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

5. 1st Movie: Finale, and Things to Come

The next day on December 15, 811 (2014 True Time), in the late afternoon within the Arena:

A lot of things happened in the morning, earlier, as Lord Sesshōmaru and his charge were vouched by Ophis herself before Stoick could declare anything, as they did see the aftermath of the small battle between him and the one man at the far side of Berk.

Zilanette was passed out, deeply, within Runa's Home as Rin was also studying the fruit itself they obtained.

Kuroka went back with Rias to Runa's true time as the female demoness understood her Rook's emotions and was going to bring back something unexpected as such, later on, as the younger Neko decided to stay.

Serena was currently sitting next to Runa as it was her largely, as Rowana and Ashlyn went with Rias, to which she was sad about it, but couldn't understand why The Pillars refused her entrance at all to head home when offered a chance alongside her child.

Ophis was called for a meeting by a mysterious person earlier this morning, and has yet to come back.

Sesshōmaru was with his charge next to her in the stands as he scented a familiar stench from not only her but to her offspring, and one who the child's mother was while, at the same time, was informed by Ophis to hold back anger as she indeed was gone yet under her care within a coma after being brought back, by her, as one of the few gifts to her child.

Speaking of Runa, she underwent a minor growth of sorts with an even slightly enhanced figure, overnight, due to what Rin guessed when asked, was the unusual fruit she, Zillanette, Rin herself, and Koneko ate.

She was a few inches taller or around fifteen and a half feet tall, and her body altered to truly become strong, better in thickness yet more sexy looking with an evenly distributed hourglass.

In better terms, her waist was only tucked a little more while still considered a perfect hourglass blended with her complete thick volumes for perfect curves, and mixed with the perfect amount of muscle for her frame, her bust went up to an I-Cup due to height as she, in private, had an issue she settled that morning as well in which Serena innocently burped once again for, as her body in terms of describing to what everyone would see her as was the same, but due to her size she was like that to a slender-based, bodybuilding in the perfection of an Amazonian woman with slender yet still sculpted arms and legs in the right ways, and perfect curves.

Runa cursed Fate for her figure while oddly enough, mixed with hating and loving her muscles as Fate herself, privately, cursed at another person altering things once again for her to clean up, within her domain.

Now, Runa was here for support for Hiccup and the others as despite being weak from being shocked by that bizarre lightning and currently consuming coal once again, she understood well that he didn't want to truly do this but she pondered what he had planned.

The grounds of the arena were, to mention this, transformed as banners and flags flap in the morning sun. Surrounding the ring, a festive crowd had gathered while all of Berk, besides Runa and the Demon Lord, has turned out for the event.

Stoick then gets everyone's attention as he declared aloud to the entire crowd, "Well, I can show my face in public again." Runa rolled her orbs while Sesshōmaru oddly enough agreed with what he kept at bay, Sister-In-Law as such due to what he found out, as the Leader of Berk continued in a playful tone, "If someone had told me that in a few short weeks, Hiccup would go from being, well... Hiccup, to placing first in Dragon Training… I would've tied him to a mast and shipped him off for fear he'd gone mad. Yes! And you know it!"

The crowd cheered at this as at the entrance, Hiccup was standing there, listening, and looking burdened by this, "But here we are. And no one's more surprised or more proud than I am. Today, my boy becomes a Viking. TODAY, HE BECOMES ONE OF US!"

Astrid who was silent with her disguise up approached Hiccup and expressed to him in a way she didn't want him harmed, "Be careful with that dragon."

Hiccup heard the roaring crowd that was still going on, and confides her to worry Astrid over, "It's not the dragon I'm worried about." Still worried about him, as she didn't realize why but her heart hurt to see him harmed, "What are you going to do?"

"Put an end to this." He notifies her as she eyed him, dubious, "I have to try." He then placed the green cloaked man's gift a while ago into her confused hands with hints of awe at them before she pocketed it while recognizing he was in true fear yet was indeed planning on doing something drastic, "I got that for you to have as I don't know what is going to happen, but I figured I give it to you now then…" he shook his head then before he changed his words to which Astrid understood, "Astrid. If something goes wrong… Just make sure they don't find Toothless or use Runa to their advantage as we found out why she is the Golden Dragon."

Grim understanding even more as they were approached by a cloaked man that gave them an envelope of sorts, and despite learning about Serena's details (which Runa found out, and let's say she raged for approximately thirty minutes at the abusive details on that day within an isolated room) and understood why Runa was blessed and cursed as the Golden Dragon more than they did earlier.

Astrid declared then before briefly stunning the teen boy by lightly kissing his cheek once again, "I will. Just promise me it won't go wrong."

Hiccup was about to say something before they saw Gobber approach them as he informs Hiccup in an encouraging tone, "It's time, Hiccup. Knock him dead."

Hiccup puts his helmet on and enters the ring as Runa saw nearby the Viking teens were hooting and hollering from the stands at him with Runa holding back the unusual urge to protect by hearing Tuffnut shouting to him, "Show 'em how it's done, my man!"

Hiccup while within the arena , locked eyes with Stoick as he only nods with a smile to which Hiccup returns a half-smile and thinking this would change things. He then takes a deep breath before he hoists a shield onto his forearm and selects his weapon from a rack of many, he simply grabbed a small dagger.

Stoick though mutters to himself in thought to which Runa heard alongside those who can, "Hrmph. I would've gone for the hammer."

Hiccup turns to face a bolted, heavy door as Runa remembered it was the one that hoisted all those nights ago, the same red Nightmare that Stoick sent here, and takes a deep breath before recounting loud enough to be heard while wary, "I'm ready."

The door bolt is raised as the crowd alongside Runa grew quiet as Sesshōmaru easily glanced and heard her heart thump nervously, by what he guessed, was her fellow pack member being in the ring as his unofficial child hugged him within his hold of equal nervousness, as Serena did the same to Runa.

Without warning, the doors blast open with a stream of sticky fire followed by the Monstrous Nightmare, coated in his flames. He then tears out of his man-made cave like an irate bull as the crowd roars and jeers before climbing the walls and chain enclosure like a bat, hissing at the provoking crowd and blasting fire until he spots Hiccup and descends, leering and licking the flaming drool from his lips.

The crowd grows silent and with Runa soon understanding by Hiccup's look he planned to do something, and they, the crowd of Holligan Vikings, we're bracing for the big fight.

With the Monstrous Nightmare's eyes locked upon him, Hiccup deliberately drops his shield and dagger while stepping away from them to then make the male dragon pause in place before looking on in confusion, which Stoick also was confused. "What is he doing?"

The male dragon presses closer, snorting at Hiccup as he extends his open hand while snarling at his unknown actions, and Runa glanced at Stoick warily as he was still perplexed by his son's strategies, and Hiccup within the arena, only whispered back to the male Monstrous Nightmare with his hand still out, "It's okay. It's okay."

The dragon continues to pace, and was mainly focused on Hiccup's Helmet which he realizes, then reaches up and removes it. Taking a breath to acknowledge the point of no return, he tosses the helmet aside. It hits the ground in a silent, slight banging noise within the Arena like that of foreboding silence. "I'm not one of them."

Gasps and murmurs race through the crowd while Runa glanced between her big brother and Stoick as Sesshōmaru surprised her as he kept her down while recognizing the situation like the others, and saw her untrained instincts to defend were up as the Viking's eyes were on Stoick.

The leader himself is welling with anger as Hiccup only avoids Stoick's glare, and remains focused on the male Nightmare, holding his hand out. The male dragon paces around him, as Hiccup was calming him down.

"Stop the fight." Stoick states firmly to them in the sharp decision while Hiccup below disagreed as he claimed to them all loudly enough to not startle their male dragon before him, "No. I need you all to see this." The crowd gets restless between the Leader and his Son at what was going on as some were understanding and some were not, "They're not what we think they are. We don't have to kill them."

Runa tried to get up as a flashback of Vernon obscured her vision and Deathwing was not the cause of the dark aura briefly showing on her frame, and Serena was moved to Rin within moments as both Sesshōmaru and Koneko held her down and with ease, by his angered shout to everyone on mostly his son, "I SAID STOP THE FIGHT!"

Stoick while he did shout whacks his hammer against the iron enclosure, rattling the arena with a terrible reverberating clatter.

Spooked while Runa was dazed in 'Protection Mode' on what was going on, the male Nightmare snaps at Hiccup's outstretched hand as he soon yelps and springs backward from what he was trying to prove, was broken as within the crowd, secretly, a few cloaked figures (one being Eris and another being the green cloaked man) shook their head mostly at Stoick at this before vanishing.

The male Nightmare reacts to Hiccup's immediate movements and blasts another stream of fire as Hiccup screams and barely dives out of reach.

At the cove, Toothless perked up as his sister was with him before she stopped her swimming and perked up as well, alongside feeling Runa was upset, gave her big brother a look while in her Dragon Forme, as equal panic was shared between them.

Back with Hiccup, he scrambles around the ring as the crazed male Nightmare pursues, snapping and springing from the ground to the wall.

Stoick pushes through the crowd, rushing to the doorway as Runa was making things difficult for both Demon Lord and Koneko, secretly making them wary and impressing them by how much power she was slowly growing the longer she felt the need to protect overcame her to be blinded. "Out of my way!"

"Hiccup!" Astrid shouts to get his attention as she wedges her monochrome ax under the Arena Gate and squeezes through before Stoick could stop her as she helped Hiccup and started running with him as, within the stands, some of the crowd backed away from Runa as she proceeded to let out steam from her mouth and some parts of her body as her armor magically materialized on her.

Back at the Hidden Cove, Toothless bounds to the cove walls, clawing them in desperation as his sister was encouraging him at the top as it seems he's as trapped as before, but with an incredible burst of effort, he hooks a claw over the upper lip of the stone wall.

Back at the arena, a narrow stream of fire narrowly avoids Hiccup and Astrid as he continues to dash around the ring, evading the crazed Monstrous Nightmare as Astrid was tail swiped to the wall and hid a wince while oddly enough to her surprise, she was fine yet felt unexpectedly weak as they didn't see a brief, spider-like string of sorts snapping from her neck, and near her spine as the person doing so, fled after gaining what they needed of her hidden potential.

Desperate with Astrid helpless and Runa getting harder to control, Hiccup goes to the weapon rack in an attempt to arm himself, but the male Nightmare shortly destroys the rack and closes in on him.

Back with Toothless, he was tearing through the woods, bounding like a panther and taking to the air in short bursts as his little sister was within the sky while shortly seeing someone in monkey fur of sorts fleeing The Village, debated, and took off after the entity instead.

Stoick wrenches the grated door to the arena and jumps through.

The Monstrous Nightmare is only a few feet behind Hiccup at this point as Astrid struggles but she gets his attention while picking up a hammer and hurls it at the male Monstrous Nightmare, hitting him in the head.

The male dragon then quickly turns its attention to Astrid and commences chasing her.

Stoick raises the arena gate, waving her toward it. "This way!" Astrid despite being drained still makes it through, but the male Nightmare blasts the doorway while cutting Hiccup off. The male dragon pounces on him and prepares to finish him off- Suddenly, a terrible roar pierces the air. "Night Fury! Get down!" Gobber shouts.

Toothless bounds over the crowd and blasts a hole through the chain enclosure. He then flies through it and disappears in the boiling smoke.

The Vikings rush to railings in time to see a flurry of wings cutting through the dissipating smoke as Toothless and the male Nightmare tumble into the clear, locked in a toothy, vicious fight.

