Sorry this chapter took awhile I had writers block plus my Aunt was moving but her it is now. Before we begin a Guest asked if Rune (aka Hiccup) is gonna return to Berk. To answer your question, yes he will just not right now and that's all I'm gonna say I don't want to spoil it for you. Now that that's out of the way, Enjoy the chapter.
Ch. 8 The Dragonborn Comes
On Berk…
It had been a long day for the Hairy Hooligans of Berk. A lot of Vikings had died from that battle with the Dragon Sahqonyol and a lot more were injured. Stoick spent all day helping to prepare for their funerals, comforting the deceased loved ones and friends, and trying to figure out what that dragon was.
It was nothing like any dragon he had ever seen, or any Viking for that matter. After taking care of the funerals, Stoick began looking through the Book of Dragons for anything on that dragon named Alduin or that other dragon Alduin resurrected. But there was nothing.
So he began going through Bork's notes, but his chief duties were in the way. Luckily Fishlegs and Gobber offered to continue looking for Stoick, so he returned to his duties as the Chief.
The sun was beginning to set by the time Stoick returned to his house, exhausted by the day's work. He practically fell on his chair he was so tired. He would have fallen asleep right then and there if not for the knock at the door to revive him. So he got up and opened the door finding both Gobber and Fishlegs looking like they had just ran a dozen miles.
"Chief"… huff puff, "we think we found something in Borks journal" Fishlegs said panting and out of breath, along with Gobber.
"You gotta"… huff puff, "read this Stoick" Gobber said handing Stoick the old book.
"Well come inside" Stoick said inviting the two to come inside.
"So what is it you two found?" Stoick asked as he closed the door behind him.
"It's kind of hard to explain, read date 18th and 20th of Sun's Height in the journal and you'll understand" Gobber explained.
So the Chief sat down in his chair and began to read Bork's journal.
Monday 18th of Sun's Height
Two of my best friends Horker and Sven and I went to go hunting in the woods. While we were tracking a deer down we came across an old shrine of some sort with a mound in the middle. Out of curiosity the three of us took a closer look at the shrine. All we found were strange writings carved on the stones and a carving of what looked like a dragon with many people holding the hands out to it like they were worshiping it.
And when we dug up the mound we discovered bones of a dragon none of us have ever seen before. My friends and I spent the rest of the day studying the bones of the dragon, but we haven't found much on it other than it's larger than a Monstrous Nightmare and a Bonenapper. And according to the carvings on the wall, it was worshiped as if it was a god of some sort.
When we returned to Berk and told everyone about what we found. They were all enraged by the fact that a dragon was worshiped like a god and they all ended up destroying the shrine along with the bones of the dragon. I was upset what they did, because I was curious about that dragon and why it was worshiped, and more importantly what happened to the dragon worshipers that I assumed lived on this island before we came and settled here.
20th of Sun's Height
My friend Trader Arcan had come to trade with Berk today. I told him about what my friends and I discovered a few days ago, and just my luck he actually hadsome information on that old shrine and Dragon, or something like that. According to what Arcan heard about and learned during his travels, there was a particular group of dragons that according to the legends were the first dragons that came to existence.
They were the children of a god named Akatosh. Unfortunately my friend didn't know much on this Akatosh other than he's the god of time and is often depicted as a Dragon. As for the dragons which were named Akatoshbarn were immortal and many humans worshiped them like gods. But something happened and a rebellion started the first war between the dragons. But because of their sheer size and power, they were near impossible to kill.
Everything seemed lost until Kyn the goddess of the sky took pity on man and gave them the chance to fight back using the dragons own power against them, winning the war. Then the Akatoshbarns just disappeared. As for the runes themselves, Acan told me it was probably one of many barrels that the few faithful followers built. They believed there dragon gods will one day returned. And when they do the faithful will be rewarded. As for the Dragon worshipers themselves, they were all wiped out by either the Vikings or by snowstorms.
The thought of having a dragon to be near was impossible and scares me half to death, so I asked my friend if he there is any way to kill them at all. He answered the only way to primly kill an Akitoshbarn is if you're Dragonborn. According to Acan a Dragonborn is a human born with the ability to absorb a dragon's soul and use its powers as if they were dragons themselves.
But unfortunately Dragonborns are very rare and only one is born every few centuries or so. The last Dragonborn was an emperor named Talos but he died hundreds of years ago along with his bloodline. Though I am grateful for my trader friend helping me out, I feel like I have even more questions than answers.
