Life Lessons

I had a great deal of help from two friends who created Toothless and Moon Shadow's families. one on youtube the other is on DA. So thank you both for your help and ideas.

For now the Earth Realm was little by little on the road to recovery after the massive ferocious attack to attempt and take away their precious Transformation and Enlightenment. It'd taken so much out of all the generations; but it taken the most out of the youngest now known as the Next Generation Riders; to truthfully save the Dragon Harmony Alliance from being manipulated into slaughtering themself.

For the moment they'd to pick up the pieces, heal and rebuild on their own deprived of the assistance of their loved ones on the other side. This was killing their departed loved ones more than anyone could've possibly fathomed.

For this was the one generation whose own voices and stories hadn't been told yet. How they wished they could sing their stories to their loved ones and let them know what their lives had been like before their deaths or what their lives as living souls had been like.

To share their pains, pleasures, the trials and tribulations they'd gone through. For them to truly comprehend what it meant to be separated by more than you could possibly imagine from your loved ones. What it truly meant to be a family of two worlds and to live with regrets and the strangeness of it all.

It'd seemed finally at long last those stories were about to be told and listen to for after this barbaric and vicious assault on the DHA and their precious loved ones it was like the dragon souls could no longer hold back the stories and songs of their hearts any longer.

Frigga was in her bedchambers alone looking at herself in a three-way mirror the day after the attack. It was if she was trying to see the reflection of past, present and future in this mirror and in a way she did.

Because her mirror caught the unmistakable sad and depressed looks of her dragons. Luna Rose the mother of Toothless and Star Lancer the mother of Moon Shadow.

That's not all she could see reflecting in the mirror as this mirror in front of her also somehow was revealing exactly the three parts of time to her without a doubt. She could only figure the Tapestry was influencing her bedroom mirror at the time.

For when she glanced at the reflection to the left she caught a glimpse in the upper left the strange reflection of a large crescent moon shaped island with a second smaller island in shape of a star not far away.

She saw it show her the days seemed short but the nights were long and magical with a golden moon and diamond stars and endless magical romances. She knew instantly as the reflection faded as quickly as it came that this was the home the Night Furies had lost.

Taking a deep breath she walked very slowly over to where her dragons lay curled up looking detached, depressed and clearly had shed some tears. "Luna Rose, Star Lancer, my beloved dragons, I know from one mother to another when someone is carrying too much weight to bear on their heart."

They didn't speak or acknowledge she was there as she stroked them kindly, "But it does no good to keep your secrets or feelings locked up inside. A heart doesn't stop breaking once it stops beating and a soul still isn't whole if cut in two by the poisons of negativity.

So please lay bare to me what weighs upon your weary souls and broken heart. I'll help make you whole once more. Just tell me what aches you so much your hearts in pieces and your soul is cut in two?

I'll help heal you. Sometime it just helps to talk to someone and that can be enough to heal."

The two female dragons looked at each other with the same look in their eyes and then at the one who was their best friend before nodding and got off their chest what they'd been keeping bottled up so long.

"It's not easy to talk about what happened before we came to call Asgard our home. Before we…died. We miss our first home, New Moon Island; that's what we Night Furies called our home." Luna Rose began in a small voice as she thought back to the beautiful but magical island.

"It may've been in a shape of a crescent moon; however to us we seemed to be born from the new moon. Night Furies have a special bond with the moon. She was our friend and protector.

After all we laid our eggs at the full moon and it takes to the next one from them to hatch. Everything for us it's based on the moon. The night is our friend so the moon and stars are our friends." Star Lancer further explained, "Night Furies can naturally tell their way in the night skies as we can naturally follow the stars even."

"Really. You, the moon and stars all friends?"

"That's why all our children have names to do with the moon, stars and sky. With the exception of for Toothless who was named for the unique part of our anatomy. That was clever on Hiccup's part," Luna Rose replied wistfully.

