Humans
Now let us leave the shining and magical Dragon Kingdom and see where their enemies the humans live and learn things are not as simple as they seem.
A thousand miles away deep in the in the inhospitable forest was what looked like a small village that looked worst then Berk ever did after a dragon raid before the Haddock sibling had shown everyone the light.
It was in a burned out clearing and more like a camp than a proper village with only a few structures made of wood. But they were poorly made and most things were made of animal skins.
All the humans were filthy and covered in disfiguring burns, scars and other injuries. There was also an unhealthy look to them as if they didn't have enough food or water to drink and it was painfully obvious they were not as well off as the Draco Beings.
Their clothing was made ups of odds and ends of random things. Animal skins, fabric, and armor stolen from raids on the Dragon Kingdom, plants, mainly just whatever they could find to wear really.
There was no laughter, joy or fun going on in this little camp. Now all that was here was the laws of the wild here. Only the strongest survive, kill or be killed, you do whatever it takes to survive, eat or be eaten.
That's how the humans lived. Which is why you saw their children as young as two being trained to use weapons again either stolen or made being trained to kill the Draco Beings.
Being trained to kill their hated enemies who left them to live like stupid dumb beast animals in the wilds. While the lived in the lap of luxury they lived in squalor The Draco Beings were the Gods and they the silly insects they crushed on their foot!
They had the wealth, food and power and would never share it with them! And the only way to save their people was to take it because those Draco Beings thought they were superior to everyone else and it was time their reign of superior was at an end!
That's how the humans saw it. Ever since the Dragons had evolved into the Draco Beings and created their Kingdom that far surpassed all the humans could ever hope to achieve, the humans had been left in the dust.
Now they were treated like animals. Let to rot and slowly becoming extinct! Treated like they were nothing but rats! Stupid, brainless savages worth nothing! Like the tables had been completely turned!
So from their POV, they're fighting for their right to live and take what they saw as their right to have.
Right now two teenagers a brother and sister were overseeing the young one's training. The two of them were called the Berserk Duo as they most likely to go Berserk.
"Okay, listen up you little miscreants, you're gonna have to be a lot more bloodthirsty if you're gonna go up against a Dragon! I want your best! We are not a weakling! The battlefield is not for the weak of heart or mind!" the redhead green-eyed crazy looking boy said as he was marching back and force in front of a group of grubby looking kids between the ages 5 to 15.
"What my dear, darling brother, Dagur is trying to say my sweetest in war you must bury your emotions and focus only on your instincts to survive! You only have yourself and your skills and instincts to get you by," explained a raven-haired beauty.
"Exactly my point, sister. Our father was foolish to think peace could be achieved by words and that was his mistake and now he's dead!
Never let these words enter your minds or heart! Words! Mercy! Compassion! Love! Friendship! Peace!" he screamed in their faces.
'Yes, they are the words of the weak and useless. They will only lead you down the path of death! To survive you must be strong and not weak. Now run that obstacle course till you can push past the pain."
"But we are tired from running it since dawn," pleaded a hazel-eyed girl with filthy dark blond hair.
"Tired?" Heather had her double ax at girl's neck. "What have we always said, Bloodfire?"
"Rest is for the weak," she whimpered.
"That's right. Now you'll be training from sunup to sundown in your battle training. You think those filthy Dragons care if your tired, cold and starving? No! So you have to keep pushing yourself even if your tired, cold and starving to prove them wrong!"
"Now work double hard all of you! And keep at it! Now get to it!" yelled Dagur at all the children who were in other world were the Dragon Riders' adopted brothers and sisters.
Nearby the Soul Riders were busy also training. But their job was to protect the human encampment. They're the elite warriors who protect their home so their training was more intense and they had to be even better than anyone else.
"Okay Team," snapped the white-haired beauty Ase to her team, "I feel like your not giving me your best! I want your best! We need to work harder at battle training! Elof! You and Tue need to get better at fighting with two different weapons at once!"
"I'm fighting with two swords at once, Ase! And my lover is fighting with a wrist-mounted crossbow and scythe all which we took from the dead bodies of those filthy dragons we killed for trying to steal from the bay in the Raxtus Sea where we trying to feed our families!" snapped angrily a young man with black ringlets.
