When the next day came, Denmark was surprisingly enough the first one to rise.
He had been having strange dreams the whole night, most of them surrounding the thought of a gigantic mom dragon ruining the whole world in its search for its kids, smashing down buildings, burning people up and eating innocent beings. He had been moving around a bit in his sleep, waking up the others who were lying beside him as he did.
When he had waked for the morning, before even the sun had managed to say hi to the day, he had been happy to finally be able to think of something else.
He walked straight for the fridge and grabbed a beer before sitting down at the breakfast table completely alone, watching Hugin and Munin sleep on one of the destroyed sofa pillows while he enjoyed the silence and his beer. He really had to do something with all the mess…later.
Hugin and Munin quickly sensed his presence, and shortly after awoke too.
They sleepily walked over to him, snuggling with his feet when they reached him. Munin, the smallest one, even licked his feet and tried to bite Denmark's toe and Denmark couldn't help but to laugh at it.
Hugin and Munin had been creating a lot of trouble sure, but if they didn't find anything at the beach today, and the mom never appeared, what should they do with them? Denmark hadn't thought too far yet, but what if they decided to keep them?
They had already named them, made sure of what gender the dragons were, both boys, and feed them. What was left?
Denmark looked down to Hugin who was trying to climb up to his lap and that nearly ripped down his underwear while doing so.
He sighted and eventually put his beer down and grabbed the dragon under its wings, lifting it up. He held him in front of himself, studying its face. Green eyes with a hint of blue, rough skin, but softer around the eyes. Denmark hummed and Hugin growled a tiny growl of joy, thinking it was funny. Munin growled too, wanting to get as much attention.
"Attention sick, that's what you two are" Denmark said playfully to the two dragons.
Hugin growled lowly, as saying a 'yes' but Denmark knew that they didn't really understand anything of what he was saying. Or did they?
"Bonding, are you?"
Denmark turned towards the voice, seeing Iceland lean against the kitchen counter.
"Nah, just giving them some attention" Denmark answered, lifting Hugin down to his lap. He stroke the dragons head, finding its scaly skin a bit weird to the touch.
Iceland smiled and bent down, making Munin run towards him.
"At least they are social" He said, petting Munin's head as the dragon tried to head-but his hand. It was as if he knew Denmark was thinking about what would happen if they didn't find any other dragon, or the dragon's real mom.
Denmark looked around the room for Iceland's demon, but didn't see it.
"Where's your demon?"
"I sent him home during the night" Iceland answered, standing up again and turning the coffee machine on.
Denmark mouthed an 'oh' with his mouth, but didn't question it anymore. How Iceland sometimes made his demons go home without needing to walk with them was somewhat a mystery to him and the others, but he guessed things like that was possible when you spent nearly every living second with them.
He looked down to the dragon in his lap who was making purr-like sounds and shifted a bit.
"They've grown during the night" Denmark said amazed. "How is that even possible?"
"Normal reptile thing, I think" Iceland said.
Denmark shifted a bit in his chair again, poking the dragon in its head with his finger.
"I hope they don't get huge" Denmark said.
Iceland turned to look at Denmark, having heard his sleep talking; he knew exactly why he didn't hope so.
"I don't know, but since the world haven't seen one single dragon before, maybe they don't get that big" He tried.
He saw Denmark shrug his shoulders, and then both went silent. The coffee machine made a ding and Iceland turned to pour the coffee in his mug.
"I think I'll go dress myself" Denmark eventually said.
"You go do that" Iceland replied, sipping from his coffee and hearing Denmark put Hugin down on the floor before getting up. He heard him go upstairs, and also heard that the dragons followed him.
The next one to awake was Sweden, and then Norway finally followed, and last came Finland who had been dragged down the stairs by Hugin and Munin.
When the angry Fin had finally calmed down and joined the others, they all discussed the matter of why the dragon eggs might have been where they had been. They came to the conclusion that it was because the dragons were blackish and that they used the dark rock as camouflage. And also, maybe the dragon eggs were at the beach because the grown up dragon that had laid them hunted out on the seas.