Toothless kicks the male Nightmare off and plants himself between Hiccup and him. The male Nightmare only snarls, circling them as Toothless lunges and roars... Causing the male Nightmare to relent and back away.

To everyone's shock and horror, Hiccup gets to his feet and grabs Toothless, protectively.

Hiccup then panicked at realizing the situation and hastily tells the male dragon, "Alright, Toothless, go. Get out of here!" The crowd is only gob-smacked, and they were also growing livid as one shouted Toothless' racial term as Hiccup kept trying to get Toothless away, yet all was in vain.

Vikings begin pouring clambering through the enclosure and dropping into the ring. "Go! GO!" Someone shouted something as Stoick grabbed an ax and charged into the arena, and Astrid calls out to Berk's Leader in panic and realizing he didn't understand like a select few did, panicked, "Stoick no!"

"Dad! No! He won't hurt you!" Hiccup states loudly to him as the other Vikings surround and attack Toothless. He only tosses them aside like rag dolls, his eyes focused on Stoick. "No, don't! You're only making it worse!"

Stoick was raising his hammer as he charges Toothless in turn, Toothless ducks and pounces on him. They tumble end over end. "Toothless! STOP!" Toothless ignored Hiccup as he pins Stoick and inhales while the familiar hiss of gas builds. Everyone braces- "NO!" Hiccup shouts as Toothless swallows back the blast and turns to Hiccup, not understanding.

The crowd then rushes the male Night Fury, piling on, and taking Toothless down as Astrid only holds Hiccup back when he desperately tells them as Runa was near her limit, and both Nekotama and for once, The Demon Lord of the West, were beginning to worry and sensing this, Rin took both his charge and Serena hastily away from the arena as that darkness of a mist kept forming around Runa's frame. "No! Please… Just don't hurt him. Please don't hurt him."

Stoick gets to his feet, fuming, and shaken. A Viking presents Stoick with an ax. He eyes Toothless a moment, then pushes the ax back into the Viking's hands. "Put it with the others!" He barks at the nearby Vikings as he was giving a burning glare to Hiccup- "ROAR!" Runa unexpectedly let out an echoing roar to make the crowd back up further as Hiccup, Stoick, and even Astrid were afraid of her as she blasted those that were holding her down away, and parts of the stand were ruined from witnessing an abrupt energy blast made a dent along seeing her emotionless eyes locking right at Stoick.

Everyone scrambled as with bursting speed, she grabbed Stoick and pinned him down in which no one could approach them, as a barrier of sorts was preventing anyone access as she had him pinned on a nearby wall, and the wary Vikings did as was told for Toothless, as a few others used weapons or what not to try and enter it.

Stoick though was secretly widening his eyes in true fear while gazing into her orbs of anguish and other emotions he only saw within those blank eyes of hers, while at the same time, he only heard her state the one word he was confused over, protect, over and over again.

"Runa, STOP! / Stop it Runa!" Were the combined voices of Hiccup and Astrid, and with Toothless understanding more as so did the other dragons in their pens as she ignored them while her emotions overtook her.

They all then saw her open her mouth as it began to glow an eerie golden yet green hue- "Enough." Was a familiar female voice as she calmly whacked the back of her child's head somewhat hard and knocked her out, and that aura faded away from within moments to have Stoick reach for his shoulder a bit and breathed heavily while at the same moment, staring at Ophis with shock as she was showing her draconic wings.

She gazed firstly at the Demon Lord as he nodded while getting Koneko to her feet, and left shortly back to the Mansion before she then gazed firmly at the Leader of Berk to startle them all, as she grabbed her child preciously, "It is your fault she Enraged… You are warned." She then flapped with the unconscious Runa away to where she realized, she needed to fix the issue that Kala left behind.

It was later on in the day while being shoved into the dank, dimmed hall, the massive doors rattle and echo as it was Hiccup while Stoick pushes past him. He then paces against a backdrop of shadowy tapestries and carved pillars, a legacy of heroes, and if they could, would all peering down in angered judgement.

"I should have known. I should have seen the signs." Stoick states as he paced with Hiccup trying to reason with him yet it wasn't working, "We had a deal!" Stoick then pauses as if to say something, but stops short, snorts in anger, and resumes pacing, repeating the cycle.

Flustered, Hiccup started to try and reason with his father again, "I know we did... But that was before... Ughh, it's all so messed up-" Stoick stomps towards Hiccup while stopping him and declared firmly in anger, still, "So everything in the ring. A trick? A lie?" Stoick also stops short and points, fighting back words.

"I screwed up. I should have told you before now. Take this out on me, be mad at me, but please… Just don't hurt Toothless." Hiccup tells him to flabbergast his father as he replies with a standing gesture, "The dragon? That's what you're worried about? Not the people you almost killed?!"

"He was just protecting me! He's not dangerous." Hiccup then confides his father while Stoick counters with anger still in his tone, "They've killed HUNDREDS OF US!" Stoick though held back his surprise as his anger was clouding his judgement by Hiccup countering back on defense, "And we've killed THOUSANDS OF THEM!" As Stoick paced, Hiccup continued, "They defend themselves, that's all! They raid us because they have to! If they don't bring enough food back, they'll be eaten themselves."

Stoick still paced as Hiccup tried to explain once again the reason why, still, "There's something else on their island Dad… it's a dragon like-" Stoick huffs before realizing what he said, "Their island?" He then stomps back, pointing an accusing finger. "So you've been to the Nest."

"Did I say Nest?" Hiccup states in a way he knew he said too much before Stoick backed him up a few steps as he demands his son then, "How did you find it?!"

Feeling cornered, Hiccup let out what he shouldn't have to his father as he was being fearful of him, "No... I didn't. Toothless did. Only a dragon can find the island." Hiccup saw his father glared at him for a moment, then an idea takes form on his face at the same time, the Leader's eyes flare at this point, Hiccup watches, realizing the situation as Stoick stomps toward the doorway.

"Oh no. No, Dad. No." Hiccup chases after him, panicked and fearful of what his father's idea may be, "Dad. It's not what you think. You don't know what you're up against. It's like nothing you've ever seen." He then grabs Stoick by the arm, tugging with all his might as it did not affect him whatsoever. "Dad. Please. I promise you that you can't win this one. Nothing. No. Dad. No. For once in your life, WOULD YOU PLEASE JUST LISTEN TO ME?!" As Hiccup shouted at him his last words, Stoick throws Hiccup off of him, swatting him to the icy floor and Hiccup stares back, stunned.

"You've thrown your lot in with them. You're not a Viking…" Stoick states in true disappointment and anger at him while not seeing Hiccup briefly widen his eyes in shock hurt by his next words, "You're not my Son." Stoick then pushes through the door, leaving Hiccup alone, devastated as Stoick called out, "Ready the ships!"

He staggers on the steps, breaking inside when the doors shut as to Hiccup, he held back tears while not seeing the images of past heroes who were not satisfied with the father, and then the understanding of his son before going back to normal.

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It was once again later on in the day as at the docks with the open sea, broken-down catapults and trebuchets are bundled up and lowered from the cliffs.

Below on the docks, Vikings load the heavy artillery into the hulls of awaiting ships.

Children and the elderly gather on the walkways to wave apprehensive farewells to the departing warriors, and Callie felt that things would be bad and decided to leave, and go get in contact with a particular someone.

Lastly, Toothless is loaded aboard Stoick's ship, chained down to a palette, muzzled, and restrained with a weighty neck ring as he looks exhausted and miserable.

Stoick then crosses to the bow as the ship pushes off and joins the massed armada of ships adrift in the harbor.

Stoick's brow is furrowed, all warmth drained away. He then turns West and glares at the horizon with cold determination. "Set sail! We head for Helheim's Gate." It was then he noticed Hiccup watching from his familiar cliff-side perch beyond the village.

Their eyes meet, full of hurt and regret as Hiccup slowly shakes his head in wordless warning, Stoick only breaks the stare and turns to Toothless, fuming. "Lead us home, Devil." Watching, Hiccup is powerless to stop what is happening, but he won't leave.

Later on, once again, Hiccup was still standing there as the ships have cleared the horizon, and Runa was with him this time while she already apologized for her actions.

Sesshōmaru decided to oversee something with her child and his charge as Ophis randomly took Koneko somewhere else, without warning, and Zilanette (the last she heard), was with the Demon Lord by what Esdeath states, was to see if what that man claimed was right from her dreams… Particularly she didn't know things occurred when her friend awoke.

Astrid is standing behind them while revealing her true self, and approaches cautiously and stands beside Hiccup in silence. "It's a mess." She began as he doesn't respond, "You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend."

Runa gave her a wordless look that she understood while getting up and needing to stretch as her back was tingling as of late with her hearing Hiccup sigh to himself and state to Astrid, "Thank you for summing that up." Then he confessed in a way that Astrid understood more with Runa only a little, "Why couldn't I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods. It would have been better for everyone."

"Yep. The rest of us would have done it." Astrid agreed with him before she questioned him then as Runa decided to only watch the two in passive silence as she realized her mother was at The Pillars and doing something without her knowing, "So why didn't you?"

Hiccup just shakes his head as he doesn't know, but Astrid's eyes only glimmer as she wants something. "Why didn't you?" She repeated, "I don't know. I couldn't." She shook her head as she pointed out to him, "That's not an answer." Becoming irritated, he claimed to her then, "Why is this so important to you all of a sudden?"

"Because I want to remember what you say right now." She told him as he grew angry and confessed aloud as they stood up and he gestured to the sky, "Oh for the love of- I was a coward! I was weak. I wouldn't kill a dragon."

"You said 'Wouldn't' that time." She pointed it out as he then blows up, and admits to her alongside Runa, "Whatever! I wouldn't! Three hundred years and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!"

He turned away from her as Astrid saw Runa's encouraging stare while watching and shrugging her shoulder blades as that pinching feeling was coming back, and Astrid made Hiccup blink while discovering things to the point he never looked at it that way before, "First to ride one, though."

"So…" she then egged him on as he sighed while showing he realized things even more and talked mainly to her yet still glanced at his little sister, despite how tall she was, to include her, "I wouldn't kill him because he looked as frightened as I was." Runa saw his face like Astrid did as he continued, "I looked at him and I saw myself."

Astrid turns to face the open sea and stared for a moment before she told him then, "I bet he's really frightened now." She then turned while half-provoking Hiccup then, and secretly encouraging also, "What are you going to do about it?"

Hiccup looked like he had an idea as he told her as he shrugged his shoulders, "Probably something stupid." Astrid nodded while she then told him in the way he did so, "Good. But you've already done that." He then pointed at her as Runa hid a small smile while crossing her arms in a way she was proud of him for, "Then something crazy." Astrid smiles as he took off and the two followed him, "That's more like it."

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The Open Sea near Dragon's Isle or otherwise known as The Nest, twenty or so minutes later:

The armada coasts toward a shroud of heavy fog hung like drapes from a low-hanging, ominous sky, and the ships enter, one by one while at the same time, the visibility drops immediately. It was like the fog itself was flanking ships to become ghosts.

The armada then disappears through, drawn into the blinding mist, and a complete whiteout as nothing remains but the eerie creaking of wood of all the ships upon the water.

Stoick was currently at the bow of his ship, he taps his fingers on the gunwale, then looks back at Toothless impatiently as the male Night Fury was still weighed down with chains, and Toothless seems unresponsive. "Sound your positions. Stay within earshot." He shouts as shouts from the other Vikings were then heard throughout the dank and hard-to-see fog.