"Yeah, if not for my creative planning we have never won that battle to win back our bay to feed us through that frosty winter!" snapped furiously the flamboyant bubbly young man named Tue Elof's lover.
"You two may have a point. Yet, doesn't mean you two don't have to step it up a notch! So again! I want perfection and I want it now! So use that creative energy and great athletic talent and dazzle me! Again!" demanded Ase as she had the two lovers once again duel each other.
As their duel heated up she turned to her own lover and his younger brother who was Elof's younger brothers.
"Leif! Put that damn book down and get ready to rumble! Enough studying about the enemy! Time to fight!"
"Ase! You know that more we know about our enemy the stronger we will be against them!"
"I know that, but right now we need brawn rather than brains! Now I want you to finally beat your brother in a sparring match. He's beaten you 10 out of 10. I want you to whoop his ace!" as she clicked something on his wrist.
"What this?" he asked caustically.
"Something Gobber and Halvar came up with. It's called a "Flame Thrower" it chucks fireballs at your enemy.
"Now Torben here's another doohickey they've come up with. It's called a "Water Pistol"
"What does this thing do?"
"It's loaded with a large supply of boiling hot water. Just shoot and it will spray a stream up too 255 feet of boiling hot water. Now your jobs are too test the weapons and try to beat each other in a duel. Now get to it! Now duel!" and she left the boys to figure out the weapons.
Then she turned to twins Eira and Erica and looked at them with narrowed eyes. "I want those combat skills to be perfect. So you two improve your gymnastic skills and fighting skills till their past the point of perfection and me don't freak' care how tired you get!
Get the perfect and get them perfect by sundown!"
"Yes, Ase!"
"Good!"
"Asta!"
"Yes, sister? What do you expect of me?" asked her little sister.
"You're my personal protege and I've taught you everything I know. You're better than all these weaklings and you know it."
"Of course I know it. But what do you want me to do?"
"Make sure not only our armor but the other elite armors is ready. Something tells me we're gonna need it again very soon."
"Of course. One upgrade for armor coming up!"
Asta ran too a small hut where she came to meet this world counterparts to Ewe, Breezy, Romi, and Remi."
"Hello, ladies. We need the elite warriors mended and upgraded."
"We figured that," Ewe spoke softly.
"Yes, your father in Great Hut with the other two leaders who make up the Council about what do next," Breezy explained when Asta raised an eyebrow.
"Did they take the elders with them?"
"Nanna and Gothi? Yes of course. And Gothi's niece and Nanna's sister Helka are busy preparing for our wounded. They know it's gonna be a slaughter for sure for whatever the Council decides," Romi answered the 15-year-old girl question.
"I just know they'll send you and the other elite on some crazy mission! They'll leave the village safety up to Ender and Unna! We know that Kustaa wife Thora and your mother Lelane will be more than happy to help protect us.
Still sending children out to risk their lives is insane and wrong!" Remi proclaimed as they worked on the armor for the elite warriors.
"We're not children, Remi, we are warriors!"
"I don't care if your 20 or 15 you still a bunch of kids who shouldn't be fighting in wars or living like this! You shouldn't have to learn to hate or be raised as an army! You should have lived a happy childhood being children and knowing happiness, love and family and friends!"
"Don't talk about weak minded foolish things, Remi! We are what life has made us! And life forsakes us, humans when the dragons evolved! Now we are the ones struggling to survive and they hold our fate in their hands!
We are only doing what we must do to survive!" shot back the raven-haired midnight blue-eyed young girl who heart was as hard as ice.
Right now the Council which was made up of Kustaa, Leontes, and Alvin had decided they needed to destroy the Dragons by attacking their core. They needed to destroy their hope.
If they could attack and destroy their holy site and take away their hope from it they'd be spiritually broken. Then it'd be a piece of cake to take down their king and queen and finally claim victory over the Dragon Kingdom.
They'd need their two best teams to do this operation. The two leaders came in. Two fine young women. First in were the number two team 18-year-old Ase Caxel nicknamed The Soul Riders. Then came in 20-year-old Astrid Hofferson of team one nicknamed The Dragon Riders.
