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The Bond of Two - last part

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Letting out another growl, Toothless leaped with all his force from where he stood as a great flamethrower struck him at his feet. Dashing in between trees, he realized that trying to stay close to where Hiccup was became useless as the Timberjack kept firing one scorching flamethrower after another, not giving him a single chance to stop for air or counter her attacks with his own lightning ball. Following his movements, several trees were cut down by the intimidating Timberjack wings and smaller rocks crushed beneath her feet as she chased Toothless around in great circles. Not even hiding behind bushes or anything that could serve as a cover stopped her from firing blindly around her, making Toothless worried that if he kept running around, dodging the attacks like this close to where Hiccup was, one of the flamethrowers might end up striking him, intentionally or not. Toothless just wished he would wake up, so that he had least could get away while he averted her attention. But no such luck as he still catched a glimpse of his human lying completely unmoving in the middle of what had become a battleground.

"What's the matter?! Can't you fly?!" the Timberjack growled while in the making of another flamethrower, spitting it out with a flinch of her head, this time making the ground beneath Toothless crack open as the rocks and dirt which was sent flying struck him powerful enough to make him twirl around several times down a hill, before he had to use his claws to stop himself from slipping over an edge, dropping a few meters down to rocky hill that surely would have caused a painful landing. Rapidly getting up on his feet, Toothless barely had shaken the dizziness from the impact off him before another wall of flames was fired towards him. Preparing to dodge again, it was too late. A painful whine emerged from Toothless as the scorching hot fire struck him, sending him flying backwards several meters before he again struck the ground in the most sudden and violent way. Quickly getting up on his feet, Toothless let out a whimper as his right front paw hurt badly, realizing something was broken in there as he couldn't stand properly on it. He had no time to pity himself however, for as soon as he no longer could run, he didn't stand a chance. Another terrible flamethrower struck him before he could even regain full consciousness, again sending him flying backwards, hitting a tree powerful enough to snap it in two. Not only was his right front paw and now back hurting terribly, Toothless had trouble remaining conscious and focusing his mind as not only were the Timberjack's flames incredibly powerful, they were also awfully hot. Only two direct hits had now covered most of his body with burn marks, and the unbearable heat of the flames was what made Toothless dizzy and not far from passing out from the exhaustement both the heat and wounds were causing him. Toothless knew it was a bad sign when he began to see double, knowing he was seconds from fainting. About to give in to the inevitable urge, he found himself roughly awakened by the pain of two sets of fangs closing around his body, lifting him up in the air as he was drawn back to his senses enough to realize that the Timberjack had trapped him within her jaws. Tightening the bite, Toothless whined madly while using his claws to scratch her bottom jaw in an attempt to get lose, but his short claws had no effect on her rock-hard scales. Before the Timberjack bit hard enough to pierce his body with a deadly outcome, she with a swing of her head, threw him out from her mouth, straight towards the rocky hill where the rocks got blood stained from the battered dragon striking them harshly. As in a daze, Toothless, with his body numb from the pain, opened his mouth in an attempt to create a fire ball, though that was something the Timberjack would not allow. Having walked up to where he laid, she with a heavy movement lifted her right foot and placed it on top of Toothless with a heavy stomp, breaking his fire ball making attempt. Slowly lowering her head until it was inches away from Toothless' injured self, rendered completely helpless beneath her claws, she let out a low sneer.

"Look at the brave Night Fury! You are so weak right now that another fire attack of mine would completely shatter you to pieces. Perhaps I should just kill you, considering your pathetic state as of now. However, I still stand by what I said earlier. It is not in my nature to kill that of my own specie. So whatever life you have left, I will leave you with. The human however, is mine." and with this, the Timberjack raised her wings and left the ground with one giant flap, leaving the battered and bleeding Toothless to himself. With a few more flaps, the Timberjack found herself back at the place where the still unmoving human laid, landing heavily in front of him with a loud thud. Feeling the anticipation arise in her body as she knew she was about to get her long awaited revenge, she couldn't help but to let out a roar as a sign of her victory. Taking a large step towards the lifeless human, she was startled by a dark figure suddenly throwing itself in front of her, painstakingly trying to stand up but fell flat on his stomach by his wounded leg giving in beneath him. The Timberjack now couldn't help but to be rendered in shock by the little Night Fury, who even now as he was more dead than alive, still stood his ground for the sake of the human child.

