A Daring Rescue
It was quite late in the evening when the Knights returned to the forsaken temple with their abducted victims. They're all unconsciousness but otherwise uninjured. They came into the conference section anticipating additional instructions from their leader who had changed out of his disguise that made him a dead ringer for the Phantom of the Opera in the Masquerade Scene to his typical black outfit with his features concealed by his mask.
"Master Blackwings we've all the children who reside in the palace as well as the visiting Crown Princess. What do you wish for us to do with them?" asked the human known as Johann in an insinuating voice. He was longing to do some act of savagery or have some kind of 'merriment.'
"Please take our guests to the chamber off to the right-hand side and make sure they are treated with the utmost reverence. That they are treated humanely, courteously furthermore made comfortable and pleasant.
After you've done that you'll find parchments with your names ascribed to them. They'll designate you to your subsequent obligation. You'll carry them out speedily, wordlessly and without question.
All that will be left is a few of you to bring me the oldest Savior to me. The one is known as "Hiccup". You are to bring him here alive, but unharmed. Simply bring him here to me and I'll deal with him myself.
Now go and do your duties!" as he waved them off and though both thoroughly perplexed as well as bewildered by their master's degrees they obediently did as they're instructed by "Blackwings" By first making their hostages cozy and comfortable in what seemed to be an enormous guest room before going forth to do their other duties.
Meantime, Blackwings was in his secluded antechamber looking again at his peculiar tabernacle and saying again "Soon, it will all end and soon the pain will end and all I seek will come together and we will be together again, Mims. You, me and Morning Star. Soon!"
Back at the Palace things were still pretty much in turmoil as all the parents were outraged their children had been kidnapped right under their noses and everyone was feeling even more violated that the Knights had infiltrated the palace in the first place!
Which is why it was up to Deadly Siren now to use every cross-examination ability she knew now on Singfried and then some to get him to speak and spill his guts on everything he knew about the Knights. Or at least that was their hope or they had nothing to get them to move forward and find the hostages.
Therefore she was right now in an isolation tower that was designed precisely for that purpose and that purpose alone. It was total isolation for there was no sound or light with barely above freezing temperatures and made you feel very claustrophobic. It would make any policeman happy to have this kind of box to get a confession out of the bad guys.
They let him stew in there for a few hours whilst the Royal Guards dealt with securing the rest of the palace and calming down the people along with restoring order among everyone else.
"Are you sure she's not gonna be too barbarous when she questions him? That there not gonna be torture involved? I mean we remember all too well what Purgatory was like. That what the prison beneath Hel's Citadel in Helheim was called. And yeah it unequivocally lived up to the name she gave it. For that place was worse than the one spoke of in the Bible!" proclaimed Una in terror as she quivered as her powers brought it back the full extent of that ominous place.
"I wish we didn't have to use this room but we need information quickly and trust me Deadly Siren the one to get it. If we have to get a little bit...physical... we will," replied Toothless reluctantly. He didn't like using any dishonorable tactics himself but time and honor weren't on their side any longer.
"Don't sink so low you become your enemy Toothless!" warned Hiccup as he glared at his best friend a Night Fury with a human-like body who looked about to come undone by the events happening around him.
"Desperate times desperate measures, Hiccup," he looked exhausted, depressed and honestly praying that he'd be pardoned for any wrongdoings about to be committed, "Now Deadly Siren gonna take a crack at it. Let's see how she does. We've let him stew in there for a good half hour. Let's hope it's enough," he whispered softly under his breath.
Deadly Siren proceeded wordlessly into the tower and shut the door. For a long and agonizing amount of time, no-one saw or heard what she was doing in there so it was left entirely up to their imagination what she was doing to interrogate their prisoner.
Although she seemed rather haggard and withdrawn when she came out. "He's a bit of a husk of a man, but he did cooperate in the end. You can take him to the dungeon now. I've gotten all I could out him," as she wiped a fine film of perspiration from her brow and sunk to the floor. Looked like she wanted to unsee what she had just done herself.
"What exactly happened in there?" questioned the Haddocks and she simply shook her head. "Better not to ask. Don't need to give you nightmares."
"Well let's get to the rest of the Council and find out what we do need to know and sort it all out then," Toothless responded as he started to escort everyone down the dimly illuminated corridor.
"Alright, my King"
Once they reached the Council Room everyone rage only escalated to the point a knife would break if you tried to cut it. It was energizing the air and was creating quite the maelstrom that was for sure. This would be far worse then any typhoon or cyclone if unleashed back home on Earth that was for sure with how powerful this was getting.
There was so much screaming and yelling from everyone and the chaos was only building that Toothless was forced to resort to a power that he might have needed at a much later time. However, given the situation at hand, he had no choice but to use it or they never have been calm enough to address the actual predicament and deal with it.
