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Wow so it's my turn now, first of all I want to say Thank you Dawnbreaker Dragon for helping me with this chapter and for making my idea work while leaving it open for others to put there touch on it. And thank you MLP: FIM for the inspiration. Enjoy the chapter.
The Viking teens all waited for Hiccup and Toothless to arrive at the Berk Dragon Training academy to start with today's training, but the duo didn't show up. Normally those two would be the first ones there, but it's already been a full hour and still he hasn't shown up. So they decided to check up on Hiccup's house thinking he's still there.
"Do you think Hiccups ill today?" Fishlegs asked a little worried for his friend. "I don't think so" Astrid answered. "But he was pretty shaken up yesterday from that fall and from what he read in that astronomy book he got from Trader Johan." "A book scared Hiccup?" Tuffnut asked confused. "No you idiot, It's something he read in it" Ruffnut said punching her twin brother in the face. "I wouldn't say scared, more like paranoid" Astrid then said. "So what did this book say that got him all par… it…toid… whatever you just said?" Snotloud asked.
"It's paranoid Snotloud!" Astrid corrected Snotloud. "And all it said something about the moon being really bright and a warning from Odin" "That's all it said?" Snotloud asked kind of a bit annoyed. "Hey I'm not the one that read the book" Astrid protested. "Well were here" Fishlegs said noticing they've arrived in front of Hiccup's house. "Let's see if Hiccup's alright" Astrid said as she was about to knock on the door, but suddenly it opened, revealing a really worried Stoick.
"Astrid! Thank Thor I ran into you" Stoick said obviously happy to see Astrid and the rest of Hiccup's friends. "What's the matter chief? Is Hiccup alright?" Astrid asked a bit worried. "Is this Paranoid thing contagious?" Snotloud asked backing away a bit scared. Astrid punched Snotloud in the face for his idiot remark. "He left early this morning leaving only this note" Stoick said as he handed Astrid the note.
"Dad, me and Toothless are leaving for a bit. I have a bad feeling that something will happen to him. Will be back soon, hopefully." Astrid said reading Hiccup's letter aloud. "Is something going on that I don't know about?" Stoick then asked concerned for his son and his dragon. The next few minutes Astrid explained to the chief what had happened yesterday. "Is that all Astrid?" the chief then asked. "Yes sir, whatever got him paranoid I'm guessing it's got something to do with that book." Astrid answered.
"Then I want you all to find Hiccup and help him, If there is something going on, he's going to need all the help he's gonna get" the chief then ordered the teen. "You can count on us chief! Will make sure no book harms your son again!" Tuffnut said in response. Ruffnut kicked her brother in the knee caps for that remark. "Ouch!" Tuffnut yelled in pain. This was going to be a long day.
The sun was beginning to set at Hiccup and Toothless arrived at an island with nothing but trees and no signs of life on it other than the birds, deer, and the occasional Terrible Terrors. "This looks like a good place to camp for the night" Hiccup said as Toothless landed near the beach. Hiccup then dismounted his Night Fury and began setting up camp before the sun was gone from the sky.
Toothless laid peacefully with Hiccup leaning on his side, cooking his fish on the fire while watching the sky grow darker. He was kind of afraid to see the moon again after yesterday's dream and something else he read about the moon, a poem of some sort.
Ask not the sun why she sets
Why she shrouds her light away
Or why she hides her glowing gaze
When night turns crimson gold to grey
For silent falls the guilty sun
As day to dark does turn
One simple truth she dare not speak:
Her light can only blind and burn
No mercy for the guilty
Bring down their lying sun
Blood so silver black by night
Upon their faces pale white
Cruel moon, bring the end
The Dawn will never rise again
The poem sounded beautiful yet very disturbing, particularly the part when it talks about the moon will bring the end and the dawn will never rise again. Just what does it mean? How can the moon bring the end, and more importantly the end of what exactly? The only way to get the answer is to find out where the book he got original came from. Luckily he ran into trader Johan while he was flying and he told him got the book from someone who came from Ireland. It is a long trip to Ireland but on the back of his dragon he'll get there in no time.
Soon enough the moon began to rise over the horizon only it was half-moon this time but it was still shining really brightly. As it was slowly rising into the night sky Toothless suddenly jolted up, almost making Hiccup fall in the process and just stared at the moon for a brief moment. "Hey Toothless what's the matter bud?" Hiccup asked kind of worried.
