Are you ready? *brings hand to the ear* I said are you ready? *listens*
Yep I think you're ready for the last Chapter of this FEELS BOMB!
I have to warn that this chapter is a littleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee big- it has about 3.500 words maybe more- .
Well I hope you enjoy this last chapter, it was kinda hard to write tho. I'm going to start planning How To Teach Your Jorgenson To Swim!
WARNING: Contains feels. Not recomended for under already dead inside ages. You might cry or laugh, or just smile, or just sob a little- Maybe you won't even notice the feels but maybe you will. You may now procced.
The riders landed in front of the Clubhouse, the darkness of the night leaving them even more nostalgic and sorrowful. No one dismounted their dragons. No one moved at all.
"So… wha- what do… what do we do now?" Snotlout mumbled while trying to hide the tears covering his eyes.
No one answered him. They just looked around to find the Clubhouse (and they guessed the whole Edge) a mess. The place where Fishlegs'd hidden the Dragon Eye was messier. It was obvious that the Dragon Eye had been taken.
Several hysterical steps were heard and a black dragon appeared- Toothless.
The Night Fury started smelling the air obviously trying to find his rider's odor. He ran around all of the dragons wondering why they all looked so sad. Toothless stopped in front of Stormfly, looking at Astrid. He growled as Astrid jumped from her dragon's back.
Her legs were shaky as were her arms, hands and the uncontrollable constant sob rising from her chest. Toothless looked behind Astrid as if expecting Hiccup to just jump out of there, and bumped his head in her arms, where he'd last seen Hiccup.
Astrid shook her head and Toothless' heart skipped a beat. No… no no. He turned his head in the direction of Fishlegs who was almost drowning in his own tears. He watched as the twins took off with Barf and Belch, both with tears rolling down his cheeks as they looked at Toothless. What was wrong?
Snotlout too took off with Hookfang, the boy seemed ready to explode.
Astrid shook her head again. "I-I'm. I'm so sorry Toothless. I-." Her vision blurred and her eyes became watery at the realization of what had just happened a few hours ago. During the trip back to the Edge no one spoke. Astrid had once turned Stormfly in the direction of ex-Remorse Island, she thought that maybe he was still alive. The twins had blocked her way with an expression she'd never seen in them.
"Hi- Hiccup." A tear escaped from her eye and she didn't even care that the Great Astrid Hofferson was crying. She wasn't great without Hiccup."He… he's not." She couldn't finish it. Well she didn't even have to. Toothless shook his head, the poor dragon moved away from her in a flash. He cooed sadly and started to roar after that. Toothless ran away in the direction of Hiccup's hut, disappearing.
Fishlegs turned to her "I- I'm not feeling- that well –I… Meatlug and I are going to just…lay down a bit." He said between sobs before flying in the direction of his hut.
Astrid stumbled to the edge of the wooden walkway and stared at the horizon. Hiccup… Hiccup is dead. .Dead. She would never see him again…
I was the one leaving him there… alone, in pain, dying in a sinking island. Astrid couldn't help but think. If only we had tried harder to break that chain… or…or maybe if…
She stared at the horizon for a long while, her whole body shaking. The same 3 words haunting her mind: Hiccup is dead.
She still didn't believe it. She'd promised him he would be ok. Hiccup'd promised Toothless he would come back and for the first time he didn't fulfill the promise... like he always did.
The gang had gone in a trip to save Hiccup and ended up coming back without him… Astrid was going to kill Viggo!
After staring at the nothing for what felt like hours, hoping that somehow, against all odds Hiccup would just appear flying home, saying that everything was ok- He never showed up(… what a shock…),- Stormly bumped her head against Astrid, who mounted her Nadder. How could he come home? If the wrecking island hadn't killed him, the infection would've and if that still didn't, he was way too weak to swim; he would've drowned by now. One way or another Hiccup was gone.
They took off and headed to Astrid's hut. She, however, couldn't avoid looking at the hut beside her own. She landed Stormfly in front of Hiccup's hut instead and took a deep breath. She opened the door and stepped inside, ignoring the mess the Dragon Hunters 'd left outside.