"Now girls we are counting on you both to lead the missions help us claim victory in this war. Can we expect your best and deliver us a victory?" asked the three men one who happened to be Ase father Leontes.
"Of course. What do you wish us to do?" Astrid asked in a cold-hearted way.
"Astrid your team will fly over the wall on this new invention that Tue helped come with that blacksmiths.
He calls them Dragon Wings. They are gliders that glide on currents of air and come fully equipped with an array of weapons."
So we come in over the Wall and into the Kingdom. What is the target?"
"Find the Sanctum of White King and Silver Queen. Find it and annihilated. Make sure its blow to smithereens. That it's so thoroughly destroyed that all their hope and spirituality is crushed forever."
"Gotcha."
"What is my team doing, Council leaders?"
"Your team is attacking the Wall at different sections to draw their attention away so Astrid's team can fly in unnoticed. You've new weapons and you'll be given a new invention to get around as well."
"What exactly?"
"Something from some plans we stole from those wretched Dragons. They call it an ATV. We don't have all the parts but we've made do and got it working. So take these speedy vehicles and attack them with all you have, is that understood?"
"Yes, it is!"
"Get into your armor. The attack begins with the rising sun!"
The two elite teams donned their armor. The armor was made from Night Fury dragon skin, adorned with old dragon fangs and bones, stolen Gronckle Iron weapons, and mocking dragon style mask with glowing gold eyes and three blood-red talons slash marks across the face.
This was to truly mock the dragons to wear an armor made from their hides and battle them as if they're one of them. The claw marks represent how they'd been scarred and wronged them.
As dawn approached the humans got ready for the attack.
Meanwhile back in the Dragon Kingdom at the Dragon Kingdom Hospital, the Haddock siblings were still making themselves useful.
They'd gotten a good night sleep and were up before anyone else. And after hearing the horror stories and seeing what had happened felt they had to do something to right the wrongs.
Also still not exactly sure what part they did play being sent here they felt the best they could do was make themselves useful. So they spent the early morning hours working extra hard at the hospital while almost everyone else was still dead to the world.
Hiccup worked and with his genius minds created various innovated prosthetic and other wondrous inventions.
Boden's using his brains and understanding of physic and science was able to fix the hospital energy crises and even improve a lot of their magical technology despite only just began to discover it.
Una was able to use her gift of understanding sound and making music to manipulate the magical technology to create lovely music and created a much better atmosphere for everyone.
So when the three Nadders and Gronckle woke up they're shocked as now the three were busy making breakfast for everyone couldn't help but have their mouths wide open.
"How long have you three been up?" Nana Misty wanted to know to look at all this.
"Um, I think we've been up since about 4:00 clock? Couldn't sleep any longer. Just wanted to make ourselves useful. We just love helping people and well we've always been able to think outside the box." Hiccup informed the head of the hospital
"Yes, always genius ahead of our time. Smarter than everyone else. We always work best together and just simply studying and through careful observation we can up with a solution," Boden added.
"We may have some mental problems of our own but it doesn't hinder our great intelligence or creative imaginations in any way. So yeah we just felt we help in any way we could. Do you like it?" Una asked caustically.
"Well, you all do have a pure hearts, creative minds, and great intellect there not a doubt about that!" cried Wind Dancer as she was inspecting the sound system Una had built and the lovely music coming out of it.
"And you most certainly earned your keep if you wish to stay here longer. We need all the help we can get. The local orphanage was destroyed and we've to take in all the homeless orphans and could use all the extra help we could get." Airclaw explained to them the situation.
"And I'd love to have an apprentice to teach all the wonder of a magical blacksmith to. You have the greatest potential I've ever seen, Hiccup."
"All you have great potential. You could stay here and maybe we could arrange something about helping you get into the Royal Academy so you could really use your potential to its fullest." Nana Misty offered.
"Yes, they really could use your skills in the palace," the Nadder sisters both said in an enthusiastic voice with mile-wide smiles.
The three strangers looked taken back by their body language as they still wouldn't show their faces. But it really wasn't that odd that behavior as a lot of orphans dealing with the trauma of their parents' death concealed their faces for a long time. It was just a coping mechanics until they could sort out their pain and grief and ready to face the world again.
