This is a rewritten chapter. Thanks goes to, again RicoRodriguez2018.
Some time that night…..
"Come on bud!" I exclaimed, bending closer to Toothless' back, as we flew faster through the rock spires.
We twisted and turned,weaved and darted through the gaps, narrowly dodging each rock, some by a hair's breadth!
Subconsciously, I clicked the pedal switching Toothless' tail fin to glide mode.
Spurred on by this, I let out an excited yell of "We got this!" and stood up on his saddle.
We were about to fly under a naturally formed stone bridge.
Well, by that, I meant Toothless was going under, I was going to jump over it and land back on Toothless. At least, that's what SHOULD have happened...
"You got this bud. I trust you." I started, and jumped. At that exact moment my eyes opened and I yawned a rather squeaky yawn.
I guess my memories are returning, as I now remembered everything from the night before. Berk. Toothless and I. Flight. Crashed. I died. Then I woke up.
I looked at my arms.
I distinctly remember thinking "Oh gods, what has Loki done?"
So I tried to move,but my muscles felt like they were built like rocks. Every muscle, including my wings were affected.
I couldn't continue my trail of thought as I felt a very uncomfortable and familiar feeling in my bowels and bladder.
Oh no. I've gotta go, but not here! Astrid might have a fit if she finds out I've voided myself here in her own home!
Again, my thoughts were destabilised when I heard the door open. Apparently, it was still raining. There was a definite clamour as Ruffnut came in followed by her twin, Tuffnut.
"He's soooo cute." Ruffnut cooed upon seeing the little hatchling sitting there with wide, blinking blue-green eyes and a queer expression on its' snout.
Everyone else came in not long after.
"Listen." Astrid began. "I know we have a lot of preparations to deal with,such as the funeral, but, as you can see, now we have a Night Fury hatchling on our hands with no one to take care of him."
"Can't we have Toothless take care of it?" Snotlout queried, his tone full of confusion.
"You know how Toothless feels. He's barely taking care of himself." Astrid retorted, shooting an unamused look at Snotlout, who backed down a little bit.
Meanwhile, just sitting there like a scaly black blob, I rubbed my head in confusion.
"WHAT'S WRONG!? WHAT HAPPENED?! WHAT AM I MISSING? A FUNERAL? WHATS WRONG WITH TOOTHLESS?" were the only thoughts that were coursing in my mind. However, I didn't know that, but I said them aloud. Odin, help me….
o.O.o
Astrid's POV.
Upon hearing the squeals, we all turned around to look at the crying dragon.
I reached down and picked him up off my bed. I then got settled down in a chair nearby, and took to rubbing his back until he eventually calmed down, staring at us all owlishly.
"What are we going to do with him? We don't have the necessary supplies." Snotlout pondered, the question on everyone's minds, no doubt.
"Oh, I was prepared for this kinda thing. Sort of. When I heard you found a baby Night Fury, Astrid, I brought these." Ruffnut chimed, before she reached into her bag and got out a few nappies.
She smirked directly at me, albeit a bit forlornly, knowing what happened. "I've seen how you and Hiccup would look at each other, I just thought it would happen some time."
I have to say that I think that I have never blushed harder than ever before.
o.O.o
Hiccup's POV
Erm, what did she grab? I can't see what she had, Astrid had me facing the wrong way.
Oh no…
I suddenly felt weird. Astrid quickly put me down. I looked up at her. She was wiping herself off.
She got wet somehow.
No, No, no. Of course it's like this. Nothing ever goes my way. EVER!
"At least Ruffnut brought nappies." Tuffnut interjected.
My mind spluttered to a stop upon hearing this.
WHAT! Wait!
ABOUT 10 minutes of screaming and squirming later.
I laid there sobbing on my arms, if you could even call it that. My arms weren't even my arms, and they didn't even reach my face.
So now it was more like my face trying to bury into the ground like an ostrich while I cried my eyes out. I have never felt so humiliated before, or since.
Ok. Let's think about this on the bright side...
Nope. Forget it. There IS no bright side.
I was about to curl up and question my very existence, never mind sanity when Toothless came to mind.
Toothless, Toothless. Where is he?
"TOOTHLESS! BUD!! PLEASE. HELP ME!" I sobbed. To my friends, it was an extremely loud scream, that could probably deafen a Terrible Terror, now that I think about it…..
"Oh for crying out loud!" Snotload snarled, before he reached into Ruffnut's bag and pulled something out,which he hid in his fist.
His dark shadow loomed over me, his fist tightly closed. It brought me back to my dark memories as a kid when he'd physically bully me. Not fun.
I whined,but as soon as I did so, he shoved a dummy in my mouth.
Gross…
"Shut. Up." He hissed, scathing anger in his voice, then turned and left.
Silence reigned as Snotlout marched out of the house.
When the door slammed shut, Tuffnut spoke up.
"What's got him in a bad mood?"
The door flew open and Tuffnut stepped back, narrowly escaping getting a front door to the face.
Snotlout glared at Tuffnut, jabbing him in the chest. Hard.
"You wanna know what's wrong?" he spat, fury evident in his tone, and tears in his eyes, "I'll tell you! My little cousin died two weeks ago! There was nothing in the world I could do! I bullied him and gave him hell as a kid! I never apologized and i never made things right! And now he's gone!"
Everything went white… My memories were now coming back.
The fateful flight…..
"You got this bud. I trust you." I spoke, rubbing Toothless on the back of the neck, and then, I jumped.
As if Loki himself was responsible, I didn't jump high enough and my leg crashed into the solid stone arch ahead with a sickening crunch as I saw my prosthesis shatter to nothing but splinters and twisted metal.
My sole good leg made contact with the stonework soon after. A disgusting snap rang out. I barely had a chance to acknowledge the pain in my shin as I bounced off the stone and then, I fell backwards and began to fall. Toothless made a sharp turn to fly to my aid, but the gliding mode tail fin wasn't made to do such a manoeuvre, and his left hind leg crashed into the wall,and it bent with a terrific crunching sound as it ended up in an impossible angle.
I never heard him scream over the wind rushing past but I clearly saw the pain in his eyes.
"Toothless!" I yelled. It was my last word I would speak as I soon felt the sharpest pain in my back and the loud cracking of bones as I hit the water at a colossal speed.
Toothless dove after me the last thing i saw before the blood from my body washed over me, and everything went black.
Before you say the diaper scene was weird,yes, I know. It won't be permanent. Hiccup will mature and grow out of that. Thank you and enjoy the ride :)
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