I. Back in the cove...
Hiccup was panting hard to get to his flighty dragon. He was ready to demand an answer to the way he was acting, but Hiccup instead came upon another anomaly in the wonderous cove. A thick, swirling green pool had mesmerized his dragon. Hiccup sighed and shook his head at the increasingly strange way his dragon was behaving and seized his lead.
"Toothless, I know being the Alpha gets tough now and then. I mean, I don't mean to the point of running... or, y'know, flying away but-," It was in that moment that Hiccup was dragged into the perfectly warm and peacefully breathable water.
"Tooothlessss..." The man gurgled.
The Night Fury paddled naturally with the swishing currents. He let out a satisfied roar that caused a cascade of bubbles to stream out of his mouth. Hiccup was being pulled along for dear life when the two came upon a type of liquid net. While the chief garbled out a protest, Toothless swam straight ahead for the bright entrance that somehow perfectly matched his eyes. The emeralds glowed and Toothless was just about to penetrate it when a deep, earth-shattering roll gripped the two in it's midst.
Realizing the danger, Toothless bolted for an exit. Hiccup discovered then that the bubbles forming when they moved had air in them. It was getting even easier to breath as they broke away out of the mountain side and were truly puzzled when they saw the mountain moving. Toothless flung Hiccup onto his back and the two flew from an enormous dragon.
They both were very surprised to see that the hole had been a mouth. A long, serpentine dragon at least two-hundred feet long, with malachite-colored top, medium-gray underbelly and four giant wings was a sight that almost made the Bewildebeast unassuming.
"I've never seen another dragon like this," Hiccup barely had the breath to say, "I wonder what we could do with him," Toothless seethed suddenly.
He couldn't take it anymore.
The dragon bucked his best friend off and watched with instaneous regret as Hiccup fell backwards. A moment later he saw the man was landing safely in the water. Toothless realized what he had done then and could no longer keep himself up as he fell wildly after the man. The crystalized dragon made a huge sweep down towards Hiccup, his mouth was hinged open wide. Toothless screeched but didn't distract the creature or alert Hiccup. The Night Fury posed down.
When the chief looked up, Toothless whistled down to where the amethyst-eyed dragon was less then ten feet from closing in on him and was mortified to see Toothless swoop into the dragon's mouth. The lizard crunched it's mouth shut, revealing a gaping hole in it's wicked-looking canines and flew away leaving the man stranded against the pointed rocks at the base of the cliff. "TOOTHLESS!" He practically shrieked.
A final screech from the inside of the crystal dragon and Hiccup felt his head hit against the base of the mountain side. Voices called out and winged forms descended upon Hiccup as he started to slip mentally.
"Hiccup," Eret brushed his bangs back as the other men helped him up, "What happened to Toothless?"
"The crystal dragon... he's green. He ate Toothless."
"We'll get you home," Eret's confident voice wavered in Hiccup's faltering conscious.
"It's my fault, Eret," the back of the man's hand ran down Hiccup's cheek, "I've changed too much, way too fast. Toothless," he sighed. "Didn't understand."
"I've changed very quickly too," Hiccup was lowered gently into his father's saddle, "Sometimes change is too fast for some people, but we will find Toothless."
"Toothless is dead," Hiccup croaked, fraught with sorrow.
"No, he isn't." Fishlegs explained. "I saw it, the big green dragon didn't swallow. He wanted to eat you."
"Perfect," the chief said dryly as fainted peacefully.
II. The Lucky Cat Cafe...
"Hiro," Honey Lemon wrapped an arm around her friend securely as he was picking at his chow mein.
"Honey!" He bolted to attention.
All his friends excluding Baymax at the moment were staring at him oddly again. Hiro grinned his terrifically phony grin: Please get a life, you guys.
"So..." GoGo looked down at her plate, glanced up and very subtly winked at Fred. "Today was... a little rocky." she glanced at Hiro and then Honey. "Fred?"
"I don't think the 3rd guy in charge of San Fransoyko had a good grasp on how much firmer claws are. The secret to a good manshake is not to be a man at all..."
GoGo sighed and shook her head slightly.
Hiro stood up then and addressed his team seriously.
"Guys, Big Hero 6 means a lot to me; it's my job to make sure team morale is high, our equippment is all fuctional, but most of all, it's my duty to ensure we're leading the world into the 2020's and doing it right."
"Is this another little-brother-living-in-the-shadow thing?" Honey Lemon anxiously stated the obvious.
"Sort of." He smiled and came around the table to fit in between his four friends, "This is about me leaving that shadow behind. Girls," he winked at GoGo who didn't react back, "I've been accepted to Henderson."
"WHOA!" Wasabi bellowed, slapping Hiro's back.
"All right!" Fred pumped his fists while running in place.
"Muy bueno!" Honey shook his shoulders slightly.
GoGo beamed and gave him a tight, quick hug, "Is that all?" she asked with a laugh, "Don't scare us like that. We were worried you'd relasped or something."
"You guys don't mind?"
"I'm already renting out your room," His aunt called out as she passed by him. Hiro breathed with relief.
"This is great," he jumped around to face them, "I'm going to start developing more personalized robots for healthcare, uh... uh, revolutionalize the industry, of course." He grinned cockily. They humored him.
Fred's face fell as he realized something.
"I know, I know Fred. We'll have to work out BH6."
"No," he pointed at the door to the stairs, "Baymax."
Everyone turned to the loveable, fully-charged robot.
To be continued...