Then the Night fury began backing away from the moon as if he was afraid of it for some reason. "Toothless what's wrong?" Hiccup asked again this time really worried. That's when something even weirder happened. Strange silver colored lunar design markings started to appear all over the Night Fury's body, and they are glowing just like the moon. As beautiful as they looked, it was not natural.
"Toothless, what's happening to you?" Hiccup asked now really confused and scared for his friend. Toothless looked all over his body noticing all the marking that appeared all over and then looked at his rider/friend who looked really freaked out, he didn't blame him. The dragon then began shaking uncontrollably as if he was in pain. "Toothless, are you all right? What's going on?" Hiccup asked afraid for his dragon.
When Hiccup moved in closer, Toothless started to growl a Hiccup as if he was saying back off. "Toothless let me help you" Hiccup then said holding out his hand. But the Night Fury just backed away and then ran off into the forest. "Toothless!" Hiccup yelled as he followed after his dragon.
Poor Toothless was really scared, more scared then when he first meet the Red Death. Something about the moon was wrong, and for some reason it seemed to be calling to him. He had to get away, far away from the moon.
At that moment something hit Toothless and he stumbled and feel. He tried to get up only to find himself caught in a net of some sort. "Toothless!" Hiccup yelled as he finally caught up with his dragon, only to find him trapped in a net. "Hang in there bud, I'll get you out!" Hiccup yelled as he quickly got his knife out and attempted to cut Toothless free, but stopped when he felt a sword poking him in the back.
"Steep away from the Lunar Dragon boy!" a strange voice said. Hiccup slowly turned around and saw a strange figure in black robes with silver lunar patterns all over them and a hood covering the stranger's face but grudging from the voice he was defiantly male. And there were for more figures right behind him all wearing the same robs with their hoods covering their faces (there robs are just like Organization 13's cloaks only with lunar patterns all over)
"Who are you?" Hiccup asked a little scared. "That is none of your concern boy" The hooded figure with his sword pointing at Hiccup said. "Now step aside boy, this lunar dragon is of great importance to us!" "Lunar dragon? Toothless is a Night Fury" Hiccup said. That's when one of the other figures came up and slapped Hiccup in the face really hard causing him to fall to the ground. "You dare give one of Diana's children's a ridiculous name?" the 2nd figure said very angrily, this one was male too, only he sounded younger. Toothless was about to jump on that figure for hurting his human but the net prevented him, in fact it shocked him when he tried to escape. "Toothless!" Hiccup yelled as he crawled towards his dragon.
"Wait a minute, is that a saddle on his back?" figure number 3 asked, this one's female. "Wow Vikings really do ride dragons" said figure number 4, another male. "But this boy looks too scrawny to be a Viking" hooded figure number 5 replied, also female. "How is it you managed to tame a lunar dragon boy?" the first one with the sword asked grabbing Hiccup by The shirt and lifting him up into the air. "I didn't tame Toothless, I befriended him, and why do you keep calling him a lunar dragon?He's a Night Fury" Hiccup left the question hanging in the air.
"Well boy, the lunar dragons or the Night Furies as you Vikings call them, are the children of Diana the moon goddess" the first figure said as he dropped Hiccup and he fell to the ground hard. "Diana?" Hiccup asked as he got up while rubbing his sore behind. "It's no surprise that no one remembers her, not after her own sister the sun goddess Meridia along with the other gods like Odin imprisoned her in her own moon, all she ever wanted was for the humans to appreciate her beautiful night" the figure with the sword said before walking up to Toothless who began to growl at him. "But with the help of one of her children's, will be able to free her from her prison"
Hiccup was really confused to what they're talking about, but it was obvious that they want Toothless. "Look I don't know about this moon goddess, but leave Toothless out of this, I'm pretty sure there are more Night Furies out there" Hiccup begged. "We would but Luna's children were almost wiped out thanks to Meridia's followers" the figure with the sword then said as he grabbed Hiccup's right arm.
"Boss what shall we do with him" the younger figure asked. "I have no use for the boy but it is clear he'll interfere, kill him" The figure holding Hiccup then said as he tossed him to the younger figure. "With pleasure boss" the younger figure said as he grabbed Hiccup by the neck and lifted him up into the air.
