Hiccup and Toothless returned to their cot. Finding two people sitting inside. Hiccup's face paled, too stunned to even grab at his knife. Toothless stepped forward, teeth bared. A deep growl echoing in the small house. Both intruders barely payed them any heed.
"W-who are y-you people? Why are you here?" Hiccup asked tentatively. "We don't have a-anything." He had finally gotten his knife from his belt, weakly holding it out in front of himself.
The man sitting in front of the fire chuckled. "And what do you plan to do with that?" He poked at the fire in the pit. "Please come sit down." He motioned for them to sit.
Hiccup slowly stepped forward, taking a place on the opposite side of the fire. Toothless followed, lying behind Hiccup. Toothless wrapped his tail around Hiccup. There was something off about them, and he didn't like their scent.
"So w-why are you here? I haven't seen any villages on the island. Where are you from? Who are you with?" He stammered. The man laughed to himself.
"Did you hear that Freya? He wants to know who we're with? He laughed on until the woman kicked him in the back.
"Of course he wants to know who we're with, you fool. There isn't anything within a few Thor's miles. Freya Scolded. "That's perfectly reasonable for a human to wonder. With how dumb you are sometimes, I wonder how you managed to trick your way into being a god." She shook her head. "Just hurry up with what you're going to do and let's get out of here."
The man in front of the fire waved his hand dismissively. The boy on the other side of that fire was quickly putting the pieces together as to who The two strangers were.
"F-freya?" Hiccup pointed weakly at the woman. "And she s-said you tricked your way into being a g-god. T-t-that means you're Loki." Hiccup choked. His mind started racing. He had no idea why Freya and Loki would be in their house. He started to think back to see if he'd done something so wrong that it warranted a visit from them. God's don't come down from Asgard without reason especially Freya and Loki.
"What are you doing here. We haven't done anything wrong. Have we." Hiccup asked quietly. Toothless huffing loudly, wanting to know the same thing.
The man, now identified as Loki gave them a giant smile. "I'm just here to make you two a deal. One I don't think you'll be able to resist." He reached behind himself and into a satchel tied at his waist. He pulled out two vials. They both glowed bright purple and pulsed, slowly becoming dimmer then bright again.
"These are what you'll be trading for." He held up the vials in his fingers. He leaned forward putting out his hand to give them to Hiccup.
Hiccup sat stunned, watching Loki stick his arm through the fire without being affected. His leg hurt just looking at it. He grabbed the vials from Loki. He shook one cautiously, trying to figure out what was inside.
"What is this stuff?" He asked, mesmerized by the color. He held it in front of Toothless so he could see them too. Toothless snorted at it. 'He said trade, not give." Toothless thought to himself. Hiccup also quickly came to that realization.
"You said trade. What could you possibly want?" Hiccup tried to think of anything they could trade. Nothing came to mind. "Surely they don't want the house. But that's the only thing we have." He tried to figure out if they had anything else to trade but he was interrupted by Loki's voice.
"It's not so much you boy. But your friend there has what I want." His previously large grin turned sinister as he spoke.
"No." Hiccup stated. "You can't have Toothless. I don't care what these vials do. You can't have him." Hiccup set the vials to his side, replacing them with Toothless' head. "I won't allow you."
Both the gods looked surprised for a moment. Freya decided to pay more attention to the conversation. She wanted to see where this would go and to see if she had to step in or not.
"Oh? And if I wanted your Night Fury what would you do to stop me? Loki hissed. Hiccup sat up straighter, puffed his chest out a bit further and looked Loki in the eye.
"I would kill you." He said, knowing full well that he'd likely Parish himself but he'd do anything to save Toothless. It was his promise.
Freya smiled and raised an eyebrow. "He's definitely has a dragon soul. And it seems to be the one I've been looking for. Now I just have to wait for this idiot to finish so I can talk to them." She thought. Bored of his games she nudged him to hurry up. Loki grunted in response to her swift nudge.
"Fine." He grumbled. "I don't want your dragon, boy. What I want is a portion of his life." Loki calmly said. He acted as if Hiccup immediately knew what he meant by that. Hiccup only sat confused, wondering how he could take a portion of Toothless' life. Loki rolled his eyes.
