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Chapter Seven Defeat & Discoveries...
"Defeat is only one step along the lines to victory..." -/- 1423 AD Unknown
Friday, January 3rd 0927 8:35 pm -/- Berk - The cove
Hiccup was currently resting in the cove just trying to relax from all the craziness
of the past few days. It had been two days since the incident with William but he
had gotten nowhere with his decision and he only had two days before he would
be forced into the decision to abandon the power he'd been vested.
Toothless was curled up near him just trying to think over everything that had
happened as hiccup was. He had already agreed that whatever Hiccup choose he
would go along with it, but he was interested in William, he had a distinct smell of
metal but the metallic smell was that of no metal he'd smelled before. He was also
warmer than the other humans, at least five degrees warmer than the others but
from what he'd learned from the past year and a half was that being too warm for
humans was a bad thing but William seem perfectly healthy he was stumped on
what it was that made him different.
Hiccup sighed, he was getting nowhere with his decision and his dad, Stoick, had
made things difficult when he arrived back. His father had questioned him if he
found what caused the massive purple fireball or the black one for that matter.
Hiccup told his father the partial truth and said there was just a giant crater and
left out the part of the strange man and his new ability to talk to dragons. His
father believed it but only just.
His new ability had almost been noticed on several occasions but they just
counted it off as insanity, which is probably not far fetched for him. He'd had
several conversations with Toothless but he'd learned that his dragon wasn't the
social type, which was understandable seeing as he was a night fury, but Toothless
was becoming more social and did enjoy having conversations with his rider, but
it didn't make hiding his new ability easy, if anything, it was making even more
difficult.
On the few occasions when Toothless had openly talked with Hiccup, which
normally happened in the cove, Hiccup had learned that he wasn't the only one
who felt the strange connection to William he'd learned that they all were meant
to be bonded but it still didn't make Hiccup's choice any easier.
The day after Hiccup, Toothless and the other teens had returned from there short
journey the weather returned to that of normalcy on Berk, which meant very cold.
This was strange because the weather went warm the day before William and
Michael arrived and went back to warm the day after and some of the villagers
where suspicious of the strange fireballs' connection to the weather.
Hiccup now looked over to Toothless who was a short distance away and providing
warmth to the teen from a distance "Hey bud, let's go flying for a bit to clear up
our minds and hopefully make a decision on this matter" Hiccup said to the black
dragon.
"Ok, Hiccup" replied the dragon.
Hiccup mounted the dragon a took off in a near vertical takeoff, this did not bother
Hiccup as he was used to the speed of taking off. Flying was one of the few ways
that both Hiccup and Toothless could clear their minds and think without
distractions. He found that he could really connect to Toothless while flying and
more than just helping him fly, he could almost say he mentally connected with
the dragon when flying, they were in perfect sync.
This feeling was somehow similar but different to the feeling he felt when William
set up the temporary bond, he felt like they were alike but different, it was a
paradox.
By now the flight had leveled out and the harsh winter wind was whipping at his
face. He knew he'd have to make a decision but he was trapped between following
his instincts or just forgetting he had this power. He had no idea what the cost of
this power would have, if any, and the chance that this would be the only chance
he get to see his full potential. Toothless agreed that it was time to see what there
full potential was but he also agreed to follow Hiccup's decision fully.
Hiccup was looking out over the ocean towards where dragon island was formally
at but was now not but a crater. At that moment something in Hiccup broke and
he'd made up his mind about his choice: he was going to activate the rune.
Somehow, Toothless picked up on his motivations and spoke up before Hiccup
could voice his question "Well it's about time you made a decision" said the
dragon, Hiccup's reaction was priceless!
"Wha... How did you.. What!" Was all Hiccup could stutter out befit he dragon
answered.
"I think whatever William did connected our minds so we have the ability to pick
up on what the other is thinking" Toothless replied with a chuckle. And now that
Hiccup thought about it, it made perfect sense! He'd noticed his increase in
understanding of what the dragon wanted in non-verbal ways. But was Toothless
on the same page Hiccup was on? Toothless gave another dragonic chuckle,
picking up on his riders distress, "Of course I'm on the same page as you Hiccup, I will always follow you and you alone" that was all the encouraging Hiccup
needed.
