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Chapter Two - Voices
"I'm sorry, I have no idea who you are."
Astrid's heart drops and she looks to the floor. Then, they hear thumping. Astrid's head whips up, hearing that well-known roar. Her eyes widen, "Keep him out!"
Stoick and Gobber rush to the door and put their backs against it, straining when Toothless tries to ram him way through the door. There's a few loud thuds as Toothless tries to ram his body into the room. He must give up because they hear his footsteps walking away. Astrid feels bad, she knows Toothless wants to see Hiccup, well awake Hiccup, his Hiccup, but he can't. Not yet anyways.
"What was that?" Hiccup asks, startled.
Astrid sighs. "That was your best friend."
"What, is he a giant or something?"
"No, he's a dragon."
"A dragon is my best friend? Man, I must be a total lose- Wait. Did you say dragon?" Astrid nods. "Dragons don't exist."
"Does this mean no more dragon training?" Snotlout asks, almost happy.
"Snotlout!" Fishlegs hisses.
"Snotlout? What kind of name is that?" Hiccup asks, confused.
Snotlout puffs his chest out, trying to act tough. "You got a problem with my name?" He glares at Hiccup.
"No, no. I'm just saying it's a weird name."
Snotlout rolls his eyes. "You're the one to talk, Hiccup."
"Stop calling me that!"
"Why? It's your name."
"That's not a name, that's a reflex!" Hiccup shakes his head, closing his eyes. Astrid puts a hand on his shoulder, and Hiccup's eyes snap open, not expecting it. Hiccup whips around, putting a hand to Astrid's neck with a death grip.
Once Hiccup realizes it's her, and it takes him about half a minute, he lets go. Astrid takes a few steps back, gasping for air.
I like you, you're a much better version, Hiccup hears a voice.
"Who said that?" Hiccup looks everyone in the room. They just look back at him, confused. "No one said anything…. did they?" They all shake their head no. "Great. I can't seem to remember anything, and now I'm going crazy." Hiccup turns and dangles his legs off of the side of the bed. "I'm just going to go get some fresh a-" Astrid tries to stop him "Hiccup wait! You don-" Hiccup goes to stand up, but falls. He looks at his legs in confusion.
All the color drains from his face.
From a little below his left knee is a stump. He has no left foot. He has a stump instead.
He screams.
It takes everyone a good hour to calm Hiccup down. Gothi has to give him a mixture that knocks him into unconsciousness. Everyone walks downstairs, except Gothi. She stays to check on Hiccup's wounds.
"What's up with him?" Tuffnut stupidly asks.
Astrid glares at him. "He just woke up with no memory, and then he finds out he has no left foot. Wouldn't you freak out?"
"I don't know, maybe." Astrid punches him on the top of the head, knocking him to the floor.
"Gothi was right. He's not Hiccup, or at least the Hiccup we know." Fishlegs says.
"Well, then how are we supposed to get our Hiccup back?" Astrid asks.
"We wait? I have no idea. What are you supposed to do with someone who's been possessed by an evil dragon then loses his memory?"
"We can always try to bring the memories back. They can't just be gone." Stoick suggests.
"Good idea. But… how? He nearly had a heart attack when he saw his leg missing." Astrid says, a bit unsure.
"And he heard voices." Snotlout throws in. "Maybe he's gone crazy."
Astrid glares at him. "He just woke up, he's probably a bit delusional from sleeping for four months. Right now, we have to figure out how to keep Toothless away from him."
"Yeah, let's see how long that lasts. They're basically attached at the hip."
"Well, not anymore. He doesn't even believe that dragons exist."
Hiccup wakes up a few hours later with a headache. He recalls what happened just a few hours ago. Then, he pulls the blanket off of him, looking at his….. stump. It's got a large scar at the end and he hates it. How did he lose his leg?
"You're probably wondering how you lost it." Hiccup jumps at the sudden voice. He turns and sees the girl leaning on the wall.
"Uh, yeah. How long have you been standing there?" She pushes herself off the wall, walking over to him. "About an hour."
"That's nice to know you've been staring at me for an hour." Hiccup says sarcastically.
"Actually, I was making sure Toothless couldn't get in here. That'd be bad, seeing as how you reacted to your leg." Hiccup looks away. "Who knows how you'll react to a dragon."
"Dragons don't exist."
"Keep telling yourself that." She sits on the end of the bed. "I'm Astrid, by the way."
"I'm, uh," Hiccup stutters, remembering he remembers nothing about himself.
"Hiccup."
"I still don't believe that's a name."
