The Golden Dragon

by Aeonmaster Aeroza

Runa was mostly known as the Girl-Who-Lived, but in things beyond imagining, she is more then that. She is known as the Golden Child, and will do many things as time goes. Join here as she alongside those she will care for, take a journey beyond measuring. (M for a reason) Pairings: Runa x ?, Hiccup and Astrid

4. 1st Movie: Part Three

Berk Docks, Dawn, and a week later, on December 10th, 811 (2014 true time):

A lone battered ship is pulled into a slip, overloaded with equally battered-looking men. They disembark to a crowd of onlookers, looking like a team of hometown heroes who just had their butts kicked.

Gobber hobbles through the mumbling crowd to find Stoick being last to disembark and was glowering with battered pride.

"Where are the other ships?" A random Viking asked before Spitelout, Snotlout's father noted to him in a way they all sighed at, "You don't want to know."

It seems though they were not alone as a small cloaked figure in the shape of a young girl, stumbled out of the ruined ship of sorts, and followed the others as Stoick lumbers past Gobber, leaving him staring at the trashed ship.

"Well, I trust you found The Nest at least?" Gobber implored Stoick as he huffed at that while walking on the docks, "Not even close." Gobber only nodded before he follows Stoick up the ramp and snags his duffle bag with his hook appendage, and was sharing the burden, "Ah. Excellent."

"I hope you had a little more success than me." Stoick says to Gobber as they walked still and baring many emotions as this attack was somehow planned by the dragons before he stopped and turned to him in utter concern mixed with being perplexed by his old friend's words, "Well, if by success, you mean that your parenting troubles are over with, then... Yes."

A group of merry villagers rushes past them then while oddly enough giving him compliments to confuse him even more, "Congratulations Stoick! Everyone is so relieved." "Out with the old and in with the new, right?!" "No one will miss that old nuisance!" "The village is throwing a party to celebrate!"

Stoick is of course stunned and even overwhelmed by the insensitivity of what he was hearing before he turns to Gobber in reserved worry, "He's... Gone?"

"Yeah… Most afternoons. But who can blame him? I mean the life of a celebrity is very rough. He can barely walk through The Village without being swarmed by his new fans." Gobber states while notifying him in a way to doubly confused and stopped his friend, and expressing in disbelief, "Hiccup?"

Gobber was beaming at his friend while glancing at him in bursting pride over himself of his teachings, "Who would've thought, eh? He has this… Way with the beasts."

Stoick was as pondering this information as to when they eventually entered the plaza, they froze at beholding Ophis waiting for them in bizarre expectancy, and Gobber lightly gulped before warily expresses to Stoick to nearly making the Leader of Berk and the Hooligan Clan for once being weary by what he heard, "Stoick, ah… This is Lady Runa's mother, and the weirdest female I ever met for the past few weeks."

Beholding her passive look to them with her left eye slightly twitching being called weird, she wordlessly walked onwards a few steps before glancing behind them and getting the two to shortly get the wordless message to follow, and they did.

She led them in an unusual coincidence, at The Pillars as she stood patiently while they were confused as to what they were- Without warning, each pillar glowed within moments as three people came from the center of the central, area-based vortex, that briefly materialized before vanishing and The Pillars commenced dimming.

The first is a petite girl (4'6 inches tall) around fifteen years of age with not only white hair and hazel eyes, but she has a low B-Cup. In the front, her hair has two long bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead, while the back has a short bob cut. She also wears a black cat-shaped hair clip on both sides of her hair. She wore, however, a white long-sleeved button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, and matching button-down corset, and a magenta skirt with white accents.

The second was a young woman who appears to be in her late teens and with light skin, blueish-green eyes, and a buxom figure (a large E-Cup boarding to a basic F-Cup). Her most distinctive feature is her long, crimson red hair that reaches down to her thighs, with a single hair strand (known in Japan as ahoge) sticking out from the top. Her hair also has loose bangs covering her forehead and side bangs framing her face. She wore, however, a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with a black ribbon on her shirt collar worn under a black shoulder cape and a matching button-down corset, a magenta skirt with white accents, and brown dress shoes over white crew-length socks.

The last appeared to be a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous figure, long black hair with split bangs and hazel eyes with cat-like pupils, and around 5'3 inches tall. She wore, however, a black kimono, a yellow obi, a set of golden beads, and an ornately detailed headband. The kimono has a red interior and it is open at her shoulders, easily exposing her large breasts (a large FF-Cup).

These were in order: Koneko Toujou, Rias Gremory, and Kuroka Toujou or otherwise known as Koneko's or even in this case, Shirone's Big Sister.

The redhead though lent Ophis a look while Koneko glanced at the area and with Kuroka being amused by the two males before them, tinted by her look, as she declared only a few words, "You are late."

"Traversing through time is tricky, you should very well realize that Ophis," Rias states in retort and making the Nothing Dragon gaze passively still yet her orbs similarly held amusement by her words while she also, at the same time, glanced at the male Vikings, and notified them in a firm tone this was non-negotiable, "It is time to officially discuss things."

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Within Runa's home, at this point and time:

"Bloody Hell, Rue! Take it easy on us especially Astrid just learning the card game." Rowana states as Runa gazed sheepishly at them.

She won the second card game dubbed War, against Astrid, and the blonde teen was only amused while glancing at Ashlyn holding Serena as she dozed off once again within the female teen's lap by the slightly bigger lunch they had.

Astrid was notified last night and onwards to relax and stuff by Ophis, as she indeed managed to find a slight surprise solution of sorts that she drank during lunch, but she shivered from the taste still being in her mouth, despite eating double portions of delectable food, and would need her to still change in order to proceed further.

Things have been progressing smoothly as Runa and the others were still training in the Arena, Hiccup and sometimes Runa would sneak to see Toothless alongside Little Serena, who has yet to talk but would gesture.

Ophis would randomly come and go, and Callie was sorta friends with Runa and the teens at this point while preparing her Potion Brewery for most household things and, secretly, whatever anyone needed, since The Elder was the Main Healer… For now.

Though, there have been random things not caused by Runa as to what seemed like harmless pranks that no one could decipher, and even left unsolved as they were either fixed or cleaned up within the night, and some thefts to their rations for food with twice the amount as well.

Runa also met and to the teen's ire from what Hiccup showed them from the book, bonded with the one girl that was dubbed, to only Runa and Hiccup's knowledge, as Toothless' little bonded sister and also allowed her free roam without setbacks, but she has yet decided to name herself... Plus, Callie was the one personally and at the times the Elder, giving her the prescribed yet disgusting drinks in case she overdoes them.

Anyway, back to what was currently going on.

"Sorry about that… I truly was struggling to make it easy on you Big Sister. But my strange winning streak is at it again." Runa confides Astrid to which she answered without a care as the blonde teen was simply enjoying her time, and waved her off, "It's fine. The War Game though is interesting… Are there others?"

They all turned to Ashlyn as it seems she recognized what Astrid wanted to learn, then, "There are a lot of ways to play with Cards, largely since they could be used to gamble." Ashlyn though gave a half-glare then at Rowana as she lightly chucked a few moments before she retorted to shortly amuse the other girls, "You would remember that due to your addiction to Gamble Games."

After their small laugh, Astrid though asked Runa then as she recalled Hiccup was supposed to be here, and Runa pondered to herself, "Where's Hiccup though? Didn't he say he had an idea for a way to get Serena to speak?"

Runa then shrugged before responding in kind as she got up and gently grabbed her child and then placed her on her bed, and used her bedding to cover her up with, "Not sure but maybe he's still at the blacksmith."

Before Astrid could answer back in a half-retort to that as his activities came across as strange as of late, they froze while Serena was still deeply sleeping as an immediate crashing sound came from within her home.

Ashlyn states she would wait here while Runa, Rowana, and Astrid took off and was rather surprised at discovering the hole that Dobby was currently fixing with his House-Elf Magic, of an albino Rumblehorn, from what Runa knew from the Dragon Book that very day, and to their shock, an Elf Girl.

The girl groaned while shaking her head as to confuse them, the Rumblehorn was a small, chibi-looking version of itself as it was a female, being crazily ridden by the elf girl (the same elf mentioned before) and blinked while noticing them and sheepishly laughed as not realized to them, the vortex from the outside rapidly closed up, as she started to introduce herself, "Sorry about that. The names Zilanette (#; Ormigoden's OC) or Zila, and it was not what I had in mind for crashing in the first place."

Weirded out by her words as Runa whispered gently to the blonde girl before she spoke that she was an Elf, Astrid puzzledly asked her and they all gave the strange looks of her answer, "What were you doing with that dragon?"

While gazing at them as she brushed herself off, Zilanette responded to get Runa to look after the dragon, "Well, I was just having fun and riding her of course… Though I did scare her when I hopped onto her back when I was in those ruins." Not known to her, she was trapped within the vortex that they didn't see, for a week, and said Demon Lord they have yet to meet, kept getting distracted by other things and caring for his charge.

This girl has issues, was the shared thoughts of Rowana and Astrid before glancing at Runa using some conjured medical tape to cover some of the female Rumblehorn's scraps she has gotten before notifying Dobby to place her within the Animal Stables- "Wait, Animal Stables?" Astrid raised a question to perk Zilanette at this before Runa decided to lead them to the stables, and did wonder what Hiccup is doing at the moment as they didn't see a certain draconic girl was inside and decided to scope out her new home as she snuck in, stealthily before the hole was fixed.

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With said teen mentioned by Runa, a few hours or so later in the afternoon, he and Toothless are now soaring through a perfect blue sky, and billowing clouds rise like mountains. The ground also seems miles below them.

He remembered he forgot to tell Runa as she wanted to see his first official flight test with Toothless, but he realized she was busy at home as well while he was preparing things the entire morning, and noted to Toothless and checking to what he dubbed, a leather cheat sheet of sorts, "Okay there bud, we're gonna take this nice and slow." Inscribed upon said sheet are several tail positions and their pedal position equivalents he has written down.

"Here we go. Here we go… Position three, no four." He then informs Toothless while they are still soared, and he presses the pedal, causing the tail to flare. They then rolled off into an arcing bank, gloriously lit by the late afternoon sun.

