Summary: "No, Dad, stop, he won't hurt you!" Hiccup shouts, and Toothless sees a huge Viking with an axe charging toward him. So, this is Hiccup's sorry excuse for a father? The one who belittled him, scolded him, ignored him, made him feel like he isn't good enough even though he's obviously kinder and smarter than any other Viking in his village?

Hiccup is wrong. Toothless is going to maim this man for failing his wonderful human.

Note May 2016: ...angst? maybe?

this desperately needs a rewrite but idk ill do it later

Updated Note 11-25-2016: it has been 6 months. this has not been rewritten. it probably will not be rewritten. its creator is too lazy for that shit

Written literally as I watched HTTYD because I saw the scene and was like "Hey, I wanna write that in FOTS verse." So I did

Enjoy!

Toothless lies curled up in a beam of sunlight, not quite awake, but not quite asleep. Hiccup is in his village, trying to carry out whatever plan he has to avoid killing the dragon his tribe expects him to fight. The very thought makes Toothless shudder. Hiccup, his tiny, frail Viking who can barely lift a full basket of fish, alone in the Vikings' horrible arena against a Monstrous Nightmare? What do the people of Hiccup's tribe expect to happen?

But Hiccup is smart, and creative, and he understands dragons. He will figure something out. Toothless believes in him.

Satisfied that his human will be safe, Toothless begins to allow himself to drift deeper into sleep…

A distant scream pierces the black dragon's half-asleep haze. His head shoots up.

The scream comes again. He recognizes that voice.

Hiccup.

No, no, no, no, no!

Toothless claws and leaps desperately at the walls. Hiccup is in trouble. He has to help him, he has to, he can't lose him. Toothless knows that he couldn't get out of the cove before, no matter how much he tried, but that doesn't matter now. He just has to get to Hiccup.

His claws catch on a ledge and he pulls himself up. Toothless is free.

Toothless sprints in the direction of Hiccup's village, following the sound of yet another scream. The sound both terrifies and relieves him. On the one wing, it means Hiccup is still in danger and scared.

On the other, it means he's still alive.

Please, Ausra, I'll do anything, he prays as he runs, occasionally trying to fly but without Hiccup not getting very far in the air. Just keep him safe. I already lost everything. I can't lose him too.

Finally, he reaches the village, and sprints towards the Vikings' barbaric killing arena. He rounds a corner and sees the Monstrous Nightmare pinning Hiccup to the ground through the bars of the killing arena, and he shrieks, blasting a hole in the metal bars with a single plasma bolt. He barrels into the dragon who dared to try and hurt his Hiccup, flailing his wings and clawing at the Nightmare's side.

"You dare to hurt him?" he shrieks as he fights. "He is mine! Mine, do you understand?"

The Monstrous Nightmare manages to flip Toothless onto his back. "They caged me! They hurt me and meant to kill me and you try to keep me from my revenge?"

Toothless climbs to his feet and positions himself between Hiccup and the attacking dragon, protecting him. "Not my Hiccup. Never Hiccup. He is mine and you will not harm him, or I will make you wish you'd never even hatched."

"Fine!" the other dragon snarls, cowering against the wall.

Hiccup runs up to Toothless and starts pushing at his head, his eyes still filled with fear. "Toothless, go. You have to get out of here, go!"

"Why? You're safe now," Toothless protests, resisting Hiccup's pushes.

Then the Vikings start pouring into the arena, heading straight for Hiccup and Toothless.

"No, Dad, stop, he won't hurt you!" Hiccup shouts, and Toothless sees a huge Viking with an axe charging toward him. So, this is Hiccup's sorry excuse for a father? The one who belittled him, scolded him, ignored him, made him feel like he isn't good enough even though he's obviously kinder and smarter than any other Viking in his village?

Hiccup is wrong. Toothless is going to maim this man for failing his wonderful human.

He charges towards the huge Viking, knocking aside anyone in his path. Hiccup shouts from behind him, something about him making things worse, but Toothless refuses to be dissuaded from his mission. He leaps on Hiccup's father, pinning him.

"Toothless, no!" Hiccup shouts, but the dragon ignores him, lifting his head and gathering the flammable gas that fuels his plasma bolts in his throat.

"Stop!" Hiccup screams, and this time the pure desperation in his voice stops Toothless in his tracks. He snaps his jaw shut and turns to look at Hiccup, a warble of sadness escaping him when he sees the look in his human's eyes.

Hiccup's face is full of pain and desperation and hopelessness, and Toothless is the one who put that expression there.

Suddenly a Viking slams into Toothless, pinning his head to the ground as the dragon tries futilely to escape. More Vikings pile on, holding Toothless down and thwarting every effort to throw them off.

"No, don't hurt him! Please, just don't hurt him!" Hiccup shouts desperately, and Toothless sees Astrid holding Hiccup back as the human tries desperately to help his dragon friend.

"What should we do with it?" one of the Vikings asks, and Toothless looks up to the Viking chief standing over him, looking down with pure hate in his eyes.

"Put it with the others," he says, and one of the Vikings forces a muzzle around Toothless's head as he's forced into a stone alcove in the wall. He sees Hiccup being dragged away by his father as the door slams shut, and he screams through the muzzle, clawing and throwing himself desperately against the door. But despite his best efforts, the door holds firm, and Toothless eventually slumps to the floor, exhausted.

In trying to protect his beloved human, he instead ruined everything.

He is trapped.

He is alone.

He failed.

Note May 2016: yeah so this happened

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idk if ill ever add more to this but i love writing in this verse so even though i always mark this complete leave a suggestion of what to write next if you have one that would be amazing

thanks for reading

ill rewrite this chapter later

Updated Note 11-25-2016: Yep so here this is. I have a couple ideas for other things I'd like to write in this universe but a stunning lack of motivation at the moment so who knows if they'll ever be written? stay tuned, I guess. And if you have ideas for a scene in this 'verse you'd like to see, no matter what it is, tell me and if I think I can pull it off I'll try and write it for you!