They all thought it made sense and only minutes after the sun had risen above the horizon, they were ready to go.
There was only one problem.
"We could let them join us and make them stay in the car" Sweden said.
"What if they don't like that?" Denmark said, petting Munin. During the short morning he had grown unusually used to petting the two dragons.
"Then one of us could stay in the car with them" Sweden replied.
"Finland could do that" Iceland said.
All nations turned to Finland, and he grunted, not really caring.
"Then it is settled!" Sweden said.
He turned to the wall peg and grabbed one of the many bags that hung there. The bag seemed to be heavy, in fact, very heavy. It made all kinds of noises, making the others wonder exactly how much scientific equipment there was in it.
"Planned on doing some science, Sweden?" Norway teased. Sweden only looked at him with a given glare.
Of course he had planned to do some research!
All the Nordics went outside, Denmark holding onto Munin and Norway Hugin as they rushed towards the car. Just in case there were any people who for some sick reason was out jogging so early.
At least one thing was clear, and that was that no one should tell anyone else about the two dragons before further investigation had been done.
After an hour of driving they arrived the beach and settled a plan.
Finland was supposed to stay in the car to watch out after the two baby dragons that would be sleeping, since they had just gotten fed another bucket of fish. Denmark and the others would be searching the beach, having a gap of twenty meters between themselves, that way they'd get to search a bigger area, quicker.
When they split up, Denmark walked slowly as he searched the rocky beach, being quite excited about the idea of more dragons. He searched over every rock and stick, just to see if the familiar shape of dragon eggs were there. Every now and then he also gave the slowly rising sun a glance as it painted the clouds on the sky in different amazing colors.
Of course, Sweden had been smart enough to bring tiny pieces of the eggshells so the others could use them as help, because unlike Denmark, they hadn't actually seen the dragon eggs unbroken.
Being very optimistic, Norway lifted up a rock every ten minutes or so, claiming it was a dragon egg, though he had to give up when everybody agreed that it was in fact just another dead plain rock.
After an hour or so with no success in finding new eggs, they reached the place where Denmark had originally found the dragon eggs, and they decided to take a break.
"I don't get it" Sweden said, sitting down on a rock as all the others looked at him.
"There is literally nothing different with this place that would make a dragon lay its eggs here instead of any other place on this beach" He added. They looked around the beach, rock after rock was similar to every rock that they had passed earlier. The only difference was the size of the bushes that bordered to the beach.
"Maybe they're just very, very picky" Denmark said. He was sitting on a slightly larger rock with Norway who was sulking a bit because of all the false alarms he had made.
"Or rare" Iceland included.
"Remember we didn't even know they existed for twenty four hours ago, maybe there are no other eggs" he said.
"Yeah, well maybe we should go back to the car and go home and investigate Hugin and Munin instead. I bet Finland's having a hard time babysitting them" Sweden said. He started to put a weird beeping device he had brought down in the bag he carried around.
"We can't just give up now" Norway said.
"We haven't found anything so far, but what if there's laying a couple of dragon eggs just behind that hill over there" Norway said and pointed to another hill that lay a few meters ahead of them.
"I don't think that's going to happen" Iceland said. He was leaning on his arm and his sparkles were glowing weaker than they usually did.
Denmark didn't like it when all the others were down.
"Come on, if Norway wants to do so, we should" he said, giving his taller friend a smile.
"So stop being such pouting asses, we should at least try a tiny bit more, and Sweden, I bet Finland's doing just fine" he claimed.
At the same time, only ten minutes away, Finland was running after the two dragons and swearing loudly because they had managed to escape, and they had picked up either Denmark's scent or one of the others scent, because they were indeed running very, very fast.
The others mumbled a bit and Norway stood up, ruffling his friend's hair.
"We really should go back" Sweden said.
"But I really have this feeling that there is something just over there" Norway said. He didn't know why, but once again his stomach was telling him something, and he rarely avoided listening to it. There was just something behind that hill that called for him.
"Fine, then you and Denmark can go over there and check" Sweden said.