He used the Roar of the Night Fury which meant he gathered all the powers plus energy of every Night Fury that ever lived or was currently alive and with a mighty roar let loose a Night Fury shaped plasma blast. This was the most dominant burst of plasma energy and the mightest display power on his part.
It was so powerful it could've obliterated half the kingdom if used for the wrong purposes which are why he didn't use it except he had no other choice. But as it was he had sufficient control over it that was only for show and hung in the air. Therefore didn't do anything fatal and pacified everyone.
"Wow! Now that's powerful!" whispered the Haddocks impressed to see King Toothless use it as they had seen Dragon Toothless use it before. So this was quite remarkable in any form when he used it.
When everyone saw the King used one of his forbidden powers they all shut up and started to behave immediately.
King Toothless took three deep breaths and settled down. "Look," he started out sternly, "I know we are all reaching the point we can't return from in so many ways and it's actually forcing all of us to resort to using our most forbidden powers.
Powers and abilities we wouldn't think of using under normal circumstance. But we if we must use our forbidden powers to stage a rescue and defeat the Knights then we must.
Now kindly shut up and listen to what we've learned through the interrogation of one of the Knights? Who is a traitor to us? Our ex-war minster Singfried? Deadly Siren your report?" he demanded in a hot-tempered voice and the returned guardian answered promptly.
"Well, we knew from the start that fellow was never on the side of peace and despised humans with a burning murderous passion. He told me he gave his new lord and master everything he had on that consisted of our weapons, vehicles and personal defenses.
Consequently, it was anything he knew from his job as War Minster he was able to give to the Knights. Which is why they knew how to get around the guards and neutralize our defense and weapons. They had that edge.
He also said the total member number of the Knights which is a mix of traitors of Draco Beings and Humans all contribute in different ways.
Any skill or knowledge is shared among this group which is a peculiar mix of a cult, terrorist and supremacy group all rolled into one. Although he only knew a few names as no one was allowed to know everyone names in case one was caught they couldn't disclose the group entirely."
"Well, that certainly works in their favor. Did he give you any names that might be useful at all?" the king asked despairingly.
"One name of a human he was apparently close to as they alike in mind, body, and spirit. A man called Johann? He was at one point an associate with the man who tortured my family as a child Drago Bludvist."
"JOHANN?! TRATIOR JOHANN LIVES HERE?!" cried the Haddocks and everyone looked at them with interest immediately.
"You know of this man in your world?" Queen Moon Shadow questioned in excitement and curiosity.
"Know him? He was one of our greatest enemies! If he's here we can better other humans in this cult would likely be his allies like Krogan or Drago. Maybe even some of the Dragon Hunters if all people from our world have counterparts!" screamed Una emphatically recalling her first life memories of the villainous man to their island of Berk.
"Well, we did have rogue humans that broke apart from the settlement numerous decades ago to follow their own paths. Some of those names do sound vaguely familiar," Leontes admitted from the far end of the crystal table.
"It would make sense then the Knights are made up of the 'evil" dragons we encountered in our world! So the wicked humans and evil dragons that we faced in our past lives would make up your knights! That would make the most logical sense!" cried Boden with that flash of understanding.
"Can you inform us all who were considered evil in your first lives? All these rogue evils you faced in your first lives as Vikings and we could check the names and see if matches up with those who seem likely to be part of the group?" everyone asked them urgently.
"We can try to do a quick memory show if that helps. Still, it will be draining. But you all will have to pay close attention," Hiccup ordered them as he and his siblings held hands and unleashed their joint powers.
They then recalled every single villain they ever faced in their first life both human and a dragon and by the time they're done they're very pale, weak and barely able to stand. But it was done.
The council was talking amongst themselves about who they could recognize from these forms and translated and it only took 45 minutes to account for everyone that had to have made up the Knights was indeed the villains that the Haddocks had faced in their world.
"Okay, we at least have who are the 24 followers who make up the Knights. But then who is the guy who was dressed in the blood-red costume and speaking from the scriptures?
He is still unidentified and we must find out who he is and quickly. He's a great danger and if we don't stop him he'll try to bring about something that not his business to bring about!" cried Sister Pearl in horror. She looked the most apprehensive as if the apocalypse was upon them.
"That even during my interrogation Singfried couldn't give me the answers too. This mystery man in black just showed up out of nowhere he said one day. He came to each of them. Approached them and he said brought them to a mysteriously abandoned temple that he can't tell you where it is.
The man seems to have a magical mask that changes his voice and no-one ever seen his true face. No-one knows his real name or who he really his. And even though he writes their instructions down on scrolls they doubt it's really his handwriting.