"Do you know how long a Night Fury lives?" Hiccup shook his head. "Around twelve hundred summers if they aren't killed. Do you know how old your Night Fury is? Hiccup shook his head again." Well let's ask him. How old are you dragon?" Hiccup looked at him like he was crazy, until Toothless lifted his head.
"I'm only 18 summers old" Toothless said. All Hiccup heard was growling and some snaps from his friend, but was obvious that he was responding to the question.
"Ah. See that wasn't too hard. He's only 18 summers boy. Only a bit older than you. Not here is my deal for you dragon. I want three hundred of your summers as my own. Which means that you'll die at nine hundred instead of twelve. But if you are to perish early, I also get what you didn't use." Loki paused for a second to check if they were still following him. Deciding that they were he continued. "In return you will be able to talk to each other. You, boy will inherently know how to speak the dragon's language. But you two will be specially connected. You'll be in each other's mind. One of you can not think without the other knowing. And last but not least you'll share the remaining years equally. So you both live to be to be around four hundred and fifty years old give or take." He stood. Quickly stretched and made his way to the door. He motioned for Freya to follow him out.
"All you have to do is drink from those vials. And you accept my deal. If you don't, simply pour them into the fire. And it'll be like nothing happen." The door softly shut behind the two gods. A bright light flashed and they were gone.
They both returned to Asgard. "The last dragon soul, Freya. You must be happy that your monster's tasks are at an end. I'm surprised he hasn't killed the boy yet. He must hide it well for it not to have noticed." Loki commented. Freya gave him a light smile.
"He'll figure it out soon enough. I'm sure it's only matter of time before he returns to me with the boy's soul." She chimed.
"I guess we'll see." Loki disappeared into thin air. Freya giggled to herself.
'What a fool he is. The Night Fury's purpose isn't to kill dragon souls only find the one I'm looking for.' She casually made her way to her room in her father's castle. Freya began to make plans to visit them again very soon.
Hiccup and Toothless sat staring at the two vials that could change their friendship forever. Hiccup held them up in front of them, shaking the contents.
"Well Toothless. I'll let you decide. It's your life after all. I have no say in the matter. What you choose I'll follow." Toothless looked into the glowing glass being held in front of him. 'I've never even considered how long I'd live. That's such a long time. But to have some taken away and then give some to Hiccup. It's only a third of what I'd live normally. But I'd be able to live it with him. I kinda need him to fly. And what he's sacrificed to stay with me and to keep me alive and healthy. Family, friends, his leg. This ball of small Viking deserves this. Not to mention finally being able to have an actual conversation with him.'
Toothless took one of the vials into his mouth. Gripping the vial's small neck with his teeth, he broke it in his mouth allowing the small bit of liquid to pour out. Hiccup immediately freaked out. He forced his hand into Toothless' mouth. He pulled the vial's body out first. Noticing it was empty he tossed it away. Reaching back in he started to feel for broken glass. Once he found a piece he held it in his palm and continued searching. After a few he pulled them out. He looked at his hand, covered in blood. He grabbed the other vial. Pulling the cork from the top he downed the drink. He was surprised to find that it didn't taste like anything. It was thicker than water but there was no taste.
Hiccup quickly became full of energy. He felt like he did when they would go flying. Pumped and shaky. Then he remembered what he could do now.
"Toothless?" He asked. The dragon's eyes grew wide.
"He wasn't lying." Toothless said, carefully. Hiccup came at him again, swiftly shoving his hands into Toothless' mouth.
"Iccup what har yu doin'? Get yur han out of my mouf." Hiccup paid no attention to his dragon. Focusing on getting the glass out of his mouth he hadn't realized that Toothless had just responded to him. Toothless pulled away from Hiccup.
"Hiccup what are you doing?" He asked.
"You have glass in your mouth idiot. Why would you do that. You're bleeding. Would you at least spit out the rest." Toothless rolled his eyes but complied to Hiccup wish. He rolled his tongue around his mouth collecting the bits in his mouth. He spit onto the floor in between Hiccup and himself. Hiccup groaned and go up from his knees. He hugged around Toothless' neck.
"I can't believe we can talk now!" He exclaimed. Toothless suddenly became very weak. Hiccup tried to keep him up as long as possible. Toothless pulled away from Hiccup to vomit his lunch from earlier. He slumped over onto his side. His breathing became labored and ragged. His whole body was trembling. His whining was loud, and scared.
