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

6. Gobber’s Tales, and Unexpected Outcomes

Author's Announcement:

I planned and decided to include a few things alongside the next movie and with a random beginning plot that would eventually lead up to it, as it involves our Main Character herself in the upcoming chapters.

Not going to spoil it though, yet I wanted to at least get this chapter up while I work on not only another chapter, but the X-Mas Chapter with a few surprises before something else as well as another chapter to eventually lead up to the second movie.

So I decided to go over, again, the five previous chapters and adjust/edit them after posting these few chapters as I saw the complaint (again) and let me tell everyone as this is the only announcement unless it's important: I have no Co-Authors to most of my fics… Well, none for them all at this point, as Rwbyknight is merely a suggested person and still a friend of mine, alongside the other Author, Rowena Bensel.

And sorry for the delay in time as I have been dealing with real life, this Covid-19 Virus, and family issues.

So the main descriptions are in the beginning chapters for dialogue, but due note I plan to add specific things during or within before and during the second movie, and let's say… Well, here is a hint: VTubers, Demons, and Dragons gave a second chance, and more.

And I do plan, during the third and final movie at the end (or close to it) to have our Main Character back to her actual time and be placed with a surprise twist… Although to make it up to you guys, I added two "Specific shorts" that would go well with this story as well.

So without much of a problem, here is the start of the next few Arcs.

Current Pairing for Runa: Koneko and Rin Nohara (two out of seven girls, with one new one in the Mini-Arcs, and another during the "Movie 2 Arc", as I lastly plan on a surprise girl when she goes back to her true time, alongside the others in "Things to come", and maybe another girl during third movie)

Children: Serena (for now)

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Several days later, on December 19th of 811 (2014 true year), in Runa's Mansion, around nighttime:

Runa was humming to herself while she was wrapping some homemade gifts she was able to request from her true time, thanks to approving a few favors, which involves Discord himself, Rias being able to reach her Godmother and family, and the brief aid of her Ma: Ophis.

Runa wasn't entirely sure what to do for the approaching Christmas Holiday or YuleTide within her occurring residence in Berk from understanding that time for her was moving forwards while entangled in the past, and her true time was unhurried at this point, making her guess she would be gone from either five months to a full year.

They were notified about it by not only the redhead demoness that Rias was, but from Ophis verifying it with Runa having gifts placed for future holidays in her home in proposed times, thanks to Hermione's smart mind with a few letters from them too and with them declaring they miss her and she would be relatively surprised by things once she does come back.

The Goblins did deliver her a letter as well to rationalize that the explanation for how long she would be gone to the specific duration lost in her true time, was quantum physics mixed with, of course, time traveling and more that went over the dragon girl's head.

Runa was also thanking her servant, Esdeath, for putting up with her child and out for supplies and exploring as some of the gifts are for her as well.

But what she didn't know is where Esdeath took her child for supplies, as such. Especially when Koneko and Rin were sparring with each other at the far side of the Isle of Berk for the last several hours, and luckily whatever they were figuring out, was far away from Berk itself.

So far, to speak of it, she has gifts for all her allies she has here and current kin, but she wasn't sure what to bestow her big brother and sister, as despite them lately courting and taking things slow, Runa couldn't unravel what they would like to have. And she was appreciative that her mother did deliver her gifts back to her true time for her friends and family she left behind.

Runa now sighed before veering around to see Dobby materialize in a small pop, and he wiggled his ears to her before confiding in some of the tasks that were done, "Lady Potter, I decorated parts of the tree as you requested and filled the halls and some rooms with festive cheers… Is there anything Dobby can prepare next?"

Runa thought about it before shaking her head and blushed discreetly at the sensation of her large chest shaking and wiggling as, despite all this time, she wasn't used to her body moving and skimmed some of her growing hair out of her face, and surely notifying the House Elf then after finishing up wrapping her new niece, Sesshōmaru's soon-to-be adopted child's gift from proclaiming he was her Pack Sister a day ago and even did a small ritual to even do by blood, without side effects between them both, "Not solely certain Dobby… Can you make sure that the lodging is at least in reasonable condition for the holiday? I still have to find out what the Hooligan Clan dedicates to the holiday itself."

Dobby nodded before soon looking thoughtful and beseeched her then to shortly make Runa raise an eyebrow at his words, as she proceeded to personally clean up her mess within the dining hall that was formulated not too long ago by her request, as it was somewhat a fancy place with mainly it being meant for royalty, "Do you want Dobby to make sure the food is kept and ready whenever it's made?"

Runa wordlessly nodded with a grateful smile as she arranged to make some food by giving Dobby and Winky her recipe book to make enough food for the village, and saw him poof away.

Runa glanced at the large tree and felt half-cheerful as she was thankful for Rias and the others she met to bring some of her stuff from her true time and even growing some trees and those strange seeds that came from the bag into her Inner Garden within her residence and was thankful for things, but… It isn't the same without my other friends and family back in England not being here with me.

Runa then sighed before giving awareness to Deathwing as he commenced to communicate within her head with Runa mending some parts of the thirty-foot tree with decorations provided by everyone after setting Serena's presents under the others, "It seems that you desire for your more productive allies than the ones you keep as a Pack, Little One."

Runa just nodded as she winced at glimpsing the twins' shared ornament of fishbones before glancing at the large formal living room around the size of a large hotel suite, and one of the few rooms this mansion magically has that's connected to the hall itself and solely uttered aloud since it was just her and the former Cataclysm Drake within to make it she stood, obviously, alone, "I truly miss them despite Big Brother and Sister, and the others attempting to cheer me up… Even when I get to celebrate with at least my daughter and two mates."

Runa felt that Deathwing bobbed as Winky soon materialized with a small popping sound and gave her some Atlantic Cod to snack on before going back to the kitchens while she was gnawing on the raw fish, the Former Black Aspect made her pause mid-swallow by his comment, "True, but if you plummet once again into the Deep Despair that I have learned from those I remembered within the Shadowlands ventured, before my sealed plight, then it would compel more action to once again pull you to the light."

Runa remembered going into that type of state within her Second Year for at least a few days and understood as it left her vulnerable and when she woke up, needed aid from her friends and her eventual kin, and it was after she clashed with her apparent Anti-Side of herself of nearly harming Hermione and the others.

"I never want to endure that again, as it was all black and cold," Runa conceded while shuddering for a moment as she swallowed her fish and was soon amused at Deathwing sighing in contempt, and figured he got his share of food as with the way she was, she had to immediately consume at least twice the quantity of food and parts of it, and via of their pact made, went to him.

"Feel what again?" A familiar female voice requested her to make Runa jump and make Astrid half-amused as she was her true self, and saw that Runa had a hand to her heart and quickly ignored Deathwing and her recent 'Shadow's' laughter within herself and her wings quivering as well, "Can you please stop sneaking around? You startled me again."

Astrid gazed sheepishly while indicating to her bare feet and upon seeing she was holding her adjusted boots before placing them back on, "I can't help that my feet lately make my footsteps soft, Rue…. But you didn't reply to my question?" Astrid resumed questioning her to make Runa sigh at this, and a few minutes after confiding, made the blonde blink at her as they were sitting on the spare large u-shaped sofa the room has. "I hope you don't go through that either." That was all she said to Runa.

"Neither do I, Big Sis," Runa gently said to Astrid and making her understand the girl's plight, held her hand for a few moments before being joyful to eventually make the dragon girl herself laugh, "Well, I'm sure that you would get a kick out of how we do things here in Berk, as last year, there were at least a few brawls over something that involved a sheep, and drunk Vikings… And with Stoick being one of the drunken ones." Runa did try to visualize a drunk Stoick at that.

Runa noticed that Astrid flinched as the dragon girl's wings twitched a bit before she raised a query to Astrid, a concerned question, to make the blonde blink at her, "Are you ok?"

"Ya I am Rue," Astrid began while rolling her shoulder blades and made Runa nod in understanding then, "I just overdid it with the training yesterday with my ax… It ain't easy to try and get used to my own body for combat."

Runa bobbed wordlessly once again as she thought back to the training she was acquiring from Sesshōmaru himself mixed with Esdeath… Let's say she is mixed with his regime, and also helping out as best as she can at cultivating vegetables for the Hooligan Clan as well. For Esdeath, she did the straightforward approach with enchanted dummies to practice with and even rectify her stances, and even barely won a sword fight against her only once.

"At least your two instructors aren't pushing to the limit to slaughter you in training," Runa confessed to getting Astrid and her to laugh for a few moments before getting up and making Astrid groan and Runa chuckle, as Discord materialized out of nowhere before dumping ice water on her.

"Figured you could take advantage of an ice shower from how you whined," was all the draconequus informed her with him soon giving Runa a pout as she wordlessly dried Astrid off with a drying spell, and was lucky he was educating her some pointers of her altered magic, and still learning.