He simply asked to be called "Blackwings" but everyone can tell that not this man's true name. They aren't even sure what he says is true. He seems to have powers but they're not sure if it's smoke and mirror magic or actual powers.
He's just odd they say. He'll order them to do one thing but act contradictory of their own orders. So no-one is too sure who or what Blackwings is or what he's really thinking or feeling."
"His memories are obscured from me. Like he's trying to guard them against me. They're shrouded in almost in a black mist and others in a blinding white light. I can only make out outlines and hear voices.
Although the voices I can't hear what's being said or really what's going on. I've also never encountered a person whose heart held so many memories or could do this to hide their memories in such a way from me." Hiccup confessed. He clearly didn't understand why his powers weren't working on this guy.
"His emotions are as complex as his memories are. They are extreme but he's trying to keep them buried at the same time. Like he's trying to conceal them from me. But he's a totally complex person.
However, I know I've never encountered a soul like this one for I'm having a hard time getting a lock on him. Even when he was standing near me I was having a hard time locking on to him. It was almost as if he wasn't of this world or not human or dragon. But something else entirely." Boden was also stumped why his powers wouldn't work on this character.
"I'm seeing flashes of events that make no sense and I can't tell if they are of the past or future because they are all jumbled. But I'm still feeling a very strong female presence. She's been following me since the graveyard and been trying to gather enough energy to manifest or at least for me to be able to hear her.
But something is keeping her from being seen or heard. But I can tell she's important and has something vital to say but it's like she's caught between worlds and still can't get enough energy to speak." Una who was speaking of another soul who she could feel was connected to this person that her own powers were failing to work on.
"What are we going to do then? We've no way of finding the Knight's headquarters if Singfried won't lead us to this abandoned temple. And if he's got nothing to offer us on this mysterious "Blackwings" and your powers can't tell us more then that how are we going to find the children and Crown Princess Astrid?" demanded the Council.
Before the Haddocks could say more of what they'd been suspecting for a long time Hiccup fell to the floor as if he was having a heart attack which in a way he was. But not the medical kind.
"Hiccup!" everyone cried out in a panic but he pushed them off.
"I've got to go! Someone hurting Astrid! I've got to go!" and he got up and bolt faster then one could imagine a one-legged boy could go. Particularly one who still hadn't really got used to his prosthetic leg.
"No! Hiccup! Don't it's a trap!" cried his little sister her danger sense kicking in as she raced to stop her older brother but it was too late as true love was overriding common sense and everyone bolted to catch up with the 16-year-old boy.
Boden unleashed his astral projection self and came back in time to order everyone to stop at the foot of the palace steps. They halted and were a little freaked out to see Boden's soul self. He quickly returned to his body and explained what he had just witnessed.
He'd just seen Hiccup being abducted when he reached some type concealed passage by a memorial near the church and Sister Pearl did something very unlike a holy woman. She cursed out loud stunning everyone present. She smacked her head as if she was embarrassed for being so dense and then revealed why she felt so stupid.
"The Dragonbone Catacombs! They are all but forgotten! How can we have been so stupid?! They run beneath the entire kingdom and miles out into wildness!
They're remnants from before the kingdom was established from the battle that White King and Dark King fought! You know from chapter 14 of the Book of Wisdom and Foretelling? The one where both Divine Couples fought and it almost obliterated this realm?
That's where they enshrined their deceased! The Dragonbone Catacombs they are a nearly inescapable twisting labyrinth of tunnels! And we forgot all about them and the secret entrances that are found throughout the kingdom and in the wastelands!" she exclaimed in a dumbfounded tone and smacked her head again.
"Where are they taking our brother?" demanded Una anxiously to the dragon-human nun.
"My guess is wherever the Knights met. However, I've no recollection about some abandoned Temple. As the Head of the Dragon Kingdom Church, I know the exact location of every temple, shrine or place of worship. Anything that is holy and related to Silver Queen and White King I've through knowledge.
So there can't be an abandoned temple I've no knowledge of! There must be some mistake!"
"Unless it was eradicated from all knowledge. Therefore no-one would remember it. Or perhaps not remember someone." whispered Una unostentatiously.
"What?!" everyone cried out in shock at Una's words.
"What are you saying, Una?" demanded the Head of the Church to the girl as if she just offended her in some way.
"We believe there more to this story then meets the eye. Us and our brother have long suspected this is related to your religion and the person behind this is someone that Silver Queen and White King know very well. Very well indeed.
We've been suspecting that since we first got here and from what both our powers and guts have been telling us," explained Boden unabatingly.
"There is no-one that the Divine Couple would know that could possibly be behind all this!" Sister Pearl insisted obstinately.