Toothless struggled to get free in attempted to save his human but thanks to the strange net he got caught in he couldn't get out. Poor Hiccup struggled to get free but the younger hooded figure had a good strong grip on Hiccup's neck. "Don't worry, I'll make sure it's quick and painless" he said as a strange knife appeared in his hand. Just as he was about to stick the knife in his chest, several Nadder spines flew past the figure, one of them hitting him in the back.
"AHH!" he yelled in pain as he dropped Hiccup who looked up and saw Astrid and Stromfly flying above them. "Hands off my boyfriend, scum!" She yelled. "Astrid!" Hiccup yelled very happy to see her, and not too far behind the rest of Hiccup's friends on their dragons. All the hooded figures nearly freaked out when they saw the Viking teens on their dragons and they all got really pissed off.
"There's more of them boss!" one of the female figures called out as she whipped out a bow. "Whatever you do, don't let them free the Lunar dragon!" their leader said as he got his sword ready. The rest got there's ready as well. The other female got out her scythe while the other two men got out an axe and a mace. Unfortunately they weren't really prepared for a bunch of Vikings coming at them with their dragon's firing at them and forcing them all to either duck or run.
During the confusion Hiccup quickly crawled to Toothless and attempted to cut him loose, but the ropes shocked him as he tried to cut it. "Just what kind of net is this?" Hiccup thought as he attempted again only to be shocked again. But Luckily Fishlegs and Meatlug came by to help out while the others are fighting.
"Uh… Hiccup, what happened to Toothless?" He asked noticing the glowing lunar marks on the dragon's body. "Long story, can you help get Toothless out? This net seems to shock anyone who touches it or tries to escape" Hiccup then said. "Let's see if we can burn it off, Meatlug, lava blast" Fishlegs then commanded his Gronkle and she obliged. The Gronkle fired her lava at the net and it began to disintegrate, freeing Toothless. "It worked!" Fishlegs cheered, but it was short as one of the hooded figures swung her scythe at the two, but they ducked in the nick of time.
"Leave that dragon be, it is important to us!" the girl with the scythe yelled, she was about to swing again when Toothless fired his plasma blast at her, casing the scythe to fall out of her hand. Hiccup quickly mounted Toothless and the two flew in to the air and fired multiple plasma blast at the hooded figures. "Quickly, let's get out of here!" Hiccup then yelled. And with that the Viking teens all retreated and flew away into the night sky.
"How could you have let them escape?!" the leader yelled really pissed off. "Hey don't look at us, we didn't write this chapter!" the hooded figure with the knives yelled in defense. Their leader punched the guy with the knives for that remark and for his failures. "This is no time for jokes, the Eclipse will soon be upon us and we need that dragon in order to free our goddess" He then said as he turned to the moon shining down upon them. "Soon our beloved night mother, your last child will free you and you will have your revenge"
AN: call me crazy but I can so see Yuki Kajiura doing the score for this if it was a movie or show. Fore those who don't know, Yuki Kajiura did a lot of wonderful soundtracks for a lot of animes like Aquarian age, Mai HIme, Sword Art Online, Tsubasa Chronicles, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (My fav) and many more. Look up some of her music on YouTube and you'll understand why I love her. Anyway thanks again Dawnbreaker Dragon for helping me out with my chapter. Till next time!
Dawnbreaker note: Yeah, I just love 'Sword art online' but didn't know who made music for it :P
And it appears that Hiccup might be planning a little trip to Ireland! (hmm, I remember that the book had smelled like Loki trees, maybe there are Loki trees in Ireland as well?)
Who do you think these mysterious moon-worshiper-weirdos are? And what do they want to take toothless? What were they saying about toothless being the child of Diana, the moon goddess? What if she is freed from the moon, will she take revenge? What are these markings on Toothless' scales and most of all, what sort of a future lies ahead of our heroes?
These are some of the questions you must all be thinking but at the same time they might be guidelines for the writers still to come, your choice!
Thank you 'Ember Neutron' for this chapter! Pls Review and tell us what you thought about the chapter!
-Dawnbreaker
And oh, if you missed it in the last chap and are wondering why this is over 2000 words, I increased the maximum amount to 3000, it just feels right.