Like…. where are the Akotoshbarns? Will they return? Who are Akatosh and Kyn really? And do Dragonborns in fact exist? And if they do come back, I pray to Odin that a Dragonborn or something like it to be born to take them down.
End…
Stoick sat there with Bork's journal in his hand somewhat amazed but very horrified at what he just read. He remembered that dragon named Alduin called himself the first born of Akatosh and that other dragon he brought back from the dead was almost impossible to kill. Could it be that those two were the Akatoshbarns? If so, Odin helped them!
"I take it your finished reading?" Gobber asked noticing his chief's/friend's shocked face. "Isn't it awesome Chief? A human that can actually absorb a dragon's soul and use its own powers!" Fishlegs called out excited like a little Viking on Snoggaltog. Fishlegs always liked learning about dragons.
At that moment the ground started to shake and there was a loud cry from outside
"DOVAHKIIN!"
and then the ground and the crying ceased.
"What in Odin's ghost was that!?" Gobber asked confused to what just happened while rubbing his sore ears. The three Vikings quickly walked outside to find the entire village out and confused to what just happened. Whatever is going on, Stoick prayed that Odin will protect them and give them strength to fight this new evil.
An hour earlier in Skyrim/Whiterun…
It was early in the evening when Rune and Malukah returned to Dragonsreach with the tablet with them. The two walked in to Farengar's study's finding the court wizard talking to a strange hooded figure in leather armor.
"You see? The terminology is clearly first era or even earlier. I'm convinced this is a copy of a much older text, perhaps dating back to the first dragon war" Farangar explained to the figure looking over some old texts.
"If so, I can use this to cross-reference the names with other later text" he continued.
The figure then turned to Farengar and said. "Good I'm glad you're making progress. My employers are anxious to have some tangible answers".
Judging from the voice the figure was definitely female.
"Oh, have no fear. The Jarl himself has finally taken an interest, so now I'm able to spend most of my time on this research" Farengar then said.
"Time is running Farengar don't forget. This isn't some theatrical question. Dragons have come back" the hooded figure said reminding him of the danger.
"Yes, yes don't worry" he told the hooded figure "Although the chances of seeing a dragon up close would be tremendously valuable."
It would appear that Farengar was secretly a nerd when it comes to dragons.
"Now let me show you something else I found…intriguing… I think your employers may be interested as well."
"You have visitors" the hooded figure interrupted when she noticed Rune and Malukah at the entrance.
"Ah, yes the Jarls protégé! Back from Bleak Falls Barrow? You didn't die it seems" Farengar greeted the two.
"Well it helps if you bring an expert in old Nordic ruins with you" Rune said complimenting Malukah.
"I wouldn't call myself an expert" the High Elf replied modestly.
"Anyway here's your stone tablet" Rune said giving it to Farengar.
"Ah! The stone tablet of Bleak Falls Barrow!" Farengar proclaimed excitedly.
"Seems you are a cut above the usual bruits the Jarl sends my way" he then complimented.
"Okay so now what happens?" Rune then asked.
"That's where your job ends and mine begins. The work of the mind, sadly undervalued in Skyrim" Farengar answered.
"My… associate will be pleased to see your handy work" he then turned to the hooded figure.
"She discovered its location by means she has so far declined to share with me."
But Malukah was more focused on the hooded figure next to the Jarls court Wizard. There was something about her that's familiar, but she couldn't put her finger on it. It would probably help if she removed her hood.
"So your information was correct after all" Farenger told the hooded figure. "And we have our friends here to thank for recovering it for us."
"You went into Bleak Falls Barrow and got that? Nice Work!" the female hooded figure complimented.
"Send me a copy of it when you've deciphered it" she then said before walking away.
She was about to leave the room when Malukah stopped her at the entrance.
"Pardon me, but have we met before?" Malukah asked the hooded figure.
"I'm sorry I don't believe we have" the figure simply said before leaving the room.
Just as the strange hooded figure left Irileth the Jarls Housecarl came in
"Farengar!" the Dark Elf called out as she entered the room vary alarmed.
"Farengar, you need to come at once. A dragon has been sighted nearby!" she then turned to both Rune and Malukah.
"You two should come too."
"A dragon, how existing! Where was it seen? What was it doing?" Farenger asked rather exited then afraid.
"Definitely a dragon nerd" Rune thought.
