Welcome to the sequel to DOUBLE SIDED, this story will continue where Double Sided left off and i hope to address some...ahh, issues with the continuity, like how Hiccup was able to hold the door when a freaking magic powered Night Fury was beating on it. But that won't come until later.
Welcome to...
CHAPTER 1: SCAR'S OF THE PAST
Nightmare T was shocked, they were offering him a way back to reality.
"How?" Nightmare T asks and Nightmare Red Death smirks evilly.
"I intercepted Toothless' portal and replaced it with my own, you are in MY dimension right now. Not the No-Come-Back dimension Toothless was trying to send you to" Nightmare Red Death says and Nightmare T was shocked, Nightmare Red Death or the Red Death had SAVED him.
"Why?" Nightmare T asks and the Red Death smiles.
"Nice to see your catching on. I saved you because i noticed how you were hunting down Toothless, the same Night Fury who KILLED me" The Red Death says and Nightmare T' blood boils, he want's to fucking kill that Night Fury!
"So..." Nightmare T asks and grits his teeth, trying his best to remain calm, but it wasn't working. 'Calm' wasn't a word he knew, calm was a word he just used in place of another one, patience.
"My...friends have authorized me to offer you a...proposition. We are willing to send you back to reality on one request" The Red Death asks and Nightmare T smirks.
"What do you need," Nightmare T asks, his legs ready to run and his mouth ready to chomp down on ANYthing that got in his way.
"It's one i think you'll like, if we send you back to reality you have to do us one favor. Hunt down Toothless the Night Fury" The Red Death says with an evil smirk and Nightmare T nods with a smirk.
"I accept," Nightmare T says and the Red Death smiles while creating a portal.
"We cannot exactly send you back right when you left, you will arrive 3 years later. On the same island Toothless is on, Dragons Edge" The Red Death explains and Nightmare T nods, memorizing the name. The portal fully opens and Nightmare T steps thought it.
And suddenly, the portal closes behind him. And he's in the forest on some island, and it's night. His FAVORITE time of the day. He then catches Toothless' sent and smirks.
"I'm coming..." Nightmare T snarls and runs off...
After the Nightmare T Incident three years ago, to say everyone had been shaken up was an understatement.
Stoick and Gobber became a little less quiet, alway's watching over there backs like Nightmare Toothless would just appear one day and try to kill them.
Fishlegs lost his happy alway's smiling attitude, replaced for a mixed one of sadness and sometimes content.
The Twins had stopped pranking for a while after the Nightmare T Incident and they only picked it back up again a year.
Astrid had become more strong and a silent type, her nighttime encounter with Nightmare Toothless had shaken her to the core and she wasn't able to sleep without one eye open at all times.
Hiccup hadn't really changed except for becoming a bit more mature and taller, otherwise, he was still Hiccup.
But the one that went through the most change was Toothless, he lost his bouncy and puppy like personality in favor of a more silent, more calm and mature attitude. He didn't play anymore, he didn't even roll around in the grass or just flop on his back to feel the sunshine on his chest and belly. He was alway's upright, ready to protect everyone around him. He even stopped doing flight tricks with Hiccup, which got Hiccup really sad for a while until he got over it.
Hiccup thought it was unhealthy for Toothless to deny having fun once and a while. But he knew his dragon was emotionally and physically scarred from the incident, so he had been trying to help Toothless get better, but nothing was working. Toothless was a broken dragon, inside and out.
Everyone was sitting in the clubhouse, they had nothing to do again. Ever since the dragon hunters just disappeared off the face of the Earth they've had nothing to do.
The only dragon hunter they found was Viggo! Tied up and injured! They quickly threw him in jail. They then found empty and abandoned dragon hunter ships, with meals half eat and things being written but never finished.
To say they were scared was a lie, they were terrified. If something was able to come and get rid of the dragon hunters so quickly then the same thing could possibly happen to them! They decided to stop actively searching for dragon hunter ships, only patrolling dragon island and the Edge every few days.