She found out during her recovery, that her wand was somehow fully assimilated into her and Deathwing notified her that it wasn't fully gone, but was slowly changing and adjusting into a new look later, and was divulged her two sword weapons might end up the same way to mystify her by what he meant, and fuse with it.

Not realized to them during that, a particular person knew this yet decided to wait their time to reveal themselves after the new weapon was summoned, possibly a week or so after being informed by a source to test her.

"Disc, you understand that I don't permit pranks in my household unless I asked for it, right?" Runa warned him in a way, Discord was sweating truly by the glowing eyes that, discreetly, Deathwing taught her to intimidate others, and with Astrid crossing her arms and shaking her head wordlessly in being inwardly amused before they both blink when she summoned a chocolate cream pie and it flew right onto the draconequus' face, "Well, consider that minor payback then from setting itching powder in my bed this morning."

Discord grossed out Astrid as he cartoonishly extended his tongue and ate the mess from his face, and shrugged off wordlessly as if to state, true, and looked at the decorations of her home before humming to himself a few seconds and let out to her then, "Well, at least it's jovial in this place."

He then made them blink as he conjured for all three of them since he was entertaining himself at Astrid jaw-dropping, and Runa simply giving him a look before untying a red ribboned wrapped girl that kept staring at the draconequus warily as he managed to catch her before she fell as she was different from her two half-siblings as a race, personally, from his connected realm.

Let's say she was liberated by him from someone dark needing her out of the way, alongside a few select others later on, and leave it at that for now.

Despite being de-aged to correspond to Runa and looking like her sixteen-year-old self, still, she has arctic bluish-white skin and has light-arctic blue with moderate-persian blue mixed striped hair that was natural, and it was also in a ponytail and with a black band.

The young teenager, at this degree, donned a crisscross cut-out halter crop top that was both black with magenta stripes like a tiger, and under that was a dull-grey mesh shirt that clings to the upper part of her body that clearly showed she has an Average D-cupped-sized chest with her slim yet slender figure.

She also wore a grey denim vest with it having musical notes on it, and had silver zippers with each end having a note. The outfit also had sleeved light-grey armbands up to her elbows while having black with small silver spike wristbands on each arm. She also possessed a thin dark-blue belt with a silver star looped through a pair of dark-grey denim shorts made for eased movement and with fitting mesh socks showing and had low-heeled dark magenta sneakers with navy-blue and silver shoelaces on the sides. The outfit, however, clung to her frame while at the same time, was meant for comfort.

This was Sonata Dusk.

"Consider this girl an early YuleTide gift for yourself, my apprentice," Discord mirthfully commented to Runa while not at all glimpsing the artic blue-skinned girl was wide-eyed at him for, wordlessly, and glanced at the dragon girl alongside Astrid by noticing Runa gapping in utter surprise by his words since he disclosed the ribbon of golden fate by a mere snap, briefly, to divulge it between her and not only Sonata, but with her two others, "She's your third girl, Spitfire."

At the nickname though, she pouted, and with Sonata being confused as to why Astrid held back a snort, as Runa's blazing sneezes achieved her that nickname at best for the village itself.

"You don't need to rub it in, Disc… One time I maintained sneezing flames to accidentally light up some burnt-out pitfalls, and I acquired that name." Runa grumbled to him and quickly hid a yelp when he coiled all three of them in a coiled-like hug and twirled them in place as he chuckled, and once they stopped spinning, they wore a festive Santa hat.

After he left, they were confused when they listened to a Viking called Hoark, as Runa got to know the Hooligan Clan's names, in panic, "Fire!"

They instantly saw other Vikings shout or whatever to themselves and Astrid whistled loudly to call Stormfly, and headed to the southern part of Berk… And found that it was Gobber's home on fire.

While the Nadders and Gronckles and the rest of her friends were at work struggling to put out the flames, they ignored Runa as she started to suck easily the blazing fires to assist them as well, and with Stoick urging them at watching the destruction shown and still putting the flames out, "Good work, just a few spots left."

Hiccup arrived at that moment and asked worriedly to his father then, "Where's Gobber? Is he still inside?"

"No, we can't find him…" Stoick responded to his son while seeing Runa and was still mystified at her actions at times, before catching a glimpse of Gobber came wobbling and commenced helping the others to finish the task of putting out fires, and then notified them, "I'm right here."

Despite observing Runa using her glowing hand to fix his home to the way it was, he was irked after watching him wobbling with a cart filled with things from his blacksmith shop, "That beast will pay for this!" Stoick questioned Gobber then, "Gobber, what happened?"

Runa and the others blinked while quietly excusing herself from burping small embers from her mouth, at his words to flabbergast them, "What's it look like? A dragon set my home on fire!"

The rest of her friends were off their dragons with her standing soon beside them, and heard Ruffnut claim a perplexed 'What', to them.

Sonata grabbed Runa's hand in confused and self-feared comfort without realizing it, and everyone took note of her for only a brief moment before looking back to Gobber, "You pushed me too far this time, you ugly bag of bones!"

"Dad, what's he talking about? Our dragons don't do that anymore." Hiccup questioned his father as Stoick sighed with Runa and the other younger Vikings looking to want to know as well… Well, the ones that understand, "He doesn't mean one of yours. Gobber, for the last time, there is no such thing as a-" "Boneknapper?!" Gobber interrupted Stoick to perk Runa and the others up at the dragon race name and were perplexed by all the other Hooligan Villager's groaning to themselves by his word.

"A what-knapper?" Tuffnut remarked unsurely aloud while next to his twin, and Gobber motioned to him with Runa gazing thoughtfully as she felt she heard of it before, "A disgusting, foul beast. Wearing a coat of stolen bones like a giant, flying skeleton."

"The Dragon Manual says that the Boneknapper will stop at nothing to find the perfect bone to build its coat of armor. It's awesome!" Fishlegs soon educated them and with Astrid peeking at Runa, noting she was gently squeezing the arctic-skinned girl's hand before Stoick told Gobber off as the older man wasn't deterred, "Come on, it's just a myth. It doesn't even exist."

"I'm telling you, it's real! I've been running from him my whole life. He's the one who started this fire." Gobber retorted back determinedly before they turned to a random Viking male that was holding singed pants, "Stoick, we found Gobber's underpants hanging by the stove. They must've started the fire."

"Still think it's the Boneknapper or just your underpants?" Stoick states with humor in his tone as everyone laughed at this, and Gobber grabbed them before telling him off and making the leader sigh then, "I don't think! I know! Somehow he found me again. That dragon is pure evil."

"Gobber, it's early, and we're too tired for your stories. Now, get some rest." Stoick confides in his friend as Gobber huffs before grabbing his cart and wobbling away, "You rest, I'm putting an end to this." He then glanced at a random sheep he owns, "Come on, Phil. Let's go. We don't need their help anyway." The sheep followed him then like a lost puppy.

"We can't let him go by himself." Hiccup confessed to himself while they were all watching Gobber head to the docks, sighed, and turned to his friends and Runa, and a strange-skinned girl before he told them in order, "All right, Vikings! Grab your shields."

"Yeah / Yes!" Astrid and the others declared in agreement before they turned to Snotlout as he let out them off and waved his hands and gestured to the old man, "There's no way I'm getting on a boat to go after a fake dragon."

"Well…" Runa trailed off and with her scratching her chin and her wings slightly shuddering recognized she was hiding something and got all of their awareness before opening her storage space and gazing blankly at what they saw her pull out.

It was a small dragon-designed Greek and Viking mixed boat in black mahogany and strange metal, and the head of the ship was a red-eye black dragon with its maw open, and green gemstones for eye sockets… In small likeness to the rest, was the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean, but as spoken of.

"Where did you get that? It looks interesting." Hiccup tells her as Runa shrugged and admitted to them in sincerity as they all commenced walking to the docks and with Discord distinguishing things, navigated back to her house and jotted down a note for her two other mates and then took a nap in her Inner Garden, "Ma gave it to me as one of few gifts for some late birthdays she failed, and said it was from an ally of hers that she informed someone about me… Though she was irked, they didn't think that she even had a kid at all."

"Well, despite being powerful, if she knows others that recognize her and doesn't usually have kids, it's understandable." Fishlegs informed them all before they stopped halfway when Runa caught Sonata and tinted to their brief amusement at the girl's face at grabbing Runa's place, hard, and fully tinted in acknowledging her unexpected gender then before she was righted, and Snotlout narrowed his orbs and pointed at her, "Who's she?"

"She's Runa's early blessing this year from her teacher, her third Hidden Mate," was all Astrid declared openly to make Hiccup and the others blink at her twice before they started again walking, and soon met with Gobber as before he could say it, saw the boat when Runa hurled it into the water… And it enlarged to make them all gap at beholding a fully functional ship.

