Hello everyone and welcome to CHAPTER 4 of DOUBLE SIDED 3. The final chapter of this book before i start work on Double Sided 4! So, let's just get straight into...
CHAPTER 4: THE BATTLE BETWEEN INFINITY
Toothless opened his eyes to find himself standing in water, but this was not normal water. It was water that was red. He looked around and up at the sky. The ground is gray and the sky is orange. The clouds are blue, and the tree's leaves are yellow.
That's when Toothless hears something or someone splash into the water behind him, and he immediately turns around while charging up a plasma blast. But the plasma blast died in his throat as soon as he saw who was behind him.
"Hiccup! What are you doing here!? You need to..." Toothless yells and then the portal closes, and a sonic boom comes from the portal, knocking Hiccup onto Toothless' back, and Toothless a bit back.
"Oh, no! Now I can't get you back!" Toothless yells and Hiccup sighs before climbing off of Toothless' back and facing him.
"I'm not letting you go on a suicide run alone," Hiccup says and Toothless roars in his face, fricking ROARS in his face.
"I'M NOT LOSING YOU AGAIN!" Toothless yells as loud as possible and then takes a few deep breaths while tears come from his eyes. Hiccup immediately runs over to Toothless and hugs him.
"I don't plan on leaving you anytime soon, buddy. I promise," Hiccup says and Toothless whimpers before realizing just exactly where they were standing. He then nudges Hiccup and Hiccup stops hugging him.
"We...we need to get moving before the Red Death's army cracks down on us," Toothless says and starts looking for some resemblance of society. That's when he spotted a huge mountain nest, but it didn't look beautiful, it didn't even look livable. But yet, he saw some dragons flying in and out of it.
"We need to go there. Something tells me we'll find some resemblance of society there," Toothless says and uses his paw to gesture to the mountain. Hiccup nods and they quickly set out on their journey to the mountain.
The entire way there, Hiccup and Toothless never spoke a word. Hiccup was curious about the world he was in and thus was looking around, while Toothless was still angry at Hiccup for following him on a suicide run.
They eventually reach the base of the mountain, and Hiccup climbs onto Toothless back. Toothless nods and then flies up into the mountain.
What they see inside is both horrifying and scaring all at the same time. This mountain wasn't just a mountain, it was a dragon slave mine, where dragons worked away to mine stone and metals for the Red Death's army.
The watched as a small Terrible Terror tried pushing a box into an elevator, but then an armored Monstrous Nightmare came over.
*You've failed to deliver enough supplies this week, so you will be executed for your failure* The Monstrous Nightmare says and then snaps the Terrible Terror up in his jaws, and swallows him whole.
Toothless and Hiccup look on from the shadows of the upper levels, horrified at what was going on.
"They're enslaving dragons, and then forcing them to work here," Hiccup said to himself while Toothless snarled.
"I will not allow it anymore," Toothless says to himself and turns to Hiccup, who was still staring on horrified.
"Hiccup, get your shield and sword ready. We're gonna free these dragons," Toothless says and Hiccup nods. They both prepare for the battle of their lives.
After being 100 percent sure that they're ready, Hiccup runs down to distract the guard dragons.
"HEY! OVER HERE, YOU SPINE-LESS REPTILES!" Hiccup yells the number one worst Dragon insult that Toothless gave him. All the guards turn to Hiccup and snarl, and they chase after him.
Toothless comes down from the upper ceiling and he searches around for a moment, the enslaved dragons ignoring him.
He finds a huge iron door, with orange light shining out from underneath it. He searches around until he figures out the complicated mechanism: two levers that unlock the door to enter a room containing a puzzle with over 9,000 combinations, and only one will unlock the door.
"Holy Thor, I'd better figure this out quickly" Toothless mumbles to himself and gets to work.
Hiccup runs down the hallways, dragon fire going over his head while dragons continued chasing after him.
"Oh crap, got to get away from them..." Hiccup mumbles to himself and looks for the perfect hiding place.
