Chris groaned in pain. He sat up and looked around.
"Where am I?", he asked to no one in particular.
He looked around and saw that he was inside some weird building. He leaned forward to see around a few corners but didn't get far. It only ended with him groaning in soreness.
"Why am I sore?", he groaned.
"Am I?", Chris mumbled
"I? Who is that?", he thought.
Chris swung his legs off the bed he was on and looked at his feet. He wiggled his toes slowly. He looked up and felt a gentle breeze brush across his face.
With nothing else to do, he got up but only succeed in falling back down. He winced in pain as his head throbbed, simultaneously grabbing his head. His eyes shot wide open as he felt something unfamiliar.
He yanked at the cloth on his head and brought it before his eyes. His eyes looked at it with concern.
"What happened?"
He stood up again, but found his equilibrium this time. With each step forward he grew more confident and was soon able to stand without pain or loss of balance.
He looked down at what he was wearing and again was lost in puzzlement.
"What is happening?", Chris whispered to himself.
"Chris! You need to lie down!", a voice called out to him.
He snapped his head in the direction of the smooth voice and tilted his head in confusion at the sight of the brunette woman. She was unlike anything she had seen before.
She was a thin woman, yet she was very beautiful. She had shoulder-length golden brown hair, a young round face with emerald eyes, her skin was almost the same light golden brown as her hair. She wore a riding uniform which was a green turtleneck shirt and a blue riding jacket made of deerskin leather and matching trousers. On her feet were blue leather boots with shiny green embroidery around the top, and on her head was a wide-brimmed black hat that had a dragon's horns attached to it. Adorning her hands were black fingerless gloves.
The woman gave him a warm yet concerned look. A look unknown to Chris.
"Chris, you need to lie down. You hit your head pretty hard", Serenity reiterated.
"I hit my head?", Chris asked, skeptical.
"Yeah. You got tossed into a tree, and you need to lie down", Serenity responded.
"I did?"
"Yes you did Chris. What's the matter? Are you okay?", Serenity asked, worried.
After a long pause, Chris looked up at her. "Who are you? And who's Chris?"
The Draconians flew from the Mead Hall back down to Serenity's house, planning to check up on Chris.
"What's the matter Re?", Aurora asked, noticing the expression on her mate's face.
"Nothing much. I'm just wary of that human", Re responded.
"Re, you have nothing to worry about. She is just one human", Tenor chimed in.
"One human can go along way. Look at Chris, he influenced the tides of the Song War and won. Look at what he has accomplished", Re retorted.
"I hope Chris is alright", Windwalker said out of nowhere. Her sudden appearance startled the other 3 Draconians.
"Windwalker! When did you get here? Why did you stop watching Chris?", Re asked.
"He was asleep and I don't expect him to wake up soon. Forgive me, but I decided to do a flight around the island to get my mind off of things", Windwalker said quietly.
"Oh. Well that's alright then", Aurora smiled warmly.
"...and besides, Chris is in good care. Serenity knows what she's doing. What else could happen?", Windwalker said, trying to sound happy.
"Yes. Yes she does", Tenor grinned proudly.
"Anyways, Kassandra is in no shape or form our son", Aurora voiced.
"I know. That's what worries me", Re said.
They were interrupted from their conversation when they saw Serenity approaching Chris slowly with her hands splayed wide while the man in question was backing away from her slowly.
They all landed swiftly and approached behind Serenity.
"Chris, what's wrong?", Re questioned, worried.
"What are you doing out of bed?", Aurora asked, in a motherly tone
"Oh my gosh Chris! You're okay!",Windwalker beamed.
"Are you feeling okay?", Tenor inquired.
Chris was bombarded by all those comments at once. He was overwhelmed not only by all the questions, but by the fact that those big, winged creatures could talk! They were unlike the strange woman before him.
"AAAAAHHHH!", Chris screamed, turning around and sprinting as fast as he could from those monsters.