Hiccup was reading a book while leaning against Toothless, who was laying down. Toothless then raised his head as he thought he heard something in the far distance.
"What is it bud?" Hiccup asks and Toothless growls.
Toothless gets up and heads out of the hut, which causes all the dragon riders to get worried. If Toothless was going outside to check something then something must be up.
Toothless stepped out onto the cold exterior of the hut, the wind hitting his scales. He looked over at the treeline and focused, he then thought he saw red evil eyes and a smirk.
His breathing fastened and he collapsed, having one of his famous panic attacks that he has had many of over the years.
"It's not real, it's not real, it's not real, he's gone, he can't hurt you, he can't hurt Hiccup, it's not real, just your imagination" Toothless whispers under his breath while curling into a tight ball. Hiccup came out a minute later and hugged Toothless, thinking that Toothless was having one of his hallucination panic attacks again.
"It's ok, bud. Whatever you see, it's not real" Hiccup says and Toothless looks Hiccup straight in the eye, and Hiccup could see in Toothless' eyes that this wasn't the normal short panic attack, this was a big panic attack.
"I thought i saw...HIM" Toothless whimpers and quickly cuddles Hiccup, whimpering and whining. Hiccup was taken back, Toothless hadn't hallucinated about seeing Nightmare T for around a year, so Hiccup had no idea how Toothless was suddenly now seeing him again.
"It's ok bud, he's long LONG gone in another dimension that he cannot come back from. Your safe, I'm safe. Everything is alright and NOTHING will go wrong" Hiccup says and Toothless eventually calms down, Toothless takes a quick peek at the treeline to see nothing except trees and grass, which helped Toothless calm down quicker.
It was now bedtime and everyone was asleep except for Hiccup, he was writing up a letter to his dad.
"Dear Stoick...no that's too formal. Dear dad...no that sounds too formal still. Hey, dad...no that just doesn't fit" Hiccup mumbles to himself, trying to figure out what to start the letter with, it was one of those monthly letters that Hiccup alway's sent to his father. Except for this time, he was having a hard time writing it.
"Ok, hey dad, it's me, Hiccup. Everything's going well here, i might need you to visit in a day or two with some herbs that stop hallucinations, Toothless has been having bad ones lately. And just a few hours ago, he imagined he say YOU KNOW WHO in the tree line. it would be a real help to me if you did, thanks, love, your son, HHH the Third" Hiccup says and finishes writing the letter before quickly calling Sharpshot.
"Hey, Sharpshot! I need you to deliver this letter to my dad, ok?" Hiccup says and Sharpshot purrs with a nod, Hiccup ties the letter to Sharpshot's leg and Sharpshot takes off into the night.
Hiccup then started getting prepared for bed, he took off his brown armor and slipped on some regular pants and a green shirt.
He was about to go to bed when he hears footsteps outside his hut, he tilts his head confused. Everyone should be asleep unless it was one of the Twins planning on scaring him again.
He opened the hut to his door with a sigh and looked out, fully ready to start a rant with the Twins on the pranks when his eyes met a sight that scares him to his core.
Nightmare Toothless was standing less than 150 feet from Hiccup's door with the smile of a devil.
"Oh hey, Hiccup, my how you've grown! I bet you would make a fine dinner!" Nightmare T says while licking his lips. Hiccup quickly shuts his hut's door and pulls a lever, causing the door to be barricaded and locked.
He had installed the feature after a sneak Dragon Hunter attack, but he never thought he would need it against Nightmare T.
"TOOTHLESS!" Hiccup yells and pushes his entire body against the door, just in case. The door starts getting rammed, burned, hit, pushed, and pulled by Nightmare T. Who wants to snake on some Hiccup.
Toothless slowly descends the stairs, kinda tired and not fully realizing the situation.
"Hiccup, it's nearly the middle of the night" Toothless moans, using his paw to rub his eye. Hiccup then glares at Toothless while continuing to hold the door.
