor'du was not with Drago.

"Where is he? Where is Mor'du?" Pitch demanded.

"He gave it his all, and the little red-haired brat and the dragon killed him by crushing him with a large stone."

"NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!" Gothel wailed. She did have romantic relations with him and once thawed his heart when Elsa froze it years ago.

"What?! RELEASE EVERY NIGHTMARE WE HAVE! HOW DARE THE CHOSEN ONES HARM MY FAMILY! I SHALL GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES THAT WILL MAKE THEM WAKE UP PALE WITH FRIGHT! THEY WILL BE AFRAID WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT! NOW!" Pitch roared.

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Jafar preoccupied himself by reading in his room when he heard a squawk, he turned and found Iago.

"You treacherous parrot! You have been a fool to return here after what you've done to me!" He snarled.

"Oh, and here I brought you a gift!" Iago replied and he spoke of a lamp a boy found in the cave of wonders. Jafar's eyes went wide as Iago told him: "Yes, this is exactly what you're thinking. Now, let's go back to Agrabah."

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