Straining into the fog as the calls continue, massive, jagged sea stacks begin to emerge, threatening to rip the ships to shreds as Gobber wobbles as he approaches Stoick, speaking under his breath. "Listen... Stoick... I was overhearing some of the men just now and, well, some of them are wondering what it is we're up to here-" seeing his look, he adjusted his words hastily to his old friend, "Not me of course, I know you're always the man with the plan… But some, not me, are wondering if there is a plan at all, what it might be?"

"Find the Nest and take it." Was he stated to Gobber as he nodded with immediate understanding, "Ah? Of course. Send them running. The old Viking fall-back. Nice and simple-" "Shhh." Stoick shushed his friend as they noticed that Toothless' ear plates are at the alert, quietly reacting to inaudible sounds.

Stoick then crosses to the stern of the ship and grabs the tiller, moving the helmsman out of the way. "Step aside." Stoick then pulls the ship into a turn, covertly following Toothless' head movements.

"Bear to port." The former stirring Viking calls out to the others as it went from ship to ship- The bow barely makes it past another sea stack with a slight crunching sound as Stoick only continues to follow Toothless' cues, undeterred.

If they were able to see it, the one figure that spoke to the one large dragon, and was secretly made many sorts with, was easily standing on top of a sea stack with a struck ship on it, and quietly chuckled to themselves as the person revealed to be a man with dark-aqua colored hair that was slicked back into a ponytail, and shown to have amber-colored, square-shaped yet slitted eyes to that of a tiger, and tribal lines on his handsome face before he vanished.

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Training Grounds or within The Arena, at this point and time:

Hiccup raises the bolt on the Monstrous Nightmare's pen with Runa doing the same as he asked for help before they stilled and turned at seeing the other teen Vikings being here, and Fishlegs stated to mostly Hiccup as they knew Runa could handle herself… Despite still wary of her outburst earlier, "If you're planning on getting eaten, I'd go with the Gronckle."

Tuffnut then steps forward with a scowl on his face while making Runa hide a sweatdrop as he boasted, "You were wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon," he then hit his chest a few times to try and prove a point, "It's me." Hiccup was perplexed by that statement as he was about to say something until declared loudly to them all in randomness, "I love this plan!"

Then Ruffnut decided to state to him while getting close and personal, "You're crazy…" Runa and Astrid narrowed their orbs at her then as she spoke in a sultry tone than in admiration to him while at the same time, making him nervous, "I like that."

Astrid amused Runa as she shoved the other girl away from Hiccup and told him with ease, "So? What is the plan?" Hiccup then smiles, glowing in the support of his friends.

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Back with Stoick and the other Holligan Vikings, the ships follow in line through the gauntlet of rocks as orders are whispered from ship to ship- A Dragon Head looms out of the fog to make the Viking men and some women shortly recoil... Only to discover that it's a wrecked ship, impaled high on a gnarled sea stack.

"Ah. I was wondering where that went." Gobber states while plucking a few bags that were leftover from the last raid to those on the ship, oddly enough, was some of their missing belongings as an immediate clicking buzz sound of sorts becomes audible, growing louder. It fills the sky, converging in one general direction.

Stoick sniffs the air and states to them, "Stay low and ready your weapons." Stoick's ship abruptly jerks to a halt as the keel burrows into shallow black sand Stoick then hops overboard, landing on a sprawling beach.

The buzzing unexpectedly stops as above him, a craggy volcano towers into the gloom... "We're here," Stoick states to his brethren as behind him, several Dragon-Headed Bows pierce the fog.

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Back with Runa and the others, Hiccup steps back from the door, drawing the same male Monstrous Nightmare out of its cave.

The male Nightmare snorts and easily steps into the ring and was at last calmed by Hiccup's outstretched hand as the male Dragon's focus was on him.

The other teen Vikings were either bewildered, or in awe at this before Runa looked wordlessly and saw Snotlout nervously reaching for a spear laying near his foot until Astrid stops him, and she then amused her and Hiccup, secretly, at hearing her correcting the teen male, "Uh-uh."

Hiccup slows to a stop in front of the teens, with the male Nightmare inches from his outstretched hand. He then reaches over and grabs Snotlout's trembling hand and states in bewilderment, "Wait! What are you…" Hiccup saw his face and quickly yet calmly instructed him to ease him up a bit, "Relax. It's okay... It's okay." Hiccup replaces his outstretched hand with Snotlout's, putting him in control of the massive beast.

The male Nightmare snorts but remains calm. Snotlout, by contrast, chuckles nervously as it's, all at once, both terrifying and amazing as the others only watch, spellbound.

Hiccup turns and suddenly walks away to get Snotlout wary, to amuse Astrid and Runa while they saw him pull a bundle of rope from a supply box, and Runa finished her task of unlocking the cages, "Where are you going?!" His only response was telling not only him but all of them, "You're going to need something to help you hold on."

The teens eye each other apprehensively at this even Astrid, and they all looked up to reveal… All the dragons now standing in the ring, facing the teens expectantly.

Runa was suddenly in unexpected pain as within her, Deathwing was oddly enough proud as she managed to conquer with the Nothing Dragon, on her first steps of many on becoming the Golden Dragon as she faced her fears within herself, and even befriended the lingering darkness of what Kala, at the time she thought she gathered all of it, the last remains of her darkness in a form of another entity, and accepting her friends and others from the Vikings aided it as well… Much to The Destroyer's inner ire at that.

The teens were abruptly confused as the dragons without hesitation soon bowed to her without a word and with an ear-splitting scream of pain, alongside the teens covering their ears as they were instantly stunned afterward, wings grew out from her back within moments in a cloud of glittering, ruby-like dust as it was, secretly, her body instantly healing itself over from the wounds it would have caused from forming.

To mention her wings they were matching her skin tone with ease while easily being the same size as Toothless' wings in wingspan, and resembled that of Deathwing's very own wings and with hints of the bone structure of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon along with the very membrane being black as night and with silvery runes that was hard to describe on them along with the unusual detail of feathers (which was part of the membrane making an illusion as such), and her claws and the claws also on her wings shifted to a golden color, alongside her sclera lastly shifting to that of molten gold.

Runa was confused until Astrid wordlessly pointed it out, and she hid back an immediate yelp as she let out one massive flap with them both and flew right into the wall, with a wince, and saw the amused looks of the dragons and seeing then her wings in honest shock before a matching grin was followed when she gazed right at Hiccup then.

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Dragon Isle, AKA, The Nest, twenty more minutes later:

Tree trunks that they brought were being sharpened and planted into the sand in angled rows. Boulders are being loaded into catapult baskets, and a war plan is being scratched in the sand.

Stoick looms over it, looking determined as his generals are at his sides while he gestures to it and pointed things out in clear detail, and finished while saying to them, "When we crack this mountain open, all hell is going to break loose." Gobber decided to add a little humor to slightly lift their spirits, alongside Stoick, "In my undies. Good thing I brought extras."

Stoick then turned to face the Viking men and women from Berk that came, "No matter how this ends, it ends today." He then walks toward the base of the volcano wall, backed by several hundred warriors he then raises his arm and drops it. Then a line of catapults unleashes their two-ton loads into the cliff wall. It cracks and flakes away as several more hits tear away at the hollow shell of hardened lava. A final boulder shatters the fractured wall, creating a deep, dark opening to the cavern within as it was then utter silence.

Stoick raises his hand, then makes a wordless gesture as a flaming bushel is soon launched into the dark, lighting the wall as it was fully choked with dragons.

Stoick then pulls out his hammer and rushes into the cave, brazen with a warcry and slashing effort yet in a chaotic flurry, the dragons suddenly rush out like bats from a cave.

They quickly take to the air, bypassing the ax-swinging Vikings and fleeing the island in a mass exodus at this point, the battle-ready Vikings drop their weapons, confused by this unexpected turn of events.

"Is that it?" Gobber states in a perplexed tone as above the island, dragons pour from every crevice, fleeing to the sky as the sound of screeching dragons fades… Until the Vikings cheered as one, "We've done it!" Spitelout stated to everyone as they cheered onwards.

Stoick, however, doesn't celebrate. Something is not right. He mentally thought in wariness as he then hears something as he then turns to peer down the dark throat of the cavern- A deep, rumbling roar echoes from the cavern itself without warning as the ground underfoot trembles, and the ships rock along with their sails filled with a blast of unexpected, hot air.

The cheering stops as Stoick's expression sink as he shouts to them all as the Vikings scrambled to organize themselves, "This isn't over. Form your ranks! Hold together!" The ground cracks as stone tears away, cascading like an avalanche with Stoick turning back to his Viking brethren by shouting, "Get clear!" And through the settling debris, the silhouette of a gargantuan dragon emerges as she stirred and was furious.

She was a gigantic dragon(four-hundred feet long and ninety-nine feet by the tail) as her head is heavily armed with a nasal horn, a coral-shaped frill, and with jaws that are lined up with huge, sword-like teeth. She also possesses three pairs of eyes that give her little to no blind spot. Her coloration is mainly blue with an orange underside, and her enormous body sports coral-like spines as well as red spikes that gives her titled name (by what Stoick randomly heard from a Viking shouting it in random fear from mere sight alone): The Red Death. The tail of the Red Death is tipped with an ankylosaur-like bludgeon that can be used as a devastating weapon, and despite her gargantuan size, the wings of the Red Death are more than large and strong enough to give this dragon a full-powered flight, from the massive wind she let out before closing them up (with them being five-hundred and fifty feet long).

"Beard of Thor… What is that?" Gobber states while backing up in wobbled steps in utter anxiety as Stoick was aghast as that title Stuart the Cowardly declared was true, but only told himself aloud for Gobber to hear him state it, "Odin help us."

Once the female dragon roared again, Stoick shouted to his clan, "Catapults!" The Vikings score direct hits as the burning stones, to stun them, only bounce off the dragon's skin before The Red Death focuses on the catapults.

She crushes the first one while easily smashing it and its crew, rattling the beach underfoot while Stoick races toward the second catapult. He then leaps and pushes a Viking out of the way just before the dragon crushes him under her forepaw.

The Vikings then scramble in all directions as a random male remarked loudly to which most headed to, afterward, "Get to the ships!"

Stoick indeed heard that as he didn't like the immediate gleam the dragon somehow had in all those eyes she has and shouted while waving to them all, "No! NO!"

The Red Death indeed was then blasting the ships like a mile-long flamethrower as the sails are torched alongside most of the Vikings dive overboard and masts come down.

Gobber then wobbles over to join Stoick in place as he noted in an impressed tone, "Heh. Smart, that one." Stoick looks up and down the beach for an answer, and was suddenly guilt-ridden at not heading his own offspring's warning, "I was a fool."

The monster then raises her head to the sky and bellows as the sound shakes the beach, knocking Vikings off their feet to realize one thing: This island is hers.

Stoick soon stops a Viking General, and it was Spitelout, "Lead the others to the far side of the island." Spitelout rapidly nodded with narrowed eyes of seriousness, "Right." He then turns to the others as they shared what she spoke to the rest, "Everybody to the far side of the island!" The Vikings then scatter into the rocks like ants.

Satisfied with the destruction of the ships, The Red Death turns her attention back to the Vikings and was puzzled as they seem to have vanished before she then sniffs the air, and began searching for their scent.

Gobber drops in beside Stoick, like two soldiers in a trench as fire suddenly blasts overhead, causing them to duck from a frustrated dragon, and Stoick tells his old friend, "Gobber, go with the men." He only shook his head no as he tells him with mirth within his orbs, "I think I'll stay, just in case you're thinking of doing something crazy." Stoick then grabs him while emphatic and tells him with a pointed thumb, briefly, at the searching Red Death, "I can buy them a few minutes if I give that thing someone to hunt." Gobber removes Stoick's hand to surprise him before Stoick grinned as it seems it was friends to the bitter end for them both and clenches his forearm, determined. "Then I can double that time."

