Hello everyone and welcome to the FINAL chapter of The Waste of What Remains! Thank you for reading the other six previous chapters and following this story through to its completion.
Now, with that said and done, let's just get RIGHT into CHAPTER 7!
Toothless and the half-dragons slowed down to a stop at the very same hill that he and Hiccup had climbed to find the Grimborn base.
Toothless went up the hill first, looking out and over to see a huge base made of cars and scrap.
"CHARGE!" Toothless roared as they ran across the sun-stricken sand and dirt.
Toothless roared and used a push of his legs to send himself flying into the air with electricity forming all over him, storm clouds moving in as lightning struck soldiers down in their tracks.
He aimed his sword right at the base, a bolt of lightning coming from his hand and going through the sword into the base, destroying the front gate and taking down the early defenses.
Toothless landed, slamming his flaming lightning sword into the cold ground, which exploded in a straight line going from the sword to the base's main exterior wall, tearing it open in one quick explosion.
Toothless got up with a pant while the major forces of the half-dragon army waited outside, the group of half-dragons he had talked to earlier being the only ones to follow him alongside his parents.
They charged through the long hallway, Toothless using his sword to take down multiple enemies at once while the others followed behind, walking calmly.
"This is too easy," Hookfang growled with a laugh, none of them having to fight as Toothless was doing all the work.
Suddenly, two huge mech-like robots came out from two slots in a huge cavern, both of them turning to Toothless with a mechanical growl.
"You'll regret coming here, child!" One of the operators of the mech exclaimed and sent an old rusted military missile right at Toothless.
The half-dragon used his super sword to cut the missile in two. The missile exploded and sending him flying back into a wall with a loud thud.
"Toothless!" Hookfang yelled and the group charged into battle against the mechs, which were already preparing to fight against the half-dragons.
Toothless' vision was blurry and his ears rang loudly. He had just taken a missile right to the face and was still alive, to be fair.
The weakened half-dragon got up, his body returned to normal (As normal as a half-dragon was, anyway) in its state of momentary shock.
One of the mechs was destroyed quickly, and the team cheered in the victory while standing over the rusty wreckage.
But the other mech used this moment to its advantage, catching the group by surprise and managing to take down half of them in one missile strike.
"ATTACK!" One of the half-dragons yelled and they tried getting the mech, but it was fighting dirty and playing for keeps.
The mech took down the remaining half-dragons with their swords and bows with ease. Toothless held his hand out.
A lightning bolt quickly attached to his sword, which was lying nearby, and pulled it to him.
He picked up the weapon, its blade immediately catching fire and electricity coming from the tip.
"NO MORE!" Toothless roared and flung the sword right at the mech with all of his power going into the blade.
The sword landed in the mech's main power supply, causing a chain reaction, making the mech explode which sent everyone flying against the walls while killing the pilot of the mech.
Toothless coughed while walking through the smoke, quickly finding and retrieving Fury's Fire from the floor.
"I-Is everyone alright!?" Toothless yelled into the black smoke. Nearly all of his team emerged with just a few bruises and scratches.
"Oh man, we got lucky, if that mech had thirty more seconds one of us would have died!" Meatlug exclaimed while attending to her fellow half-dragons.
"Well, that didn't happen and WON'T happen, not on my watch," Toothless told them while a lightning bolt hit Fury's Fire with a loud boom of thunder echoing from the sword as Toothless looked angrily at the mechs.
"Nor will it happen on my watch, either! I'll kill them all...with my FACE!" Hookfang yelled and puffed up his chest in an attempt to look tough, convincing everyone except Toothless.
"Keep dreaming, Hooky," Toothless told him with a playful chuckle. Hookfang pouted while shaking his head.
"With my face...who came up with that? I need to stop taking advice from Barf, he's just as insane as his brother," Hookfang muttered under his breath. Toothless almost wanted to chuckle but didn't.
Now wasn't the time. They were in the middle of an enemy base and Hiccup might be in danger...or worse, dead.
But Toothless would not stop. If Hiccup was dead he would make sure the Grimborns died at his claws this very day.
They quickly made it through another hallway and into an absolutely massive chamber containing hundreds of soldiers, with Viggo at the forefront.
Toothless walked up to them with a snarl, everything seeming calm but strained, as if one single penny hitting the floor would cause a bloodbath.