It looked like the three siblings wanted to say more when a huge explosion sent everyone falling to their feet. "What in the world was that?!" cried Una as a siren was going off.
"Oh, no! Not now! Not today!" as the others rushed to the windows and looked outside and the siblings followed and saw everyone was being ordered into their homes and it was like a Code Blood Red like back home.
"What's going on?" Una asked again fearfully.
"The humans are attacking!" Nana Misty cried out in a panic.
"Nana! We'll go make sure everyone in the hospital makes it to the underground bunker. You and Iron Heart quickly locked down the upper levels of the hospital"
"What do you want us to do?" Hiccup asked curiously.
"You three should get to the bunker. A human raid is no place for anyone who not a trained warrior to be!" as she rushed away.
"Luckily we are trained warriors then," they whispered that and surprisingly they discovered this morning their masks had come with them.
Disregarding their cloaks their slammed their masks on their faces and went outside to join the brawl.
It was utter mayhem as the elite warriors five people were flying in on hang gliders model after a Nadder, Nightmare, Gronckle, and Zippleback.
For the first couple of moments, they did an areal assault shooting flaming arrows at the buildings along with spears. Then they detached themselves from the gliders and dropped down ready to do battle on the ground.
The one who seemed to be the leader carried a bloodstained battleax, the musclehead on the left had a bludgeon, the husky one who really was making his armor nearly bust carried a sword made from Gronckle Iroh and two who even masks appeared to be twins carried the same weapons that Zippleback guards carried.
"Remember your dragons and don't get sloppy! Stay focused and never forget its either live or die! Don't do anything stupid! We are all on our own here! So one falls leave them! Got it?!" screamed the leader as she started to advance as then traded blows with anyone of the guards that came her way.
"So this is the best the Dragons have to offer? They are so weak!" as she didn't break a sweat as she disarmed four solderers no problem.
The others were having no problem destroying things and battling either. The twins seemed to like causing destruction for the sake of destruction and the musclehead just liked throwing his weight around.
The husky one may have been a tad timid but wasn't a coward. He still was bashing people left and right.
Then they were approaching the hospital. "Well, wouldn't that be a beautiful sight to see lit up? Give me a few firebombs," the male twin asked his sister and she happily gave him his request.
"Everyone got your target locked? Now fire!" As the five masked humans threw the five firebombs at the hospital when they all disintegrate in midair by a blast of lightning.
There was a great wave of lighting and fire blinding them for a few moments and when it cleared there were three masked warriors facing them.
"Who are you?! Some new warrior the Dragons wretched King has sent to try and force us to lie down like dogs and die?!" cried the female leader.
"Girl chill. If you and your little band of misfits stop what you're doing and surrender we can talk about this nicely. But if you continue to hurt innocent lives then we have a problem," Hiccup told her through his mask.
"Yeah, can't you see you're harming innocent people? This is a HOSPITAL! People are sick and injured here! There helpless! This is a place of healing! How heartless are you to attack the weak and defenseless?!" demanded Boden to the group.
"You want weak and defenseless? We are the ones left out to rot and die! The Dragons have all the luxury of the Gods and we are mere ants compared to them!"
"Can't we all just talk about this? Must there be more pointless bloodshed? Has anyone actually sat down and talked about the problems between Draco Beings and Humans and tried to come to a peaceful resolution?
Love, peace, talking and working to find a solution will do you a lot better than all this senseless killing and spare many lives." Una pointed out with blunt wisdom.
"Enough talk! Let's dance you morons!" and the masks warriors got into a brawl with people watching terrified as three masked strangers were fighting five masked humans.
While it was true that Hiccup, Boden, and Una's powers were at best working at least 15 to 20% due to the fact they refused to grieve for their father their basic powers were still strong enough as they dueled.
Meaning every time Hiccup made physical contact with an opponent which was often in this mess he adsorbed a jumble of memories which at this time he'd have no hope of sorting out.
Boden was being overloaded with a tidal wave of emotions from all the humans again more then he could hope to interrupt at the moment. But he could easily sense they intense hatred and anger.
But the other emotions were too much to process at this time.
Una's powers were too overwhelming. She was getting too much at once as she danced the battle dance. She caught quick flashes of past and present and the occasional quick flash of a trigger object.
