Hey guys! Welcome to my new Fanfic "The Waste of What Remains", this is a post-apocalyptic HTTYD AU set around 2067-2077, and will take inspiration from the Fallout franchise and a TINY bit from Mad Max. Thanks to VigoGrimborne, the beta reader for The Waste of What Remains, this chapter is out tonight/today/morning for you guys.

Now, with that said and done, let's get RIGHT into Chapter 1: War


In the year 2067, the world consisted of four major nations.

The United Confederation, which consisted of ten united nations often called 'states' by the public.

The Russian Dictatorship, which consisted of the entirety of Russia.

The Sunlight Kingdom, originally called 'Japan' hundreds of years ago. This nation consisted of cities in the mountains, on the eastern continent.

And finally there was the Communist Revolution, which was taking over small cities abandoned to time.

The world had two main continents, the western and the eastern continents.

One might think at first glance that this world was at peace, but that would be the biggest lie ever told. Everyone was at each other's throats, ready to bomb the other for supplies and resources.

For you see, around 10 to 20 years ago, oil and purified water started becoming rarer and rarer, which lead to everyone becoming more and more desperate for the resources.

The world was preparing for war, each major nation armed with hundreds of nuclear weapons, each nation ready to drop them at any time. Everyone was just waiting for the fuse to be lit, the first conflict to arise to give them reason enough to fight and kill.

Some people hoped that a nuclear war wouldn't break out, some just pretended to be ignorant, and some figured that it would just go alright and their way of life...would never change.

But they...were wrong.


A family lived in a neighborhood called Firefield, in the state of New Jarold. This family was the Haddock family, which consisted of four members...

Stoick Haddock, war veteran and husband to Valka. He retired from the military almost four years ago, after the battle of Boot Hill.

Valka Haddock, wife to Stoick. She used to work for a military intelligence company, but that company shut down a few months ago under 'mysterious' circumstances.

And finally remained their two sons, Toothless and Hiccup Haddock. Hiccup was a normal kid, but Toothless was the odd one out. He was half-human and half-dragon.

This was because specific genes that had run in Valka's side of the family for thousands of years had activated in Toothless, a very lucky occurrence that triggered the condition known as Ira Autem Nox (Often shortened to IAN). Toothless was the first half-dragon in the family since Valka's great-great-grandfather.

Toothless had jet-black scales lining his arms and legs, as well as covering his entire torso. He had a good sized tail and two big black wings, along with eight ear flaps on his head. His pupils could change from slits to tiny cubes depending on his emotional state. He had black hair and green eyes.
Hiccup and Toothless were running around and playing in the living room, Toothless running away from Hiccup very fast, while Hiccup with chasing after him.

"Can't catch me!" Toothless yelled in a very playful voice, making Hiccup even more determined to catch his brother. Toothless was thirteen years old, but Hiccup was only eight.

Valka was washing the dishes in the kitchen, and Stoick was outside working on the family car. Eventually, Toothless and Hiccup both stopped in front of their TV, taking a few deep breaths.

"That was fun, we should do it again!" Hiccup said and Toothless nodded with a smile. They were about to start running around again when the TV filled with static and began making a high pitched noise.

"What's wrong with the TV?" Hiccup asked, and Toothless stared at the box TV before it changed to a black image with the United Confederation logo on it.

"This is the nationwide alert system, a secret organization called the Vex have revealed themselves to us. They have set off a nuclear bomb not in the 10 'states', but in the Russian Dictatorship." A male voice came through the speakers, and Hiccup was confused while Toothless only felt dread.

"Mom! Get in here quick!" Toothless yelled. Valka came rushing in and saw the television pop-up with a government code.

"Repeat, a nuclear bomb has been set off in the Russian Dictatorship, and the Russians are blaming it on us. If you are a government official or someone who knows government codes, we are at Action Hostile One" The man said and Valka froze in fear.

"Mom? What's that? What's going on?" Hiccup asked and Toothless found himself keeping one eye on Hiccup and one eye on Valka.

"Action hostile one, otherwise known as AHO. Only meant to be used if...nuclear war is imminent" Valka said and then the man started talking again.

