WARNING: This is probably my most bloody death-filled fanfic that I've ever written. If you can't handle gore, blood, or other such heavy things, I recommend avoiding this fic. Also, just a side note: Hiccup does not die, it may seem like it, but he is still alive!
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It was just supposed to be a simple mission. A simple mission to an island about four days flight from Berk, in order to get their hands (and paws) on a specific medicinal herb that could be used to cure the sickness Berk was currently suffering from. It should've been easy, land, find the herb, leave, and that's it.
Well, that would've been it, if not for the fact that since the last time Berk had visited the island-nearly thirty years ago- an outpost of Dragon Hunters had set up a massive village on the island, where they killed and sold dragons for the sport and money. And the worst part was that Hiccup and Toothless went alone, mainly due to the other Riders and Dragons being too sick to fly the distance.
Toothless struggled against the ropes binding him, snarling at the closest Dragon Hunters. Hiccup was also restrained, but by two large men instead of with ropes. Hiccup's peg leg was damaged, but Toothless wasn't worried about that impeding any escape attempts.
Due to Hiccup worrying about falling sick mid-trip, he had made Toothless agree to wear the auto-tail, so if Hiccup got sick mid-trip then Toothless could fly them back to Berk. The only reason Toothless agreed was that he knew it would help Hiccup in the event the one-legged boy fell sick and needed human care, which the Night Fury knew he couldn't provide himself due to lack of certain skills and knowledge.
"Don't hurt him! Just let us go, we don't want to cause any trouble!" Hiccup yelled and struggled against his captors, but even with the height and muscle he had gained after the Berserker War, he was still no match physically against the Dragon Hunters restraining him.
"Oh don't worry, we won't hurt him. Can't damage the merchandise, now can we? You on the other hand... well, we could always sell you as a slave, but who'd want a runt like you?" One of the bigger Dragon Hunter's said darkly, and Toothless screeched as he continued to struggle against his restraints.
*Don't you DARE hurt him!* Toothless snarled loudly, ignoring the fact that he knew that they would never, not even in a million years, understand him. Of the two Dragon Hunter's restraining Hiccup, the bigger one laughed wickedly and pulled out a long curved knife, which made Hiccup's eyes widen in fright.
"Please, we didn't even attack you! Just let us go!" Hiccup begged and the knife-wielding Dragon Hunter seemed to pause, before laughing and angling his arm back to stab. Realizing he was about to die, Hiccup used his damaged prosthetic leg to kick one of the Dragon Hunter's right in the balls, making them scream in pain.
Hiccup dodged out of the way of the knife and reached for his fire-sword Inferno, which had been dropped to the ground and forgotten. The dozens of Dragon Hunters around them instantly moved, raising swords and axes. Realizing that on his own he was outmatched, Hiccup relit Inferno and threw it right at the ropes binding Toothless, the now flaming sword beginning to burn at them.
Hiccup began to run towards Toothless, who was struggling against the ropes even more now, but before Hiccup could reach the Night Fury, an average-sized hammer hit him right in the back of the head, and Hiccup screamed before collapsing to the ground about thirty feet from the Night Fury.
Toothless stopped struggling, staring in shock and horror at the now still Hiccup. Looking, Toothless realized the hammer was thrown by none other than the Dragon Hunter who had tried to stab Hiccup, said Dragon Hunter smirking and laughing as he walked to Hiccup and turned the boy over.
"Yep, he's dead alright. Shame, would've loved to use my knife," The Big Dragon Hunter said and roughly picked up Hiccup, tossing the boy over to the now recovering Dragon Hunter who Hiccup had kicked. Moving closer, the Big Dragon Hunter whispered something to the other one, but Toothless couldn't hear and frankly couldn't care.
All that Toothless could see in his mind's eye was Hiccup's lifeless body, killed only thirty feet in front of him. And Toothless was mad, no, mad was making his anger seem trivial. If there were a thousand dragons, who were all forced to watch their Rider go through the same thing, their collective anger and grief would not equal one one-thousandth of what Toothless was feeling now.
Toothless's spine and nostrils began to glow blue, and it looked as if a fire had started inside the Night Fury's body. One of the Dragon Hunters disappeared into the forest with Hiccup's body, but Toothless was too angry to realize it. The Dragon Hunters all turned to look at Toothless, at the exact same moment that Inferno finished burning away a key rope that was keeping Toothless secure.
Standing up with feigned calmness, Toothless's slit pupils locked onto the Dragon Hunter who had killed Hiccup. And the look and words that followed, even though not fully understood, made the Dragon Hunter realize he had just made the worst and last mistake of his life.