"Seems I have to thank ya mother for lending ya that ship, Lass." Gobber confides in Runa later on at the helm, as she was allowing him to steer the ship and with Astrid and the others looking for anything to use for breakfast, as it was early morning still, in the hold.

Gobber was initially going to make the teens row to where the destination was going to be but liked Runa's ship more than the "Borrowable" ship he was going to use.

To also comment on why the dragons were not with them, was that they were instructed to stay in Berk and keep it safe.

"Well, I'm still learning to fly from back then and Ma remembered that I never truly sailed a ship at all, and only rode in one. So she gave me a working boat to try and do so as my wings," Runa explains to Gobber as Hiccup and the others just came back with cooked fish they found and managed to grab her left wing gently and showed how thin the membranes were, "Are still fresh and I would need to truly practice flying to reinforce them… And the only reason I flew back then by her words, was sheer dumb luck and intention to keep everyone safe."

After placing the food down and eating, they resumed working and with Runa talking quietly to Sonata nearby them to try and get to understand her, and Hiccup tells everyone then aloud to make Astrid only roll her orbs playfully and with Snotlout groaning as he had to work out how to untie thick rope without hurting his hands, "How fun is this, right? We got the team back together, another adventure. This is pretty cool, huh?"

Hiccup rolled his orbs then after Snotlout remarked in the personal complaint as the twins were mopping the deck, and Fishlegs going over a map on an oak barrel nearby as even Astrid was assisting Hiccup with raising the sail even more, "Yeah, nothing cooler than untying thick rope until your hands bleed."

"I just want you kids to understand that it touches my heart, you helping me slay the Boneknapper. True Vikings, you are." Gobber tells them honestly.

"Gobber, are we there yet?" Ruffnut complained after getting up and feeling nauseous from her twin brother swirling her on purpose to almost making her have seasickness, and Fishlegs overheard as he pocketed the map and everyone heard him, "Oh, you'll know we're close when your ears explode from the piercing screams. Legend says this dragon's roar is so fierce, it can melt the flesh right off your bones!"

Gobber within moments disagreed with the teen male and motioned to him, and confused Runa as she overheard his words as the old man steered the helm still, "Not so, Fishlegs. The Boneknapper has no roar at all. That's why he's terrifying. He's a silent killer."

"Wait, so if we don't hear anything... We're dead?" Ruffnut pointed out in a perplexed tone, and everyone was silent and listened… Only to jump as the sheep they brought named Phil, bleated loudly to jumpscare them, and made Runa sneeze fire that sailed into the east.

"Good one, Phil. Did I ever tell you about the first time I met the dreaded Boneknapper?" Gobber complimented the animal before he then informed them questionably, and with an indication to realize he was about to inform them of parts of his past, "I was a young lad, about your age, on summer vacation with my family, when I heard the call of nature. I saw an army of Vikings, frozen in battle. Clutched in the fingers of one of the Vikings was a small treasure chest… I had to have it."

"What was inside it, Gobber?" Runa raised a question in intrigue to get a select few others to groan inwardly to themselves as it seems he snagged Runa's interest fully, he inwardly beamed at that, and Sonata held back a blush from feeling the dragon girl's tail gently curl around her left leg in a delicate caress before swishing back and forth behind the dragon girl herself.

"Just getting to that Lass…" Gobber gently told her as he turned the wheel slightly to the left, "I reached in and pulled out the chest... It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. But the frozen Viking was still alive! He started punching me in the face! And he broke my tooth… And there it was… I never even heard it coming... The Boneknapper! It crashed into the glacier, causing an avalanche of frozen Vikings! I reached into the water... Only to find the frozen Viking punching me in the face, again! The Boneknapper wanted that treasure… But I wanted it more!"

"You expect us to believe that a frozen Viking punched you in the face?" Snotlout pointed out in a way it was genuine disbelief with Gobber nodding his head surely and implying to him with a hook, as everyone was confused and stopped what they were doing to listen to him, "Yeah, twice."

"Hey, it could happen." Hiccup told them and ignored Snotlout's 'WTF' stare as Gobber disagreed with him, "What do you mean 'It could happen'? It did! But I outsmarted the silent beast."

"Um, Gobber, I hate to be a stickler for details, but… Boneknappers are not silent." Fishlegs enlightened him as Runa contemplated this since she remembered he was knowledgeable from The Book and didn't notice Fishlegs glimpsed behind him, and his eyes widened.

"Fishlegs, I know what I didn't hear. But, I could feel it…" Gobber struggled to explain to him as, after that, Fishlegs attempted to get their attention from discovering something unexpected, "Uh, guys? Are there supposed to be...?" "I had a sixth sense for danger. I can smell anything…" "I think we're gonna hit these…" "I could taste the oncoming doom!"

The ship lurched as it ran ashore with Gobber distracted and blew everyone off and onto the rocky shore within moments, and Sonata was rather surprised that Runa was the one who saved her from being harmed, and slightly worried as she saw her wince at her wings being scratched.

"Um, I'm tasting rocks." Astrid spat out within moments with a small rock she spits out onto the ground to prove her point and with her briefly tinting at Hiccup inspecting her over, alongside Gobber notifying them in finality, and also brushing himself off, "Ah, we're here."

They swerved as their ire, Runa's Ship glowed brightly and shrunk into a gem before she blinked as it flew at her before going into her Hammerspace.

"Ugh. Now we're stuck in the middle of nowhere, and no one even knows where we are!" Ruffnut shouted in an utter complaint to them all.

"Except the Boneknapper. Legend says…" Fishlegs started before he was stopped by Snotlout and Fishlegs glared at him for, "Hey, you know what legend also says? Stop talking!" "Okay, just hold on one darn second…" Fishlegs started to retort before Gobber interrupted them then, "No need to panic, kids. I've been shipwrecked many times!"

"Oh, well that's… Comforting." Hiccup says aloud and winced and brushed off a stray rock from his head, and they groaned with Runa and this time her newer mate, gazed at Gobber then as he proceeded to continue his tale, and keep them distracted by their situation, "You never forget your first shipwreck… I was stranded on an island, with only my broom. It was a very small island. It's no wonder the Boneknapper found me again. He never forgave me for taking that treasure. There was another island. My only escape. But I was surrounded by blood-thirsty hammerhead sharks! I only had one chance. So I ran across the shark-infested waters. I didn't think I was going to make it. But then, from the depths of the ocean leaped forth… A giant hammerhead whale!"

"Whoa! So the hammerhead whale ate the Boneknapper?" Fishlegs exclaimed in awe with Runa knowing that is a true race yet staying silent to listen to things and didn't glimpse the looks of skepticism on the other's faces as Sonata was sitting close by to her in comfort.

"Almost, but he got away." Gobber informs them as he was using a spare rock to sharpen his hook attachment before he resumed divulging them more, "Years later, the dragon hunted me down again and chased me into the jungle. All I had was my trusty egg beater. I carved through that thick brush as fast as a jungle cat. Still, the Boneknapper was right behind! I ran up the side of a volcano and courageously leaped across the fiery crater. Then, deep within the burning volcano burst forth a giant hammerhead yak!"

Again, Runa remembered that too, was an existing race for magicals as Tuffnut held his hands up to halt Gobber and declared to him in a not-so-believing tone, "Okay, wait a minute. Now you're saying a giant hammerhead yak leaped out of the fiery volcano and ate the Boneknapper?"

"You would've thought so, wouldn't you? But the dragon got away again! I knew the boney scoundrel would keep coming after me…" Gobber pointed to him before he resumed his storytelling to them, "So, I set up a gauntlet of traps, and waited for the beast. And when he was ready... He charged! And then I ran like the wind! But the traps failed! Then, captured, I did what any brave Viking would do… I yelled for help and The Gods must've heard my prayers. It was Thor! He tossed a mighty thunderbolt. Then, from the center of the earth blasted forth... The hammerhead yak riding the hammerhead whale!"

"Whoa... The whale saluted you?" Fishlegs tells Gobber as he nodded before telling them all, "Can you believe it? But the Boneknapper got away again! He found me on Berk-" Runa had glowing eyes of brief irritation at Snotlout, everyone saw, and with a brief growl as well as the teen Viking male interrupted him, "Are you kidding? I don't believe any of this."

The others besides Sonata, Astrid and Hiccup then complained to Gobber in their way and didn't see him flinch at all, until Tuffnut told him off then, "You don't even have any proof that that thing exists!"

"Of course I have proof. I still have the treasure. This stunning belt buckle." Gobber showed as if it was an actual bone piece of sorts that looked like it had been well taken care of and shiny, "It was in the Viking's treasure chest. It's kept my pants up for years."