Everything was calm… deadly calm…
Astrid stumbled upstairs to Hiccup's room. Toothless was lying on his rider's bed, cooing sadly, and didn't even bother moving when Astrid appeared.
The blonde was now sobbing uncontrollably. She stared at his desk. The flaming sword Hiccup'd created was lying there, broken. He didn't even have time to fix it and now he would never have that time again.
The wood desk was full of papers. Some future inventions' sketches, some plans to improve Toothless' tailfin… he left everything behind.
Astrid's shaking hand flew to Hiccup's notebook nearby. She opened it to find some notes about dragons and more drawings. That's when she found a specific drawing: the gang. It looked so real, Hiccup could draw so well. They were all smiling with their dragons next to them: Fishlegs and Meatlug; Snotlout and Hookfang; Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Barf and Belch; Astrid and Stormfly; Hiccup and Toothless.
Some tears fell from Astrid's eyes and landed on the paper in her hands. She dropped the notebook and stumbled backwards, crashing against the bed's foot. She slowly started falling to her knees, not even trying to hold back the tears anymore and brought her knees close to her chest.
To her surprise Toothless got up and curled around her. Astrid didn't know if dragons could cry, but if they did then that's exactly what Toothless was doing.
Toothless reminded her so much of Hiccup; his smile, his green eyes, his auburn hair, his personality, his sarcastic answers, his stupid crazy plans that always worked, his amazing ability to annoy when he wanted to, his loyalty, his selflessness… his everything. She already missed him so much and the thought that she'd never see him again was suffocating her.
There were so many things Astrid regretted like ignoring him his first 15 years of life. Sure she'd never made fun of him… but she'd never stood up for him either. She regretted never telling him what she really felt. How sweet, caring, funny… cute he was. How much she liked him… how much she loved him…
Astrid found herself crying with Toothless. She didn't try to stop either.
"I was such a bad cousin to him you know Hookfang?" Snotlout mumbled "I never treated him how he deserved…"
Hookfang turned his head to his rider who'd been different the past week. Snotlout hadn't been acting like… well, Snotlout.
"There was that time when I didn't listen to him and still Hiccup came after us. We could've crash landed alone on Outcast Island but he was there, Hiccup went after me on that waterspout… I on the other hand never acted like a good cousin and now he's… he's gone for good…" Snotlout blurted, while packing some things into Hookfang's satchel. It'd been a week since…that, and the riders were in their huts packing things to go to Berk, tell Stoick about Hiccup and prepare a funeral… without the body. "Also those times during the Thawfest games… oh and our first 15 years of life… "
He finished packing and turned to Hookfang. "Well I guess it's too late now to think about this…" A tear escaped from his eye and he cleaned it with the back of his hand. "Don't you dare tell the others about this! Ok Hookie?" Hookfang pushed Snotlout in the direction of the hut's door.
Fishlegs sat in his bed. "Well girl, I think this is all we need to take right?" He asked the Gronkle who looked at her rider with pity. "Usually Hiccup would check if there was anything missing but… he can't now…"
Meatlug licked Fishlegs in order to motivate him. "Oh I know girl. It's just… Hiccup was my best friend besides you. He always stood for us… he- he just… understood. Oh I'll miss our geeking-times…"
Meatlug licked several tears on Fishlegs' face. He got up, attached the satchels to Meatlug's saddle and walked towards the door.
The twins grabbed all of their weapons and packed them in their saddles.
"Hey! Do you think Hiccup will let us take the catapult too?" Ruffnut asked.
"Hum… I don't know… We could ask him but if he happens to say no it'll be harder to take without him knowing." Tuffnut answered while packing Macey.
"Well… still… let's ask him." Ruffnut mumbled.
Tuffnut's mind clicked. "Oh… hum, we can't ask Hiccup… remember?" He told his sister.
Ruffnut froze for a moment and then continued gathering up the rest of her things "Oh.. hum…yeah." She mumbled.
Tuffnut walked towards her and hugged her instead of doing something related to the twin's usual playful violence. "Look sis, it's not ease but it'll pass. Believe me, I'm the toughest around here and I usually don't do hug… only when I'm sad… or way to happy… or cold…. Hum I-"
"-Better shut up now. Yeah I know." Ruffnut finished for him. "H was our big brother; now let's go give him a great goodbye. Shall we?" She asked Tuffnut with a faint smile.
