Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon, which belongs to Pixar. I do however own the OCs you will see.
Rotsen jolted straight up in his bed, feeling electricity spark through him. He took in his surroundings, almost getting a heart attack when he heard Kalos huff. He was lying in bed, in his room. Light shown into the room; letting him see his desk, stool, chest and sketches hanging on the walls. Besides him was Kalos, his head nudging agents Rotsen, shocking him again? The skinny teen laughed a little, playfully pushing his companion away before realizing Kalos was in his room, in the middle of the day.
"Buddy, we need to get you outta," He was cut off by Kalos, making a low growl and making him stay in bed. "Kalos, what's wrong?"
He rubbed his scale friend's head, trying to get him to calm down. He stopped when he heard footsteps behind his door. Rotsen tried to get up, wanting to try and hide Kalos if it was Stoick or Gobber or anyone else but stopped when Kalos kept him down, using his head,
"Kalos," Rotsen hissed at his friend, starting to get desperate, "let me just,"
He stopped when he saw Luna walk in, opening the door slowly as if she was scared to see what was happening. Rotsen started to relax but soon panic, not remembering what had happened before. "Luna, don't scream,"
"Why would I scream?" She asked him as she walked in, the roles of cloth and some other medical supplies now visible.
The raven haired teen looked quickly to the archer and back to his dragon, doing a double take. He had a confused look as he tried to figure out why she wasn't screaming and running out of the house yelling for back up.
"Y-you're not… what the hell's going on…?" He finally gave up, running a hand through his static hair.
"You don't remember what happened in Helhiem's Gate?'
"Helhiem's Gate…" Rotsen mumbled, looking down at his sheets, trying to remember. It took a moment before waves of memories washed over him. Toothless being capture, their plan, the Red Death, his and Hiccup's dive. Wait… Hiccup.
"W-what happened to Hiccup?" The teen asked urgently, trying to get out of bed again. This time both Luna and Kalos held him back down, trying to get him to calm down. "What happened to Stoick and everyone?"
"There fine," Luna answered smoothly and sweetly, slightly calming him. "Everyone's fine. You and Hiccup though have the worst out of all of us."
"W-what do you mean?" The teen readjusted himself, feeling a pinching pain now in his back, legs and particularly in his head. He winced from the pain, grabbing his head and closing his eyes tight.
Kalos let out a low rumble, almost a purring sound, and laid his head over his partner's lap. Luna rummaged through her supplies and pulled out a small piece of iron plating, polished to be able to act like a mirror. She waited until he was okay before giving him the plate.
"You practically took a whole explosion to your back. Not to mention with Kalos diving after you, after all he is a Skrill, the electricity he had surging through him just game out through his body and onto you and Hiccup."
As the archer spoke the dragon rider studied his reflection in disbelief. He saw his face cut up in small areas and burned marks. What caught his attention was his right eye. Instead of it being its normal dark brown color it looked almost bloodshot and reddish gray. He could see the veins in his eye were irritated, causing it to look bloodshot but it didn't explain why his eye color had changed.
"Gobber said the heat and electricity had damaged you pretty bad. He's unsure if your eye could go back to normal. Plus there's their torso,"
"What about it?" Rotsen's throat felt dry as he spoke, still studding his eye, lightly touching the corner with his free hand.
"I have to change your bandages sooner or later, so I guess you'll find out." Kalos lowly purred again, removing his head and resting on the other side of the room, use to the routine of Luna's medical procedures.
She motioned Rotsen to scoot forward, to give her room to work. He obliged, ignoring the pain in his torso and thighs. Once there was a decent amount of distance between his back and the head board Luna sat in the room with her supplies. She helped remove Rotsen's tunic to reveal bandages wrapped around his forearms, stomach, back and his right shoulder blade.
Luna started with his forearms, unwrapping them and placing the old cloth away from the clean ones. Rotsen glanced at his arm, seeing scars litter his skin. It in the same pattern Vikings would get if they survived being struck by lightning. When she was done wrapping the new cloth she started with the other arm, which also had the same scaring. When she was done unwrapping the cloth on his stomach he saw light purple bruises, made by Kalos when he caught him. On his back and shoulder blade were the familiar lightning scars mixed with bruises and scars from third degree burns.
"Y'know, what you did was pretty stupid," Luna told him as she started to replace those bandages.