Suddenly, the ground under them made a dark tone as if something had moved, then shortly after, the whole ground started to shake.
Denmark yelped and held onto Norway as the ground shook. Meters away from them birds flew to the sky, trying to escape the unusual phenomena.
Sweden's device that he had unpacked abruptly started making loud beeping noises and all of a sudden, the shaking stopped.
They all stared at each other with questioning eyes.
"What the fuck was that!?" Denmark yelled, a little bit too startled.
All the others opened their mouth to answer, but had nothing to say. They were just as startled themselves. A loud bang could be heard from behind the hill and they all looked towards it.
"Should, should we check that" Iceland asked.
"Maybe" Sweden said. He picked up his bag and strode of towards the hill with Iceland and Norway behind him.
"Are you guys crazy!?" Denmark yelled after them.
"Have you never heard of not walking towards the scary thing?" he added.
"No, now come here" Norway yelled back.
Denmark lifted his hands up in the air in despair before he ran after the Norwegian, not liking it at all.
At the other side of the hill, the four Nordics didn't know how to do anything else but to stare. There was a gigantic hole in the hill, or a newly made cave. Dust was coming out of it, and a few rocks fell down from the cave roof every now and then. It was about four meters in width and three in height.
"That was definitely not there when I was here last time" Denmark said, big eyed.
Sweden's device suddenly stared to beep loudly again and he put his bag down on the ground to take it out.
"Why is that making so much noise?" Norway asked.
"It's an energy measurer." Sweden said.
"And something is telling me that there is something inside that cave that makes it go crazy" he said, pointing the device at the cave opening. The device made louder beeping as he did.
"You're not planning on going inside the cave, are you?" Norway asked.
"Of course you have to explore newly made caves!" Iceland suddenly exclaimed, kicking softly at one of the newly fallen rocks outside the entrance.
"Just as he said" Sweden said, walking closer.
"Well… at least I was right" Norway said and joined.
Denmark looked at the three of them again and raised his hands up in despair.
Are my friends idiots!? He thought. Usually he was the idiot, but really!?
He watched as his friends disappeared into the cave. 'Okay, just bring out your inner Viking' he said to himself. He groaned, slowly starting to follow them inside the dusty cave.
"This really is a long cave!" Sweden yelled from further inside after a minute or two. Denmark couldn't see any of them, but he guessed the others weren't too far away.
"It sure is windy inside here to the fact that it isn't any wind outside" Iceland yelled back.
"I can feel it too" Norway said, coughing a bit afterwards.
Denmark coughed too; there was just too much dust inside the cavern. He squinted to look further, but daylight disappeared quicker than a good cake at a birthday inside there. He took his shirt up to cover his mouth, as his belly was bare, he felt the slight wind too.
But it wasn't going outwards; it was going past him, further into the cave.
"Guys I don't think we should go too far!" He yelled. He had a weird feeling about this and something was definitely wrong. He stumbled over a rock and walked further into the cave after the others when they didn't reply.
"Guys!?" he yelled again, this time more concerned.
"Over here!" Norway finally yelled.
"The air is cleaner over here Denmark, you should hurry!" He heard Sweden say.
He tried to walk faster, wondering how the others kept themselves on their feet in the complete darkness. He knew Iceland had his sparkles, but the others?
The cave became darker as he went further, but soon enough, he began to catch up the loud beeping from Sweden's machine.
Sure enough, the air was cleaner further inside, almost refreshing. Denmark let go of his shirt, trying to spot the others, seeing a faint glow in the distance. That had to be Iceland. He nearly ran over to it, but as he got closer, something seemed wrong, the beeping from Sweden's device got lower, and the glowing light seemed to get smaller. He stopped, feeling the wind get more intense.
He looked around himself. By the sound of it, he had ran past Sweden, but wasn't he the one that had walked the longest?
"Guys, where are you?!"
"Over here!" they all yelled, from behind him, away from the glowing light. This wasn't right, Denmark thought.
"I think you should come over here!" He yelled.
"Just follow my voice!" He added.