"So how are we going to do this?" Asked Hiccup.
"William said to just focus on the rune magic and it should do the rest" replied
Toothless. So both Viking and Dragon focused on the power of the rune and soon
they were enveloped in ribbons of glowing turquoise and maroon with silver
flecks. The ribbons glowed vibrantly before shooting up into a massive beacon of
turquoise and maroon with silver flecks.
In response to the massive beacon the two saw a violet glow on the horizon where
dragon island was formally, it faded a bit before going into a massive beacon that
went at least four times as high as there own and was violet with gold ribbons and
they knew their fate was sealed.
As the beacon faded the pair noticed a slight tug in the backs of their minds
towards where the beacons were but they also noticed the fleet of ships
approaching the isle of Berk. "Oh no those are outcast ships I have to warn my
dad!" Exclaimed Hiccup and with that they were headed down to the island to
warn them of the approaching outcasts, and somehow explain the massive light
pillars to the village without just coming out and saying that he got caught up in a magical affair. Hiccup sighed internally, it was going to be a very long night.
8:30 pm -/- The crater
William was currently finishing the designs several weapon prototypes that would
be formed from the nanites in his body and shaped into varying weapons or tools.
He currently had several different sword designs a small circular device that
projects a large holographic map of the planet with several layers including a layer
for magic, and finally a laser weapon he has dubbed 'The ZX694' it fires lasers
that have a signature that allows them to hone in on targets.
He was no longer in the development stage, he was programming the nanites in
his body to form into the desired shape and operate in the desired way, easier said
then done.
He was having issues with the last weapon due to the advanced technology but the
swords and holographic map worked fine. Sighing in defeat he gave up and
decided to work on the logic required for his new bodies, he had 15 including the
13 from when he first arrived but they were only open for him to change into
when he bonded with Hiccup and Toothless and since then he's learned more
about what he is.
His kind is known as Δράκος ~ Στοιχειώδης υβριδικό or Dragon Elemental. The
only way this ability opens up is being bound to one of the relative dragons to the
main dragons species the Dragon Elemental is. The other requirements are to have
been close enough to one of other relative dragon species to acquire the dragons
DNA into the Dragon Elemental's own or kill the other relative dragon. In William's case he accidentally killed a Stormcutter, the other relative dragon to the Death's Shadow, and he'd bonded with Toothless, a Night Fury, and it readied the last requirement which William was really interested in.
You see the last requirement requires a Dragon Elemental to make physical
contact with a Dragon Elemental and you would feel a bond from, but he felt that
bond to occur with both Hiccup and Toothless, this confused him greatly and he
felt he was getting a migraine so he stopped thinking about it and went back to the
matters of his apprenticeship.
The main thing was whether or not they would even accept, sure it meant that he
could move on, but he felt the friendship in them both he'd never felt before, aside
from his bro-ship with his cousin, but that was still quite different from this. It
wasn't intimate but it was still quite powerful compared to that of his home world,
it was foreign to him.
He was brought out of his thoughts by Michael walking over to him out of there
small encampment looking slightly cold.
"How in the hell can you stand this with nothing more than shorts?! It like 4° out
here and you seem to act like its tropical weather!" Michael said slightly shivering
from the cold.
"As I have said before I'm getting a tolerance for higher and lower temperatures. It
just doesn't seem cold to me anymore" William replied.
"Well... shit, ain't that convenient!" Michael said sarcastically.
"Well, yea it is, actually" William said as Michael glared at him.
There's a long silence before William speaks up "Do you find it weird being
related to a half dragon?" He asks.
"Well, when you put it that way... yes I find it very weird, and why are we just
talking about this now?" Michael asks.
William give him a flat look "Do you really need to question when and why I ask
certain questions at certain times or do I have to spell it out for you oh wise dumb ass?"
William asked.
"Hmm maybe, I still don't know how your mind works so I'm going to have to ask
you to spell it out for me *cough* asshole" Michael replied.