"It doesn't have to end like this, just hand over my brother and disband your army. We don't have to fight like this, because if we fight as the old world did then nothing will ever change!" Toothless yelled out loud as his team of half-dragons stood behind him, the army just outside the base and ready to attack when need be.
"Oh but that's exactly where we differ, we do want to change the Wasteland, make it a better place," Viggo told them and Toothless wanted to feel hope that he was finding peace but something in Viggo's eyes said differently.
"How do we differ, then? We also want to make the Wasteland better, to fix the problems at the heart of all life that the old world couldn't...wouldn't fix because they were too bullheaded and too careless...selfish," Toothless told them. Viggo smirked.
"But I agree, we do need to change the new world so the old world's mistakes are not repeated," Viggo claimed and Toothless felt as if Viggo was getting somewhere.
"Then we should lay down ALL our swords, and agree on peace?" Toothless asked while loosening his grip on Fury's Fire a tiny bit.
"You see, an old villain from a film of the old world said 'I think you're confusing peace with quite'" Viggo told him with a smirk.
"If the Wasteland does not have a central authority, a King or a leader...it will always resort to barbaric ways. We have to silence the people like you, the sick and the twisted, who try to break down law and order," Viggo told them and it clicked.
"You want to rule the Wasteland...to save it?!" Toothless exclaimed in pure and complete shock, and Viggo smirked.
"If SOMEONE doesn't rule, then the Humans out there will resort to there barbaric nature that is hidden deep inside...and who better to rule then the two people who can see the truth?" Viggo told him with a smirk. Toothless growled.
"So you want to enslave everyone, force them to do your bidding...all to prevent another war? That's just repeating the mistakes of the old world, if not making them worse!" Toothless yelled. Viggo frowned.
"I was hoping that maybe you would understand, but your 'kind' don't seem that intelligent enough to see reason...to see the truth. It truly is a pity, I was almost willing to allow you and your friends a pass on the recent attack… but now I must make examples of you, to end freedom is to save life itself from self-extinction," Viggo told him and raised his sword.
And then Toothless did something none of them expected, he stood up and let his sword clang to the ground.
"To end freedom is to end everything that makes people special, you don't see it, do you Viggo? People...people are brilliant, clever, funny, and outright amazing in there own special unique little ways...and all of that makes the world better," Toothless told him while stepping forward a tiny bit.
"And since you like to quote characters, I figured I would do the same to you, see if you recognize this one. 'Freedom is the right of all sentient beings', that statement has never been truer," Toothless told him and then called his sword with a flick of his wrist.
"You are wrong! I shall save the new world by putting an end to the old one by KILLING YOU!" Viggo shouted and then pointed his sword at the group.
"Army! ATTACK!" Viggo yelled and the army charged with their weapons raised while yelling battle cries.
"Team, CHARGE!" Toothless roared and they all charged, Toothless' eyes glowing as his body started glowing brighter and brighter as electricity came out from his shoulders and hands.
Toothless raised his sword with a yell and slammed it down into the ground, causing multiple enemy soldiers to go flying into the air with cries of pain.
The battle that had been cold just got as hot as dragon fire.
In the middle of the battle, the army of half-dragons had been called in to assist their leader and his team in battle.
Right at this same time, all of the slaves had somehow been freed from there cages by a shot from a half-dragon's crossbow that missed an enemy soldier's head.
Toothless and Viggo were currently fighting up high, battling one on one.
Toothless had thought that coming into this battle he had the upper hand, but Viggo had something Toothless did not...had not had when he was preparing...time.
Viggo prepared for if Toothless would return, even preparing for if he brought the famous Stoick and Valka along with him. So that meant Viggo had designed himself an armor that made him immune to fire and electricity because of the suit's insulation.
This meant any and all of Toothless' lightning and fire-based attacks were mute and useless against the armored leader, only his claws and the now pretty dull blade of Fury's Fire doing damage to his armor.
Viggo and Toothless were circling each other on the high platform, Fury's Fire now having fallen down into the chaos below as the sound of it below them filled their ears.
But their reactions were different, while Viggo took pride in his army, Toothless took disgust in the war and having to fight.
"I do not want to fight you, but if I have to in order to save freedom, my brother, and ALL of half-dragon kind then SO BE IT!" Toothless yelled and lept, ramming into Viggo and sending them both falling off the high platform.
