A/N: Last Chapter! We never reached five hundred…you know how awesome it would have been to have a story that had five hundred reviews! That would have been great! But anyway, did you say your farewell to the Easy Bake ovens? I had to cook all those cookies I got last chapter, that must have been what caused my lack of updates yesterday. I might (keyword Might) make a sequel to this story, but I have no idea as of right now.

So just…stay tuned! :D

Where was I….OH RIGHT. They were having a picnic on the rainbow road. ;)

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Toothless stiffened at once, eyes widening. Shadowclaw's ears flattened to his head, and he scooted backwards to stand behind Hiccup. He shrank back slightly as Toothless glared at him, as if he had messed up somehow. He didn't think that he did anything, it was all Hiccup to come over here. But if he said that to Toothless, it very well could make the Night Fury even angrier at him. So he kept his mouth shut, watching Hiccup with raised eyes as he remained still.

At first, Hiccup expected this to be a joke. The boy waited for somebody to jump out, laughing, just like he expected when he first got Ludi. But once more, nobody came out with a large smile and a snicker. The cove remained empty, leaving Hiccup staring almost incoherently at Toothless. He couldn't believe it, none of it. Where was the female? Was she waiting somewhere to jump down and attack him again? He didn't think that he would be able to do much if that did end up happening, but then again, would he even try and stop her?

The last few days had been nothing to Hiccup. The boy had limped through the last few days with a bleak look on his face. Without Toothless, Hiccup was just back to being the Useless thing he was before the black dragon came back into his life. Something in the back of his mind told him that if the female did indeed leap out at him, he shouldn't do anything. He shouldn't fight back. He waited a few more moments, body tensed as he waited for the impact.

But it never came. Hiccup looked once around the large cove and realized that the female was nowhere to be seen. The baby dragon would have sensed the other Night Fury just like it had known that Toothless was there. Hiccup had arrived at the cove to let go of Toothless and come to terms with him being gone. And now he was standing directly in front of his old dragon, eyes wide as he stared at the dragon emptily.

He felt his eyes starting to burn again, and he tried to push them back before they could come out. Taking a small step forward, his mouth opened into a silent O. It was a moment before an actual noise came out though. "…Toothless?" He asked, his voice quivering. The tailfin was something that Hiccup remembered, and Hiccup saw through his blurry vision the bloody handprint the had pressed onto the surface of the fin. "It is you." He whispered, trying to take another step towards the dragon.

Toothless started, shuffling back and creating the distance once more between him and the human. Hiccup blinked, coming to a confused stop as he looked at Toothless with concern. The dragon's green eyes were critical as he looked at Hiccup, the Viking's heart hammered as he realized what Toothless was trying to do.

But this WAS Toothless. Hiccup knew that for a fact this time. The Night Fury had not made one move to try and attack him, and the female could not be seen anywhere. The dragon's eyes weren't cold and lifeless like the last time Hiccup had seen them. They would have been rounded with the same humor that Hiccup always saw in his eyes, but instead they were heavy with a strange sadness that Hiccup didn't understand.

The Viking stood still for a moment before he ducked his head down into his chest, gripping his arm tightly. His eyes squeezed shut, and he took in a sharp breath. "Toothless?" He asked in a wavering voice. The dragon did not reply to his name, merely staring down at Hiccup with the strange sad eyes. Hiccup felt his shoulders start to shake, and he started once more. "Toothless is this really you?" He asked quickly. "Did you finally come back?"

'If you're playing hide-and-seek with him, you might want to come out now. I think he's getting frustrated. He can't find you.' Shadowclaw's innocent words rang inside Toothless's head, making the dragon flinch backwards. It was true in what the youngling had said, but he couldn't go back. His eyes flashed down to Hiccup's mangled leg, and he saw that it was wrapped tightly with gauze. A faint tinge of blood still showed through the bandages, and the sight made Toothless's stomach flip over rapidly.

