Chapter one
DRAGON!
A few minutes ago, two individuals were sliding through a dark tunnel called The Vortex. The individuals in question were called Burpy Flame, and Joules Tesla, they were best friends and, surprisingly, weren't really human. Burpy was a half Time Lord, half Slug from Slugterra (a hidden world beneath your feet), and Joules was a half human, half slug. Burpy was wearing: an orange T-shirt, orange flared jeans, with red and yellow fire symbols creeping out of the bases of the legs, his pale yellow long coat, with fire symbols along the front and back, in red orange and gold colours, with its hood on the back with yellow markings and makeshift antenna, and in his coat pocket was a red and yellow mask, again with fire symbols in gold, he also had mad ginger hair, tan skin and red irises. Joules was wearing a blue T-shirt with three yellow spots on the front, a blue suit jacket, light blue trousers, and red and white sneakers.
They had just met a group of people who had helped them out in London and Glasgow, they were Yasmin, Ryan, Graham, and a Time Lord called The Doctor, (read Who's Who, to find out how it went). And were now trying to get back to Slugterra through this Vortex, except it wasn't very reliable. They were talking about the cause of all this trouble at that moment.
"Who do you think it was that was under that hood Burpy?" Asked Joules, Who was holding tightly to Burpy's hand in order to exit The Vortex at the same time as him.
"Whoever it was will pay when we get back!" Shouted back Burpy, he then noticed even more colours dancing around them, and these colours were merging into shapes; one looked like a small green reptile with wings, another looked like two young children, and another looked like an old lady, holding a sword! He then noticed that the light at the end of the tunnel was getting closer, "BRACE FOR IMPACT!" Burpy cried as they fell into the light.
After a while, the white light faded and revealed a countryside view, they were on a rocky cliff face, there was a cave behind them. A cold wind blew, and it was icy, it must be winter. Joules was rather put out,
"Where are we, Burpy?" He whispered, Burpy wasn't fazed by this sight, not even the sight of the water hundreds of feet beneath them, crashing on rocks as sharp as knives.
"Ok Joules," Burpy said "I don't know where we are, but it definitely isn't Slugterra." Then they heard a sniff come from the cave behind them, it sounded like someone was crying in there! Without waiting for Joules, Burpy ran into the cave entrance, he ignited his hand to act as a light, and kept going until the sniffs were very close, Joules rushed up to Burpy, he was exhausted,
"Don't leave me like that!" He complained between breaths, "I am still working out how this body works!"
"Shhhhh!" Burpy hushed, And then he called out "is there anyone there?!" There was no answer, they walked around for a bit until Joules sparked like crazy and leapt back,
"What is it?!" Burpy asked, and then saw that Joules had stepped in a puddle of water, Joules must have reacted like that due to him being an electrical entity, but the puddle seemed to be coming from a small green rock that was sitting on a shelf of the cave, the water was literally coming out of the green rock! Then, the rock shook, and uncurled, it wasn't a rock at all! It was a DRAGON! It was the green reptile that Burpy had seen in The Vortex! The dragon hissed and growled at them, but didn't seem to be angry, due to the tears flowing from its eyes.
Joules had jumped backwards when he realised what it was, sparks flew from his hands, and said to the dragon in a shaky voice,
"Don't try anything!" The dragon stopped crying and looked at Joules in something like puzzlement, it hissed and growled again, but still didn't seem to be angry, and when it opened its mouth, Burpy saw that it didn't have any teeth at all! Then a voice called out behind them,
"Toothless!" Shouted the voice, it sounded like a girls voice, "where are you? I saw you fly in here." And then an old woman with wild hair stepped into the light cast by Burpy's hand. She seemed surprised to see the two with this dragon, but instead of backing away from it, she smiled at it, "there you are!" She said, and then said something that sounded like this "est ta belly-scream?". The dragon seemed to understand, but shook its head, "me isna belly-scream tow, yow ava drip-drops ipps ta peepers!" The dragon sniffed, and hissed and grumbled at the girl, who had sat down next to it, they seemed to have forgotten that Burpy and Joules were there, then the old woman turned to them and said in a kind, normal voice, "who are you?"