"It is stunning." Runa agreed with her shivering as Sonata accidentally brushed her arm against her wings and it made her tail and left foot twitch for a brief moment, and only a select few noticed that as Hiccup disclosed the old blonde Viking male to have Gobber sigh, then, "Um… Listen, Gobber. Instead of chasing down an imaginary dragon, maybe we should figure out how to get home?"

"Say no more, I hear ya loud and clear. I've got a plan. Alright, who'd like to be dragon bait?" Gobber waves Hiccup off before he and everyone else gazed at Fishlegs then, and eventually, Fishlegs was outfitted poorly to resemble Gobber with him being under a bone-based trap made from bones of a large dragon's rib cage and big enough for the dragon they seek.

"Um, Gobber, are you sure this is safe?" Runa raised a question before Fishlegs could to him as she had a gut-like suspicion something was going to happen soon but didn't comprehend what, as the teen as bait himself, nodded at the old Viking.

"Safety's overrated." He tells her before instructing and gestures the area, "Okay, here's the plan. The Boneknapper wants me, right? He comes down that trail, sees Fishlegs, thinks it's me, rushes Fishlegs, causing Phil to trip that rope, dropping that rib cage and then we rush in to finish him off once and for all!"

They blinked at him as Snotlout confessed to them then to make Runa glare at him, "It's sad when they get old."

"Gobber, you're taking this way too far, okay? You need to face it. There is no such thing as the Boneknapper!" Hiccup attempted to tell his father's friend but Gobber instantly disagreed and informed them then, "Wormsquat! Now, get into position. Way to go Fishlegs, you're doing fine!"

"No wonder the entire village thinks you're crazy," Hiccup says to himself to which everyone listened to him, and with Astrid wincing at noticing the dark stare Runa had immediately to the point it was frightening Sonata, and if Deathwing was out, shivered from.

"Hello? He sees dead Vikings!" Snotlout let out to them with Tuffnut agreeing with him, and they all but Fishlegs didn't notice a shadow overpass them and something quietly landed, "Yeah, especially that thing about the hammerhead yak…" "Um, guys...?" Fishlegs tried to get their attention.

"This is a complete waste of time," Astrid told them then in agreement and ignored the look Runa gave her at that and didn't heed Fishlegs waving his arms and striving frantically to get their attention.

"Guys, hello?! Turn around! Guys! GUYS!" Fishlegs shouted to get their awareness, dropped Runa's growing hostility, and felt a tugging on her arm from Sonata as she saw what was causing Fishlegs to freak out about, "WHAT?!" Everyone questioned Fishlegs loudly.

They all stilled at hearing the sounds of actual bone-rattling and large breathing behind them, and Hiccup responded what they were all guessing then, "It's right behind us isn't it?"

They turned and froze over at beholding the dragon itself, as he has dull olive-green and gray scales with main bones of random dragons alongside animals and manually cleaned to realize it took care of itself, the body armor, and a boney club at the end of its tail, and draconian sickly-green slit eyes easily revealed from the upper skull he has attached to his head with noticing a longer skull below to make it appear to have an overbite.

They were perplexed instantly with knowing Gobber was right as he roared so silently it was barely noticeable, "Well, what do you know? No roar."

"RUN!" Gobber warns them as they commence to scatter and run to Fishlegs as it breathes scorching flames behind them, and Astrid tells the old Viking then, "Okay, Gobber, we believe you!"

The Boneknapper then deliberately maneuvered his large clubbed tail into the ground and swept them right into Fishlegs, and Runa and Sonata plummeting and falling into an unexpected yet old open cavern… And Phil the Sheep initiated the trap and imprisoned the others within moments, under the large rib cage. "Phil!" Gobber states in the complaint.

"Find a happy place, find a happy place…" Snotlout states as the Boneknapper breathed flames once again as they each hid behind a rib cage bone before the dragon himself climbed on top and tried to enter it, in frustration.

"No, no, no, please… Please. He wants my head. I swear he wants my head!" Fishlegs complained in growing fear as he still wore Gobber's failed attempt at a disguise, "Bring it on! You wait till I get out there and I'll show you!" Gobber told the dragon off as the dragon did a silent huff before trying to still get through the thick rib cage.

It was then Hiccup saw the slot of the dragon's chest and gazed rapidly at Gobber's belt buckle to acknowledge something, immediately, "Wait. It searches for the perfect bone to build its coat of armor. The treasure! Gobber, take off your pants!" Hiccup advises Gobber after speaking to himself.

"Huh?" Gobber questioned Hiccup with the others sickened by the idea, and told him a loud 'No', "Wait, listen to me. I think Fishlegs was right. The Boneknapper is supposed to have a roar. But maybe he can't because the bone he needs is your belt buckle."

"Gobber, please, you have to give it back." Astrid begged as the Boneknapper managed to figure things out and use its boney jaws to rip the rib cage barrier and make the others that were aware, back up, "No way, it's mine. Uh-oh." Gobber was then nabbed and shook about by his sturdy peg leg from the dragon.

"Give him back his bone!" Hiccup yelled at Gobber to which he groaned as he heard him yelling out 'No' in retort, "GIVE HIM BACK HIS BONE!" He yelled out firmly to Gobber then, "NOOOOO! Noooo…" the old Viking was then tossed into the air and soon sighed briefly in defeat and muttered to himself, "Oh, alright." He tossed the bone piece then.

The piece itself flew and socketed flawlessly into the last remaining slot of the Boneknapper and the dragon male itself looked puzzled before shaking itself with a few rattles, as Gobber landed on some piles of bones close by.

"Gobber!" Hiccup shouted in concern as the old Viking was getting up before gazing at the dragon and it suddenly roared so loud air was effortlessly being shown from the rocked dust it sent everywhere and making the teens and the old Viking stay in place.

"Alright, you've got me. Make it fast." Gobber told the Boneknapper as he closed his eyes… Only for the male dragon to croon in his way while nudging him gently in unexpected gratification.

The teens blinking and not believing this, gazed on in relief as Hiccup enlightened them in honesty at the unusual affection the dragon was showing to Gobber, and from them watching Gobber's pants falling, "That's gonna give me nightmares."

Astrid nodded in agreement as the male dragons were allowing them to run its bones in gratitude still, and crossed her arms and told him, "Well, at least we have a ride home."

It was then they realized something… "Where's Runa?" Hiccup told them all then before noticing the Boneknapper perked up at that name as if he recognized her name, sniffed the air, and perplexed them as they followed him to where the opening was and noticed old runes on the outside.

Speaking of Runa and Sonata… They were lost within a maze of caverns, and with enchanted torches lit up in spaces of all the walls and old drawings of creatures or whatever was always exhibited.

During their time within the caverns though, Sonata opened up more and eventually confessed to Runa about her two sisters.

"Wait… You're a Siren?" Runa gently raised a question in mixed wonder and growing excitement as Sonata nodded while unknowingly rubbing her left arm with her right, "Ya… Even though I'm smart, I tend to act out and more. I was just told by privately going to some counselors back at that school my sisters and I entered, that I have Mild ADHD… Whatever that is, and Autism."

Runa stopped and glanced at her third Soulmate in instantaneous concern as it looked like she was going to cry, and froze up when Runa was soon hugging her as Sonata sniffled as she admitted truthful things then.

Turns out that she and the others tried taking over a town and not only failed, but temporarily lost the given power before they were banished to said verse, Runa figured, from the red gems given to improve their voices to sing even more, and recently was the only one at the time to regain her singing voice back before something she refused to talk about, occurred, and even notified her what she liked and disliked, and about her friends she made.

The further they went, Runa too, admitted some things to the Siren to make them both understand that they were sorta similar to each other.

Eventually, they were confused as the duo soon arrived at a sealed doorway with Celtic Runes on the sides, a set of images of sorts to amaze them as not understood to the duo, the others were inside the caverns that the entrance was smashed open with ease, as the Boneknapper was behind them.

"What is it?" Sonata asked curiously to Runa as the dragon girl herself was trying to read it yet thanks to Deathwing, she listened to what he managed to at least translate the runes, to her, and soon replied to the Siren, "It's a message from someone who committed a wrongful crime and was sealed behind this door and separated from her lover as punishment, as they also were sealed away upon arrival to this part of the world, and the guilty still out… The other runes seem to be different writing in etching to understand someone else came back and wrote that, as the other details what crime it was, and it's not pretty… As she was also cursed as well by something weird not spoken of as an extra punishment."

Sonata only nodded before blinking as Runa glanced to her left several feet away and she clings to her at discovering a skeleton of an old Celtic Warrior clutching a box of sorts to which she plucked, and gazed more at the center of the wall to behold a jagged-like star slot around the same size as the item within her hands.