"I know," he mumbled, admitting his falter.
"And impulsive,"
"Yes it was,"
"And horrifying,"
"Sorry,"
"And insane,"
"Sorry again,"
"But it was brave,"
"Again, sor… wait what?" The dragon rider looked back to the archer, having a puzzled look.
"It was brave. You didn't know if you were going to make it or not but you took the risk. Show's how much you care about Hiccup."
"I'd do anything to help my family. Hell, I'd do the same if it was you." His face grew slightly red as he admitted his actions.
"Really now?" She raised an eyebrow and small smirk. "You'd really do that?"
His face grew redder, as did Luna's but only slightly. "Yeah, I-I mean, I care about you." He gave her a tender smile, her smirk softening to match his smile.
He started to lean back towards her slightly, as she did the same. The two kept their eyes locked as they did so. When there was barely an inch of space separating them Kalos let out a large and mood killing belch. His sign of him being hungry.
The two winced as they drew their faces away, looking at Kalos. Rotsen had a mix of annoyance and amusement from the belch. He let a laugh escape as he winced, realizing it hurt him to laugh.
"He's hungry," the dragon rider couldn't help but state the obvious. He didn't know what to do now after that outburst.
"He must be, I haven't fed him since morning." Luna slipped off the bed and headed out of the room in a hurried fashion.
When Rotsen knew she was out of ear shot he grabbed his pillow and threw it at Kalos when his back was turned. The dragon twitched when the pillow made contact to him and he let out a playful hiss at his rider, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Mood killer…" he grumbled, ignoring the back pain as he dropped back onto his pillow-less bed.
"Easy there," Luna said smoothly to Rotsen as she helped him step out of his house. It's been over a week after he gotten up after the battle and he saw the rapid change in the village. Villagers keeping peace with dozens of dragons and a goblet of sorts in the center of the village where fish filled it to the rim for dragons to eat from.
"I got it," Rotsen mumbled under his breath, trying not to fall. He was having a little trouble with his staff as a makeshift cane. Gobber had made him a special brace –it was originally a medically designed corset but he changed its names for manly reasons- to help his back and his legs were still slightly paralyzed thanks to Kalos' original shock.
"If you got this then why are you gripping onto my arm?"
The dragon rider winced a little realizing he was actually holding onto Luna's arm a little too tight and let go, releasing he was having some more trouble. He sucked up his pride and placed his hand back, sighing. "Okay, I need help."
Luna giggled, nudging her elbow on his arm, trying to get him to feel better. She successfully gotten him to laugh, making him feel better. The two had planned to go to Hiccup's house to check up on him. Kalos was with them when they left the house but he flew off to who knows where. Rotsen didn't need to worry anymore since the Village was okay with dragons and he knew Kalos would come back.
When they were at the door Rotsen was about to open the door, but he stumbled backwards, successfully moving his staff behind him to keep himself from falling backwards. Luna stepped back, helping Rotsen do the same as they watched Hiccup stumble out of his home. He looked tired and flabbergasted when he saw the new village. He took everything in a moment's notice and mumbled loud enough for them to hear. "I knew it. I died."
"We both almost did!" Rotsen semi-yelled at his friend, grinning a little that his mind was at ease now.
Hiccup looked much whiter than normal and his face was a little scratched up on his chin. His tunic was a little bulged, obviously telling them he too had bandages under them. There was cloth wrapped around on of his hands and his legs seemed to be fine expecting for his left leg. It had a thick ring of cloth around it and a prophetic foot.
"You both gave it your best shot," Stoick laughed, catching the three by surprise and putting an arm around both scrawny teens, steadying them. He gestured to the village. "So? What do you think?"
"Wow…" Hiccup breathed, amazed. "What… What happened…? What did you do?"
"Nothing much, really," Luna answered, filling in the hole in their information. "At the battle when you blacked out up in the sky Rotsen made a stupid move and dived for you without Kalos. Toothless and Kalos then dived for you guys pretty roughly cause you guys were both gonna fall into an explosion. Kalos electrocuted you pretty bad when he dived and Toothless it gave Toothless some time to dive faster after you two and grab Hiccup with his back legs but his claws dug too deep into his flesh. There was no way for his foot to heal. After that the whole village was already convinced enough that the dragons were not a threat. All we had to do was tell everyone here and the elders what happened. Don't worry, me and the others explained how to ride them rather than killing them."