"Okay" Sweden answered.
"Is Iceland with you?" he asked.
"He's with me" Norway said.
"How far away are you two from Sweden" Denmark asked.
He stood still as he heard the beeping get louder, and watched as the glowing light further into the cave seemed to grow bigger too. He felt himself get nervous.
"We're just behind him" They yelled back.
Denmark's eyes widen. Just behind him.
He looked towards the glowing light; it was growing bigger, or getting closer. What was it?
"Here we are" Sweden said, patting Denmark's shoulder, startling him a bit.
"Can you see that glowing light over there too?" Denmark asked quickly, after calming himself down.
"What the-" Sweden started.
"What is that?" Iceland asked.
Iceland and Norway had reached them, and stared at the light in confusion too.
Suddenly, the wind started to blow harder, and the light grew bigger. Sweden's device started to beep loudly again, making the others look towards him.
"I think it's a portal" Iceland said.
"Yeah" Norway mumbled.
Denmark breathed out, ever so slowly, not being sure if the news was good or not.
The machine started to beep louder and faster and Sweden decided to walk closer. Norway, Denmark and Iceland followed too. The light started to glow brighter, giving of a blue kind of light.
"This might explain the ground shaking and the cave" Sweden said.
"Do you think it just appeared here?" Iceland asked.
"It's very possible" Sweden answered.
"Guys it's sucking in very much air, do you think it sucked in all the rock and sand that used to be here?" Denmark asked nervously.
"Uh, that might be possible" Sweden answered. Somehow that question made him not want to get any closer, maybe observance from a couple of good meters away was the best.
From just outside the newly created cave, Finland had stopped running, just as Hugin and Munin. Dust was still seeping out of it, making it look dangerous and eye-catching. Hugin and Munin were growling and walking around in circles, wanting to enter and wanting to follow the others scent.
Inside the cave, Sweden started to put out the rest of the device he had brought; it was making weird beeping noises, all of it, making the others wonder what exactly was going on with the blue portal.
"Where do you think it goes? Denmark whispered to Norway.
"I don't know, maybe some weird place-"
Exactly as Norway started to talk, the blue portal burst out more light, sending out a strong shockwave that sent most of the nations to the ground. After that t sucked in air, and made the cave windy. Ruffling all of their clothes and hurling up pebbles that flew past them all into the twirling portal.
"Guys I don't think we should get away from that thing!" Denmark yelled. The wind in the cave was making a lot of noise and the twirling portal was starting to gradually suck in more air.
"I think so too!" Sweden and Iceland yelled back simultaneously. Sweden's equipment had gotten long lost already, getting sucked into the portal with all the other objects that were lying loose in the cave.
The others tried to get up on their feet, but only managed to find a rock to hold onto.
Suddenly a loud growling could be heard and Denmark turned towards it, seeing Hugin and Munin run towards him, followed by Finland.
"Back off!" Norway yelled. He was now holding onto a big rock for his dear life.
"How did they get here!?" Sweden asked.
Finland had heard a lot of yelling from outside the cave, and when Hugin and Munin had run off into it, he had to follow, just in case his friends were in danger.
Denmark who was lying on the cave floor suddenly felt a huge increase from the underflow. He tried to hold onto the ground, but the second Hugin and Munin reached him and tried to hug him, the weight became too much for him to handle and he had to let go.
He felt himself get dragged across the cave floor and several rocks hitting him as he lost his grip. Hugin and Munin both clung onto the Dane for dear life, screeching as they came closer to the portal. Denmark did the only thing he could think of and grabbed onto both dragons, holding them close to himself as he was sucked into the portal.
Another huge outburst with light sent a shockwave through the cave, and then the portal's undertow got stronger, dragging in all the others, sending them somewhere else, but where?
Yeah guys this is going places and it ain't staying in our world any longer. Please review but please, if you don't like the story, don't leave nasty comments. It doesn't happen often in this fandom, but it happens often enough for me to get nervous about it.
Anyway, summary of next chapter, lot of confusion and ehh, something that makes the story worth being rated T.