Living The Impossible Truth

A How to Train Your Dragon Modern AU

Author: Kirito_The_Wolf

Based off the works of DreamWorks animation. All rights belong to the individual parties, I own nothing (unfortunately) Except maybe a few pieces within this story, because as we all know, I'm not the first to write a modern version of the tales of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III of Berk.

Authors Note: I will be switching point of view within this chapter, and I hope that this does not affect the reading of the story.

Second Author Note: The next few chapters will take place during half term (One to two weeks of no school, mainly used as a revision break and to relax your mind and body).

Chapter twelve: Nadder Vs World Part 1

Astrid POV:

~2 months later~

"Gronkle, give me patrol report." Nightfury demanded of a member of the team in a dark grave voice. Everyone's attention had changed to the man now standing, Gronkle. He had thick heavy brown armor, that made him look like a knight of valor, his utility belt featured devices made to scan, identify and hack any system or organism. His wrist bracers can also extend onto his hands and enlarge to become maces.

"Of course Nightfury. There has been an increase on gang members using sub-sector uniforms and Juti partners. It seems that Juri and Ska have been also targeting the smaller gangs."

"Most probably due to the amount of profit he's losing by his clients going for small cheaper bangers who don't mind getting dirty for less. Hookfang, status report on the Dome." Hookfang wears a normal dark red meta-morph suit. The suit was made to cover the entire body, and it can heat up and cause fire to surround it like both armor or as a weapon.

Hookfang had looked to Barf, who nodded in a 'go ahead' kind of way. "Well, it seems that the damge done to it by Skrill was quite extensive, I would be surprised if Dr. Haddock got that thing up and running in time for the expo demo. Barf and I were in there earlier practicing on the Monstrous Nightmare and Zippleback- Whiplash models, the dome just began shooting us with lightning, if it wasn't for our suits we would have been killed, lasers were shot at us. I think the idea of using a Juti to help absorb the power from the Dome will be our best bet, Nightfury sir." Hookfang recited before re-taking his seat to the circular table we were sitting at. We are currently at Dragons Edge, and we are 'The Riders' as the press has been calling us, I must say it has stuck to us and we agree with the name, it's just hard to really look at anyone here. The rules are, that we cannot take off our masks/helmets/cowls/bandanna's or face paint whilst in the base, we cannot talk about personal agenda's and we must be in our hero vigilante persona the entire time we are in the company of our team members.

Looking at how everyone holds themselves in their suits, compared to how they are out of the suit, it makes it hard to tell whether or not they have been doing this their entire lives and what I know about them in the real world is just bullshit that they've invented. I mean, Hookfang, the fire master and order obeying mid-left of our team, outside the team is Snotlout/Steve, the person who detestes working in a team, following orders and having to prove himself. Gronkle, the muscly man of gronkliron will, who managed to bludgeon and severely injure 'the enemy' is Fishlegs/Fabian in real life, the person who was scared of going onto the football pitch and would rather not have any confrontation and read books, is the left hand of Nightfury, takes orders, gives out a beating when necessary and has found just under a hundred ways we can get away with breaking the law by using another law. Barf… Okay he is exactly the same as he is in real life. Fred. They both enjoy confusing their enemies, they use gasses and explosions to do so. Belch is different, where in real life she's all about pranking, Duel Class and gossip, Belch is all about taking out the enemy and taking orders from Nightfury. That's what surprises me about the Riders. We have all got this profound respect for our mentor and leader, Nightfury, he has ensured that we gained control over our powers and we knew how to take down an enemy without them, we've learned to use our skills of observation to bring them down, use whatever you can think of, we have learnt to be resilient and adaptable.

These things might have come in handy when things were in a dire state. Not too long ago I almost died, for the second time since coming to Berk Capitol…

Astrid Mental Journal POV: 1 Months. 1 Week Prior.

Training with Nightfury in the mind plane has not been all I thought it would crack up to be. I return to the real world with pain in unusual places, people asking me what's wrong. Everyone gets a little concerned once you ask everyday if you have any bruises. At first they thought I was talking about my wounds from 'being attacked and mugged' and would try to tell me that it doesn't matter if I have any scars that I should look at them as signs of being a survivor. Yeah that's all sweet and all, but the last of my bruises went away last week, if I have any bodily memory from that experience with Pandemonium, it would be the scars that were formed. I have never experienced pain like that before and I don't want to ever again, but that is what Nightfury is supposed to be doing inside the mind palace, building up my mental defenses to keep me alert and to get used to the thought that pain is there. He did tell me that if I still had these mental aches from training then I should either find a way to relax the mind before and after the session or quit because he cannot afford for me to die on the job.