"Well, he was your son's destined Rider and as such he did name him."

"Yes, but still even though we remember our home, there other things we do remember before this life with you. We remember our own childhood before the day the Red Death invaded and killed us," the pink eyed dragon replied sadly.

"I remember my own younger siblings. Stargaze and Galaxy. Stargaze was my younger sister and Galaxy was my little brother.

They're my responsibility to take care of since our father Nightwing had been slain by humans and our mother Celestial had been slaughtered by wolves while out hunting one cold winter night," Luna Rose grieved for a moment as she recalled her parents she'd lost when she'd only been two and half years old.

"It's not easy to become head of a family and care for your sister and brother when you're still a child yourself; but somehow I did it. Though it was never easy living in our cave. Stargaze was a dreamer and would often wonder because of it. Her head was often in the clouds. Galaxy was never want to sit still either and was a chatter box. Never shut up for a moment."

"So you regret never getting to be a hatchling as you were basically had to be a mother instead of a sister? Since you had to raise your sister and brother? You're the one who had to hunt? To protect and defend? To teach them to fend for themselves? Never had time to just be a kid?"

"Avoiding humans and few chances encounters with wolves myself as well? Yes, Frigga. I was always being more their mother then their sister. And I'm willing to confess that I resent it. There were times I hated that my parents had died and left me burden with this job and I want to leave them alone and go find a life my own on the Island.

But at the end of the day I guess I realized the same thing my son Toothless would come to learn from his own human."

"What's that?"

"That no matter what family is family and a good big brother or sister can't think of themselves and must put aside their needs for the ones who need more then. That it's their duty to make sure their younger siblings never fall. It's the hardest job there is; but just hearing the words "I love you" make it worth it."

"Is there something you want to get off your chest, Star Lancer?" Frigga turned to her other dragon who gave a heavy sigh. "I'm honestly surprised that I'm even allowed in Asgard given all the selfish and cruel acts and desires I had and done.

I thought I'd been condemned to Helheim for sure!" she said in a harsh and angry tone with a bitter look to her silver eyes.

"Why? What are your regrets and things you've done that you're not so proud of?"

Gritting her teeth she told her life story. "My family always had markings on their bodies; I didn't. I felt like an outcast. But I was able to have a special talent. My plasma was able to clear the night skies above and form new star patterns which is how I got my name.

But the dragon I am now?" she paused and shook her head, "I wasn't this beautiful, kindhearted and motherly dragon when I was young. I was very much the opposite.

I was violent, vicious, and cruel. I was always looking for fights and wanting to dominate everyone. I fancy myself one day become Queen of all Dragons. I didn't care about kindness or respect. I just cared about throwing my weight around and being a beast.

The sad and tragic thing was there were a few fights were I got so caught up in the battle sadly some of the other dragons…didn't make it," she replied in sad and shameful voice.

For a few moments Frigga and Luna Rose didn't say anything and watched Star Lancer shivered with revulsion at a past she wasn't proud.

"I didn't even truly love my own husband when he first approached me. But it was when I almost killed him in a fight that I finally realized how shameful and wrong I was and I did everything for the remainder of my time alive to make amends for those dark days.

I even tried everything possible since been granted this life to make up for being so evil and murderer. I don't think I'm even worthy of being your companion Lady Frigga.

How can the Lady of Asgard, the wife of Odin, want a dragon who was so evil and stupid as her personal companion?" she asked her ashamedly. She wouldn't even look at her as tears ran down her face

Frigga then put her right hand on Star Lancer forehead then kissed her gently on her head and the female Night Fury looked at her. "You are forgiven and you need to forgive yourself now too, Star Lancer.

We all have things in our past we are not proud of, but that's what's so wonderful about the Age of Transformation and Enlightenment. It's helped us all been given the chance to grow learn and change from ugly and close-minded into beautiful and open-minded.

