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I would like to announce that the appearance and name of Toothless, all came from Shadowpiratemonkey7 and bewilderwest. If you don't know who are they, check them on DeviantArt (they have those exact name and they both are very talented so please check them out).
Warning: Fight and some blood
Hiccup P.O.V.
I felt uncomfortable for leaving Toothless behind and being alone, but I needed some time to think.
I didn't meant to scream at Toothless, but I was scared, shocked and, quite frankly, done with everything that I just went through.
No. What we went through. Toothless was probably as bad as I was or worse, he just didn't show it. I know that he wants to protect me, that's why he acts all strong and tough outside but in the inside he's really sweet and also needs some support and protection for himself. I give him that, I really do, but I know something is missing and I'm not capable to fill that. So I search for it, no matter what is it, I will find it for Toothless. It's the least I can do for him.
The room was different from the others. It seemed like an old and magical version of a chemistry lab. It had a wooden table full of unknown and marked objects, colorful liquids and some sort of "rainbow" dust. There was a huge old tube in the ceiling that remembered me that old snake game when you reach the 113 level and the pipes of a sewer. It started by a near wall by my side, had a circular hole closed by a small gate and ended to the opposite wall, both tips had a little shell. In a corner of the room, there was a desk with a butcher knife and scalpel in a wooden plank and, by it side, there was a glass jar with salamanders. Next to the table, there was two old barrels. I don't know what they contained, but it seemed like one of them was crying. In another corner of the room, there was a huge pot with some wood in it, probably to light up fire. Then, near the window, was a little greenhouse with purples and white flowers, some weeds and a small white tree with red fruits hanging from it.
This must be it, I thought. This had to be the place to make dreamsand.
I walked to the table and I placed the book there, opening it in the correct page. I don't know how I could understand that Celtic language or the Greek that was written in the statue, but, somehow while reading them, the words just started to move around in my head, like they were running, and turned into perfect English.
Ingredients:
- Swamp water;
- Tears of a mermaids;
- Salamander' tail;
- Fruits of a Dormientes Ligno;
- Sage.
Ok… Not the weirdest thing I saw until now. I tried to find all of the ingredients. The swanp water was in one of the barrels, the sage and the fruits were in the greenhouse and the salamander' tail was easy to find but hard to manage, since I never in my life hurt a animal…and the fact that when I took the lizard in my hand, it started to run around and, while trying to catch it, it entered my clothes, making me do a very confusing "Macarena".
The tears of a mermaid were quite hard to find. It was something completely new that I only had recently seen, and attacked, so their tears was even more unreachable for me. I looked at every recipient that contained some liquid in it. In the verge of looking in a different room or even thinking at going to face a mermaid again, I remembered something else. I didn't check one of the barrels. The one that chanted cries of despair.
I, ever so slowly, walked to it and kneeled in front of it. I slightly tapped it, trying to sense if there was anything inside of it. It didn't respond my sign and only seemed to make the sounds of the cries louder. Feeling curious of what was happening, I opened the top.
The inside of the barrel was a crystal blue water... And absolutely nothing that made the sound.
I started to close the barrel again, only to be stopped by the sounds of the cries beginning once again. I looked at the water again. The water was making small waves the same time the cries made a sound.
There was a old piece of paper trapped in the underneath of the cover.
Lacrimis Nereidum… It's Latin for Mermaids Tears!
I quickly grabbed one of the empty tubes from the "Chemistry set" and fill it with the tears, quickly resting it in the table and turning the page of the book.
Put swamp water in a pot, followed with 3 drops of Mermaid Tears, and boil with red flame
I did as told, except one thing. How am I going to make or find red flame? I kneeled in front of the pot to look to the firewood underneath it, hoping to find some sort of magical thing to make that so called fire. Hey, I am in an island made of dreamsand in the sky with the objective of finding the Sandman so I can free him from the claws of the Boogeyman. In this stage, anything for me is possible.
No such luck though. I sighed and stood up, while taking one of the wood and starting to analyze it. Maybe a magic wood that puts itself on fire? No? Ok…
I suddenly heard Toothless screaming. I ran to the last room without second thought or letting the wood go.
He wasn't there nor a single trace of him. Not even thinking twice, I went to the room with a star and the moon in it. That room was fill with paintings, statues or books that contained something about dreams, sleep or anything around those two. But no Toothless.
