Foreign desires of unforeseen transformations

Chapter 3- Changes

Hiccup was barely conscious but could feel himself being carried. His eyes flickered but they refused to stay open. He went in and out of consciousness for a while, hearing and seeing random things.

Waking up to the familiar view of his bedroom he realized he was laying in his own bed. Gothi was tending to his wounds. It took Hiccup a moment to come around completely but when he did, he shot straight upright ignoring his pain thinking only of Toothless.

''Mum! Toothless?'' Hiccup questioned with worry. He looked at Toothless's bed hoping that it had been a dream.

Valka pushed Hiccup back down ''No Hiccup, you must rest, you are lucky to be alive son!''.

Hiccup felt angry again 'Lucky?' he thought with disbelief. ''Where is he?'' He shouted, demanding to know. Hiccup knew he was gone, it was just too damn hard to admit it, to accept it.

Valka looked worriedly at Gothi, her sons' anger was scaring her. Valka looked back at Hiccup and spoke reassuringly, ''We will find him Son, he will be okay''.

Hiccup shouted ''No he won't! You don't understand…he…'' Hiccup turned away and tears fell from his eyes ''…He's gone mum, he didn't make it!'' Hiccup whispered. Hiccup turned onto his side and covered his face, he lay there with tears filling his eyes wishing it was him instead of Toothless. His sobs rocked his body violently and Gothi and Valka looked at each other in shock and pity.

-OOO-

The rain had stopped for now and the woods behind the village were unusually quiet. Down where the trees parted slightly you could see a man's body. It was in the exact same spot where Toothless's dead body once lay, surrounded by the burn circle scorched into the ground.

The boy was naked, lying motionless on the ground face down. The boy was about Hiccup's age, 22 years old, and lean with a slight show of muscular toning, especially in his arms and legs. He was about 6 foot 5 in height. His hair was black with a faint grey, almost highlighted look. His hair was messy with a natural spiky appearance that fell or stuck up where it pleased.

The boy's arms moved slightly and his head looked up in confusion. 'What's going on' he thought, as he tried to find Hiccup. He was having a hard time moving, not used to his new body at all. He tried to get up but fell face down into the ground. Toothless looked at his arms and for a moment, he thought they were Hiccup's. He started to panic when he realized, it was him that looked like a person. His human eyes widened as he tried to shoot a distress signal into the air, but he only managed to make a roaring noise. 'No no no no no, this is wrong, all wrong, I can't be a person, I need to get to Hiccup'.

Once again Toothless kept slipping down as he tried to get up, and in a frenzy of panic only managed to move a few feet forward grazing his chin, knees and hands. 'This is worse than death' he thought in his state of panic, breathing deeply as he lay on the ground trying to calm himself down. He closed his eyes and focused on his breathing, realizing he was dizzy and faint. 'This feels so wrong, I don't like it, I'm scared, I don't want to be a person, I want to be me, I want to find Hiccup' he thought desperately.

As he lay there with his eyes closed, Toothless's body was changing and morphing back into his dragon form but, he hadn't noticed or felt it yet as he was to focused on his breathing. After a while, he decided it was time to try and stand up again. He would do it slowly this time and get to Hiccup somehow, however, as he went to stand it was easier this time.

Toothless was a dragon, and was standing on his hind legs looking at his front ones that were his own again. 'Yes, yes, yes!' He thought as he instantly took off flying for Hiccup's house, hoping he was there and nothing had happened to him. As he flew over the village, he could see the battle was over but a lot of it had been destroyed or damaged. Luckily the Great Hall and Hiccup's house were among the few that looked ok.

Toothless flew in through the roof window to see that Hiccup was asleep already. He was relieved but wondered why Hiccup had left him in the woods and hadn't come back for him. When he got closer to Hiccup, he could smell the wounds on his body and the tears on his face and pillow. Toothless nuzzled Hiccup's hand sadly and made a whining sound, but Hiccup was in a such a deep sleep he didn't wake up. Toothless decided to let him sleep, and with a huge sigh he walked over to his stone bed. Toothless heated up his bed with his fire, and laid down.

Toothless was glad he wasn't a person but, it was times like these when he wished Hiccup could understand his thoughts at least, or that he could write like humans did. He couldn't help but wonder if he had gone crazy and imagined being human, a lot had just happened. Toothless lay there thinking about it as he drifted of to sleep.