"YOU FOOL! YOU'VE KILLED US BOTH!" Viggo yelled in anger, but then realized a cable wire was going from one side of the chamber to the other, right below him.
He reached out and grabbed onto it, Toothless also grabbing onto the cable but not as strong. Viggo smirked as he made his way over to Toothless and started kicking the half-dragon in the stomach.
"Give up and fall, runt. Give up and FALL! FALL!" Viggo yelled while repeatedly slamming the base of his foot into Toothless' chest, the half-dragon starting to cough up blood.
Toothless then extended his palm and a lightning bolt came out, hitting Fury's Fire and bringing the sword to him.
"NO!" Viggo yelled and kicked Toothless again as the half-dragon slammed Fury's Fire right into the cable, snapping it in two.
Viggo and Toothless went in two separate directions, but Toothless was weakened and lost his grip on the cable.
He slammed into a stone wall and fell around twenty feet before hitting the stone floor with a thud, multiple ribs breaking upon impact.
As Toothless weakly stumbled up, he realized Fury's Fire must have landed somewhere in the middle of the chaos as it was not anywhere in sight.
Viggo ran into his eyesight though and growled while preparing a crossbow. Toothless' eyes widened and the half-dragon tried standing only for his temporary prosthetic to break.
"FALL RUNT! FALL AND LET THE UNIVERSE GIVE BIRTH TO A NEW WORLD!" Viggo screamed and pulled the trigger, the arrow bolt whizzing towards the half-dragon at an immense speed.
Toothless closed his eyes and brought his hands up to his face with a scream of pure terror as the sound of an arrow bolt whizzing through the air got louder and louder...
Until it stopped, with a loud thud to boot. But Toothless didn't feel any pain, in fact, he felt just as he been for the past few minutes since Viggo started kicking him.
Toothless opened his eyes to see a big man standing in front of him, and he recognized the red-haired man as he fell to the ground.
"Dad!" Toothless yelled and scrambled towards Stoick on three legs, using his arms to push himself forward.
Stoick smiled weakly as his vision slowly clouded with blackness, he could see Toothless starting to cry and Valka rushing over with tears.
"Goodbye my family, protect yourself and protect Hiccup...I love you all, and remember, a Chief protects his own...but so does family..." Stoick mumbled weakly before his eyes slid shut and the world got just a bit colder.
"No, Dad, please...no...no..." Toothless whispered weakly while standing over Stoick, who had stopped breathing and was quickly going cold.
That's when Viggo showed up and did the one thing that sealed his fate, he gloated.
"Oh, this is splendid! I managed to take down one of the four needed to start THE NEW WORLD!" Viggo yelled in excitement and triumph, and Toothless snarled loudly while getting up.
Toothless' eyes were glowing in a mix of green, red, blue, and even a hint of yellow. His entire body coursed with electricity as his body seemed to take on more and more draconic features.
"You. Will. Regret. That." Toothless snarled and lept with the strength of ten adult humans, his claws tearing into Viggo's chest plate and shoulder guard.
Viggo tried swiping his sword at Toothless, but the half-dragon simply batted it away in his state of anger as if it was nothing but an itch that could be scratched.
The half-dragon quickly tore apart Viggo's armor as if it was made of paper, the dragon's fire attack quickly charging up to burn Viggo's head and chest to a crisp.
Then, something SLAMMED into the fury controlled half-dragon, and he snarled with a look up to see Ryker standing tall and proud up on a platform, having thrown a huge chunk of metal at him to get him off Viggo.
And then Toothless spotted what human Ryker was holding, the human who was injured and missing the same part of his leg on the same side as Toothless...and the half-dragon's heart stopped as fear and anger overrode everything.
"Hiccup...oh gods..." Toothless mumbled as he stared at his beaten up and injured brother, who was barely conscious and whimpering weakly.
"To-Tooth-le...ss" Hiccup stuttered and slurred out in his weakened state only for Ryker to punch him in the abdomen, knocking the young man unconscious.
Toothless then heard his fathers finally words play over and over again in his head, energy burning at his scales like a fire that threatened to kill. He stood up with a snarl, his eyes becoming a bit more draconic then human.
"I'm...gonna...kill...you...Ryker..." Toothless snarled, the last word coming out mangled and not said right, as if it was coming from the vocal cords of a true full dragon.