You've atoned long ago and I'm honored to have someone who took the long and high road to try and change and not the easy way out by doing nothing. Star Lancer it's easy to do nothing. But it's a great deal harder to try and change.

How can I not want a dragon who worked so hard to overcome her past and did that ten times over as my own dragon companion?"

"Thank you, Lady Frigga."

"Thank you both for sharing your past with me. About your childhoods and what's been burdening your hearts and souls for so long. Don't you feel a little lighter and better?"

"Much."

In Odin's throne room at the moment he was having the same deep conversation with his own dragons who were emptying their troubles upon to him. Lightning Storm was recalling the reason why he'd fallen in love with Luna Rose and how they both discovered their special talents.

"It was one of the worst winters to hit the archipelago and many of us had been sent far out to find food. We'd found food but we wouldn't get back to the island for another night.

Luna Rose had found herself in the fight for her life with the two things that had taken her parents away. Humans and wolves. She fought them bravely while trying to keep the meat she was trying to bring back.

Unfortunately they'd back her into a corner. It was an enclosed space with too thick trees and a lake and she was cut off from every retreat. She was being brutally assaulted and near death and I heard her cry for help.

I arrived and I couldn't stand it and then tried to aim my blast at the many different targets and then learned I could shape my blasts. I took them out carefully till they're all stun; at the cost of some of humans firing flames arrows at me.

Still manage to get them back off and helped her escape with the meat and we found a cave. Our eyes met and it was love at first sight. And with such love in her eyes she looked at my wounds as I licked hers and her birth mark lit up and a soothing pink glow healed mine and then hers."

"So you then came back to New Moon Island and became mates shortly afterwards and soon as the next mating season happened you laid your clutch of eggs?" Odin guessed.

"Yes, but you know what happened shortly before the Hatching was too occur."

"The Red Death."

"Yes."

"That Red Death was death to us all! And I nearly died before I could even have the chance to have eggs with my wife! Star Lancer has a troubled past. But I saw who she was on the inside.

I purposely put my life on the line when she was caught up in another fight with another to make her stop and see the errors of her ways so she would take the first step towards change!" Strike Flyer interrupted as he remembered that final vicious fight and how he'd dared to risk everything in the name of love.

"Still that was the truest dark day for all three Dragons of Legend. It just seems too convenient you know?

That it's mating season and all our eggs are due to hatch in a week and half. Then out of nowhere this dragon who shouldn't even be able to get off the ground goes from one island to the other?

And it tries to force us into submission and yet we alone have the willpower and the ability to resist her? That Soulwings tries to warn all three islands just before she attacks and all the islands fight together to try and save our homes and the last generation of eggs?

And in the end only four eggs miraculous are saved by Soulwings who somehow manages in all the chaos and melee knocks them to safety?

And the rest of us and the eggs are burned alive. Not eaten but burned alive. And then this dragon proceeds to destroy our homes till there nothing left and then goes away." Strike Flyer recalled in perfect detail the genocide of their people.

"And then you did the most generous act Odin of bringing all our souls here and giving us soul bodies so we might have a second chance of life as long as we stayed within Asgard and Valhalla." Lightning Storm recalling the next part of the sad and tragic story.

"Well, we couldn't let what was obviously Council of Evil's work get away with genocide, now could we? That's why my wife kept surviving eggs under special magical protection till they could be united with the souls the Tapestry foretold they're meant to be with."

"And you then allowed our three other children to grow up to maturity in soul bodies here. Which we are thankful and giving us all meaning in this second life. So that's our story of how our love stories and how we died and ended up here.

I just really wish we knew how our children felt or how Nightrainbow and Stardust's parents feel or anyone else feels about all this," Strike Flyer finished in a melancholy tone.

Well Strike Flyer didn't have to worry about that as right now all the souls had someone lending an ear to hear them unburden their story.

At the stables of the Reaping Mares Eir who was helping overseeing the grooming today had taken time away from that to find an empty corner to listen to Moonlight and Strike Fire both tell her about their memories and feelings about how growing up as souls had shaped them.