But with so much going on she had no hope of processing any of it.
Both humans and Draco Beings alike were surprised at the three strangers weapons. A fire sword, lightning sword and an ocarina that held special abilities.
"Okay, I've had enough of you boneheads destroying private property," Una cried looking at the twins firebombing shops during the battle. She lifts her ocarina to her mouth and played a special melody that caused them to stand still.
"Now you listen to me, you two dunderheads. You will NEVER firebomb another shop in your lives! Is that understood? Fire is not a toy! So repeat after me? Fire is not a toy!"
"Fire is not a toy," they replied in a robotic tone.
"Good. Now promise you'll never firebomb again!"
"We swear we will never play with fire again or firebomb ever again."
"Good. Now I've got to go help my brothers. You just stay here like a good little boy and girl till the proper authorities come and get you!" and with that Una started to run onto of crates and take to the air with her wingsuit to see what else she could use her ocarina on.
Boden was dueling with the musclehead and husky boy who kept trying to kill him. "You know it would really help if you two just surrendered. Or I'm gonna have to do something rather painful to make you stop."
"We are warriors and we enjoy pain," the musclehead said.
"I don't."
"Don't be weak!"
"Well, maybe he's got some brains, you bonehead."
"I'll show you who a bonehead!" as the guy temper flared and reached to grab Boden but only knocked over several gallons of water that were gonna be brought into the hospital.
Now the musclehead and husky boy were standing in water and advancing at Boden. "You know this is gonna be so painful for you. But just so you know this is the first rule I learned so long ago when studying lightning."
"What stupid?"
"Lightning and water don't mix!" and he shot a bolt of lighting at the water and knocked them out by electrocuting them.
"And that because I've done research so much on the elements and how to use them as a power source I know what's protective of them. Therefore I know how to make my clothes impervious to lightning!" he chuckled to himself as to why he didn't get electrocuted.
He then quickly climbed to get in the air to help the battle more as they watched Hiccup now dueling alone the leader of this group. It was a rather intense duel for sure as both were very equally matched.
There was a lot of what might be called playful banter going on as the duel raged all over the place. But the girl, unlike Hiccup, was out for blood. This masked human girl was a savage hardcore warrior bent on killing and going on till she drew blood or gave her last breath.
She wouldn't hesitate to kill and Hiccup wasn't going to kill her and that was the difference in their duel.
"Look, can't we talk about this? We really don't have to fight! Wow! Watch it! I need my head to think! We have things called brains we can use them to think and talk like civilized beings!" he told her as he parried her ax as she nearly took off his head.
"Stop wasting your break you sick, vile worshiper of a frostbitten beast! You leave us out to decay in a toxic bug-infested godforsaken jungle! While all of you live in beauty, pleasure, safety, and security!
We live in constant peril! Living off your table scraps and garbage! Treated like rats! Like we have the IQ of the moldy cheese they eat! You'd never understand! Not in another 1000 years!
Someone like you would never understand ever! What its like to be perpetually ravenous, sleepless, dirty! Alone! Disregarded! And treated lower than filth!
Not you Dragon!" she spat in his face as she said all this in seething anger.
"You think people wouldn't sympathize? Show you no compassion? Couldn't those others empathize with you all?
You've put fear into everyone's hearts and they are scared for the families! I can understand what it means to survive and want to do what's best for your people and a better future.
But what you're doing is wrong. If you could just try a different approach and work together then both the humans and Draco Beings could be friends and no-one would live in fear of death anymore."
"You're foolish and weak!"
"And he speaks the truth! Now freeze!" someone said behind as she played a melody that caused the female to be frozen in combat.
"Are you okay, bro?" asked Boden as he and Una came over now that the girl was frozen by Una's hypnotic command.
"I'll have to say that girl could give Astrid a run for her money. That's one of the hardest duels I've ever fought. I'm exhausted," as he sat down and they took a moment to catch their breath.
"Astrid?" whispered the girl frozen. "Is he mocking me? How DARE he used my name in vain!" and her anger was enough to overcome the commas Una had locked her in.
"Oh boy! Not again!"