"I'd take this a bit more seriously if I were you" Irileth said slightly annoyed by Farengar's fandom.
"If a dragon decides to attack Whightrun, I don't know if we can stop it" Irileth then ran up the stairs fallowed by Farengar, Rune, and Malukah.
When the four reached the second floor they found the Jarl speaking to a Whiterun guard.
"So Irileth tells me you came from the western watchtower?" the Jarl asked.
"Yes, my Jarl" the guard replied.
"Tell him what you told me about that dragon" Irileth told the guard.
"Uh… that's right. I saw it coming from the south. It was fast…faster than anything I've ever seen" the guard then said.
"Where did it go? Was it attacking the watchtower?" the Jarl asked very worried.
"No my Lord" the guard answered. "It was just circling overhead. I never ran so fast in my life… I thought it would come after me for sure."
"Good work son, we'll take it from here. Head down to the barracks for some food and rest, you've earned it" the Jarl then said before the guard bowed and headed down stairs.
Once the guard left Jarl Balgruuf turned to his Dunmer Housecarl. "Irileth you'd better gather some guards and get down there."
"I've already ordered my men to muster near the main gate" Irileth quickly replied.
"Good don't fail me" the Jarl said before turning to Rune.
"There's no time to stand on ceremony, my friend. I need your help again. I want you to go with Irileth and help her fight this dragon."
"Okay my Jarl, but what can I do?" Rune then asked Jarl Balgruuf.
"You survived Helgen, not to mention you spent many years studying dragons, so you have more experience with dragons than anyone else here" the Jarl explained.
The Jarl did have a point; they are going to need help in taking down a dragon.
"Very well my Jarl" Rune then said before turning to the Dark Elf. "I'll meet you at the watchtower just as soon as I get more potions and retrieve my dragon."
"And I'll inform my guards of your dragon, so they won't be alarmed" Irileth then replied.
"Thank you I appreciate it" Rune thanked.
Farenger meanwhile was begging the Jarl if he could accompany Rune and Irileth, because he wanted to see the dragon. But the Jarl forbade it because he didn't want to risk losing him. Rune could see the disappointment on his face, but he understood. Note to self, keep him away from Toothless Rune thought before Malukah and him left.
The two made it to the market when Rune turned to Malukah and said."Malukah you don't have to come if you don't want to fight that dragon."
"Yea, fat chance of that" Malukah replied, obviously not backing down, nor letting Rune face that dragon alone.
"Are you sure, because I won't blame you if you're afraid?" Rune asked again no wanting to put her in danger.
"I need to know how to face these kinds of dragons sooner or later, might as well be now, and besides you are going to need all the help in order to take that down if it's anything like the dragon that attacked Helgen" Malukah answered determined to help her companion out.
"Hey Mal!" someone yelled from behind.
The two adventures turned around and saw two male warriors in armor. The first was a Nord judging from the large muscles, light skin and fair hair. His hair was reddish brown and messy with a few braids in it, light blue eyes and war black paint on his right eye (one line on top vertically and two on the bottom). He also wore heavy wolf armor with a sword and two axes attached to his belt caring an iron shield in his left hand and a long orcish bow on his back with some orchish arrows.
The other warrior judging from his green skin, heavily muscular frame and tusk on his lower jaw, this guy was an Orc or Orcmer. He was wearing all orcish armor from head to toe and carrying a two handed orcish sword and an orchish war hammer on his back along with two axes on attached to his sides. Rune did not know the two warriors, but Malukah knew them very well.
"Eran, Lurog! What are you two doing here?" asked, very happy to see the two.
"We just got back from a mission and herd you were in town" the Nord named Eran answered.
"Who's this scrawny human?" the Orc named Lurog asked noticing Rune right next to Malukah.
"Hey who are you calling scrawny?" Rune called out kind of insulted.
"Relax Rune, that's just how Lurog says hello." Malukah said calming Rune down.
"Anyway this is Rune he's new in Skyrim, Rune these two are Eran and Lurog, more of my shield brothers from the Companions." She said introducing each other.
"Well pleasure to meet you Rune" Eran said greeting while shaking Rune's hands.
"Are you looking to join the companions by any chance" the Nord then asked.
"I am interested, but I can't right now. The Jarl asked for my help taking down a….monster before it arrives in Whiterun" Rune replied not trying to give anything away what was really out there for fear of causing a panic in the streets.