She fiddled with the box before watching it open oddly enough, matched the shape of design the old sealed door has, and agreeing for herself, placed what she learned was a key into the slot before turning it to the right… And stood back alongside the female Siren as old latches and mechanical sounds were soon heard with the door itself dropping the key and sliding outwards from the center to reveal a tunnel that was soon lit up by purplish flamed enchanted torches on the sides of the walls.

Once Runa picked up the key with Sonata following, they saw images to mystify them both with Deathwing, privately, and if you can imagine it, was drawing them down like a photograph each time in seconds, came to a sealed door as from Hiccup's small teachings of trying to get her to understand their written words, read the old etched wording aloud from the left side of the chain-sealed door. "'Beware of the entity sealed away, as they are not to be freed by orders of Chief Zalandark of the Shadowclaw Clan. Due to the crimes and the curse the entity has befallen the former land.' Well, that's not happening as I plan to open it." Runa aired at the end to herself while eyeing the odd bronze chains and dark metallic wrappings.

Before Sonata could stop her, Runa winced as she cut herself by some of the dark metal before grabbing Sonata as the chains and wrappings glowed before evaporating and turning into brief glowing dust they sneezed at, and Runa's fireball bounced by magic, down the hall behind them, and opened the door.

Inside the room, it looked to have been preserved in time to a mix of Viking and Egyptian Lore, and with them staring at a slumped, young woman around her twenties that isn't human, sealed and chained up on a wall with the Eye of Ra fully showing on the wall, and with her hanging in the center.

She is a long white-haired female with wide light-blue eyes that are frozen in feared horror alongside her delicate pointed yet round face. She also has black horns above her small pointed ears and a long black pointed tail. She looked to be at least 5'4 and wore old dull tan rags that showed some parts of her body, especially her large breasts (around an F-Cup) that were shown on her slim yet slender figure.

"Why is she like that? She's scary." Sonata confided Runa as the dragon girl herself comforted her for a brief moment and guessed by the state of the woman herself, she looked to have been tortured and cursed, as she managed to carefully examine her as Sonata stuck behind her, and saw around her nipples that they were fully inverted, and discolored to that of dark pink compared to the woman's fair colored skin, and forced tattooed markings resembling something that she barely recalled that looked to be curse tattoos in the design of the sun on the left, and a crescent moon on the right, but wasn't sure.

"Félagi Minn (My Mate) Soni," Runa proceeded gently to state without understanding the words she said, and Sonata not knowing better except inwardly happy to have a nickname, came over to the dragon girl and on opposite sides, began tugging the old bindings, "Let's get this woman down."

Not noticed to them, they were being observed from a dimly glowing orb at the farthest corner of the left side of the ceiling as they both tried yet failed to get the frozen-sealed woman out of the bindings.

"She's… She's locked tight!" Sonata let out to Runa after a few minutes of trying to free the woman and with Runa herself sighing as they moved a few steps for her to think, and glanced around the room and walls before blinking twice to confuse Sonata as she grabbed the strange key she obtained and brushed the right side of the wall the non-human woman was sealed upon and saw the same slot once again.

Determined, Runa unlocked the item once again and did the same trick as before… And soon covering her eyes alongside Sonata while wincing as they were blasted at far parts of the room, of her right arm getting cut and not perceived to her, her blood was seen to be glowing a dull-purple and back as the seals were uncovered.

The seals then dispersed one by one until the last one that looked like a symbol of Ra, vanished, and the bindings disintegrated into glowing dust as the woman fell and lay nonetheless and showing signs she was still alive, and breathing.

After struggling to get up, both teens shakily stumbled into each other before heading over to the woman, and indeed she was surprisingly alive yet deeply slumbering.

"Runa… Your wing," Sonata shortly states in the immediate concern with the dragon girl hastily keeping back a startling roar as her left-wing looked to be bruised painfully as the Siren gently brushed her hands on it, and Runa shook her head as she grunted out gently to her while shakily picking up the woman than with ease, "Nevermind that, Félagi Minn, we need… We need to get out of here with this woman and hope the others are alright."

Sonata reluctantly agreed as not understood to them, placed within the bruised wing was a small yet coated arrowed tip from an old quiver of coated arrows that Runa broke and landed on, and trudged-walked out of the room as the orb soon dimmed fully once they were out.

Speaking of Hiccup and the others, they were panting not too far as to where they were as the individual who made sure this place was held for the entity the two discovered, was fully trapped and enchanted as a wandering maze.

They were able to dodge arrows, a pendulum set of traps, pitfalls, and more thanks to the Boneknapper's presence due to the bone armor being harder than intended, and Snotlout winced while getting a small arrow out of his shirt as he was able to not get stabbed by it out of sheer dumb luck, "Geez… Talk about being over-prepared for traps."

"Ya, it's like someone wanted someone to die." Ruffnut agreed with her ignoring her twin's look of betrayal from yanking an arrow off his arm covering, and Astrid gave Hiccup a worried glance that Gobber saw as the Viking male teen himself looked contemplative.

They stilled when they noticed the Boneknapper suddenly looked excited and almost toppled them over when he proceeded to stomp-run ahead of them and make them groan before following to eventually see the dragon was licking Runa's prone form, and with her giving an irked look at a soft giggling Sonata, as she was struggling on carrying the woman by herself.

Gobber eased Sonata's small suffering by easily getting the woman over his left shoulder as to amuse everyone else, she plopped onto her behind and sighed alongside the Siren herself gazing in growing amusement like the others at watching Runa batting the dragon's maw gently in wordless order to get back, and he immediately moved clumsily as Runa got up and brushed herself off.

Hiccup and the others grew concerned although she winced with holding her head as she teetered slightly before the dragon luckily caught her by the non-spiked parts of his tail, and sooner than later, they were out thanks to the dragon himself and flying straight back to Berk.

Hiccup rolled his eyes while keeping watch of Runa as Fishlegs glanced her over by Snotlout's comment to kiss up to Gobber, then, and with Astrid hanging on like the others as best as they can along with the twins, and Sonata keeping the woman in a firm hold, at the same time, "You know, I never doubted him. I was always like: 'He's right.'"

Tuffnut disagreed while holding back a wince before replying to them all, "His tailbone is hurting my tailbone!"

Hiccup sighed with a smile before seeing Runa was alright and giving a wordless nod at Astrid, but was concerned about the developing bruises on her wings and some parts of her body as he admitted to the others, "He sure seems happy to have that bone back."

"Well, legend says that the Boneknapper's roar is its mating call." Fishlegs informed them without looking up as he saw the arrow on Runa's wing then but was afraid to pull it out to cause more damage, and Gobber huffed before saying to them then in disagreement, "Oh, that's just a myth…" they all stilled before glancing behind the Boneknapper and heard him state, 'Uh oh', as several variations of Boneknapper Dragons were shortly revealed behind them to even make Phil the Sheep within the Male Boneknapper's claws, bleat in shock.

"I think Stoick will believe me now, eh?" Gobber states unsurely to the teen Vikings as they continued to head to Berk and not comprehended them in the far distance, hundreds of miles away, a creature that was angered by the burnt area on its face from Runa's sneeze, finally caught her scent, and soon in a slow-moving mass of sorts within the water, gradually headed to Berk.

After settling down and reluctantly feeding the several Boneknappers, Runa was once again out of it within a large bed modified from her house itself within the slightly closed-off part of the hall as it seems she was not waking up, sweating and feverish, and gained a dulled look to her skin with Hiccup holding the drained arrowhead in worried thought to which Astrid simply patted his back in assurance, and the others making sure to keep snooping Vikings from listening in as Gothi was doing her best to figure things out.

The dragons themselves were also instructed to try and find a safer place for the new dragons that refused to leave.

Stoick was here as well, and was glad he firmly warned the dragon girl's mates to stay out as Runa coughed up blood a few times before whimpering unconsciously to herself in pain, as he begged Gothi then while watching her use a woolen cloth to dab the girl's forehead, "What ails her once again?"

Gothi was contemplative before she made him blink as she used her staff to write some Viking Runes and images of sorts to perplex him by her muted explanation, and Stoick responded to her accordingly, "She is suffering from the venom of sorts? Something you don't even recognize?"

Gothi nodded before touching her chin in a pose as if she was trying to think or recall something as the two teens stiffened by this and inwardly, was cursing Runa's bizarre misfortune at times at this occurring while watching Gothi from their spots nearby, wrote more Runes into the ground and Stoick sighed and glanced at Runa before gazing at his son, and gazed back to the Healer of Berk and instructed her in an ordered yet gentle tone to make her only nod as she began to look into her wears she brought, "See to it she is at least stable and comforted Gothi. Perhaps with whatever ails she will be soothed out of her system in due time."