"Nothing is ever as it seems. Believe us we've lived two lives and know of a broken timeline. You call all three of us your Saviors. Trust us when we say if you want this to be resolved you must speak to the ones who have the answers. You must speak with White King and Silver Queen." Una was insisted in her own stubborn way.
While the group at the palace was reluctant to try to do anything to call forth the divine couple someone wasn't.
Hiccup was lying down on a bed and someone waved a spring of a plant under his nose to wake him up.
"Ugh! Uh? Ah!" he drew the sword Toothless had lent him and a voice called out. "Relax your safe! I swear no harm will come to you, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III.
I'm not gonna harm you, your brother or sister or even the children or your love Crown Princess Astrid. If you're worried about them, don't be. They're in the bedroom that was once Silver Queen's. I've sealed off and it's under special protection. No-one gonna hurt them especially the Knights.
All they are now is in a bewitched slumber just dreaming that their heart's desire has come true. They're perfectly safe and will remain safe. No harm will come to them. You have my word."
"Who are you? Where am I?! What's going on?!" demanded Hiccup as he tried to figure out where he was in this unfamiliar room. Not really remembering how he was abducted or how he got here.
"Well, where you are is the forgotten Temple of the Morning Star. What is going on I brought you here specifically because I wanted you to hear the truth. Not lies or someone else version of the events. But from the person who lived it and hear the true story and hopefully you'd understand. Maybe show me some compassion and sympathy?"
"Who the hell are you?! Come into the light!" he harshly demanded the voice who was hiding in the shadows.
"Very well. No use hiding in the dark anymore anyway," as a person came into the light and Hiccup was stunned who he was looking at.
He was looking at a guy who appeared to be 21 years old. He was about 6'1 with waist length snow white hair with a streak of silver going down the middle. He was of the same body type he had when he'd last visit the Dragon Kingdom with clothes more similar to what he'd worn in first life when he was 15 as a Viking just more of a neutral pallet.
The man also had pointy ears, silver markings around his stunning blue eyes and in the center of his forehead was a bright gold six-pointed star. But you could tell even though he looked young he was much older then he appeared you could see that plainly in his eyes.
"Who are you?" Hiccup asked kinder this time to the young man who seemed to unwind and smiled before politely introducing himself.
"My name is Aaron. Aaron Morningstar. And I've waited 1001 years to finally met you, Hiccup Haddock. To finally tell you my story and maybe by the end of it ask you for a favor."
"A favor? 1001 years?!" he asked in disbelief. He wasn't sure who Aaron was and couldn't believe a guy who didn't look a day older than 21 could live over a millennium was wanting a favor from him. But then again he had been reincarnated himself and done quite a few amazing things of his own. So, therefore, nothing should surprise him all that much.
"Yes, I've lived an extremely long and lonesome life and know only rare occasions of happiness. However, I've known a plenty of misery, grief, and depression. But also about being unreasonably compared to someone else, having unfair expectations and not being accepted for who you are."
"You have my attention, Aaron. So tell me this tale you wish to tell me. And I'll be the judge at the end of what I find it to be of whatever you tell me."
"My story begins before the war between Draco Beings and Humans. It actually starts at the end of the war between White King and Dark King. That's where it starts..." he opened and back at the palace this story was starting to be told by three people.
Boden and Una had finally convinced Moon Shadow to use her forbidden power to summon White King and Silver Queen from their home realm and forcefully bring them to the Dragon Kingdom. The Divine Couple took one look at Boden and Una and they knew without them speaking what this was about.
"This about Aaron isn't it? You discovered the truth we've kept hidden for over a millennium haven't you?" asked White King and Boden nodded.
"There is only one reason I couldn't read his emotions the way I can read others and that if he's neither human or a dragon evolved into a human form. He's NOT human or dragon, is he?" pressed Boden getting in the God and his wife's face.
"No, he's not," Silver Queen cried in a breaking voice. Her voice was breaking as was her heart and she was shaking as she fell to the ground weeping regretfully. "Oh, my Aaron! What have I done? What did I do to my baby?"
"What? What are you speaking about, Silver Queen?" questioned Sister Pearl for all the Draco Beings and humans gathered around and Una replied simply. "She's talking about her son. Hers and White King's child."
"WHAT?! They don't have a child! There nothing about them having a child we told you that!"
"Because we wiped all memory and knowledge of his existence from this world! Oh, what crime have we committed to our baby?! Our only child! Oh, what kind of mother am I?!" she cried hysterically. "Oh, the shame! I shouldn't even call myself a mother at all! Not after what I did to my own son! I should be killed for I did to him!"
"My love we had to do it! What he did..."
"And are we not suppose to be merciful? Understanding?! Did we ever in 1001 years ever think we might have played a part in what happened or we may have done some wrong? We are his parents and maybe we did wrong!" she shot back at her husband who looked away. Clearly, they hadn't address this subject in a long time. Too long apparently and it may be too late now to resolve it.