"That wouldn't be a dragon would it?" Eran then asked which surprised both Rune and Malukah.
"How did you know it was a Dragon?" Rune asked.
"We over heard the Jarls Housecarl talking to her guards about killing a dragon when we entered the city" Lurog explained.
"But why would the Jarl send a runt like you to slay a dragon?" then Orc then asked.
"Well this runt hear happens to be an expert in dragons" Rune answered, kind of annoyed by the Orc's comment.
"Really?", Eran asked in disbelief.
"A dragon expert, I find that hard to believe!" the Orc laughed.
"Believe it or not it's true, I've seen it with my own eyes" Malukah said confirming Rune's talents. "And we're just on our way to take down that dragon right now."
"A runt taking on a dragon, now this I have gotta see" Lurog said laughing at the idea.
"Me too!", Eran added also interested in seeing Rune fight "If that's all right with you I mean?" the Nord then asked not wanting to be rude.
"No I don't mind, we could use all the help in taking the dragon down" Rune replied knowing the guards are going to need all the help.
"But first I need to get more potions and pick up my friends before we head off. And please don't draw your weapons when you meet them" he added.
"Okay, but what makes you think were goanna attack your friends?" Eran asked.
5 minutes latter…
Both the Orc and the Nord stood in shock as both Toothless and Sparrowhawk emerged from the woods and both Rune and Malukah began petting them. The two dragons then noticed the Nord and the Orc and began growling, that is until Rune comforted the two dragons and told them that they were their allies.
"Uh… those are dragons!" Eran said backing up a bit along with Lurog.
"Really I didn't notice, hey Toothless, did you and Sparrowhawk know that you two are dragons?" Rune asked sarcastically to the two dragons, both began laughing at Rune's joke.
"See I told you he's an expert in dragons" Malukah told the two shield brothers.
"But you never said his friends were dragons" Eran said kind of scared.
"Quit being a baby Eran, they're just overgrown lizards" Lurog said to the frightened Nord.
Toothless growled at the Orc's remark. "Well sorry if this is my first time seeing an actual dragon!" Eran shouted at the Orc.
"It's okay Eran" Rune said walking up to the scared Nord. "Just hold out your hand to show that you're a friend."
"Are you sure?" Eran asked nervously.
"Don't worry Eran, Rune knows what he's doing" Malukah said reassuring her scared shield brother.
"Just do it all ready, this is embarrassing enough as it is" Lurog growled at the ridiculous situation.
"Okay!" Eran yelled annoyed at the Orc.
Slowly the Nord moved towards Toothless and held out his hand. Toothless then sniffed the nervous Nord's hand and then placed his head on the Nord's hand.
"You see" Malukah then said.
"Wow! This is awesome!" Eran called out excitedly, as he began petting Toothless' head.
He could not believe that he was actually petting a real dragon.
"Now your turn Lurog" the High Elf then said.
"Well… okay" the Orc said as he held out his hand to Toothless, but the Night Fury tried to bite it off.
Seeing this as a threat Lurog whipped out his ax, but Rune stopped him.
"No Lurog, don't attack him."
"Talk to him, he tried to bite my hand off" Lurog said in defense.
"That's probably because you insulted him" Rune explained.
"What, you mean this dragon actually understood that?" the Orc asked surprised.
"Yes, Toothless is a Night Fury and Night Furys are very intelligent" Rune explained.
"I suggest you apologize" Malukah exclaimed.
Lurog didn't know what was crazier, the fact that this dragon understood him or the runt naming it Toothless when it clearly has teeth. But still he didn't want to get on the dragons bad side.
So the Orc slowly moved forward and said "Look I'm sorry I insulted you, can we let bygones be bygones?"
The Orc then held out his hand and this time Toothless placed his head on it purring happily.
"Looks like Toothless forgives you" Rune said.
Both Eran and Lurog then did the same hand thing with Sparrowhawk, and she to accept the two warriors as friends.
"Well… this is impressive" Lurog admitted.
"How did you accomplish this?" Eran asked.
"I'll explain later, right know we need to get to the western watchtower" Rune said as he mounted Toothless and Malukah did the same with Sparrowhawk.
"Come on hop on" Rune shouted.
"Uh...us on a dragon?" Eran asked nervously.
"Yes you, this is the fastest way to get to the watchtower and do not worry I've done this before" Rune said reassuring Eran.