They then break cover and dash into the open, splitting up as Stoick rips a sharpened post from the ground and hurls it into the monster's face. "HERE!" Gobber then disagreed while also gaining the Red Death's focus as he shouted as well, "NO, HERE!" She was then fueling up to fire, glancing back and forth between the two men until her focus was mainly on Stoick.

Gobber seeing this tried to get the female behemoth of a dragon to refocus on him, taunting as he spoke, "Come on! Fight me!" It did work until Stoick got her focus again as he shouted, "No, me!"

The Red Death remains focused on Stoick as his life flashed quickly before his orbs while understanding this was it, as the female dragon was rearing back and inhaling along with the gas beginning to amass when out of the blue, an abrupt, random blast explodes against the back of The Red Death's head.

She turns in perplexed distraction, as it was... A Nadder was then shown while flying through the flames, banking across the sky. Followed by a Monstrous Nightmare, a Zippleback, and a Gronckle, and they realized were the same ones from The Arena. They then rolled in unison, revealing the recruits riding on their backs.

Hiccup leads, with Astrid clinging to his waist… And behind them, was Runa as she was flying with grace, mixed with trying to not crash as well as she was a rookie and, at the same time, was adjusting to her wings, still.

Both Viking men watched on while slack-jawed, in awe, alongside the others hidden behind rocks and stone, and secretly, that one man scowled at their arrival as he thought it was time for 'Plan B' from hiding still near the entrance Stoick and his Clan made, and went deeper inside to look for something in particular.

"Ruff, Tuff, watch your backs! Move Fishlegs!" Hiccup notifies his friends while glancing and making Runa nod shortly and picking up the air as she flapped her wings harder, "Keep up Runa!"

The monster shakes off the blast and snaps in their wake as Hiccup directs his squadron out of harm's way, and they climb out of reach and circle each other as Tuffnut shouted for them to all hear, "Look at us, we're on a dragon! We're on dragons, all of us!"

"Up, let's move it!" Hiccup tells them as Runa pushed her wings harder as they flew and climbed past the confused Red Death as she scented a fellow dragon in sorta equal status nearby, but couldn't pinpoint as to where, and was also mixed on who blasted her, still.

On the ground, however, Gobber hobbles over to Stoick who was still speechless, only noted to him about his recruits while they were secretly stunned Astrid's disguise fell with not realizing to them all, she wore her gift from Hiccup on her right wrist, as his words also were meant for his son as well, "Every bit the boar-headed, stubborn Viking you ever were."

The group then circles over the female Dragon's head as Hiccup states while gazing at the Red Death, to Hiccup in a wanting-to-know tone, "Fishlegs, break it down."

Fishlegs instantly observed the dragon and from his knowledge of The Book of Dragons, rapidly claimed to them all as they were paying rapt attention, "Okay. Heavily armored skull and tail made for bashing and crashing-" they saw the female Red Death indeed do so by a few ships nearby as he continued, "Steer clear of both. Small eyes, large nostrils. Relies on hearing and smell."

Hiccup nodded with seeing Runa beside them with a determined look equally as him, as he commenced telling them orders, "Okay. Lout, Legs, hang in its blind spot. Make some noise, keep it confused. Ruff, Tuff, find out if it has a shot limit. Make it mad."

Runa rolled her orbs as Astrid equally agreed with her little sister figure alongside Hiccup as Ruffnut boasted on her part of the Zippleback, "That's my specialty." Tuffnut though asked her in a half-perplexed and disbelieving tone, "Since when? Everyone knows I'm more irritating. See." He then was upside down while making irritating sounds to only make Ruffnut roll her orbs at him.

Hiccup was exasperated yet told them quickly as they circled once again the female dragon for the third time, "Just do what I told you. I'll be back as soon as I can." Tuffnut though stated to Hiccup with a determined tone while boasting, "Don't worry, we got it covered!"

Runa heard Fishlegs agree as they peeled off and she knew what was the situation, and made Astrid and Hiccup wary by her question to them, "What's my role, Big Brother?"

"Um… Have our backs in case something wrong happens, and aid us as best as you can alongside the others." Runa made them laugh only a little as she gave them a mock salute before side-diving away from them as she flew by the others with the teens themselves bank and dived toward the female Red Death, and splitting up while Hiccup and Astrid peeled away from them.

The Twins raced alongside the monster's head, taunting it to which the Red Death was indeed getting mad by their taunts, as Runa instantly saw this dragon may be smarter than she seemed while at the same time, gliding and flying past them, "Troll!" "Butt Elf!" "Bride of Grendel!" The Red Death while angered, unloads a spray of fire at the twins which they barely dodge.

Runa then flew past both Fishlegs and Snotlout as they hung behind the female dragon's eyes, banging away at their shields, and making a racket until they saw The Red Death opens all six of her eyes, spotting them, and most of all, Runa. "Uh, this thing doesn't have a blind spot."

With Hiccup and Astrid as Runa began taunting the female dragon in Parseltongue… To which if they knew, would have laughed as the Red Death was then shooting at her for, Hatchling or not, by her swearing tones as they were currently searching for Toothless until Hiccup finally spots him among the burning ships.

"There!" Hiccup notifies Astrid as she only nodded while he then steers the female Nadder over the deck and also hands Astrid the reins.

He lines up his jump and then hops off alongside guarding his face against the flames, and finally, he lands on the burning deck before looking at Astrid as she and the female Nadder took off, "Go help the others!"

As Hiccup fights his way to Toothless. He unbuckled the muzzle and Toothless shrieked. "Okay, hold on. Hold on." He starts to get to work on the chains.

With Snotlout and Fishlegs, they were still clanging their weapons against their shields, making the monster wince at last as Snotlout shouted, "It's working." The huge beast starts to sway her head dizzy as Runa avoided getting tail-swiped from the sky as despite the situation, she was secretly enjoying the thrill of flying as she didn't realize she was at all affected by their battering of the shields, this entire time, as Fishlegs agreed, "Yeah! It's working."

It was working… Until a revelation showed that the noise is also confusing the female Gronckle and the male Monstrous Nightmare until both dragons suddenly lose their bearings.

The Red Death then thrashes, knocking Snotlout off of his dragon and onto the monster's gigantic head. Snotlout bounces across the top and comes to a stop just shy of the hundred-foot drop while he is held in the urge to scream.

Runa then saw Fishlegs' Gronckle goes down in a spin of confusion. "I've lost power on the Gronckle. Snotlout! Do something!" He did do something as he hurls his hammer while the female Gronckle crashes and skids to a stop… "I'm okay!" Then the female Gronckle flips over, crushing Fishlegs. "Less okay."

Back to Snotlout, he eyed the Red Death's gigantic, veiny eyes. He raises the hammer and states while hammering away at the female dragon's orbs while in an unusual yet twisted sense of the game, Whack-A-Mole, "I can't miss! What's wrong buddy, got something in your eye?"

Astrid at the oddest of times, flies by on her Nadder, and was catching Snotlout in all his heroics, and expressed in friendly banter of encouragement, "Yeah! You're the Viking!" Snotlout eventually grins, finally vindicated in her eyes.

In his distraction, however, the female Red Death let out an angered hiss in Parseltongue to which Runa winced over as he gets thrown and lands heavily on one of the Red Death's spines while clinging precariously, making it a close call. "Whoa!"

On the ground once again, the monster's tail sweeps across the burning ships, snapping masts like twigs as it crashes onto a deck, revealing, to Runa's horror as she was blindsided by the tail the Red Death has as on the deck itself was both Hiccup and Toothless while still working at the chains to realize he can't budge them.

The fire quickly licks at his clothes, until he heard Runa shout his name loudly and looks up to see… The Red Death blasts at the teens, enraged, and the monster's giant foot crashes through the frame, smashing the bow under its impressive weight.

Hiccup and Toothless are thrown into the water in a maelstrom of burning planks and rigging, and Astrid caught Runa while hiding some discomfort alongside the female Nadder by her weight before seeing she was alright, by glimpsing her sheepish look before they gazed at where Hiccup and Toothless were, in equal worry over.

Underwater, Hiccup swims toward Toothless as they're both caught in a mess of rigging, being dragged down.

The heavy palette settles into the rocky bottom like an anchor as Toothless has stopped struggling while Hiccup takes one more hopeless tug at the chains to the point he was almost out of the air- Suddenly, a meaty hand grabs Hiccup.

On the surface, Stoick explodes the surface, pulling Hiccup to the shoreline through flaming debris as he lays him down, under the shelter of an overhanging rock. Hiccup was overwhelmed by what just occurred, "Dad…" and saw his father dive right back into the water between the flaming flotsam.

Back underwater, Toothless was drowning and nearly gave up before stilling as Stoick appears in front of Toothless freezes. Stoick tears the chains off of the yoke and lets it float free. It was momentary stillness as they eyed each other, through the churned-up bubbles. Toothless then lunges out of the bars, grabbing Stoick. Within an explosion of seawater, Toothless lands on the shore, setting Stoick down and releasing him.

Hiccup is awed as the ground abruptly rumbles underfoot, and the Red Death screeched as Runa was up once again alongside Astrid as, like the others, they avoided her attacks as the female dragon's massive claws also stomp around in the smoke.

Stoick gives way as Toothless mounts the rock then and raises his wings. Then to Hiccup and snorts to secretly surprise Hiccup as he understood him as he stated, Let's go, in Parseltongue, he nodded as he got up and quickly came over to him, "You got it, bud."

Once Hiccup climbs onto Toothless and buckles himself in, Stoick instantly grabs his arm and states in a tone of apology, "Hiccup. I'm sorry… For everything." Hiccup understood as he expressed equally to his father with a small smile while feeling the bond between them was fixed, "Yeah… Me too."

Stoick then recounted to him in a way he cared about him, mixed with knowing in his orbs, "You don't have to go up there." Hiccup kept the smile while honestly notifying him in small humor as they exchanged smiles, "We're Vikings. It's an occupational hazard."

"I'm proud to call you My Son." Stoick tells him in parting as Hiccup beams, taken aback while fully recognizing their bond as the family was healed, and he states to him then while looking determined from glancing at the Red Death, "Thanks, Dad."

Stoick then lets go of Hiccup's arm as Hiccup spurs Toothless on, charged with his father's belief in him. They then rocket into the sky as Stoick watches.

Within the air, Astrid sees Toothless streaking through the sky, gaining altitude as Runa blinked back in utter surprise as she blasted the hide of the Red Death while at the same time, getting a left-sided, six-eyed glare aimed sharply at her than by her somehow letting out a short beam from her right hand in a neon color of sorts, before doing so again and again to distract the female dragon, "He's up!" She turns to Ruffnut and Tuffnut, who are arguing and throwing punches at each other. "Get Snotlout out of there!"

In mid-punch, the twins look over to see Snotlout stranded on the monster's head as they eyed each other, "I'm on it!" They both declared at the same time, before Tuffnut claimed to his twin, "I'm on it first! I'm ahead of you." The twins spot Snotlout on the giant dragon and steer their Zippleback in his direction. "Hey! Let me drive!" Ruffnut then told her twin as the twins peel off, arguing as they race each other to the monster.

Snotlout then sees the Zippleback diving toward him and dashes down the female Red Death's head before he runs up the end of its horns… As the twins sweep past, both missing him... But perfectly snatching him where the necks merge, and both Ruff and Tuff eye each other, surprised and impressed. "I can't believe that worked," Tuffnut told Ruffnut then.