That's when he notices a small, hidden cubby hole which would be perfect for him to hide in.
He ducks into the hole, and almost all of the dragons fly right by, thinking that Hiccup just continued running.
"Thank the gods..." Hiccup mumbles and then he hears the sound of claws against stone, and then a Monstrous Nightmare appears in his vision. He quickly raises his shield before the Nightmare's claws could collide with his face.
'AHH!" Hiccup yells as he holds onto the shield with all he's got, but it doesn't last long before the last bit of the shield is taken away from him.
He watches as the Monstrous Nightmare smirks and charges. He raises his arms and prepares for a ton of pain. That's when he heard the familiar sound of a Night Fury building up a plasma blast. He opens his eyes to see the Monstrous Nightmare running away and Toothless running up to him.
"Hiccup?! Are you alright?" Toothless asks and Hiccup nods with a sigh.
"Yeah, but my shield is toast," Hiccup says and gestures to his broken shield that lay a few feet away.
"Don't worry, brother. I have your back?" Toothless says and pulls Hiccup out of the cubby hole. Hiccup climbs onto Toothless' back and they head back into the main room to find it empty with the huge metal doors open.
"You got them out?" Hiccup asks and Toothless nods happily with a purr. Hiccup climbs off Toothless and shakes his dragon's head playfully.
"Toothless, you clever dragon! How did you figure it out?" Hiccup asked and Toothless took a moment to remember just how he did it.
"Well, the levers where easy. But the puzzle was the hardest. I tried 1,924 combinations before getting the right one," Toothless says and Hiccup laughs.
"You do work fast," Hiccup says and Toothless chuckles. That's when they heard the sounds of dragons snarling and running. They look down a hallway to see many guards running towards them.
Toothless quickly throws Hiccup onto his back and they start running down hallways and corridors, dodging and weaving through mazes and boxes.
They reach a room containing a huge portal leading to a destination unknown. Toothless jumps in and they're teleported. The teleport causes the entire room to explode, taking out a number of the guards and destroying the teleporter.
Toothless and Hiccup opened their eyes to find themselves in a huge, gray room, with a hallway at the end. They didn't know where it led, but from the sounds of dragons coming from the end of the hallway, they knew it would lead to a fight.
They slowly made their way over to the hallway, but then a dragon quickly jumps over Toothless, grabbed Hiccup, and pinned Hiccup to the floor.
Hiccup raised Inferno and was about to strike at the dragon, so it would let him go, but the dragon chomped down on Inferno and shattered the flaming sword into tiny bits.
Hiccup became wide-eyed and afraid. He knew had no weapon. He was defenseless.
Then Toothless pounced on the dragon and bit into its neck, causing it to wail in pain. Toothless backed off with a snarl, and the other dragon ran away quickly.
"Hiccup! Are you ok? Are you hurt?" Toothless asked quickly and Hiccup chuckled a bit while getting up.
"I'm fine, but my sword was destroyed," Hiccup said and picked up a few broken pieces of Inferno. Toothless sighs and then starts searching for something.
"Toothless...what are you..." Hiccup starts but stops when Toothless suddenly comes over, grabs him, and then drops him in a small but hidden hole.
"Toothless!" Hiccup yells and tries to climb out, only to realize that the hole is just a bit too deep.
"I'll be right back. I can't be looking out for you every second while trying to fight enemy dragons," Toothless says and runs off. Hiccup gets angry.
"TOOTHLESS!" Hiccup yells angrily and tries to get out, only to fail and fall flat on his butt.
Toothless was running down hallways, trying to find the source of the noise. He stopped just outside of a room. He took a deep breath and then entered.
What he saw was shocking; this room was not small, but massive! And inside it, were two Bewilderbeasts, a runt Green Death, and the Red Death. But they were not Night Fury size. They were bigger than their normal size; they were the size of the ENTIRE island of Berk.
"Ahh Toothless, nice to see you've joined us. I'd like you to meet my friends, Vormir, Infinity, and Runt. Now it's time for you to die," The Red Death says and then raises her paw, ready to square Toothless right there and then.