"Well if it gets us there faster, I don't see why not" Lurog said as he walked towards Malukah and Sparrowhawk.
The Orc got on to Sparrowhawks back with Malukah's help as Rune helped Eran onto Toothless' back
"Now hang on tight" Rune said before Toothless took off.
The flight to the Tower was amusing, at least for Lurog. He watched as his poor Nord shield brother clung on to the Rune (nearly choking him) and closing his eyes like a scared child. Eventually they arrived at the watchtower which was in runes, but compared to what happened in Helgen, it was only minor. The two dragons landed were Irileth and some Whiterun guards gathered. Poor Eran quickly jumped off of Toothless and began kissing the ground, happy that the ride was over as the guards gave Toothless and Sparrowhawk apprehensive looks.
"I hope you don't mind, but my shield brothers from the Companions wanted to help out" Malukah explained as she, Lurog, and Rune dismounted the dragons.
"Good, the more men the better" Irileth replied not seeing any problem with it.
"No signs of any dragons besides those two. But it looks like he's been here" the Dark Elf then said as she noticed the Rune tower.
"I know it looks bad, bet we've got to find out what happened. And if that dragon is still sulking around somewhere." Irileth then ordered the guards and Rune's companions to look around for survivors.
Rune and his team came near the entrance as a single guard came out and called out to the four.
"No! Get back it's still here somewhere. Horki and Tor just got grabbed when they tried to make a run for it!"
Then a loud roar caught everyone's attention. Toothless looked to the sky and saw a brown dragon flying towards them. Poor Toothless was in shock, he recognized that dragon, Mirmulnir.
"Kynareth save us here it comes again!" the guard panicked.
"By Ysmir! Look at the size of that thing" Eran yelled as he quickly got out his bow.
"Well the bigger they are the harder they fall!" Lurog added as he got out his favorite Warhammer, ready to take on the dragon.
"Don't get cocky you two!" Malukah yelled as she got out her bow.
"Thuri du hin sil ko Sovngarde!" (My overlord will devour your souls in Sovngarde!).
Everyone shivered as they heard the word Sovngarde from the dragon's mouth. By Irileth's command all the guards shot all there arrows at the dragon, including Eran and Malukah. Rune meanwhile quickly got onto Toothless' back and the Night Fury quickly flew into the sky. Toothless flew around the dragon as Rune shot at the dragon with his crossbow shield.
When Mirmulnir noticed Toothless, the Night Fury froze in fear.
"Ful nii los vahzah, hi lost aav voth daar joor, hi los kroved wah dovah Dinokqo" (So it is true, you have joined with these mortals, you are a disgrace to the dragons Dinokqo) Mirmulnir spoke harshly to the Night Fury.
Now the dragon was after Toothless. The Night Fury quickly dodged Mirmulnir's fire.
"Uh… guys a little help, this dragon's on my tail" Rune yelled as he and Toothless flew around with the dragon right behind them.
Mirmulnir was about to fire again when he felt something sharp and cold hit his back side. He turned to his attacker finding Malukah and Eran both on Sparrowhawk's back with bow and frost spike spell in hand.
"Hey ugly, why don't you pick on someone your own size?!" Eran shouted insulting the dragon.
"You are brave bahlaan hokoron. Your defeat brings me honor" Mirmulnir then said to the two warriors on the Sharp Feather.
Soon the dragon started chasing Sparrowhawk with Malukah and Eran on her back.
"Uh… Mal, I'm almost out of arrows" Eran yelled worried realizing he's down to five arrows.
"Don't worry, were almost to the tower!" Malukah said as she steer Sparrowhawk towards the tower.
Lurog meanwhile waited patiently on top of the tower as Malukah and Eran lured the dragon closer to the tower. Once the dragon was close enough, the Orc began running towards the edge and leaped off of the building and onto the dragons back. He then proceeded to slash and hack at the dragons back with one of his axe's while trying to hold on the dragon attempting to get the Orc off of his back.
This caused Mirmulnir to crash land on the ground. The Orc was tossed off when the dragon crashed, but Lurog didn't let that stop him in fact he finds this quite exciting. He quickly got up and whipped out his warhammer and charged at the dragon along with the guards still standing and Irileth.
All the warriors on the ground began slashing and hacking at the dragon with all they got, but Mirmulnir burned them all with his flame breath and they all fell down in pain.
"Brit grah (Beautiful battle). I had forgotten what a fine sport you mortals can provide!" Mirmulnir exclaimed happily as he watched the mortals yelling in pain and agony.