I did in fact meet the Myths of Legend, and they are so much more impressive up close. Bewilderbeast is so much more intimidating in person, I actually struggled between who was more threatening. But it was what happened afterwards that's really made me look differently on the Myths of Legend. Something unaccounted for four weeks ago when I visited their HQ for the third time, ever. I was supposed to have an introduction lesson into the league after a training match with Cloudjumper and Timberjack but then…

~Flashback~

Neutral POV:

Cloudjumper had sprinted into the air, her cape whisking just behind her nubile form, a blade attached to the end of a staff, prepped and ready for entering the left shoulder joint of Nadders ballistic armor, Nadder was in mid-air to due Timberjack using an explosion to destroy most of the floor panels and to sending Nadder into the air, so that her firm position where she could see and dodge Timberjacks speed attacks and dodge the aero-spheres being sent at her by Cloudjumper on the ground was compromised and she became unable to defend against either attackers. Thinking quickly she kicked the air and out came her Duel Board given to her by her boyfriend Hiccup, he gave her the Deadly Nadder.

Cloudjumper landed onto the floor just after the explosion to take a sample of my spine blast, placing it into a container ompartment in one of her gauntlets and leapt into the air, spinning whilst doing so, creating some momentum and allowing speed to enter her physics calculation of gaining altitude. Cloudjumper had looked at Astrid with her darkened lens' and then began sending aero-spheres towards Nadder who had decided to try and deflect the air based attacks with a reverse frequency blast. While this was happening Timberack was speeding in a straight line, making laps, increasing his speed and leaving a bright orange blur on the ground, Nadder caught on too late what was about to happen. Cloudjumper had mustered a relatively big aero-sphere and sent it flying at the orange blur on the floor allowing the sphere to absorb power and speed from the speed induced blur and rebounded towards Nadder. The only thing keeping Nadder up was her Duel Board, and if that was taken out she would have become a victim of Cloudjumpes repeated aero strikes and then be punished by Timberjacks bladed body and speed.

So quickly observing the different obstacles in the room Nadder knew what to do. She sent a spine shots onto the floor outline the path that Timberjack was taking, then quickly using the MET that she received from Nightfury on their first patrol, she had prepped it onto the base of her board, and angled her board so that the second the blast hit the board, it would become nothing and charge the MET.

On the other side of the battle field, Cloudjumper seemed to be watching in rapt attention as if making mental notes to mention to Nightfury later. The ball of wind energy was a mere few inches from Nadder; time seemed to slow to a crawl "Okay, we can do this. I know we can, it's simple mathematics and physics, things you apply in Duel Class and your in the top of the class.. well in the female side, you'll do great, just don't fuck up." And time sped up again, the ball hit the MET device and Nadder checked her duel device and saw that it read that both units of storage were fully charged (She had added in a second battery compartment just in case she had to face a speedster or Pandemonium again). Cloudjumper had then jumped from her resting position from the wall towards Nadder, who now had the MET in her armor covered hand. As Cloudjumper got closer to Nadder, the closer Nadder got to Cloudjumper, always adjusting her aim to ensure that her plan works. Cloudjumper's body a foot away from her and that was all she needed. Adjusting her aim one last time, she then smashed her arm down, her fist colliding with Cloudjumpers back, the MET transferring half a bar of energy into her, making her fall faster and harder into the bordered blur line, and the next thing to be seen is Cloudjumper shooting into the wall, leaving cracks and dents, and Timberjack tripping on himself and hitting the spine shots like a ping pong table, before finally halting to a stop and collapsing onto the floor, the spikes from the spine shot glowing with energy absorbed from the shock form Timberjack.

Nadder glided to the ground, retreating the duel board into her boot, leaped over the spine shot dubris and helped Timberjack up. "Sorry Timberjack, are you alright?"

"Look, Nadder, I'm apart of the Myths of Legends, of course I'm fine, my armor is pretty thick, I just never had that kind of tactic used on me before. Good work. If you go and help Cloudjumper down, I'll retreat these spikes into the ground and replace them with fresh panels."

"Okay."

Nadder then leaped into the air, and landed just on top of Cloudjumpers defeated form, and pulled her out, the two then began falling, but Cloudjumper had grabbed the Nadder's arm and released her glide cape. They landed on the floor safely, and just in time for Timberjack to watch the fresh panels to be put in place. The three then left the training facility and began walking towards the meeting center.

"Timberjack, you switched the panels in the training room to fresh ones, what happened to the ones that had my spine blast wedged in them?" Nadder asked walking with the two older, more experienced heroes.

"Well y'see Nadder, it was actually Nnightfury and Smokebreaths idea. They had designed the training rooms, and they believed that if a weapon or attack had entered apart of the room and wasn't destroyed by the rooms anti-body nanobots then the panels were to be retreated for later examination. To examine them, they would have to go to the Sheath Room." Timberjack had said in short reply.

