Fear or Exhilaration?
There are no words to describe anything right now. I felt cold. Numb. Freezing. But on Fire. Hot. Burning. I fell on the first sign of anything to land on. It was a large rock standing in the water, at least 40 feet in the air. I was dizzy, lightheaded, and nauseous. I couldn't tell if it was from the bleeding wound on my arm, or all the fresh air, but the minute I landed, my trembling legs gave out. My head hurt, in the back of my head and behind my eyes especially. My heart pounded, from flying, adrenaline, and fear. Breathing stung, the cold air biting my lungs, making me hack and cough.
Nothing was behind me. Nothing was in front. No walls. No stone. No fog. Nothing brown or grey. Everything around me was tinted with some form of color. The soft spiking things underneath me that looked like a form of the color of my brother's eyes tickled my underbelly a little and were easily crushed by my body. The water below me could only be described as a deep blue. Waves formed over the water, making crashing noises against the...thing I was on. I looked up, and in all her glory, the Moon shone some light down to the world. The open world. I could see the twinkling of stars surrounding her up there, in the colorless, void sky. There were so many stars. Too many to count. Too many to see.
A stinging throb brought my attention to the claw mark on my arm. It bled, a sickly red, and I remembered I needed to lick it. My tongue lapped up the red liquid, my taste buds cringing at the coppery taste. Despite being absolutely still, my heart didn't stop racing. 'I'm outside. Like, really outside' rang through my head.
I could hear so many things.
I could see so many things.
I could smell so many things.
I felt the onset of anxiety that normally comes when I'm overwhelmed. It was all so much. The shock of it all left me frozen, unable to do anything but sit here and take it all in. I stopped licking my arm one I realized the blood stopped coming. My shaking didn't stop. 'It...it...it's not t..too deep, but….j..just deep enough to scar' I thought. 'If Toothless were here, he'd….' I flinched at his name. 'No, stop it! You can't think about him right now!' I blinked back my tears, but they fought back atrociously. I could just hear Stormfly telling me...'No STOP IT!'. My head shook with my thoughts, and I gave in to my tears.
'Gone….they're gone'
"You don't need to worry about them coming!"
'I'll never see them again'
"Our queen down there?''
'That thing….'
"You're brother and that Spine Tail failed to bring her her meal on time. You wanna know what happens when our kind fails?"
'Dead. They're dead'
I couldn't keep my mind from travelling back to earlier.
"Well, well, well, look what the dragon dropped in" The brown one said.
I shrunk down on myself, wrapping my tail in front of me in a poor battle stance. They all laughed at me. "Poor thing, probably doesn't even know how to fight" the Spine Tail said, her devious voice making me flinch how I almost fell for it earlier. "Yeah, poor, little, Death Striker. Sad this is how they're going to go". When the large one with horns approached me, I hissed. Or attempted to. I was shaking pretty bad, to it was a wobbly hiss. He hissed back, causing me to jump.
I pawed at his face with a "St..stay back!". He laughed again. "You caught me by surprize last time, little boy. You won't catch me again!" My back leg slipped a little, and I looked down at the hole behind me, the one hiding that...thing. "You look scared; it seems you've seen who's down there" the Spine Tail said again. "What is that thing" I whispered in fear, seeing her chomp down on another dragon. "Our queen down there?" the big one with horns said. He got whacked in the back of his head again.
"Fail her?" I questioned. 'What's that supposed to mean'. "Oh, so your brother hasn't told you? Poor, poor Death Striker. Well you see, our Queen is to big to leave and hunt for herself. So it's up to us, her loyal subjects to hunt for her, day in and day out. If there's not enough food, she takes it upon herself to finish what we can't" the brown one said. I shook while looking back down behind me. "She's been getting impatient with you, so she sent us to find you and bring you to her. She needs her meals, like us, and we can't fail her" the big one with horns said. A growl grew from my throat. "I'm not going to help that...that thing, are you insane?!"
They laughed again. "We aren't asking, boy. And neither is she" the brown one said. "I'm not going with you! Once my brother and Stormfly find out what you've done, they'll…" "You don't need to worry about them coming!" the large one said evilly. 'What's that supposed to mean' I thought. I voiced it soon after. The brown one chuckled and walked up to me. He gestured for me to look down, and I did, seeing another group of dragons fly in. "Our queen is very needy when it comes to her meals. She has a schedule to follow and she expects everyone to follow 're brother and that Spine Tail failed to bring her her meal on time. You wanna know what happens when our kind fails?"
A two headed dragon flew in and dropped one fish.
There was a large snarl
'No…'
Large teeth chomped on the dragon. It's two heads widened before it was dragged down and out of sight.
"No...no, m..my brother isn't…"
"He's always come when you're in danger, no? Where is he now, then? Hmm"
"..."
My legs gave out
My heart could be heard shattering.
My lungs could take any air
"...Stormfly…."
"...Toothless…"
My safe world was shattered before my own eyes.