"What are you all talking about?! What happened?!" the people of the Dragon Kingdom all were confounded by this and desiring the story and gradually it began to come out the truth that had been long forgotten.
Back with Hiccup Aaron was explaining part of the story. "After the first war and all the anguish and misery, no-one thought there could be a ray of sunshine or hope of any kind. But there was. My mother found out she was expecting me.
All of the Dragon Kingdom was so happy. So happy after the war that a new life was being born after a time of such tears and mourning. They erected this temple so they could take care of my mother personally throughout her pregnancy to guarantee that her baby I was delivered healthy and was the miracle they needed after the world almost ended.
I was born in this very room," he gestured to the room they were currently occupying and looked at the ancient cradle. "I was born when the morning star was rising and wrapped in swaddling clothes. I was considered a miracle.
It was a day of celebration for one and all. So much they painted this portrait to mark my birth and to forever remember the one and only child of Silver Queen and White King," as he yanked off the trap and Hiccup was stunned to see the couple holding a baby that was clearly Aaron.
"You are the son of White King and Silver Queen?! You're a Prince?!" he asked in amazement and Aaron nodded finally happy someone, at last, knew who he was.
"Yes. I'm neither human or Draco Being. I'm a Divine Draco Being. This will explain why you all have trouble with your powers on me. I had special powers of my own at one time," he explained when Hiccup interrupted him.
"What do you mean one time? As a Divine Draco Being and Bewilderbeast shouldn't you be like omnipotent?!"
Sighing heavily he sat back down on the bed before looking back into Hiccup's emerald green eyes with his amazing azure blue ones. "That's not exactly how my childhood played out, Hiccup," he replied morosely.
"We're so ecstatic to have our son and for first six years, all was well. But then things started to change. We thought it was typical childhood phases and he'd grow out of it. But he didn't," explained White King as he commenced to reveal about his son to all who had gathered around them. Everyone was barely breathing and almost no one dares utter a word as this story came out.
"What exactly are you talking about? What did he do that was so bad?" Boden wanted to know exactly what White King was talking about. He was having again trouble with the Divine Couple emotions, but he and Una wanted the whole story and maybe a fresh perspective could put this in the right perspective it should've been in the first place.
"Well you have to understand as a Divine Draco Being we have a certain image to maintain. Responsibilities, duties, expectations. Those things to think about and we've to be there for our people; our children," White King started to explain but the 11 and 6-year-old still just looked at him and his wife wanting more of an explanation than just that.
So Father of all Dragon who was as white as snow sighed and tried to further explain his own actions while at the same time try to justify what he had done with his own child.
Therefore it wasn't exactly appropriate for him to throw temper tantrums that with his divine powers caused natural disasters upon this world. Or when we had to help the people him to run off and play.
I swear at times he either couldn't sit still, pay any attention, or his moods would shift so quickly we couldn't keep up and he had all kinds of social problems! It was a disaster! We couldn't get him to behave properly at all."
Boden and Una looked at each other and were thinking "That's typical child behavior and your upset with that? Divine or not he was being a normal kid. And his other symptoms sound all too familiar."
Suddenly Silver Queen looked at the two children who were known as the Savoirs grievously and spoke in a faint but broken voice full of agony. "It got worse when he was a teenager and started to rebel and was the exact opposite of a holy being. It's like everything that you expect a holy person to be he wasn't. Like he worships sin and had no morals or virtue."
Aaron in the meantime was telling Hiccup. "They weren't listening to me! I kept trying to tell them something was wrong with me! And all they could do was keep telling me to grow up and be perfect!
That I wasn't acting like the perfect son! That wasn't the perfect holy prince I was supposed to be! That I should be more like you three! All I ever heard was I should be more like the godforsaken saviors!
I kept trying to tell them my true feelings and that something was going on inside me but they wanted their expectations and their idea of the perfect son and what the Draco Beings thought I should be that I wasn't allowed to just be myself!"
"That's rough, boy can I really related to your childhood. I've lived through that twice!"
"Well, I'm glad you can but you didn't do something that got you banished, stripped of your powers and cast out for all time and then your very existence forgotten by one and all!" Aaron had turned his back to Hiccup and was crying with his lips trembling remembering that horrible day.
Hiccup got up and put a hand gently on his shoulder before asking him in a very understanding voice. "What did you do? What could you possibly have done to deserve that?" Hiccup was curious as to what the son of the equivalent of God and Virgin Mary of the Draco Beings could've done that would've led to exile from their version of heaven.
