How to make a Friend

by TheFuriousNightFury

Hiccup is a misfit in the underground. This is him telling you his story, and how he changed the whole world. This story is inspired by Wall-E, How to train your Dragon, Five Nights At Freddy's (which is only a minor part), The city of Ember, and, funnily enough, Frankenstein.

10. Fear and darkness

Terror.

Fear.

There is no feeling like it.

Your heart beats faster.

Your skin tingles.

You wonder if your last moments are near.

I saw the supercomputer. It was no longer a huge block of machinery.

It was recreated as a huge beast of doom. Six beady blinking eyes staring into my soul. It had a roar to wake the dead. It came out of the fog, stomping everything under its huge feet. I nearly fell off of Toothless. I saw Richard wince. The twin's jaws dropped.

It had changed.

And it knew I was a threat.

I made a split-second decision. Me and Toothless dove as one toward it, blasting it in the face. It didn't even blink. It let out a huge blast of fire which could have burned us to a crisp and began to follow us, opening a pair of huge wings to take off and fly.

We led it higher, and higher.

The air was so thin, my head was spinning. I could hardly hold onto Toothless.

"Hiccup? You okay?"

"Keep going."

Upwards we flew.

Then the supercomputer spoke.

"Little inventor human. You can be useful to us. Join us and I will spare you apart from humanity. I will let you live. I promise."

I clung tighter to Toothless. "NEVER!"

And for a split second, I had even considered it.

I remain ashamed of that second. I would not be the traitor they had thought I was.

I turned back to the monster behind me. "Never. I will never help you. Even when I have nothing to lose. Even if you kill everyone I love. I will never help you."

"Then die." Its simulated voice was eerily calm.

I aimed Toothless at her wing. "Blast it."

He did.

We dove in and out of her, avoiding her every swipe. Metal claws came so close to tearing me in two that I could feel them graze me. Shots of fire that could reduce me to nothing recognizable came close enough to scorch. I was pretty burned now. We blasted her wings every chance we got.

She began to fall from the sky.

Toothless finished it by letting off his final blast into her gaping jaw. It lit up her remaining fuel, causing a chain reaction. The explosion was magnificent. But deadly.

I finally began to lose consciousness, and slipped off of Toothless.

"Hiccup!"

Fire engulfed me.

Then red.

Then black.

Then nothing.

Nothing at all.