Chronicles of the Dragon Riders, Guardians and Dragons
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CDRGD Boneknappers and Snoggletog
Part 1: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon
Chapter 1: Hunting for a Myth
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Edited: 23.10.2016
One night, only a few short weeks after the War ended, Gobber's house was up in flames."Fire!"A Viking named Sven screamed. "To the ocean! What happened?" Other Vikings yelled. With a roar, Hookfang flew overhead and dumped a huge bucket of water over the burning building with Snotlout riding on his back."The wind is shifting! Fire brigade, move in. Bring the Nadders in from the south." Stoick ordered. Astrid on Stormfly swooped in and poured sand onto the pile of flames followed by Fishlegs on Meatlug who repeated the action. "Good work, just a few hotspots left." Stoick said.
Hiccup on his Night Fury, Toothless and Aniu landed beside him. "Where's Gobber? Is he still inside?" Hiccup asked frantically. "Is he okay? Where and when was he last seen?" Aniu asked quickly. "I don't know and we can't find him." Stoick replied. "I'm right here." Everyone turned and looked at Gobber who walked out of his forge with a wheelbarrow full of weapons."Gobber, what happened?" Stoick asked his long-time friend. "What does it look like? A dragon set my home on fire!" Gobber yelled angrily.
"What?" The Dragon-Riding and Guardian teens asked. "You pushed me too far this time, you ugly bag of bones!" Gobber shouted, waving his hook-hand at the sky. "Dad, what's he talking about? Our dragons don't do that anymore." Hiccup inquired. "It's really strange that this would happen all of a sudden ever since Berk has accepted dragons." Aniu said. "Except for when it's an accident or unless some dragon still hates Berk." Nava muttered. "Well, not all dragons know that Berk is now at peace with dragons." Toothless theorised. "We may still have enemies." Fengo said. "Or a whole new one." Namara added. "He doesn't mean one of yours. Gobber, for the last time, there is no such thing as a ..." Stoick began.
"Boneknapper!" Gobber yelled. Many Vikings sighed, groaned and muttered to each other, obviously having heard about the believed-by-many-to-be-mythical Boneknapper. "I have read stories about Boneknappers but many people believe they don't exist." Nava said.
"A what-knapper?" Tuffnut asked. "A disgusting, foul beast wearing a coat of stolen bones like a giant, flying skeleton." Gobber told him. "Ooh, the dragon manual said that the Boneknapper will stop at nothing to find the perfect bone to build its coat of armour. It's awesome." Fishlegs exclaimed. "Come on, it's a myth." Stoick said loudly. "It doesn't even exist."
"I'm telling you, it's real." Gobber argued. "I've been running from him my entire life. He's the one who started this fire." A Viking walked up to them. "Stoick, we found a pair of Gobber's pants hanging by the stove. They must've started the fire." He held up a stick which had a pair of badly burnt trousers hanging from it. Everyone burst out laughing. "Still think it's the Boneknapper or just your pants?" Stoick chuckled."I don't think, I know!" Gobber cried out madly. "Somehow he found me again! This dragon is pure evil."
"Gobber, it's late and we're too tired for your stories." Fengo said. "Now get some rest." Namara added. "You rest! I'm putting an end to this." Gobber snapped, snatching his pants away from the Viking. Everyone watched as Gobber walked to the docks. "Come on, Phil, let's go." He said to his pet sheep. "I don't need their help anyway." Hiccup stared after him and sighed. "I can't let him go by himself. Alright, Vikings, grab your shields.""Yes!" The teens whooped except for Snotlout. "There's no way I'm getting on a boat to go after a fake dragon." He said stubbornly, crossing his arms. "Oh, yes you are."Nava told him.
A few hours later, all the teens were rowing on the ship while Aniu and Nava perched on the sides of the boat in their owl forms. "Come on! Put your backs into it, you lazy dogs! Stroke!" You're not even trying! Stroke!" Gobber yelled at them. "How fun is this, right? We've got the team back together, another adventure...this is pretty cool." ?"Hiccup asked optimistically. ""Yep, nothing cooler than rowing until your hands bleed." Snotlout agreed. "I just want you kids to know that it touches my heart. You helping me slay the Boneknapper. True Vikings and Guardians you are." Gobber said, sniffling.
"Gobber, are we there yet?" Ruffnut groaned impatiently. "Oh, you'll know we close when your ears explode from the piercing screams. Legend says this dragon's roar is so fierce, it can melt the flesh right off your bones." Fishlegs said. "Not so, Fishlegs. The Boneknapper has no roar at all. "That's why he's terrifying. He is a silent killer." Gobber told him, eyes widening dramatically.
"I actually think that the Boneknapper does have a roar." Nava said. "But you just never heard it." Aniu finished. "Wait. So if we don't hear anything, we're dead?" Ruffnut asked. The teens all fell silent. Only the sound of the water and the cries of seabirds could be heard. "I don't hear anything." Tuffnut whispered. The silence was broken when Phil the Sheep bleated loudly. The teens were so on edge that they screamed and spun around when they heard it."Ha, ha, ha. Good one, Phil." Gobber chuckled. "Did I ever tell about the first time I met the dreaded Boneknapper?" And so the story began:
(Flashback Scene or Story Scene)
A Viking longship sailed past large icebergs, on it, a blonde Viking and his son rowed the boat. In his youth, Gobber still had all of his limbs and maintained the innocence of a little boy holding an axe. His mother sat in the middle of the ship, holding a shield.