"You mean you guys and Astrid?"
"Yup, and the rest just slowly fell into place." Stoick said proudly, filling in the rest now. "The older Vikings were a little apprehensive and a little resistant to change, but the young ones adapted to it like ducks in water." Stoick smiled as the villagers took notice of both Hiccup's and Rotsen's presence and surrounded them with a hero's welcome. "Turned out all we needed was a little more of…" he gestured non-specifically at the two boys,"… that."
"You just gestured to all of us," Hiccup said humorously, playing along with him, leaving Rotsen confused.
"Well, most of you," Gobber said as he pushed through the crowd, beaming proudly. "That's a bit of my handiwork. With a little Hiccup flare thrown in. Think it do?"
"I might make a few tweaks." Hiccup replied in a bittersweet tone, coming to terms with his condition slowly.
"You have no idea how close I was to get my hands on you boy," Gobber said to Rotsen, gesturing to his color changed eye and back. "Could've made a stronger back, maybe some new legs if those don't get better."
"We'll see 'bout that." Rotsen said jokingly and started to speak like a grouchy elder. "Besides, I don't know who got the short end of the stick. Me with my bad back, legs, eye and hair or Hiccup's foot."
"Thank you for summing that up," Hiccup rolled his eyes as everyone laughed humorously at Rotsen's wise-cracking. Astrid appeared through the crowd and jabbed Hiccup in the arm. Hiccup recoiled with a grumble.
"That's for scaring me."
"What, is it always going to be this way? Cause I…" Hiccup's protests were cut off when she grabbed the scruff of his shirt and aggressively but at the same time gently laid a kiss on his lips. Several 'Ohh~' and dog whistles fallowed. Rotsen looked over to Luna, having a warm smile as he slipped his free hand into Luna's making her take her attention from what Astrid and look at him. Her face was red as was his as they looked back to what was going on, leaving their hands there. "… I could get used to it."
After a heartfelt tug between the four's hearts, Gobber presented Hiccup with a rebuilt saddle, rigging, and tail.
"Welcome home," Gobber said, earning a thankful smile from Hiccup.
Toothless soon pounced on the crowd, crushing several unsuspecting Vikings under his weight. He eyed at the new tail excitedly, tongue wagging. Amidst the groans and grumbles, Hiccup, Astrid, Luna and Rotsen exchanged an amused grin.
"Anyone up for a ride?" Rotsen asked.
"I'm all up for it," Hiccup answered.
"Are you sure?" Stoick asked, a little worried. "You just got out of bed and Rotsen, you still got that back and legs to worry about."
"Don't worry, Stoick," Gobber eased Stoick's worries. "He had a whole week to recover and Rotsen's a strong boy. Besides, they got Toothless and Kalos."
"And us," Luna and Astrid said simultaneously, assuring Stoick.
"Alright," Stoick sighed relented.
Hiccup was soon on Toothless, his prosthetic foot snapping into the modified stirrup. The two pieces clicked together, forming a single shape. Astride Toothless, he was and felt whole again. He rotated the pedal to test it and the new tail opened, revealing it to be bright red with a skull and Viking horns emblazoned on it. Hiccup smiled, approving of the design. As the pair saddled up and ready to fly, Astrid quickly backed her Nadder into position, joined by the rest of the gang who were waiting for them in mid-air. Kalos and Luna's Timberjack –who she simply named Jack-, landed smoothly to their riders. The two let go of each other's hands as they went on their dragons. Rotsen clocked his staff into place of his saddle, surprised it was still working.
"You ready?" Hiccup asked back to the three.
Toothless snorted an excited 'yes', his ears twitching impatiently as the other cried out with their own yes.
From his mount, Hiccup looked out over the changed world. Taking a deep breath, he debated a little in his mind as to how long this would last. But for now, he knew he and Rotsen were finally going to live with the lives they'd been striving for, knowing they would always be together with their friends.
Till the end of time.
AND THE END! Cue the credits! Cue the fireworks and dancing monkeys! This has been Wonder, my first completely finished story! Leave a review on what you all think of the story overall and I hope to see you guys in my other stories.
And by the way, the only reason why I kept Hiccup losing his leg is because I thought it be the best if he didn't have it. Hiccup is Hiccup without it so I felt it didn't felt right if I let him keep his foot.
See yea later!