Without warning as Runa saw this, the Red Death spots Astrid and inhales, preparing to blast before Astrid was stunned as Runa dive-bombed right into them… To only shove them out of the way as she was, instead, caught in the suction, pulled toward the monster's gaping mouth, and the female blonde knew there was nothing she or any of them could do.

The Vikings on the ground could only watch with dread... Until they all hear the familiar whir of the- "Night Fury! Get down!" Gobber shouted to them all.

A massive blast jolts the Red Death's head sideways while also sucking up Astrid as Runa managed to get away but... Astrid is thrown clear of its mouth, and her Nadder. She was then tumbling through the air as the ground raced toward her, when… She's suddenly caught by the leg, and she looks up to see with relief it was Toothless as he gave her a gummy smile, and discreetly, grunting from the lower weight, "Did you get her?" Was Hiccup's question in which Runa flew by them while shaken up (which they saw) and expressed assuredly to him, "He did."

They fly over the crowd of Vikings on the ground and quickly set Astrid down, mid-run. They circle back to re-engage as a black speck against the clouds, and an unusual golden shine from Runa as she decided to aid her Big Brother.

"Go," Astrid stated breathlessly as her heart thumped in a way she knew what she was feeling, for Hiccup and recalled Runa's previous words, but felt strange dread as well as like her, the others watched on.

In the air, Hiccup and Toothless rocket past the Red Death's head and with Runa managing her wings, keeping up as she was a sharp learner of specific things while also holding her one sword The Demon Lord of the West allowed her to keep (which she unshrunk), and her wand, and climbed higher and higher.

"That thing has wings!" Hiccup expressed mostly to Toothless and with Runa narrowing her orbs from what Deathwing was detailing her more of from the consent scent he picked up from the female dragon, "Okay, let's see if it can use them!"

Runa remained within the air while deciding to meet her big brother within the clouds as Hiccup pulls Toothless into a turn. They then plummet, gaining tremendous speed as the wind buffets them while they target the Red Death at supersonic speed- Toothless unloads a fireball against the Red Death's head and secretly shocks the female dragon as she goes down with a rumble as they climb anew.

Back on the ground, the Vikings shield themselves from the dust of the fallen monster as, in rage at this attack, her wings began to fully unfold and extend back in the air, Runa caught up with her big brother as Hiccup looks back like she warily did when they both placed distance between them.

"Do you think that did it?" He asked them both until unexpectedly, the enraged behemoth rises into the sky behind them... Flapping its wings furiously to make a daunting sight. "Well, he can fly." Hiccup although gave a bewildered look briefly when Runa shortly corrected him as she followed them in sync of their flight patterns to realize she was secretly watching them fly most of the time, "She can fly!"

Hiccup and Toothless, alongside Runa, all dived into the tangled sea stacks as they weave through the rock like rabbits through a briar.

The Red Death snaps at them, but cannot reach them as well. Hiccup and Toothless pull ahead while Runa sent a blast of a bombarda (to her irked ire) as it bounced off the scales with ease to know that spell was not effective.

The Red Death then smashes through the canopy of rock and pulls in behind both Runa and Toothless as she bursts through the fifty-foot formations like they were saplings.

Stoick, Gobber, and the Teens watch as Hiccup, Runa, and Toothless streak past, weaving through sea stacks in opposite yet in-sync locations to keep up with each other while hearing the cheers of not only the Vikings but the fellow teens themselves… Until a moment later the Red Death smashes sea stacks to dust in hot pursuit and makes the Vikings' mood quenched.

Back within the air, Runa, Hiccup, and Toothless can't slow the monster down before Hiccup eyes the clouds above. An idea hits him. He locks eyes with Toothless before gazing at Runa to which she nodded and was willing to follow him, "Okay you two, time to disappear."

Toothless then pulls into a steep climb, heading toward the clouds with Runa struggling yet she kept at it in determination as Deathwing gave her a boost, and didn't see her wand, at last, go into her and was slowly merging within her magical core. "Come on bud! Ru-Ru, keep going!"

The Red Death follows, closing in fast and both teens were shortly hearing the sound of gas, "Here it comes!" Hiccup shouts as they narrowly dodge a column of flame and smoke. They then reach the low-hanging clouds and pierce them as the monster follows, immediately losing them in the hampered visibility.

She then roared at them irritable while shouting at them in utter rage, and secretly stunning down below as all but Astrid remembered this dragon could speak, "Where are you mortals at!? Come out and face me, with me roasting you both to death!"

From out of nowhere, Toothless dives at the huge female dragon, blasting and puncturing a hole in her wing. Toothless and Hiccup are gone again before the female dragon can get a shot at them as Runa sent a beam right at another spot to do the same.

On the ground, the Vikings stare up at the sky, listening to the resounding booms and watching flashes of light lit up the clouds from what they could guess was between both Runa and Toothless as Gobber places a hand on Stoick's shoulder.

In the air, Hiccup and Toothless dive in, again and again, using the clouds to hide and surprise as they puncture the monster's wings alongside Runa as she used her beam until she felt sorta drained and kept dodging and distracting the female Red Death then as she unexpectedly bellows in frustration and whirls around, unleashing fire blindly, in all directions.

Hiccup sees the glow of fire cutting towards them and shouted to them all as Runa didn't have a way to dodge it in time, and worried him as he maneuvered with Toothless, "Watch out!"

The random blast clips Toothless' tail as it was heavily damaged he was mixed with relief and shock as Runa was as her sword projected a barrier around her and shielded her from said blast before beholding his situation and was about to head over as he was fully distracted before feeling frozen in place and was failing right downwards into a spiral.

Her sword shrank and instantly attached to her belt, and she was then caught by an unexpected black mass that everyone saw go right into the dead yet dormant volcano.

With Hiccup, he saw not Runa but the Red Death and noticing the tail was slowly disintegrating, tells Toothless, "Okay, time's up. Let's see if this works." He pulls Toothless into a turn.

They then fly directly into the Red Death's face, taunting it. "Come on! Is that the best you can do!?" Toothless utters an insult too, and they jackknife into a steep dive as the angered and insulted Red Death pursues.

Toothless was then pumping his wings, racing faster than he's ever gone before.

Hiccup and Toothless stay just ahead of the Red Death while no longer trying to evade it, and Hiccup glances back to check the tail as it's disintegrating even more. "Stay with me, buddy. We're good. Just a little bit longer."

The Red Death closes the gap. Hiccup tucks in and holds Toothless steady while allowing the monster to set her sights on them as she also narrows her dozen of eyes she has. "Hold, Toothless." Hiccup states as The Red Death open her mouth and the familiar gas hiss emanates from her throat as the ignition is coming- "NOW!" He shouts.

Hiccup hits the pedals hard as Toothless extends one wing and they pivot in place, hurtling directly into the Red Death's mouth. Toothless quickly fires a point-blank blast down the monster's throat while her amassing gas is ignited, backfiring into the monster as she went all eyes wide and erupting in a chain of blasts throughout her body.

Hiccup and Toothless burst from the clouds, the Red Death hot on their tail, exploding from within as she glances forward and sees the ground rushing up.

In an attempt to stop this she tries throwing open her wings attempting to put on the brakes as mentioned, but the punctured, damaged wings can't stop its momentum. As the Red Death chokes on the expanding fireball, she sees Toothless suddenly pull out of the dive, streaking up, past her head.

The Red Death then rapidly hits the ground, head-first, and in terms of exploding objects or things, was like the Hindenburg.

Hiccup and Toothless weave through the monster's massive backplates, wings, and flailing legs as a high-speed recall of the free fall slalom run. The expanding fireball races toward them, about to swallow them as they manage to clear the obstacles. Hiccup glances back as they're outrunning the fireball, and he looks forward just in time to see the monster's massive club tail careening toward them.

He tries to shift their direction as the last shred of Toothless' tail tears away and makes Hiccup's pedals go dead. "No. No." Hiccup states as they can't maneuver as they're dead in the air. The giant club tail quickly clips Toothless, tearing Hiccup from the harness and sending him tumbling against the backdrop of the fast-approaching fireball.

Toothless struggles with all his might to reach the unconscious Hiccup… But the fireball swallows them both.

On the ground, the Vikings watch in horror as Hiccup and Toothless disappear into the boiling inferno.

A few moments later, the area was letting out nothing but a whiteout of ash. And through it comes… "Hiccup? Hiccup!?" Stoick firstly appears, searching desperately as everything is scorched, even the ground is smoking from the terrible heat. "Hiccup!? Son!?" Through the ash, Stoick the motionless silhouette of Toothless, and seeing this he was suddenly grave, "Hiccup."

He hurries to the dragon's side as Toothless is roughed up, but conscious yet his scorched saddle, however, is vacant.

Stoick looks to the sky in despair. He buckles at the knees, overwhelmed by the loss as the others found him and find the site as well, "Oh son… I did this…" Astrid pushes through the crowd, her eyes welling up, followed by Gobber. They flank Stoick as he kneels, slumped over. Behind them, a ring of Vikings forms, keeping a respectful distance.

As the dust and smoke clear, a ring of Wild Dragons can also be seen, gathering just behind and between the Vikings.

Toothless then stirs and groggily rolls his head toward Stoick as their eyes meet, and he states mainly to his son, but also to him as well in a truly sorrowful yet apologetic tone, "I'm so sorry…" Toothless recognizing the honesty within those misted eyes unfolds his wings, and was then revealing Hiccup, unconscious, and clutched safely against his chest.

Stoick's eyes widen at this as he said his son's name as they didn't see a flash of a familiar sigil appear way behind them as Koneko and Ophis arrived while puzzled as to why they were transported here as they moved through the mixed crowd of Viking and Dragon Kind as Stoick scoops Hiccup into his arms, listens to his heart, and then bursts into relieved laughter. "He's alive!" He looked to Toothless in utter gratitude, "You brought him back alive!"

The crowd then roars followed by the dragons and made the Vikings look around to find themselves surrounded as Stoick leans close to Toothless, meeting him eye to eye while then privately saying to the male Night Fury, "Thank you... For saving my son."

Gobber although looks Hiccup up and down, and states then, "Well, you know... Most of him." Stoick glances back at him as Gobber shrugs, redirecting his eyes toward his son's missing part of his leg- "Where is my child?!" Ophis growled out to startle them all and even the Wild Dragons as they all cowered at knowing, instantly, who this was.

Toothless soon had his ears perked up and they saw him turn his head right to the dormant and dead volcano to concern everyone as they recalled a black mass entering the small cavern they made, and eventually, they all were at the place while Gobber was using some spare parts of the leftover ships to make materials of a peg-leg for Hiccup while the teenager was still out.

Ophis hid a shocking wince of true pain as she touched the darkened barrier that was covering the only way inside as the Wild Dragons were then sheepishly gazing at each other as they all when leaving, blocked the other ways they knew, inside. Toothless also looked worried as if he has seen this before, to Astrid. "The way is blocked by something my power has no control over… For once."

Astrid and everyone, even Koneko were shocked by this while the the female teen still concerned about Hiccup, warily asked Runa's mother as despite fearing her, she would understand more than they did about this barrier as Stoick was still with Hiccup and Spitelout was near them, and was temporarily in charge, "What can we do?"

Ophis pondered something while glancing at the barrier, before glancing at a random male Nadder near her and making it blink with a step back when she firmly instructed the dragon, "You… Enter."

While reluctantly doing so, it expected death but… It went through it with ease as that stunned them as they had been trying for the last few minutes or so to enter, especially Ophis as a last resort, and he came back out without harm.