"Oh shit, reports incoming! Our radars have detected over twenty planes coming in from all across the world, each plane carrying a nuclear weapon capable of destroying huge cities in seconds. Nuclear war is happening, get to the old fallout shelters. This is NOT a drill! We are at war!" The man said and the TV went to a 'please stand by' image.

Sirens started going off and everyone panicked. Valka quickly grabbed Hiccup and Toothless, and they ran outside to find Stoick wondering what was going on.

"Val? What's..." Stoick asked, stopping when Valka looked at him with a fearful expression.

"Action hostile one," Valka said and Stoick immediately straightened up. All four started running as a group into the forest towards the cave where one of the old fallout shelters was.

Suddenly, Valka tripped and cried out in pain as her foot got lodged into the ground. Stoick quickly ran over and started helping her get up.

People pushed past them, and the two parents looked up at their scared sons.

"Run! Get to safety! We'll be there!" Stoick yelled, even though the chances of them making it in time were slim to none. Toothless nodded and grabbed Hiccup, and they RAN for the shelter.

They made it just in time, as the last people were entering the shelter. Hiccup got in and was given a pair of new clothes.

But when Toothless tried to enter someone pushed him back out the door, and began to close it.

"Sorry champ, but this is no place for Dragons. Go out there where you belong." The man shut the absolutely massive bunker door. It locked and sealed itself behind him.

Toothless pounded and pounded on the bunker door, and then he heard a huge BOOOOOMMMMMM come from far away, and he knew his fate was sealed.

Meanwhile, Hiccup tried everything to pull the door open, but no one person could open that door. Hiccup cried and pounded on the door with all his strength.

Then the entire bunker shook so hard that everyone fell to the floor, the lights flickering on and off multiple times before remaining off. Everyone started panicking and waiting for their death...

But it never arrived. They had survived the first challenge, the initial blast wave.


Nearly ten years later and Hiccup was ready to choose.

After the war, which had only lasted a few hours, a government was set up in the shelter to keep people from doing WHATEVER they wanted WHENEVER they wanted.

They had set up a choice. Basically, one would be put in a room with two big red buttons. One button allows the person choosing between them to stay, and the other meant leaving the shelter. The only reason they did this was that they had limited space and resources and so needed to get rid of some extra people whenever possible.

The one catch? Each person only got to choose once, when they turned eighteen. No take backs, once one left there would be no coming back, and if one stayed there would be no leaving.

Hiccup sat in the room, the two big red glowing buttons in front of him. He sat in a comfy chair with two doors beside him. One lead back into the bunker, the other lead to the exit.

He spent around two hours in that room, just thinking about which one he was gonna chose. Because once he did there was NO going back from there on out.

He thought about everything he had in the bunker, such as food, water, and other people. But out there? He had none of that, at least none that he knew existed.

But the only reason he hadn't pressed stay was the still lingering hope that maybe...just MAYBE, his family was still alive out there. He missed his mom, he missed his dad, and he missed his brother.

Hiccup closed his eyes and took in a deep breath before slamming his hand down on one of the buttons. He opened his eyes and looked at the button he pressed, which read LEAVE.

"Guess I made my choice," Hiccup said and walked to the leave door, which was now unlocked. He stepped through it and closed it behind him.

He walked down a long hallway until he reached the bunker door, the same one that had been shut in Toothless' face nearly 10 years ago. The one he had cried against for hours, hoping to hear Toothless' voice come from the other side of it.

Hiccup pulled out a keycard and stuck it into a terminal-like computer, and the computer activated the door unlocking mechanism.

One bolt, two bolts, three bolts. Every single locking mechanism on the door was deactivated, and Hiccup opened it slowly but surely to see the outside world for the first time in 10 years.

He stepped outside and the door shut behind him, locking itself and making his choice permanent. He slowly walked through the stone cave, thankful to not find his brother dead on the ground, though by now nothing would be left but bones.

Eventually, he made it to the exit of the cave and left to find himself in the warm sunlight. He looked around to find all the trees dead with no leaves, and only dirt as ground, no grass.

He walked slowly but surely back to his childhood home, and inside he found most of it raided for supplies, nothing remaining but a few old memories.