"How dare you use defile my name DRAGON! I'll kill you for that! A dragon use a human name in vain!" as the girl with blood her eyes started to fight like a demon and now the three of them were busy trying to defeat the crazy girl together.
But three against one could not stop this girl rampage. And then she did something very low.
A small child with strange coloring carrying a crystal had just shown up and the human with blood in her hidden eyes snatched her up and held the ax to her neck and they all screamed "NO!"
The small little girl was clearly frightened and it was obvious this human wouldn't hesitate to remove her head.
"Now, if you three value this brat life you will surrender your weapons and take me to where the Sanctum of White King and Silver Queen is! And if you don't she dies!"
"But we've never heard of the Sanctum of White King and Silver Queen!" cried Una to the masked girl.
"Lies! You're Dragons! You know where everything is in your Kingdom is! If you're trying to lie so I don't destroy your so-called holy site you're making a mistake as I will kill this child!"
"But we're not lying! Please, we aren't lying! We just got here day before yesterday! We're not even from around here! Please let the child go!" Boden was pleading with her.
She laughed as the ax got closer to the child's neck. "You've got to come up with something more original than that. Now one last time again. Give up your weapons and take me to the Sanctum! Or she dies!" demanded the masked female.
Hiccup held up his hands and walked slowly over to the masked female. "Look, I don't think you really want to harm a child. No matter how hard your life is on the other side of the wall.
I get the feeling you are many things but I don't think you really want a little girl's blood on your hand. I don't think that's something even you can live with.
Something tells me you have got little brothers and sisters too. And you wouldn't want them to be used as hostages against you.
You know what your doing right now is wrong. So let the girl go. Walk away. You don't have to be a mindless killer. You can make a choice right now.
Do you want to not be treated like an animal? Not a beast, monster or anything like that? You want to start changing opinions of what humans are to the Draco Beings and maybe the Draco Beings can start changing your opinions on them? Let this little girl go.
Just let the little girl go and walk away. Please just be human and don't kill. An animal kills because it has no choice a human can make a choice. Make the choice not to kill. Not to hate. Let her go."
For a few moments, nothing happened and the few people nearby who had watched this whole fight play out were now holding their breath but to their surprise, the masked human lowered her ax and gave the little girl to Hiccup.
The little girl jumped into his arms shaking but otherwise fine. He was smiling and holding his hand out in friendship but before the masked girl could shake it a whip shot out and start to wrangle her and she screamed.
Hiccup, Boden, and Una started to protest as they looked up and saw Deadly Siren with the palace Honor Guards Stormfly, Hookfang, Meatlug, Barf, and Belch were now holding the rest of the "Dragon Riders" prisoners.
"Lock them up and take them to the dungeon. We'll deal with them and the rest of the prisoners later. I've got some business to attend to here. I'll meet you back at the palace. Get to it!"
"Yes, Deadly Siren." as the elite warriors were marched into an iron cage on wheels and all were glaring and as the leader was being loaded she glared at Hiccup and yelled at him. "I thought you were different!" and was shoved inside by Stormfly and now being escorted to the dungeon.
Deadly Siren cast her pink eyes hatefully at the humans and spat. "Good riddance. Let them rot in the dungeon for rest of their miserable lives with the rest of the rats!"
"How can you be so heartless? They are living, thinking and breathing human beings. And they aren't so different from yourself! If you stopped being so narrow-minded and still thinking this about who stole whose food a 1000 years ago maybe you could come up with a solution!" Una scolded her passionately.
"I won't be spoken like that, little girl! Don't talk about things you don't understand!"
"We understand a lot more then you think! We are quite the familiar with war and what its like to be different and how to bring peace between two different species and realize at the end of the day it's like water and rain!" Boden got in her face as well.
"Yeah, if all your gonna do is one pushes and the other push back how do you expect to ever solve the problem if all you do is respond with violence? Have any of you tried just talking to each other?
Try and find some common ground? Stop thinking your different and realize what you do have in common? See it through another eye? Have any of you tried to change yourselves more than your bodies but your spirits?
Have you transformed your minds? Or sought out a new way of thinking or seen the truth beyond the lies that are clearly apparent on both sides of this conflict?
Or you all gonna keep letting both a physical wall and wall of stupidity separate you all for all of the time?" Hiccup threw in her face and she raised her sword in his face.
