Here is the second chapter as promised!
(Last Chapter)
Clouds were gathering, getting darker and darker as lightning started flashing. I felt Tesla tense up and look back at me. I nodded after a moment and closed my eyes.
Blue lightning flashed all around us, bright enough to pierce through my eyelids. I felt a strong electric surge rush through my body, and then nothing.
(Present Time)
Do you know what it feels like to be made of electricity? I'm sure no one does. But I'm probably about as close as you can get at the moment, riding inside a lightning bolt, on the back of a lightning breathing dragon. It felt surreal, I don't think I'm fully able to describe it. I felt more alive than I ever have, and every part of my body was tingling from the static charge. I wanted to stay there longer, but I was starting to feel the effects of a full force electric charge. It wasn't a sharp pain by any means, but being around this amount of electricity for however long it was, was started to drain my body of energy. I felt dehydrated, and was starting to get light headed. I reached forward and touched Tesla on the head. He looked back and his eyes widened. I must have looked worse than I thought, because next thing I know, we're flying above the ocean again, a lightning storm behind us. Tesla quickly dove down to a nearby island and landed. He crouched down and helped me off his neck with a clawed wing. I was surprisingly, and not so surprisingly, shaky after the jump, and I sat down on the sand. I held my head in my hands and just breathed for a moment. Tesla gently nudged me, rumbling an apology. I looked up and scratched him on the chin.
"It's okay Tesla, I'm fine. I just gotta take a rest. That took a lot more out of me than I could've guessed." He just rolled his eyes and looked out over the ocean. He nudged me after a while, and when I looked up I saw Hiccup and Toothless pushing themselves. Obviously they didn't see us. I nudged Tesla with my elbow.
"You got a shot left?" He rolled his eyes and shot a blast straight up into the air. Hiccup and Toothless pulled up and looked for where the blast came from. They spotted us on the beach and came in for a landing. Hiccup saw my weakened condition and hurried over.
"Rei?! Are you okay? What happened? One minute we were racing you, the next a lightning bolt flashed past us. When I looked back to check on you, you were gone!"
"It's fine Hiccup. Just give me a minute." He stood next to me, and Toothless and Tesla started talking to each other, no longer needing, or wanting, to fight. After a minute or two, my breathing steadied, and my head stopped hurting. I looked up and saw the two dragons shooting blasts of plasma and lightning at the sand, trying to see who could make the weirdest glass designs. Hiccup had walked over to them by then, and started laughing as they tackled each other in disagreement at who's was better. I slowly stood up and walked over.
"Hey Hiccup, I'm feeling better now." Hiccup turned and looked at me, gauging my demeanor with a calculating eye.
"That's good to hear. You wanna tell my what that was earlier?" I opened my mouth to say Tesla's name, when I remember I wasn't going to tell him at the moment. So I simply gestured to the purple and black dragon.
"He can ride lightning. He literally calls down a lightning bolt, and when it goes back up into the clouds, he's inside of it. It's an amazing feeling, but as you can tell, it doesn't take much to drain a person not used to it."
"Wait wait wait, you were riding a lightning bolt?! How is that possible?! How did you know he could do that? Thor must like you to give you a ride personally." Hiccup folded his arms with a small smirk. The two dragons had come over at that point, each checking their respective rider. Hiccup was looking at Tesla with new respect.
"I don't know about Thor, but I know this big guy here can do it, because that's how he saved me from falling in the ocean earlier. Normally when he dives, he's slower than Toothless, he makes up for that by jumping into a bolt and riding it to his destination. If it wasn't for that, I'd probably be dead on the ocean floor." Tesla just nudged my leg, seemingly going red in the face. He shuffled his wings a bit in embarrassment. Toothless noticed, and gave a rumbling laugh, which in turn got him a harmless glare.
"How'd you figure that out? We were only in the fight for a few minutes."