Rune, Eran and Malukah all looked in horror as the dragon began burning the guards. Thinking quickly Rune ordered Toothless to fire multiple blasts at the dragon while doing a barrel roll (any on say's do a barrel roll joke and I will send the Dark Brotherhood after you). The Plasma blasts hit Mirmulnir and the dragon was now pissed off at Toothless.
"Quickly go and help the others, I'll distract this dragon" Rune ordered Malukah and Eran.
"Okay be careful!" Malukah replied before she directed Sparrowhawk to land near by the injured warrior.
Rune meanwhile had Mirmulnir fallowing both him and Toothless high across the evening sky.
"This is some major déjà vu here" Rune told Toothless. At that moment a faint memory appeared in his mind.
Flashback…
He was flying on the back of his dragon flying downward with a very large dragon right on his tail.
"Wait for it" he told Toothless as the dragon opened its mouth
"Now!" younger Rune yelled as Toothless flipped and fired a plasma blast into the dragons mouth, and it caused a chain reaction that burned the dragons trout.
End Flashback…
"That's it!" Rune yelled figuring out an idea to kill this dragon.
"Toothless dive downward, I got an idea!" He then told his dragon, and he obliged diving downward with Mirmulnir fallowing right behind them.
Rune looked behind to see the dragon right on his tail.
"Okay on my signal turn over and fire into his mouth" Rune told Toothless.
The Night Furys ears perked up after what Rune told him. This was exactly like how they defeated the queen, is Rune starting to remember? Now's really not the time for that, Mirmulnir has to be stopped before he kills anyone else. It kind of saddened the Night Fury that he has to kill Mirmulnir, but it must be done.
"Hi nis filok zey Dinokqo" (You cannot escape me Dinokqo) Mirmulnir said glaring at the Night Fury.
"I'm not planning on it" Toothless said to Mirmulnir.
"Waan tol los fos hi hind Dinokqo, ruz ful kos nii" (If that is what you wish Dinokqo, then so be it) Mirmulnir said as he was about to unleash his fire on the two.
"Now!" Rune yelled and Toothless obliged and turned around and fired into Mirmulnir's mouth.
Just like with the queen, the shot caused a chain reaction burning Mirmulnir's insides. The dragon roared in pain as he crashed to the ground.
With the opportunity wide open, Rune steered Toothless towards Mirmulnir. The minute they were close, Rune grabbed his gronkal iron sword, hoped off of Toothless' back and stabbed his sword into the dragon's for head, finishing him off.
"Dovahkiin? No!" were Mirmulnir's last words before he kicked the bucket.
Irileth, Malukah, Eran, Lurog, and all the guards still standing all stood in awe as the dragon fell down dead thanks to the team work between Toothless and Rune.
"Well I'll be, the runt actually killed the dragon" Lurog spoke aloud surprised at the human's skills.
But that was nothing compared to what happened next.
Rune hopped of the dead dragons head thanking Thor that his idea worked. Toothless ran up to Rune happy to see rider/friend was all right and in one piece.
"I can't believe that worked Toothless" Rune exclaimed exhausted but happy.
The Night Fury then started backing away from Rune looking like he's seen a ghost.
"Toothless, what's the matter boy" Rune asked confused.
"Uhh… Rune!" Malukah called out, pointing at the dead dragon.
Rune turned around and saw the dead dragon's body was disintegrating right before his eyes. And before he knew it ethereal threads came out of the dragon and wrapped themselves around Rune. His head began hurting like crazy as images began passing through his mind.
Rune's vision…
Rune saw his younger self-setting up his Bola shooter and waited patently for a dragon to pass by.
"Come on, give me something to shoot at" He mutter as he scanned the night sky.
He suddenly heard a faint roar and noticed something flying across the sky. Carefully Rune took aim and fired at the dragon. But the force from the shooter caused the runt Viking to fall back, but when he got up he heard a dragons screech and cry and saw it crashed somewhere in the woods.
"I hit it, yes I hit it" younger Rune yelled excitedly.
Did I actually shoot down a dragon? Rune thought as he continued watching this vision.
Later that day younger Rune went searching for the down dragon off at Ravens point. He searched all over but still nothing.
"Oh the gods must hate me" He complained as he put his notebook back in his pocket.