The 5 Draconians were shocked. What had happened to Chris. It was Aurora who was the 1st to snap out of their stupor.
"Chris, wait!", Aurora shouted before spreading her wings and flying after him.
Chris was scared. What was going on? He rounded a corner and shrieked when he came face with another monster. This one was sharp and had a big face. He ran to the left when it flared its wings and squawked at him.
He soon ended up in this big clearing, surrounded by people who looked big and hairy as well as those beasts.
"I'm surrounded by them!", Chris panicked.
His eyes focused on those 4 creatures he initially met as they all zoomed toward him.
He shrieked again as he hightailed it away from them.
"I got him!", Tenor shouted. He crouched low and pounced on Chris. Unfortunately, at the last second Chris ran to his left, leaving Tenor to collide into the side of a house.
Tenor groaned as he hit his head against the dense wood and smashed through the wall.
Re growled in frustration. He didn't expect his son to be so fast for a human. He sped up as Chris rounded another corner and jumped on Chris, tumbling to the ground.
"Gotcha!", Re exclaimed, rolling as he held his son in his clutches
What Re didn't expect, was that their combined momentum rolled them into the forge. They collided heavily into the center of the forge.
"Oi! What's the big deal?!", Gobber shouted.
Re couldn't answer that as their crash caused a mold of molten rock to tip over and pour onto Re's armor. It quickly seeped into the cracks of his armor and coated his scales.
Re roared piercingly in pain. He quickly released Chris and jumped roughly out of the forge, removing his armor as quickly as he could. With the dragon distracted, Chris scrambled out of the forge and bolted away.
Aurora and Windwalker were about to catch up to Chris and Re when the latter of the duo burst out of the forge and wormed around painfully on the ground, roaring in agony.
"Re!", Aurora called out once she realized there was molten rock on his body.
She immediately focused her magic on her mate, conjuring a spell that numbed the pain and transformed the molten rock's heat into thin air.
Aurora looked at her mate in horror. Re's face was scrunched up in pain. The molten rock consumed his scales and scorched the skin underneath, leaving nasty burn marks all along his body. His armor was just dangling off his body.
"Go get him", Aurora said quietly to Windwalker.
Windwalker dashed around the king, praying to Lord Draco that he would be fine.
Chris was out of breathe but he still kept running. He wouldn't stop until he was somewhere safe. He ran past a big building with giant stairs leading up to it. He looked up and saw more people coming down those stairs, flanked by more monsters! They all gazed at him weirdly and pointed at him.
Hiccup and the gang, now accompanied by Raeya and Kassandra, were walking down the steps of the Mead Hall. They were going to show Raeya around. That is, until they stopped in their tracks at the sight of Chris running for his life.
"Someone stop him!", Windwalker shouted.
Toothless acted quickly. He crouched low and sprang high into the air. Snapping his wings open, he glided to Chris swiftly. He then angled himself down and closed his wings around himself, dive bombing Chris.
When Chris turned around and saw the black beast closing in on him, he was too late to do anything as he was caught in his paws.
Toothless rolled once before pinning Chris down to the ground. The human was screaming uncontrollably. Toothless could even see tears forming. He had to calm him down, so he roared loudly in his face, much like he did to Hiccup the first time they met.
Chris clenched his eyes shut as he felt the force of the roar hit him in the face. What was going on? Why wouldn't this beast get off of him? He hoped it didn't kill him. But before he could even pursue more questions, he quickly got light headed, went limp, and blacked out.
Windwalker arrived soon after. "Why did you do that?", she asked as Toothless got off of him.
"He wouldn't stop struggling. He seemed really scared, so I figured he would black out if I roared really loudly in his face like I did to Hiccup when I first met him. And it worked", Toothless explained.
Windwalker sighed and looked down at her rider.
"What's the matter? Why is he acting like this?", Toothless questioned.
"I honestly don't know Toothless. I don't know what's wrong with him", Windwalker breathed out.
Worry racked her mind. Worry about her mate, her King, and now her rider. What else could go wrong?