Hiccup tucks tight against his neck at this point and was thrilled that his new harness and vest are holding. The foot controls are also making the tail appendage quick and responsive while at the same time, he was watching Toothless' every fluctuation, trying to match it with the prosthetic.

Hiccup sizes up a target, as it was a towering arch of stone, rising from the sea before notifying the male dragon, "Alright, it's go time. It's go time." They then dived toward it, lining up to pass through the arch. "Come on. Come on buddy. Come on buddy!" They both then zip through the arch while also making perfect maneuvers. "Yeah! Yes, it worked!"

The triumph was short-lived when they smacked into one of several sea stacks as Hiccup tries to keep up with the turns, and sheepishly states in apology while Toothless was irked yet kept flying, "Sorry." They then hurtle into another rock pillar as Toothless grumbles to himself. "My fault…" Toothless then, if Runa was here she would have laughed, swats him with his 'Ear' plate.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm on it." He states while glancing at his cheat sheet and maneuvering the saddle to aid them in flying once more, "Position four, no three."

They were then piercing the clouds and for the first time, Hiccup can truly glimpse the whole of the island below them. It shrinks with every passing second.

He then swallows hard and tightens his grip on the handles and not realizing Runa was now at a spot to easily see them while dumbstruck yet secretly excited to see the two were riding together, and was at least thankful for her mother distracting her child and Astrid over an unusual surprise, for her, and shooed her away and followed her nose once again to Hiccup.

In the sky, however, Hiccup shouted in awe-like glee as Toothless was privately feeling it as well, "Yeah! Go, baby! Yes! Oh, this is amazing! The wind in my…" He quickly trailed off as he spots the leather guide tearing free in the turbulence. Panicked, Hiccup shouts to worry Runa down below to Toothless mixed with himself, "CHEAT SHEET! STOP!" Hiccup grabs frantically for the airborne sheet while stating a loud no, and nabs it before it's carried out of reach.

Toothless, however, obeyed the command and unexpectedly stops beating his wings. As they slow to a stop, Hiccup goes weightless. The rings on his vest float off of the harness hooks, and Hiccup suddenly finds himself detached, free-falling.

"Oh, gods! Oh no!" Hiccup states while free-falling in the air alongside Toothless and Runa not comprehending what to do down below, could only watch in horror as, without Hiccup, the tail loses control.

Hiccup and Toothless spiral downward as Toothless fights within the air to get back under Hiccup at the same time, Hiccup was trying to calm down Toothless, "Alright, okay. You just gotta kinda angle yourself. No, no… Come back down towards me. Come back down-" Hiccup extends his arms and legs, giving himself as much surface area as he can.

He managed to angle back towards Toothless as the tumbling dragon whacks Hiccup with his wing. After a few more misses, Hiccup finally grabs hold of the harness and manages to lock in the nick of time to pull Toothless out of his dive... Barely shy of the treetops. They careen past the wooded cliff and directly into a treacherous slalom course of jutting sea stacks.

Hiccup hastily pulls the cheat sheet from his teeth and attempts to check positions. It flaps violently in the turbulence, making it impossible.

With no time to think, Hiccup throws it away and steers Toothless' tail on instinct... With perfect intuition.

Together, they manage a tight, hair-raising series of split-second turns, making it to the open water, unscathed to have Runa have mixed feelings on this as they didn't notice her yet on the ground nearby as Hiccup takes a breath and glances back at the death-defying obstacle course, now safely behind them, and then he beams to himself, relieved.

He sits back and throws his arms up in victory while excitedly shouting to himself as Runa cheered him on as well below, "YEEAHHH!"

Toothless concurs with a happy squeal and a fireball while at the time then, turning Hiccup's glee to dread as they fly directly into it, and he had an equal look on his face as well from it. "Ah, come on."

Later at a black sandy beach as it was sunset, and Toothless giving a sorta easy ride to Runa behind Hiccup, they were lounging on a sprawling, deserted isle's beach and snacking on freshly caught fish, thanks to all three of them.

As Hiccup cooks his fish over a fire, Toothless suddenly regurgitates a fish head to amuse Runa over as she was cooking for hers, but with her hand easily cooking it over the hot flames.

Hiccup smirks with forced politeness to Toothless at this while confiding him then, "Uh... No thanks." He gestured to his fish on a stick before continuing, "I'm good."

They then saw several Terrible Terrors land like seagulls, hissing, and nipping at each other as they approach Toothless' pile of fish.

One grabs the regurgitated fish head and drags it away as another attempt to steal it from him. They face off and cast fireballs at each other to settle the fight.

Hiccup, Runa, and Toothless watched in amusement until Toothless spotted one of his fish leaving the pile.

A stealthy Terrible Terror is exposed as the thief before the two dragons tug on the fish, and it snaps back into Toothless' mouth.

He swallows it back tauntingly to irate the little dragon as it paws at the ground and prepares to blast Toothless. He opens his mouth, the gas was easily being revealed before Toothless soon fires a tiny flame straight into its mouth, causing the gas to backfire into the little dragon as it coughs up smoke and staggers away, looking ill.

Hiccup then laughs while Runa was mixed and gives Toothless a half-firm look to make him sheepish as Hiccup states largely to himself, "Not so fireproof on the inside, are you?" Hiccup throws the hapless Terror his freshly cooked fish. "Here you go."

The appreciative little dragon gulps down the meal and then approaches Hiccup cautiously, and then curls up next to him.

Hiccup is amazed while Runa thought it was cute as he claimed once again to himself and being pensive, and gently rubbing the underbelly as Toothless gave Runa a grateful look as she gave him her third fish along with observing her big brother, "Everything we know about you guys is wrong."

"Well, I finally get a chance to tell you guys that your ways were wrong in the first place," Runa acknowledges to him in a way he looked at her with a bewildered mixed with a suspicious look, "You knew?"

Runa only nodded before she responded as the dragon girl gazed at the scenery before them while ignoring the dark voice that arose within her mind again, and was warning her he would be furious with her, raised a leg up to her large chest and also held it, and made Hiccup think on this, "Yes. Dragons tend to have their way of life, Hiccup, but not all of them are evil. If they were, they would have to either be raised or born that way, or they would have to be forced."

Seeing his stare though, alongside Toothless' own, she added while feeding her leftovers to the remaining Terrors nearby her with her left hand easily, even petting some of their heads, "It's what I read about while preparing for my First Task."

He nodded while noticing her eyes glaze a bit, and he didn't realize that he startled her when he asked in immediate understanding and with Toothless, secretly, was the same, "You truly miss those back in your time, Ru-Ru?"

Watching her nod wordlessly while still gazing at the setting sun, made him sigh and not going to push it, got up as Toothless effortlessly doused the fire with sand from his left wing on the firepit itself, and informs them while the Terrors getting the hint, took off, "Well, we best get back to Berk before it starts to get late."

Runa nodded while holding a wince as not realized to her, Toothless looked mixed at abruptly smelling her to realize a certain topic would have to be brought up as she held her stomach area briefly, and the stench from her genders as well, she would need to be isolated or something, soon... Despite smelling something else as well to which he couldn't recall that scent being mixed with the other.

Later on and back at the Hidden Cove, Toothless stopped Runa from leaving to confuse Hiccup and her as he garbled in Parseltongue to make her blink, and related what she heard to Hiccup to confuse them, "He said he needs to talk to me about something, I don't know what though… I'll follow your smoked eel and coal scent to get back." Hiccup while irked he smelled like an eel to her, only nodded as he left the cove.

Runa turned to a hesitating Toothless and asked him curiously, "What is that you wanted to speaketh to me about, Toothless?"

As more time passed, Hiccup was currently within the blacksmith stall or Gobber's Blacksmith within his closet and was lost in his thoughts about earlier as his head lays on his desk filled with drawings of Toothless, and was feeling he was bearing the burden of the weight of the world.

Unexpectedly, Stoick emerges in the doorway to surprise and make Hiccup jump and rapidly covers up his desk before he responded, "Dad! You're back!" He skirts the bench, blocking Stoick's view of Toothless, the prosthetic fin, and other drawings. "Gobber's not here, so…" He was striking an awkwardly casual pose, trying to cover up as much as possible.

"I know. I came looking for you." Stoick states to his son in a way to make Hiccup a little nervous and realized he was also caught, telling him warily, "You did?"

"You've been keeping secrets." Stoick sternly began to Hiccup as his legs give out, slid, and dragged the table's contents with him. "I… Have?" Stoick just continued onwards while ignoring Hiccup's actions, "Just how long did you think you could hide it from me?"

In vain, Hiccup began to question-state to his father then, "I don't know what you're…" Stoick interrupts his son as he firmly told him then, "Nothing happens on this island without me hearing about it." "Oh?" Hiccup responded with Stoick still acting like he stern father as Hiccup's heart dropped while the blood drained from his face by his words, "So… Let's talk about that dragon."

"Oh, gods. Dad, I'm so sorry. I was going to tell you. I just didn't know how to" Hiccup began to apologize while explaining himself before Stoick abruptly without warning, starts laughing. Big, and booming laughter.

Hiccup stares, and baffled by his father before he asked warily once again, "You're not… Upset?"

"What?! I was hoping for this!" Stoick tells his son in strange pride with excitement to puzzle Hiccup as he asked in, well, puzzlement, "Uh… You were?"

"And believe me, it only gets better!" Stoick began, "Just wait till you spill a Nadder's guts for the first time." Hiccup's elated expression sinks at instantly guessing what his father meant, "And mount your first Gronckle head on a spear. What a feeling!" Stoick laughs once again as he smacks Hiccup on the shoulder, sending him into the wall. "You had me going there, son. All those years of the worst Viking that Berk has ever seen! Odin, it was rough. I almost gave up on you!" Hiccup gets back up, grimacing in the irony of it all mixed with guilt. "And all the while, you were holding out on me! Thor almighty!"

Stoick then grabs a stool and sits as his massive frame nearly fills the tiny room, and despite that, looked relieved as he spoke once more to his son, "Ahhhhh. With you doing so well in the ring, we finally have something to talk about."