"Some people lose their knife, or a mug, but not me. I managed to lose an entire dragon!" he continued complaining as he swatted a tree branch away only to have it hit him right back in the face.
Wow, even back then the gods hated me Rune thought.
That's when younger Rune noticed the tree in front of him was split in half and with a large skid mark on the ground that led up and downhill. He followed the trail up the small hill till he saw something big and black. The tween quickly hid behind the hill in fear, but slowly got up with a knife in his hand and slowly made his way downhill till he reached the dragon.
What is that Toothless? Rune thought in shock at who was tangled in the bolas.
"Oh wow I did it!" younger Rune said realizing he had actually caught a dragon.
"Oh I did it, this fixes everything yes! I have brought down this mighty beast!" He proclaimed proudly as he placed his foot on the dragon, posing vary proudly.
Suddenly the dragon jerked causing Hiccup to yelp and stumble backwards.
Slowly younger Rune inched forward with his knife pointed at the dragon as both his and the dragon's eyes made contact with each other's.
"I'm goanna kill you dragon" younger Rune said as he took in deep breaths. "I'm goanna- I'm goanna cut out your heart and take it to my father, I am a Viking. I AM A VIKING!"
I'm a what!? Rune then thought now more shocked than before.
But just as the Viking teen was about to stab the dragon, he looked into the dragons eyes again and saw the fear in them, because of that the Viking teen couldn't bring himself to kill the dragon.
"I did this" he muttered as he realized what he had done and was about to walk away, but not before freeing the dragon.
But the minute the black dragon was freed he pounced on top of him looking really pissed off and was about to strike.
But the vision ended when Rune felt a warm power flowing into his throat and the words from Bleak Fall's Barrow came back to him.
End of vision…
"FUS!" Rune shouted as the force of power from his throat knocked him over.
Once it was over Rune slowly got up as soon as his head stopped aching with the help of Toothless. Rune looked at the Night Fury's prostatic tail fin in shocked.
"Oh Thor… I did this" he said very upset at what he had done.
Toothless looked at his rider/ friend confused.
"I took your ability to fly away when I shot you down, did I?" Rune asked his dragon.
Toothless looked at Rune happy that he's starting to remember, but sad at the same time because it's true what he did. Rune then grabbed his dragons head and began hugging him while saying I'm sorry over, and over, and over. Toothless responded by licking his face, his way of saying it's okay.
"Thanks bud" Rune replied, grateful to have such a compassionate and forgiving friend.
Once he settled down Rune got up and turned around only to find the others jaws dropped surprised at what just happened. While the Dark Elf and the Orc were confused to what just happened, the Nords however knew very well who Rune really was, and what he just did.
"I can't believe it, you're…Dragonborn!" Eran said in shock.
"Dragonborn, what in the name of Malacath is a Dragonborn?" Lurog asked having no idea what his Nord companion is talking about.
"In the very oldest tales, back from when there were still dragons in Skyrim, the Dragonborn would slay dragons and steel their power" Eran explained to his Orc companion.
"That is what you did, isn't it? Absorbed that dragon's power?" The Nord then asked Rune.
Rune remembered what Thorin told him about Dragonborns and what he did after killing the Red Death. The feeling of that raw power rushing into him did feel familiar.
"I… guess I did" Rune replied.
"Well you can shout, that must mean your Dragonborn. Holy Mara, Soren's gonna flip when he hears about this" Eran continued very excited like a kid on Snoggaltog.
"Sounds like a lot of Horker dung to me" Lurog said in disbelief.
"It's true, my grandfather used to tell my brother and I stories about the Dragonborn" Eran then said in defense.
"In fact Tiber Septim himself was Dragonborn".
"I never heard of Tiber Septim killing any dragons" Lurog argued.
"There weren't any dragons back then, idiot. They're just coming back now for the first time in… forever" Eran argued back.
The argument between the Orc and the Nord went on, and it didn't help that the guards joined in. Some were taking Lurog's side, while others took Eran's side. Malukah however didn't take any side, thinking the whole argument was silly and ridiculous, but she did try to stop the argument before it got worse.
"Look dose it really matter if Rune's Dragonborn or not?" She asked trying to stop the argument.
"ENOUGH… ALL OFF YOU!" Irileth yelled out, stopping the argument in the process.
"Some of you would be better off keeping quite then flapping your gums on matters you don't know anything about" she said glaring at the guards and the two shield brothers from the companies.