"Burpy Flame," Burpy responded, and then gestured to Joules, "And this is Joules Tesla, who are you and who is that?" He asked, indicating the dragon. The old woman looked at the dragon and then turned back to Burpy,
"My name," she said grandly, "is Camicazi, and this," she said indicating the dragon, "is Toothless Horrendous Haddock, the most disobedient dragon in the inner isles." The dragon looked rather pleased at this, though it was still crying slightly.
"Why is he crying?" Asked Joules, "I thought that dragons didn't cry." The dragon called Toothless hissed at him after he said this, Camicazi then said,
"He just said that dragons don't cry and that they they are heartless and have no mercy, but I have seen him put his life on the line for his owner…" she then trailed off and a single tear fell from the corner of her eye. Burpy was standing amazed, not at how Camicazi was able to understand Toothless, but that he had heard what Toothless said as well! But one thing at a time, he told himself, something must have happened to this owner, and he was content to find out,
"Who was his owner?" He asked, Camicazi seemed shocked at this,
"Are you new here?" She asked, "because everyone in the inner isles know who Hiccup was!" Joules then let everything out, he couldn't keep it in any longer, he told them all about Slugterra, The Doctor, him and Burpy, but he had to let Burpy take over to explain what happened in Paris (read The Miraculous Origins), when they mentioned that they were from a different universe, Camicazi seemed to understand, and then said, "Well that explains how you don't know about Hiccup," And then took a deep breath, and started explaining, "well, Hiccup was my best friend and the last King of the Wilderwest. He made a pact with a monstrous sea dragon called Furious, and now all the dragons are disappearing, every dragon apart from Toothless, who was Hiccups hunting dragon,"
"But what happened to Hiccup?" Burpy asked, guessing what was coming,
"He died last night, old age, we just held his funeral." Camicazi tearily explained, Toothless meanwhile was crying again.
After a lot of tears were shed, they all walked out of the cave which Camicazi called the Dragon Nursery, and climbed down towards the village that was a little way off, Toothless, now no longer crying, kept trying to talk to Burpy and Joules, Burpy was still astonished that he could understand Toothless, and then revealed to the group that he could, they were flabbergasted!
"I guess it's a Time Lord thing?" Joules guessed, sounding rather jealous,
"I guess so…" Burpy said, they were getting closer to the village now and they could see two children playing outside, these were the children from The Vortex too. One was a girl with her light brownish-auburn hair pulled into two banded pigtails under a studded sort of band, partly hidden by her fringe. She also wore a sleeveless tunic in a greyish or dark blue or green colour, a large red sash, a reddish-brown leather skirt with blunt metal studs, olive green cloth bracers with fur cuffs on her forearms, sets of leather bands around her biceps, green beaded shoulder pads, and a small green pouch on her belt. She also wore a small red bag over her shoulder that has a print of a dragon's head on it.
The boy with her had a thin and lanky body with sand-like blonde shaggy hair and green eyes. He had a few small braids in the back of his hair. He wore a light tan long-sleeved shirt with a decorative lining on the end of his sleeve. He also wore a necklace that is set with three sharp teeth. He also wore a belt with a buckle shaped like a dragon's head. He also had a hilt that seemed to contain a knife or a toy sword. The knife/sword was colourful, having lime green parts and is striped with orange and purple.
"Nuffink! Zephyr! Come over here!" called out Camicazi to the children, they rushed over to them, looking rather confused at Burpy and Joules, "Burpy, Joules, these are my grandchildren; Nuffink and Zephyr." She then turned to the children, "Nuffink, Zephyr, these are some new friends of mine and Toothless, Burpy and Joules" the girl, Zephyr, stepped forward and said in a calm voice to Burpy,
"I have heard of you before,", this shocked Burpy, how could she have heard of him? He had only just arrived in the realm! "the metal man over there asked about you…"
"METAL MAN!" screamed Burpy and Joules at the same time, they ran in the direction Zephyr had pointed and saw, in the middle of the village, a tall man covered in metal. It had a gun on its wrist and was aiming at Burpy! Before it could shoot, Burpy focused a fireball into his hand and threw it at the man, the fireball was completely ineffective, it shot at Burpy and hit him right in the chest, throwing him to the ground! Joules ran at the man, and as he collided, he turned into a single bolt of lightning and went into the metal suit, causing the whole thing to explode, Joules then flew out and landed on the ground beside Burpy, who was gasping for breath.