Welcome to Chapter 1 of Double Sided 4! This is the final story in the Double Sided series, and i hope to give all of you a satisfying conclusion. So without further ado, let's get into...
CHAPTER 1: QUANTUM REFLUX
Toothless opened his eyes to find himself in a forest, but this was not just any forest. It was the forest closest to the village of Berk.
"What the hell? Why would she send me here?" Toothless says to himself and searches around. There had to be someone or something nearby.
So, he started wandering. He passed the cove and eventually made it to where he had crashed when Hiccup shot him down. There was no bola, and there was no huge hole in the ground.
That's when Toothless realized something. He had time traveled. He didn't know how, and he didn't know what time he had traveled too. All he knew was that he was in a time where he hadn't yet been shot down.
"This isn't possible. I disproved that time travel existed multiple times," Toothless mumbled to himself and continued walking. He didn't know what to do, and he didn't know how long he'd have to wait until he and Hiccup jumped through the portal into the Red Death Dimension.
So he kept walking and walking. That's when he heard noises, familiar noises.
"Humans," Toothless mumbles under his breath and breaks out into a sprint towards the human voices. It was only once he was very close did he remember that before he and Hiccup met, dragons and Vikings were enemies.
"I-I can't show my face. They might try and kill me," Toothless reasons to himself with a sigh, and he then plops down in the bushes to moan and groan about being lonely.
That's when two humans stepped into view and they continued talking.
"Son! This is the third disaster today! When are you gonna stop with all this...nonsense and become a proper Viking!" A big man said while the little boy turned away in shame.
"But, I am a Viking," The little boy said and the big man scoffed.
"Until you grow out of this 'inventing' and 'idea' stuff, then you'll never be a proper Viking," The big man said and walked off to go do 'more important' things with his time. The little boy started crying, and that's when Toothless felt both sad and mad.
He was sad that this little boy had to go through this, and he was mad that this was even happening in the first place.
Toothless looked the little boy over. The boy was wearing a green shirt and a huge brown vest that definitely didn't fit him, and he had auburn hair and green eyes.
"Huh, just like..." Toothless says to himself and then it clicks. He knows who this boy is and he now knows what time it is. This boy is Hiccup, and he's only around 6 or 7.
"Oh man, I got to get out of here," Toothless mumbles to himself and quickly turns around to walk away. He knew he shouldn't mess with the past too much, because if he did, he might change the future.
And then Toothless stepped on a branch, and it snapped loudly under his weight.
"Crap," Toothless muttered and then was about to walk away again when he tripped on a rather large rock. He fell over and right out of the bushes, and in front of Hiccup he landed.
"DRAGON!?" Little Hiccup yelled and backed away. Toothless yelped and got up quickly before running off in a random direction.
He ran as quickly as possible, but with his wounded side and leg, he was having a hard time outrunning a CHILD. He eventually stumbled upon the top of the cove.
Hiccup then came out from the bushes and was holding a tiny knife. Toothless knew Hiccup wouldn't even be able to scratch him with that knife. Hell, it wasn't even sharp! But he could do something to Toothless or to himself that could change the timeline, and Toothless wasn't willing to risk it.
He started taking steps backwards, he tried finding a way out but there was no way out. He was trapped. That's when his paws started glowing and he screeched loudly.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Toothless yelled as he started to fade away, that's when Hiccup started running towards him with the dagger. And Toothless, reacting in fear, stepped back just a bit too far...and he went over the edge of the cove.
Toothless roared as he continued falling, then he faded away completely just before making contact with the ground.
Hiccup opened his eyes to find himself in a black void, the last thing he remembered was a green light filling the room and then...nothing.
That's when he heard Toothless screech from far away, and Hiccup got scared and worried.
"TOOTHLESS!? WHERE ARE YOU!?" Hiccup yelled at the top of his lungs and started running in a random direction, and eventually, he stumbled upon a Night Fury sized gray dragon.
"YOU!" Hiccup yelled and pulled out a dagger from his sheath. He charged at the Red Death, but the Red Death coughed up a bit of blood and then created a shock wave, sending Hiccup flying backwards a few feet.
"Yes, ME. Now you see what state I'm in, so I won't be taking any chances," The Red Death says and Hiccup gets up and grabs his dagger from nearby.
"Yeah, I figured," Hiccup said and then noticed one significant detail; Toothless was nowhere to be found.
"WHERE IS TOOTHLESS!? WHERE IS HE?!" Hiccup yelled and threw the dagger. The Red Death simply breathed out a stream of fire, melting the dagger into molten iron.
"Well, you certainly do care about your friends. Well, after he...murdered my friends, I destabilized his molecules in the middle of a teleport, putting him in a temporary quantum reflux," The Red Death says and Hiccup shakes his head.
"ENGLISH PLEASE!? NOW!" Hiccup yelled and grabbed a book from under his chest plate, threatening to throw it at the Red Death, only causing the dragon to laugh.
"That basically means he's now constantly teleporting in time, space, and reality. And it will only stop when I decide it stops," The Red Death says and Hiccup yells.