"Here's a dead dragon, and that's something I definitely understand. Now we know we can kill them" the Dark Elf then turned to Rune.
"But I don't need some mythical Dragonborn, someone who can put down a dragon is more than enough for me"
"Uh… thanks" Rune replied not knowing if he should take that as a compliment or as an insult.
"You wouldn't understand, Housecarl. You're not a Nord" One of the guards spoke out.
"I've been all across Tamreal. I've seen plenty of things just as outlandish as this" Irileth replied to the Nord guard while staring him down.
"I'd advise you all to trust in the strength of your sword over tales and legends" she then told the rest of the guards.
The Dark Elf then turned her attention back to Rune.
"I don't know about this Dragonborn business, but I'm glad you're with us! You better get back to Whiterun right away. Jarl Balgruuf will want to know what happened here" she said before turning her attention to the deceased guards.
"All right then" Rune replied as he began walking back to Whiterun with Toothless, Malikah, Sparrowhawk, Eran, and Lurog right behind him. He didn't feel like flying after what happened.
"That was the hairiest fight I've been in, and I've been in a few" Malukah said as she caught up with Rune.
"Wow! I'm walking right next to a Dragonborn, this is so exciting!" Eran said geeking out.
"I gotta say that was not bad at all, for a runt" Lurog complimented.
"Your goanna keep calling me that no matter what I do, aren't you?" Rune asked kind of annoyed.
"Yep!" Lurog replied.
"Don't worry Rune, that's just how Lurog says he likes you" Malukah then told Rune.
At that moment an explosion of sound echoed from the mountains far in front of the four pulse dragons, which literally shook the earth. All of them were forced to cover their ears from the loud noise in agony. They then heard a single word coming from the mountains.
"DOVAHKIIN!"
once it was over, the group looked up while rubbing their ringing ears wondering what just happened.
Why did that dragon called Toothless Dinokqo? (Sweet rolls to anyone who can guess what Dinokqo means) and how dose Toothless know that dragon Mirmulnir? Why was Rune shocked finding out he's a Viking? Keep reading to find out! Say if this fanfic was an Anime, what opening wold fit it? Comment and let me know whay you think. Also barn means Child in old Norse, just to let you guys know. Gotta have a name for them.
Special announcement!
I decided to do some funny Omakes. For thous who don't know, Omakes are basically funny shorts that has no barring on the plot but are fun to read like what you see in Manga's. And to make it more awesome, I decided to let you guys summit your own to be shown in the coming chapters. Basically you summit your Omakes to me weather by review or DocX and witched ever ones I like, I feathered them in the next chapter. But if you want to do this, there are some rules you must fallow.
Rule 1: They must be short between 100 to 500 words
Rule 2: No swearing, cursing, or any fowl languages
Rule 3: They must be related to How to Train your Dragon and/or Elder Scrolls (No big four, sorry)
Rule 4: No inappropriate or sexual themes or jokes
Rule 5: No coping others
And most importantly, have fun! I can't what to see what you guys cook up, till then hears my Omake
Impatient Snotloud
"Ugh! I can't take it anymore!" Snotloud yelled irritated. "When will the second Movie come out?" "Snotloud, it's only a few weeks away" Hiccup said reading a book while sitting next to his dragon napping. "You just have to be patient" "Screw patients, I want to see it now!" Snotloud yelled as he hopped onto Hookfang's back and began flying around the world at a really fast pace.
"Uh… Snotloud, what are you doing?" Hiccup yelled at Snotloud. "I'm fast forwarding time, duh!" Snotloud yelled back. "Well this should be entertaining" Hiccup said sarcastically.
5 minutes later…
Snotloud eventually stopped and got off of Hookfang. "So is the new movie awesome or AHHH!" He suddenly screamed in horror to what he saw in front of him, a really old Hiccup. Grey beard and hair and all. "Snotloud is that you way over there? It's been a while old friend" He said sounding vary old. "I can fix this! I can fix this! I can fix this!" Snotloud panicked as he quickly hopped back onto Hookfangs back and began flying in the opposite direction.
Hiccup and Toothless began snickering as Hiccup removed the sheep wool on his head and face. "He fell for it Astride, what's next?" Astride then came out from behind Toothless carrying some clothing and other stuff and Gustav Larson right next to her. "You're old cloths, a wig, and some help from Gustav" She answered. "Snotloud is so gonna kill us when he finds out!" Hiccup giggled as he and Astride prepared Gustav.
