"We'l now, tha' is a problem," Gobber said while eyeing Toothless, distrust becoming an apparent emotion on his worn face. However, Hiccup was more preoccupied with other things about this stranger than his lack of speech skills.
"Those are my father's boots," he said quietly, almost to himself. Gobber thankfully did not hear this statement but Toothless picked up on the quiet voice as if he still had his superb hearing. He started to squirm under the sudden quizzical gaze of Hiccup. He knew the other would be able to tell that all the clothing came from his house with relative ease, given the sleeve of the tunic had a hammer etched into the fabric, something his mother had done while still alive.
Hiccup's face was beginning to turn to one of anger and Toothless wanted to avoid that reaction as much as possible. He quickly grabbed the others arm and yanked him out of the forge, the yells and curses of Gobber following in their wake. Hiccup tried to yank his arm away from the stranger, but to no avail.
They ran through the village, Toothless occasionally stumbling because of the large boots. On one such occasion, Hiccup attempted to help the decent with a quick extension of his leg but Toothless, being his partner in every battle, saw it coming and quickly regained his balance and leapt over the limb.
He could hear Hiccup cursing. None of his attempts at escape were working.
Near the bottom of the village, there was a fork in the road. To the right would mean the docks. To the left you would go towards the forest. Toothless veered left and almost crashed into Snotlout and Astrid. The memory of Astrid leaving Hiccup for that whelp seared into Toothless's mind. Her excuse was that he was too interested in dragons, that he never gave her enough attention. What she didn't notice was the effect of the break up on Hiccup. Seeing them together always made Toothless snarl, even in his human state.
Hiccup's ears perked up at the snarl and his minded reeled with thoughts that were illogical.
Finally, they ran into the forest. The village was moving farther behind them and disappearing between the stumps of trees. They ran for some time, uphill then downhill. Toothless could hear the rasping breath from Hiccup behind him but they were almost there. If he could speak to him he would sure as hell find a way to tell the other who he was.
"Here!" he thought to himself before slamming to a halt on a ridge that overlooked a small pond. "This is where we-" He was cut off in his thought process as Hiccup failed to slam on the breaks, shooting out over the ridge. Toothless refused to let go of him but despite his strength was unable to prepare himself for the extra weight pulling him forward.
They both fell over the ridge, grunts and groans of pain following their decent. When they stopped, Toothless was upside down and looking up at the swaying branches and Hiccup was on his stomach, shaking his head while getting onto all fours.
"Sorry," Toothless tried to say but once again, it came out only as dragon words. He sighed, rolling over and climbing to his feet, holding a hand out to Hiccup who took it after a moment's hesitation.
"Why did you bring me here?" he asked. Though he knew where they were and he had a hypothesis about who this stranger before him was, Hiccup still couldn't wrap his head around it. It was impossible.
Toothless growled in frustration, racking his brain to come up with some way to tell Hiccup who it was. He looked around the area for anything that would bring back a memory. A fish from the pond? No good. He couldn't fly like he used to or breathe fire to make a warm bed.
Then his eye landed on a branch and an idea struck him.
He quickly walked over to it, Hiccup following cautiously. When he turned around with the branch in hand, Hiccup took a step back as if expecting a fight. But instead, Toothless began drawing in the dirt. He twirled around Hiccup, making no picture in general but making sure Hiccup ended up in the middle of his art. When he was done, he dropped the branch and stared at Hiccup, waiting for the light bulb to go on.
Hiccup stared at him, a feeling of déjà vu surging through him. "It's impossible," he thought to himself again but decided he needed to test it. He stepped on one of the lines.
Toothless growled.
He took his foot off the line and Toothless went back to blank expression. Hiccup repeated the process and got the same reaction. "He snarls at Astrid, he is wearing clothing from my house, he brought me here, and…" his thoughts trailed off, unable to comprehend that he was really about to ask this.
"Are you…Toothless?" he asked, his voice ringing through the clearing with the question that seemed to weigh a hundred pounds. The stranger before him smiled and for a moment, he could see Toothless in the human. At that point, he didn't need an answer.
He ran towards his friend, cursing as he had to hop through the art to make sure not to step on any of the lines, and then bulldozed his friend down in a tight hug. "What are you doing? How can you be a human?" He asked in a frantic voice, staring up at the greenish gold eyes of his dragon and companion.
Alright all you crazy fans out there ._. Im sorry its taken me so long to post. Finals are officially done and that means posts much more frequently. However, this one post is short. Before you claw at my neck let me explain! I am sick ._. that's right I wrote you all a chapter while I was sick! So be thankful
What this also means is there are likely more typos or even a sentence or two that just makes no sense at all. If you run across one of those…Im sorry! Forgive this foolish writer.