That is his old life be like Odin banishing Thor from Asgard. Or any other religion the head of it banishing their children from their home it was unspeakable even in normal family terms that a parent could kick their child out their home then wipe out their entire existence.
Aaron sighed as he slowly turned around to face Hiccup and explained. "It was shortly after my 21st birthday and it was years of suffering from what I know was some misdiagnoses bad stew in my head. Years of too much pressure to fulfill too many expectations and other people thoughts of who I should be.
I was only rebelling and acting sinfully as both a cry for help and to get them to stop making me act like someone I wasn't. You know as any normal teenager does? Did you ever do that? Wasn't your life like that? You and siblings?"
"Well, we sure didn't fit the mold of 'normal' Vikings. And yeah all of Berk didn't think we're the 'perfect' heirs either. And from what I can tell you're suffering from all the same mental illness that myself and my siblings have.
But you were misdiagnosed and untreated. But even we know what its like to be ridiculed, harassed and not accepted for who you are and just wanting to be yourself. And unfairly compared to others," he told him honestly which made Aaron smile to see Hiccup was actually sympathizing with him and understanding him like he hoped he would.
"Well, my bad stew in my head combined with my emotions and divine powers proved to be the perfect storm for what my parents consider the final straw that broke the camel back.
Even if it was a total accident and I didn't mean for it to happen!" he exclaimed as he started to explain the beginning of the end of his life.
"When our son came of age and was suppose to have his accession ceremony to fully form the holy trinity for all of Draco Beings he did the one act that was totally unforgivable!" White King explained the story as he remembered it.
"What did your son to that was so unforgivable?" they all wanted to know.
"He used his powers for reasons unknown to start the war between Draco Beings and Humans that last for 1000 years! He kept claiming it was an accident but he was the spark that starts the fire of a 1000 years of carnage, disharmony, and hatred!" bellowed White King furiously.
He obviously hadn't gotten over this not even a millennium later. Was he ashamed that his son had done this? Was he disappointed? What was he feeling over the incident? No one not even Boden or Una could figure it out.
"Please White King! Don't speak of your son that way!" pleaded Silver Queen still sobbing uncontrollably.
"How can you say that, Beloved? How could it have possibly been an accident? He claims that those phantom illness he tried to convince us were plaguing him caused him to have a meltdown and that we put too much pressure on him before the ceremony.
And that his powers spun out of control and the end result it started a war between the humans and the Draco Beings! He was lying! He was just not wanting to take responsibility like always placing blame on anything or anyone else other than being a man!" he shouted at his wife bitterly.
"I know that what we thought at the time, beloved. And that's why we did the ultimate punishment. Stripping him of all his divine powers except his immortality and banishing him from his home to live forever among mortals.
But what if he wasn't lying? What if something was wrong with him and we never listen to him? We never even checked on him after we left him to dwell among the mortals. What does that say about us parents?!" cried Silver Queen lamenting.
"What could have been wrong with him that we won't notice?" demanded White King furiously. He was being so unreasonable as he couldn't acknowledge he could've made a mistake or he didn't want to admit he was as human as the rest of the world. No matter if he was the God of the Draco Being or not. That he too made mistakes and like any parent was just as guilty of not listening to his child.
"How about the fact he was mentally ill?!" yelled Boden and Una in unison blatantly pointing out what obviously been disregarded in this case. Leaving the Divine Couple to look at them flabbergasted and opened mouth and asked one word. "What?"
"All three of us suffer multiple mental illnesses! Furthermore sounds like Aaron had all of our bad stews!" exclaimed Boden wildly wailing his arms about dramatically.
They still seemed perplexed and Una who veins in her forehead looked just exasperated and shouted right into their faces bluntly.
"Hiccup has ADHD, depression and an anxiety disorder. Boden is a Type 1 Bi-Polar and I've Asperger's Syndrome! And it sounds like Aaron had the bad luck having the extraordinarily bad stew of having all we had in his head!"
"That's preposterous! I'm willing to believe that Silver Queen and White King had an unknown child! But whoever heard of a Divine Child having a mental illness?" Sister Pearl asked with skepticism.
"Is it really that absurd? You are dragons given human form! Furthermore, I would say you also made similar blunders a lot of parents make. Don't be too harsh on yourself. But you put expectations on your child that was too high or unfairly comparing him to someone else," Boden pointed out to the whole room who had to agree with that reasoning it really wasn't that far-fetched when you put it that way.
"Or wishing for the child you wanted and not loving and appreciating the child you had and accepting him for who he was and not what you wanted him to be. But there is someone here who wants to tell you something. Something you need to hear." Una was trying to remain calm however she was channeling a spirit who had grown extremely restless with wanting to be heard.
"Who?"
"Someone who knows Aaron extremely well. She wishes to communicate through me. I'm giving her permission to use my body to communicate. So know it's not me speaking right now it's the spirit who been trying to say something you need to hear."