Hiccup averts his eyes nervously while Stoick adjusts, awkwardly clearing his throat at the rare situation he placed themselves into, and after a long, uncomfortable silence… "Oh, I... Brought you something." He presents a horned helmet to Hiccup as he blinked in slight surprise at this, while admiring it as his father continued, "To keep you safe in the ring."

Hiccup for once in his life felt special to his father and then expressed sincerely to him, "Wow. Thanks." Hiccup accepts it, looking it over.

"Your mother would've wanted you to have it." Stoick states from the heart while telling him as Hiccup eyed the mismatched helmets and hid a grimace at his father's words as he tapped his helm as well, "It's half of her breastplate." Stoick then softly smiled as if recalling something, "Matching set. Keeps her close, y'know?" Hiccup despite this still felt guilty and concealed it as his father continued while beaming in pride at him, "Wear it proudly. You deserve it. You've held up your end of the deal."

Hiccup squirms at this before he forces a yawn, and tells him quickly, "I should get to bed."

They were then talking over each other while trying to get around, "Yes! Good!" "Okay. Good talk." "See you back at the house." "We should do this again." "I'm Great." "Thanks for stopping." "Glad I stopped by, I hope you bye." "And for the… The uh, like the hat- Breast hat." Stoick paused before he made Hiccup blink as he then made him go wide in the eyes, secretly, "I was told about Lady Runa's mother as well… She isn't what I anticipated her to be, but I think Runa's Future Bride would be interestin', to say the least, alongside the surprise when she returns."

She's not back yet?! Hiccup thought in small panic while keeping a straight face before feeling more burdened than ever again, as he told him goodnight, and leaves the room awkwardly.

Was a few moments later he held his hand to his chest by a familiar cloaked figure making a stray remark to the teen male, and eating what appeared to be a recently peeled mango, "Seems the Leader of Berk has returned, and things are getting more interesting by the time."

"Gods! Don't do that!" Hiccup tells the man which amused him, before blinking as he was puzzled, "Um… How in Thor's name you came in without Dad seeing you?"

The man merely gestured to the back entrance the shop secretly had to make Hiccup nod reluctantly in acceptance at that, before quickly getting around when the man then made a stray comment to him before he hastily left the blacksmith, "Weren't you about to fetch the Golden Dragon back to her home, Haddock?"

Right as Hiccup comes out and not seeing the man vanished, he bumps into Astrid and another strange girl he never met before as the girl helped him and Astrid, up easily.

Astrid asks him in puzzlement now as she was ordered to fetch him anyways by Ophis' demanded or even ruling for her child's surprise late birthday party that she decided to do, "Where you off too?"

What he declared worried her then as he told a half-truth, "I forgot to fetch Runa from the woods earlier and well…" he hid a wince from Astrid's stare while Koneko looked at them both plainly with secretive worry, as the three took off, and in said woods was rather interesting or in Runa's terms, irksome.

Runa felt flushed while glancing everywhere as she felt completely lost since her nose was somehow not breathing in her big brother's scent as the clear sky easily indicated from the forest to at least give her moonlight to see, and she didn't understand why she was twitching and stuff while moving, but she was only instructed to be isolated by Toothless earlier once she has got back.

Runa stilled while feeling unexpectedly weak as she almost tripped over herself by gently holding the gem she secretly took with her, in strange comfort, as it oddly enough vibrated within her right hand as she thought she heard something and stilled in place.

Despite the way, as she was, she still had fears that even Deathwing partially understood as well as how insecure she was.

Runa held in place a few moments before trying to sniff the air again but groaned and felt her body jerk once more, randomly, with small muscle spasms around her pelvis and legs until she almost tripped over herself as her mind was oddly silent since, secretly, Deathwing was being blocked by whatever was ailing her.

Runa blinked as she did trip over a fallen log, a few moments later, that was, in fact, recent, and had glazed orbs while attempting to then see her surroundings from her eyesight becoming unexpectedly blurry as not known to her, she was starting to cry.

Runa then felt she was in growing and immense pain mixed with something else she never experienced before while feeling herself, to her mind, pee herself in sticky liquid alongside her other part of herself be in utter irritation from being constricted, and she instantly held her sides as while this was all going down, her tears began to effortlessly fall from her eyes as her distress suddenly intensified and with her not hearing clawed steps was slowly approaching her spot.

It was a dragon of sorts that was concealed and stalking Runa like prey, and it was mostly cat-like in the body without fur as the hide was in resemblance to that of a black panther, and the head of the dragon was in the shape of a boomerang for the horns on the sides of its head, up to four (two large ones up top and two half ones on the sides of its head) that curled outwards in lavender-based color. Its tail was oddly enough scorpion-like as the tail was also flexible yet slender of sorts. Its body was fit yet slim and was the size of a mustang with silvery teeth that were sharp with saber-tooth fangs. Its head, however, was that of a velociraptor with red, draconic eyes with hints of amber in them, and it had four sets of medium-sized wings in resemblance to a Nadder, mixed with a bat as they were on the top in an X-formation, perfectly, while the dragon also has while also revealing from the sides as they were flexible, two sharp sickle-like arms on the sides as extra limbs.

The reason it was here was that it smelled Runa, and wanted to either hunt her down or have its way with her from the sheer scent alone. That, and it already put the Night Fury in a brief paralyzed state that would wear off in an hour while it did as wanted.

Runa, however, was trembling in place without recognizing why as she felt her entire body feel flushed with more of that sticky stuff gradually gushing from her lower region, and her chest felt full and was also aching, alongside her heart was heavily thumping within each and every ten seconds or so within her chest and could even hear it like a deep pulsing sensation within her ears.

As the mysterious Dragon approached the weak Runa, it opened its maw to reveal green insides as the saber teeth commenced leaking red liquid of sorts since it was about to bite her until it let out a shocked, shrill-like roar from it quickly turning its head sharply at beholding Astrid's ax sticking to its somewhat thick hide near its behind and using its tail to easily extract it.

It then made the three teens move hastily away, otherwise, they would have been instantly killed as they regrouped themselves while seeing the dragon hissed raspily at them, in a way, to realize it was telling them to back off.

Astrid and Hiccup quickly blinked at Koneko as she looked firmly at the unknown dragon and calmly expressed with hints of anger at recognizing what was ailing Runa, instantly, but didn't mention it, "Go to My Mate while I lead this Beast away from her."

Without a chance to speak their minds, Koneko took off as her body was briefly covered in a strange aura and made the dragon roar before deciding to follow after her in utter rage as the two heard small explosions and whatnot further away from them as they checked Runa over while trying to not blush at knowing that she was gushing liquid from her feminine area and with Astrid covering her nose from the scent being strange to her.

Astrid too felt something weird below her yet ignored it in favor of helping Hiccup out… To only fail as Runa's body spasmed severely while spewing again as if she was having a seizure, to scare the two Viking teens.

"Runa, Rue! Stay with us! Focus on me, please." Astrid states with mixed emotions of concern, and fear, and was holding Runa's trembling face and noticing her eyes were fully glazed over along with her silvery tears still emitting from them as for once in their lives, as they gazed at each other, they didn't realize what to do.

"What do we do Hiccup… She's getting worse," Astrid confided him moments later as he was thinking of many ways to try and get Runa out of the woods and back to Berk without harming themselves as her constant jerking was less now, but Runa's body felt decently hot while sweating, alongside a small puddle formed from her gushing as such. "I truly can't think of anything-" they froze when they turned to see a skeletal man materialize out of nowhere and glancing mainly at Runa to make them wary.

"So it seems she has the worst type of heat periods then." Even in her condition without recalling... Was all he noted to himself with a minor thought after as his skeletal fingers touching his bony chin.

Astrid and Hiccup were guarded then while the teen male put up a brave front since the entity's aura before them, both screamed for them to run, "W-Who are you?"

The skeletal male blinked before staring at him then and declared in a way Hiccup regretted his decision, after easily glimpsing those marks on his arm, "So… He was here then, and marked you down for further, amusing things to come? Interesting… I have understood as Hades: The Greek Death God and Partial Ruler over the Realm of Limbo and parts of Hell, amongst others."

Astrid paled as she heard about this man from her mother's tales when she was younger and made her blink back tears of emotion about Runa from her eyes as they were turned to utter shock by his words when he gazed at her, next, "Oh? Your that Woman's child? I truly don't blame Lucifer at all as, after all, I and a few others did send her as a man long ago as punishment for her one prank of a meeting long ago, and another time as a vassal to help this child to exist within her father… Maybe making you and this girl, Half-Sisters..." he seems to be not bothered and approaching Runa's ill form, and not watching Astrid's shocked brief face at his last set of words and was half-amused when they stopped him before getting unexpectedly blasted by small rings of fire from behind.

He glanced to see it was Koneko and wondered why she was here, yet noted firmly to make Koneko nearly drop her cold facade of sorts by his ordered words, and also confusing the two teens by what he called her, "Rook. I suggest you allow me to do as I intended or your Soulmate would have a hard chance of surviving her first of many heated periods her type as a rare drake has, and caused, from her not being pure."

Koneko that they saw, was reluctant yet she channeled her unusual energy back inside her body and made them reluctantly move away as he then touched Runa's forehead as they were amazed from seeing he channeled icy-like energy right into her as the Potter Teen then sighed in immediate relief, and slumped unconscious.

"What did you do to her?" Hiccup pleaded to make Hades glance at him while saying nothing at first and knowing the Nekotama and the blonde teen female were wary of him, plainly acknowledged to make Koneko blink in utter surprise, mixed with hints of puzzled suspicions as to why he did so, "I solely settled her body down as this type of first heat only occurs to those that are not pure, as I mentioned, but it would be just the same onwards until she is indeed mated, truly, with all of her soulmates her soul has yet to find and to which, one of them is you, Rook."

They didn't see Koneko clench a fist at this as, despite her embarrassing heat a long while ago for her eventual brother figure, she accepted her King's (Rias) boyfriend and eventual mate, Issei, but this… This was truly upsetting to her as she isn't pure either but at least hers was able to regrow back until her true mate in which Runa truly was via a test by what Ophis brought back home, would officially break it, all thanks to her father's experiments that her elder notified her, eventually and finally, before their arrival.