Once Stoick left, Gothi made things awkward for the teens then as she wordlessly had them mixing raw ingredients and cleaning Runa as well to comfort the feverish dragon girl as from discovering her blood veins in clear glowing neon-blue color to worry them over, it seemed the healer herself, for once, didn't understand what to do as from what they figured, the venom was something she never encounters before.

Hiccup blushed though as they were surprised she was slowly leaking from the tips of her breasts that her outfit showed, and awkwardly placed a dampening wool cloth on the front of her chest to let that absorb, to the sad amusement of Astrid, as Gothi unexpectedly tapped her cane to get their attention as she wrote on the ground to read: I will be back with some more ingredients and a vial of Runa's Potion, and made them both blink at how fast of a wobble the old woman was as she left.

"Why do the Gods test us, Astrid?" Hiccup asked her in a way by his gaze at Runa's in-pain form, to understand he was speaking of the dragon girl in his words as she shrugged, and foreign to them, her tail curled gently around the other side of his left arm as she sat on his right, and softly let out to try and assure her boyfriend, "Not sure… It's just the way it is I guess."

"I guess-" Hiccup tried to say before they moved hastily as Runa started to convulse in her bed and tears fell further down her face upon seeing her veins were immediately glowing a sickly green, gradually, while holding her down… Or attempted to, and had to use the straps that were placed onto her bed for Runa's severe nightmares, around her wrists and ankles, quickly.

"By Thor's Hammer, Hiccup," Astrid panted out as he was equally panting as she uttered in wary-like sadness at Runa, minutes later, "Whatever is ailing her is dangerous."

Hiccup hid a wince at her words by holding the bruised part of his stomach as struggling to hold her down, which may have hit him by sheer accident. "Ya… And nothing I don't want to try again."

Astrid gave him a look before she froze to confuse him until he glanced and did a double-take at seeing it was the green cloaked man… But he wasn't alone, and he that the man was a familiar, but couldn't place as to where.

The two were surprised to see in partial fears it was Loki (Marvel Version) with his armor and sending his cloak into a storage of sorts.

"It would seem my timing was inevitable." Was all the male informed Loki who shrugged in wordless acknowledgment as he walked calmly to where Runa was struggling and inspected her carefully.

Loki held the two teens back, and soon heard the stranger mutter with a slight 'Tsk' sound of rather being mixed of both being impressed and not, and mainly expressed aloud to himself to purposely be overheard, "Indeed my arrival was surely precise, as it comes across she is suffering from the Hakumandi Venom that's been rarely concurred to force one's magic against the body, and rather baffled how long she has survived at this point."

"Can it be cured?" Loki firmly told the man to which he only got a waved-off response with not glimpsing Astrid stare at the god in utter shock from Hiccup warning her quietly who he was, as the other man responded in a way that relieved and made the two teens wary by his words, "Perhaps… I do have most of the ingredients that can easily be made to The Antidote as it has to be cooked as a seasoning, but it requires one special ingredient from an Isle far away from here that is recognized for a dragon that is greedy, and has mainly what it wants at this point. Particularly since said component it is, is rather scarce during this time… A specific edible item that requires the juice as well."

"Can she be cured?" Hiccup decided to re-ask in hope within his tone, and guessing what item the man was talking about as to make both teens see the stranger turn to him with glazed eyes briefly with surprise and more and concealed it, as he nodded once and responded with glowing hands of gold and silver, "Aye. The dragon I speak of gathered many, many riches and more from around the world itself… Even discovered secrets from it, and is currently at this point, would seek out more until what I told, would occur."

"Where is this Isle?" Astrid decided to butt in before Hiccup could to amuse both the man and the Norse God of Deceit, briefly, from remembering lost dragons have isles or so to live in thanks to Fishlegs rambling at times, and sooner than later, Hiccup was on Toothless and Astrid was on Stormfly, and Koneko was with them.

Rin decided to stay behind to try and soothe Runa the best she can, and the others alongside Sonata on babysitting duty for Runa's child within her Mansion, as the man who knowledge to dub him Aeroza, gave Hiccup a riddled map which he easily solved, to where they have been flying for the past few hours… Despite him departing in a bizarre rainbow vortex along with Loki.

Esdeath was also made in-charge alongside, to irk the other teens, Fishlegs (by Hiccup), and within the spare pouch on Hiccup's belt was an indestructible mirror of sorts Runa gave them a day before today to communicate if anything went wrong, back at home.

Sesshōmaru, although, was training within Zilanette's insistence as his ward and soon-to-be adopted child, Rin, was with Runa's child as well as they were on another Isle that was barren to practice.

Discord, to mention the Chaotic Entity, would have come but he informed them he was asked for urgently by someone he knew and would be back after the holidays, and Gothi, to speak of the healer, was healing the other woman as well to the best of her ability with Callie assisting her. Despite him wanting to truly stay, he stated he would make up for his absence to his pupil whenever he comes back.

"How much further." Koneko firmly said to them with a small wince, and they understood from what bonds were, by myths, if one was suffering, the others would slowly feel minor pains.

"From the map… Not too far off, as we're looking for a vast and dense Isle with a mountain that has a skull-like cliffside." Hiccup informed them loudly before holding on like Astrid was by their dragons swerving to the left, and all three were wide-eyed at seeing green and red bolts of lightning of sorts almost hit them yet, thankfully, missed.

Hiccup pocketed the map quickly while peering every which way to locate whatever sent those plasma-like lightning blasts, and like Astrid, settle their dragons.

They dodged another set of those very blasts to see and reveal stone-like dragons resembling that of larger Night Furies, but with glowing orange orbs and a sigil on their foreheads representing an unusual name of sorts, and proceeded to dodge and weave to avoid the stone drake's onslaught, as one was made of marble and the other made from obsidian stone.

"By the Beards of Odin and Thor! Hiccup!" Astrid shouted as they realized that whatever they were, they were not actual dragons but living yet fancy constructs empowered as one, and kept dodging left, right, and even barrel rolling to avoid the blasts and speedy attempted strikes until Koneko made a small energy-like ball, and firmly warned the Chieftain of Berk's Son, "Keep flying the Night Fury. I will handle those that are attempting to stop us."

Hiccup was about to shout out in words as to how she was going to do that before hiding a small gasp as Koneko soon revealed jagged yet thin succubi wings and slid off to only zoom speedily right at the two constructs, and rapidly got the two constructs' shared attention and started to distract them just as the Isle itself was shortly revealed.

I owe her one. Was all Hiccup thought with Astrid thinking the same thing as they were marveled alongside their dragons at how lush and forested most of the land was, the pure white beach, and indeed a blackened yet earthy mountain with the right cliff itself near the top, indeed showed a skull as if it was flame-carved into it.

"There it is." Hiccup states aloud as he guided Toothless as Astrid followed him with her dragon to the entrance that was located within the maw itself, and saw the inside was also flame-carved as well, and also many objects from Vikings and more were displayed in a way, like trophies or other.

"This place is huge, Hiccup," Astrid began from observing the surroundings and realized the entire mountain itself was possibly this drake's den, and they got off both of the Night Fury and Nadder, "How are we going to find this so-called dragon and get what we want for Runa?"

"We just gotta try." Was all he said to her as back at Berk, Runa was being forced to feed a vial while still passed out, and Rin sweating and struggling at using her energy she never revealed to the Clan, at healing Runa's wing and parts of her body she sensed was getting inflamed by the venom itself, and aiding her was Gothi as she placed the pulp she made to at least cause less stress onto Runa's forehead and collarbone area's to have partially succeeded in that outcome, but her body still twitched and wiggled.

Gothi managed to soothe the unnamed woman with ease and back, via a house-elf, within Runa's home and had some materials Dobby gave her to better aid them to possibly at least soothe his Mistress and Willing Friend/Boss.

I don't know how long I can go, but I will not fail you, Runa, as I did with Obito and Kakashi. Rin thought to herself in mixed wariness, determination, and sadness for her Soulmate as she pushed another wave of her power into Runa to prevent the dragon girl from convulsing once again.

Back with Hiccup and Astrid, they were still looking for the dragon while dodging traps for treasure thieves, surprisingly, and we're lucky to have their dragons by their sides for most of them. They even had to solve riddles and minor puzzles to advance in some parts of the large caverns, close to an hour later.

"Why would a dragon have this many traps, especially some treasure chests that are monsters!" Astrid complained while struggling to put her and Hiccup out of blue minor flames from their clothing that, thankfully and by sheer luck of the latest trap, consumed those shadowy and amber-eyed creatures that randomly came from a shadowy vortex and got away, slightly… Particularly with realizing they were not part of the traps.

"Not sure Astrid, but it has to be someone or something greedy enough to try and kill others for said treasure." Hiccup decided to respond and ignored Toothless' slight hissing chuckle alongside Stormfly as his hair was presently static-looking and was using his hands to comb it down.