"Well that was a rhetorical question, but since you're so thick you haven't figured it
out by now might as well give you the rundown. I was speaking what I was
thinking about and you just so happened to take it as a question towards you. I
was actually thinking about the fact that I, myself, am half dragon and just so you
know your an asshole too" William said playfully.
"Hey, what are cousins for if not to shit on your nice mood?"
"Damn straight"
After their little chat, William laid down and closed his eyes while he continued
mulling over what he had been thinking about. He had a ship placed on the far
side of the island that Hiccup recited on due to the impending attack he could see
that would come from another island and helping them defeat a common enemy
could help in the relations he will have with his village seeing he may be around
awhile.
From what he can gather from Avai Vikings don't despise magic, it is just looked
down upon in their society and it is even said that the elders and healers may even
have mystical abilities that make them famous. Although they don't despise magic
it still worries him because he, Hiccup and Toothless are not normal cases. They
had a condition he liked to call limitless; a error in the magic when born that dose
not restrict the maximum energy regeneration for their magic or restrict them to a
certain field of magic, yes there base field is more powerful of course but their not
limited to several fields they have them all to access which could be a problem.
Based off of the fields an Elemental is limited to and based of of there power is
what there mark is, all marks are different but marks also so the power and skill of
the Elemental, but William's is especially unique, its three parallelograms
intersecting at a center point with small gaps between and a circle around it with
breaks in the lines where the three gaps leave the center. The real problem with
this is that to the experienced eye this means a man of great power and great
intelligence, but also means that the regain flow value, or RFV, of his power is
equivalent to that of certain high level spells that have been know to destroy entire
civilians.
The RFV is the rate at which his power regenerates this means that he is
consistently getting enough power to generate one of these spells without much
effort, and this actually scares William due to what happened when the
government almost found out, he's lucky they didn't but that's one of the reasons
he left.
William forces all of the thoughts out of his head and he feels himself drifting off,
until he feels the effects of his temporary rune becoming permanent. He opens his
eyes and looks over just in time to see a small turquoise and maroon beacon just
barely making it into the skyline, that's his Cue.
He forces as much energy as possible into the rune, which is a massive amount
mind you, the area around him beginning to turn a dark shade of violet with gold
wisps every now and then then as he feels the energy his maximum he releases it
into the sky as a massive purple beam that easily breaks the skyline and
illuminates the entire night sky.
As the beam fades William falls to his knees in fatigue with the slight tug in the
back of his mind. Michael comes running over.
"I think you over did that a bit much"
"You think!? I think I easily pulled the equivalent of XZ-12 level energy out of
that for 20 seconds! That's like blowing up the sun type energy!" William
exclaimed.
"And yet, you turned it into nothing more than a beam of light" Michael teased.
"... I will burn you..." William said back with seriousness.
"Hey now, no need to get violent" Michael defended.
William groaned as he gets to his feet, his exhaustion fading quickly. He noted
that he has now made it to power regeneration level ZX-12 from ZX-11. ZX is a
relative term meaning group 26-24 which is a late level and almost at XX which is
an immense amount of power, it is 120 figures above the one prior. 12 is the stage
development 1 through 16 so the whole figure can really be deducted into a
number equation, but letters are shorter and easier to say out.
'So, Avai, is the fleet still approaching Berk?' Asked William.
'Yes it will arrive within the hour' replied Avai.
"Oh, the fun is about to begin, Michael I'm going to send you over to the ship I've
got planted near Berk. Get it ready for fighting and just to warn you its a little
ahem 'ol' school' so Avai will help you out. I want it battle ready in 15 minutes I'm
going to send you over there via Rift, so be ready" William rattled off.
"Oh I get the hard job and you get what?" Said Michael crossley.
"Oh, I get to converse with the locals nothing too hard, except that there Vikings"
"I thought Vikings don't actively try to destroy the mystical"
"Right but I like to make an entrance" said William as he donned a black hooded
cloak with a texture that mimicked that of Night Fury scales.
"Oh great, what are you going to do this time?"
"I'm thinking its time to pull a stupid stunt from Chronicle(1)" William replied
with a smirk.
