Disclaimer: How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup, Toothless, and all related characters and events belong to Cressida Cowell and Dreamworks Animation.
Is this death? I don't know; I thought Dad would be here. I don't feel cold, I don't feel anything. Time just stops...
Is this sorrow? I don't know; I thought I knew what sorrow was when my husband died. I have gained the world today, only to lose it again...
This can't be death: Valhalla can't be this dark and cramped. I can't see, I can't move...
This can't be happening: Valhalla can't have both of them on the same day...
I can't breathe. There's no room, no air. I try to shout, and no sound comes...
I can't give up. The ice is solid, impenetrable. I beat my hand against it, but nothing happens...
I don't want to die. It's getting hot and I'm buried alive...
I don't want to live. Not like this, buried in cold sorrow...
The world turns white and shatters in blinding heat. Toothless crouches above me, his roar filling my ears, his scales lined with blue fire...
The ice turns blue and disintegrates in the heat of dragon fire. Hiccup is curled on the ground, protected by the dragon...
I will never understand how he did it, but I owe Toothless my life. And we have one more battle before us.
I would never have believed it, but Hiccup is alive. And with his dragon, he will win this fight.