Astrid didn't like the sound of that before she winced as they glanced down at her stepping without looking, a floor activator, and gazed warily like Hiccup was as both dragons sharply turned behind them before making both teens hide startled yelps after being forcibly picked up, and soon saw a large round golden boulder fell from the ceiling and started rolling towards them.

For some strange reason though, the boulder kept following them as if possessed for the last several minutes from going right or left, randomly, until Astrid pointed out a small enough gap to fit the four and not the boulder itself, "There!"

Both teens sighed with relief once the boulder smashed against the entrance they came from before blinking and being guarded as they seem to be in a larger pathway that appears fancy, and still rode their dragons as they too, were wary of sorts after catching a whiff of something further inwards at their new path as the large golden rock itself, as they left, cracked and fell apart into dozens of golden coins.

Sooner than they thought, the teens were marveled at seeing an immense trove of far more ancient and more valuable material and items, treasure, gemstones, and more, and with a very vast and immense pile within the center as the very rock of the mountain had carved dragons etched into the walls and each drake was rather strange or unusual, to say the least, and an even god-like dragon of sorts etched within the entire ceiling as well, but the very drake itself was made from red stone, mainly, and an emerald set of gemstone eyes as it was swirling in a small circle and had arms as well, and two mouths.

The entire room screams of being part of a hoarder's true trove, just like dwarfs who fell to Dragon Sickness in a specific realm.

Hiccup and Astrid cautiously got off their respective dragons from briefly noting how guarded they were, and stared at each other unsurely before they proceeded to start to look for the dragon, and oddly enough, felt they were all being scrutinized in moments.

"Where do you think this dragon would be Hiccup?" Astrid quietly asked her boyfriend as he shrugged at her wordlessly before responding to her question, and like her, trying to not cause any noise or try to at least while maneuvering around the treasure trove, "Somewhere close by I guess?

Not a moment or so too soon, Hiccup stiffened alongside Astrid and both dragons as they felt the floor rumble slightly, and stared at each other with Stormfly chittering in place at the unusual, stomach-like rocky groans coming from everywhere.

"Please tell me that's not you." Hiccup referred to Toothless as said male Night Fury looked appalled to briefly make Astrid try not to laugh before they all sharply turned at the center of the treasure horde that was the largest as gems, coins, and more started to gradually tumble down and rise, and was making the four back up with realizing one thing: The dragon was within that large pile. And it was.

Massive wings they didn't glimpse revealed themselves with them dodging treasure here and there, alongside a thick yet massive tail that Astrid grabbed Hiccup before he got smashed by it, as it landed with a heavy thud and showed to be agitated and still dodged before hiding behind a wrecked Viking boat to fully reveal the drake itself.

It was a massive rugged, and rocky scale just like a set of spiked plate armor, a dark red colored dragon with having devilish dull-golden horns on the sides, massive wings, and a thick yet long tail with the tips of the wings having ivory tips similar to a sinister arrowhead, and yellowish or closer to topaz draconian eyes that belonged to a face and muzzle that was feminine yet relation to one particular dragon within a realm where the one ring rules all.

The drake shook its head of the remaining loose treasure as it clattered effortlessly onto the rocky pathed ground, and placed its two front clawed feet heavily to the point both Hiccup and Astrid had to steady themselves by their dragons as the red drake snarled at them with a brief look of irritation mixed with annoyance, and hints of growing anger, if the obvious brief glow of the eyes had anything to say, and roared at them.

They were startled though that the dragon itself, after roaring, began to speak right at them in accusation, "Intruders! Stealers of my trove! Dragon Killers! I have enough of those that I take from my collection, or to kill that of greater value!" They couldn't tell if it was a male or female by the voice the drake has.

The dragon blinked in secretive and personal shock only both dragons saw while guarding them, after smelling their scent of something familiar, and yet, was for once puzzled by the dragon's actions.

Hiccup and Astrid, however, jumped in place as the dragon breathed out at them in a hot and heated and not fiery breath before firmly interrogating them, and making sure to block their escape, "Why have you come here?"

Getting no response for a moment or two, the drake made Hiccup jump with Toothless growling at the dragon in sharp warning alongside Stormfly chittering softly when Astrid fell on her behind from the drake's impatience, "Speak!"

Gulping while becoming determined, Hiccup unknowingly made the red drake back slightly by one step in surprise by what he said, "We… We came for something that can cure some venom of its victims called Hakumandi, by a strange man confessing to us you have it."

The two Viking teens saw the red drake look contemplative before gazing at them in mixed firmness and unseen intrigue for once, as normally when the dragon encounters mortals… They end up either eaten, burned, or worse. "The person… It wouldn't be a man with a bizarre tongue at times and is cryptic, and comes from a portal of rainbows?"

The two teens blinked with their dragons calming down at sensing the threat has passed and with the red drake peering at Astrid firstly by her single reply before returning her gaze to Hiccup, "Yes."

"It appears my judgement is rather sharp these long, long days of my existence." The red drake told them before looking reluctantly then and firmly instructed them, as they dodged the drake's tail and widened their eyes at eyeing the dragon touching the wall that had a sigil looking similar to a rose, and declared firmly in a way it wasn't a request but an order, "Follow me."

Warily following the dragon after it revealed a tunnel going downwards, were rather shocked to see a massive yet strangely colored tree of sorts within an even more immense underground cavern with a gentle yet large waterfall off to the right side and the immense tree was filled with blue colored heart-shaped fruit around the size of a grapefruit with red and black checkered stems with delicate swirls also representing a heart on both sides, and the tree itself was ebony-black oak-like colored and structured bark with hints of neon-green zigzag patterns randomly around it. Around the walls beside the waterfall, however, were smaller trees with various other fruits and different types of bark, and more.

"These are my few prized possessions I rarely give out to humans itself, and I truly mean I never give them up as those that have tried stealing it… Ended up within the Land of Death." The drake started to convey them with a small winged gesture to make the two teens gulp at beholding several remains of Viking or Celtic bones in the water, even other cultures as well adorned in a way, they died in terror, "Only a select few rare fools who desired the Tree of Power, would succeed in their payment to me of their most valuable assets or more, as my personal goal of my long life, is to gather and collect until I feel complete. Many have raided my den although, and always failed or bargained to live, and I mainly lay waste to their homeland and steal what is mine by right."

The red drake then, without warning, knocked back the two dragons that followed and snatched the two Viking teens within the tail it had, and they were soon face-to-face with the large dragon. "So clarify this dragon's worth: Why should I spare your lives and grant you a single fruit of the Tree of Power?"

Recalling Runa and her condition, the red drake for once in a long time saw something that has, inwardly, pique her uttered curiosity when Hiccup told her off and Astrid, while she was forced to be her true self by the dragon's abrupt actions, to which this secretly surprised the red drake for only a sheer second, sharply glared at the male teen. "I don't plan to use whatever the fruit does for personal gain, but to heal someone we both consider a sister to us! So if you want to roast us, go ahead… We will just haunt you for days on end."

Astrid was inwardly alarmed by her boyfriend's actions before being startled like Hiccup was as they heard hissing at first from the red drake before they saw the dragon to even astonish the two alongside Toothless and Stormfly, at beholding the red drake roaring in unexpected laughter at them while placing the two teens down with little care a few inches off the ground.

After a few moments, the red drake got ahold of things and shook its massive head and informed them in brief honesty, and rarely being impressed, and also poked the teen male lightly at the chest area to knock him down, with a sharp-toothed and maw-like grin, "Rarely I am impressed with mortals as I expressed, and by your tongue, you speak, and even the smell of the scents alongside the eyes to your soul be the very truth… Very well."

The red drake they witnessed, kicked the tree slightly and used its tail to catch a plump-looking version of all the fruit, and forcibly placed it within the blonde teen's hands, and perplexed them at seeing the drake roaring for nothing upwards to the ceiling.

Outside the mountains and somewhat close to the entrance, Koneko was battered and bruised, and virtually spent and prepared herself for death by the constructs before pausing in place at not being crisped yet.

Once she looked, she blinked with her being perplexed by catching a glimpse of the sigils glow and the constructs dismissed their flames, sharply turned, and flew easily right into the maw of the entrance and further inward as the Nekotama herself dismissed her wings and shook her head yet fainted from exhaustion.

Back within the caves and where the Tree of Power is, the red drake gazed at both teens and confidentially was amused by their faces of sorts they made by the words themselves, "I dismissed the two draconian constructs that I felt were facing something quite familiar to thyself, of what I have encountered over the centuries of my existence… But there is a minor price for the fruit I am bestowing with you, two flimsy mortals."

