A.N. Sorry for the late update I have no excuse, except that school is killing me slowly. Is it to late to become Screaming death food.
"And that's how Snotlout kissed Fungus." Hiccup said, finishing the story. Aliyah laughed as recalled how Snotlout bullied him and how Rush ended up tricking the little brat into kissing Mildew's sheep. She couldn't understand why the other kids Hiccup's age always gave him a hard time. Maybe they were jealous or maybe they were just plain rude, she really didn't get why. What she did know was that Hiccup was in a similar position the a good old friend of hers, one who was ostracized by his clan and as result, made a decision that he had always regretted, and if she could keep Hiccup from making the same mistake, then she would consider that as payback to her old friend for all he did for her.
"Now it's your turn." Hiccup told her. Hiccup starred at the girl in purple scale clothes. Aliyah and Hiccup had always took turns telling each other stories or funny stuff that happen during the day. Aliyah for the most of it, used to tell him stories of faraway lands, where people caused fire to explode in the skies or places where people flew and sailed and lived life with nothing but the sea and sky directing them. Some stories seemed more unbelievable than others such as those that had ships sailing through the sky, others he could believe like those about special dragons that had never been seen on Berk. He remembered a story about the dragon that slept near the bottom of the sea, a dragon that could cause whirlpools that could swallow ships whole. All these stories made him wonder, if the raids had stopped on Berk, could he go out and explore the world beyond and become a hero like those in her stories.
"Hmmmm….. okay, How about I tell you the story about the Star chaser dragon?" She asked him.
"The Star Chaser?" Hiccup asked, his voice not betraying how intrigued he was by the dragon.
"The Star Chaser. It is one of the fastest, if not the fastest dragon to ever lived." She said.
"Faster than the night fury?" He asked.
"Mmmmhm… Its faster than the night fury but it isn't quite as powerful as the unholy offspring. Whereas the Night fury could hit speeds around the sound barrier, the Star chaser could break the barrier with relative ease. However, the Star Chaser has a relatively weak fire breath. Don't underestimate it though, because while it may not have a blast like the night fury's plasma blast, it does have the sonic boom.
"Sonic boom?"
"When the dragon shatters the sound barrier it also releases a powerful shockwave. When done in the air, the shockwave sound like an explosion, but that's the safest place to do it. If a sonic boom happened anywhere on land or the sea, the resulting shockwave could tear up almost everything in the area."
"It must have to flap its wings a million times a second to get to that kind of speed." Hiccup thought out loud.
"Actually, it reaches that fast because of its tail."
"Wait so it flaps its tail?" Hiccup asked, feeling confused about the dragon's method of flight.
Aliyah giggled a bit at his question. "No silly. Its shoots fire out of its tail."
"So like one of those singetail dragons you've told me about the other day." Hiccup said.
"No…..Yes….The Star Chaser is like a singetail, in the sense it can shoot fire from its tail, but the fire it shoots is not to attack its enemies. The Star chaser uses its tail fire to help it fly faster." Aliyah explained.
"How?" Hiccup asked.
"That's… kind of hard to explain actually. Rush might actually know more about the dragon's…. abilities than me. The problem is that unless you see the dragon in action. It's kind of hard to actually explain how it flies or uses the abilities it has. What I can say is that the dragon is a unique dragon. As far as I know there is only one in existence for as far as I know."
"Were they all killed or something?" Hiccup pondered.
"What's with all the questions? You sound like Fishlegs." She chuckled while rubbing his hair. "But to answer your question. The dragon is a hybrid, plain and simple as that. And before you ask, a hybrid is being born from two different species of dragons. Think of a monsterous nightmare marrying a deadly nadder."
"A nightmare; with a nadder, I don't think that work out, the nadder might get irritated of with nightmare's hot headedness." Hiccup joked.
"Kind of like Snotlout trying to get with Astrid." Aliyah added.
"Yeah, exactly like that, except nightmares have better chances. Like 100 times better."
Aliyah and Hiccup continued to laugh at the fact that dragons were better at getting a date than Snotlout, when Aliyah spotted the silhouette of a dragon flying over the forests in Berk. She looked more carefully to it, only to realise which dragon it was. 'Oh no; what did they do this time?' She thought.
Elsewhere in the forest, Rush and the Knapper rider were going head to head, bone fist to armoured fist. Rush had easily sidestepped a blow from the rider, manoeuvring himself behind the rider, and pushing the bone covered warrior forward, throwing him off balance. The rider struggled to keep his balance only for Rush to round house kick him into a tree, tilting the tree ever so slightly. The rider recovered shortly after, clutching his side. He stared Rush down, "This time. I'll beat you this time." The rider said.
The rider shook his hands and a set of three claws emerged from each hand. Rush merely taunted the rider with a 'Bring it on' style gesture. The ride lunged at Rush trying to strike him with his claws. Rush however narrowly avoided most of the attacks and parried whatever attacks nearly did strike him. However Rush tripped on a tree branch, losing his footing in a brief moment. A moment that the rider only needed, as he uppercut Rush into next week. Rush fell flat on his back as the rider approached him, "Ready to give up?" the rider asked.
"That depends, are you going to look up?" Rush countered.
"Look? Up?" The rider said as he took a quick glance up to see what Rush was planning. A big mistake, considering that when he brought his eyes back to Rush a patch of dirt flew straight into his mask and into his eyes. The rider winced as his eyes burned frim having the dust in it. Rush took this as moment and struck the rider with two hooks, knocking the jaw of the skull mask the rider was wearing straight off his face. The rider staggered back dizzy but not out. He tried slashing at Rush with his claws in a haphazard manner hoping to injure the hooded warrior, but all he struck was air. Finally rush raced up and grabbed him by the chest, a familiar glow and heat were starting to buil in Rush's hand.
"Shouldn't have looked up?" Rush said, as the fire ball from his hands released a short explosion on the riders chest throwing him to the ground, hitting his head against a rock. Rush looked at him with a stupefied look.
"You blow up his chest and it's a rock that knocks him out." A familiar voice called. Rush turned to see Aliyah with a dragon covered in dragon bones, a Bone knapper.
"I know. What a let-down." Rush added.
"Cut him some slack, Rush. According to his dragon he may need your help." Aliyah stated as she removed her hand from on the back of the dragon's head. The dragon race up to its rider and nudged him ever so slightly, when it realised its rider was not responding it quickly turned its gaze towards Rush, its eyes becoming slits. It roared in anger for its rider, a roar that would have been more threatening if any sound actually came out. Aliyah reached out and pinched the dragon's sweet spot, effectively causing it to go into a blissful sleep state.
"Like rider, like dragon." Rush stated as he looked at the two. "Now if only they would send us a message in advance that their coming rather than show up, that would make thing a lot better. For one we would have to worry less about vikings actually discovering that the bone knapper is real and adding it to their kill list.
"Yeah about we might have a problem." Aliyah said sounding slightly nervous.
"What kind of problem?" Rush asked.
"Um.. Stoic may be searching through the forest for a terrible terror that flew passed Hiccup's room." Aliyah said. As if on cue they heard footsteps.
A loud voice filled the air, "Now I've got you, you miserable devil."
So sorry if it's short. I'll try to be quicker and longer next time.
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