Hades snapped his fingers as Runa glowed an ethereal blue for a few brief moments before noticing her levitate and the aura faded as she almost fell on Koneko before the Nekotama, to stun the teens, effortlessly had her within a decent hold despite her petite size as Hades remarked to her and she only gave a curt nod sharply at him, as he left, "Make sure she is well cared for during the Pained Heats… Even as The Chosen, she could die by it, and to which I do not want to save her a third- Excuse my words, fourth time from Death wanting some personal time with her."

Koneko paled at that though, secretly, and glancing in sad understanding to Runa and wondered why she had that unusual scythe-like sigil on her neck, which appeared a long time ago from Hiccup's actions back with the golden statue, and wordlessly walked with Runa in a bridal carry.

While slowly following Koneko as Runa did tremble a few times and avoiding her liquid, Astrid and Hiccup were silent as they shivered from discovering the corpse of that dragon still dissolved into a pile of goo of sorts as they also thought about what the Greek God said, within their minds, as well.

If they were paying attention though, and once the bizarre dragon has fully dissolved thanks to Koneko purifying the beast, a shadowy figure revealed itself while glancing at the goop and then held out a clawed grayish hand.

The goop began to gather and conclude into a dark emerald-colored gem of sorts and with a brief cold chuckle, vanished into swirls of shadow once it picked it up.

Koneko held her breath as Astrid no longer had that strange, tingly feeling the entire way to the Mansion of Runa, and everyone inside was either confused, perplexed or in a few other's cases, worried as they all quickly moved away from Ophis as she sped right to the Nekotama with Kuroka holding and moving her sister quickly away at realizing what she was smelling and was impressed with her will.

Ophis firmly told the two Viking teens as everyone was even more confused except for Rias as she reluctantly came over by the strange feeling that The Nothing Dragon may want her, "How long?"

Recognizing something serious was going on, Stoick ushered the other teens and everyone out of the large hall and into a spare room as Astrid shivered at how powerful Ophis' gaze was to realize she was angry at them and mostly worried over Runa as while unconscious, she moaned in pain while still dripping, "Sh-She was twitching and everything until this tall, skeletal man came and touched her." Was all Astrid could get out before they were stunned at beholding Ophis easily lifting her child in an awkward situation of carrying within her arms and sped right to Runa's chambers.

Rias saw Koneko finally begin to pant and breathe, turned to the two teens, and noted firmly while they glanced at each other, "Tell me everything you know."

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The Next Day within the Afternoon and on December 11th, 811 (2014 True-time):

Runa was now sitting on the sidelines while finished drinking a disgusting beverage that both her mother and Rias had been making her drink for the last few hours, despite Callie giving them the more potent ingredients, as she felt awkward as to why she had to as she had to take it for the next one.

It turned out she gained the Painful Heated Periods as such, and to clarify that in detail, she would every time the second full moon or from other sources forcing it, would go into a pained yet blissful state to where she would be vulnerable to attack or worse, and the only cure to that since it was caused by her loss of womanhood when young and also before her first heat, would be mated, fully, with those she truly loved as a lover, wife, and of course, mate as to be dubbed in Mated Terms, the Beta Mates.

Last night it took the combined strength of both her mother, Rias, and even Kuroka as she was somehow immune to the scent she gave off as they also had to decipher things to the Vikings, to snap her body out of its harsh state and even Deathwing was sorta ticked that the Night Fury didn't fully explain it yet knew that the male was limited to True Heats, in knowledge, when he told her yet did give the talk of how to well, about sex, but not the body's ways of things as to why she was confused from leaking juices last night.

Serena was within the stands alongside her mother (Ophis), Rias, Kuroka, Rowana, Zilanette (for support as she was Runa's Official House Guest), Koneko, and Ashlyn to observe her at the stands of the Arena for today, as it was full of expected Vikings, even Gobber, The Elder, and even Stoick was watching.

Runa though as she ate the metal the drink came from, was glancing at Astrid in small concern as she understood that the first official full moon for her change was tonight as the Leader of Berk (Stoick) decided instead of today, to give them all three full days to truly decide which one of the Vikings would end up slaying the Monstrous Nightmare.

Astrid though felt more energetic and oddly hostile as she did apologize to Runa afterward this morning for randomly snapping and crushing her metallic cup with ease at breakfast, and knew she was on a thin line of emotions as she was looking onward to at least getting this curse adjusted by what she was notified when she secretly, was aiding Ophis and Rias last night.

Hiccup yawned as he stayed over at Runa's home while pondering what Hades meant about saving Runa, four times he recalled, of her life, and the recent tasks ahead of and wearing his adjusted Viking Hat thanks to Rowana doing so this morning as they all waited as to what they were going to face.

A random Viking lowered the door to surprise them, it was a different dragon altogether as secretly, they managed to capture two different dragons that oddly enough, got along with each other, particularly since the other was much larger while gazing at them and scoffed before laying down.

The dragon that came out made Fishlegs wary as he knew what it was while glancing right at the leader in bewilderment as he claimed then to make the others blink before glimpsing Ophis places a soundproof enchantment of sorts on the outer edge for everyone at hearing what it was, quickly, "A Grapple Grounder! They got a Grapple Grounder!"

To mention this, this Grapple Grounder was red, with golden or yellow spots or rings of sorts on its body. It has four horns and its body is long and slender. The tail is also shaped like an arrow and it has larger wings, compared to its body than other dragons of what Runa and those in knowledge, knew, was part of the Boulder Class thanks to the book. However, this snake-like dragon also has tiger-based purple markings of sorts on its hide as well, and the horns were black ivory in color with amber-green draconic eyes.

It was then looking at them for a few moments before they dodged the Grapple Grounder as it tried to wrap them up before glancing at Runa when she acaccidentally sneezed on it to make the dragon glare at her spot before glancing right at Astrid as she sent her ax at it before being astonished the weapon simply bounced off as it hissed angrily at her, and then it randomly proceeded to spit out dark blue, rapid, baseball-sized plasma blasts at them.

While they dodged, the dragon rapidly slithered of sorts right at Astrid before she was quickly shoved out of the way, and Astrid was astonished while see Hiccup was the one wrapped up as he blinked from noticing the dragon glance at Runa in mock challenge before they unexpectedly heard the door get banged on until it fell over, and revealed the other dragon that decided it was time to act.

It has a long neck, and stubby arms mostly black with yellow tips on its wings, which were big or close to sixty-three feet long. It also has a pair of golden horns on its head, as well as spikes on its chin, back, and tail while being around the size fifty-five feet long and nine or so feet in length (due to the tail) as it oddly resembled a scythe only slightly.

The Viking teens didn't know what dragon this was yet Stoick sharply gave Spitelout a firm look as he contended within his seat, and Ophis secretly heard this as the male-only shrugged with gazing at the Arena as the Ground Grabber let go of Hiccup and was chasing alongside the new dragon against Astrid and Runa, ignored the others shout of her to come back, "You managed to obtain the rare, Devilish Dervish? You mad for Odin's sake?!"

Meanwhile, in the Arena, Runa tripped alongside Astrid as they both suddenly hid a yelp as they were then, to embarrass themselves, tossed back and forth with the two dragon's tails with ease, back at each other like in the game of catch as both dragons hissed at themselves in amusement, and the other teens could only watch in bafflement.

Soon though, the dragons tossed the two girls right at the teens as they fell onto each other, before scrambling and moving as the larger dragon sent a blast of multiple plasma balls at them, and Runa saw the blast sent the others off their feet and she was shortly wrapped, tightly, by the Ground Grabber, and couldn't move.

Ophis was upset that these Viking Mortals indeed places a dragon her child, and those other younger teens, were not at all prepared for while she easily held back Koneko from going right into the Arena in a firm grip.

The Nothing Drake's stare was soon changed to intrigued like a few others at seeing the aura cover Runa's frame once again, and with Rias sharply giving the Dragon God of Nothing a shocked yet knowing stare, as she wasn't told Runa was the Golden Dragon from them witnessing Runa chomped on the neck of the Ground Grabber, and making it soon let go in sudden surprise before rushing over to her big sister, as she was twitching a bit in place, while at the same time, mentally cursing to herself of her curse affecting today's performance.

At the blonde teens place, she closed her orbs and expecting the worse as Hiccup gapped like most of the Vikings to make Astrid opened her eyes, and was instantly stunned at discovering Runa was struggling in place while handily holding the Devilish Dervish's jaws from snapping at her, in utter rage.

Deathwing was privately surprised at how stupid his jailer was at being heroic while at the same time, understanding, as one of her Pack was being threatened so as such, he realized her instincts were mostly at play then herself and shook his head while glancing at a smaller version of Runa's previous, human form next to him as she was eating popcorn yet she was recently formed by last night's events due to his jailer being close to death, if it wasn't for the Greek God.

The only difference, to mention the girl, is that she was still green-eyed in color, but was monochrome in outfit design to be sorta gothic, and wore a collar around her neck with two particular sigils on it, on the sides.

Plus a dark-like mist was sitting next to the said girl, reluctantly, and sharing the imagined popcorn while they observed from Runa's orbs.

Back to Runa as Hiccup grabbed Astrid and the other teens moved to the side as Runa and the Devilish Dervish were facing each other for dominance, the Ground Grabber was sneaking around the sides of the two before striking as it clamped onto Runa's right arm to get her distracted enough to glance and let her guard down

At this, the Devilish Dervish took this chance to use its tail to swipe her under the legs and knock her down before placing a firm foot on top of her abdomen as she struggled to move.

The teens gazed at each other as Hiccup soon got an idea that Astrid saw on his face while gesturing with his head at the knocked-over rack, and they nodded as they went over to it and grabbed a shield and weapon, randomly, while the two dragons hissed at each other in equal, amused glee at Runa.

Runa was wide-eyed in utter fear at watching the dragon open up its maw as the familiar shade of a particular green color from long, long ago, and within most of her nightmares, showed itself, to still her in feared and panic-induced state.

The Devilish Dervish was about to fire the blast that shifted to a brighter green color as blue flames escaped its maw before dismissing it soon with sharply moving its head at the teen Vikings as they used their shields, secretly impressing Gobber as his lesson was working, to make it distracted, while at the same time, the Ground Grabber was hissing and backing away.