"What do you mean payment? I thought you were going to bestow it to us?" Hiccup tells the red drake in a tone to realize that he didn't understand, and only made the red drake let out a brief chuckle with minor smoke briefly emitting from the nostrils, and shook its large head in a wordless 'No' before explaining to both of them and the two rideable dragons, in moments, "This fruit I positioned upon yours from the Tree of Power is potent enough for either Good or Evil to use to their benefit, by means to either Balance or Destruction. To leave with this fruit, a bargain must be struck by those involved, that is… Beneficial for me."

Noticing something flicker within the red drake's orbs in moments of an instant idea, from discerning the line of those two as soulmates and recalling a particular man's fortune to the drake, startled them with them being bewildered as by the minor burst of flames from the maw, conjured a golden contract that floated in midair and moved to both teens.

Hiccup felt a familiar wave of Déjà vu once again by this unexpected outcome and with Astrid being perplexed and ignored her boyfriend's obvious sign to wordlessly tell her to 'Stop' by hand motions as she amused the red drake by her declaration, and their dragons sitting down with understanding there wasn't a threat at this moment, "By the Gods… You're making us sign a contract?"

"Precisely, as I have not always been a dragon, but fully cursed as one by blood and more. This agreement will ensure that something worth my interest in forthcoming things to come will satisfy… Let's say upon you mortals, a marvelous occasional moment, and leave it be, and from what I foresee as to your predicament with your younger sister by magic," at that the two teens were wide-eyed from the drake knowing that with her perplexing them as she has easily torn off one of her scales as it glowed and changed into a scaled ruby-like gemstone in the shape of a heart alongside a writing utensil to possibly sign the contract with, and finished speaking as the gemstone and utensil landed in Hiccup's hands, "Would also benefit me once I am free."

Wary by what the red drake meant, and how strange the language was as not realized to them, it was written by demonic runes mixed with kanji's version of Japanese, reluctantly signed both their names on the spot to endorse it without noticing a glint in the red drake's orbs as the contract instantly curled around itself, and turned into a crystal orb that was soon flying out of the chamber and into the drake's secret contract storage area.

"Now you may take the fruit with you. It is the juice that must be consumed primarily for what you desire, as the meat of it must be cooked by plasma flames to finish the healing process in consumption, and the seed… Do with what you wish, as my tree is the last of its kind and I grew it with blood and magic to make it this vast size." The red drake instructs them in a way of teaching while leading them back to the true trove, paused mid-step before adding more as Hiccup and Astrid were about to get on their dragons, "We will meet again in due course, but for the girl… Runa… I have a feeling things will be most interesting here on out."

After those words, the red drake was positioning itself back within the trove to rest, "My Scale Gem is for her only… I rarely bestow mortals anything off my bodily form, but it seems that it will benefit for future outcomes to occur. Now… GO!" The red drake roared out lastly to startle the four as they took off seeing they were being led by the constructs for the exit of this mountain, and the red drake snorted at their actions.

The red drake was about to close its eyes before snarling at the next intruder to only blink, sigh, and complain to the smirking man who revealed himself, "It's only you, Immortal One."

"Yes, and I knew that you would make the right choice, as after all… You, your kin and allies deemed friends would rather have had a fit if you didn't do as you have done," the man, Aeroza, told it to make the red drake snort and reply without bite as after all, it was him that made her, yes her, this very Isle, after all, to hold her riches and more, "Indeed… But why have you entered if you have seen my actions in my lair once again?"

Aeroza only smiled while opening the wavy cloak he had on his clothing to widen her draconian eyes as he produced and held a few eggs she sensed by a familiar smell, told him in one-worded shock, "How?"

"It wasn't easy to obtain them without a price involved, as their bodies were with their spirits. So I had to aid in their resurrection with an agreement made to only be considered Half of what they originally were as a race and from your blood… Half-Drake, and Half-Demon of their kind with you as their mother." He paused while placing the last few eggs down to make the red drake herself for once to show brief sadness within those eyes of hers while mentioning her name and more, "Your daughter was sealed away somewhere as you recall all your secretive searching for her? It is because she is sealed into an object to which I have no further clue as to what it is."

Once he stood up, she blinked before groaning by him smirking back at her when he brought out a swirling crystal orb or otherwise known as a Message Orb, and told her then, "This contains a few messages of both sides of your birthing, Lady Zentreya, and for your lover… I haven't heard of her yet but there are rumors of her ending up being cursed as well, and like you all those years ago, sent to a random place with unfortunate outcomes, otherwise… You too would have felt the Strained Bonding."

Zentreya growled to herself at this before if she could pale to herself as he made a rainbow vortex to easily leave, informed her lastly with a brief chuckle afterward, "I modified that treaty for some interesting future events between you and those two teens to include Lady Runa Potter: Daughter of Ophis, as such, and hope that you could handle things as in a few years or so… You shall soon see."

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Back within Berk, an hour later, things are gradually going worse for Runa as random Vikings were holding her down Rin was tired out and doing her best to use the remaining energy or Chakra she had, to calm her Soulmate's body down as she was having a convulsing stroke.

"Keep her steady! They should be back anytime!" Rin orders the volunteer Vikings with Stoick and Gothi looking unsure, with them wincing as Runa's tail sends Sam the Brave into a wall, and making an actual dent as he chuckled before passing out, as it seems she wouldn't last much longer.

Hope was brought to Rin's thumping heart by overhearing a Viking messenger while trying to gasp a breath of sending too much Healing Chakra at once, once again, into Runa by hearing Hiccup and the other two females have returned.

Sooner than later, and with the aid of Gothi, and Callie as all this time she was sent to fetch materials from a few islands for the old medical Viking Woman until now (and forgot to mention it), and a nearly spent Rin with the other Viking teens themselves watching, gently forced Runa into drinking the misty-looking yet lavender-colored juice into her mouth, and Koneko and Sonata holding the girl easily in place from her minor convulsions… And saw Runa immediately slump and relax as the detailed blood veins were going away alongside the bruises as well.

Esdeath was on babysitting duty with Serena and Rin back within the Mansion, as to why they were not there as well, and Sonata making food for them all with the aid of Dobby, in the place.

"She's finally stable," Rin announced loudly in comfort and to make the others look relieved before blinking at seeing a familiar sigil show near the doors and Ophis materialized, and to amuse them, Discord was with her as well and being held by his left ear as she calmly walked over with a stare they all were wary over, and let the draconequus go and with him glaring at the Nothing Dragon before rubbing his poor ear as she felt her child's forehead.

After several moments, Ophis glanced at Stoick and calmly told him to relax everyone then, and made the Leader of Berk partially relieved, "It seems that I am partially indebted to you and your offspring, Chieftain. My child was in agony that I had no chance to come to aid, due to… Circumstances within places unforetold, and the Draconequus of Chaos failed to inform me until after things were settled."

Hiccup and Astrid were the only ones to get a hint and were suspicious of that, but said nothing as she sharply swerved to the teen himself and asked firmly at smelling the few rarest fruits in existence, "How do you come by The Tree?"

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On a far-off Isle with ice and snow, 2,375 miles away from Berk:

A cloaked person was shifting through the blowing snow within the storm provided and scowled while covering their hood at the place the meeting was to take place, and finally found the bones formed in a way, to a large hut of sorts and entered it.

Once inside, the person saw it was already settled into a place for the meeting to take place, and perfectly warm as well when the furred hood came off, it was to reveal the person was a medium-sized man with green cat-like eyes, and dark-ivory and brown mixed hair that was up to his neck with a few fringes on the sides, a delicate-looking face with his right cheek having a Viking Rune labeled as "Soldier" and wore mostly a dull-silvery gothic choker with it having a demonic cross and a blue-diamond gemstone in the center.

"So you arrived at last, I have been waiting for three days for the news of your master." A voice started to the man as he gazed at him, but this man was fully black-cloaked and was drinking red wine from a bottle, and wordlessly sat next to him and refused the offered bottle, and caused the cloaked man to simply shrug.

"Despite my assignment, I was told to seek you out to better suit this task of someone who also wants my target not around." The man only stated in a voice that was, oddly enough, similar to Aizen from BLEACH, and the cloaked male pointed with a brief laugh and told him then with a hidden smirk under the hood, "So Ol' Demonic Drake sends one of his lackeys to possibly finish off a target? Eh? Well," here the cloaked person slammed his bottle not hard enough to break it but make a point on the table and gestures to the man, "Aye can aid ya, but not that way of thinkin' to death. Reasons being I can guess your target is rather interesting and valuable to boot? I can get ya something to maybe delay things, but… It's gonna cost ya." At the end of his words, the cloaked male crossed his legs onto the long table and placed his arms behind his head to mockingly relax.

The cloaked male raised an eyebrow to himself as the man grabbed a large pouch from his robe that was of golden doubloons and tossed them near his left foot, and the cloaked male, in turn, checked and saw it was legit to tell him then with glowing amber orbs, "It's a deal then."