I went to the room with a telescope on it to, find you guessed it, a giant telescope with a ladder to reach the interchange eyepiece*. Besides it, there were two giant paintings placed in tables.
I wanted to leave this room and continue my search for Toothless, but something was telling me to stay. It was more like a instinct that was yelling: "Stay here for a while! It would tell you something important!"
I looked back at the room with the statue, thinking if it was worth it while facing the back of the statue, and quickly went to one of the tables. The table had the picture of a world map with moving lights, some black and golden ones placed in random places around the map, and some others. There was a pink one in located in Southeast Asia, a vivid green in the middle of Australia, a deep red in the North Pole and a strong blue, a dark violet, a light red and a bronze one, all located in the same place, Pennsylvania, United States.
I found myself attracted to the blue one in the US and, before even realizing, I touched it lightly with my fingers, only to quickly take them back when I heard a sound. I glanced at the telescope, finding that it was making the sound while moving.
A sudden train of thought flew threw me and I touched one of the lights again, this time the dark violet. The telescope moved again and I ran to the ladder, starting climb it.
I look through the telescope and saw Eve. She was in a dark room, full of mirrors and was exactly sitting in the middle of it. The chair were she was sitting, was made of metal and I could see, although very lightly, some sort of red circle around it with a star inside of it, together with some pagan symbols. All of a sudden, Eve started shivering uncontrollably and moaning in pain. A dark smoke started to flow in her feet along. After it, she sat quiet and all sort of horned demons, screaming ghosts and terrifying ghouls appeared, some being trapped by the circle and some restrained by the mirrors.
No wonder she couldn't come with us, she had her own demons to take care of.
After her, I went to check on the others, only to see a unexpected view. Sebastian was not in the car anymore, but yes defending the hole and Jamie by making a light orange force field around them. He looked tired but kept going and had a determined grin in his face. Agafya was busy fighting fearlings and nightmares, without even showing a sign of exhaustion or pain. She had even cut a nightmares head with a sword, that I was sure she didn't had before, and quickly stabbing a fearling in the stomach while throwing a dagger in the head of other.
We needed to hurry. I could see that Sebastian couldn't hold much longer and more fearlings and nightmares seemed to join the attack.
This time, I went to the other table. That one had a picture of the tower and had moving lights in it, the majority being black in the base, a light green in the middle of it and two glowing light, one in golden and other in silver, at the very top of the tower. I, deducing that the green light was me since it was alone, touched the one in silver.
I already knew that it was Toothless, seeing that there was no other left and that the golden one was, most likely, Sandman, but I wanted to check on him. I needed to know that he was alright…until I end the dreamsand at the least.
What I saw was a arena. The arena itself, was made by dreamsand, obviously, and was enclosed by enormous walls, that seemed close of falling apart, with a darker tone of dreamsand.
Toothless was in the middle of it, looking confused, scared but determined, and was right in front of the Sandman, who was a few feet away from him and I noticed that the frostbite was no longer there, although his hands still looked a little pale. Suddenly, a whip attacked Toothless, barely missing him, followed by another one who caught Toothless by the arm and threw him to the nearer wall.
I gasped. I had to hurry and finish. I know I should run to Toothless and help him, but if I did so, we could both end killed. And if that happened, who will save them?
I, reluctantly, got out of the room, only to be greeted by the statue making a mocking grin to me. It didn't move from his last place, but it irradiated a feeling of danger.
Choosing to ignore it, I went to the room with the gargoyles. In no other circumstances I would go back there, but I needed it to make the sand. Slowly, I opened the door and stood a few feet away the nearer gargoyles, patiently waiting. After a few seconds, the mouth of the gargoyles started to glow.
Now, I thought while I raised the stick of wood in front of them and protected my face from the heated fire. I didn't feel any feeling of warm or anything in those lines, because of the pendant, but I did feel some light burning sensation in my fingers.
When the fire ceased, I looked at the wood. A red flame was in the top of it and I smiled. Not wanting to be any more time in that hellish place, I went to the other room with the goal of continuing the making of what, hopefully, would detain Sandman.
Toothless P.O.V.
I was in immense pain when I hit the wall and fell into the ground. I felt dizzy and the arena wouldn't hold still, making my situation even worse. Even so, I stood up, just in time to dodge another whip coming fiercely at me, making it hit the wall and some rocks to fall.