"Are you sure you two don't need something to eat or drink? You know you do need to have something for your bodies," the white winged Valkyrie told them as she got some hay out of her bluish white hair.

"How can we as soul need food or water? That's always been a puzzlement, Eir." Moonlight Blaze replied back in a slight snarky way.

"You know the rules of this Realm don't make sense to those of Earth but all souls who reside here in this Realm their souls have a body that is as much of flesh and blood as a body on Earth."

"But we wouldn't be alive if we went to Earth! Unless passing through the Spirit Portal we are dead! Dead! Never truly alive! Never been alive ever! Never really took a breath of real air! Never had a heartbeat or a pulse! It's just not fair!" snapped Strike Fire his blood red eyes full of rage.

"Do you want to talk about this? This anger and resentment?"

"It's just not fair! You know! I'm the oldest in the family since I technically hatched first! Even if it was on this side! And yet I had to grow up in Asgard and Valhalla and yet my sister Moon Shadow?

She's the one who truly alive! She gets to be one with the wind beneath her wings, breathing the air and have a real heartbeat! She knows all the sensations we will never know!

And she's the QUEEN of the DRAGONS! What do we have to our names?! I WANT TO KILL ALL OF THE COUNCIL OF EVIL FOR WHAT THEY STOLE FROM ALL US!

IT'S NEVER GONNA BE FAIR! NEVER!" and with that he fired a really hot one at a target they'd thankfully put up in the stables for when his temper boiled over.

"Strike Fire, please calm down! We don't need the mares to be spooked and we don't need the building burned down either!" Eir franticly pleaded with him.

He looked still angry but calm down. "Sorry, look I'm thankful I got to have some kind of life at all, but you can't say it's not unfair, can you?"

"No, we can't argue what happened was unfair to you and all the children who died and had to grow up the way all did. Or the fact that sadly the end of the bloodline for the Silver Phantoms and Singers is coming.

It's a terrible and unforgiveable crime what the COE did to all of you. That you all had to die before you could live. Though at least you have had a life of some type here.

Is that not better than just being non-existence? Never having lived in any shape or form?" Eir asked them tentatively.

"It's true and we have had some nice adventures, have we not? Growing up here?" Moonlight Blaze asked her mate who still didn't look happy and she sighed and tried to cheer him up.

"Well, I've always done my best to watch over my younger brothers as you've done for your sisters.

My two little brothers? I can still remember when we did hatch here in Asgard and they're such nuisances. Always chasing and wrestling each other and I get so annoyed by it I smack them with my tail.

I want to make Mom and Dad proud by being the perfect daughter and a real dragon. That I could do it all perfectly even if life was gonna be different here. I want to prove I could take down evil humans, hunt and fly' basically all of it.

"What happened? Since we all live in harmony here?"

"Well, I learned while my little brothers did grind my nerves I still had to be a good sister and just help protect them and watch over them. And we had to understand this world and this life.

And what was once needed for one life wasn't needed for this life."

"But you two at least still have something that didn't change in either sort of life you could've led. Living or dead you both have true love. And that's something anyone be lucky to have," Eir reminded them.

"Yes, that's true. We're very happy to have each other. And we do find we are happiest using our bent up aggression in protecting you and the mares when you reap or protect souls as that's part of your duties now as well," they agreed jointly.

"Good. Now that you've both got this off your chest how about you help with finishing grooming these fine beauties?"

"Alright."

Rota was flying around the DSS with Jasper Sky and Star Dancer as they carefully followed the map of the land to make sure each section was correct on the map and the location was thriving.

And of course while they're flying they're talking. "Do either of you have something you like to say? Something you want to get off your chest. Since so much has happened and it do you well to unburden yourselves," as the finished following the Golddeath river that flowed throughout the Sanctuary.