Toothless ran, leaving Viggo for Valka to capture and do with what she pleased, which would probably end up with Viggo's screams being heard soon.
Toothless' running speed increased as he dropped to all fours, what little form of human skin he had transformed into full-on dragon hide, scales covering him.
His clothes tore as wings and tail formed, his bones reshaped accordingly and his eyesight became ten times better.
Toothless snarled as the last bits of his half-dragon clothing fell away, and he extended his wings with a roar that shook the entire base.
Every single person stopped and stared at Toothless, no longer was he half-dragon...no, he was a TRUE FULL FLEDGED FIRE BREATHING SCALEY REPTILE.
He was now a full dragon, and he had one simple goal...Kill Ryker Grimborn. And nothing on Earth would stop him.
Toothless lept up onto the higher platform. Ryker threw Hiccup at Toothless before running away.
Toothless whined while nuzzling Hiccup in an attempt to make sure his brother was still alive, and when Hiccup groaned in his sleep weakly, Toothless knew Hiccup was alive but very weak.
Toothless then remember Ryker, who he chased after and caught up to quickly. The man was trying to escape by leaving out the unguarded smashed front gates...but that plan was thrown out the window when Toothless landed in front of him.
Ryker threw his sword and shot of his crossbow, but Toothless snorted and used his tail to throw all of them aside while sending an amused look at Ryker.
"Please, let me go! Have mercy! Spare me and my brother!" Ryker pleaded. Toothless came up with a glare that if glares could kill, Ryker would be dust in the air.
"Y-y...ou...h-ha...ve n-no...m-mercy f-for...D-dad...o-o-or Hiccup..." Toothless managed to say with his draconic vocal cords, which he decided he was NOT doing EVER again as it hurt his throat pretty badly.
Toothless then approached Ryker and then seemed to think before smirking, he went and grabbed a metal pipe in his jaw.
"W-what are you..." Ryker exclaimed, preparing to flee a battle he had absolutely zero chances of winning...
But he never got the chance as Toothless slammed the pipe into Ryker's leg, and then used his immense strength to tear the entire leg off.
The Grimborn's had cost him and Hiccup both half of there legs, so Ryker should lose one full leg as payment. That was how Toothless would say it at that exact moment.
Toothless then waited and watched Ryker squirm helplessly like a wounded animal, and he was going to plunge his claws deep into Ryker's throat and kill him...
But he let out a draconic sigh and put his paws back down on the floor as his rage wore off. He would leave Ryker for someone else to find, but he had unfinished business with the OTHER Grimborn.
The one who killed his father. Toothless was ready to get his nice tiny dose of vengeance on the remaining Grimborn.
Hiccup's vision returned as he let out a loud groan and whimper of pain. He remembered...what did he remember again?
Oh right, Toothless and his army storming the entire Grimborn facility.
Hiccup eventually crawled onto his side and found a table to support himself on, his stump aching badly...
That's when Hiccup heard a huff and he turned around to stare into the huge deep green eyes of a jet black dragon.
Now, Hiccup was used to see half-dragons, but a full-on dragon was a shock that froze Hiccup entirely.
And then Hiccup looked just a bit deeper into those deep familiar eyes and found something, or rather someone that he didn't expect.
"T-Toothless?" Hiccup asked weakly and the dragon purred warmly at him.
"Hic...cup" The dragon-Toothless answered by mixing and combining multiple different sounds, it hurt to do so but Hiccup needed to know it was him.
"Toothless, oh gods, what happened?" Hiccup asked quietly and hugged the dragon's neck tightly, silently enjoying the fact that his brother was now big and thus very huggable.
Toothless purred and drew Hiccup into a hug, wrapped his paws and head around Hiccup's back with a weak purr that caused the dragon's chest to rumble a bit.
They hugged for what felt like an eternity, never letting go because they feared what they would have to face once they were done.
But they knew they would face it together, as brothers.
After the battle had been won and the half-dragons came out on top, multiple things had to be sorted out.
First of all, what to do with Viggo and Ryker. Some of them wanted Toothless to eat them, some wanted Toothless to torture the two until they screamed for mercy, and some wanted Toothless to just get it over with.
But all Toothless did was snort and walk away, with a yell of "They're yours!"
And with that, all of half-dragon-kind attacked the two Grimborns. They never stood a chance.