I have absolutely no idea how it ended to this, but I will be damned if it was going to end soon or without a fight.
Taking one of the daggers, I charged to the Sandman. He, seeing my attack, only raised both his arms while some strings emerged from his back. The strings quickly reached for me.
I dodge one by jumping, followed by another and I only rolled to the side. Another whip flew to me, and I quickly jumped back, almost falling in the process. The Sandman, seeing that as a opportunity, conjured a large hand and grabbed me, slowly taking me away from the ground.
I fought against it, but the grip only seemed to tighten more, making me have difficulty to breath. The hand suddenly smashed me to the ground, making me wince and cough in pain some blood and to let go the dagger near. There was no way I would let that idiotic nightmare to hear me scream.
When making a move to stand up and continue the fight, the arm stopped me by grabbing my neck as Sandman stood in the same place, only moving his arm to order and summon more whips or arms. I tried to pull away, forcing myself to take slow and deep breaths, but the grip was strong. I placed my hands around the dream arm, trying to push him away. A stinging feeling was starting to appear in my throat, most likely for my lack of oxygen. But there was something else, some sort of pleasant heat trying to come out.
I refused though, thinking it was a scream or subconscious plead, and continued to fight back. Seeing that physical strength wasn't taking me anymore, I tried to reach the dagger that was a few centimeters away from me. I only managed to touch the handle with the tips of my fingers.
The grip started to get stronger and I could no longer breathe. The pain in my throat was unbearable and I couldn't hold anymore the heat, so I opened my mouth, without wanting to tough.
I was expecting a scream or a whimper, but what came out of my mouth surprised me. I unleashed a bluish-purple blast, making the arm to be destroyed. Forcing myself to close my, with a lot of difficulty, I sat, looking amazed of what I had just done. I placed my hand against my mouth, like it would make that to happen again, but I only frowned and cleaned the blood that was dripping.
Apparently so did Sandman because he was looking petrified at the sky, like the fire- no, Plasma Blast was coming back. Using that as my advantage, I quickly grabbed the dagger and ran to him.
Sandman only realized it when I was already near him, so he raised his arm to protect himself, making a wave of sand to hit me. Unfortunately for him, I had made a swift movement with the dagger, resulting in a long, but not deep, wound in his arm. The wound let a dark liquid, like blood.
The nightmare inside him, when realizing it, made a shrilling sound, making the stitches to pop once again, and charged a fast whip. The whip rolled around my waist and threw me to a wall.
When landing on the floor, the whip did it again. And again. And again. And again.
In each hit I suffered, I kept refusing to let a sound or show a sign of pain, although the blood that I was coughing and coming from the recent bruise in my forehead were a very good source of pain, focusing only in trying to find a way to free myself and not falling unconscious.
Hiccup P.O.V
I was grinding up a plant of Sage, when suddenly a large explosion was heard, making the tower to tremble slightly. Looking at the window, I arrived the exact moment when a light violet blast disappeared.
I was perplexed for it and only remembered my current task when the pot started to boil. I quickly ran to it, while pouring the powder of the sage in the yellowish liquid, ignoring the strong smell of something demeaning.
I needed to hurry, who knows what is happening to Toothless in this current moment? That blast might have coming from the top of the tower, where he was situated, and, although I had no idea what made it, I couldn't help but feel worried about him.
- With the juice of the fruit, put the Salamander' tail in the pot and wait until the liquid turns into a golden color
I quickly smashed the fruit and pour his juice in a glass tube, not caring the sudden itchiness in my hands. They could be burning for all I cared, I wasn't going to stop. After being satisfied with the quantity of juice, I pour it and the tail in the pot and waited not so patiently to turn golden.
Come on, come on, come on
Toothless P.O.V
It seemed like Sandman was done with throwing me to the wall for the eleventh time, yes I counted, and throbbed me in the floor, like I was a used rag. I hate that and was really starting to lose my patience with him. If I knew how I did that thing with the Plasma, Sandman would be fried.
I continued to stay in the ground, with my head facing the ground, trying to catch my breath and to forget the pain. Sandman, probably thinking that I was unconscious, walked to me and pushed me to face the sky with his foot.
Fall into my web, asshole, I thought while smirking at him.
I quickly kicked his feet, making him to fall in his back, and stood up. Using that golden opportunity, I kicked him one more time, this time in his stomach, making him to roll to the side a little.