"Don't test me, boy! We are thankful for your help but if anyone blinded and stupid it's you to see what your speaking about it is foolish nonsense!"
"Really? Then if I'm so foolish how come when I talk to that girl like she was a person and empathized with I got her to release this little one and start to trust me? How is that foolish?
That's a lot more progress than any of you made I bet in several lifetimes!"
"It's true, he did get her to let me go. Deadly Siren. He did it by empathizing with her and treating her like an equal. With respect and being nice and kind."
"Cloudwings you are in a lot of deep trouble! You left the safety of the palace which you shouldn't have done in the first place! Your mother and father are freaking out and what am I suppose to tell them?"
"You can tell them the truth. Maybe that what you could do." Una told her as she stood by her brothers.
"Yeah, maybe it's time you all tried to do something different." Boden pointed out.
"And may I ask who in the name of Silver Queen are you three?"
"We can answer that. They are three orphans whose father was murdered by that human mercenary Drago Bludvist. Beauty sent them to help us at the hospital and they've done a great deal of good." Wind Dancer informed Deadly Siren who eyed them suspiciously.
"Orphans? Really. What a convenient story."
"Well, half-orphans. They got separated from their mother according to Beauty. They asked for help yesterday and Beauty gave them a meal and money and they've been helping us for a place to stay." Airclaw corrected.
"And they've more than earned their keep. In just one day the hospital has been transformed. I've never had someone who could work such magic in magical blacksmiths like the eldest Hiccup here," Iron Heart complimented the oldest one.
"Why just in the early hours this morning the middle child Boden he fixed our energy problem as well fixed our other technical problems.
And this darling sweetheart Una made this enchanting musical system so everyone is so much happier and enjoying the magic that is music." Nana Misty complimented the other two.
"Hiccup? Boden? Una? Those don't sound like Draco Being names to me! Sound like human names! I want the name of your parents! What your father did! How was he killed?! And finally, remove your masks!"
"Deadly Siren, please! They have a right to their privacy!" the Nadders and Gronckle pleaded but the Night Fury wouldn't be put off.
"My job is to protect the children of the palace from anything I deem a threat to them! And I need to know these three are a threat! So answer my questions now!"
"Our parents' names are Valka and Stoick." Hiccup answered truthfully.
"Again not really our kind of names."
"Really? What qualifies as a Draco Being name, Deadly Siren? A name is a name. And everyone has a different taste. Some names are completely stupid and you know it. Others are nicer than others." Nana Misty pointed out sensibly to the young warrior woman who was getting red in the face.
"Yeah, no-one can say what a Draco Being name is or what a human name. Besides, how do you know what humans call themselves? It's not like we've ever asked humans what they call themselves have we?" Wind Dancer pointed out a simple fact.
Growling dragon-like she turned back to her interrogation. "Fine, forget your parents and your names. What was your father's occupation?"
"He was the Chief of our tribe. We now hold that. Hiccup's chief, I'm second in command and Una's royal adviser." Boden answered truthfully as his brother had been before him.
"Well that makes you for sure not Draco Being!" she declared triumphantly.
"Actually, no, it doesn't, Deadly Siren." Airclaw was quick to point out.
"What?!"
"When they say "tribe" they're likely talking about how the family was viewed personally if their father was in the armed forces as most families do. And how the siblings are ranked are in the order of their birth.
That's how it's done with our brother and his wife family as they're Honor Guard. It's just terminology for how guards and armed forces refer to their families is all. The father is always Chief and the children are ranked by order of birth and if the father dies the eldest takes his place."
Gashing her teeth she screamed loudly "How did your father die?!"
"It was a great battle with the Bewilderbeast between White King and Dark King. Our best friends fell under Dark King's control and we're backed into a corner and he sacrificed his life for us!" shouted Una who couldn't help but cry and they hugged as they all cried being forced to remember that.
"Never heard of that battle! Now I know your lying." Deadly Siren was particularly seething not seeing how anyone could deny they're lying but again she was thwarted with a ready answer to explain what they're talking about.
"How could not hear of that battle, Deadly Siren? It was one of the biggest and bloodiest battles ever!" Iron Heart scolded her. He then took a deep breath and told her what she seemed to have forgotten.