Hiccup then saw something lying by his old bed, so he dusted it off and picked it up to spot his old dragon plushie. He smiled while one tear went down his face

He stuffed the dragon plushie into his bag, the only thing besides the clothes on his back that he was allowed to take out from the bunker.

He then spotted something lying in a corner, covered in dust. He picked it up and cleaned it off, and he recognized it. It was Toothless' old wood training sword, it wasn't sharp as it was only used for practice.

Hiccup smirked and held onto the sword, not wanting to let go of it. So he walked away from his old childhood home, wood sword in hand and a plushie in his bag.


Hiccup was barely out of the neighborhood when he saw someone walking around, wearing dark brown leather armor and carrying...something.

Hiccup was gonna sneak past the man, but the man saw him and threw something at him. The 'something' hit him and tied him up. Hiccup hit the ground just as the man made his way over.

"I'm gonna enjoy cutting your throat, you meatbag. I bet you'll keep me fed for months" The man said and raised his knife to Hiccup's neck, while Hiccup stared at the metal object in pure terror.

And then...BOOOM, a huge sound rang out from nearby and the man looked up only to see something he dreaded.

A man stood there, wearing black leather armor and carrying a 12 gauge shotgun. The man's armor had two shoulder pads, two arm guards, and a chest plate that looked like it could take a beating before breaking.

The man was also wearing a helmet, and this helmet had night-vision goggles built in, while also having plating around all pieces.

"You let that boy go right now, or I swear to the gods I will blow your head off with this weapon of death," The armored man said in a deep voice and the man holding the knife growled.

"I'll just slit your throat too, that gives me twice the food!" The man said and charged at the armored man, only for the shotgun to go off and the man holding the knife to see no more.

The man in armor walked over to Hiccup and quickly used the dead man's knife to cut the ropes holding Hiccup.

"There you go," The armored man said and looked at Hiccup completely for the first time, stopping in his tracks as he did. He looked Hiccup over almost five times before taking two steps back in shock.

"Y-You...how can...you, be here?" The man said as Hiccup started to get up, grabbing his bag from nearby.

"Umm, who are you...have I met you before?" Hiccup asked as he stared at the nearly 7-foot tall man, realizing that the voice was oddly familiar.

The man seemed to recoil, almost looking like a wounded animal. But that was quickly replaced with a stance of power and determination.

"Yes, yes you have met me before...a very...very long time ago..." The man said and undid a few buckles that kept his helmet attached using a very complicated mechanism.

The man pulled off his helmet to reveal bright green eyes, jet-black hair and scales lining his neck. Eight ear flaps completed the picture out of memory, though the scar on his neck was new.

"Oh, my gods...Toothless?" Hiccup said, taking in a deep breath, shock overriding every single one of his muscles (scrawny though they might be).

That's when a sound was heard in the distance, and Toothless quickly put back on his helmet. Toothless pulled a sword from his back, the sword was dark blue and made of a metal Hiccup had never seen before.

Three people rounded the corner of the street, and when they saw the two of them they opened fire. Toothless got in front of Hiccup, the bullets bouncing off of his armor, not hurting Toothless in the slightest.

Toothless got a running start and threw his sword, the metal going right through one of the raider's head, killing them instantly.

Toothless quickly pulled out his 12 gauge shotgun and used it to blow the brains of the other raider to bits. The last remaining raider tackled him and Toothless quickly used an extending blade from his armor's right arm to stab the raider in the throat.

"Ugghh, that was disgusting and far too easy," Toothless said and quickly retracted the blade, retrieving his 12 gauge shotgun and sword before turning to Hiccup.

"Oh come on, bro, you're never gonna live long in THAT" Toothless said, using his sword to gesture to Hiccup's dark blue jumpsuit.

"Well, you just gestured to all of me so...what exactly do I do?" Hiccup asked. Toothless groaned while holstering his shotgun and sword.

"First of all, loot these dead raiders for anything useful, especially arcade tokens and armor" Toothless said and looked around.

"Why arcade tokens?" Hiccup asked curiously and Toothless moaned while keeping an eye out.