That's when Toothless notices that they've started the teleporting process, and Toothless remembers what happened to him when the crystal was melted. But what if it shattered mid teleportation? He thought long and hard about it and decided to go ahead and do it.
So, he ran, and dodged, and fired plasma blasts at the huge dragons. Eventually, the huge dragons got bored and stopped trying to stomp on him.
"Well, i guess we'll leave the killing to the guards, seeing as we will be quad-trillions of miles away in another universe," The Red Death says with a smirk and the other big dragons smirk. Then, a few hundred guards enter the room and all start blasting at Toothless.
Toothless quickly jumps behind a wall and hides. He waits for a few moments before taking a peek.
The huge dragons were already fading away as the teleporting machine worked its magic. Toothless took in a deep breath.
"Now or never," Toothless said to himself and ran out from behind the wall. He flew into the air and dodged and weaved through the hundreds of dragons chasing him.
He eventually managed to make it to the platform containing the crystal, and he smiled while walking forward. But then, a Monstrous Nightmare came from out of nowhere and ambushed Toothless, pinning him.
The Monstrous Nightmare then used his magically enhanced claws to stab Toothless in the stomach, causing the Night Fury to wail in pain.
Toothless fired a plasma blast at the Monstrous Nightmare, killing it instantly.
He coughed up some blood as he rolled over onto his chest and belly. He could hear the big dragons chuckling from nearby.
"Oh look at this, the MIGHTY Night Fury, gravely injured by a MONSTROUS NIGHTMARE. Ha!" One of the big dragons said and Toothless coughed up a lot of blood at that moment.
He slowly got on his weak and shaky paws, he started limping over to the crystal. The big dragons were almost now all faded away, and he knew he only had seconds before the teleport was complete.
He used the last of his strength to make it to the crystal, and swiped it with his claws. The crystal was shattered into bits.
"NOOOOO! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The Red Death screamed as the teleport caused them all to be stretched and pulled across time and space. Then the teleport failed and they all disappeared.
Bright green light filled the room as the room was filled with explosions and it started to collapse.
Toothless collapsed onto his belly, a pool of blood slowly forming underneath him. He looked at green lights and explosions while coughing a bit more blood.
"I hoped... there will be...stars" Toothless mumbled under his breath before closing his eyes as the entire room exploded into flames, taking the entire universe he was in with it.
Toothless thought he was dead. He heard nothing, saw nothing, and smelled nothing. That's when he heard the sound of a dragon coughing.
He tried to open his eyes. It took him several moments before they responded and then he realized something. He was still alive.
But...he should have died, the room was exploding and the universe he was in was collapsing! How did he...
That's when he sees a gravely injured Red Death standing in front of him, and he understood just exactly what had happened.
"YOU" Toothless managed to weakly say while just barely getting his balance, his entire side was covered in blood and his belly didn't look much better, considering that he now had a huge scar right on his underside.
"YOU killed my friends, and for that, you will pay. But I plan to do it...in a special way. I am going to stick you between time and space, forever stuck away from reality. You will never be able to truly SETTLE, you will always be moving, whether it be through time, space, or reality. YOU will never be allowed to die while in MY HELL," The Red Death says and a portal slowly forms underneath Toothless, and he screeches and try's to avoid falling into it.
But he fails, and he falls into it. Everything went dark and he started falling asleep.
"TOOTHLESS! WHERE ARE YOU?!" He heard Hiccup yell, and then he fell into unconsciousness.
That WRAPS up Double Sided 3! I hope to have Double Sided 4 out sometime soon! Thank you for everyone who sat through this re-write and has been waiting patiently for Double Sided 4.
Here are two hints for Double Sided 4:
1) It involves time and parrel universes.
2) Toothless will unlock his full potential and strength.
Anyway's that's it for Double Sided 4! I would also like to thank my Beta-Reader for beta reading this chapter for me. Thank you all and see you all in Double Sided 4
This is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.