He had hurt Hiccup, and he didn't even hesitate when he saw the fear shining in the boy's eyes. It had thrilled him, to see the fear that the boy felt for him. It had made him happy to be clawing Hiccup apart. The thought made him shiver, and the dragon turned away from Hiccup, closing his eyes tightly as he drew his tail over himself tighter. He couldn't bring himself to look at the boy, and he had half a mind to fly away from the clearing before he did anything else that could hurt the boy. He tensed himself, ready to go, when Hiccup cut through his thoughts roughly.

"Toothless!" The dragon turned a full circle to blink slowly at Hiccup. The boy had taken a few steps forward, arms outstretched as a signal for him to wait. The Night Fury scooted back some, but did not take his eyes off of Hiccup's. The boy's green eyes were filled with grief as he stared forlornly at his dragon. He spoke in a mumbled voice that Toothless had to perk his ears for to hear. "You're leaving me again?" Hiccup whispered, looking the dragon up and down. "So…when you left before, it was because you wanted to? It wasn't the female's fault?" Toothless's eyes widened, but Hiccup's hand fisted together at his sides. "Why did you even come back here then?"

Toothless was still. He couldn't move and he didn't want to try and reason with Hiccup. It would do no good, of course, Hiccup couldn't understand him. Hiccup wouldn't hear him even if he put on the longest speech he had ever done. He wouldn't understand when Toothless told him how he remembered everything after Hiccup had placed the handprint on his tailfin. How the Night Fury had gone and killed Nightflight in cold-blooded murder. How Toothless tracked their scent and flew back to Berk. How he had remained hidden for days on end, wracked in grief and self-loathing. Hiccup would understand none of it. All he knew was that Toothless was a monster, and pretty soon, he could picture the boy telling the village of his appearance. Toothless would be dead by sundown.

"No." The dragon started at Hiccup's voice. The boy had turned back to him, narrowed eyes looking right into his as Hiccup glared at him. "I wont believe it." He stated, causing the dragon to blink with confusion. "I wont believe that that was really you. Because it wasn't, I'm sure of it. I don't care what anybody else thinks about you, whether or not they want to kill you or keep you. Because it doesn't matter what they think. When my father found out about it, he wanted to kill you instantly. But I knew it wasn't you, Toothless. And I still know. You would never do anything like that, you would never dream of it."

But the boy had no proof. Toothless's ears flattened down to his head, and he looked at the ground dejectedly. And either way, it didn't make it important. As long at Stoick didn't know that he was being controlled, Toothless had no hope of living in Berk peacefully. He would have no hope of flying alone with Hiccup anymore, and he would have no hope at all to be with the children who adored him. In fact, he would probably be kept in the stables for the rest of his life.

He didn't know why he was still here. Hiccup couldn't see the real world, he couldn't see that Toothless would not be welcomed back into Berk. All he could see was something that wouldn't be possible. But then again…maybe the whole image of dragons on Berk seemed impossible to Hiccup at the time. But that was different or course. It was much different. They had nothing in common. Right?

"If you wanted to kill me," Hiccup spoke up. "then you would have let me fall."

Toothless did not do anything as he spoke, and Hiccup gripped his arm even tighter than before. "Toothless, don't leave me." Hiccup begged, his voice getting smaller as he spoke. "Don't leave me, not again. You're finally away from her, and you're just going to leave again. What about everything we did together…everything we've worked for?" When Toothless refused to say anything, he pressed again. "You're just going to throw it all away, aren't you?

"Toothless, I said this before, and I'm going to say it again. I am…nothing without you. Before you came here, everybody ignored me, and yelled at me, and you saw how Astrid treated me before. It's all because of you that it's all changed, and if you leave…if you leave it will just go back the way it was before. And I can't handle that again. I can't handle being the only one in the village without a dragon. And I couldn't get another dragon after you. You're one of a kind, Toothless…no other dragon could ever dream to compare to you."