"Really, Rota? What's up with you wanting us to talk?" Jasper Sky asked annoyed, "You been bugging us to talk all the way from the Wyrmroost Mountains to the Gawain Forest!

Why are you so persistent with the need for us to talk about our feelings all of sudden?!"

"Well, it seems to me, Jasper that it's likely because none of us have ever really talk about how we've felt about our lives or anything of the sort. And that's not healthy," his mate Star Dancer replied as they weaved through floating Darkfire Islands as they headed to Icefire Beach which was next to the Raxtus Ocean.

"It's true, Jasper Sky. Valkyries do have the ability to sense ones emotions and inner feelings. It seems to me you both have some things bubbling just below the surface you wish to really say.

So why don't you just say them and be done with it? Just talk about it and I'll listen," Rota challenged him to say her dark eyes glittering playfully.

Jasper Sky let out an exasperated sigh and then shot out three blast of plasma that became converted into ball lightning his talent. They watched the beauty of it as it shown brilliantly over the many different geographical features of the Sanctuary.

"I love to test my limits and I'm always up for a dare, Rota and I really wish I could truly dare to risk it all like my brother Toothless and the others do every day. Sadly we can't or at least not the kind of dare he does," he hung his head sorrowfully his teal eyes glistening with tears.

"I've always been a daredevil wanting to push the limits, rise to any challenge, to see and do more. I want to see more than this world has to offer. I guess that's why I do like that Star Dancer and I were given the job of assisting White King in keeping the DSS in order.

For at times it's like the only challenging thing left for us. Childhood is alright, but since Valhalla is now a village where people live in peace and have a happy life sometimes I just wish for more stress and strife.

I just wish something for more of a thrill and adrenaline. I want a real challenge at times. Something that I could do some real good and have some real adventures. And I guess I envy my brother for getting to do all those things.

Things he and all the living take for granted that we can't truly do here. We have a different version of things and a different way of living. But still being cheated out of a life that could've been ours and knowing your own blood relation is living it?

Well sometimes you just wish you've had a chance to risk your life to even live instead of having to grow up a soul given a body." Jasper Sky explained his feelings and explaining why he was such a daredevil always testing and pushing his limits.

"I don't think there not one dragon of the three Dragons of Legend who doesn't feel cheated, Jasper Sky. I also would have love to show-off my stellar skills and show the world what made me so special.

I would've loved to grow up alongside Moon Shadow and rocked the world below and really have a life. But the fact is we can't go back in time and undo what's been done.

The most you and I can do to deal with the need to get a thrill to live is help White King here and just test whatever limits we can here. That's just about all we can do."

"So from what I'm hearing my conclusions are you both showoff and are daredevils plus a little provocative because it's the only way you feel truly alive and you like all of the three species wiped out feel cheated out of the life you deserved to have? And you both envy your brother and sister for having life in the Earth Realm and you don't?" Rota asked with her arms crossed and looking at them squarely.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that's our answer," the mates answered back in agreement.

"Well, at least you're being truthful about your feelings. Doesn't it feel better to be honest about how you feel? Rather than keep it bottled up?"

"Well, you don't feel like you're carrying a dead weight inside you anymore, that's for sure," Jasper Sky confessed and his mate added, "It feels like you can finally really move forward and get on with whatever kind of life we live."

Which was exactly the point Mist was making at the Hallow seeing how the progress was going with the Imps and Seeds and how Luka Star and Star Gazer we're doing and listening to them.

"Please I know there is some unwanted energy in this room and you cannot expect to help these Imps and Seeds to be Transformed and Enlightened if you yourselves can't be honest with your own unsettled feelings.

Please release the pain, release it now and let's complete your Transformation and Enlightenment. Say what you've wanted to say for all these decades and just let it out.

Let your anger out and then let it go. For the only way any healing for all of us will happen is if you let your own pain out and go," she told them both in a very encouraging tone as the two dragons were settling the Imps and Seeds in for a night of blissful sleep.

