A/N: Holy crap she's not dead! Well, this is my new crossover, between How To Train Your Dragon[(c)Cressida Cowell and Dreamworks] and the 39 Clues series [(c)Rick Riordan and Scholastic]. Enjoy!
PS: This includes IanxAmy(duh!) and maybe RuffnutxHamilton(lol, I totally see it)
PSS: It's been a while since i read the 39 Clues series, so be patient with me, please. And this is based on the movie How to Train your Dragon. (I haven't read those books)
Oh, and throw this anywhere before book 10 of 39 Clues
"A dragon's tooth?" Nellie asked. "What does that mean?"
"Maybe a Komodo dragon." Dan suggested. "They have spit that can kill. Maybe it's an ingredient."
Amy shook her head. "I doubt it. These drawings are more like lizards with wings." She continued to flip through the pages of the book she had. The drawings were intricate, carefully done, as if to teach about the... dragons. This one was like a snake with huge wings and spikes all over its body. That one like a lizard with wings as forearms.
She couldn't actually read the book, though. It was written in a language they didn't know and couldn't find out about. She came to the pages with just a few lines of the strange writing. There were two of them, side by side, with a note from Grace in between. She unfolded it and read the riddle one more time.
A dragon's tooth,
To end the pain.
With a dragon's tooth,
They will come again. (cheesy, i know)
"What on earth does it mean!" She groaned, exasperated.
"Hey, kiddos, don't worry!" Nellie said. "I think we're on the right path. Look at this." She pointed at a book from the museum they were in. It was open to a page filled with drawings like the ones in their book. "It even has the same writing and little viking dudes." The only thing that had helped them get this far was the pictures of viking men and women in the book.
Oh, a note about the book: they got it from a friend of Grace's, a museum curator who had to break a few rules for them. But, she trusted them. And to Amy, that was enough to make her protect it with her life.
She compared the two. They did look the same. The tour guide came over to her.
"Interested, huh?" he asked. "There are few our age who are." He paused. "You are 15, right?"
"It's too bad people don't like this as much as we do," Amy said, shooting a glance to her brother, "I think it's amazing. You really can learn a lot from history." She compared the two again.
"Oh, you have one like it?" Amy nodded. "May I see?" She held it open for him, letting him flip through the pages. By this point, Dan and Nellie were moving to the door out of boredom. "Did you get it at The Eastern Settlement?" That got their attention.
"Where?"
"The Eastern Settlement. It's a viking settlement to the east (I'm just guessing at this). I can take you, if you want." He smiled. "Oops, I forgot. My name is Derek."
Amy smiled at him. "A-Amy." she said. "This is my brother, Dan and our au pair, Nellie. We'd love it if you showed us the... Eastern Settlement."
"Great! Meet me here," he handed her a slip of paper with an address, "in three hours."
Amy nodded, walking away with a smile. "Why can't our family be more like that?" she asked.
"'Cause we're Cahill's." Dan said. They exited the building to find the address.
Later that day, as they were driving down a long road through the country, Dan noticed a black van following them. "Uh-oh," he said. He turned to Amy to tell her.
"Who do you think it is?" she asked.
"Not the Holts. They don't have that much style."
"Last I saw of Jonah, he was in Germany."
"Alistair?"
"I hope so. If not..." she let the sentence die. They both knew if it wasn't their Ekat uncle, it would be Isabel, Ian, and Natalie Kabra. Amy noticed Derek looking at her. "What?"
"Nothing," he said, blushing. "Just... curious as to what you were talking about."
"Oh, it's nothing!" she said quickly. "They're... people we know from traveling."
"Yeah, it's like they stalk us," Dan cut in.
They drove in silence for a while, the only thing said was Derek giving directions to Nellie. The black van kept on their tail, even when they left the main road for a gravel path barely big enough for two cars to get by one another on it. Then the van sped up and bumped against their car.
"Whoa!" Nellie exclaimed. "What are they doing?" She sped up, trying to outrun them. The van sped up as well and kept ramming them. "This is soooo not cool!"
"What's going on?" Derek asked as they were rammed again. "Hey, there's a place to park up there-" he pointed to the top of a hill- "go there, see what they want."
With no other choice, Nellie pulled over at the top of the hill. She and the kids got out to face their followers, who had parked on the other side of the path.
Dan screwed his face up at the people who got out. He heard Amy gulp. They were Ian and Natalie- two they had hoped they left far behind, but always found a way to get near them. Their driver stayed in the van.
"Hello, love." Ian said looking at Amy.
"D-d-don't call me l-love..." She didn't know what it was about him that made her stutter. She was getting to a point where she wouldn't stutter at all in her adventures, except when he was near. She felt a hand grab her own. She looked at Derek, who was smiling encouragingly at her. Her gaze drifted down his arm to their joined hands. This gave her strength. "What do you want now?"
Ian glared at Amy's hand in Derek's before looking her in the face. "Well, love, we've learned about that book you got from that friend of your grandmother's. We also know that it is written in a language you don't understand."
"Basically," Natalie interrupted, "you have a useless clue. We have the means to decode it. We could work something out, couldn't we? If not..." She got a dart gun out of her bag and pointed it at them. Derek's hand tightened on Amy's. "We could just take it, couldn't we?"
"A temporary alliance is all we ask." Ian said with a cruel smile.
"Yeah, 'cause it worked so well in Seoul(right?)" Dan said.
"Well, it wasn't my fault your sister trusted me, is it?"
"Sh-shut up!" Amy muttered, a blush lighting up her cheeks. "Let's just… get to the site…"
Everyone climbed into their cars and sped off.