"Where would I find the Sheath Room?"

"You should have the maps to Dragons Edge from Nightfury, if he hasn't yet, and told you to scoute the place out and learn everything and location from memory then, tell him that both Timberjack and I told him to give you the maps, and our passwords." Cloudjumper responded in kind

Nadder simply nodded her reply. They continued walking for a little longer through the hallways till they reached an elevator, during the designing of this place, Bewilderbeast and Scauldron wanted the metal to be made out of steel or iron, but Nightfury and Smockebreath had overruled the decision, as Nightfury had built on and created a metal that Professor Oak had only mentioned in a research paper. Digiplate. The reason for this was because they knew that if at any point they had gotten infiltrated or had a break in, that those of the team that found themselves unable to think of a way out, that the elevator would be near enough impossible to destroy or break into.

The elevator does not play music, it vocalizes reports from patrols, missions, tasks, achievements, locations of current members, a summary of what's on each floor and also a brief talk about the month's current costs such as electricity, heating, water, damage etc.

The pinging sound echoed all over the elevator once it had reached the top, Cloudjumper and Timberjack had been sharing glances towards Nadder and each other the entire elevator trip. Telling each other to talk to Nightfury urgently. Nadder had begun walking out of the digiplated cube, knocking the two out of their non-verbal conversation. They soon followed.

The elevator had opened up to the conference chamber, that was basically a large room with a huge circular table with an MoL emblem painted onto it, with chairs for each member, and an even bigger holoscreen projector used for transmissions and reports from members who cannot make the Dragons Edge. Nightfury had been talking to Bewilderbeast and another hero who Nadder had only seen once in an old newspaper. Thornado. He wore dark blue just like her, except that he had powers, and they all came from his shout, he was pretty strong, which he used a lot. He had taught three young heroes who grew up to not be into the hero business. Nightfury had noticed the new members in the room, so excused himself from the conversation with the the epic legends and made his way over to the other three.

"Training went well, I assume." Nightfury did not ask, but stated in his slightly lighter growling voice.

"Training went as well as to be expected sir, although I think that I'll need to do more training with the kilik balancer more often because I almost put myself in a dire situation." Nadder replied to her mentor.

"Of course, I'll set it up for the day after we return back to the Den. You cannot be allowed to over work yourself." 'fury had looked up to his team mates and could see that they wanted to talk to him. "Nadder, why don't you go interrogate Tornado, he's visiting, and I know how he helped inspire you to be a hero." And with that Nadder marched over to Thornado who was more than happy to oblige. "Okay. Tell me, what's wrong. You two look like someone smacked you around the face with an advanced trigonometry question." Cloudjumper looked to Timberjack, nodded and Timberjack looked back to Nightfury.

"What did you do to that poor girl?" Timber' asked.

"What do you mean 'what did I do' to Nadder. I did nothing to her."

"I think what 'jack was saying was, how did you get this girl to detach all emotions when in uniform? She seems so precise." Cloudjumper tried to remedy.

"You think I tried training her till you could see her dried, crumbling bone? You think I interrogated her till she knew how to handle her emotions? You think I put her in a room of fire until she stopped panicking? Do you really think that I would do all of that crazy shit?! Especially after what happened with Pandemonium. I will not put her in a situation I know she would not be able to handle. What happened with Terror can not be repeated. I will not allow that to happen again. So don't you dare assume for a single fucking second that I will let you assume that I am making this girl become a personal slave!" Nightfury had shouted, loud enough for everyone to hear. Smokebreath had blurred into vision, put his arm around 'fury had lead him to his seat. Cloudjumper and Timberjack had shared a glance that meant one thing "Fuck. What have we done?" and they too took their seats.

It didn't take long for the entirety of the Myths of Legends to filter in and take their seats. All facing inwards on the table, Nadder and Scauldy had defaulted to stand behind their masters chairs, and listening to the conversations.

An hour later. That is how long it took for the majority of the tiny tidbits of information to be shared and noted by all the members, before moving on to the more dangerous and more important information, it didn't take long to get to what everyone wanted to know. Cloudjumper had shared information on how she had to save a hero called Talon who was being attacked by a gang of fifteen and took him back to her HQ. Talon had been healing fine. Bewilderbeast had taken down someone called Deathsong recently, and then all faces turned to Nightfury, they all wanted to know what happened to him and Nadder when Pandemonium showed up.

"It was supposed to be a simple recon mission. In, then out. Grab a sample of the drug, take out a few gangers, then leave before the cops arrive, but Pandemonium had shown up instead…" Nightfury had then proceeded to tell the tale, from his perspective, he did not take into account his emotion towards the situation, nor did he mention the conversation that he and Nadder shared. 'fury mentioned all the tiny things that Nadder seemed to not take into account. The gathered heroes had all been listening with rapt attention, this seemed to be the first big thing to happen in quite a while.