Shadowclaw swallowed uncomfortably, looking over at Toothless with round eyes. The dragon still looked as though somebody had stepped on him repeatedly, it didn't look like anything the human said was reaching him at all. The youngling's ears flattened, and his mouth went into a little pout where he sat. "Toothless, you're being ridiculous!" He roared, his words coming out sharper than he meant them to. The adult snapped to attention as he looked down at the child, eyes narrowing. But Shadowclaw only sank his small claws into the ground stubbornly. "You're just sitting there without saying anything! You can't do that! You can't run away from your problems, Toothless! You have to meet them head-on!

"You can't say that you'll hurt him again, because that's stupid! Nightflight isn't here anymore, and she'll never come back! So what makes you think that you'll hurt him again? You might still remember what it was like under Nightflight's power, but look. Hiccup is willing to forget about it and he's the one that can barley walk! He forgave you, and usually when somebody forgives you, you do the same." He paused for a moment, holding the dragon's gaze. When Toothless still looked unconvinced, Shadowclaw said one last time, more gently. "You never know what is going to happen. It might be bad, and it might be good, you never know. But you're Toothless, and that means you can do anything!"

'Buddy, you are amazing!' Toothless stiffened as Hiccup's words from the past forced their way into his mind. He imagined Hiccup's smile, his bright eyes. And when he looked back at the human, there was a ghost of it on his face. A faint tugging on the edges of his lips as he looked down at Toothless. The dragon sat up straighter, his wings fluttering nervously at his sides. Once again, there was some truth in Shadowclaw's words, if not all of it, some of it. Not all of it was exactly truth to Toothless's ears.

He looked carefully at Hiccup, at the boy that he had first met in the woods. He remembered the boy pulling out a knife, the small blade flashing in the early morning light of the dank forest. He remembered the fear he felt when Hiccup raised the knife, closing his eyes tightly as the human tried to muster up the courage to kill the large beast he had encountered. But he ended up cutting him free with his knife, watching as he flew away clumsily. Why couldn't he have had that same attitude? Why couldn't he have let Hiccup go before he almost killed him? Why couldn't he have followed his human's example?

Maybe he still had things to learn from Hiccup. He had learned to smile, make friends, fly, and do the impossible with Hiccup. Hiccup had learned that not every hero has to be big and tough like Snotlout from him. He supposed that neither of them were through with each other, the thought almost making him smile to himself.

But Hiccup saw the flash of humor, blinking as his smile started to show a little more. His eyes shone a little brighter, and Toothless saw the familiar shine that he had not seen in Hiccup's eyes ever since Nightflight had first came to Berk. That was it, of course. It was all Nightflight's fault that this happened. It might have been Toothless's fault also, but it had defiantly not been Hiccup's. He shouldn't punish the boy more by leaving him again. He thought of the hollow feeling he had in his heart when he was alone, and instantly he knew that Hiccup had the same feeling in himself.

The dragon hesitated before he got to his feet, edging closer to Hiccup. The boy was prone to trouble, this was bound to happen eventually. It was just another thing that the two had to overcome, but like they did with the Red Death. In order to recover, Toothless had to help Hiccup and become a part of this too. Hopefully it would be easy, hopefully it wouldn't last long. They could do it, all they needed was each other.

Hiccup stared at Toothless for a moment or two before his hand twitched at his side. Shadowclaw watched with wide eyes as the boy's hand lifted up, reaching over to Toothless, and pausing right in front of his snout. The gesture was just of that when Shadowclaw had first met Hiccup, the boy having done the same thing to him in a greeting. But it seemed to have an even deeper meaning for Toothless, the dragon eyeing the hand with an unreadable gaze.

It seemed like an eternity, but Toothless leaned forward slowly, pressing his snout into Hiccup's hand warmly, closing his eyes as he did so. Hiccup looked at his dragon, letting out a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding. His hand felt warm where Toothless nuzzled it, and Hiccup could literally feel the hole in his heart mending itself slowly. Toothless's was doing the same.

Hiccup let a smile come over his face, and he let out a small laugh.

They could overcome it.

After all- all they needed was each other.

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A/N: You must pay $50 for a Tissue. I am selling them :3 BUY SOME. D:

I hope you all liked the ending! I did my best and made it cliché ^^

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