Hey guys! I'm back and with The Waste of What Remains Chapter 4! Now, this chapter focuses solely on Toothless and shows what happened to him after Chapter 3.
Also, by the end of this chapter, I hope that I'll have caused you're jaws to drop in shock. Now, let's get right into the chapter!
Previously on The Waste of What Remains...
Toothless took three deep breaths before pulling the hunk of metal out and hissing in pain, he threw the metal away and finished up bandaging his body.
After that, he watched the rain fall with deep breaths as he clutched onto his sword tightly, watching the sunset on the day.
"Hiccup...I...I'm...coming...stay a-alive...please" Toothless moaned and quickly fell asleep while hoping that he would safely make it through the night to see the next sunrise.
Toothless woke up screaming in pain, two strangers standing above him wearing weird masks. He looked down at his feet to find one of them mauled and injured badly, covered in water from the rain.
He quickly passed out as both of the strangers looked at him, worried.
Toothless felt as if a semi-truck had just slammed into him at three hundred miles per hour. His entire body ached and his left leg felt... off, for some reason.
Toothless opened his emerald green eyes with a loud groan, placing his hand on his head as if to try and stop his headache, though it did nothing.
That's when Toothless realized something. He was no longer under the little overhang but in some form of shack or underground cave. He slowly got up and looked down at himself, seeing only a torn pair of blue pants and a dark green shirt, also torn.
"What...happened?" Toothless moaned as he slowly got up, only to hit the ground with a thud.
He quickly turned over and saw that his left leg was encased in bandages.
He found his sword nearby and with a few quick swipes the bandages were gone, revealing...
Nothing, everything below his knee was gone.
Toothless took in a deep breath, his sword slipping out of his sweaty hand and hitting the cold floor with a loud echoing clang.
"W-what...no...w-wh...how...w-why is...oh my...what" Toothless mumbled in shock while staring at his stump.
Suddenly two fully grown adults wearing masks walked into the room. Toothless grabbed onto his sword weakly, holding it close and making sure he was ready to strike.
"Oh, we are so sorry," One of them said gently with guilt evident in their voice. Toothless growled while using his sword to prop himself up onto a nearby table.
"W-who are you? What did you do to my leg!?" Toothless yelled and then hit the ground with a thud, the two people immediately rushing over and helping him up.
"Your leg was heavily irradiated from the rain, it was either cut off the spot where all the radiation was concentrated or..." One of the people said. Then the other spoke up.
"You'll still be sick for some time, here, take this." The speaker threw a small pill bottle to Toothless, who caught it and read the label.
"Potassium Iodide? What's this gonna do?" Toothless asked cautiously.
"It'll weaken the amount of damage the remaining radiation is doing to your body, basically...it'll help," One of them said. Toothless just threw the bottle across the room.
"I'm not getting poisoned by some random strangers! Thanks for saving me, but I think I'll be on my way..." Toothless exclaimed and then hit the ground again, the strangers grabbing him and putting him back on the bed.
"No, you must stay here. If you don't take any of the meds, and you keep pushing your immune system then the radiation will cause more damage" One of the two explained quickly.
Toothless wanted to fight back but...he suddenly felt very...weak.
The half-dragon collapsed onto the bed with a cough, while one of the two brought over the pills for him to take.
"How do I know...your not lying" Toothless mumbled weakly before coughing.
The two were gonna answer but Toothless passed out again, and one of them sighed.
"Why does he have to faint so much?" One of them remarked sarcastically.
Toothless eventually woke up again, getting up with a grunt as everything from his ear nubs to his foot claws ached.
"O...ow..." Toothless moaned while rubbing his aching stump.
The two people from before entered the room carrying some raw fish and a dark blue bottle filled with some sort of liquid.
"We have some fish and water" One of them explained and put the items down in front of the half-dragon, who used his claws to nudge the fish.
"What about the fish? How do you expect me to cook it? Last time I checked, I can't just force a lighter and a pile of sticks into existence with a snap of my fingers" Toothless commented sarcastically and one of the two looked him over.
"You're a half-dragon, you should be able to eat it raw," One of them said, somewhat confused. Toothless nodded.
"Yeah, I can eat it raw but...how did you know that?" Toothless asked curiously.
The two winced and then quickly thought up a plausible answer.