"Seems this barrier was made for only dragons of this isle to enter… The person responsible for taking what is mine is fearful of me." Ophis states calmly yet with hidden anger and glancing at Koneko, Astrid, and those Runa befriended with a look they didn't like as moments later as it was a success, they touched the Wild Dragons alongside the Arena Dragons (and Toothless) as they entered and Ophis tried this yet was still repelled while her Wild Dragon, was easily accepted.

"It seems we have no choice but to go on without her," Astrid states to make the others give her the 'What-the-hell' looks yet grudgingly went forward as they eventually came to the center of the Nest… They shortly hid while the Wild Dragons took off back where they came as they saw in utter shock, the one dragon girl they have been seeing within Runa's Home, and also Runa herself was passed out- Toothless was about to go to save them yet stopped and gave a puzzled look to Astrid when she shook her head no as they stilled and hid more, as two figures were approaching the passed out forms of Runa and the girl.

Astrid though realized who one of them was and hid the urge to growl as the armored man was there, alongside what they thought, was a tiger-like man with his eyes, "So you managed to get her without the mortal's notice then, Alikazar," the armored male claims to the recently named tiger man as he nodded, and states firmly with only a passive look, "Yes… This isle would be useful to gather those souls outside these very, dormant walls as the bones of the formerly alive, Red Death's Mate could be useful to do so, Marvis: the Tainted Black Dragonknight of the Shadowlords."

The teens turned to Astrid by noticing her face somehow paled to a brief white as they got used to her new look, and she claimed quietly in utter horror about the last person named, "Ma's stories are indeed true… He is back."

"Who the heck is he?" Snotlout quietly asked as they discovered Astrid's face like this, knew this as bad as the dragons they bonded with, alongside Toothless, glowered as in hidden truth, they were warned in the dragon way about this man as well, and let's say it wasn't something to the point of racial hate to this individual.

Fishlegs, however, realized what she professed to make the others slack-jawed by what he states to their friend, in realization, "No way, that's the one that Demon Lord faced alongside the group, long ago… But I thought he was vanquished?"

"Not if they have My Mate and her servant within their grasp," Koneko responded firmly in a way they shivered by her burning look of rage as she gazed at both men, and knew not to piss off the girl, since they were the ones to secretly see what an Angry Nekotama would do, on that particular day.

Tuffnut was held back by Astrid and giving him a look of wordless 'No' as he expressed to her while getting upset at not merely charging at them, but stills with Ruffnut inwardly relieved at Astrid stopping him for, "If Marvis is working with this odd man, that took Runa and Toothless' Younger Sister," they blinked and briefly glanced at Toothless with him giving them a perplexed look of 'What 'before gazing back at her as she corrected her words, "His Non-Blooded Sister, then we need to think of something like Hiccup would do."

They stilled before slowly turning alongside the dragons being wary at recognizing the entity that materialized before them, as secretly, he snuck with them like they did, cloaked, while entering the place, "Perhaps I can be that plan, Little Humans and Dragons."

His head is horse-like of sorts while he also has a deer antler on the right, a blue goat horn on the left, one long fang, different-sized pupils, a snake tongue, a goat beard, and white bushy eyebrows. He has the right arm of a lion, the left claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. Besides, he has a bat's right wing, a Pegasus' left-wing, a horse's mane, and a dragon-like snake's tail with a white tail tuft. The shape of his body resembles that of a snake or better term, he bears a resemblance to a Chinese Dragon, a creature often depicted with a serpentine body, facial hair, feline claws, and antlers, but messed up.

This, everyone, was Discord (yes I decided to add him, otherwise he would have pranked me silly for not adding him into a Dragon-Based Story), and as noted, he was summoned alongside a few others in both Runa's true time, and to this timeline as well, by an unforeseen entity changing things in which Fate was severely overworked on while her twin, Destiny, only laughed yet aided her, still, and realized the child needed a teacher for the "Chaos Magic" she has in similarities to him and curbing her Dragon Instincts better, and things way later on to come.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand.

The teens were stilled in place at the mere sight of him before he shortly slapped them with a floating rubber chicken, and dismissing it to realize it was this creature that was doing all those pranks within Berk and states with a hand out to them and even making them shake up and down in a cartoonish way, to each and every one of them, as thankfully, Marvis and Alikazar were not aware at the moment while prepping things. "Well, what it be folks?"

Astrid had an immediate idea and Discord saw her look like the others, and a few short minutes later while Marvis gave a strange knife to Alikazar as he cut Runa on her exposed arm as blood was drawn into the blade, they stilled as the area unexpectedly dimmed, before, in the oddest of ways, a spotlight was shown as Discord revealed himself to the perplexed men.

He was tap dancing alongside to easily fool them as the teens were setting up things he provided for them, and Astrid was on top of Toothless while the other dragons aided them, as well, in a cartoonish way with him also using props, and managed to get Runa and the one girl down and was nearly scot free- "Halt!" Marvis states as he glanced back at feeling his silent rune of alarm, activate, and froze Discord, the Night Fury, and Astrid in place.

The teens riding on their dragons and using the female Nadder's tail spikes as part of their plan stilled as well yet soon resumed by wordless hand gestures to each other.

Alikazar gazed at Astrid largely than what Marvis was thinking about while Discord poofed and vanished, annoying Astrid at that, "So… The Twin of Rana is in my presence then?"

That perplexed Astrid before she hid a yelp while stunned and they gave each other side glances as they sent a charged blast of blue flames and black and red lightning at the four, only for it to be blocked by an immediate barrier of sorts as Sesshōmaru was here thanks to Discord giving a quick wave before poofing away to realize he could have 'poofed' them out at any given time, and to Astrid's shock and the others as, secretly, Snotlout and Tuffnut was checking Zilanette out as the female elf looked truly different than the last time they saw her.

She now looked to be around her early twenties while at least six and a half feet tall, has a decently slender but perfectly top-hourglass figure with decently supple thighs and behind, a perfectly curved-in waist, along with a large bust (around an average G-Cup) and wore the same outfit that was redesigned to fit her decently yet showed off her curves, at the same time, and she too had a mallet out that looked homemade, and hard to describe as it was covered in an unusual, red aura of sorts that was dense.

"You handle the troublemakers, Alikazar, while I prepare the ritual," Marvis states as he reached out and with his power, to stun them, took the dagger and the shrunken skull of the Red Death's thats around cat's sized, and the other ingredients before he left into a vortex as Alikazar saw the Demon Lord glanced at the leaving rival/enemy and then gazing at him for.

"So I get to try and fight against Humans, a Demon Lord, a High-Dark Elf from that child's time, and Dragons?" Alikazar states as he glowed an eerie dark-like blue aura the teens didn't at all like as he held out his hand and summoned a large demonic-looking katana that shortly emitted blue flames, as he abruptly gave them all an unexpected crazed grin as his aura grew dense and looked even more feral, "THEN LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE ME!"

He then charged while Toothless recognizing it was pointless, made Astrid yelp as he took the three on him away from the fight and into the cave system as The Demon Lord of the West blocked his immediate attack to impress the crazed man while dodging a swing from Zilanette as the two fought while the teens were not prepared to see the black mass with large, demonic, red orbs that were summoned by him and kidnapped Runa in the first place, hissed at them in a wicked chuckle before recoiling as they tossed the smoke bombs and Nadder spikes at it.

They then went into the cave systems as well while the mass shook and then split up into several, smaller versions of itself before going after them all.

With Sesshōmaru and Zilanette, the two-faced the crazed Alikazar still while avoiding the burning hot blade he used each time after them, and the Demon Lord then had glowing claws of green before sending a green slash right on Alikazar's arm alongside Zilanette bashing it with her mallet, hard as it vanished before being replaced with a dagger she tossed yet to her misfortune, it was caught by him and he pulled the Demon Lord and kicked him away to the point that Sesshōmaru was sent a few feet into a wall before dodging a rapid, speedy slash by the monster of a man.

Zilanette, however, instantly grabbed her dropped weapon by the crazed man, and changed it to a katana as Alikazar easily blocked both her and Sesshōmaru's one weapon he was using with that crazed grin on his face at how interesting this fight was turning out to be before they resumed.

With the teens, they managed to defeat, one by one, that is, the smaller parts of what appeared to be possessed Terrible Terrors such by oddly throwing water balloons that Discord gave them as "In Case", and was grouped up in another larger aspect of this isle's caverns with Astrid trying yet failing to wake Runa up at all.

"Seems I cannot trust thy current acquaintance to keep his task at thy hand," a familiar voice states and they rapidly turned in fright at seeing, while backing up, Marvis, as he had his blade pointed at them, but not materials to which they noticed and chuckled coldly while noting to them, "I gave thy materials away to someone better than I can while I settle a score between thyself and thy foes."

Before he could send a bolt of lightning at them, he paused like they did at hearing a strange, whistling sound and turned before they quickly moved as an automatic, rail-setting, train (which they didn't know at all what it was) somehow appeared and rammed right into him and sent him into a vortex of green that appeared before it closed up.

They all then yelped as they, alongside the people outside and even Ophis, who for once cursed out the so-called God's name, were sent off the isle alongside all the Wild Dragons and on the Isle of Berk, with little to no injuries, alongside the surviving ships being fixed up and placed neatly within their docking spots.

Back with The Demon Lord and the Elfin Girl, they still were fighting against Alikazar as he was then shoved back to what was like the fifth time and panting like Zilanette was, and with Sesshōmaru not showing it, but was slightly worn while holding his blade in his stance as the Elfin Girl seeing her weapon change back into a white orb without the red aura, and pocketed it as he states to her with Alikazar wordlessly powering up even more, "Go. I will return after he is defeated."

She was about to reject this, but her heart oddly thumped within her eyes at his gaze at her and she nodded since she, in truth, was nervous about this crazed male as his aura grew denser if it was possible and secretly startled the Demon Lord, inwardly, as he glanced at her retreating form when she kissed him on the cheek.

"LET'S TAKE THIS UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL! Shin no keitai: Kakusei mōdo (True Form: Awaken Mode)!" Alikazar states as his aura then suddenly dispersed into him before keeping Sesshōmaru standing in place as the energy he let out, was immense, and his features were then more Nekotama-like yet feral with glowing, tiger-like eyes, clawed tips, and demonic markings showing on his forehead in the word, Tiger, alongside his blade now looking to be even sinister-looking before he breathed out blue flames, and charged in sudden sped at the silvery-haired male as they clashed with an explosion occurring between them both.

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Within the Haddock Home, on December 17th of 811 (2014 True Time), a few days later:

Hiccup, asleep, his head on a pillow while showing some healing scars on his face that maybe a week or two have passed except thanks to Ophis' reluctance at doing so, and mixed with some book knowledge on healing potions Runa gave Callie before all of it went down, he was healed within a few days in which Gothi also kept said notes as well to add into her concoctions.

Anyways, back to the matter at hand, besides that tiny bit of info.

Toothless hovers over him, whining and grumbling impatiently as he sensed he was going to wake up as indeed Hiccup stirs before he slowly opens his eyes. He was of course very groggy after his ordeal, and saw he was oddly enough downstairs within his bed and wasn't perplexed as to how Toothless was in his home due to some leftover healing potions still within him, mixed with some pain killer plants Callie used slightly, and thinking it was mostly an unusual dream he was having, "Oh, hey Toothless."