"You...!" she sneered at Toothless who had used what remained of his powers to get where they were from where his battered self had been left. Though he no longer was in much of a protection state, his stubborn nature told him to not give up while he still had some life left. Letting out a whimper, Toothless tried his best to at least get up on his feet, but as soon as he gripped the ground with his front paws, pain shot through his body and made him crouch together out of reflex. Letting out a sad growl, Toothless did the only thing he could think of; locking eyes with the Timberjack again, giving the same unwavering stare as before, not allowing himself to show any trace of fear.

"I won't let you..." he silently whimpered while trying his best to focus his eyes, though it was hard, for the numbing dizziness was taking its toll.

"You really are willing to give your life for that human?" she sneered with a mad voice, lowering her head to hang inches over Toothless again, staring hard at him with her one eye. Toothless, in respond let out another whimper as he lowered his head in a nod, before letting it touch the ground, from where he found himself next to passing out, the world turning blurry around him as the only thing he felt was the warmth of his blood gathering around his battered body.

"So be it then. His life for yours. The loss of you will probably serve as just as much of a painful punishment if he loves you as much as you think he does. And his father will feel the pain too.

...You have proved me your courage, Night Fury."


Toothless only listened in silence as the last sentence she spoke disappeared somewhere in his mind, before he felt the urge to let go of his consciousness take over. Letting himself slip into the darkness closing in around him, one final thought traced his mind before passing out completely;

"... forgive me ...I won't be with you anymore..."


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Shutting his eyes tightly closed as soon as he had opened them from the bright sun rays hitting his eyes, Hiccup groaned as he slowly lifted himself up to rest his body on one arm while rubbing his face with the other. Being in a daze, he wasn't sure where exactly he was or what had happened, though when he suddenly remembered, his eyes widened while leaping up on his feet, franticly looking around him while unconscious tears were forming in his eyes from the shock of his realization and instant fright by the thought of where his best friend was.

"Toothless?!" he shouted while desperately looking around him, but suddenly felt himself hunching over by a trace of pain still being left in his stomach from the harsh headbutt he had received earlier. About to touch at where it hurt, Hiccup froze as he spotted a familiar dark figure on the ground, about 30 meters ahead of him. He had no time to rejoice inside however, for the first thing he noticed was a dark and red liquid covering the dragon's body and the ground around him. Panic stroke him by the realization of it being blood, and as quickly as his one flesh and one metal leg could carry him, he made his way over to the unmoving body. Cursing under his breath at how the useless leg was slowing him down like this, he let himself fall on his knees when having reached Toothless, at first not daring to touch him as he examined with horror the terrible wounds and burn marks covering the most of his body, not to mention the marks after huge fangs that indicated something great had bitten him. Fresh blood was still streaming from the open wounds, and was now soaking Hiccup's pants and one boot as he was sitting next to his body, tears he no longer could hold back streaming from his eyes. As much as hadn't dared to touch him, he now threw his arms around Toothless' neck and clenched with all his might, sobbing and rubbing his face into the bloody scales, ignoring his face being slightly ripped from it.

"Oh no, Toothless! I'm so sorry! I'll never go out on my own again! Just please… please be okay! Please be okay!" he sobbed franticly while tightening his hold. The minutes slowly passed by as the pair were both left in their unmoving positions, Hiccup's sniffing being the only sound present. The minutes soon turned into hours, and Hiccup began feeling the cold emerging as a result of the setting sun breaking into his body. He had no idea for how long he was holding Toothless, how much he cried or how much he hated on himself for this being all his fault. Because of Toothless' thick skin, he couldn't feel if his heart was still beating, though if he had been able to, he wasn't sure if he even so would have had the courage to check. All he knew was that he would wait days or weeks even, if that was how long it would take before Toothless would wake up again.