"Oh fan fuckin'-tastic" was all Michael could say before he walked through the
tear in front of him and quickly disappeared as the tear snapped shut.
William took one last look around before focussing on his own body as he picked
himself up and took of flying in the direction of Berk.
8:43 pm -/- unknown location several hundred miles to the south-east...
She was thinking about them both, really she would never get over the fact she
left him and had to abandon them all, left several lives behind all because of what
she was, a monster.
She was not human or dragon, a hybrid, she'll never go by the name the great
warriors of her race had them dubbed, she didn't deserve such a title.
She left both her sons and that made her a horrible mother, she left her infant son
and husband at a young age, and left her other son when he was drawn towards
that evil place.
If she could do it over again she would, but the gods didn't hold her favor, they're
just pissed on her without the courtesy of calling it rain in her opinion. Her life up
to this point has been hard, trying to convince to her people that dragons aren't
what they think and then be ripped away when she first found out what she was,
then to have her second son ripped away by that... monstrosity.
Her bitter thoughts were interrupted by a faint burst of energy on the horizon, it
was just a small line of maroon with silver streaks intertwined with a stand of
turquoise, she'd know those two colors of magic anywhere she really wanted to
just release her magic in a beam similar to theirs but she was stopped in her
preparations by a truly massive beam of violet with streaks of gold. She knew
what this meant, they were alive, and about to be trained by the most
powerful Elemental she'd ever seen.
9:03 pm -/- Berk's great hall...
Hiccup was thinking of how he was to explain this, magic wasn't forbidden just
looked down upon. His lie he told his father wouldn't hold up so he'd have to go
over this situation benignly to not cause panic, and there was the whole thing with
the attacking Outcasts.
The last of the village filed in and the doors were closed. People were chattering
and question what all this was about, Stoick was just about to call for everyone to
quiet down, but just as he began to speak the doors swung open quickly and
harshly revealing a shadowy figure in a hooded cloak.
He walked silently towards the front of the hall, the crowd separating for him as
he advanced.
"Who are you?! What right do you have to trespass on my island?!" Stoick spat
angrily.
The man held up his hand and spoke "Silence" the hall became deathly silent.
Hiccup looked at this man in fear, his cloak seemed to be made out of the hide of a
Night Fury, which made him nervous.
"I'm here to deal with the so called 'Outcasts' that you are debating upon what to
do with, however, there is a reason to why I'm doing this but it will not be
discussed here but behind closed doors. Lastly, you are not to interfere with what
I'm doing, this has already been debated upon by those involved and is now
resolved. Now if you will follow me there some things you must see" and with
that the hooded man walked out of the hall with everyone following suit, Hiccup
was still afraid of this man but his words confused him, was he talking about him,
or was it some coincidence?
As they were following him Toothless came up to Hiccup and talk privately with
him. "Something's off about him" whispers Hiccup.
"I agree, he feels... different"
"You don't think it's him do you?"
"It's a possibility, why else would he protect the village if not to get on there good side"
"I don't know, but let's keep an eye on him"
They were now just getting to a cliff that overlooked the harbor from where the
ships were approaching from. No one could see the ships save for the hooded
man.
"Ok, so I have a single ship that is on its way to intercept the fleet and should fend
them off"
"Yea, a single ship will stop a fleet" said a villager behind him.
"Never underestimate the power of my ship" the man said calmly.
The hooded man began to walk up to the very edge of the cliff, the villagers began
to talk about what he was doing.
"Ok I'm just going to say; don't do what I'm about to do, I'm a professional" with
that being said the man stepped of the cliff falling down below.
There were several gasps when he did this, then there was a flash in the on a boat
that was not a Outcast ship. Several of the villagers tried to look over to see if he
was down there but even with the light from the moon there was no sign of him,
like he vanished from thin air.
-/- On the ship
On his ship William was getting up from the Rift he'd just gone through.
"So, how did it go?" Michael said sarcastically.
"Well, it went fine, except for the part where I made them shit themselves when I
just walked off a cliff" William replied truthfully.
Michael scoffed "Drama queen much?"