Hiccup rushed to his side. Checking over him to see if he cut himself on something and got sick from it. Finding nothing he returned to Toothless' head to check if he was abnormally hot. Deciding that it wasn't any different than normal, Hiccup rushed to their food store to grab some fish. When he returned Toothless was shakily standing. Hiccup slowly made his way towards Toothless, but when the wood leg his fashioned clicked against the floor it drew Toothless' attention. The dragon took a small step back.
"Don't get any closer." Toothless pleaded. Hiccup clenched his jaw and balled his hands. 'If I see that Mischievous bastard again. I'll kill him.'
"Please don't kill me!" Toothless yelped. He backed into the corner behind him. He pressed himself into the wall as much as possible trying to get away. Hiccup set down the fish, grumbling about how they could hear each other's thoughts. Hiccup slowly took another step towards his terrified dragon.
"Please. Please." Toothless begged. Hiccup took another tentative step forward. He held out his hand showing the dragon that he was unarmed. Hiccup was almost within touching distance before he stopped. Toothless looked up slowly to find the boy much closer than he'd like. He was so startled that he accidently shot a plasma blast.
Hiccup stood stunned. The smell of burnt hair floated in the air. He looked back, finding a large chunk of their wall missing. Hiccup grunted at the work he'd have to do later, but he didn't care. He turned back to the distressed dragon.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to. Please don't kill me." Hiccup gulped as he took the final step forward. Touching Toothless' head, he sat down while stroking the dragon.
"Hey, hey it's okay." Hiccup soothed. "I'm not going to kill you." Toothless looked up the boy holding his head. "Do you remember where you are?" Hiccup asked.
Toothless looked around the cabin a bit. He tried to find something, anything to remember but he couldn't.
"No." He said, ashamed. Hiccup sighed loudly. His anger started to boil over as Freya's voice filled the room.
"I had a feeling this would happen." He said calmly. Hiccup carefully placed Toothless head down but stood quickly. He took a step in front of Toothless and splayed his arms wide, blocking her from getting any closer than she already was.
"Why are you here?" Hiccup shouted. "He can't remember anything! He can't remember me, or himself, how we got here, how we met, all the shit we've gone through. It's all gone." HIccup broke down. Falling to his knees, sobbing and choking on his words. "Please fix him." He begged. "Please make him remember. He thought I was going to kill him. I wouldn't be here if I killed him. I just want him to remember me." Freya crouched in front of Hiccup. She Pushed his chin up so that he could see what she was holding. Two vials were in her fingers.
"No, not again. I was tricked last time. Now I have to teach him who he was before. I won't be tricked again." Freya rolled her eyes. He had every right to not trust her. "I'm here to help." She smiled. "I had a feeling this would happen." She took one of the vials from her fingers in her other hand. She held for Hiccup to see. It was blue and glowed just the same. "Give him this and he'll be fine."
Hiccup took it from her and eyed the potion.
"How can I trust you?" He asked. Freya gave him another small smile.
"I have no use of him if he can't remember anything. But his job is done so I don't really need him. Though I will be giving him a new task before I leave. You will get one as well." Hiccup didn't think to ask what she meant, not that he cared. He just wanted Toothless back. Hiccup raced over to Toothless, popping the cork he gestured for the dragon to drink it. Once empty he placed it to the side and waited. After a few seconds Toothless shook his head and his eyes dilated.
"Hiccup?" Toothless asked hesitantly. Hiccup wrapped his arms him.
"Please don't do that again." Hiccup whispered. Toothless chuckled.
"I'll try to not be tricked by the trickster god again." He swung his paw around 'hugging' Hiccup back. Hiccup couldn't help but laugh at what he'd asked of him.
"Sorry. I was just so scared that you'd never be the same." Suddenly Toothless grunting and howling. "What's wrong!" Hiccup shrieked.
"My tail. It hurts so bad." Toothless complained. Hiccup ripped himself from Toothless grasp and turned towards the woman.
"What did you do to him!" Hiccup screamed at Freya. "You said you were here to help!" He rushed her, but she was too fast and much stronger than him. She grabbed him and turned him around.
"Look at his tail." She pointed to it. Hiccup looked for a moment before running over to get a closer look. Toothless stopped thrashing around as he took the healed tail fin in his hand. He turned back to Freya who was smirking.
"Now that, that's finished. Let me tell you a story…"