"He's back! He's outside! He's trying to get in!" Hiccup yells and Toothless freezes.
Toothless wanted to believe this was a nightmare, he constantly had nightmares in which he woke up to find Hiccup holding the door to protect them against Nightmare T. But this was too real, way too real to be a dream.
Toothless immediately pressed his entire body up against the door, helping Hiccup.
"I thought you sent him to that dimension that no one can ever return from!" Hiccup yells and Toothless grunts as Nightmare T bangs against the door even harder than before.
"I did!" Toothless responds with a growl. He was trying to act tough but on the inside he was terrified! His worst nightmare was back to haunt him and now, with them being alone on the Edge. Toothless didn't exactly have the power of the entirety of Berk at his disposal for him to use to get rid of Nightmare T.
Toothless and Hiccup kept at it for an hour or two until Toothless realized that the door was becoming weaker and weaker and weaker, and now if Nightmare T blasted it hard enough, it would bust open.
"I need to draw him away!" Toothless says and runs up the stairs, Hiccup runs up after him.
"Wait!" Hiccup says and grabs Toothless' head before hugging him tightly, having a feeling that this wasn't going to end well.
"S-Stay safe" Hiccup says and Toothless nods before jumping out the now unlocked and unbarred upstairs window that they had bared an hour after Toothless arrived. Hiccup smiled and looked out the window.
"And if you see Nightmare T, tell him i said FUCK YOU!" Hiccup says with a smile and then slams the window closed. Toothless imminently roars outside, catching Nightmare T' attention.
"HEY! NIGHTMARE TOOTHLESS! IM OVER HERE!" Toothless roars and runs off to the clubhouse. He makes it there before Nightmare T, and he jumps behind a huge stack of barrels.
He slows his breathing and try's his best to remain silent. Tap, tap, tap. Toothless hear's Nightmare T enter the clubhouse and start slowly stalking him.
TAP TAP TAP, Nightmare T got closer and Toothless' breathing increased a bit. Toothless tried to make himself as small as possible, but he knew it wouldn't work. Nightmare T was somewhere close by.
He got up and ran out from behind the barrels and outside the clubhouse. Nightmare T then turned to Toothless who was smiling.
"Hey! Nightmare T, FUCK YOU!" Toothless yells and manages to raise one of his middle claws at Nightmare T. He then runs off from the inraged Nightmare T, who was screaming his head off.
"Maybe that wasn't the BEST idea, but it sure made me feel better" Toothless mutters to himself while running. Nightmare T continued chasing Toothless around the Edge all night until it was almost morning.
That's when Toothless was slow as a tired dog, he had been up for hours running and running with only an hour of sleep beforehand. He was beaten.
That's when Toothless spotted the dome, if he hid inside there with it closed, the dome could last until morning! Toothless then starts running as fast as he can to the dome.
Nightmare T catches on and smiles, sending a plasma blast RIGHT underneath Toothless, sending him flying through the air and landing in the dome. Toothless got up and realized it would take him to long to reach the lever, he was screwed.
"Oh no..." Toothless mumbles under his breath, he was cornered and couldn't escape. And the only thing that might save him was JUST out of his reach.
That's when a gray dragon with six eyes appeared right next to the lever, she smirked and used his tail to pull the lever. Causing the dome to close just before Nightmare T got to it.
"GODS DAMN IT!" Nightmare T roars and starts sending plasma blasts everywhere.
Toothless just collapses inside the dome, he was tired and knew that eventually Hiccup and the others would find him inside the dome.
The grey dragon smirked and disappeared before Nightmare T could notice her.
That's a wrap on CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 2: HE HAS RETURNED, will be out VERY very soon. I hope to expand the Double Sided series into a TRILOGY, yep, there will be another book in the Double Sided series RIGHT after Double Sided 2 is finished! Also, please leave a review and give me some feedback on the chapter. So...
This is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.