"She only speaks the truth we've been avoiding for 43 years, beloved. Come how we can we help others find the truth and heal, if we can't heal ourselves and tell the truth?" Star Gazer implored her mate.

"You always had a way to get straight to the point, my shining star. Alright, Mist. You want the truth? The whole truth and nothing but the truth so help Odin?"

"Yes."

"Alright, yes we both like all the rest of our family feel cheated and angry at the COE for what they did us and our people. From killing all of us, destroying our homes and forcing us to grow up like this.

We won't lie that anger is in every dragon's heart who was part of the Genocide of the Dragons of Legends. It would be a lie to say otherwise."

"Understandable."

"But both me and Star Gazer have always just tried to not live in regret or think about the what if and just deal with the what is. Since you can't undo what's already been done and time isn't meant to be tampered with," Luka Star said in a wise voice as he sighed looking at his wife.

"Somehow we have always been able to avoid feeling anger and resentment and just seeing the blessings. Like we are thankful we got to live this life and not never exist.

We're thankful that Toothless and Moon Shadow lived and that so did Stardust and Nightrainbow did as well. That they did great good in their lives and that our siblings had children of their own," Star Gazer went on.

"We don't try to hold onto anger for it does no good and yet the only anger we do have is seeing our own family on this side be depressed, angry and divided at times.

We want our family to remember the most important thing is that we are together and have each other love and support. And its upsets us very much when others can't find the good. That they only can see the storm clouds and not the rainbow that follow it." Luka Star explained metaphorically what life had been like for them.

"Hence in fact you've just been appreciative of what you've been given and made the most of your situation and just desire others to be happy as well?"

"We just want our family to count their blessings, be happy and live in love," answered Star Gazer who sighed as she apparently felt every now and then that wouldn't ever come to pass.

That was a lot to think about and it wasn't over what the dragon souls were thinking not by far.

Freya was at the moment at the private tower that served as home to Yvaine and Draco having wanting to check on them. The tower was a masterpiece of light elves craftsmanship and the inside was of very refined, elegant and sophistication taste.

There was a massive mural on the back wall of the main chamber of a lightning bolt shaped island covered with both gorgeous mountains and cooling mist. That had been Phantom Island the Island of the Silver Phantoms before the Genocide.

When she walked in she could see both Yvaine and Draco staring at it longingly and obviously their minds were lost in another time and place.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Sparky sorry to drop in unannounced but I got the feeling you two need someone to talk to. So why don't you babies just tell me what's troubling your weary souls?"

"Freya?! How did you get in?" Yvaine asked startled and nearly shot of the blue flames their kind could also shoot in addition to lightning.

"I let myself in and I do apologize but call it a woman intuition, Yvaine baby, but with all that going on with the COE and the recent attacks and the fact you have had to watch your only child grow up from afar, I figure you really need to talk.

So I've got my listening ears ready to talk. So singing to me your troubles and I'm here to give you both rest and peace of mind. So sing it girlfriend."

"You are not a normal goddess by far, Freya. Not with the way you talk and act," Draco pointed out frankly.

"You got that right, Draco, I'm nothing like some stupid old story someone made up about me. I'm myself and I don't try to be someone I'm not. Now who do you try to be?"

Closing his very dark blue eyes for a moment handsome Silver Phantom seemed lost for a moment in his memories of another lifetime. Then he spoke about what troubled his mind. "There was a time that seems still like only yesterday that I felt I had to act like someone else that wasn't me to be accepted.

We Silver Phantoms have always been known as the Ghost Dragons for flying higher and faster than almost all dragons. But not all of us knew the meaning of humility that was for sure.

I came from an extremely large family. I had 11 older brother and sisters with me being the youngest. And well you can imagine being the youngest you had a lot to live up to but also lived in the shadow of everyone else.