"We shall." Tuffnut answered. And they headed outside.
"So… everyone's ready?" Fishlegs asked.
"Yeah… wait where's Astrid?" Snotlout wondered.
"We saw her by the Dome." Ruffnut answered.
"And you didn't even tell her we need to leave now?" Fishlegs snapped.
"Hum… she was throwing axes you know… how… that can be." Tuffnut shrugged his shoulders.
"Argh… I'll talk to her." Snotlout mumbled.
"Don't forget Toothless!" Fishlegs reminded "We can't leave him here and we don't have Hiccup to-" He froze. The name starting with H was now like a stab. They didn't stop saying it but they didn't say it that often too. One week wasn't enough for the grief to cool down.
"Yeah… on it…" Snotlout answered, turning in the direction of the path he had to take and freezing right away. "Hum..guys?"
Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Fishlegs hurried forward, stopping next to Snotlout. A large dragon was approaching on the horizon.
"Is that Grum- Grumpy?" Snotlout stuttered.
"Oh, oh oh. Do you think it is coming for us?" Fishlegs cried.
"I don't know but if it is we Thortons have unfinished business with that no longer magnificent flying lizard." Tuffnut declared.
The dragon landed right in front of them. Hookfang, Meatlug, Barf and Belch roared in disapproval and stepped forward stopping right behind their riders in a protective way.
Now here's the strange thing. The dragon didn't try to attack them.
Suddenly a blurry figure fell from the Grey Remorse, crash landing on the ground behind the dragon's wing.
"Ouch… not one of my best landings…"
Their minds raced with that voice. They knew that voice… could it be!?
Grumpy turned to the person on the floor and growled.
"Yeah you need to find a new island. Go big guy and thanks." The voice said and Grumpy took off.
Hiccup looked at his friends. Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut and Tuffnut looked like they were taking part in a contest to see whose moth could open the most.
"Hum… did- did I miss something?" Hiccup asked genuinely confused, looking behind himself in a failed attempt to find what was so fascinating to his friends and still sitting on the ground. "Guys?"
"Gho- Gho gho- Gho GHO- GhO-" Tuffnut stuttered.
"What? Tuffnut I don't understand." Hiccup admitted.
"Gho- Gho ghogho Gho-" Ruffnut joined her brother.
"Ghost ahhhhh!" The twins screamed, racing to hide each behind one of Barf and Belch's wings.
"Hi- Hiccup hahaha!" Fishlegs laughed and cried at the same time as he raced forward to hold Hiccup in a you-have-no-right-to-breath hug.
"Oh Hiccup! We thought we'd never see you again!" Fishlegs yelled.
"Humph… mmmn-mn!" Hiccup tried. "I can't- mmmn- breath-phh"
"Oh Thor sorry!" Said Fishlegs, holding Hiccup by his shoulders and dropping him near the wall of the Clubhouse when he remembered Hiccup didn't have his prosthetic.
"Thanks…" Hiccup managed to say while trying to catch his breath or find if he still had lungs, which is basically the very same thing.
"Seize him!" Tuffnut yelled, racing with his sister at his side and jumping on Hiccup.
"I am NOT a ghost guys. For the love of Thor!…"
"Well he speaks like Hiccup…" Tuffnut whispered.
"And he acts like Hiccup…" Ruffnut whispered back.
"And if Hiccup isn't good at representing…" Tuffnut continued.
"Neither s his ghost!" Ruffnut concluded.
"H!" The twins celebrated in sync. "Thorston sandwich!" They hugged Hiccup like they usually do when it's cold. Hiccup almost fell.
Fishlegs hurried to take the twins away from their recently found not that dead friend.
"I told you NOT to do something like this again! And what do you do? Hum? YOU DIE!" Snotlout exploded.
"Easy Snotlout! I was gone for just a day!" Hiccup said.
"A day? A DAY?" Snotlout continued " Are you kidding me!? You died one week ago!"
"What?" Hiccup exclaimed "One week?"
"Hum… yeah. We were actually going to leave now to tell Berk about your… you know deadly deathy death and prepare a funeral. Wanna come?" Tuffnut invited just like that.
