Toothless smiled as he added the bone to the shelf he had reserved for the items needed for the machine. He smiled. Aaah, the machine. It took a lot to get it, he almost got killed twice retrieving it from the deadlands… but that was a story for another day.
The machine was about 3 meters tall, and he needed bungee cords to get up to reach the top. He usually came out of fixing it greased up and reaking, in desperate need of a shower. Cool things about the machine? It could fold itself up into a small cube the size of Toothless's fist, he could summon it to him wherever he was using a homing device he planted in it, and finally, the last and most important detail?
It was indestructible.
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Hiccup was in his work area, sitting underneath his desk, his knees tucked up to his legs, rocking back and forth. So yeah, he was a little-sorta-hugely scared of his powers. Who wouldn't be? There was a reason that the dark side was always the villains… there was a reason the dark side chose them. Throughout history there had never been a case like his. Ever.
He remembered playing with his powers as a kid. He remembered how it felt, how it went, and all the reasons he chose to never use his element.
The first time:
Fire flickered in front of him. His eyes widened with glee. He must've been what? Four? Five? He smiled sitting in his cloak by the fire. He was going camping with his parents, who had gone out to get some things (his father wood, his mother water) leaving him all alone.
He wanted to clap his hands, but his concentration was fully on the fire.
Bigger, he thought.
The flames grew to twice their size. Not only that, but they thickened too, their temperature increased. This time the widening of his eyes was far from glee. He stepped back, tripping over the log he was sitting on. His pupil's turned to dots as he watched the fire fly in a ring over his head and set the tree behind him on fire.
He rolled backwards onto his shoulder so he could view the situation properly. Yup. Just as he thought… he was screwed.
His mother came in running seconds later, picking him up and running away with him. He watched the fire as he was carried away, his father running towards it to put it out.
He thought of the second time, no. That one was just too painful.
Great, now he had tears dripping down his eyes.
He heard alerts and beeps. Probably his father leaving him messages. Probably messages about Nightfury's latest activities. It's OK dad, I was there. I failed. Again.
Why couldn't he be like the others? Free and unafraid of his abilities? Snotlout had fire, but a less powerful type, Astrid had light, the twins had fog, Fishlegs had metal (and man were his powers cool).
He sighed, reaching back and feeling the scorch mark on the the back of his neck in the shape of a claw. Wow, three weeks and it still hadn't healed, good for him, he sighed, sitting back up on his chair and looking at the map. He could try somewhere else, maybe? The newspaper articles of where Cami had last been seen still pinned to his bulletin board, despite the years.
Five. He reminded himself. Five and yet he still couldn't find her. He grit his teeth. OK, the last place she'd been seen had been on the Southern Peninsula of the Berserker Islands, fighting her nemesis, Violet Streak, alongside her sometimes-partner, Valkyrie (Astrid) and her nemesis, Deadly Nadder.
Camicazi then released an explosion, her element being sound, the same as Thuggory's, which is why they were usually each others partners. The blast had exploded the building they were on and she hadn't been seen since. There never was a body found. Just three unconscious girls who had ended up rescued by human paramedics. Astrid didn't like to talk about that battle much, it was her most humiliating defeat.
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Astrid sighed, grunting a little as she punched the dummy in front of her, doing a side kick and whacking the thing's head off.
She was waiting for Hiccup to resurface from his work area. She had no way to access it without him, each of them had their own specific pass code, literally the only way to get him out of there without completely destroying his lair would be to pick it out of his brain, and believe me when she said she could. She had the machine, it was only about ten paces away from her.
Typical Hiccup, she thought. She knew it was harsh, and that as his best friend she was supposed to be more understanding than this; but this had been going on for years, and she was supportive for the first two to three, but it got old. There were only so many times that he chickened out of using his element before it got old.
Honestly, when was he going to grow up? Was he ever going to use his powers again? It wasn't even his fault!
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Toothless hummed. His wings were out, he decided they needed a bit of a stretch. He checked his watch. Gah! 3 days and twenty hours till his aconite came in! why!?
He was pacing around in the lair's common area. Oh no, that meant that it was six more days until his family was over. Gah!
Someone activated the door, because he could here SANTOS talking in that voice of his. Meatlug walked in.
She was about 5"4, caramel tan skin, blonde hair that framed her face. She had yellow eyes that held a sort of darkness. The Gronkle, enemy to Berserk. Not to be confused with The Berserker, the nothing who, let's face it, was totally a villain.
Nothings were superheroes or supervillains that were no longer part of or able/willing to associate with their class, and so they had none.
The Berserker was such a character. He'd already killed his supervillain counterpart, Skrill. Toothless grit his teeth just thinking about it. Skrill was his one of his best friends. He still had the tape.
But instead of becoming a freelance Superhero, his dark side took over. He didn't change his blood type. He disappeared into the woods in Berserker Island, where his dad's men had been unable to find him, anyone coming close ending up dead. He'd killed supervillains and superheroes alike.
Toothless would go and avenge his friend, but he was no fool. He knew he was no match for The Berseker.
Not alone anyways. There were rumors of weaknesses The Berserker had. And what'd'ya know, he just happened to have access to a few.
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