"Yes, it's a shame. Such hard workers for the one they cherished most. Only for it not to be enough in the end". Tears streamed down my face as air struggled to reach my lungs. "Come now, child. Come meet your queen" the Spine Tail said. She nosed me up and pulled my numb body along. 'No… I won't serve the...thing that killed my family!' I thought in defiance. I shoved out of her grip and ran to my left. A blast stopped me and Spines shot over my head in warning. I jumped as the brown one charged me again.
The three surrounded me, all ready to charge. I sicced them out by pretending to jump, and like I hoped, they flew head first into each other. The big one with spines didn't get up, and for a second I feared he was dead. A slice on my arm drew me out of my shock, and a pained roar escaped my mouth. The Spine Tail used the claw on her wing. It began to bleed. A lot. I ducked under the brown one, it having caught on to my jumping tactic, and flew right into the Spine Tail, causing her to go limp. He was the only one left.
He realized it as soon as I did. I tried to jump away, but a very hot blast of the strange stuff that flowed down the mountain stopped me. I let out a bark of surprise. I turned to look at him. "It was a good attempt, but you failed! Either come with me, or I'll hurt you even worse!" He shouted. His confidence didn't match his body, though. All the ramming-into-things left him dizzy and swaying on his feet. I shot a small blast at him, and his face went twisted. Then he fell on his side, unconscious. I blinked, my chest heaving from emotions when a large roar, followed by buzzing hit my ears. The same buzzing that made my head hurt last time.
As much as I didn't like the heights of flying, I shot up, and away from the island.
I was alone now. My family was dead, my cave is destroyed, and now I'm in a world I know nothing about. I sobbed and sobbed, never feeling pain like this before. I cried and cried and cried until time became lost to me. My wings shook with my body, and despite being outside with color everywhere, my whole world became as dark as the void above me. The tears seemed endless as I lost myself in grief. Then a light showed up in my face. I pawed at it, trying to get it away, but it stayed. I sat up and blinked, trying to get used to it, and looked at the sky. To my left, the moon was sinking, touching the horizon. 'The Volcano of the West Horizon' a voice spoke. And to my right, the brightest thing I ever saw cast golden light over everything.
The void sky became light, as blue as Stormfly's scales.
The water below me mocked the sky, being a few shades darker than the light blue.
My black scales took on a purple hue under the light.
The small spikes the color of my brother's eyes grew in color.
Light outlined the clouds nearby, turning them a light color I didn't know.
A new Sun was hatched.
My first Sun
My tears dried as the world around me came to life. Small creatures with no scales flew in the sky. They were colorless, like the clouds. 'Colorless like the clouds….clouds are white, so those things are white' I thought, thinking back to one of Stormfly's speeches. 'I should start identifying colors'. I sniffed, licking my uninjured arm and wiping dried tears from my face. I limped a little on my injured left arm as I walked to the edge of the thing I was on. 'Thing doesn't sound right….I'll call it a Random Rock, until I figure out what it's called'. I spread my wings out, and felt something weird flow past me.
Thinking it was another dragon, I jumped behind me, looking for anything that resembled a dragon. That same feeling flowed past me, moving my frills and wings, relaxing me with a cool feeling. 'Is...is this what wind feels like?' If it is, it felt nice. Cold, but relaxing. I looked back to where the New Sun rose from the Volcano of the East Horizon, feeling for the first time, free.
Free
Free
'I'm free'
"I'm free…"
A feeling of curiosity and excitement flood past my grief, if for the smallest time.
"I'M FREE" I roared into the day, jumping around in open air for the first time.
That sense of imagination returned to me, and I felt myself again, for the first time in weeks. I jumped around until my injury bled a little again, and I almost fell off the Random Rock. I was catching my breath when I looked at the water below me. 'Fish come from water' My brother's voice came out. I went to test something. Charging a blast, I shot it in the water. Nothing happened. I tried it again and again, but noting still. My shoulders slumped. 'Man, I was hoping for some fresh fish'. I sighed as I sat down, looking at the ever-bluing sky. It was starting to get really bright out, enough to irritate my eyes. I thought back to my life and how much it has changed.
'She was lying to you, you know' Toothless' voice spoke.
'I can't sleep for ONE MINUTE, ONE sky DAMNED minute without you doing something stupid, can I?'
'And now you've gone and filled his head with nonsense about the outside world'
'The world is dark and cruel, Hiccup. Leaving would kill you'
'No Scales would kill you on sight'
'It's too dangerous out there Hiccup'
'It's full of darkness and anger and hate and so many other corrupting factors'
'Brother, you are my world. I would fight monsters for you, tame bad skies for you, fly seas for you…I would do anything to keep you safe. But if I say you can't do something, it isn't because I'm being cruel. It's because I love you and that doing what I tell you not to puts you in danger'
'Do you trust me, Hiccup?'
'I don't know what to trust'
'Then trust that I love you'
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'He lied to me…'
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