"Because they're currency, there's only about five million arcade tokens and no machines left to make more, so they make a good currency in the wasteland. Now hurry up! More raiders might come and we might have to go...quickly" Toothless said and Hiccup nodded before starting to loot one of the raiders.

Hiccup managed to find a few arcade tokens, and an old, somewhat rusty combat knife. He took some gloves, a shoulder guard, and a bandolier from one of the raiders.

He put all the armor on and Toothless looked him over before tilting his hand from side to side.

"Ehh, it'll do for now, but I'm gonna have to make you something better in the future," Toothless said and then glanced over the remaining raiders before nodding.

"We got to go, now," Toothless said and Hiccup nodded. They quickly set out walking, Hiccup following Toothless' lead.

"Wait, how did you survive? What happened? Where's mom or dad? Did they survive too?" Hiccup questioned, and Toothless looked down while continuing to walk.

"After I was shut out, the bombs hit. The blast wave actually hit the cave, but didn't get inside the cave. It did collapse nearly 10 feet of soil in front of the entrance through" Toothless said while looking down.

"I dug and dug for days, maybe even weeks. I don't remember exactly how long, but that dirt wall that I used to hate might have been the only thing keeping me from being heavily poisoned by radiation" Toothless continued.

"After I had managed to get out, I looked so thin that a twig would be jealous, and my ribs showed through my clothing. Mom and Dad were nowhere to be found, either they died in the blast or they died afterward. I've ventured nearly a hundred miles from that bunker in every direction, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of them" Toothless finished and Hiccup looked down sadly.

"I'm sorry, I should have tried harder to find a way to get you into the bunker, then..." Hiccup said and Toothless growled.

"No, it's not your fault. It's that...man's fault, I don't even know his name but I sure hope he got what he deserved" Toothless said and Hiccup took a deep breath.

"Where did you get that armor? Or that sword for that matter?" Hiccup asked and Toothless smirked.

"Oh, this? Its made from my shed scales, the perks of being half-dragon. This sword is also made of my scales, but I used my fire to melt it down and forge it into that sword" Toothless stated and Hiccup got extremely curious.

"Wait, your fire?" Hiccup asked and Toothless smirked harder.

"Yes, around when I was fourteen or fifteen I discovered I could create acetylene oxygen shaped plasma charges, shortened to plasma blasts. I can shoot them out my mouth, but after six shots my mouth gets extremely hot and I need to stop." Hiccup was still curious but decided more questions could wait until later.

"So, you got a...gang or tribe or something?" Hiccup asked and Toothless shook his head, chuckling.

"Those kinds of things don't exist in this part of the wasteland, and when they exist, they're VERY hard to find. Humanity is down to the thousands in number, and most of them don't want to work together" Toothless said and then sighed.

"The most common form of working together is the raiders, and even then they always end up killing each other one way or another" Toothless said as they continued walked down the road.

"Don't you have any friends, or even just some allies?" Hiccup asked and Toothless shook his head, closing his eyes sadly.

"No, when you're in the wasteland you learn VERY QUICKLY that you can't trust anyone. Not your family, not your friends. The only reason I trust you is that I know you're from that stupid bunker, not from the hell of the wasteland" Toothless said and Hiccup was confused.

"But you and I used to play together all the time before the war, what about that? Why don't you trust anyone?" Hiccup asked and Toothless growled.

"Because when you trust everyone, you get killed. I nearly got killed, see this scar right here? Someone tried to slit my throat when I was 14 years old, and this scar is my reminder" Toothless said and sighed.

"It's not that I don't trust you, I'm just...being careful. I haven't seen you in 10 years, for all I know you could be a psychopath now" Toothless said wearily. Hiccup decided to turn the tables.

"Yeah, well, in that case, the same goes for you. I haven't seen you in 10 years, for all I know you could be some creepy ax murder," Hiccup shot back.

Toothless shrugged. "Everyone's an ax murder in the wasteland, I'm just a nice one who doesn't go killing everybody, only people who attack me." That was said somewhat sarcastically. Hiccup rolled his eyes.

They continued walking through the wastelands until they were so far away from the small town of Berk it would take over six hours just to walk back. It was a long trip to make on foot.