"Umm...we...we've read old pre-war textbooks about the condition," One of them said. They quickly left, while Toothless just stared at the door frame before turning to the fish.
Toothless used his high powered senses to sniff the fish, not finding any poison or thing that could hurt him.
He shrugged and then dug into the fish with teeth and claws ready.
When Toothless had finished eating and drinking the food, he got up and used his sword as a cane to keep himself from falling over.
"W-when I get Hiccup back, I'll have to get him to help me make a prosthetic..." Toothless mumbled while stumbling from the bed over to the door.
He grabbed a small pocket knife from his one remaining boot and sat down in front of the door.
He used the knife and slowly started picking the lock, eventually the door let out a loud click and Toothless pulled the door open with a smirk.
Toothless stumbled out of the room and finding himself in a long hallway with multiple doors.
He looked down the hall to see a huge door, which Toothless start stumbling towards quickly. He almost had it open when the two people came forward and slammed the door while pulling him away from it.
"No, you're not ready!" One of them said while the other took Toothless' sword and knife.
"NO! LET ME GO!" Toothless yelled while struggling, but it was no use.
The two took Toothless to the room he had been in, they shut the door and locked it as Toothless lay inside.
"NO! LET ME OUT! I NEED TO GET TO MY BROTHER!" Toothless yelled while crawling over to the door and pounding on it with his scaled fists, using his claws on the door.
Toothless would try to use his fire, but by the time he got through the very thick reinforced door smoke would have filled the room entirely.
He eventually collapsed while still pounding against the door, as close to crying as he had ever been in a long time.
Then he took a deep breath and looked around before getting up while leaning against the wall.
"I'm not gonna remain here any longer, I'm gonna get out of here" Toothless whispered to himself before walking over to the bed.
Toothless looked at everything he had while sitting on the one bed in the room.
He had two or three glass bottle, a fork, a torn shirt, his old armor's mask, some fish scales, a rusted tiny pipe, a few copper wires, a box full of junk from a car, some duct tape, and a mechanical clock.
"Ok, I have an idea" Toothless mumbled and got to work, quickly taking most of the stuff and fashioning it into a countdown clock and a casing.
Toothless took a deep breath and felt something in his chest shift. He breathed out a steady stream of blue gas into the glass bottle until it was full.
Then he shoved the glass bottle into the casing of the device and stuck a few things into it.
He turned the clock's hands until it was set to five minutes and he set it aside for later.
Next, he took the old mask and the remaining glass bottles and combined them into an oxygen mask.
Toothless also worked the remaining stuff into a small dagger and a temporary prosthetic. Then put the device on the door and pressed a button causing the clock to start counting down.
Toothless put on the oxygen-containing helmet, holding the dagger steadily in his hands while standing far away from the door.
"Five, four, three, two...one...zero" Toothless mumbled and then the device beeped before exploded in a plasma ball, taking out the door and some of the wall instantly.
Toothless ran through the smoke and got out of the room, running down the hall as the two figures tried to stop him.
He slashed them in the face with his knife, and both staggered back from him while in pain.
Toothless ran to the main door and shoved his makeshift dagger into the lock, quickly opening the door and running out it...
Only to find himself on a catwalk above a huge hanger, containing hundreds of people.
Toothless then got a good look at the people, and he realized that they had scales and cat-like eyes...they were just like him...they were also half-dragon.
"Ok, what the hell is going on here?!" Toothless questioned in shock, only for the two people from before to run through the door and towards him.
Toothless raised his dagger and the two stopped around twenty feet in front of him, raising their hands in self-defense.
"WHO ARE YOU? WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!" Toothless asked and yelled. The two looked at each other with a sigh before taking off their masks and throwing them off the catwalk.
This was probably the first time Toothless had seen the two without their masks, and he realized that one was male while the other was female.
The male had red hair and green eyes, he stood at around nearly seven foot tall.
The female had auburn hair and blue eyes, she stood at around six foot three.
Toothless took their faces in for one moment before he took a step back in shock, his heart-rate going through the roof as he stared into their worried eyes.
"Mom...Dad?" Toothless asked in shock and the two looked between each other with a sigh.
I'm not gonna say anything, just wait until the next chapter we're ALL will be explained! Also, this is my first fan fiction chapter of 2019! So Happy (Late) New Years! And I'll see you all in Chapter 5.
This is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.