Runa was still frozen in shocking fear… Although both dragons didn't like how Snotlout made a rude comment to them afterward, chased him, Ruff and Tuff, and Fishlegs around The Arena, "Hey Lizards! Your mothers were an ugly cross of a goat and an eel!"

Astrid and Hiccup, with the two mentally thanking Snotlout for once, were checking Runa over as to their stunned surprise, she was not responding to them and had fully glazed orbs and was whimpering to herself in her state, still, and they shortly ducked as the teens ran past while the angered dragons pursues Snotlout and Tuffnut.

"She isn't responding," was all Hiccup had to say before they heard a commotion from within the stands as Ophis let Koneko go, and the younger of the two Nekotama easily sped right into The Arena with some objections from other Vikings until they saw Ophis' sharper gaze, and instantly shut up.

"She is in feared shock…" Koneko states after quickly checking her over while glancing at the dragons before firmly staring at both Astrid and Hiccup as they warily nodded with soon watching her slowly get up, and head over there, "Watch her."

Ophis hid for once an amused smile while glancing at the Nekotama's King as Rias held the urge to facepalm to herself alongside them all beholding Kuroka chuckling and noted, to intrigue Zilanette and the other girls as they continued to observe the younger of the Neko Sisters, walking calmly over to the dragons, "She's pissed off… Seems you girls get to see what a pissed Neko would do."

The next thing everyone perceived was that an immediate yelp from dragons was heard while some mysterious fog rolled into The Arena, at the same time, heard strange cartoonish sounds mixed with small blasts that were illuminated from the fog itself before the crowd in the center jumped back as the ring was busted through by the two dragons rapidly fleeing in fear while the fog lifted, and the creator of said fog smirked from his hidden spot before leaving by watching Koneko dismiss her energy and soon heading back over to Runa.

Stoick decided to call it after that as it would take, oddly enough, a few days to repair for the final exam as this was merely a warm-up, and Koneko took Runa with ease while perplexing most Vikings of a petite girl effortlessly carrying a bigger female like Runa as such, and Astrid hid a wince at the unexpected, sharp-like pricking she felt in her right arm for a moment before that went away as it came.

Hiccup reluctantly went to work as the others did their own thing, and the blonde teen headed to Runa's home and blinked when she arrived thirty minutes later, of the weird things she saw while closing the door.

Zilanette, Rias, and even Kuroka were holding Koneko back, and with noticing Ophis was not here to realize she was with Runa, again, saw Ashlyn and Rowana were contemplating something until they saw her arrival.

"So she's still not out of it?" Astrid inquired the two girls and heading over to them and holding back the unusual urge to want to fight Koneko while she was in this state, and didn't like the stares that they gave her as Astrid glanced in the direction where she knew Runa's Room was while beholding Esdeath was chasing down an unaware Serena as well, within the Hall, "Yes, as she was under an unexpected panic attack by whatever that dragon did." Rowana states while crossing her arms.

Astrid now ignores the needle-like tingling feeling within her spine as she and Rowana glanced at Ashlyn as if by her face, she figured it out as she was gazing where the way Runa's Room was up those stairs, "Probably has to do how oddly similar to the color of the flame was to the one curse she keeps seeing in her nightmares."

Astrid instantly understands what Ashlyn meant while ignoring the urge to scowl when Rowana blinked at her friend and noted, to make Ashlyn almost fault downwards while Serena was finally caught by Esdeath, and was taking the tired child to her bedroom, "That has to be one of the smarter things I heard you state recently."

Astrid left the two while she followed Koneko and the others to Runa's Room, and was suddenly held back alongside them by a burst of raw power escaping and shortly leaving the home and spreading farther and farther away from Berk as to a certain silver-haired male while once again in his true form, he shifted course from recognizing Rin was enjoying her cooked shark as they lost track to Berk's direction for a long while, while on a specific isle from long ago, the one that was deep within it blinked at sensing the energy and hid a smirk before going back to sleep.

Koneko though got up shakily and was the first to enter the room followed by Astrid and the others, and saw Ophis was knocked out by the immediate outburst against the wall as Runa was silently screaming from them instantly noticing her body was covered in a dense aura and her eyes were glowing pure white, with unawareness, and her markings were glowing a blood red as her body was also twitching in pain.

Astrid and those in the room soon followed Rias' orders as she was placed to Runa's left alongside Zilanette, Rowana and Ashlyn to her right, and Rias at the bottom of the bed as she was quickly channeling energy and sent a constant warm yet blood-red beam right at Runa's prone form.

While Runa struggled along with Rias nearly spent from last night's events and was about to collapse, they all had brief looks of surprise as the gem in Runa's now opened hand fully shined before glancing away, and when they looked back where Rias was, they were startled at seeing another person was aiding her on keeping her steady as Rias continued her task.

She was a young teen of thirteen, with light-grey yet fair skin and average height (4'9). She has straight brown hair, which was cut in a chin-length bob that framed her oval face with a pointed chin, and her wide and expressive brown eyes. She also has a rectangular purple marking on either side of her cheeks.

She wore a long-sleeved black top and a light purple apron-skirt, under which she wore black shorts on her slender yet slim figure (with a basic B-Cup). She also wore a standard forehead protector with a strange lead symbol of sorts, along with a pair of sandals, red stockings that stopped at her thighs, and a small, red bracelet on her left wrist. The only strange thing about her, however, was the one odd, shrimp-like tail that was matching her skin color from her backside, and her pupils were amber in color.

This was Rin Nohara from the world she was, truthfully, sent from as she was near the sweet embrace of death, with remnants of her what her tail represented as from a "Powerful Beast" as such.

All she could recall was thinking about maybe escaping the prison she was placed into by Yami and a Death God named Anubis into said gem, and thanks to Runa's magic secretly aiding the escape, saw what was going on and decided to help the caster to what she felt was healing energy into the dragon girl.

Astrid winced as her fingernails extended, painfully, into claws and back while she could only watch as a few or so minutes later, Runa lowered onto the bed and looked content and was then sleeping.

They placed Ophis into the spare chair Runa had while Rias covered the girl up, and they were about to leave by her noting it until they turned to see Ophis was instantly awake and seemed relieved of sorts before claiming to the redhead as they saw an odd, black pearl within her left hand, "Once again I owe you a debt, Rias…" she turned to Astrid as she understood yet those in the room didn't, "We should prepare you, Youngling, for the Ritual. By her actions for the few days of observation… It needs to be altered as she changes, not after."

Astrid was surprised as to why Ophis decided to change it up and Rias glanced at the blonde teen in immediate understanding before glancing at the others and declared as Ophis personally yet firmly in a gentle yet still firm grip, led her out as she was, at the same time, drinking an Elixir of sorts to replace her lost energy spent, told the others while they reluctantly nodded, "We need to be secluded from you to prevent any harm to you when we do the unusual ritual Lady Ophis sets up… So keep an eye on Runa for us."

It was later on as Astrid was to her embarrassment, was fully naked while within the center of a pentagram of sorts with the sigils of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water in the corners based on direction (North for Air, Fire for West, Water for East, and South for Earth) as Rias wore a simple red robe over her outfit and Ophis was placing four different mixtures she made into four strange jars in the shape of four different animals, at said spots made for them while also lighting up special candles she made as well, in the spaces between the directions.

Rin oddly enough refused to leave Runa, much to Koneko's ire and also Kuroka's amusement at that as the others roamed or played with Serena within Runa's home… Or more like trying to make sure that Serena's curiosity doesn't get the best of her as it was nighttime and soon, Astrid would be affected by the curse.

"Are you sure this will work?" Astrid states while feeling vulnerable as Ophis easily avoided the lines on the ground she used from Sheep Blood, secretly, mixed with other things as it was close to a dark-reddish brown to not ruin the ritual, and gave her a short nod of a wordless yes, and the blonde teen looked to Rias as she expressed to Ophis in a puzzled tone while recognizing the rune work, "This is supposed to cure her, right?"

What Ophis told them made Astrid want to get out of this yet her eyes saw the barrier keeping her inside, and Rias gave the younger teen a sad look, briefly, over. "No, it is supposed to force her to become that of an aspect of herself, fused with the curse as an Actual Mortal Dragon, then mere Mortal Human… The curse will have effects still… Not sure about other things."

Astrid was fearful at this yet before she could open her mouth, she twitched in place while her hands were trembling as the three saw from the small window, the moon revealed itself to be full as she gritted her teeth alongside her body was abruptly on fire while not hearing both Rias and Ophis commenced to start chanting within moments.

Astrid was horrified at watching her skin turn to the Nadder color to that of the one within The Arena, firstly, before beholding her hands reshaping into clawed, human-like hands and with Nadder clawed fingertips from an unexpected and ethereal aura surrounding her frame.

Astrid then felt tremendous pain as her behind grew a mix of a Nadder tail and something else as it arose her skin color around her head, and central torso turned to an ashen color alongside her nipples being dark grey, her torso looked largely human as the ashen color then overtook the Nadder coloration as she couldn't move at all… Before blanking out while lastly observing those solutions escaped from the jars and entered her forced opened mouth.

Later on, Astrid awoke sharply in a bed while glimpsing Runa was holding onto her hand in the covers and guessed that she was brought out of her state sooner if she was, to what Astrid realized, was her room within Runa's Home.

She soon felt nature calling, and reluctantly let go of Runa while heading to the bathroom and not noticing anything at first as she took care of business until she wiped her face, and held back a small scream of feared shock and fright.

She wore a nightgown that was plain for decency, but she also saw she was mainly the same except her sclerae was fully pitch black, her ears were slightly pointed, and she possessed ashen-like porcelain skin color with some black highlights within her hair, and her nails, she took notice, are small-clawed alongside her feet, and twirling for a moment before easily grabbing it, was a slim yet slender tail tipped with a scorpion-like stinger. Her skin though was also showing, to which her mother would think she was rebellious (if she was found) rune-like tribal tattoos on her arms in dark-blue colors to a Nadder (think of the same markings as Revy from Black Lagoon Anime, but with the style being flamed), and she had horns showing from within her hair similar to a Nadder as well, two of them within the side-fronts of her forehead's hairline to make her look like she had devil horns, yet they were small and at least cute looking.