When they stopped, Hiccup looked out to see a good sized base with rusted cars making the walls. Toothless started walking towards it as the sun set in the West.

"Well, keep up if you want to see where I live," Toothless said and they quickly went to the front of the base, where two automatic turrets locked onto Hiccup and prepared to fire.

"Ah, wait! Alpha code nine seven dash triple five!" Toothless yelled and the turrets shut down. Toothless let out a deep breath he didn't even know he had been holding the entire time.

"Dawn, get up here!" Toothless yelled and a robot climbed up onto the top of the wall.

"Ah, master Toothless, I see you've returned and with a...guest following you?" The robot-Dawn said. Toothless rolled his eyes.

"Search your databases for Hiccup, this is him. Give Hiccup level six access to all systems" Toothless said and Dawn nodded, the robot's three eyes watching everything.

"Yes sir, welcome back to the base, master," Dawn said and floated away. Hiccup looked at Toothless, confused.

"I thought you said you couldn't trust anyone?" Toothless smirked in response to that.

"I said I couldn't trust people, not robots. He's one of those old worker robots, I reprogrammed him to follow my commands no matter the situation. I honestly don't like him calling me 'master' but its hardcoded into his software so there's no way to easily remove it" Toothless explained and Hiccup nodded.

A good chunk of the wall slid open, and the two of them went inside. The wall slide closed behind them while they all entered the base.

There were two buildings, and Toothless decided to give a very short tour.

"That is where I keep the beds, and that is storage and the armory. That ladder gets you up on the wall, and that chest right there is my stash of arcade tokens, don't take too many" Toothless said and then walked into the armory, Hiccup looked around and peeked in the chest, only to see around five hundred tokens.

"You don't have many tokens, why is that?" Hiccup asked.

Toothless popped his head out from the armory. "Because I said I had tokens, never said I was rich," Eventually, he came out entirely.

Toothless was wearing a jet black shirt and a long brown coat. Two dark blue shoulder guards and green suspenders completed the outfit.

"Is that what you wear when you're not wearing all that armor?" Hiccup asked and Toothless nodded.

"Well, that armor is way too bulky for comfortable use beyond a few hours, one of its drawbacks. I'm working on fixing that soon with a new armor" Toothless said and walked into one of the two buildings. Hiccup followed and looked at Toothless' workbench.

On the bench sat a prototype plasma rifle, a new armor which was around half complete, and a design for a new sword.

He looked over to see Toothless writing in a book, Toothless quickly finished and then laid down on his bed.

"Alright, I'm gonna get some sleep, I recommend you get some sleep too if you want," Toothless said and point to the spare bed, and Hiccup was confused.

"If you don't have people with you, why do you have an extra bed?" Hiccup asked and Toothless shrugged.

"Good to have two of everything, alright goodnight," Toothless said and closed his eyes, Hiccup was about to ask a question when Toothless started snoring lightly, in the way only a half-dragon could.

"Wow, he falls asleep fast," Hiccup said and then sighed while looking around, quickly taking off his armor and climbing into the spare bed.

Little did they know of what would come next...


Both Toothless and Hiccup woke up to a loud explosion coming from outside. Both shot up and looked at each other before running outside.

Toothless climbed up the ladder to see a gang of raiders, so many raiders that he couldn't count them all.

"COME OUT, NIGHT FURY! COME AND GET MURDER! HAHAHAH!" One of the Raiders yelled and Toothless ran into the armory so fast Hiccup nearly fell down.

Toothless got his armor and weapons, quickly returning to and scaling the wall before turning to Hiccup.

"Go grab my spare armor and join me in the battle! QUICKLY!" Toothless yelled and jumped down into the gang of Raiders. Hiccup ran into the armory and found another suit of armor, the perfect size for him.

Hiccup got it on and he took a steel sword from nearby, then got up on the wall and jumped down into the gang of raiders.


So yeah! That was Chapter 1!

Chapter 2: Remains will be out sometime in the near future, and will pick up shortly after this cliffhanger (Hehe, I love leaving you guys on a cliffhanger, its just SO FUN!). Now! With all that out of the way! I will see you next time!

This is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.