The only thing to show Una was possessed by a spirit was her blue eyes changed to a lovely shade of green and her voice changed.
"Hello, Silver Queen. White King. It's such an honor to finally meet you after 500 years. I've waited half a millennium to meet my in-laws"
"IN-LAWS?"
"Yes, my name is Mims. I'm the spirit of Aaron Morningstar's wife. I have got a tale to tell you about what happened to him and what he truly seeks now."
Back with Hiccup and Aaron Aaron was showing Hiccup what the shrine was about. "500 years I remained isolated in this disintegrating temple. Didn't have anywhere else to go and this was the only home I knew.
I was virtually mortal only I couldn't die. Except for the pain, I felt each day was enough to make me die. I was all alone and in a world where I was shunned by both sides. I wasn't trusted by either humans or Draco Beings. As a result, I just lived here all alone for 500 years.
Then one day a terrible storm came and nearly brought the whole temple down. You can still see how much damage it caused. I was trapped and gravely wounded. I felt for sure this time I was gonna die.
Then out of nowhere, she came. My angel. My Mims." as he removed the cloth and revealed the picture of a woman whose beauty was only equal to that of Hiccup's mother Valka.
She looked about somewhere in her mid-twenties with the face of an angel with loving sympathetic light-green eyes and long ginger hair in a similar hairstyle to his mother. Her outfit was also like his mother Viking outfit only it was light green and chocolate brown. Around her neck was the locket which was now laid on the altar.
"I'll never know where she came from or what she was doing in the middle of nowhere or how she found the forgotten temple. But she saved my life that night 500 years ago. In every way possible she saved me."
Aaron held the locket tightly in his hands before singing a song about his angel.
It was a day
Just like any other day
I was a boy
Just like every other boy
But when the girl
Unlike any, I had seen
It's like she stepped out of a dream
And into my world
Could have been the summer wind
Playing with her hair
As the sun danced in her eyes
We were standing there
She smiled I forgot my name
'Cause all I was thinking
Maybe I'm crazy but I'm praying
That an angel will love me
An angel will love me
Maybe I'm a fool but I'm still falling
Asking heaven above me
For an angel to love me
The rest of my life
You're the proof that the Father answers prayers
'Cause somehow someway
You and I are standing here
With the sacred promise
And a ring that says it all
I've just begun to fall
From the deepest part of me, I say I do
Maybe I'm crazy but I'm praying
That an angel will love me
An angel will love me
Maybe I'm a fool but I'm still falling
Asking heaven above me
For an angel to love me
The rest of my life
After all the changing seasons
Have turned to years
The crowns are gone
And the suns have faded
I'd still be here
Holding you
When thanking heaven
For my angel
Maybe I'm crazy but I'm praying
That an angel will love me
An angel will love me
Maybe I'm a fool but I'm still falling
Asking heaven above me
For an angel to love me
The rest of my life"
"I got separated from my tribe because of the war. I wandered for days and like an answer to my prayers, I found the temple. But when I entered I heard someone in trouble and rush to their aid and low and behold I found half buried in the rubble, Aaron.
I rescued him and nursed him back to health. We were two lonely souls and made a home for ourselves in the temple and spent many months trying to restore the temple to its former glory.
I believe I was the only soul he ever confided in the truth of his life. He bared his heart and soul to me. I told him secrets I wouldn't share with anyone else. Then at night when we forged for food and supplies we spent many magical nights together.
Galloping through the trees, dancing amongst the phosphorescent wildflowers, we even went swimming sometimes in a nearby lagoon without any proper garments on. However, we had all kinds of adventures just the two of us together.
We fell so helplessly and hopelessly in love. For us, the rest of the world didn't exist it was just the two of us and the temple that was our home. We became as husband and wife."
"How long were you together?" Silver Queen wanted to know anxiously about her baby and his true love. The daughter-in-law she never knew she had. To miss out on her son falling in love? What kind of mother was she not see her baby fall in love?
The spirit of her daughter-in-law smiled as she sighed in rapture "Nearly nine years. It would've been forever until the day our dream ended and so did my life and so did Morning Star's."
"Aaron is dead? How can that be if he's the one behind all this?" White King asked baffled by this statement.
Mims shook Una's head to clear up the confusion before speaking. "Not Aaron. Morning Star our daughter."
"DAUGHTER?!" everyone yelled at this revelation. Clearly, they weren't expecting to hear that.
"This is my family. My wife and child. My beloved Mims and my daughter Morning Star," he said as he opened the locket and handing it to Hiccup who saw the photograph of Aaron's family.