"They've probably noticed we're gone by now... the feast must have started... the berries... I couldn't deliver them...", Hiccup whispered in a daze as he began feeling tiredness taking over. Still not feeling any motion from the dragon under him, Hiccup unconsciously let the urge to let his broken and tired self fall into sleep, still having his arms tightly wrapped around Toothless' neck.

By the next time he woke up, it was nighttime, though luckily the full moon provided some light where they laid, both covered in their own or the other`s blood. Having some trouble falling back to sleep, Hiccup suddenly flinched by a slight movement of a leg underneath him. Quickly lifting himself up to be on an arm`s length from Toothless, he watched as in a daze at one limb after the other becoming more and more movable, as the dragon beneath him let out tiny growls and whimpers, lightly stretching and twitching his legs, as if he were having a running dream. Hiccup only stared in blissfulness for a second as he felt a tremendous relief welling over him, overwhelming him to the point that tears of happiness now burst from his eyes as he once again lunched in for a tight hug, letting out several happy sighs and laughs.

"Toothless?! You hear me, buddy?!" he shouted while lightly nudging his head. Watching as Toothless' one eye slowly opened half way to look directly at him, he couldn't help but to let out a bright smile while lightly placing a hand on his head, stroking him gently.

"You'll be alright, buddy. It won't be long until we're found. We'll get these wounds cleaned up. You'll see.", he said with a gentle voice while stroking all of Toothless' blood stained body with his hands, lightly sobbing from the feeling of both an awful regret and an overwhelming relief turmoiling inside of him. Hearing a weak whimper emerging from Toothless' neck, he watched at how he painstakingly shifted his head to look ahead of him, letting out a tiny growl.

"What?" Hiccup said in a hoarse voice while looking in the direction of where Toothless was. His eyes had to adjust a little more to the dark before he soon spotted the shape of a rock, covered in the moonlight. It didn't take long before he recognized it as the place where he and Toothless had first met, the rock being what the Night Fury had pushed him towards, when he was sure he was about to kill him.

Placing his eyes back at Toothless, who did the same by looking back at him, Hiccup saw what he thought looked like a smile curling at Toothless' lips, before he closed his eyes and let his tired head hit the ground again, letting out what sounded like a satisfied grunt. For some reason, Hiccup found himself letting out a laugh at this sudden gesture, as he felt himself taken a bit by surprise. For being so sure of his dragon's indifference to nostalgic stuff, he for once happily realized he had been wrong. Toothless remembered and cherished their meeting as much as he did. Knowing this, he once again let his body lean on Toothless', as they both provided each other with their warmth to get through the chilly night.



"Hiccup! .....Hiccup!"

Toothless perked his ears at a familiar female voice from afar, followed by the sound of several flapping wings. Lifting his head, he let out a loud growl as he immediately recognized the voice from his humans' loud mouthed female friend. A few seconds passed before several of the village's dragons landed on the ground with heavy thuds in front of the poor sight that Toothless and Hiccup had been reduced to. The Vikings on their back, among them Astrid, were quick to jump onto the ground and make their way towards them, though Astrid was the first at the scene, panicly falling to her knees besides Hiccup and checking his state. Soon realizing he was alive, her frightened expression immediately disappeared as she grabbed Hiccup by his collar, shaking him violently out of his sleep.

"Hiccup, you idiot! How many times do you plan to scare me like this! What the hell were you up to?! Answer me!"

Hiccup barely caught the last half of her scolding as he found himself roughly awakened by the all too familiar angry voice of Astrid.

"Ugh... hey, Astrid." he groaned while rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Astrid having let go her hold a little. Looking over his shoulder to see the other Vikings examining the wounds on Toothless' body, he let out a worried expression by what the judgment would be. Suddenly feeling his hand being tightly clenched by another, he looked back at Astrid who seemed to have caught the seriousness of the situation as she too gave Toothless a worried look, deciding to hold back the rest of her scolding for now. About a minute passed before one of the Vikings, who was known for his doctor's skill, sighed while giving Toothless a pat on his head.

"Some of these wounds run pretty deep, but no worse than what a few stitches and some herbals should be able to heal. It'll take a few weeks until they're fully grown, though. I wouldn't recommend any flying meanwhile. But he was lucky. Whatever dragon who gave him these wounds could have easily done a much worse damage, judged by the size of the fang marks. Once again, seems like the both of you have been blessed with the protection of Thor."

