Well this is it, the last chapter, a bit shorter than the others but, hopefully sweet and a nice ending.
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Moments of Weakness
The Fifth, and the Countless Times to Come: Learning to Fly Again
He was dreaming. That was it. It was just a bad dream.
He was not seeing what he was seeing.
But he knew it was true.
His heart still sank from the sight that greeted his eyes, however, when Hiccup lifted his warm covers.
His leg just... stopped.
About three inches below the knee and with a little ache where the flesh just... didn't exist anymore. Where skin, bone, muscle, and sinews should have been, there was metal. He moved muscles he remembered having, but they weren't there anymore. The messages from his mind to his toes telling them to wriggle ran the course down his left thigh, over his knee... and then stopped. He could feel his toes wriggling, but there were no toes to wriggle. Just some metal foot that didn't move.
Wide and frightened eyes turned to amber eyes and Toothless just sat. I am here. Strong and stalwart, it was time for his Hiccup to get up. Hiccup was scared, the dragon could smell it and he could see it in his human's posture. He sniffed the strange metal limb which replaced the leg.
Hiccup was still scared as he sat on the edge of his nest.
I am here. It's time to fly.
The young Viking stood, took in a breath of air and attempted to walk. Only to crash into the strong neck of Toothless, saving him from a collision with the wood under their fee... under his foot, and under the dragon's claws. His Hiccup smiled for him, his Hiccup was a good whelp, he didn't let this first flight scare him. I am here. I can help. Hiccup's small, warm arms encircled the great dragon's neck, gentle and kind words of thanks falling from his mouth into Toothless' ears.
All whelps, all chicks, suffered setbacks when learning to fly, even Toothless could remember his many failures, but his mother, his father, his older brothers and sisters, his other fellow dragons; there was always someone to catch him when he fell.
And there was always someone to give him another gentle shove towards the edge of the nest again when his confidence failed him.
Toothless himself had caught many whelps when they had fallen, had given that firm, but gentle shove towards the edges of all those different nests as well. Nadder, Nightmare, Gronkle, Zippleback, Whisperer, Knapper, and all the others too.
When he had fallen from the night sky on that fateful day. Hiccup had been there to shove him towards the edge of the nest as well. When Hiccup had to teach Toothless how to fly, all over again, and it was always Hiccup who had caught him when he fell.
Hiccup would need those gentle shoves now. He would need to catch his human when Hiccup fell. But that was all right.
Because Hiccup had given everything so Toothless could fly again. Made him a new tail, shown him the heart of a human, saved his brethren and killed a Tyrant, so that he could be back in the air again and to end a pointless conflict that had been fought for nothing.
This time, even if it was just to help his Hiccup reach the door to a bright new day, Toothless would give everything so that Hiccup could learn to fly again.
The Moments of Weakness between these two unlikely friends will always continue,
but for this story, we have reached
The End