"Ahem"
"Hmm? Oh, right, where fighting people"
William gave Michael a flat look that conveyed his annoyance. "So the plan is I
fly over using my telekinetic powers, not questioning how I figured out to use
them in the first place, and see if they will leave. If worst comes to worst and they
stand and fight, well we get to blow some shit up. How do you sit with this plan?"
"Hmm can't we just skip the whole 'negotiating' bit and just blow shit up?" Asked
Michael.
William sighed inwardly "I would rather not start a tribe war but if we have no
other choice then we fall back on blowing shit up. And no negotiations!"
Michael grumbled to himself and walked of. William walked up to the bow of the
ship where he dived off and used his telekinesis to carry himself over to the lead enemy ship.
William perched himself upon the mast to observe the enemy and gather
information. The largest of the men on the ship, the leader William deduced, was
giving out orders about capturing Hiccup and his dragon. William snorted to
himself 'They didn't even bother to learn the dragons name' he thought.
The men on the ship were oblivious to the set of eyes watching them from above,
just as much aware of the cannons aimed and primed to destroy their ship.
William was amused by their obvious obscurity to what was going to shit on their
plans, also that there was only two options for them; stand and fight or flee, the
latter being the more likely of the two.
Finding that holding up the inevitable would just be counterproductive he decided
to get the attention of the men to the obvious elephant in the room. William
whistled loudly at a high pitch, getting all of the Men's attention immediately.
Of course the combination of William's cloak and the fact it was night made him impossible to see. "Whos there? Show yourself!" shouted one of the men.
William smirked to himself. "And why would I do something stupid like that?" he asked. "I have a feeling that Id get shot at if you could see me, besides Im here to tell you that you'll have to make a choice"
"And what choice is that, boy?" asked the leader.
"Stay here and die or leave" William responded, emotionless.
"And how do you plan on doing that, boy? Talking us to death?" Said the leader before bursting out into laughter along with all the other men, William was not amused.
"Dont say I didnt warn you" was all William said before going back to his own ship where Michael was waiting.
"So…"
"We destroy them" William supplied, yet again emotionless.
"'bout time" Michael replied as he walked over to the cannon "So, what kind of projectile?"
"Cluster, Elemental" Said William still emotionless. Michael's eyes went wide at he saying this, he really just wanted this to go by fast. "Load it I know what I have to do" at this Michael went below deck and got a chunk of coal and brought it back up. He handed it to william who looked over the chunk before pushing energy into it to make it glow his signature colors and slowly shaping it into a sphere. Once it was completely spherical, he loaded it into the cannon. "Fire" the cannon fired and the orb was shot towards the ships heading for berk. As it flew through the air it separated into no less than three dozen orbs. When they made contact with the ships they exploded in tremendous golden fireballs, reducing the ships to ashes.
From the debris was a single survivor, the leader. He watched as his ships sank to the bottom of the ocean, in that moment he swore revenge on whoever this man was, and he would make him pay dearly.
William sighed internally secretly enjoying the massive golden explosions, but he forced away those feelings and steeled himself for what was to come, the discussion.
"Pull the ship around the back side of the island while I go 'discuss' things" said William as he prepared to make his way back to Berk.
"Oh by discuss do you mean kill people" Michael said in his usual thick state.
"No by discuss I mean I propose an idea and they take it or… actually I don't know what I'll do if they don't take the offer" William said shrugging his shoulders.
Michael chuckled "Smartest person in the world and still can't work a plan worth a damn"
"Well you know I'm still the same as I was last year, only several hundred times stronger" said william with a chuckle of his own.
"Thats an understatement" Michael breathed under his breath.
"Oh shut up and sail the ship to the far side of the island, I've got to negotiate a deal" William said exasperated.
"I thought you said there wasn't going to be a negotiation" Michael said with a smirk.
"Oh shut up and do what I said!" William said in mock anger.
With one last glance to Michael, William few off to set up a meeting with the village chief in the mead hall. He could only hope that there would be a positive outcome.
Longest chapter yet... And I finally have a direction I want to go with this story which explains the long wait... Also I've got some new story ideas that will be put into action in the future...
(1). In Chronicle about half way through the people actually are able to use telekinesis to fly and other fun jazz...
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