"Perhaps." Hiccup said while placing his hand on Toothless' head after the other Viking had removed his.

"But I think the one I can thank the most for being alive is Toothless." he said with a smile, before getting interrupted by a rough punch to his arm.

"Don't count on it to always be like that. Didn't you hear; you almost got Toothless killed! I'm surprised at why he still keeps up with someone he always have to save." Astrid said with a sigh while getting up on her feet, helping Hiccup up as well. Only replying with a scoff at her statement, Hiccup and Astrid both went in to help lift Toothless onto one of the dragons, so that he could be carried back as fast as possible to clean the wounds before they'd get infected.


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"Toothless, no! Down, boy!" Hiccup shouted while doing his best trying to press Toothless down with his bodyweight as he tried to get up on his feet, growling and wreathing madly as in an attempt to get out of the bandages that he clearly disliked. It had only been two days, and Toothless was already eager to get out in the sun and play and fly and do whatever he had missed doing ever since his powers and spirit had gradually returned while being "hospitalized" within Hiccup and his father's house.

"Toothless, I know you want to go out there, but the order was; no pushing yourself too hard while your puncture wounds and leg is recovering. I know that if I let you outside now, you'll go crazy with energy and run all over the place out of pure joy and then end up falling or crash into stuff and worsen the damage! So be a good dragon and stay here!" he said while once again grabbing a tight hold of the restless dragon, bucking in his hold while letting out several excited growls and howls. Feeling as Toothless was way too strong, Hiccup let out a smirk while taking a deep breath, intentionally letting go his hold a little, causing Toothless to break lose and make a dash towards the door.

"Toothless... you go out there and no fish for you!"

Hiccup had to contain himself from not letting out a laugh at Toothless who with a rough movement, paused a jump in mid air as it caused him to land on the floor with a tumble, turning around to let out a whimper and hanging ears that said; "I'm sorry.", in the most understandable way. Even not understanding human speech, the words "no fish" was among the words he had picked up on the meaning of, and he knew enough to know that those words was something that happened when he had done something wrong, and was not something he would risk happening if he could avoid it.

"Tsk, some proud creature you are. Food is more important than freedom." Hiccup scoffed while pulling out a fish from a basket in which he had been hiding, predicting a situation like this would occur as soon as Toothless would gain some of his health and restlessness back. Reaching out his hand, he let Toothless grab bites of the fish while gently stroking his head, smiling at the satisfied grunts he would give as he enjoyed being petted. His smile immediately turned upside down though, when he glanced over the bandages covering most of Toothless' body. Not having been much close to him since the incident with the Timberjack, because he had to be examined by the village's doctor as well to look for any injuries he might have received without knowing, next to answer all sorts of questions from the villagers, not to mention scolding from both his father and Astrid no less, who he at some point had thought was about to break up with him, when hearing how it was all his fault when it had started with him heading out on his own without Toothless. He had never thought Astrid could be angrier than what he had seen of her before, but she had made sure of proving him wrong on that point. If it hadn't been for her always finishing her scoldings with a tight hug or kiss to his cheek, he would never guess that the worry for him was the main reason for her outbursts. Having finally been able to come back to his house however, he was only met by the sight of a dead asleep, tightly bandaged Toothless, whimpering in his sleep as the wounds were still sending waves of pain throughout his body. Even as he was bandaged and cleaned up, Hiccup could still feel the gloomy suffering and tiredness that surrounded his body. No matter how much he tempted with food or tried to talk gently to him for the two next days, he wouldn't even lift his head in response. All he would do was stare mindlessly at the wall in between his uneasy naps. At this point, Hiccup had been terrified of this meaning that Toothless might never become the same again, or that he now hated Hiccup for him having been the cause of it all. He didn't know which was worse.
The joy had obviously been tremendous, when he the third day woke up to a big tongue, covering his face in spit as Toothless were clawing at his blanket, staring down at him with that big, goofy smile of his, awaiting his human to get up.
Afterwards, when having told Gobber about it, he could tell Hiccup that it was a common behavior for dragons to sometimes become indifferent to their surroundings when being ill or wounded, unless they felt threatened. It was least of all something to take personal, which Hiccup was extremely relieved about.