Toothless then had to get over his many conflicting emotions to figure out one thing, how would he change back into a half-dragon?!
Of course, it didn't take long with Hiccup being by his side and helping him every step of the way.
Eventually, Toothless figured out that he could change from half-dragon to full-dragon at will, but it took a lot out of him and was not best to change a lot in one day.
Then came Hiccup and Valka reuniting, and then the funeral of Stoick the Vast Haddock, father to Hiccup and Toothless, wife to Valka.
After that came the big question, what about the future? So, they all set out for Toothless and Hiccup's base, and then that leads to the present day.
It was now 2078, nearly a year since the war and Stoick's passing, and now the town of Dragons Edge was prospering.
They had wanted to call it Berk but decided that the name should remain to describe the old irradiated town far out in the Wastes.
Plus, Berk was in the past, but Dragons Edge was right in the sights of the future.
Toothless woke up like always in his bed, he and Hiccup shared a room so it was no surprise that one of the two would wake the other up.
Toothless grinned mischievously and walked over to Hiccup, sneaking towards him before letting out a loud yapping sound in Hiccup's ear. The young adult jumping upright and out of his bed with a scream.
Toothless rolled around on the floor with a deep gurgling laugh as Hiccup pouted while staring at Toothless.
"Not funny! I thought you said the Wasteland was to be taken seriously all those years ago? What happened?" Hiccup asked jokingly and Toothless smirked.
"Let's just say you, two evil idiots, and the founding of a society. Also, the rules of the Waste won't rule me in waking up my little brother in the best way possible!" Toothless exclaimed with a smirk, and indeed Toothless was taller than Hiccup by around a full foot in height.
"Well bud, better watch out because who knows, I might actually grow!" Hiccup retorted weakly before facepalming at how weak of a retort it was.
"Yeah, when half-dragons eat eels," Toothless told him before they quickly went about their daily routine.
Toothless did his normal duties has the King of the Half-Dragons, but something was missing. He couldn't quite place it, but every time he looked out from the town and into the irradiated wastes he felt a need.
He buried this feeling for the rest of day, helping Valka teach some fledgling half-dragons how to shoot fire before going and helping Hookfang stop a half-dragon trying to take Tuffnut's chicken.
When the sun was setting, and both brothers sat atop there base, the feeling came back and Toothless felt as if he could ignore it no longer.
So, as he did all his problems, he talked with Hiccup about it.
"Brother, do you feel as if...as if there's something out there that we need to do...something more...something" Toothless brought up with a sigh of confusion and loss.
Hiccup looked out at the sunset, taking in a deep breath of air.
"As if we haven't done enough to help the outside world? Like we haven't done enough to prevent the past from repeating itself in the new world?" Hiccup asked and they both said yeah at the same time while watching as the sky got dark.
They both talked for a while, and then realized that they weren't doing enough, they needed to do MORE.
And that meant they had to leave, and fix the world's problems.
Hiccup and Toothless were ready to leave, Toothless in dragon form and carrying a saddle with bags of food, water, and other necessary things to survive in the Wasteland without there tribe.
They had wanted the original gang to come along, but then came in the realization that they couldn't: they had lives in Dragons Edge.
Stormfly and Meatlug were going to be mothers to some hatchlings very soon, Barf & Belch were currently Dragons Edge's best explosions expert, Hookfang was the police chief and law keeper, Cloudjumper was Toothless' second in command and temporary leader, and Skullcrusher was a father.
On the human's side, it wasn't that much better. Astrid was the main army general and helped freed slaves integrate with Dragons Edge's society, Snotlout and Tuffnut were both soldiers in the main army while Ruffnut was actually losing her weirdness and becoming an engineer.
Fishlegs was the head engineer and design of Dragon's Edges defenses and systems, while Heather and Dagur worked with Hookfang and the main security council to keep the peace.
So as Toothless and Hiccup stared back at Dragons Edge for one last time before they set out to fix the world, they smiled and nodded to their sad friends.
They would return, but only once they had fixed the world.
And they would do so together, forever brothers.
That's it! The final chapter of The Waste Of What Remains is released and this fanfic is officially complete. I don't have plans for a sequel, nor do i feel like DOING a sequel. This most likely will be the final chapter of this universe as a whole.
So, with that, I bid you farewell as i go and work on other fanfiction projects.
This is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.