I wanted o do something that I haven't seen before. hope you like it i have more chapters planned for this series.
It was the night that Hiccup had woken up after battling the Red Death. When he learned that being an amputee was more than just an inconvenience. That it could be very painful.
Today had been an amazing yet at the same time terrible day. Hiccup had discovered that he had succeeded in killing the Red Death. At the same time he also discovered that in the process he lost part of his left leg. That was the terrible part of the day, finding out that he had lost part of his left leg in that battle. That now he had to deal with the struggles of living as an amputee, he spent most of his day just trying and failing not to trip over things. It turned out to be harder to stay on his feet then he had first thought that it would be. He spent his day wandering around the village admiring the rather quick bond between vikings and dragons. He would get the occasional hello or nice to see ya, from the villagers. Once the sun began to sink in the sky he decided that he would go for a quick fight around.
After his evening flight with Toothless, he landed in the village square. Hiccup decided that it would be best that he went home. After all, his father would be expecting him for dinner. Since he needed more practice with his new prosthetic he decided that he should walk home, his house really wasn't that far, he had done it hundreds of times. As he walked he noticed a steady thumping almost like a heartbeat in his stump. He pushed it aside it really was not that bad, probably just because he spent most of his day practicing his walk.
Soon he had reached the set of steps that led to his house by now the thumping had turned into a throbbing. He really began to question whether he could make it up the steps, he also couldn't ask for help (just not the Hiccup thing to do), so he decided that he would climb the steps. They ended up not being as bad as he had anticipated. Once he made it inside though his pain had grown, it was now a slight stabbing pain. With every step he took it grew worse. Pushing the pain aside he looked around to find that his father had fallen asleep in his large chair next to the fire place. His bed had been moved back up to his loft, which for him meant that he would have to climb a whole other set of stairs. This did not excite him because the pain had grown to the point that it was almost unbearable. So he decided that he would just stay on the main level and wait it out, but at the same time stay as quiet as possible so he didn't wake up his dad.
His pain was still steadily rising and it was taking all he could not to let his whimpers out. He knew what ever was causing this pain was not going to let up anytime soon. He decided that he would at least try to climb his stairs. Slowly he stood from where he had sat down, keeping as much weight on his right side as possible. He took his first step with the bad leg as soon as it hit the floor a jolt of pain shot up his leg, it was unexpected and cause him to cry out. But by the time he realized that he in fact he had made a noise it was already too late. The next thing he knew he was falling towards the ground, before he could hit the ground Toothless had caught him. Together Hiccup and Toothless sank to the ground, by the time they reached the ground Hiccup's cheeks were stained with tears, he hadn't realized he had started crying. His whole body was shaking and he was ears were ringing cutting off his hearing, his whole body was overwhelmed by the pain coming from his leg. He was having a hard time taking in the world around him, putting all his focus on breathing. He was drawn for his own world when a large hand touched his shoulder and shook him gently, it was then that he realized his name was being called, it was so faint under the ringing. Then he realized that he was practically screaming at the pain. He was shook again this time a little harder, it was hard enough to pull him out of his weird state.
"Hiccup, son can you hear me!" Stoick was starting to panic he had never seen Hiccup so out of it. Hiccup didn't even seem to be registering him in front of him. Even when he began shaking him trying to get him to do anything in response. That's when he started to whine and whimper loudly. His breathing was shallow and quick he seemed to be in pain. Then he began letting out a low scream, but he seemed to be coming back into the world around him.
Hiccup was slowly coming back to his senses. He was still having a hard time hearing. All he wanted was comfort there was only one thing that could think of, he wanted his dragon, he wanted Toothless. All he could manage was to whimper his name. That small call was immediately answered with a small nudge and a coo in his ear. Bring him some comfort, that's when he finally registered that there was another voice amongst the coos. It was his dad, he had woken up his dad . "D-dad don worr-y I-I'm f-fine." Hiccup tried his hardest not to let the pain seep into his voice, yet it did anyways.
Another jolt of pain moved up his leg, it felt like someone had set his leg on fire while also rolling a large boulder over it. He couldn't help but let out a cry at the new wave of pain. This was something he had never experienced before. All he wanted was for someone to make the pain stop, it was so bad. "MAKE IT STOP, DAD PLEASE HELP!" he screamed as more waves of pain moved up his leg, he began trying to pull his prosthetic off, he was failing miserably. Relief rush though him when he felt the string holding it in place losen and the prosthetic was pulled away. He could felt his dad cooler hands begin to massage the stump, the movement instantly began to calm the irritated limb. Slowly calming the pain to more manageable levels.
Hiccup's small whimpers had turned to loud cries. "MAKE IT STOP, DAD PLEASE HELP." this yell from Hiccup caught him by surprise. He noticed that Hiccup had begun to reach for his prosthetic trying his hardest to pull it off. Stoick finally connected the dots these were the symptoms of phantom pains. It broke his heart to see his son going through such a terrible thing. He had seen Gobber's phantom pains first hand, they were powerful enough to bring the large men down. He couldn't even imagine how it was for Hiccup he was so much smaller the Gobber. So he did the only thing that he could think of, he removed the prosthetic and began massaging the remaining leg. These movement must have started to calm the pain because he could see that Hiccup had begun to visibly relacks.
Eventually the pain faded back to the small pulsing that it had been before. This allowed hiccup to unwind for the ball he had curled himself into in attempts to hide from the pain. He was working on catching his breath. When he was finally able to speak he looked at his dad who was still rubbing his leg "Thanks, dad that really helped." that's when he noticed that he was still crying, he couldn't cry in front of his dad. So he started to rub the tears from his eyes willing them to stop. Suddenly he felt large hands pulling his down. "It's ok to cry son, these pains are bad things." Stoick voice brought him slite comfort. After a moment of silence his father talked again "they're called phantom pains Gobber used to get them all the time when he first lost his limbs.". Well whatever these pains were based on what his dad said there was more where that came from, this was not a reassuring thought. "That was the worst thing in all the worlds, and your saying that it is going to happen again?" the words came out with so little strength that he was sure they weren't heard. "Sadly they are a recurring thing I am so sorry Hiccup."
All of the sudden a wave of exhaustion hit him and before he could think of what he was doing he crawled into his dad's lap and almost instantly fell asleep. It caught Stoick by surprise when hiccup began to make himself comfortable on his lap. It wasn't long before he had fallen asleep. So wrapping his arms around his son he decided that he would carry his son to his bed so he could get a comfortable night sleep.
Once he made his way up the stairs and into Hiccup's loft. He headed to his bed, ever so carefully he set him in his bed. He lingered to make sure that he stayed asleep. Since he was sure that he would sleep he turned and headed for the door. When a soft "Love you, dad" came from behind him. When he turned he could see Hiccup's bright green eyes from under half lidded eyes. "Love you too son, now get some rest. We'll see how you fell in the morning." he waited until he saw Hiccup's eyes close and his breathing even out before he headed back down stair to get some sleep in his large chair.