That one was for Eve.
Sandman, clearly angered since his frown got deeper and his eyes actually started to show something, threw a whip to reach for me. I used my arm as protection, making the whip to roll around it. Using that, I quickly grabbed the whip using my other arm, and pulled with all the strength I had. Sandman practically flew to me and I punched him as hard as I could, releasing the whip while at it. He rolled to the ground and made no movement after it.
Scared that I probably made a lot of damage in him, I started to walk to him. Sandman continued to hold still and I couldn't see if he was breathing or not.
Suddenly, I felt something in my bruised ankle. I looked down to see a string of dreamsand.
"You little-" I started but was interrupted by the string pulling me off the ground. I tried to find something to grab, but found my efforts to be useless.
While being upside down, I could see Sandman standing up with a mocking glint in his eyes. His mouth was bleeding, the blood, if someone could call that black fluid "blood", was flowing from the holes made by the stitches and Sandman had a evil smirk in his face.
I spit on him. I really couldn't stop myself from doing it. Really I was getting tired of that Ish and was very frustrated, in pain and exhausted, so screw it. Just spit the blood in your mouth on him like it's a normal thing to do.
The Sandman, obviously disgusted and furious at me, punched me square in the face. I faced him again, refusing to show weakness.
"I prefer eating the eyes then looking at your ugly face" I said to him with a disgusted tone, mostly coming from the blood in my mouth, and glared at him "Bastard" I added while looking straight in his eyes.
He only glared at me and made a light movement with his hand, conjuring some sand in his hand. I have no idea what he was doing or making, but I didn't care and continued to glare at him. I will not show weakness in my, very likely, last moments.
There was a small ball made of sand in Sandman' hand now and he raised his arm, most likely with the goal of hitting me with it, but I continued to glare at him.
Suddenly, he fainted in front of me. I felt a feeling of shock, confusion and relief for a moment, but quickly disappeared when I felt the weight in my ankle dissipating.
Oh come on, I thought before falling into the ground with a large 'Tud' sound and a painful growl, coming from me.
"You ok?" I heard Hiccup asking while he kneeled in front of me. He touched lightly at the bruise in my head, but took his hand back when he saw me flinching slightly "Sorry"
"It's ok" I stated while sitting with some difficulty. I looked at him. Hiccup was breathing heavily and looked exhausted. I glanced at the Sandman at the exact moment a black smoke started to come out of his eyes, nostrils, mouth and ears, making us to stand back.
The smoke joined his kind and floated away, leaving Sandman body behind.
"Was- Was that" Hiccup started. He was so shocked, he could barely speak without stuttering. I only nodded while looking worriedly at Sandman. Screw the fact that moments ago I was insulting and fighting him. He was possessed for God' sakes! It wasn't his fault!
"How did you do knock him out?" I asked at Hiccup while standing up, not leaving my eyes from Sandman unconscious body.
"I made the Dreamsand" Hiccup answered while joining me, him kneeling in front of Sandman face and gently taking his hair from it. Sandman' face surely was different without the stitches. Sure, he looked in pain and tired, but I expected nonetheless "I still have some, maybe it can be useful later" Hiccup pulled a little glass bottle filled with Dreamsand and threw it at me "Agafya sure was kind to give us those bags."
I analyze the sand inside it. It didn't look much different from the sand that the Sandman made, but still had something to distinguish them. The original sand was more bright, like gold, but this one didn't have that features, it just looked plain yellow.
"Nice…" I said unconsciously.
Hiccup gasped and I changed my gaze to him. He was pointing behind me and I turned around.
The arena was slowly starting to tear apart, falling to the empty space. I walked closer to Hiccup as a instinct.
What was happening? We won…didn't we?
The space around us continued to crumble and was rapidly coming near, leaving us no place to escape. We were going to fall.
When almost nothing was left, I felt emptiness inside me and my vision started to fate. I was going unconscious or falling asleep, it was something else. Like they were pulling my insides.
Then everything went black.
Hiccup P.O.V
I closed my eyes with fear of falling into emptiness, but opened then when I felt something soft underneath me. It was a mattress. We were back in the store.
"We…" I started while looking around. I was in the same bed where the hole was, with Sandman in the middle and Toothless besides him, looking happy and shocked as me "We did it" I finished while throwing myself to Toothless "We did it!" Toothless responded by hugging me tightly.
