Hey everyone! Here is Chapter 2 of The Waste of What Remains! Now, i really do not have much to talk about so let's just get RIGHT into the Chapter!
Last time on The Waste Of What Remains...
Both Toothless and Hiccup woke up to a loud explosion coming from outside. Both shot up and looked at each other before running outside.
Toothless climbed up the ladder to see a gang of raiders, so many raiders that he couldn't count them all.
"COME OUT, NIGHT FURY! COME AND GET MURDER! HAHAHAH!" One of the Raiders yelled and Toothless ran into the armory so fast Hiccup nearly fell down.
Toothless got his armor and weapons, quickly returning to and scaling the wall before turning to Hiccup.
"Go grab my spare armor and join me in the battle! QUICKLY!" Toothless yelled and jumped down into the gang of Raiders. Hiccup ran into the armory and found another suit of armor, the perfect size for him.
Hiccup got it on and he took a steel sword from nearby, then got up on the wall and jumped down into the gang of raiders.
Toothless stabbed a stick into the one remaining raider's eye, panting so heavily his lungs felt like they were gonna fall out of his chest.
Toothless looked over at where his broken sword lay, along with his now broken shotgun. Toothless looked at himself in a mirror and noted that his armor was almost completely destroyed, only the chest plate and one of the shoulder pads remaining.
Then he looked over at Hiccup, who was holding his bleeding arm. Hiccup's sword was broken and his armor was completely gone.
Toothless looked at his now wrecked base, the turrets destroyed and three of the four walls were destroyed. The two buildings were in pieces and only a few things remained.
Dawn was broken and barely online, trying to get out from under a car.
"Oh I didn't think THEY would find me, gods I'm such a fool," Toothless said and Hiccup was confused.
"What?" Hiccup asked and Toothless sighed.
"I may have lied, or rather, not told the full truth when I said that all raider gangs fell apart eventually. There is ONE gang that never fell apart, one that's been here since right after the war...The Skull Breakers" Toothless said and walked towards Hiccup.
"I once stole a supply of food from them, and they've been set on killing me ever since. But I thought I built my base far enough away that they wouldn't find me! Guess I was wrong..." Toothless said and kicked a tin can across the now destroyed base.
"We can rebuild! I mean, it doesn't look too bad..." Hiccup said, the one remaining wall crumbling to pieces even as he spoke.
"Ok...it looks pretty bad," Hiccup admitted. Toothless sighed while started to pack all the remaining stuff into bags.
"A few of those raiders got away, and once they report the location of this base, ALL of them will come. No matter what, we'll be dead. There are WAY too many of them" Toothless said and continued packing up.
Hiccup helped and they managed to pack up almost all the remaining supplies. Toothless dug out Dawn and fixed him up enough to work properly.
As they started walking towards a nearby hill, and Hiccup became curious.
"What are we doing going to this hill?" Hiccup said and Toothless took in a deep breath.
"The only working method of transport within five hundred miles besides walking is here," Toothless said. When they reached the hill, he removed a fake patch of ground to reveal a cave.
Inside sat a truck, beaten up and slightly rusted. But it was patched up and looked like it could drive. Its roof was also raised high enough so Toothless' head would not hit the ceiling.
"This is the only working car within hundreds of miles, you're not gonna find another that runs. This one took six and a half years to fix up but it was worth every second. This truck has enough gas to get us across the country twice." Toothless said, indicating the canisters of said gas as they shoved all the bags in the back. Dawn got in the back while Hiccup and Toothless got in the front.
Toothless entered a six-digit code into a keypad and the truck slowly revved to life. He set the truck into motion and they quickly started driving far away from the ruined base.
Eventually, they stopped outside an old military base, which was in ruin. Toothless took in a slight deep breath and he turned to Hiccup.
"We should check it out," Toothless said and Hiccup nodded, they got out of the now parked truck and walked into the military base. Hiccup was holding a plank of wood and Toothless a damaged ax.
"We need to see if there are ANY weapons here, we only have these and if we go up against any raiders...we're screwed," Toothless said and Hiccup nodded in complete agreement.
They rummaged through the old warehouses and buildings, finding a few rations and small guns which would come in handy.
Toothless then found an old pre-war computer terminal, which he took with them. They loaded all of the new supplies into the truck and hit the road again.
"So where exactly are we going?" Hiccup asked and Toothless sighed while looking down slightly.
"I...don't know, normally when a base of mine is destroyed I just go and build another a good distance away. But now...I'm realizing that strategy just isn't gonna cut it anymore" Toothless said and they continued driving down the gravel roads.