*You really should've listened when I said not to hurt him,* Toothless snarled, and then, before anyone could react, the Night Fury launched himself right at the Big Dragon Hunter, sinking his claws right into the man's shoulders and taking off into the sky in a blur.
Spinning mid-air, Toothless threw the Big Dragon Hunter back to the ground, the Dragon Hunter's spine snapping on impact and a loud scream following. That scream, however, managed to get even louder when a plasma blast colliding with the man's chest, blowing it open.
Landing right on the Dragon Hunter, and thus breaking some of his bones, Toothless screeched in anger and fired a massive plasma blast right into the Dragon Hunter's head. The rest of the Dragon Hunter's stared in shock and horror as the now blood-covered Night Fury moved off of the headless burned corpse.
The Dragon Hunters glanced between themselves and the Night Fury, and realized just how screwed they were. Before they could even raise their weapons, the Night Fury leaped and landed right on one of them, using his weight to crush the Dragon Hunter's chest and guts.
Turning, one claw swipe managed to disembowel another Dragon Hunter. The others had raised their weapons by this point and were charging the Night Fury all at once. Using his tail, the dragon knocked two of them off of their feet and sent another two onto their knees.
That left four standing and charging at him. The first one to reach Toothless swung, but his eyes widened in horror and a scream erupted from his throat when the Night Fury bit off his arm, tossing it aside and then bitting into his torso, spinning around and tossing him into another Hunter like a rag doll.
With two still standing, the Night Fury turned and fired a massive plasma blast into one of them, causing their upper body to literally explode into chunks of meat and blood. The other Hunter, now covered in flesh and guts, dropped his sword and stared at his blood-covered hands in shock, unable to believe that the blood belonged to his now dead comrade.
Before the Hunter could recover from his shook, Toothless leaped and bit down right on the man's neck, pulling and then eventually beheading the Dragon Hunter. Tossing the now severed head aside, the Night Fury systematically began to make his way around to the recovering Dragon Hunters, taking them all out with the easiness and efficiency of a trained predator.
One of the Dragon Hunter's, however, had managed to crawl away and was now on their feet, beginning to run back towards their village. Screeching in a blind rage, Toothless leaped and flew right into the Dragon Hunter, sinking his claws right into the man's chest and raising him.
Then, Toothless began to ram into the trees, which were just thin enough to not cause a crash landing but instead break under the force. The Dragon Hunter in Toothless's paws was getting more and more hurt by the impacts, bones breaking and even a finger getting lost somewhere along the way.
After a few moments, the trees gave way to a village plaza, and Toothless landed after tossing the bloody and broken Dragon Hunter aside. All of the Dragon Hunters in the village looked at the Night Fury in shock, reaching for the weapons. Toothless didn't even give them a chance, firing multiple plasma blasts at all of them, blowing half of them up and causing serious injury to the others.
A sneaky Dragon Hunter, however, managed to avoid the Night Fury's sight long enough to sneak up and deal a pretty damaging slash to the dragon's side. The Night Fury snarled and growled in pain, turning to face the ready Dragon Hunter. who didn't even have time to react as the Night Fury literally leaped onto him, bitting down on his sword arm and literally ripping it off.
Biting down on the man's torso, the Night Fury lifted and tossed him into a nearby structure. And using two plasma blasts, Toothless leveled the entire building on top of the man, effectively killing him. Taking a few deep panting breaths, Toothless glanced down at his blood-covered paws and chest in a mix between horror and shock, his mind just not able to accept what he just did.
However, before he could think about this further, an arrow landed itself right in his shoulder and he screeched, whipping around to face an army of Dragon Hunters who were armed and ready to take him down. The same Dragon Hunters who killed Hiccup right in front of him. The Night Fury's anger was back, and even stronger than before.
Launching himself into the sky, the Night Fury began to fly at the massive cathedral behind the Dragon Hunters, charging up a massive plasma blast. Right as he reached it, he fired the blast right into a critical wall and half of the cathedral began to collapse, right onto the now running Dragon Hunters.
And he continued to do this until nearly the entire village was leveled, all of the Dragon Hunters either injured, dead, or buried under debris. One particular injured Dragon Hunter was trying to crawl and reached his damaged crossbow, but before he could grab it, the Night Fury landed right on his back, not only snapping his spine but crushing his chest.
Looking around, the dragon saw nothing but leveled buildings and burning ruins. But then he saw a sight that made him angry again, the Dragon Hunters trying to escape on their boats. Shaking himself and deciding he had nothing to lose- as he had already lost the center of his world-he launched into the sky and began to dive-bomb the ships.