"Whenever Toothless dove, he didn't follow, knowing he couldn't keep up. Instead he tried to blast us." Tesla nudged my arm, offering an apology. I dropped to a knee and rubbed his head, feeling the static through his scales. "It's alright bud, I know you're sorry about it now." Tesla then reached behind me and nudged my sword's scabbard, sniffing it a bit. I stood to pull it out. "I bet you're curious how a mere human deflected your attack, aren't you?" He nodded and I pulled it out with the strange Shink sound. I held it with both hands, left on the handle, right on the blade. I pulled it back a small bit when Tesla reached to smell it. "Careful, I had this sharpened before I woke up here. It might even cut through your stronger scales." Tesla looked at it in slight shock and interest. Such a flimsy looking thing couldn't possibly be responsible for deflecting a shot from him. I saw him looking doubtful, dragons were surprisingly easy to read, so I spun the sword in my hands before digging it into the sand.
"You doubt me? Go ahead, do it again. But, try not to encase my sword in glass please...?" He charged up a small amount of lightning and shot it at the sword. It flashed and lightning sparked through the sand. The others looked on in shock as I pulled it from the sand, checking for damage. Finding none, I spun it overhand once and sheathed it.
"How is that possible, you'd think the sword would just explode with as big of a charge he did earlier."
"That's what I thought when I first saw him." I pointed to Tesla. "I thought, 'I just made Hiccup bring me into this...defenseless.' Then I remembered that I had my sword made of an ancient metal alloy. Back when I was trying to choose a materiel for my sword, none seemed to fit my style of fighting. Some were too heavy, some too flimsy. Then I found an old book at my Martial Arts school. It was full of different alloys not common on the modern day market. I found this one, and I remembered it stated something along the lines of, 'This specific blend is found to have a unique timbre to it, unlike any other. Also unlike any other, it is a very strong conductor of electricity...'"
"I found I liked the idea, so I wrote down the recipe and had a smith make it for me. I got a call when it was finally finished, and once the smith handed it over to me, I knew it was meant for me. I tried to pay him a decent tip for a job well done, but he wouldn't even let me pay the original price! All he wanted in return was to keep the recipe, giving me a written promise that he would not sell it off to anyone. After trying to get him to take my money for a good 20 minutes, I agreed with his deal. I saw it as an unfair trade, but he wouldn't take anything else. Eventually I went home. And the rest is history."
"Wow, so that sword is rare huh? Oh wow, it's gotten late. We should get back to the Edge. The others are definitely worried by now!" We mounted up and took off. Unbeknownst to the others, a pair of red, slitted eyes had been watching from the forest that bordered the beach. When I'd noticed them earlier, they narrowed and vanished into the brush, hardly disturbing the leaves. Once we were off the ground, I let a shiver run down my spine. I'd been holding it back the entire time we were down there, not knowing what was watching us, just that someone, or thing, was. Tesla looked back at me, feeling the movement.
"I'm fine bud, must still be weak from that ride in the lightning. I'll be better once I get a good night rest." He nodded and turned to follow Toothless. We caught up and the four of us just enjoyed the flight. I looked up at the sky as the stars started to appear. It was so much clearer here, you could see every star without city lights blocking the view. Tesla noticed the stars as well, and he almost lost control until I tapped his head to get his attention. Off into the rising moon, we flew back to the Edge. To our new home.
And that ladies and gentleman, is the end of the "arc" I'm too lazy to actually make any arcs, so put them where you see fit. I always have ideas running through my head, ready to be written, but I just can't get them out fast enough. I honestly wasn't planning on actually taming the Skrill, nor naming him Tesla, not that anyone else knows that. *evil grin* I'm just hoping you have enjoyed. I know my writing is really scatterbrained, but that's just how my brain puts things into "order". And yes, Rei does seem to have mood swings at points, being calm one moment and "berserker mode" the next. Honestly, writing is how I get out a lot of my frustration.
~Silverleone