Toothless excitedly nuzzles and nudges Hiccup at seeing he was finally up and around, and Hiccup hid a smile despite his state as he was quickly becoming aware, and tells him then, "Okay, okay! I'm happy to see you too, bud. Now just-" Toothless then accidentally steps on his groin, causing Hiccup to sit bolt upright with a yelp as he looks around, confounded to indeed know he wasn't dreaming as he was indeed in his bed, moved beside the fire pit on the main floor of his house.

"I'm in my house." He states as he sees Toothless, leaning over him, excited even, "You're in my house." He states while realizing things as Toothless tears around the room, knocking things over, far too big for space.

"Uh… Does my Dad know you're in here?!" Hiccup states in a mix of panic and distress as Toothless pauses at the foot of the bed, tongue wagging. He then eyes the rafters... And leaps up onto them, brimming with, an odd sense, 'Happy dog' energy.

"Okay, okay- No Toothless! Aw, come on…" Hiccup began while distressed at understanding how angry his Dad would be if he finds Toothless here and things, and Hiccup shifts to get out of bed to try and get the Night Fury down before he pauses, and sensing that something is wrong.

He then peels back the covers slowly for him to be startled, horrified, and even overwhelmed, all at once.

On the floor, mentioning this, his booted foot touches down... Followed by a mechanical prosthetic in place of his second, his left leg. It's an ingenious spring-loaded replacement, made of wood and iron.

Toothless lands by the bed and approaches calmly, sniffing the new leg as he raises his eyes to meet Hiccup's, seemingly aware of what Hiccup is going through.

Hiccup then braces himself on the bedpost and tries to stand on it until he winces and stifles the pain, as the pain killers were mostly focused on his upper body at the moment, and not his lower, yet, "Okay… Okay…" he muttered to himself but he still stumbles with the first step. Toothless, however, shortly catches Hiccup's fall with his head, and slowly lifts him, stabilizing him.

"Thanks, bud." Hiccup gratefully tells Toothless as Hiccup leans on him like a crutch, and they take a few steps together, and their missing parts formed a bizarre poetic silhouette as they make their way toward the door.

Hiccup then pries it open as an odd case of déjà vu as the outside quickly revealed a Monstrous Nightmare to his unawareness at the time as he was nearly alert at this, was supposed to be familiar and was flapping outside the door.

Hiccup yelped then as he hastily slams the door closed before he turns to Toothless, alarmed. "Toothless? Stay here, bud." Hiccup pauses and cracks the door open again while he peeks outside, his eyes widening. He allows the door to swing open, revealing it was the same male Monstrous Nightmare from the arena and was carrying Snotlout on his back.

"Come on guys, get ready! Hold on tight! Here we go!" A class of newbie Dragon Riders follows him through a line on a variety of dragons, pulling back the curtain on an amazing vista which was a huge yet marvelous sight to behold: Vikings and Dragon Kind mill about by the dozen, basking on the rooftops, weaving along the Plaza.

No one seems upset, there isn't a sword insight.

Under the framework of a massive barn, a random Nadder blasts fire onto a metal brace before it then steps back to let a Viking hammer it into shape.

Nearby, a random Gronckle lands with carrying a tree trunk in his mouth before easily seeing it was a male, shows a Viking what he's found while, at the same time, the Viking pats his head.

Another Viking backs a Zippleback into a stall to check it for size.

All in all, it was perfect harmony between Viking and Dragon.

Hiccup takes a step outside and finds Stoick waiting for him on the step. "I knew it. I'm dead." At his words though, Stoick laughs at him merrily with relief at seeing his son up and around, "No, but you gave it your best shot." He puts his arm around Hiccup, steadying him before he then gestures to the transformed village. "So? What do you think?" Hiccup just shrugs, as in honesty, he was truly amazed.

Below the plaza, villagers take notice that he was around as well, and a random Viking caused all the others to notice also by his loud words and pointing, "Hey look! It's Hiccup!" They rush over, surrounding him with a hero's welcome as other Vikings gave their input as well, "Hiccup, how you doin' mate?" "It's great to see you up and about." And many more compliments or words that oddly warmed his heart at.

Hiccup turned to his father as he sweetly spoke to him then, "Turns out all we needed was a little more of…" he then gestures non-specifically at his son before finishing, "This." Hiccup, however, was playing along as he replied to his father, "You just gestured to all of me."

Gobber then was pushing through the large crowd while he spoke, "Well. Most of you." Here he was beaming proudly at the teen male before gesturing to Hiccup's prosthetic leg, "That bit's my handiwork. With a little Hiccup flare thrown in. Think it'll do?"

Hiccup was bittersweet at that as he was coming to terms about missing his leg, and he understood the price of saving the others back on that isle, but he still replied in a kind gesture to Gobber, "I might make a few tweaks." The other Vikings alongside his father and Gobber lightly chuckled at his words.

Astrid then appears from the crowd as her true self to stun Hiccup before she unexpectedly jabs Hiccup in the arm, to which he recoils with a grumble. "That's for scaring me." She began before Hiccup was then protesting to her, "What is it always going to be this way? Cause I…" she then grabs him aggressively before she then kisses him as the Vikings blinked oddly enough, seeing a golden aura covered their frames as the runes they didn't notice, discreetly, reshaped themselves to add Astrid into the mix before fading to realize in terms of soul, they were true soulmates as when it faded, hoots and hollers follow as to when they pulled aware, Hiccup claimed in a brief daze of bliss to amuse Astrid by, "I could get used to it."

Gobber then presents Hiccup with a rebuilt saddle that he finally took notice he carried from his blacksmith to here within Berk, alongside the rigging and tail. "Welcome home," he tells Hiccup to make the teen smile before suddenly, Toothless pounces on the crowd, crushing several unsuspecting Vikings under his weight. "Night Fury, get down!" A random Viking claimed as Toothless eyes the new tail excitedly, tongue wagging.

Amidst the groans and grumbles, Hiccup and Astrid exchange a sheepish grin before long, Hiccup's prosthetic foot was easily snapping into the modified stirrup as the two pieces click together, forming a single shape. As for Toothless, he's feeling whole again before Hiccup rotates the pedal, and saw the new tail opens and revealing bright red with a skull and Viking horns emblazoned on it, to which Hiccup approves.

Eventually, Hiccup and Toothless, saddled up and ready to fly before seeing Astrid back her Nadder, Stormfly she notified him, into position.

"You ready?" He tells Toothless that he heard the snorted response of an excited 'Yes!' From his mount, Hiccup looks out over the changing world.

This... Is Berk. Hiccup thought to himself as they leaped into the bright blue sky, and together as one. It snows nine months of the year… And hails the other three. Astrid follows, giving chase. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so. Hiccup and Astrid race their dragons through the village. Under eaves, over rooftops, down cliff-sides, and between ship masts. It's a high-energy, romantic dance of sorts. The only upsides are the pets. While other places have ponies or parrots, we have... Their fellow recruits join them as they take to the open skyrocketing far above the village. The Northern sky swirls with blazing, multicolored dragons. Hiccup and Toothless break from the pack, spinning into the blinding sun as Hiccup thought lastly being proud of the way things went, Dragons.

After flying for several more minutes, it was then he noticed someone was missing, and asked Astrid to which the others decided to continue flying since both teens and their respective dragons landed back at his home's left side, "Where's Runa?"

With Runa, she was currently sitting alone on a familiar cliffside overlooking the improved Village of Berk as earlier, she hid a wince at how mixed of being awesome and stern both Esdeath and Sesshōmaru were as swordmasters as her two, full-sized weapons were lying next to her.

Her only daughter was being watched by her future brides-to-be and soulmates, Koneko to which she has gotten the privilege to call her by her true name)l, and Rin Nohara, alongside the Demon Lord's unofficial child possibly playing with Serena.

Her mother reconstructed the Dragon Isle of the Former Nest of the Red Death, and managed to design it to something more than what true Wild Dragons needed, alongside searching for the summoned, Undead Version of a Red Death-Based Boneknapper or mostly a demonic-looking, deceased-boned fusion of a dragon that the two men, a few days ago, tried yet failed to control, and would still come to her aid when needed be or anything.

Speaking as such, Sesshōmaru was also training Zilanette with Runa and a few others, quickly guessing she had developed a crush over said Demon Lord of the West, and maybe was the very reason why she also took up the offer of training and was presently overseeing her as we speak. And he was fully recovered from Alikazar's assault on the Isle itself, but the two still got away.

Callie, to mention her, returned and was still training under Gothi and too much of Runa's surprise as also from Rin's past, she was a medical person of sorts, took up the offer as well to learn some new techniques she could maybe add to her arsenal of skills.

Rias came back and aided in the reconstruction of Berk, as she also brought, to what she termed them as her peerage and comrades-in-arms, but left after overhearing things about Runa missing certain folk, and expressed to puzzle them that she would be back before the true terms of X-Mas comes, alongside her boyfriend, which Runa met and liked as another brother figure and seeing Rias as a sister, despite his tendencies of things.

Runa herself kept her attention on the reconstruction of Berk for the dragons that decided to stay, and mainly trained the last few days of her body and her swordsmanship to distract herself from the lingering and dark voiced thoughts based of her failure to her big brother, Hiccup, and how he would coupe when he awakens to all the things that occurred, and the doubts of herself being dubbed as a freak and monster.

Even though Hiccup notified her she wasn't, she was informed by Astrid on that day, which she couldn't recall, on Hiccup's Exam of what she almost did to Stoick, and which she shivered once again for.

"I would have roasted the supposed leader of this tribe of Vrykul to his actions… But seeing your life from your mind tends to say otherwise, and understanding, Hatchling." Deathwing expressed within her as Runa sighed before she thought back, and felt her wings twitch in secretive surprise,l as they could grow and shrink on command without aches of pain, and currently, they were small. I believe you as such… But it felt like I wasn't myself at all, to be honest when that happened.

Runa then unexpectedly felt the warmth within her, in a way, was awkward-like comfort, and heard Deathwing reply to her then, "That is why you are training to prevent that as despite myself loving the feeling of destruction and agony of others, you are young and need guidance to do so."

Before Runa could reply in thought as she gazed at the site of Berk, still, she stilled when she turned to her right shortly to only see her other teacher for her dragon part of herself and magic: Discord, materialized out of nowhere and give her in wordless gesture, some cinnamon chocolate bars filled with cookies and cream filling (one of her secretive sweets she can't resist) and reluctantly took hers as he easily swallowed his and states in a way he was trying to cheer her up, and also to amuse himself as after all, he was related to Chaotic Drakes, "Seems your still down and about that teen within this village, hmm?"

Runa didn't say anything as she chewed slowly on her treat, swallowed the bite, and glanced at Discord before she expressed softly in a way, he realized that she was hiding more than she let on, "Maybe… It just feels like everything I do or say leads to someone I care for, getting hurt or worse."

Discord though saw the two individuals that arrived behind them quietly, heard this, and decided to continue talking to her, despite this as they decided to listen, "From experience then?"

Discord was taken aback with Deathwing mentally thinking, idiot, to the entity as she looked at him then with those unique tears forming in her eyes, "More than that… It feels every time I try and help those I care for or even befriended, end up getting killed, harmed, or worse to my imagination as even my nightmares make me think that all of this," she then gestured to Berk and lastly to herself as tears did slowly appear to be to fall her face, "Could be easily be taken from me and at times, I feel like harming myself because of everything I put up with back home, and here."

Discord pondered this while he created without effort, a polka-dotted tissue rag to which Runa took and gently blew her nose and also wiped her eyes on and he dismissed it before noting, "Well on the bright side of things, you did find solace upon your tasks at hand, correct?" She nodded and blinked back tears and at the same time, wondering where he was going with this, "Then forget the harmful things from the past, and push forward then, Little Drake, and besides… Anything could be possible if shown."

