Chapter 2: The Chase

[edited: July 2018]

Disclaimer: I don't any of the characters of the characters used in this fic, only the story concept. This adaption is simply for fun not for profit.

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I climbed on to Toothless' back and we flew out of the station. We looked around at "aerial sidewalk" level, but didn't see anything until we saw a cloaked figure with familiar blue scales duck a corner a couple blocks down the street. We followed the human-like hybrid as she weaved through building and camouflaged with different groups of dragons flying in the same direction. At one point we got close enough to her and tried to call her out. When she turned and saw that she was being followed, she started to fly faster and focused more on getting away then blending in. It was a few more blocks until we caught up to her again and was close enough to grab her tail and hind leg. In doing so, she snapped at us and his teeth gave us small scratches that stung a little. We shook it off, but hung back a bit to trail her at a safe distance.

We followed her until we flew toward the Bear Mountain Bridge, far away from the city. She met up with the other hybrid from before and landed at the base of one of the bridge's support beams. They ran toward it and instead of running into it, they seemed to phase through it. We flew close to it and we tested it out by touching it. It was solid.

"Maybe we need a running start like them?" I said with a shrug.

"I don't know. This is doesn't feel right, it's too freaky." Toothless said as squinting at the beam while tapping at it. "It's like that weird stuff in science class that's both a solid and a liquid."

"You mean the oobleck? (*1) However, in this case the states are reversed. It's solid when touched, and fluid when met with force? Well either way, we already came out this far. We might as well try it out."

I backed up a couple of yards and ran toward the support beam. Instead of face planting into the beam, I was sucked into it and tumbled through a tunnel of light. I saw green before I hit a spongy patch of ground, but it still knocked the wind out of me. I took a couple minutes to recover and sat up before I checked my surroundings.

I appeared to be in some kind of underground garden. I looked up at the way I came in and saw several other holes of light that was lighting up the whole cavern. The ground was covered in grass and moss that must have cushioned my fall. Spread along the walls were these strange trees that interweaved with each other like vines. They sort of looked like something from the Avatar movie, the one with the blue people. Inside these trees, I could see that there were hollowed out and looked like they were converted into shelter, complete with fire pits, shelving, and curtained off areas that I could only assume were either bathroom or sleeping areas.

I was snapped out of my awestruck trance when I heard someone shouting from above. I looked up to see Toothless tumble out of the same tunnel that I came out of and landed flat on his back with only his wings to break his fall. He, unfortunately, didn't have the same chance to gaze at everything like I did, because we were soon approached by the hybrids from before along with a couple of other ones as back up armed with spears. They pointed their spears at us as they tied our hands up and guided us to one of the unoccupied tree huts.

"Okay, spill it," the more dragon-like one from the train spoke.

"Umm… Uh… What?" Toothless said nervously as he started to sweat.

"How did you get here?" the more human-like one said as she pointed her spear closer to my throat.

"We… We followed you two." I looked pointed at her, since she knew we were trying to follow them.

"Oh, right. Sorry sis." The sister, I'm guessing, glared at her before turning back to us.

"Either way. What reason do you have to follow us?" the dragon-like hybrid continued her glare at us.

"We just wanted to know who you guys were and thank you for saving us earlier." Apparently that wasn't enough of an excuse, because they all inched closer with their spears.

"We also wanted to…" Toothless tried to answer with a dry throat. "We… We were… to... Hic?" he started to sway a little until his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

"Toothless? Tom? Thomas?!" I moved to look at him, but the hybrid stopped me before i could get too close. I turned to them, showing my distress. "What just happened?" I looked at Toothless with concern. "What did you do to him?" I looked at the two sisters for answers.

"I don't know." The dragon-like one spoke with genuine confusion. "Astrid, check him over."

Her sister set her spear down and looked over Tootheless's condition. For the most part, he looked okay. That is until he looked at his wrists and saw the nip marks that she gave both of us.

"This isn't good." She said while shaking his head.

"What?" her sister came closer to have a better look.

"I nipped him while they were chasing me. It will only be a matter of time before he turns."

"Excuse me, what!" I said breaking them from their private conversation. "What do you mean 'before he turns'?"

The human-like hybrid, I assumed was named Astrid, turned to me. "When I snapped at you guys earlier, I nipped at him and some of the saliva from my teeth must have went into the open scratch that was created. Since he didn't clean and tend to it immediately, that saliva settled into his blood and fused with his DNA. In a little while, he'll be one of us."

"What about me?" I said now a little breathless.

"What about you?" The sister turned to me.

"Look at my wrists, I was nipped too."

The sister hybrid checked my wrist to be sure. As she was doing that, I started to feel a little light-headed.

"He's right. Go get Svidur (*2)." She told the other hybrids, before I lost consciousness.

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(*1) The stuff that I'm talking about is called "Oobleck". Add 1 measures to 2 measures of cornstarch, mix until it's even and then play to your hearts content. It's a bit messy, but it's fun.

(*2) Svidur = nordic for "wise one" and listed under a names of Odin (wikipedia page "list of names of Odin")

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