"Yes, you guys did it" Jamie said. He was looking at us with equal joy as us and rapidly jumped to us, joining our hug with excitement "I knew you guys could make it!"
"Yeah, yeah. Congratulations, boys" We heard Sebastian saying and looked around confusingly for not being able to see his precense, still holding Jamie. Sebastian rose from the ground near the mattress with a proud and tired look at us, totally missing Jamie and Agafya' light chuckles.
We didn't say anything and looked shockingly at him. Not because of what I saw him doing or why he was laying on the ground, but more because…
"You have bunny ears?!" Toothless screamed while trying to hide his laugh and failing miserably. It was true. Standing proudly in Sebastian' head, were a pair of brown bunny ears, completed with some whiskers coming from his cheeks. It looked funny, yes, but it didn't made Sebastian no less handsome.
"What?" Sebastian asked and reached for them, like he was making sure they were indeed there "제기랄*, the magic is draining away…" He stood up and looked at his back.
"Are you checking if you also have the cotton tail?" Agafya asked mockingly, but I could see that there was a hint of curiosity and seriousness behind that tone. That question made her to grin at him and making Toothless and Jamie laugh to grow louder, while I managed to keep mine... mostly because the Agafya looked threatening with all of that black blood in her clothes, small splashes in her face, the sword and guns hanging in her waist and the background full with pools of the black fluid and some daggers standing proudly in the middle of them.
"오프 랙, 쇼 조랑말. Please tell me you have a hat or something like that with you" Sebastian blushed lightly and glared at her while still maintaining his trade smirk. His insult and the fact that he was dragging his jacked down, were the only things that was needed for me to start laughing with Jamie and Toothless. Amazingly, our laughs hadn't woke up Sandman.
"Oh no. You're keeping those body parts showing until we get home" Agafya stated while walking away, but I still caught her grin and heard her slight laugh.
"Jamie?" Sebastian asked hopefully. Jamie only shook his head, not being able to talk with the laugher "Oh come on…"
"Don't feel bad, Sebastian" Toothless started to say while keeping his laugh "You look adorable like that" He ended before laughing again when Sebastian whiskers started to twitch and face got redder.
"Coming from you, that statement must be true" Sebastian answered while grinning for a unknown reason. Before Toothless could talk back, a honk was heard "Well, she sure is impatient. Toothless, take Sandy. We're going home."
After a small trip full with laughter and explanations, we had arrived home. Turns out that the bunny parts of Sebastian, were part of his original form and were showing because the magic that camouflaged them was weak from the attacks. Toothless joked with him, asking if he was a giant bunny in his normal form, but Sebastian only answered with a serious "yes" and usual smile, making Toothless question his statement. After that, Agafya told us for tomorrow go to her house, stating that Sebastian and her were going to heal Toothless and Sandman, and check on me.
When reaching our room, Toothless quickly placed Sandman in his bed, saying that he would take the couch. In normal situation, I would tell him no and take my bed or share a bed with me, but I was too tired to even speak and practically threw myself to bed.
I was almost falling asleep when the twins rudely opened the door to our room.
"What are you guys doing?!" Snotloud screamed while entering our room. He was quickly pushed by Hookfang.
"The dinner is today! Why are you guys still sleeping?!"Hookfang , not being happy for being pushed, punched him in the arm, starting a fight and totally ignoring the sleeping unknown man and Toothless' bruises. Apparently, it was morning and we didn't even realized.
Not feeling patient, I grabbed the nearest thing, which happened to be a pillow, and threw at them.
"Get out, damnit" I screamed at them, giving my most murderous look, which was told to be scary if wanted. The duet ran out of the door, letting a: 'What's with him, today?' behind.
Toothless raised himself out of the couch and glanced at the door, slowly moving his gaze to look at the Sandman with his own glare.
"I'm going to kill him" he stated while walking to the pillow that I had threw, only to go back to the couch "But later, I'm tired as hell and I will be damned if he doesn't let me sleep, today."
I couldn't agree more, I thought before finally falling asleep.
*Were you place the eye to see
Korean lesson:
* 제기랄- Damnit or Sh*t
* 오프 랙, 쇼 조랑말- Rack off, show pony (sound familiar?)
And know Latin:
* Dormientes Ligno - Sleeping wood/tree
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