When Nightfury was mid-way talking about the duel between himself and Windshear, a hole was blasted into the side of the conference room, sending Captain Scauldron and Timberjack flying, the remaing members all stood up and looked to the massive gap in the wall, an echoing laugh could be heard originating from inside the blackness of the hole. Nightfury had thrown five cam-pellets at angles onto the foundation of the ceiling, he then turned to Nadder, thrusted a observational holocam into her hands before whisking his duel device infront of his mouth and whispering a command, and before Nadder could finish analyzing the lip movement, the floor opened up beneath her and she fell through, falling down a dark tunnel.

"Good luck Astrid. Stay safe, for this may be my last stand." Nightfury said, a single tear escaping his hollow eyes, he quickly brushed it away and replacing his exterior with his usual stoic expression to face the owner of the laughing sound. Sparks of blue and purple lightning could be seen emanating from the smoggy darkness. Timberjack and Smokebreath got in a running position and took a single step forward before being sent flying and inseperable from the wall by chrome blades. Cloudjumper had sent an aero-sphere towards the cloud of smoke, to which it revealed four forms.

"Pandemonium." Nightfury stated, grinding his teeth

"Windshear." Gasped Cloudjumper

"Scream." Bewilderbeast spoke in a soft yet threatening voice, indicating the one wearing complete white, and chain-mail ballistic armor.

"And Skrill!" Shouted the one who was laughing "Honestly, you call yourselves the Myths of Legends, yet you cannot even begin to understand the meaning of the word 'legend' or 'myth' it means that you do not exists or you are simply a tale. Yet you are seen way too often, and because of that it didn't take us long to figure where you base was."

"Now, we're here to tell you to shut up, sit back, let our boss teach you a lesson, and we'll be gone." Windshear stated, staring at Nightfury and Cloudjumper the entire time.

Pandemonium had thrown a disk into the center of the holoprojector and Scream had set his wave blast gauntlets to set a certain frequency towards the disk, and soon the projector had shown a gifure wearing grey-green ballistic bio-armor. Clawed gauntlet hands, which were sitting on mahogany desk. His face was shadowed, but when he spoke, all of the Legends knew the kind of danger they were in.

"Hello Legends. I, am Red Death. I will be the death of you, and I can assure you that it will be bloody red. My men here have been given strict orders. Now, you will obey my commands. My first command is that all of you will return to your seats and disregard your capes or cloaks; don't want any surprises now do we." Everyone took their seats, Windshear and Pandemonium then circled the table collecting capes. "Good. My second is that you will not stop my minions from entering your head quarters, I am trying to create a replica, without a hole in the dor of course, and so I must go into each room and see what it's all like. Then I will steal anything of importance or that intrigues me, then I will destroy the original. My third command is that you give us all the information you have collected over the past four years that you have been active. Fourth, you will delete any information and data you have on the crew that entered your building. My fifth command will be given at a later time, for now. COME IN BOYS! TAKE WHAT YOU WANT!" and with that men dressed in dark red and black ninja uniforms had entered and faded into nothing, a smash could be heard.

Nightfury the entire time had been tapping his index finger nad thumb together, he was sending Morse code to Nadder.

Nadder had been receiving these messages and had been trying to decipher it whilst collecting as much weaponary as she possibly could after hering what Red Death wanted. "Assemble. A. Team. Use. Suits. And. Weapons. From. The. Den. Use. Zeta. Tube. For. Transport." Nadder quoted to herself, now having as much weapons she could carry she left the armory and went to minor transmissions, to where she had to type in names of people she think should be apart of her team to take down these new enemies… "Ruff… Heather… Hiccup… Snotlout… Tuff… Carol… Barbra… Fishlegs… Gwen… ANYONE!" Nadder slammed her fists against the machine, and a beeping sound was heard, and out came the voices of Ruff, Tuff, Snotlout and fishlegs

"Hey Astrid, whats up girl?" -Snotlout

"Hellooooo, what're you doing calling me this time of night?" -Tuff

"good evening Astrid, how may I be of service?" -Fishlegs

"You wanna gossip or summin'?" Ruff

Nadder lifted her hand up to her neck, and pressed a button on her helmet, an odd sound could be heard and Nadder replied with "Guys… There is something I need you to do for me, and it's really important." Nadder said in Astrid's voice.

To be continued…

AN: Well shit just got real, this is the start of my first story arc, I plan on it being 4-to-5 chapters long, and then I will visit the next story arc, which is, might I say, going to be amazing! Thanks for reading, tell me what you want to happen now that the base for the MoL has been infiltrated by the Enemy.

Next Chapter: Nadder Vs World Part 2