It was Aaron, Mims and a newborn baby girl. He could see the girl had a clear mix of her parents genes. Her hair was ginger with a tiny wisp of silver. Her face looked even as a baby like her mother but with her father's silver marking and a gold star on her forehead and her eyes were the same blue as her father.
"What happened, Aaron? What is this all really about? It's not what you promised the Knights is it?" Hiccup questioned him softly as he handed him back the precious locket.
Sighing unhappily and profoundly he shut the locket. "I feel if I could do what was written in the Book of Wisdom and Foretelling my parents would finally be proud of me and forgive me. They might even allow me to come back home and restore my powers.
And if had my powers back I could do what I've wanted to do since that terrible day Mims and Morning Star were taken from me."
"What happened?"
"Morning Star had just been born. We're so happy. Everything was perfect and I couldn't be happier. But then the war that had never come to my home in all the time I had been exiled to this world finally came to our doorstep.
It was a blood-soaked massacre, Hiccup," he recalled and now Hiccup was able to see the memories with his powers. Aaron was crying again as he chocked out. "I tried to protect my wife and child but it was in vain. I don't know if it was the Draco Beings or Humans who did it. But at the end of it, the temple which we had almost restored to its former glory was yet again ruined and my wife and child were dead," he was really crying as his face was in his hands and he was sobbing and Hiccup was actually hugging him as he could see these terrible memories.
After a few moments, Aaron pushed him away and finished up his tale. "And I was all but dead again. I was so broken. The war I'd accidentally started because of my own bad stew in my head which my parents never listen to me about that led to my banishment?
It had led to me losing my family! And worse I couldn't join them in death! I was left to live forever with this pain.
Then one day I heard you finally all came here and brought an end to my accident and so I formed the Knights in hopes you be summoned back here. That you could all possible help me."
"How?" Hiccup asked not understanding how he could help but want to help all the same.
"That you could help me do something from the Book of the Wisdom and Foretelling and then convince my parents to allow me to come home so I can resurrect my wife and child!"
"And so he's been waiting all this time for the day he could hopefully have a shot to bring me and Morning Star back to life. All Aaron wants is to come home and be with those he loved," finished Mims explaining to everyone back at the palace.
"What about these Knights? How can he make sure they don't rebel that they won't turn on him and kill all of us? Or the hostages when they find out he's making empty promises?"
"That's what I'm worried about! All the spirits can sense they will turn on him because they can sense he's got power or not telling the truth. And they might also use him as a hostage to force you to take the Realm of Eternal Sun!" Mims was still speaking through Una.
"So all this time we made mistakes and we should've listened to our son when he was crying out for help." Silver Queen hung her head shamefully.
"Look we all make mistakes. All of us are human and there no guide to being parents! Everyone makes mistakes! And we all have regrets or things we can take back. Even our parents weren't perfect!" Boden shouted out a reminder that everyone no matter what reality they lived in should remember. That everyone was human and no one was perfect.
"And none of us are perfect either. I may be the King but I'm not a perfect person or parents as perfect is impossible."
"Either way we must still do a daring rescue to save the children, Crown Princess Astrid and now it seems Aaron and Hiccup." Sister Pearl pointed out what needed to be done.
"We can take you to the Temple. But we still need a plan." The Divine Couple offered the people of the Dragon Kingdom. They knew they had to find their son and atone for their own mistakes at long last.
"Well, we better figure out one face. Traitors don't hold loyalty even to the ones they turned tail on! Those Knights if they feel Aaron won't deliver what he promised or like Mims pointed out find out who and what he really is they'll sense the opportunity of a lifetime!
We have one daring rescue of a lifetime! This is one for the history books! Never thought I've to help save the Son of Silver Queen and White King!" Deadly Siren really looked taken back.
"I must come with you. I must help Aaron." Mims pleaded through Una.
"Can I talk to my sister again?" Boden asked and Mims nodded and Una's eyes and voice returned.
"Are you sure you don't mind sharing your body with Mims? I mean the last time you got possessed it wasn't exactly a good thing, remember?" he reminded her and Una looked at him with a smile.
"First off that was in the broken timeline and Hel was trying to make us angry. The Hel we know isn't like this. Second I've given Mims my permission to share my body so it isn't a forceful possession. Third I think we are really gonna need her to help us with this one. 4th. She can't have a corporal form so this is the only way she can come."
"Mims? Do you swear not to take forceful possession of my sister and to leave her body if Hiccup or I command you too?"
Una's eyes and voice changed to Mims and she nodded and said, "I shall never do anything to harm your sister. But I shall leave at any time you ask of me."
"Okay. Then let's get to this temple and save everyone before the Knights kill everyone!"
And with that, the group headed off before the Knights did go rogue and kill everyone.
Mims- Katherine Waterston- Tina Goldstein Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them
