What's the Plan?

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The Heir of Haligan Island sighed as he rubbed his hand over his face. It had been almost a week since the attack and since Dagny left to get help from the Rebellion, and he had been spending all that time trying to come up with a plan to save his parents, Shadow, and their men. So far, nothing was coming to him, and it only got more and more frustrating. Indigo Phantom popped out of nowhere about 2 days after the attack telling him that he spoke to Grey a few hours ago that day. He told him how his mother was imprisoned in their house...their own house, that his father was in the prison with the other soldiers, and that Shadow was trapped in the stables.
Indigo had also told him that the leader of the pirates interrogated his mother and used his father as leverage. She had his father whipped in front of Grey just to get her to talk, and fury raged inside of him and strengthened his determination to save his parents, their men, Shadow, and the island. They had to. There was no other option, and failure was not an option. That meant that they needed a solid plan before doing anything. Like Indigo told him Grey said, these pirates were capable of anything, and that meant that nothing was to be done until Lila and the Rebellion arrived with Dagny.
He hated that it was such a long trip and that his parents would have to wait so long before being rescued, but that only gave him more motivation to take back his home and stop these pirates from causing anymore harm. His parents wasted no time in rescuing him from Rhenco, and now, he had to do the same.
“Hey, big brother,” Kari said as she walked up to him causing the Heir to look at his youngest sister. He could see the bags under her eyes, and he knew she had been having a hard time sleeping just as he and Ingrid did. None of them would until Grey and Brandt were freed.
“Hey,” he said looking up from his notes and a map as she sat on the log next to him. “You find anything?”
“Nope, just the usual,” Kari said as she sat down next to him. “They bring Mom out when she needs to relieve herself, but that’s it. Dad and the others are still in the prison. They haven’t come out once. There’s still no sign of Shadow, either.”
Kari had been one of the look-outs trying to keep an eye on Haligan Island...to make sure no one would do anything to their parents. No matter how many times they all reminded themselves that they were captured by slavers and that the slavers would keep them alive, Kari still wanted to make sure. Plus, Sven suspected that it was because his baby sister simply wanted to keep busy and focus on their parents and not on missing them or Dagny, but he didn’t bring it up.
“I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing,” Kari said after a moment.
“Shadow’s a Night Fury,” Sven said, “and as much as I hate thinking this, they will want to keep her alive because she’ll definitely get them some money.”
She nodded. “Did you come up with anything yet?”
Sven sighed as he ran a head through his head. “I have some ideas,” he said as he picked up his notes. “First, I thought that maybe we could recreate the Castaway Dungeon raid on a smaller scale, and once the Rebellion gets here, the Nixes can create three portals: one to the house, one to the prison, and one to the stables. Each group could go through and grab whoever they’re grabbing and come back here, where we can regroup and then attack.”
“That sounds like a great plan,” Kari said. “What’s the problem?”
“Well, Hroar told me that the pirates would notice very quickly and that could give them time to prepare for battle,” Sven replied.
“Ohhh...and we want to avoid that.”
“Yup, so that’s out, and Nixes can only only open portals to places they’ve been too. Other than Aunt Akkey, I can’t remember any other who’s been in our house or the prison or the stables.”
“Right...I forgot about that. Alright, well, what else did you think of?”
“Well, then, I thought of maybe just doing a full-on assault, but...that could give these guys time to retaliate and they could threaten Mom, Dad, or any of our men.”
“Yeah, we’ll want to avoid that too.”
“Yup.” He groaned as he placed his face in his hands. “This is the worst. Nothing I’m thinking of is working!”
“Hey, hey,” Kari said as she wrapped an arm around Sven, “it’s okay. If anything, it’s a good thing. You’re taking your time and thinking about every single possible outcome. That’s what a Chief does, Mom has said so herself.”
Sven sighed. “Yeah, but what if I can’t think of anything?” 
“You will. You’re my big brother, I know you too well. Who knows? Maybe the answer will come to you in your sleep.”
“Yeah, that would be a gift from Hel,” Sven said.
“Well...Hel’s a baby...so maybe Baldur?” Kari said.
Sven sighed and chuckled. For as long as he could remember, Dagny and Kari had always found a way to make him laugh. If he was ever in trouble with their parents as a kid, one of them would always sneak up to their room and jump on him and tickle him until he laughed. Then after Rhenco, they tried to distract him with dragon races around the island. Now, while one of them was traveling for a couple weeks, the other was there trying to encourage him.
“Yeah...maybe...” he said. The Heir looked at his notes again trying to find the answer. “Aunt Nala was able to project mental pictures and that allowed the Nixes to get to the Castaway Dungeon, so if she’s at the Jaw that could help.”
“Especially when they need to come here and not to Haligan.”
“Right...”
“What are you thinking?”
“The portals and all that is not the problem. It’s the matter of how to rescue the prisoners without giving the pirates retaliating.”
“We don’t want to give them that chance to act...to take them by surprise. That’s...how did Mom say the Rebellion broke out of the Dungeon again?”
“Aunt Seasick had the keys to the cells. She was able to break them out...” His eyes widened. “They attacked...from the inside.”
Kari’s hazel eyes widened. “You have an idea,” she said.
“Well, don’t get too excited yet,” Sven said as he began to write it in his journal. “I’ll need to talk to the council about it, but it’s a start. We could keep the plan where we open portals into the stables, our house, and the prisons, but instead of coming back here and giving them time...we could...”
“Attack from the inside!” Kari said excitedly. “We each hide in those spots, and once we have the signal we can attack. We would take them completely by surprise.”
“There’s the matter of Mom, Dad, and the men not having their weapons, but...Lila probably has extras. We can give them those when we get them out.”
“And...” she placed a hand on Sven’s hand, “how would we get the keys to free them?”
“Oh...right...” Sven said sighing.
“But it’s okay! It’s okay! This is a start. We can figure out what’s available to us, no problem.”
Sven sighed. “I hope you’re right, Kari,” he said. “I really hope you’re right.”