"Your awake." Astrid heard as she turned to see Runa staring on in small concern that Astrid guesses, from seeing she was possibly was wearing one of Runa's nightgowns as she adjusted the strap and wordlessly nodded before again glancing at herself in the mirror.

Astrid blinked as Runa soon wordlessly led her out before she made them both sit in her bed and sighed while gazing at her with a small understanding smile, "Mom stated she tried to do the best she could to make you appear normal but the way you were changing, forced something into you as well… I'm not sure though but my test I still have with me, changed to the state were half-sisters now, and you being the eldest."

That made Astrid blink back her bodily worries before glancing at herself and claimed to make Runa give her a more concerned look as she tried to make it as a joke, yet failed while wiping some of her hair out of her face, since it seemed to have grown a little more, "Well, at least I can try to tell the others we're true sisters now."

They both sighed as Astrid was then confused when Runa placed an unusual, black bracelet of sorts into her hands before making Astrid touch with once again at being surprised at her, as Runa looked nervous as indeed on the bracelet was the Potter Crest, "I've been wanting to give this to you for a while as I was secretly working on this at times when I wasn't with Hiccup or anywhere else, and Mom had a hand in it as since it would be a while before we could explain to everyone what happened." Confused, Runa helped her place the object next to her one other gift, and touched the crest.

Astrid hid an abrupt yelp as she felt brief energy going through her before seeing her skin and everything except that her ears and hair, and her tail forcibly wrapped around her waist was fine until she touched it twice as the blonde teen returns to her new look.

"I know what everyone thinks of me in Berk as a monster… By their whispers behind my back alone," Runa confessed to making Astrid astonished at these very words coming from the girl who had done things to aid Berk alongside her, as she saw Runa was closed within herself at this and glancing away, "I didn't choose to be like this as it was forced upon me… But I mostly didn't want anyone to think that of you-" Runa stiffened before relaxing as Astrid quickly hugged her.

"You're not a monster, Rue. Don't ever think about that ever again," Astrid then tells her in a way it was a mix of being truthful with honesty, and hints of caring-based scolding to get Runa to stare at her with a wordless nod, "It's those who treated you wrong are the true monsters. Not you, them. So I don't ever want to hear you call yourself a monster again… Got it?"

Astrid then lets go of Runa while making the latter chuckle a bit yet she nodded with a small smile with her slightly ignoring the dark voice once again asserting Astrid was lying, and that she was a monstrous beast that will harm everyone and everything.

"Alright… But I was thinking maybe-" Runa began before they glanced at Astrid's door and heard to what Runa knew and Astrid didn't, was Rin, "Is it alright if I come in? I sensed you're awake?"

Runa sighed while giving Astrid a bewildered stare at what was on her face when she quietly explained to her the reason from the way Rin expressed it, "She's my other girl besides Koneko." She looked at the door and started to Rin on the other side, "Come in."

Astrid was still not used to the situation that she was labeled as a monster girl, at this point, but she held back the inner question when she saw briefly two golden lines that effortlessly passed through the walls and were not touchable, between Runa, this girl, and not known to her at where Koneko was.

"I just wanted to make sure that you and the blonde girl here were ok." Rin states with Runa and Astrid indeed seeing she may have seen death before and other things as they allowed her to sit before glancing at the door once again as the door knocked and Runa just expressed the words, come in, and it was Koneko looking relieved while glancing, privately, at Rin with a rivaled look to her face the blonde teen noticed before noting calmly with secretive emotion only Runa picked up on, "So you're ok then, Mate?"

Runa hid the urge to sigh as she was awake a few hours earlier and informed the Nekotama to call her by her first name instead, but she responded that she had to earn the right to do so, which was rather bizarre to Runa, but not to Deathwing within her as he informed her the embarrassing things Toothless forgot to mention.

"Yes, but I was thinking about maybe instead of Astrid and myself… Why not have a girl's night as it's still nighttime." Runa idealized to them all as Astrid didn't realize it was the same night at all and figured it was a few days or so after by the way she felt, but wordlessly shrugged as it was fine by her as the other two did the same.

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The Arena or dubbed The Training Grounds in the Afternoon, a few days later on December 14th, 811 (2014 True Time):

Runa sighed while glancing at the others as she was within the Royal Stand, by Stoick's words, as the others were within the stands nearby: Ophis, Rias, Koneko, Zilanette, and Esdeath while holding Serena, her two friends (Rowana and Ashlyn), Rin, and Kuroka as she was witnessing the other teen Vikings compete for the final day before the exam as to see who it would be the one to slay a dragon, as the last dragon as they did them all except for the Nightmare, was the Gronckle, despite many objections.

Astrid though was notified her competition streak would have unusual consequences for her behavior, yet she chose to ignore it while Hiccup was shown a day earlier what she went through in trust and oddly enough, accepted her with ease as Runa did, and she ducked behind the barrel near him from the female Gronckle was within the air and trying to decide who to attack… She forces her ax at his throat, however.

"Stay out of my way! I'm winning this thing." She told him without realizing that she was doing this as she was blinded by trying to win, and Hiccup hid a gulp while confiding her, despite them being slightly tired as well, she then darts off, and someone cheering her on while closing in on the dragon, "Please, by all means."

Hiccup stands and looks around. Amidst the crowd of onlookers, Stoick watches keenly, beaming with pride, while Runa holds herself in place as the urge to protect who she cares about was sneaking in.

Stoick locks eyes with Hiccup, giving him a nod of encouragement as Hiccup adjusts his new helmet and forces a half-hearted smile.

Unbeknownst to Hiccup, the female Gronckle spots him and makes a bee-line toward him.

Back to Astrid as she catches her breath behind a barrier. She scowls at where the dragon was heading and focused, determined, she stated while lightly gripping her monochrome ax within her hands, "This time. This time for sure."

With a fierce battle cry, she leaps from cover, ax cocked to throw. "Aaaaaaaaaa…" and as she clears the barriers, she sees that Hiccup has already laid the female Gronckle out as he was sheepish since he forgot to switch gloves from smelling Dragon Nip on them.

"No! No!" Hiccup shrugs, as unhappy with the situation as she is while Astrid ranted and Esdeath placed her hands instantly over Serena's confused face when she started ranting, and threw her ax as it stuck on a nearby barrel near Tuffnut who hid a gulp at how close the twin was to getting sliced, "NO! NO! SON OF HALF-TROLL RAT EATING MUNGE BUCKET!"

Without warning, Runa and everyone turned as a loud clacking sound rang out, and from the crowd above, Gothi, the village elder or otherwise known as The Elder, steps forward, tapping her staff. Everyone lights up excitedly except a select few as Stoick tells everyone, "Wait! Wait!"

"So, later." Hiccup states as Gobber snags Hiccup as he attempts to leave, and was told to be within The Arena for the final judgement of the teens, "Not so fast."

Hiccup though disagreed while trying to make an excuse as he knew Runa was going to meet him later for, "I'm kinda late for-" Astrid couldn't help herself as it was her and him next to Gobber as she states in a livid tone to him, "What? Late for what exactly?"

Stoick, however, holds out his hands to silence the jabbering crowd. "Okay quiet down. The Elder has decided."

Thrilled, Gobber stands behind Hiccup and Astrid as he first pointed to Astrid as the crowd waits in silent anticipation. Gothi shakes her head 'No'. The crowd 'Oooohs.' Gobber then points to Hiccup. The Elder nods an affirmative 'Yes' as the crowd erupts in cheers. Astrid quickly turns while giving the teen boy a seething, deadly glare.

"You've done it! You've done it, Hiccup! You get to kill the dragon!" Gobber cheered out as he was hoisted onto the recruit's shoulders with Stoick not noticing Runa quickly leave at this alongside Rin and Koneko after Ophis nodded sharply as she gazed into the situation she realized her child was under before glancing at one particular spot of the arena from easily noticing by her power the green cloaked man in disguise that also gazed at her and nodded before he left, and commenced talking to Rias quietly while Rowana, Ashlyn and Esdeath headed back to Runa's home.

Zilanette followed Kuroka as she decided to follow her sister, and Esdeath held Serena while they left.

"Ha, ha! That's my boy!" Stoick states in pride to the crowd as not known to him, Hiccup was masking his panic to this, "Heh, heh. Oh yeah! Yes! I can't wait. I am so excited."

Later on at the Hidden Cove at dusk, he declared to himself mostly as he wanted to say goodbye to Runa yet she wasn't there at all, "We're leaving. Let's pack up. Looks like you and I are taking a little vacation, forever."

Toothless is nowhere in sight, however, as Hiccup sets down his basket and opens it up, his head clouded with troubles. "Oh... Man…" Without warning a sudden "Shink" sound was made as Hiccup looks up to the sound seeing Astrid, sitting on the rock right in front of him, sharpening her ax.

"Aggh! What the-" Hiccup states in shock before recomposing himself, "What are you doing here?" Astrid hops off the rock and backs him down, spinning her ax threateningly as Hiccup's eyes darted around nervously, searching for Toothless. "I want to know what's going on. No one just gets as good as you do. Especially you. Start talking! Are you training with someone?" She accused him.

"Uh… Training?" He then states in question to her as she then grabs him by his odd-looking harness. "It better not involve… This."

"I know this looks bad, but you see… This is, uh…" Hiccup tried to explain until they heard a rustle coming from the other side of the cove.

Astrid then drops Hiccup to the ground and sets off to investigate as he started to panic while he was following her, and even gestures to himself, "You're right! You're right. I'm through with the lies. I've been making... Outfits. So you got me. It's time everyone knew. Drag me back. Go ahead. Here we go-" he puts her hand back on his harness, getting her to 'Drag him back' as Astrid suddenly bends Hiccups hand backward, driving him down. "AAAAUUGGGHHH! Why would you do that?!"

"That's for the lies." She began as Astrid pounces the hilt of her ax off of Hiccup's laid-out body. "And that's for everything else." Hiccup's yelp was answered with a growl easily coming from the other side of the cove to confuse the blonde.

Astrid looks up to see to her stunned shock a Night Fury, or in this case, Toothless, as he pounces toward them, snarling.

"Oh, man." Hiccup said to himself in a feeble tone as she dives onto Hiccup. "Get down! Run! Run!" Astrid tells him as she pulls her ax out, and is ready to take on Toothless.