Everyone looked at him with a are-you-serious face.
"What?" Tuffnut looked around "Oh yeah! You're no longer dead! Pfff, my head…. tuff week ya know? Wait, you're not dead hahaha!" He ran forward to hug Hiccup again but Ruffnut secured him.
"Whe-where's Tootheless an-and Astrid?" Hiccup asked fearing that something'd happened. "They're ok right? You're all okay?"
"We're fine Princess Outpost! Last time I checked you were the dying one." Snotlout said with his bored face although secretly he was jumping and smiling on the inside.
"Toothless is barely eating since… you know…" Fishlegs informed. "Astrid is close to that."
"Do you know where she is?" Hiccup asked.
"She's usually in her hut but the twins saw her in the Dome." Snotlout answered. "Toothless is in your hut I think."
"Can someone give me a lift?" Hiccup asked.
"I do! And I can also go to your hut; we left your prosthetic there." Fishlegs offered.
"That'd be great." Hiccup smiled.
Meatlug landed near the wall of the Dome and Hiccup dismounted, supporting himself on said wall.
"Meeting in the Clubhouse?" Fishlegs asked.
"Meeting in the Clubhouse." Hiccup answered.
Meatlug took off and soon Fishlegs' happy singing could no longer be heard.
Well, she might kill me and if she doesn't Toothless might so… yeah it was a good life. Hiccup thought.
He started jumping on his right leg- the only one actually-, in the direction of the entrance of the dome.
Astrid threw her axe again and the poor wood target was divided in two parts.
She knew she had to go and join the others for the trip to Berk and organize Hiccup's funeral but the thing was just that: Hiccup's funeral.
A tear rolled down her cheek and she turned to face another target nearby. One week. One week without Hiccup and it felt like hell. She felt lost. She felt lonely. She missed him so much.
She stopped with her axe carved in the middle of the target. She tried to catch her breath as the sob came back again. On others days she would be worried with hiding her feelings and her tears so no one could see her crying. This week… it didn't matter anymore.
Snotlout had been calm all week. No Snotlout oy oy oy, no flirting with her. She even saw him crying once. Fishlegs didn't even try to hide his feelings. On other days he would be excited with the new dragon species and adding it to the Book of Dragons. Not this week. The twins? No explosions, no pranks, no craziness, no… real twins. Toothless… poor dragon. The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself barely left Hiccup's hut. He barely ate and drank the hole week. That week Toothless kind of moved to Hiccup's bed permanently.
Astrid? Some people would tell her to just try and forget Hiccup. You can't suffer with something you don't remember right? Wrong. She couldn't forget him and she didn't want to. How do you forget someone who is present in all of your memories? You don't, you remember them. That's what she'd been doing. And it hurt. It hurt a lot. But what hurt the most was the thought of not being able to remember him, his face, his being over the time. That and she would probably be the one to tell Stoick the Vast that his one and only son, the heir of Berk was dead. This was week one everyone!
It sounded like a nightmare? Yeah. Was it just a nightmare? No. Could she wake up? No.
It all had happened so quickly. One day Astrid, Fishlegs and Snotlout had been caught by the Dragon Hunters. The other Hiccup had freed them and sacrificed himself to save her. The other he was passing out constantly, full of pain and nightmares of the Red Death and the gang was finding out he had about half a day to live. Half a day after that, they were leaving Hiccup stranded on a sinking island and dying. One week after- it felt like yesterday and one year ago at the very same time- she was going to his funeral.
Astrid heard footsteps behind her and at first she though it was just one of the other riders telling her they were leaving. But then she realized the footsteps were more like footstep/ foot jump.
She turned around ready to say something like 'I'm going to prepare Toothless and we can leave' when she saw Hiccup.
"Poor target…" He said.
He was jumping on his right leg and using the wall of the dome for support. He looked pale- not as pale as before dying- and slimmer-as if he hadn't eaten anything for a whole week-. The dragon proof cuff was still closed around his stomach and a small part of the thick chain was hanging loosely from the cuff. The chain had been obviously cut.
He approached and opened his faintly smiling mouth to say something else but something –more like a certain someone- threw him to the ground.