"Well, deal with it. Cause you're stuck with it."
There's a silence.
"What-What exactly happened to me?" Hiccup suddenly asks.
"What do you mean?"
"How did I end up like this? No leg, no memory."
Astrid sighs. "The leg, that's a long story for another time. Your memory, we don't exactly know."
"If dragons do exist, I'm not saying they do, why haven't I seen one?"
"What is this? 100 questions?" Hiccup shrugs. "Well, you did lose your memory. Dragons do exist, the reason you haven't seen any is because we're keeping them away from you."
"Why?"
"Seeing how you reacted to your leg, we didn't think you'd react well to a giant fire-breathing creature."
"But, you said one was my best friend. Why?"
"That will be explained when you when you know about how you lost your leg."
"Why can't you just tell me now?" Hiccup asks, confused.
"Because if we mention your dragons name, if you say his name, he'll come running to you. I don't think you'd want that."
"Uh, okay.."
"Just trust me on that."
"Anything else you can tell me about, well, me?"
Astrid shrugs. "I guess. Well, you used to be… cast out by everyone else. Until you found Toothless, and at first you hid him, afraid your father, the chief-"
Oh, son of the chief. Forgot about that, you could be more useful I than I thought. Hiccup hears the voice again. "Shut up." He mutters.
"What?" Astrid asks. "Did you say something?"
"No." Hiccup says, shaking his head. "I didn't say anything."
"He's been acting really weird." Astrid says. It's been a few days since she was explaining to Hiccup something about himself and him definitely saying something then denying it. "He's been talking. To himself. A lot."
"Didn't he already do that?" Snotlout asks, leaning against Hookfang
"A bit, yeah. But not like this. I mean, in the middle of a conversation he'll say something completely off topic, not even looking at you, then deny it."
"Didn't he say when he woke up he was hearing voices or something?" Fishlegs says, thinking about what Hiccup had said just a few days ago.
"Yeah, he did. He said he was going crazy." Snotlout says, remembering what he said also. "He probably is."
Astrid punches Snotlout's arm, hard. He scowls at the and rubs his now bruising arm. "He's not going crazy. There's probably an explanation for this." She looks pointedly at Fishlegs.
"Don't look at me, I don't have anything."
"I can hear you guys down there you know!" Hiccup calls from upstairs. They all forgot they are in the chief's house.
"Sorry, it's the honest tr-" Snotlout calls to Hiccup, but is cut off. "NO I WILL NOT KILL A DRAGON THEY DON'T EXIST! SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" Hiccup yells at nothing. They all look at each other worriedly.
"I told you." Astrid says in a quiet voice.
"Holy shit he's crazy." Tuffnut whispers. "That's awesome!" Ruffnut whispers, and they do their signature head butt. Astrid rolls her eyes at the two idiots.
"MY GODS I'M SICK OF HEARING YOUR STUPID VOICE WHERE THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU?!" There's a silence. "OH YEAH YOU'RE IN MY HEAD THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! SCREW OFF!"
"He's insane," Snotlout singsongs.
Upstairs, Hiccup is arguing with the voice in his head.
Come on, just listen to me.
"Leave me alone."
Just do one thing.
"I'm not killing a dragon, they don't exist."
No, no that.
"Then...what?"
Come find me.
"Find you? You're a voice in my head."
No, I'm not.
"Then what the hell are you?" Hiccup asks, utterly confused.
Just come and find me.
"What. Are. You?"
A dragon.
"Oh for the love of-dragons don't exist."
Yes, they do. Just look outside your window.
Hiccup rolls his eyes, but gets out of his bed and head towards the window. Luckily, Astrid gave him his 'peg leg' and showed him how to put it on, so he can walk now, he was getting tired of sitting in bed all day. He opens it slowly. His jaw drops.
There's blue, red, green, yellow, brown, any color you can think of, and they're… "Dragons?"
I told you they exist.
"H-How is this possible?"
Now that you know they're real, you know I'm real. Now, come and find me.
Hiccup sighs in frustration, and shuts the window. "Where are you?"
This was uploaded way longer than I wanted D: I'm sorry it took so long! School started in august and I just started high school, it's really stressful. I also kinda ran out of ideas. But I've got some ideas fresh in my mind and I know exactly where I want this story to go, so trust what happens. Cause everything happens for a reason.
Also, I don't think there will be 2,000 word chapters anymore, they're just too hard to write sometimes. But that's kind of a good thing, that means quicker uploads and possibly more chapters than planned!
Have you guessed who the voice is? It's kind of a giveaway.
Okay, I'm done talking.
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