"No!" Hiccup knocks Astrid's cocked ax to the ground, out of reach, then stops Toothless short of crushing her. "No. It's okay! It's okay…" Toothless pulls up short and lands hard, spraying Astrid with sand. "She's a friend." Hiccup states to the male dragon calmly as Toothless snorts in disagreement.

Astrid is frozen while Toothless only looks from her to Hiccup and back to her, confused.

"You just scared him." He notified Astrid to make her shake her head and state in exclamation back to her mind, the crazed Viking teen before her, "I scared him!?" Hiccup makes a slight motion when Astrid then intensely whispered to him, "Who is him?"

"Astrid, Toothless. Toothless, Astrid." Hiccup states while introducing his crush to the male Night Fury as he only rolled his orbs at her from seeing Astrid backing away, eyeing Hiccup and Toothless together with pure disgust before she turns and runs for The Village.

"We're dead." Hiccup states to himself as he glanced at noticing Toothless was satisfied with Astrid's departure, turning away before Hiccup went after him while declaring, "Where do you think you're going?"

Moments later within Berk's Woods, Astrid races through the trees as an immediate large shadow overtakes her as she is unexpectedly snatched into the air, and screams. "Oh great Odin's ghost, this is it!"

Hiccup and Toothless fly Astrid to the top of a towering pine. It bows and creaks under their weight as Astrid merely dangles a hundred feet in the air. "Hiccup! Get me down from here!"

"You have to give me a chance to explain." Hiccup tells her before holding back a sigh as she states to him while hanging on to the pine, "I'm not listening to anything you have to say!"

"Then I won't speak. Just let me show you." He tells her as he also extends a hand. "Please, Astrid." She eyes him and the dragon and being curious about his tone, then glancing for a moment at the ground far, far below.

After a moment, she swats Hiccup's outstretched hand away and reluctantly climbs over the pedal, lines, and harness as she settles behind Hiccup, avoiding as much contact as possible. "Now get me down."

"Toothless? Down. Gently." Hiccup tells the male dragon as Toothless leers mischievously. He spreads his wings slowly and with a whop, they made him feel an updraft. Toothless releases the tree tucks in his legs, and hovers in place. "See? Nothing to be afraid of." Hiccup tells Astrid before Toothless unexpectedly launched straight upward as Astrid screams. The acceleration is tremendous.

Every downbeat bucks the saddle, heaving them into the sky, doubling their speed like a rocket. Astrid is thrown backward. She screams and hugs Hiccup for dear life, squeezing the breath out of him.

"Toothless! What is wrong with you?! dragon!" He then tells Astrid in a mortified tone as she was still afraid, "He's not usually like this. Oh no…" Toothless then rolls and plummets toward the coastline far below as Astrid screams again. Toothless then rockets over the ocean waves, deliberately dipping them in the froth. "Toothless, what are you doing?! We need her to like us!" Toothless only rockets skyward and begin tumbling head over tail. "And now the spinning. Thank you for nothing you useless reptile."

Astrid soon clamps her hand over her eyes in fear still as her disguise fell away to privately surprise Toothless yet made the decision for him by her next set of words in mixed fear and defeat, and her aggressive energy gone. "Okay! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Just get me off of this thing."

Satisfied, Toothless relents as they level off and head up and right into the clouds.

Astrid opens her eyes again and looks out over a world she'd never dreamed of. She reaches out and touches clouds, pierces columns ablaze in golden hues, and floats over a vast, alien sky-scape. Her previously feeling of terror is replaced by wonder.

She grins, despite herself and her true self was fully showing as Toothless rises above a blanket of clouds and levels off under a starry sky a few hours later.

They emerge from a blanket of clouds under the dancing Northern Lights, shimmering in ribbons across the vast sky. Below them, Berk's torches flicker in the inky darkness. The new perspective is breathtaking.

Astrid tucks her arms into Hiccup's vest, burying her chin into his shoulder as the moment is not lost on either of them while Hiccup smiles nervously to himself.

Toothless then climbs past Berk's tallest peaks and heads out over open water, leaving the village lights behind them.

"Alright, I admit it. This is pretty cool. It's… Amazing." Astrid confides Hiccup while gently holding onto him before she paused and reaches down and gently pats Toothless' side. "He's amazing."

"So what now?" She then asked Hiccup as he groans as if it was a problem without an answer. "Hiccup, your Final Exam is tomorrow. You know you're going to have to kill…" Astrid began to clarify to him before glancing at Toothless and whispering the last part to the teen male, "Kill a dragon."

"Don't remind me." Hiccup sighed in acknowledgment to her as he understood he had to come up with- A strange, unearthly hum approaches all around them. Toothless' ear plates unexpectedly stand on end. Panicked, he abruptly dives, dipping into cloud cover. "Toothless! What's happening? What is it?" Toothless, if Hiccup or Astrid could understand barks at him 'Quiet!'.

Suddenly, out of the dense cloud, a Monstrous Nightmare emerges. "Get down!" Hiccup tells Astrid as they both duck to not be seen. The Nightmare calls out as a Zippleback appears on the other side of Toothless, boxing him in.

"What's going on?" Astrid warily tells him as he only responded to her equally wary with confusion, "I don't know." Hiccup then quietly tells the male Night Fury, "Toothless. You've got to get us out of here, bud."

Toothless only hissed in the answer as other dragons, previously invisible in the thick clouds, appear all around them. Hundreds of them, all carrying fish and game in their talons.

"It looks like they're hauling in their kill." He whispers to Astrid as nearby a Zippleback eyes them ravenously. "What does that make us?" She replied quietly back to him.

The dragons then bank and dive in formation, plummeting through the thickening fog and weaving between towering, craggy sea stacks.

They then emerge at the base of a massive volcanic caldera, glowing with rivulets of lava. The flock of dragons falls into rank, funneling through a crack, and zipping through a winding tunnel. It gives way to a vast, steamy inner chamber, tiered with pocky shelves.

Dragons of all breeds lay about, nested in hordes as the arriving dragons fly in, dropping the fish and game into a central pit, glowing red and shrouded in mist to which Hiccup is amazed.

"What my Dad wouldn't give to find this." Toothless then peels away from the procession, landing on a small shadowy shelf to keep a low profile as Hiccup and Astrid peek around, taking in the busy hive of sorts. They watch as the food continues to be dropped into the pit. "It's satisfying to know that all of our food has been dumped down a hole." Astrid although was truly puzzled and informs him quietly, "They're not eating any of it." And it would seem they're about to get their answer as the last to arrive is a dim-witted Gronckle.

It hovers over the pit and regurgitates his paltry contribution, a pathetic little fish. As it falls into the steamy pit, a terrible, abrupt roar rings out.

The Gronckle tries to flee, but before it can, a gargantuan dragon head juts from the steamy pit and SNAPS it out of the air. Swallowing it back whole. Hiccup and Astrid recoil, terrified. "What is that?"

They were stunned to hear the dragon speak to the others while the entire horde is in fear by the large, female dragon's words, "The next to leave me a weak contribution is to be devoured with post-haste to my hunger… Particularly since I was hoping you bring me something new as such." The monstrous female beast sniffs the air, seemingly aware of them. She nears the ledge where Toothless is hiding... And roars.

Several dragon's take flight in fear.

"Alright buddy, we gotta get out of here. Now!" Hiccup frantically notifies Toothless as he takes flight, barely evading the monster's snapping jaws. The behemoth dragon lunges for them, snatching a Zippleback out of the air instead. Toothless disappears into the winged exodus as thousands of dragons flee the caldera in fear.

The dragon herself raised her head and glanced at a black-cloaked figure, not at all afraid of her, and she noted with intrigued orbs, "What is it that you desire this time?"

Back at the Hidden Cove, Toothless glides into the cove, later on, and touches down on the moonlit beach.

The two teens were unsettled still as to what they saw within the supposed Nest that their ancestors were looking for, and while her mind was still reeling, was talking Hiccup's ear off. "No, no, it makes sense. It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers... And that's their queen. It controls them." She leaps off of Toothless and runs toward the village to which Hiccup saw, "Let's find your Dad."

"No, no! Not yet. They'll... Kill Toothless." Hiccup states while stopping her as he got off said dragon, and made Astrid blink in small surprise at him as he continued while trying to think, "Astrid, we have to think about this through carefully."

Astrid, however, eyes him, incredulous, and expressed in bewilderment, "Hiccup, we just discovered the Dragons Nest… The thing we've been after since Vikings first sailed here. And you want to keep it a secret? To protect your pet dragon? Are you serious?" She was taken aback when she saw his face as he stood firm, and resolute, as he only expressed to her, "Yes."

"Okay. Then what do we do?" Astrid asked as she was discreetly impressed by him and didn't know why as her heart oddly enough, thumped once within her chest as well as he simply told her with him looking to be thinking, still, "Just give me until tomorrow. I'll figure something out."

"Okay." Without warning, Astrid then punches Hiccup in the arm. "That's for kidnapping me." She began as Hiccup looks to Toothless for support yet held in a sweatdrop as Toothless only snorted, and was dismissive. Astrid then grabs him as he braces for another hit… Until she kisses him gently on the cheek to startle him as she finished, "That's for everything else."

In the awkward wake of the moment, Astrid hurries off while leaving Hiccup rubbing his cheek and still stunned, as he saw her activate her bracelet Runa gave her as she did.

Toothless then hobbles up, eyeing him in expectancy, "What are you looking at?" He tells the dragon who oddly shrugged somehow before unexpectedly they stiffened and turned to see the green cloaked male was sitting on a rock while gazing at the sky, but truly, was gazing at him under the hood, "Seems young love is a truly remarkable moment when it occurs… Don't you agree, Haddock?"

Toothless quickly got in front of Hiccup while growling at the man but was confused when Hiccup gave an irritated groan before eyeing the man, "What do you want this time?"

Oddly taking a moment to be satisfied by Hiccup's words, Hiccup and even Toothless blinked by the man then, "I do wonder what the fair Lady Runa would rather think about if she knew… Or better yet, where is she?" To that, Hiccup felt the odd feeling of déjà vu when they heard a scream that came from a girl that even got Astrid's attention as she was close to entering the village, hesitated, and left to where the sound was.

