Oh yes Toothless... are u ok buddy...

*evil snicker*

Hiccup quickly placed where the roar was coming from, and began to run after it. He felt panic with every step. This place was creepy. Was Toothless hurt..? If Alphys had done something to him.. He began to run faster, his prosthetic clicking on the hard floor. He passed some white beds, then a very creepy looking skull made of metal. He saw a white creature of some kind and Toothless restling ahead. He panicked more as he stopped in front of the fighting duo. The creature suddenly tripped Toothless, and had him pinned. Toothless growled up at the creature. Hiccup pulled out his sword and lit it. Both Dragon and creature turned to look at him, surprised.

"Get off him, you.. whatever you are."

The creature backed away, looking startled. Toothless got up and stood beside the creature, snarling at Hiccup.

"What the..? Bud?"

Then he realized they had been play fighting. Toothless stared at Hiccup through dangerously narrowed eyes, tail wrapped around the white thing protectively.

"Toothless?" Hiccup walked forward in disbelief, putting inferno away.

The white thing whimpered and Toothless snarled deeper.

"Gat back, human." Toothless barked. "Leave him alone."

Hiccup nearly fainted. "What? You can.. talk?" He stared in disbelief, another thought hitting his mind. "You're okay! And.. you're friends with that... and you don't..." He froze. "Do you know who I am?"

Toothless growled. "No, and I don't want to. You scared Endogeny. Leave him alone."

Hiccup started to cry a little. "That's why you left me.. you don't remember me! You must have hit your head in the crash! Oh no, Toothless!"

Toothless snarled. "That's not my name. Now, are you here to hurt us? Because if you are.." He left the sentence unfinished.

"No, I'd never hurt you! I thought.. that was trying to hurt you, but since it isn't.. I won't hurt it, I promise. Did someone give you a name? And did you wonder why you're wearing a saddle?"

Toothless looked thoughtful for a moment, and his eyes flicked to Hiccup's leg. Memory flickered in his green eyes.

"I don't know.."

He looked at his fin for a moment, then his eyes travelled to Hiccup's right shoulder pad. The same image on each, connecting them.

"I.. don't... know.."

He turned to Endogeny, as if he held the answers. The six legged white thing gave a bark. It stared at Toothless through what looked like a hole in it's head. Toothless snorted and turned back to Hiccup.

"Humans are our enemy."

With that, he began to tear off his saddle, fin included.

"No!" Hiccup ran to stop him.

Toothless smacked him aside with his tail, and began to chew at the cable connecting the front to the back. Hiccup stared, helpless.

"No... Toothless..."

Hiccup began to cry. He had lost his best friend.

"No... t..t.. no.."

Toothless had succeeded in removing the rigging without a large amount of damage. He picked it up roughly in his teeth and flung it so it landed in front of Hiccup. The Night Fury had his teeth bared.

"T..T... ooth.. le...ss..." Hiccup stared at him through tear filled eyes. "You.. can't forget me like this.. please remember.."

"Humans are our enemy. We need a seventh soul. Then, monsters can go free. You will die."

Hiccup was too scared to move. Endogeny whimpered softly as if he could sense there was something off about this.

"Alphys has been so nice to me, helping me remember who I am, giving me a home, and friends, telling me I might be able to help us go free, that I might be the key to breaking the barrier. She said there was a human. You must be it." Toothless started to stalk forward.

Hiccup backed himself against the dark blue wall. This was too familiar. Way too familiar.

Toothless opened his mouth to fire a blast.

"No! TOOTHLESS!"

Toothless stopped. More memories flickered in his eyes. He swallowed the blast that had been seconds from killing Hiccup.

Hiccup was crying in a crumpled heap now, terrified. "T..t...t...t...oo.."

Toothless shook his head and ran out.

Hiccup wasn't sure how long he lay there. He didn't care. Without Toothless, the one reason he had gotten up out of that bed of flowers, the tracks he had followed, asking every monster he came across if a dragon had gone by, all that for nothing. There was no reason to continue. No reason to move on. Without Toothless, nothing mattered anymore. Nothing. The first friend he had ever had. The dragon who showed him mercy, showed him freedom, saved his life. That dragon was gone. Gone forever. Hiccup let out a pained cry as if he'd been stabbed in the heart.

When he finally opened his eyes, he realized he was in one of the white beds he had passed. Alphys was watching him, and Endogeny was sitting a ways away, whimpering. Alphys noticed him stir. Hiccup stared at her, anger beginning to burn in his eyes.

"What did you do to my friend?!" Hiccup sat up, throwing the white blanket off. "What did you tell him?!"

Alphys looked deeply upset. "I'm sorry, I didn't know! I thought he was a monster! A weird one, I had to teach him how to speak, but.. I really didn't know, I'm sorry.. I didn't know.."

Hiccup's anger melted away. Underneath was nothing. Emptiness. "It's not your fault. He's gone."

Hiccup stood up and looked around, wondering what to do next. He fell back onto the bed and buried his face in his hands, weeping silently and tearlessly.

He was aware of almost nothing for a while. Maybe Toothless will be happy here, he thought. He likes Endogeny, he likes Alphys, he has a home.. he won't ever remember what we had.. Hiccup finally stood and stared at Alphys. "How do I get out of here?"

Alphys lowered her head. "I'll show you the way."

Hiccup walked emptily through New Home. He trudged slowly, not having anything to fight for anymore. How would he get back to Berk without Toothless? What would be the point? He walked through into a large hall with pillars and colorful windows. It was dark and moody.

"Hey, pal. Been through a lot, haven't you." Sans was leaning on one of the pillars ahead.

Hiccup gave him a weak look. He didn't say anything.

"It's tough, losin' a friend. I'm so sorry, pal. I can only imagine what you're feeling."

Hiccup shook his head and lowered it, staring at the floor below.

"I gotta tell you something, pal. I know this lady in the Ruins. We're pals, she likes terrible jokes and puns like I do. We used to tell gags through the door. One day, she asks me to spare the next human that goes through. She makes me promise. So I do. If she hadn't done that... I never would have met you. I would have killed you. You're the greatest pal I've ever met."

Hiccup barely heard him. "Toothless..."

Sans gave him a sympathetic look. "Pal, up ahead is where you'll meet King Asgore. And pal, he's not gonna be easy on you like they've been telling you. He needs a human soul. And he's going to get one, if you're not careful. I'm thinkin you need to rest a bit before you go in there."

Hiccup sighed and sat down, his back against one of the colored windows. He stared blankly at the ceiling.

Toothless rounded the corner and saw the human there, all alone against the stained glass window. He walked up, still holding the saddle in his mouth. The human didn't move as he approached.

"Human?"

Hiccup stirred and looked at Toothless, eyes full of pain.

"I can't explain it, but I feel something. I feel.." He looked down at the saddle, then back into the green eyes of the human. "..that we're meant to be together."

The human didn't react.

"Human?"

Still nothing. He looked as though the life had been drained out of him.

"Hiccup?"

Hope sparked in the pine green eyes. "Toothless?"

"I don't remember everything. But I remember the cove. I remember you sparing me. I remember.. Hiccup."

Hiccup's eyes filled with fresh tears. Happy ones. "Toothless!"

They hugged deeply.

After a saddle refit, they reunited for a while. Then, they began to head together toward Asgore's chamber. The final battle awaited.

Not the end yet. Okay...? Good.

Hiccup's reaction to losing Toothless is partially based off of something out of Digimon tamers, where Jeri loses Leomon and goes all empty and sad. Fortunately, Toothless is starting to remember.

Yeah.

Okay.

Er...

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