"I have no idea what all happened after you knocked me unconscious..." Hiccup said with a low voice while bending himself close to Toothless, who stared back at him with his big, yellow eyes, catching the saddened tone in his voice.

"... but you must have shown me a great deal of loyalty, didn't you?"

Reaching out his hands, he placed them on each side of Toothless' head, leaning in to let his forehead rest towards his, listening to his low growls as if he was questioning his sudden gesture.

"Please stay by my side forever, Toothless. I'll probably end up always doing these stupid things, but I probably wouldn't have the courage to stick through it if you weren't here. The least I can do is try my best not to put you in any unnecessary trouble again. Though if that's a promise I probably won't be able to keep, whether I want to or not, I'll give you this selfish request of always forgiving me whenever I do. My life wouldn't be the same without you. Not by far. You're my best friend. "

Toothless didn't understand much, although the soft and slightly hoarse tone in Hiccup's voice told him it was something important to him, and as a response he lightly nudged his head before pushing his head onto his lap to rest it there, closing his eyes while enjoying the strokes he received repeatedly over his head. Letting out yet a satisfied grunt, though this time at the fact he was still alive, Toothless couldn't help but to be at a loss of why it was so. He had no words for how shocked or happy he had been when waking up to find himself alive by Hiccup's side, a Hiccup shedding tears for him, talking to him and holding him like never before. Toothless' greatest regret about dying had been that he would no more be able to spend his days by his side, to play with him, to fly with him, to grow up with him. All this he regretted and so wished of all his heart that no matter what, his human wouldn't be sad about his death. Rather live on with his life like he did. All this, only to wake up alive by his side once more.
Why? Why was he still alive? Why hadn't the Timberjack killed him? All this and many more questions kept stirring inside his head, though in the end, they all got covered by the relief of still being alive together with his human.  

"I want to stay by your side forever, Hiccup. I love you."


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About a hundred meters from the village, towering on one of the many cliffs sticking out from the sea, stood a one eyed Timberjack, glaring calmly at the human village ahead, where she had witnessed from a distance the humans and pet dragons carrying the Night Fury she had injured so badly back to the village, caring for him to the point of cleaning his wounds and wrapping him up in some odd covering, which seemed to work as a healing of some sort. And ever since the little human brat had entered the den of dead trees in which they lived in, he had not once taken a step outside. Letting out a loud snort in which hot smoke emerged from her nostrils, she slowly unwrapped her giant wings to take to the sky, soaring in between the clouds while letting out a few fire breaths to reveal some tension.

"I have not ever met a more foolish dragon, yet not a more loyal or brave one for that matter. Hope you understand this, little Night Fury. I did not let you or your human live out of mercy or compassion. I wanted to see the so called care the humans have for us with my own eye, only so that I could slay you both when seeing the lie it is. Not once in my rather long life have I been wrong. But you and your human proved me otherwise... I hope the both of you have a good life together. You have certainly deserved it. However, know that if our paths ever cross and you will challenge me yet again, I will then kill you without fail."

Letting out an intimidating roar that made the sky rumble, the Timberjack flapped her wings one rough time to disappear into the sky, leaving her not so pleasing experience of the Night Fury and human that had changed her view on the world in general so greatly behind.



END
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Second chapter [link]


Here you go^^ The final part of my HTTYD fic. Hope you liked it:)


So yeah, I don't know. Some parts I'm pleased with and other parts not so much at all. Perhaps an effect of me being a bit sleepy when writing this. But all in all, I'm satisfied with it. Am hoping to write some more HTTYD fics in the future, and hopefully those'll turn out better.


Anyways, hope you liked this chapter and the ending and a review is of course extremely much appreciated.


Thank you for having sticked through these three chapters :glomp::glomp::glomp::glomp::glomp:


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Marijane-Akuma's avatar
It´s a wonderful story, one that holds the reader thigth in his words and it´s very smooth to read, not hard and complicated like others I´ve red so far. It´s like, really deep and man, I was SO close to crying! Really, I love it!