"What did you do?" Hiccup states as the man raised his hands in defense while making them blink as he only declared and making a green vortex big enough for them to go into as Hiccup soon got on Toothless and took off into it without understanding where he ends up, "I suggest post-haste to the girl is in order, as she would need your assistance."

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A few hours earlier, with Runa and Co. within Berks Woods:

"Are you sure we are not lost?" Rin states to Runa as she was next to Koneko, and her big sister (Kuroka) while Zilanette was on the other side, as they were deep into the woods.

"I'm sure… Mostly." Runa states while not seeing Koneko secretly checking her out to amuse her sister without words as Rin saw this and didn't say anything while feeling mixed with what she knew, and what she was realizing for her as well as it seems Runa was oblivious to her body before they paused, and saw Zilanette head over to the right while curious and decided to follow her.

It seems it was an unusual choice as they blinked at watching her going into a small opening that led to a garden of sorts within a nearby rock formation.

"Wow… Look at this place. It's immense," Runa states to them in awe as they held in their own words as they were secretly awed by it as well, but also cautious as this seems too fishy of sorts.

The garden they were in was huge and had some things familiar and things that were not, especially bizarre fruit trees as well.

Most of the garden seems to be onwards to no end except it did, as it was around the size of two football fields. The ceiling although was illuminated by some type of spell Runa recalled Hogwarts had to show the sky in clear detail.

"Hey, you guys want some?" Zilanette states as she had in her hand a few unusual yet same sized and designed fruit.

The fruit she gathered resembled a bright yellow, five-pointed star with blue and red lines on each end connecting to the center (with a gem-like pit showing, when they discovered it after)... Well, a perfect star wasn't the best way to describe it as it was slightly rounder on the tips and had dark, fleshy-looking "Lips" with a button-like thing near the edge. The feeling of the fruit itself was also soft yet firm and was squishy within and with some juices easily leaking from the tips. It also was at least the size of a regular grapefruit and had hair on some parts that seemed removable near the bottom.

The reason they realized this was that she placed them in each of their hands with Runa oddly smelling chocolate and cinnamon as a scent from hers, and glanced as the others were not that brave as they were cautioned about where or how this place came to be, while at the same time, noticing the entrance was still there.

Runa felt the strange feeling of seeing this fruit somewhere before, but she didn't recall it as they then left the garden.

Zilanette ate hers with ease, followed by Rin as Koneko took the pit out as not known to them, the one in charge of the garden in a separate dimension chuckled as they were sending the same fruits, randomly, to those that needed it, especially since the person did recently sent a grower to grow them in Runa's Verse, as ordered by their Boss, as the fruit either is instant or takes a while to have its effect upon those that ate it… With side effects randomly.

Anyways, they were then dissatisfied as Runa swallows hers whole and blinked as it seems they were immediately and entirely lost way deeper than before from instantly discovering that they were transferred to somewhere else on Berk.

They also noticed the entrance to that bizarre garden, which was not understood by Runa, and that person placed seeds with instructions into her storage space her mother increased as such, secretly, was gone.

"Ok…" Rin states at first as Runa sighed while admitting, and not glimpsing Kuroka handing her sister a gem at winning the bet they made when they encountered each other, "We're lost."

"Well, perhaps we can split up?" Kuroka suggested while making Koneko sharply look at her in a way to be suspicious, as Zilanette nodded while finishing her fruit up and tossing the pit randomly away from her, "Ya. We won't be able to find anything else at this rate to get back to the village… Maybe we go by ourselves?"

Rin shook her head as Runa didn't get a chance to say anything else, word-wise that is, as she told the girls then with Koneko oddly enough agreeing with her as her shrimp-like tail wavered a bit, "Not a good idea but maybe we could meet back here after say… An hour, with me, Koneko, and Runa going one way- Hey! Where are you going?"

They saw Zilanette already leaving and with Kuroka shrugging and followed her to get the ninja girl to sigh as she, in secret, was retraining herself as she found out she had to start all her progress all over again and had the current skills of a Genin, and wordlessly left with Runa and Koneko to the right.

Not realized to them, a vortex appeared out of nowhere and an armored male in the black, skull-like demonic yet draconian gear of sorts with glowing amber eyes stared in Runa's direction, and then to where the other two went as well with a glint and got a blade out of his sheath that looked powerful yet demonic in matching metal, and channeled energy into the weapon while slicing and ripping open a void of sorts as a pair of red eyes looked at him before whatever it was, took off to Runa's direction as another did the same to another way.

He then trudged onwards while the rip to who knows where sealed up, instantly, and proceeded to what Kala failed to do.

With Zilanette and Kuroka, twenty minutes later, they were not faring well as they were stunned at seeing they had encountered a cliff and glanced at each other while knowing they had to head back.

They froze though at glimpsing something and couldn't respond as it was too quick before knocking them out cold, and taking them somewhere else to where the armored man was.

With Runa and the others, she felt like she was going to puke as the bizarre fruit she ate was, secretly, forcing something within her such to when she awakens, after true sleep would be shocked by, but they still trudged to the slight worry of Koneko and Rin as the three have yet to encounter the village at all.

Discovering there was a resting place, they decided to settle down for a moment as Runa indeed puked out the pit of the fruit and saw it was oddly enough glowing, and Rin pocketed it (despite Runa shaking a bit).

"Maybe we should go back to the one spot and go together this time?" Runa suggested after a few moments Koneko was about to say something but confused them when she got up quickly and got into a stance before Rin did as well.

"What?" Runa states to then turn around after Koneko states in a half-calm and half-wary tone to her, "Do not turn around."

Runa was frozen in place staring at a black, shadowy figure of a dragon of sorts as it possessed glowing red eyes, and resembled a skeletal-like version of a Night Fury except it had a scorpion tail at the end, with the so-called bones being the armor of said dragon along with the skin looked more to crocodiles.

It hissed at her while Runa slowly got up before it abruptly breathed gas at them to which they passed out and when they came back to awareness, they were upside down, it was nighttime, and they were in some sort of chasm of sorts with the rock formation detailing it was still Berk and soon saw that one man carving actual bone from the ground into a dagger of sorts before noticing they were awake.

"Ah… The Sister of Kala is awake at last." He began while making Runa lightly gulp as he swiftly tossed the handmade weapon near her head on the right side as the select few girls glared at him for that, and Kuroka was merely observing what was going to be not at all good, and Zilanette was tired looking yet she was fearful for once as well. "I was rather hoping for my pupil to finish you off yet that foolish man, Aeroza, had to spoil her official training as a Shadow Lord to Be… So I decided to take it upon my deeds to secure you as you are needed for things to come, Golden Dragon."

"F-For what?" Runa asked before they all were stunned at how fast he was from wearing heavy armor as he handily gripped her face and made her stare at him right in the eyes, as he glanced at them first before looking right at her as if seeing right to her soul, "For what is to come as such, as this world will be brought into the knowledge of things to come… In due time. Even though I am cryptic of my words, the knowledge of worlds has been hidden upon thy sight for years and onwards to your time, it seems."

He then let go of Runa while taking a few steps back and gazing at her friends and two Soulmates then, at the same time, he easily reached and grab his sword and pointed it at her as the runes glowed. "Perhaps a demonstration of thy true power will suffice."

Without warning, he sent black and red lightning right at her as the others glared in anger and was telling him to stop, while at the same time, Runa started to scream bloody murder as, within her, Deathwing was also in anger as what this fool was trying to do was force her to use her untrained power to his benefit and force it out… Which was hurting her in the process, and was trying yet failing to stop it alongside the monochrome version of her.

"I will have the power of the Golden Dragon under thy heels. Nothing will-" suddenly he was bombarded by a blur of two figures to stop what he was doing and sent him at least into a few trees as to receive them while glimpsing a green vortex disapparated, at Hiccup and Toothless while the latter was hissing at the armored man as he slowly got up.

"So, her so-called protectors have arrived as foretold," the man noted to the two and glancing at the dagger, and with a snap of sorts, Runa started to scream as it was then sending the same energy right into her and with Hiccup glaring as they were drowned out by Runa's screaming to feel for once in his life, utter anger, at this person.

"Oh? Did I get thy Protectors in anger over thy actions?" The man taunted at them as Toothless spat out a plasma blast to stun them that he deflected the blast as in secret, Astrid was nearly toasted if it wasn't for an unforeseen force blocking the attack and teleported her right to Runa's spot, and seeing what was harming her little sister, decided to untie the others from seeing the man was distracted and with Hiccup and Toothless, and Runa saw her apologetic look and understood while the dragon girl was trying on holding back her screaming as Astrid figured that they would know how to stop it.

"The plasma bolt did nothing…" Hiccup states to himself while near an equally startled Night Fury as the armored man chuckled, and confessed before pointing his weapon at them as not realized to them, a quick shadow covered their forms while quietly landing nearby, "Of course. Thy armor is constructed of the most powerful metal there ever is… It seems I get to kill off thy Protectors after all."

Hiccup closed his eyes alongside Toothless as they couldn't move yet before a blast could be aimed, the man let out a startled yelp for once when they glanced while the others either jaw dropped or for Zilanette's case, hearts in her eyes, at beholding a silvery haired man glaring right at him as his charge was sent over by mere head motion and shortly was aiding Astrid on freeing the others.

"So… You have returned for thy rematch then, Lord Sesshōmaru?" The man states while they jumped back from blocking blades, and the Inu Youkai Lord said nothing but got into a stance, and glanced at the others before amusing the armored male as he took off and then chased after him, the bone dagger disintegrated and made Runa pass out from exhaustion.

Hiccup for once sighed with relief before finishing untying the others as Runa was easily being carried by Koneko, and they then saw Rin do strange hand signs before placing her glowing hands on her as she was then soon healed.

Without warning, the one dragon came back with a twin dragon as they hissed at them before they were then confused as they were unexpectedly encased in a bubble, followed by an immediate gust of wind that blew them away to who knows where and took this chance to leave.

If they were paying attention, they would have seen Eris chuckling to herself alongside gazing at the familiar pair of orbs that held amusement as she notified the entity, to which vanish, "I suggest if you want your future student aware of yourself… Then reveal yourself soon."