Toothless sat atop a great stone of quartz, with a molten core of precious stones churning underneath it, powering a light so great it lit up the entire great hall carved away millennia ago by sub-continental glaciers and solidified into place by hardened lava. His throne. A throne he shared with the Queen of Dragons, The Light Fury. Even though he was still getting used to tens of thousands of dragons at his immediate command, he enjoyed his new life down in the depths of the earth, thousands of feet down below the ocean waves that concealed their Hidden World. Toothless being a night fury, well understood that power was not happiness though.

"Love is the greatest gift of all, but with love comes a great waterfall." Toothless had heard Hiccup repeat this to himself over the days leading up to Grimmel's defeat. Toothless knew what this meant... sort of. He remembered Hiccup telling him of a time when he was just a little boy,

'One night, I was walking down the stairs to get some water when I found my dad stoking a fire in the pit, with a saddened look on his face. He started up at me and said, "Son- you should be asleep right now," after wiping a tear from his eye. I didn't know what he was sad about yet. He told me to come and sit, so I did... and he started telling me how to stoke the fire. While I did so, I asked him when he could get us a new mom, hah- that was funny now that I think about it. He said with a small smile, "Oh, it's not that simple son. Valka was the one for me, no other valkerie or sheildmaiden could replace her." I didn't quite know what that meant at the time. but then he said something else he said, "Son, love is the greatest gift of all, but with love comes a great waterfall. But always remember, love is always the answer." Heck, why am I even telling you this, you probably won't even understand this, bud. Huh, geuss I'm just remembering this to remember dad'.

Hiccup chuckled. And Toothless did understand, most of it at least.

Toothless lifted his head to stare in awe of the ceiling at the top of the grand cave his dragons had taken refuge in for thousands of years. He wasn't sure what to feel at the moment. He didn't know if he should feel happy that he had found his mate and found The Hidden World. Or if he was sad that he had to leave Berk and everything about it, in order to keep the dragons and the humans that loved them, safe from the rest of the world.

Toothless thought back to when he had first met Hiccup. He hadn't needed Hiccup before he was shot down by the same boy that had soon afterwards become his best friend. After Hiccup freed him, he didn't kill Hiccup. Thinking back he didn't quite know why, that in that moment, Toothless decided to not kill a killer. It seemed illogical and foolish to not kill a killer. But Hiccup... wasn't a killer. He remembered staring deep into Hiccup's eyes, and noticed that Hiccup was different than the other vikings, he wasn't quite the same as the hard-headed vikings he'd encountered while on raids. He was quick to kindness and merciful and didn't act based on fear. Toothless saw Hiccup as a unique and gentle human, a person that saw a wrong in his small world and tried to make it right.

Hiccup was the first human he had met, ever, really. And now... Toothless let a tear fall from his emerald eye, remembering saying goodbye to his best friend. The first person he had ever met, became the last person he had said goodbye to. The reality of leaving Berk started to sink in. He missed all the little humans that him and Hiccup had brought into the light about dragons and humans. He missed waking up, next to Hiccup whether on his bed or on the stone slab he would heat up before curling up in comfort and peace, to go to sleep knowing that the next day would bring a new adventure, a happy continuation of a life he never knew he wanted until it was a reality. He missed the long flights, just him and Hiccup, through the clouds of white and black of night, the sun shining warmly over them and the stars hovering above, both forever out of reach but always there. He missed the coordinated choas of the dragon-human village hybrid, a Utopia that soon became exactly that, a place that could not exist.

Toothless knew that leading the dragons to The Hidden World was the only thing to keep the Hooligan tribe safe from the people that wanted to destroy their dragon-viking ideology. So it had to be made no more. The Lightfury and Toothless would now rule their own world in peace and safety. But Toothless worried for the people of Berk. Were they able to defend themselves against raiders and barbarians without the help of a loyal dragon army? Was Hiccup okay without Toothless being there for him? Knowing Astrid though, Hiccup was probably very much loved by her, and her loved by him. They would be able to stick together through thick and thin and keep Berk safe.

Toothless heard a smooth woosh behind him. He turned his head to look at his lovely mate, the great Lightfury. She pranced over to him with a hop in her adorable little steps and stood next to Toothless before rubbing up against his chin. Toothless got a little more lighthearted at this and was even more excited when she stopped spinning around him and regurgitated a bunch of mushy cod. Toothless slurped it up in an instant, smacking his lips to tell her thank you and that the food was good. She crooned happily and tried to do the gummy smile she had been practicing ever since Toothless showed her on their dates. Toothless simply licked her boopersnoot, as the humans would call it, before she crawled up underneath Toothless' wing. Toothless wrapped her up in his wing and cuddled up to his lover, staring at her pure white scales and swooning purple eyes as they stared lovingly at each other. The Lightfury curled up to Toothless as he spooned her, turning on his side to hold her in his paws and wings. In this moment, Toothless began to fully understand what Stoick meant when he told Hiccup, "With love comes a great waterfall, But love is the greatest gift of all."

I know that this chapter was a bit short but how in depth can you go into an animal's mind before it becomes to human? Also thank you for all the views, saves, likes and reviews. It means so much to me that you guys enjoy my work and take your time to review it. Next chapter will be longer than both of these ones I hope. Thank you