Toothless growled from happiness and started licking Hiccup who didn't even try to escape the Night Fury's tongue.
Astrid watched all this with her eyes wide open, her body paralyzed.
"Easy bud! Easy! Hey! Watch your tongue…. Yeah haha" Hiccup laughed as Toothless licked him for the last times. The black dragon then fell on top of the boy on the ground. Hiccup tried to get up but Toothless wasn't exactly light.
"Humm… Toothless I need to get up bud. I'm not going anywhere I promise." Toothless looked at him suspiciously but helped Hiccup getting up. The Night Fury smelled Hiccup's left leg and looked at his rider with worried eyes.
"I'm fine Toothless. You don't need to be that overprotective you know that?"
Toothless snuffled.
"Hum… look Astrid I- ham. I'm sorry for you know… dying? I swear I didn't know a week had passed I woke up yesterday and- Astrid? Are you feeling okay?"
Astrid walked slowly towards him. His green eyes were shining again although his paleness was still there. She suddenly hugged him, releasing the breath she didn't notice she was holding. Hiccup hugged her back. One of her silent tears landed on Hiccup's auburn hair.
Hiccup was there. Hiccup was alive. Hiccup was alive! She had him in her arms.
"It- it's okay Astrid." Hiccup mumbled. "I'm so sorry. This is all my fault…"
She hugged him tighter just to be sure he was really there and then released him.
Then Astrid felt something different. Anger. How dare he? Dying on her like that? And saying he was sorry when none of what happened was his fault?
"Well I actually thought you were going to just punch me to death so thank- ow!" Hiccup was interrupted when Astrid punched him in the shoulder. "Why would you do that?"
"That... Hiccup was for dying on me like that! And this…" She punched him again and Toothless roared at her. Astrid gave the Night Fury a death glare. The black dragon replied with a glare of his own but backed off anyway. "… is for saying you're sorry! I was the one who left you dying there!" Her voice cracked and she felt the huge need to cry again.
Hiccup did what she least expected. He hugged her again.
"Wha- How did you- How did you make it?" She asked him.
"Oh-hum… I just woke up yesterday on a different island with Grumpy at my side. Apparently his spines are able to cut the dragon proof chains. I found one carved on my leg and since I wasn't dead and my leg's pain was decreasing I figured Grumpy went after me after you guys left, cut the chain and gave me the antidote. After that it was pretty easy to train him and fly back here. The poor dragon now needs to find a new home…" Hiccup explained.
"Poor? He almost killed you!" She said.
"But he also saved me." He answered her.
Hiccup broke the hug. "We have to meet the others at the Clubhouse because… well I'm no longer dead and they probably want to know why and how."
"And we still need to get rid of these." Astrid added, looking at the cuff and chain.
She helped Hiccup walk outside along with Toothless who was almost passing out from happiness.
Astrid called Stormfly and then muttered. "We should thank the remorse."
"We should thank the remorse." Hiccup agreed.
Weeeeeeellllllllllllllll yeaaahhhhhhhhhh iiittttt''ssssss ooooovveeeeerrrrrrr. And I didn't have the guts to kill Hiccup. At least not on my first fanfic here! Hehe…
I'm going to miss writing this story. You probably want to know the others' reactions to Hiccup's story but there isn't much more to write. Besides this chapter is HUGE and after a while it would just get boring. It was a pleasure, writing this story for you AMAZING people!
I tried to write the characters in a way they looked like the ones from the show. Keep the characters in character! However it might look a little different ( Astrid crying, Snotlout crying and feeling guilty, the twins being caring and kinda calm, Fishlegs crying- no the last one is the most accurate actually, his sweet heart is too fragile to this world-).
Remember that there is not even a single episode in which they think Hiccup died (for a long period of time)- he's actually always about to die lol-or something like that so I had to go with what I thought would happen.
Well I'll probably come back tomorrow with the first or only chapter of How to teach your Jorgenson to swim. Remember it might be the day after tomorrow because stories need planning.
This was the last Chapter of Flying To Never Stand Still (if you want I can explain why I chose this title but I think it's obvious).
See you soon! XD ~ WhenToothlessWrites