They were driving when Hiccup spotted a gas station not too far away. He tapped on Toothless' shoulder and coughed.
"I want to go check out that gas station, see if I can get any resources from it," Hiccup said and Toothless sighed, pulling up right in front of the gas station.
"I highly doubt you'll find anything, but go ahead. Just don't take too long!" Toothless yelled at Hiccup, who was already entering the gas station.
Hiccup walked through the abandoned and empty gas station. When he rounded one corner he was shocked to find a couple of skeletons lying on the floor.
"Oh, you poor people," Hiccup said and turned away before he would throw up from looking at the charred and burnt skeletons. Looking at the shelves, he found some food, some water, and a couple of supplies that could come in really good use.
Hiccup went into the back to find a burned man standing there, who immediately got up and charged at him, knocking him to the ground.
"AHH! HELP! GODS ALMIGHTY GET THIS THING OF ME! HELP!" Hiccup yelled as he used a wood board to keep the burnt man...creature thing from biting his head off.
Two bullets then entered the creatures head, and it slumped dead beside Hiccup. Hiccup got up and spotted Toothless standing their, gun in hand.
"I heard your high pitched girly screams" Toothless said. Hiccup rolled his eyes before picking up his bag of scavenged supplies, they quickly made it back to the truck.
After about ten minutes or so of driving, Toothless' stomach growled lightly and the half-dragon fidgeted in the seat.
"Do you want some food? I got some from that gas station" Hiccup said and Toothless shook his head.
"I've gone WEEKS without food before, and we need to REALLY ration that food out. I'm fine for a day or two" Toothless said even as his stomach growled lightly. Hiccup decided not to say anything...at least not yet.
They pulled up to a stop at a huge brick facility, which only had one visible entrance. Toothless and Hiccup got out of the truck, walking went inside the huge building and finding lots of building resources, like bricks and metals and other things.
"All these resources, and no ones taken them. Why wouldn't they?" Hiccup asked and Toothless shrugged.
"People are more concerned about food, water, survival, guns, and avoiding radiation centers" Toothless said as they walked through the entire building, finding it completely raided of food and water.
They went back to the truck and set off, heading West, towards the middle of nowhere.
Two or three days later, and they pulled up to a huge abandoned military base which was mostly intact. The only real structures they could see where huge hangers that would have been used to store airplanes.
They pulled up and quickly got out of the truck, and proceeded to roam through the entire base, finding nothing alive or dangerous.
"This place...might actually be perfect. These hangers are pretty much intact and we could build a wall around this place to keep out raiders. But we can't use cars like before, cars are too weak. We need a stronger material" Toothless said while standing in the middle of the place, Hiccup smirked.
"I have an idea, what if we made a wall out of your shed scales? It would be as tough as your old armor was" Hiccup said and Toothless nodded.
"It would be impossible to destroy, but I don't nearly have enough scales shed, and I only shed around twenty scales every one to two months. It would take years to get enough" Toothless said. Then he had a realization.
"Maybe, we could create a metal just as strong as my scales, it would take loads of time and lots of trial and error...but it might work. But we don't have the time or equipment to do it within the next week, and we need a wall done VERY soon, in order to be protected" Toothless mused.
"What if we build a three-layer stone brick wall around the entire base, and then once we have the metal we'll coat the wall in the metal. Make it stronger" Toothless said and Hiccup nodded while smiling.
"We could also build a moat and fill it with some sorta dangerous liquid that poisons on contact," Hiccup said and Toothless nodded. They looked around and eventually found an old semi-truck with trailer, the semi-truck was rusted to hell but the trailer was mostly working.
"If I spend a few hours, I might be able to hook this huge trailer up to the truck," Toothless said and got to work, while Hiccup was just disbelieving.
"If you managed to hook up a semi-truck trailer to a normal truck, I will eat a hat," Hiccup said and Toothless smirked from underneath the trailer.
Hiccup and Toothless stood and stared at the truck with the trailer attached. Toothless smirked.
"Better get eating," Toothless said and Hiccup groaned.
"I don't even have a hat" Hiccup said and Toothless rolled his eyes before getting in the truck.
"Come on Hiccup, we'll leave Dawn here to defend the place while we get bricks. We'll need to do a few trips but it'll be worth it" Toothless said and Hiccup joined him in the truck, and they took off.
After multiple weeks of tireless working and defending, the wall and mount were complete with a fully functioning drawbridge that Dawn could remotely control from up to five miles away.
One of the hangers had been transformed into their living quarters, with beds and desks and all sorts of things for them to mess around with.