One ship began to sink. Then two. Make that three, no four. By the time the Night Fury's throat was burning from how much fire he had used, almost all of the ships had been decimated except two, which are currently trying their damnedest to get away from the Night Fury.
Diving down and landing on the ship deck, the Night Fury began to charge a plasma blast but was interrupted by a Dragon Hunter-who Toothless idly recognized as the only survivor of the first group of hunters he killed-yelling and raising his hands in the air.
"STOP! FOR THE LOVE OF THOR, PLEASE STOP! If you do, we'll give him to you!" The Dragon Hunter pleaded and the Night Fury paused, wondering who the Dragon Hunters would 'give' him, before he realized the one thing they current had that he might care about. Hiccup's body.
Snarling, Toothless gestured for them to move and the Dragon Hunter quickly reached into a cage and pulled out Hiccup, moving over and gently setting down the boy. Taking a deep breath, the Hunter spoke.
"He's not dead! Torvald was lying! He was just unconscious," The Dragon Hunter said and practically leaped back as the Night Fury ran forward to check if the Dragon Hunter was telling the truth or not. It definitely was Hiccup and he was breathing, but it took a minute to realize this as it was difficult to tell with all of the armor on his body.
Toothless, with a gentleness which he had not used in the previous few hours, picked up Hiccup in his toothless maw, sending a short growl at the Dragon Hunters before taking off back towards the island and decimated village. The sun was falling and they still needed the herb.
As Hiccup began to wake up, he groaned loudly and raised a palm up to his head, slowly but surely opening his eyes and sitting up, only to go still as he realized he was currently laying near the ruins of an absolutely decimated village, the sun beginning to rise in the horizon.
"What in Thor's bread..." Hiccup weakly spoke, took a few deep breaths to help relieve the headache he was currently experiencing. Before he could question why he was near a decimated village, he heard a loud thud behind him, and instantly he tensed up and turned around.
He expected Dragon Hunters, or maybe just some wild animal, but he was comforted by the fact that it was just Toothless. The thing that didn't comfort him, however, was the amount of dried blood that was sticking to the Night Fury's scales, accompanied by tiny bits of flesh that were stuck between scales. The only clean areas on the Night Fury's entire body were his snout and tail, and his snout still had some small spots of dried blood.
"T-Toothless, what in the god's names..." Hiccup began to speak, putting two and two together. There is no way the Night Fury could get covered in so much blood from just hunting a deer or hell, even a bear. And the destroyed village where there had previously been a standing one was a massive red flag.
"What did you do?" Hiccup asked seriously, wondering how the hell Toothless could possibly destroy that entire village by himself. Toothless glanced down at himself and grimaced at all the dried blood that coated his scales.
Hiccup took a deep breath and worked himself up onto his foot and prosthetic, wobbling a bit before managing to get his balance back. He looked around a bit more, spotting a few burning or crushed corpses in the village. The one-legged boy felt a little sick, but hide it as he took a deep breath and turned back around.
Part of him wanted to tell Toothless off for killing possibly hundreds of people, but he knows Toothless. He knows there is only one reason Toothless might go to this level of destruction, and if he was right, then he couldn't blame Toothless. Not even for a second.
"Did... did you think I was dead when you did this?" Hiccup asked carefully and Toothless slowly but surely nodded, a little regretful of going so ballistic so quickly without trying to check if Hiccup was ACTUALLY dead.
"Alright then. I don't blame you one bit for doing it," Hiccup stated calmly and began to walk back to where he had been knocked out, and where he had dropped Inferno. Toothless followed behind in shocked silence, unbelieving that Hiccup wasn't mad.
Hiccup, seeing the expression on Toothless's face, decided to elaborate, "I can't blame you because if our positions were reversed, and I thought someone had murdered you... chances are I'd end up doing the same, well, maybe not as big and as much as you did but still, I'd go nuts and try to kill whoever killed you."
They reached the original site, and Hiccup retrieved Inferno whilst also making a conscious effort to avoid looking at the corpses scattered around. He took a deep breath, looked about, and then glanced at Toothless and sighed.
"Sorry bud, we're going to go find a pond or lake or something, and we're gonna try our best to clean you off; I can't stand seeing you that dirty," Hiccup said and began to walk into the woods, towards where he thinks he may have seen a pond from the air.
Toothless took a deep breath and glanced at the destruction around him, the origin site of his rampage, and moved on into the woods behind Hiccup.
So yeah, first non-THW hating fanfic in a while. This story came about after being asked how I thought Toothless would react to Hiccup seemingly dying. I may have made Tooth a bit overpowered here, but its all for the sake of the story.
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