"I was a young lad, about your age, on summer vacation with my family when I...had to go to the toilet."
Suddenly, young Gobber's eyes widened and he squeezed his legs together uncomfortably. "Dad! Pull the boat over!" He yelled, leaping onto an ice platform. "Didn't I tell yah to go before we left!" His father shouted irritably as his son ran into an ice cave to...do his he was done, Gobber pulled up his pants and turned to go but caught sight of something, causing him to gasp.
"I saw an army of Vikings, frozen in battle."
He stood facing a giant wall of ice. Vikings were in various battle positions, each of them holding weapons and wearing armour. One of the Vikings near the bottom had his arm extended towards Gobber. In his hand was a small, golden treasure chest.
"Clutched in the fingers of one of the Vikings was a small treasure chest. I had to have it."
Eyes twitching greedily, Gobber lifted the axe he had brought with him above his head and brought it forward into the ice, creating a hole big enough for him to reach his hand into and grab the chest.
"I reached in and pulled out the chest. It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw!"
Gobber lifted the lid and golden light spilled out. His sky blue eyes widened in awe as he stared at the contents. Suddenly, something grabbed his arm and started yelling something in a muffled voice. Gobber screamed in shock as he saw the hand of the frozen Viking gripping his arm and he tried to hit the frozen Viking but he redirected Gobber's fist and made Gobber continuously punch himself in the face. "But the frozen Viking was alive! He started punching me in the face!" Gobber exclaimed.
"That doesn't make much sense. If they were frozen in ice, they would've already died from cold or lack of oxygen." Nava said, causing Gobber to glare at him for interrupting the story.
One punch knocked one of Gobber's teeth out of his mouth. "Oh! My tooth!" He exclaimed, feeling the gap. The Viking continued yelling something, pointing his non-frozen arm at something. Gobber turned and his eyes widened as he spotted a large, bone-covered dragon flying towards him.
"And there it was! I never even heard it coming! The Boneknapper!" Gobber exclaimed, enjoying his story very much.
The Boneknapper flew at Gobber, its talons raised to strike. He dove out of the way in the nick of time and the Boneknapper crashed into the wall, shattering it and chunks of ice, each with a frozen Viking within, began to fall.
"It crashed into the glacier, causing an avalanche of frozen Vikings!"
As Gobber ran, trying to keep ahead of the avalanche and the Boneknapper, he tripped and the treasure went flying into the water."The treasure!" Gobber scrambled to the edge and plunged his hand into the freezing cold water. He sighed in relief when his numb fingers closed around the chest and pulled it out only to find the Viking still encased in a block of ice with his hand around Gobber's arm.
"I reached into the water, only to find the frozen Viking punching me in the face again!"
The frozen Viking continued hitting Gobber, giving him a black eye this time. The Boneknapper swooped in again and landed on the ice, flinging Gobber into the air. Both dragon and Viking grabbed the chest at the same time.
"The Boneknapper wanted that treasure, but I wanted it more!" Gobber regaled. "You know, the Boneknapper must have a reason as to why he wanted the chest." Aniu whispered to Nava, who nodded in agreement.
The Boneknapper flew towards a crevice in an ice wall. Gobber pulled the chest free and shot through the crack, flew out the other side where an ice slide catapulted him back onto his parent's ship. "What took you so long?" His father snapped. Gobber looked at the chest in his hands, hid it behind his back and giggled nervously, showing the toothless gap in his mouth.
(Flashback/Story Scene ends.)
Present-day Gobber laughed as he finished the story while the teens stared at him. "You expect us to believe that a frozen Viking punched you in the face?" Snotlout asked. "Yeah, twice!" Gobber exclaimed cheerfully, holding up two fingers."Hey, it could happen." Hiccup said. "What do you mean it could happen? It did! But I outsmarted the silent beast." Gobber said proudly. "Um, Gobber. I hate to be a stickler for details but Boneknappers are not silent." Fishlegs spoke up.
"First, lads and lasses, I know that I didn't hear. But I could feel it..." Fishlegs chose that moment to look at the ship's surroundings and saw giant, jagged rocks jutting out of the water. "Um, guys." He squeaked uneasily. "I can smell it." Gobber continued. "Taste the oncoming doom-whoa!"The boat chose that moment to crash onto a rock formation, tearing a huge hole in the hull and dumping everyone off their seats with screams. Aniu and Nava accidently fell on top of each other. "Sorry." They both groaned and untangled themselves. Looking around, they saw that Hiccup and Astrid plus surprisingly Snotlout and Ruffnut had fallen on top of each other. "Lovebirds." Both guardians taunted. "You're ones to talk!" Astrid yelled at them."Whoa." Tuffnut snickered as he looked over the side of the shipwrecked ship. "Um, I'm tasting rocks." Astrid said. "Ah, we're here." Gobber smirked at the island in front of them.
Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Who wouldn't wanna be shipwrecked on an unknown island with a sheep, two guardians and seven Vikings searching for a seemingly mythical dragon. I know I might sound similar to another author on this sight but I can't help it.
Hey, guys. My computer had to be checked for a virus at a computer store and it stayed there for days. Oh and Dragons: Race to the Edge is coming on June 26thon Netflix! Good thing I've got the Netflix app on my Ipad.