"BRING HIM BACK RIGHT NOW! OR SO THE GODS HELP ME I WILL..." Hiccup yells and the Red Death laughs.
"Do what? You have a BOOK, that's all. No backup, no ally's, and no Toothless. So what exactly can you do? I don't want you wasting space in MY reality, so I'll just send you to a random place and time," The Red Death says and quickly teleports Hiccup, but not before Hiccup can throw the book.
After Hiccup was teleported, the surprisingly hard and heavy book hit the Red Death.
"Ow, I didn't know books were so HARD," The Red Death grumbled to herself while rubbing her snout.
Hiccup found himself in the forest, and he set out on finding someone or something.
He walked around for a while until he eventually made it out of the forest and onto some rock solid pathway. He looked around until he found a huge red building with a smaller orange building right next to it.
Hiccup went over to the orange building and knocked on what he thinks is the door.
Toothless opened his eyes to find himself in a cave, with hundreds if not thousands of dragons around him.
*HEY WATCH IT!* One dragon screeched at him and another pushed him to the floor. He managed to get up and start walking around, making his way through the horde of dragons.
He eventually found an empty room and he jumped inside it, finally getting away from all the other dragons.
He took this moment to look down at his paws, and what he saw shocked him. He was still glowing green, which meant something that Toothless thought was not possible.
"I'm stuck in a quantum reflux," Toothless mumbled to himself and started pacing around. He had no idea what to do. He didn't even think a quantum reflux was possible before now.
So he brainstormed ideas for around 45 to 50 minutes before he gave up with a sigh. He had no idea how to fix this. So he just plopped down on the ground and started whining and whimpering.
Eventually, a little hatchling fell out from the crowd. The hatchling whimpered and was just about to re-enter the crowd when Toothless recognized him.
*Hey...little guy* Toothless said to his past self. He didn't even remember what his parents named him anymore, as he hadn't been able to spend long with them before their deaths.
*W-Who are y-you?* Hatchling Toothless said and Toothless had to come up with a proper response so he didn't freak his past self out or cause the timeline to change.
*Umm, I'm... I'm ahh, my name is...* Toothless mumbled and then thought of the perfect name to use so his past self didn't figure out the truth.
*My name is...Thor* Toothless lied. He knew it was a lie that would only last so long, but it would work for now. He just had to see what his past self had to say. The hatchling tilted his head to the side while his pupils grew in size.
*Thor...o-odd name for a-a dragon* Hatchling Toothless said and Toothless clenched his jaw a tiny bit. He hoped that his hatchling self would just brush it off.
*Y-Yeah it is* Toothless whispers under his breath. He still had a stuttering problem when he was nervous. Hatchling Toothless tilted his head and then walked over to Toothless.
*S-So where do y-you come f-from?" Hatchling Toothless asks and Toothless takes a moment to come up with the proper response so he doesn't mess up the timeline.
*I come from an island far away from here. I bet you'll visit it one day. It's beautiful* Toothless says and then mutters a swear word under his breath. If his hatchling self looked into the words a bit deeper, he would find a few glaring mistakes in his wording.
*W-What's it l-like?* Hatchling Toothless asked and Toothless let out a sigh of relief. His hatchling self always missed important details, but...well, so did he as an adult.
*It has this huge mountain and a huge forest. And then there's this special place that's mi...located in the forest. It's a small cove with a waterfall. It's beautiful in the mornings and evenings. You can run around and play all day there* Toothless said, spacing out a bit. Hatchling Toothless purrs and sits next to Toothless.
*That s-sounds amazing! I h-hope I can see i-it one day!* Hatchling Toothless says with a purr and curls up right next to Toothless. Hatchling Toothless falls asleep.
*I don't doubt that* Toothless says, but Hatchling Toothless was already asleep. Toothless then feels himself fading away and he leans down towards his hatchling self.
*Goodnight* Toothless whispered, and then faded away. Hours later, Hatchling Toothless woke up and found the cave he was in empty, and that left him with a question that he would eventually forget. Just who was that dragon?
Toothless found himself in a hallway of mirrors, each reflecting a different version of himself.
In one, he was born as a female. In another, he had a long scar across his eye and he was Chief of Berk, but yet he was still a dragon. And in another, he had been more crippled when Hiccup shot him down, and in that one, he required two prosthetic dragon legs in order to walk.
Each version of him was different but yet...the same. And that's what made Toothless wonder something. How many versions of him are out there? How many would he see?
He started walking down the crystal hallways and out into the sunshine of the afternoon sun. He didn't recognize the island he was on, but he knew he would find a way out of this situation.
After all, that's what he did every time. Right?
That marks the end of CHAPTER 1! I hope to conclude this story on a satisfying note with Chapter 5 (Yep, there are gonna be 5 chapters, not four like before. Lol i just rhymed). Also, i would like to thank everyone who reviewed all the previous Double Sided fanfics, and also i would like to thank my beta reader for beta reading this chapter.
So anyway's, this is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.