Another one of the hangers was just being used for storage of the truck and semi-trailer, while yet another hanger was used for storage of ALL materials.
And finally, one of the hangers had been transformed into an armory, complete with swords, bows, and small guns.
Hiccup had wanted a forge, and Toothless a workshop. But they decided that those two things could wait for later, survival took the forefront in the apocalypse, not comfort.
Toothless sat using his fire to heat up his shed scales just enough so that they could be bent. Toothless' scales are fire and heatproof, but once shed they lose a bit of that strength.
They are still fire and heatproof, but extremely power fire can heat them up enough to be bent and shaped into anything, fire such as Toothless' plasma blasts.
Once Toothless got the scales hot enough, he started using a hammer to pound the scales into one big piece of scaly material. Then he used his fire again and pounded the big piece into two swords.
Toothless grabbed some leather (One of the materials they had gotten from the storage warehouse) and used it to make the handles of both swords.
He then used his claws to sharpen the blades just enough to where they could take someone's head off if enough force and speed were applied.
Toothless didn't have enough shed scales to make more armor, at least not yet, so he and Hiccup settled for black leather armor, which Hiccup had made while Toothless worked on weapons.
Toothless finished off the swords by adding different carvings into each, for his sword he carved the symbol of a Night Fury (Which is what he would look like if he was completely dragon) into the base where the blade met the handle. He also added multiple other symbols onto the blade and handle to make it truly unique.
Toothless decided that while carving symbols into Hiccup's sword, he would make it just as unique as his sword. He carved an old symbol from the ancient civilizations of old that meant good brother. The symbol went right on the blade and the handle had a few Norse runes carved in.
Toothless quickly took both swords and went to Hiccup and gave him one of them. Hiccup was surprised by the level of quality.
"Holy Thor, I swear if the world didn't go to hell, you'd probably be an expert blacksmith," Hiccup said and Toothless smirked while holstering his own sword.
"What can I say? I've had quite a lot of time to get my skills good" Toothless said and got to work making some of the bows they needed.
Toothless was working on some bows and Hiccup was just admiring his sword when they heard a loud strike of thunder in the distance.
Toothless' eyes widened and he ran outside to see a thunderstorm rolling in. That might not have been a big deal, but thunderstorms in this day and age were deadly.
"Toothless, why has a thunderstorm got you so worked up?" Hiccup asked and Toothless shook his head.
"You don't understand. After the war, all the clouds became infected with radiation, basically poisoning you on contact. Scientists from before thought it would fade, but they never had a REAL nuclear war to study from, it never faded. Thunderstorms are the worst, more than a few drops of water could make you sick. Stand out in the rain for five minutes and you'll be dead" Toothless said and Hiccup was confused and worried.
"How did you survive thunderstorms before?" Hiccup asked and Toothless growled.
"My armor, the one that's now gone. It was waterproof, I had made sure of that. But now with just this flimsy leather armor… we had better stay indoors for the rest of the day, maybe into tomorrow if need be" Toothless said and pulled a chain nearby, causing the hanger door to close using a clever pulley system that Toothless had installed.
"Is this place waterproof?" Hiccup asked and Toothless looked around, only noticing one or two areas were water could possibly maybe get through.
"Got any pre-war markers?" Toothless asked and Hiccup handed him two or three. Toothless then used one of them to draw circles around where water drops would land if they fell from the ceiling.
"Avoid these spots, and GODS ALMIGHTY no matter how curious you get, do not touch the water!" Toothless warned and Hiccup nodded.
It was only a few minutes later that the storm rolled in, and the wind was so strong they could hear it blowing against the metal reinforced hanger.
"Will the hanger stay up?!" Hiccup asked and Toothless looked around before nodding.
"This place was built by the military years ago, it was designed to survive any manner of a storm, natural disaster, war, etc," Toothless said and Hiccup nodded, still slightly fearful.
Dawn was lying offline on Toothless' desk, where Toothless was making some required upgrades to the hardware and software of the robot.
Suddenly, Hiccup heard someone screaming far away and looked up, he looked at Toothless who was staring at the door.
"Let's just stay in here..." Toothless said and Hiccup nodded, that was probably for the best.
Eventually, the storm passed after multiple hours of waiting. They both fell into an uneasy sleep, with Dawn now activate and guarding the base.
Alright guys! That's it for now! Sorry for the somewhat short chapter, but I had no idea really what to put here besides what i already have. The next chapter will be a little more exciting and another HTTYD character will make their apperance! But who will they be? And will they be alive or dead? What was that scream? Find out next time in CHAPTER 3.
This is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.