Runa was confused by what he meant until she felt an immediate tapping on her shoulder, and soon turned in utter surprise at discovering Hiccup was here, awake, and… He let out an 'Oomph' sound to sadly amuse Astrid as she understood what Runa was going through, as she hugged him hard without realizing his head was once again in the center of her chest to make him tint, and then amuse the others when she then tinted when realizing this, and reluctantly pulled away from him as he brushed himself off.

"When did you wake up?" Runa inquired softly as Hiccup understood from watching Runa looked on with knowing eyes as Astrid then placed her left hand within his right, "Not too long ago… But I'm amazed at how much Berk progressed so far."

Runa gazed at Berk once again before she puzzled them all except for Discord at using somehow, a small hole of sorts in front of her before she was digging into it, but wasn't at all expecting for her to pull up two eggs to which showed some remains of blood droplets on it, with ease.

The first egg was large and oval-shaped, with scale patterns all over it. It is red, with dark blue, almost black, circular stripes. The other was only larger by a few inches as both eggs were close to the size of a watermelon, and had a harder shell than the other, and was mixed with red, green, and pale grey-like hide speckles.

"I don't know where these came from, but they were on me when I woke up after the adventure we all had and I hid them for safe keeping," was all Runa notified them as she allowed them to carefully examine the two eggs, and made Hiccup's mind wonder as to what race they were before they unexpectedly stilled, and turned to see in utter shock and to Runa's hidden surprise, the Opalaye landing gracefully with Baby Dragon's behind her.

The newly made teen couple held the eggs, awkwardly to amuse Discord as Toothless sniffed the eggs and realized what race they were but they smelt… Odd as if they were altered somehow, and Stormfly amused them as she stood behind Toothless in mixed fear and curiosity of sorts of the Pure White Dragon before them.

"So this is what you've been bloody up to this entire time, huh?" Runa states while the two teens heard the Opalaye croon to her with Runa gently petting the various dragon babies from the First Task, and Discord decided to be the interpreter of the two teens as they began to speak in Parseltongue, "Since it seems you two are out of the loop, let me lay it down… That White Drake expressed she would have come and spoken to Runa sooner, but wanted to make sure the Hatchlings was alright and ready to take off before anything else could occur."

Hiccup was irked as Discord was also using hand puppets of both the White Dragon and Runa to do so, before recognizing Runa was surprised by something the Opalaye claimed and giving Toothless a perplexed look and responded in kind with immediate interest, and made Discord blink at least twice while then stating to them, "'So you managed to make a home for yourself on Berk within a cave?'" Discord mimicked Runa to them in a bad impersonation of her voice before switching to what Astrid rolled her eyes at the bad impersonation of the dragon's, "'Why yes, Little One, as I know what you are and wanted to raise these other little ones close to you, despite sensing Ophis'-" Discord ducked as the White Dragon sent a small fireball above his head and stated to the teens as the two resumed speaking, "Well, what a temper that one has… Mmmhmm."

Astrid only shook her head once Discord poofed away before appearing with fish sticks for the Baby Dragons as she then saw Hiccup look at her while at the same time, glancing at Runa in small amusement by petting the Opalaye on the sides of her head, and allowed Toothless and Stormfly be near the strange Baby Dragons that they would need to lookup within Runa's Home, and asked him curiously as they lastly held hands once again, "What?"

"Nothing, I'm just wondering what will happen now." He tells her as when they kissed, they didn't see Runa hold back a small smile before glancing at Discord with a stare as he had puppets of her big brother and sister kissing, and then stuck out his tongue childishly at her before proofing away while making them jump and within their spare hands, was chocolate milk in a glass alongside a crazy straw.

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On an unknown island near some old ruins, and truly far, far away from Berk, and near Africa:

Two familiar individuals were glancing at each other while seeing their decent attempt at obtaining the empowered version of Runa's Blood, was currently within the dagger as they approached while walking on some mossy or vine stairs to a large temple of sorts that was around the size of two fancy mansions or in logical terms, around the same size as the "Jungle Book" Temple (Cartoon) but each brick was made out of obsidian-based material to have a grey or dark as night appearance and seems to haven't been used in centuries.

"So, despite our ritual we were given to allow the use of the Golden Dragon's Blood, we had an unforeseen circumstance to the resurrection of a Shadow Dragon of sorts, and was messed up by the source you trusted with the eased ritual." Alikazar states to his partner as Marvis held back the urge to use his weapon on this foolish Tiger-Raced male Nekotama of sorts, and calmly noted with a glint within his helms orbs at him while Alikazar merely shrugged in wordless reply, "It was an unforeseen circumstance to thy task at hand… But thy shouldn't complain about your failure of the way you've handled thyself against my rivaled foe."

"It was my way of handling things, Dragon Killer, and you know that." Alikazar then points out to the armored man as they were inside the temple while going downwards to a long hallway within the earth itself, "Besides, how was I supposed to know the Demon Lord would pull a new trick against my one attack that, unfortunately, blew me away to your spot in odd circumstances of Fate herself."

Marvis didn't say anything as they were then entering into a large, and ancient chamber of sorts as it looked like rituals and whatnot have took place in constant times within the past, and old murals were also placed on parts of the walls as well as demonic-looking entities and other creatures that haven't been seen for so long. Within the center of the large, old chamber is something recently placed as it was a crimson-like obsidian orb of sorts casually floating without support whatsoever, and it was the size of a yoga ball.

The two glanced at each other before they bowed on their knees near the orb itself, and Marvis then states to the orb in a way of utter respect and wariness, "Master… We have partially succeeded with the few parts of thy plan, but with slight hiccups were developed for this part of thy time."

The orb began to lightly pulse and hum within moments as dark energy was collected into it before it was glowing to a crimson color of sorts within the center of the orb's core as a dark, deep, and powerful voice came through it while speaking to them, "It matters not as to how much time is needed… This is only the beginning of things to come. As long as things go according to my plans, the Vikings would cease to be, and the current plan ahead would suffice to my, knowledgeable desires."

Marvis though glanced at Alikazar while inwardly cursing as lightning mixed of darkness and energy surrounded the orb for a few moments by his words, in anger of sorts, "Yes… But the problem is that the Golden Dragon is here, My Lord. She also has the one of few dragons that stopped you before, as her mother, and is here within this timeframe."

The orb then settled down before they heard a brief chuckle from it, and heard their Lord or Master state to them, also catching their attention as well, "Perhaps… Yes… I believe in due time, I will have my vengeance on the Nothing Dragon by a timed moment to reveal something of that foolish Dragon's Past, and maybe more."

Intrigued by what he said, they did a chest salute to the orb as it then states to them in dismissal, "Go… See to my will and continue with our plans… Soon, I will return, and when I do, nothing will stand in my path of the devastation of this world by the powers of Tainted Shadow."

Once they were out of sight, the orb pulsed a few times in small thoughts before energy began collecting around it, and a jolt of lightning was then sent throughout the temple and went into a stone tablet of sorts.

Said tablet was a sealed prison of one of many within this temple and activated it and a small explosion of darkness occurred as the entity within was then sent alongside everything else, randomly, on timed awakenings within the world except one fully revealed a cloaked entity of sorts, and the entity was teleported to the orb, and was then forced to bow before the orb by the power it holds.

"I want you to test the Golden Dragon and set up a task of retrieval as such… Do whatever it takes to accomplish this task, and in turn… Your freedom will be earned as you are under my power." Seeing the person struggle in anger at being used, remarked firmly to him in a dismissal order, "Now go."

The person was then sent away while the orb chuckled in humorless glee to itself as a pair of demonic yellow but draconic eyes were showing with ease.

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Well, that's it for now as I decided to add the entire movie within a few chapters for you guys, as the rest would be random until a certain point from here on out. I am also sorry for not posting or sending more stories to the site but I had to deal with real life, the holidays, and also at times, sickness.

Letting you all know, Rin (Seshomaru's Child) isn't part of her pairings for Runa, but Koneko and the other Rin (from Naruto) are.

Let's say you will find out in due time, and maybe even more interesting "Characters" in the next eventual chapters once they are up, and as you are reading this, will be worked on alongside the one long chapter for "Camelia and Jade Adventures", and a few eventual chapters for Beauty and The Witch Sister.

Now until I think of a random plot to make the next chapter to this, I will also be working on the others and maybe… Future Projects, hehe.

If you guys have suggestions or whatever, leave them within the review/comments as such. I also spliced it up into 4 Chapters as originally, it was close to 162 Pages long! Wow, that is indeed a lot of words, if you think about it.

But there are also a few reasons, as I added Discord for the later-on plot with the MLP Character, plus if you think about it, he is a useful aspect of magic, after all… Well, Chaos Magic, and I may or may not in the future (when it comes to the time that is) may add certain other characters as well.

I also wanted for you guys to personally wonder as to which two entities are within the "Orb" Eris has, as they are (to my mind) would be perfect for this story.

There is also the aspect of who this mysterious, "Green Cloaked Man" may be, and I have a feeling that a few may already know who he is, but I won't reveal him until an important matter of time.

Also to the point of the one person near the end, as it is going to be interesting as I figured said person would fit well into the story as such, once I figure out how to add them. And if you were wondering about if or when "Kala" will return… She will, but not in the way you would think as such.

I also mentioned at the beginning I would be adding Other Types of Dragons from other franchises, and also I decided to add particular things as well but most won't be mentioned until a later, later time of chapters as such. But so you know, the characters from Highschool DxD Anime (which they are as such) are the aftermath of the series as such, so all the events have already occurred, but with slight twists for a later date as to why.

I would also like to thank the people that indeed let me borrow their characters as such (not just this Story, but all of them, and even future content (who knows, #shrug)), and even suggestions or whatnot as well.

I was also wondering if you guys would have suggestions of the name for Toothless' Unofficial and Non-Blood yet Raised Besides Sister, as I wanted to see which would be great from you all and maybe mention who said so as well within the next chapter.

Now, here are the numbers guys:

1: Yes I mentioned said dragon male from the LOTR Franchise, The Hobbit, for a particular reason in the future… Who knows, maybe said dragon, would end up gaining a second chance?

2 & 3: I couldn't fully describe them to my knowing details, so… Sorry, #Sweatdrop.

4: It is what I decided to call all the World of Warcraft Black Dragons, well within my stories that are… They are originally classified as the Black Aspects of The Earth or Black Dragonflight, and well, for the 15th Anniversary (which is over now since Jan 7th of 2020, and yes, I am a World of Warcraft Player as well… FOR THE HORDE, #Smile), and figured perhaps other types of dragons in relation, or moreover, other Factions of the Dragonflight might come into play later on… But I might have one particular, former Blue Dragonflight Aspect in mind for the 1st to appear.

5: As I mentioned, yes, there is a possibility I plan to add certain Dragons from many franchises as such into this fic to either my knowledge or to what I look up as such. So yes, I plan to add those Dragons from the said franchise as well.

6: Yes, it is a Divine-Based, Mega Digimon but said Digimon is in relation via the lore as mentioned, and is also a Dragon Race of sorts… But there might be a particular reason as to maybe add said Dragon, otherwise known as Huanglonmon, for a later date.

7: If the names and stuff didn't mention it, it is indeed from an Anime, and I figured, why not add them as well?

With that being said, I hope you all enjoyed what I posted as I plan to add more chapters to my other stories (and this one, in due time), and hope you like reading them as well.

Until then, peace out guys, and merely wait for the next exciting chapters!