"Don't you know your spiritual history, Deadly Siren? White King and Dark King? Good vs evil? Virtue and Sin? It's only in the Dragon Scriptures that are part of the Book of Wisdom and Foretelling?
It happened at one of the religious sites. The humans seemed to want to reenact a battle from the book dealing with our sacred book!
It's chapter 14 the "Great Battle of White King VS Dark King?" how the Dark King came from the depths of the Blood Sea along with his wife Red Death from the Fire Island?
How the waged a bloody battle to try and take control of our ancestors nearly a 1000 years ago? It nearly ended in White King and Silver Queen's death?
But they're able to defeat them but cost both sides about five hundred lives each? So a 1000 tears were shed for a 1000 bloodstained corpses as 1000 souls were lost.
And because of the humans that held true a second time as history was repeated. No-one could record all the lives lost or who got caught up in that battle but I imagine that why they're covering their faces unable to deal with what they witness in that terrible battle!"
"Okay, they may've come up with clever excuses for your answers. but I don't care either way you remove your masks now and let me see who you are or I shall remove them for you!"
"We can't remove our masks. Sorry."
"Then I'll remove them for you!" as she started to make a grab for their masks and Cloudwings was trembling like a leaf and shouted. "Please don't, Deadly Siren!"
"Cloudwings! You again are enough trouble and it's not your job to tell me what to do. It's my job to protect you and all the palace job from threats and they are likely a threat.
Something not right about them and now either they show their faces or I'll make them. And it won't be pleasant!"
"You can't force us to show our faces if we don't want to do," they replied.
"Can't I?" she challenged them, "Let me show you three why I'm called Deadly Siren." and she opened her mouth and suddenly everyone was holding their ears like their bleeding as a high pitched noise was being released from Deadly Siren's mouth.
Somehow the Night Fury's echolocation had evolved into a supersonic weapon and she was using it to drive them into madness. She was aiming it full blast at the three of them bringing them to knees.
"Stop it! Stop it, Deadly Siren! Please!" begged Cloudwings but Deadly Siren wouldn't till the Haddocks had succumbed to her powers. Once they're knocked out only then she stopped.
Then despite everyone's protest, she ripped off their masks and everyone gasped. It was a shock. For who'd saved them from humans and been so kind to them were three humans.
"Spies! I'll have their heads!" as Deadly Siren removed her blade ready to kill and Cloudwings screamed loudly.
"Stop! They are the Three Saviors from the Dragon Scriptures of the Book of Wisdom and Foretelling!"
Everyone stopped what they're doing to look at the meek little girl in wonder and in that moment of pause was all that was need to wrestle the sword away from Deadly Siren's grip and get her whip too.
"What are you speaking of, child?" Iron Heart asked the little girl. He was very religious so he thought it best he asked.
"I'm sorry I skipped my lessons with Soulwings today but I made this crystal today," holding it up, "It's a scrying crystal and between my mother Azurewing's scrying water and our copy of the Book which was open to the Prophecy of the Foretelling it showed me the hospital and it's locked on them.
Please remember our own teaching. White King and Silver Queen foretold our Saviors would be..."
"Born of human flesh but with dragon souls." Iron Heart recited.
"I came looking for them and well you saw what they did. The fought for us and performed a small miracle getting that human girl to let me go."
"The did speak like prophets and with very enlightening words." the Nadders agreed.
"And they could've hurt us at any time but they didn't." Iron Heart agreed.
"They should be brought to the King and Queen."
"I've heard enough nonsense!"
"Don't tell us you don't have any faith, Deadly Siren." everyone turned to her.
"If you wish I'll bring them unharmed to the King and let him decided their fate. But to me, a human is a human. The idea that White King and Silver Queen intend our saviors to have human bodies with dragon souls make no sense to me!"
"Are they really any different then we are now?" questioned Iron Heart and she huffed.
"Call the other Honor Guards to pick them up and bring them to the palace. But I want it clear they are not to be treated like till the King decided their fate. As for you Cloudwings, you have a lot of explaining to do to your mother. Now let's go!
And with that everyone fate was up in arms as was their faith.