There were a great deal of expectations particular given that my parents part of the Council of Elders that led Phantom Island. And it seems no matter what I did it just wasn't 'perfect' enough.

I kept trying and trying and it was never good enough and at the same time I was secretly bullied by my older siblings and the other dragons. I finally couldn't take anymore.

I rebelled and acted out just to take out my frustrations and caused a lot of trouble and did whatever I wanted regardless of whatever the consequences were. I was just sick and tired of trying to be perfect and then being bullied."

"What happen next? Since something had to happen that changed you? Since you're not perfect as not even Odin is perfect and you're not a troublemaker."

"True Love is what happened, Freya," Yvaine replied as she picked up the story "It was the night of a meteor shower and a lot of the males were showing off for the females. Really truthfully being obnoxious and aggressive" her angelic eyes were also lost in the memory for a moment and she smiled.

Some of my friends and I were being bothered by some rather rough males who wouldn't back off and some of them were yes sons of the Council of Elders and three were Draco's elder brothers.

They'd been up where the air was too thin and thought they have 'fun' by any means possible with a couple of available females who had just gone up the mountains to watch the show, not to tried be forcefully courted."

"My three eldest brother Orion, Leo and Scorpius were trying to force themselves on Yvaine and the other others. I had just happened to be in the right place and time even though I'd been looking to get away from my bent up frustrations.

But seeing my three brothers trying to force themselves on the most beautiful female I'd ever seen who was clearly a lady and was waiting for the right male to give herself too?

I was beyond boiling and for the first time I became who I was meant to be and fought off all those unruly and vulgar males and defeated all my brothers. All of them were harshly punished and I was given praise and well shortly afterwards Yvaine and I became mates."

"And though we only conceived one egg and never got to raise our daughter we are glad that somehow Boden knew the name we would've chosen for her.

We just wish Stardust knew more about her personal history and what kind of hero her father is and what kind of morals and values that my mother and all the females in my family were brought up with is all.

That's our regrets. That she doesn't know how we met and how she came to be and we couldn't give her some of the lessons we wish to have taught her is all."

"Well, she seems to be a wonderful lady and courageous one so it looks like she done her mama and papa very proud. Though I can understand the regret she doesn't know how she came to be and how you wish she knew this story of her past."

"It's our deepest regret" the Silver Phantoms admitted sadly.

Meanwhile in their own private home made out of colorful gemstone that too had a mural of Rainbow Melody Island was Sjofn talking to Nightrainbow's parents. She had paused to admire the beautiful painting of the lush colorful musical note shaped island.

Aria and Spectrum had told her how green and full of life and song the island of their people was. So many different plants of every single color imaginable and every day from dawn to dusk the air was full of the joyful sound of song.

"There was never a dull day that's for sure and no-one could ever feel blue with all that sound and color around them. Everyone was always smiling and happy. It was like one big endless party," Aria was remembering with a gay little smile highlighting her purple mouth.

"Yes and you always had the most beautiful voice, Aria." Spectrum proclaimed truthfully.

"It sounds like a magical and enchanting place. Very happy and lively, but tell me did the joy ever leave the place? Even once?" Sjofn asked them sensing there was something they wish to say.

"There was one time we didn't sing a duet. We didn't speak to each other after something that almost result in our son not being hatched." Aria admitted truthfully.

"Oh what caused the harmony to be displaced?"

"When the duet became a trio," Spectrum didn't look happy saying this and Sjofn saw something in his eyes she didn't like. Something happened that shouldn't have happened.

"Before you say more I'm acting on a hunch as the Goddess of Love but does this have something to do with another female?"

"You know your job very well, Sjofn. It was eight months before we laid Nightrainbow's egg which almost didn't happen because she came into the picture." Aria looked still livid about it.

"Who is she may I ask?"

"Bella"

"She was two years younger than me and she made all the males go nuts because she was trifle smaller, was more graceful and just seemed more attractive in every which way you could think.

But what really made the young males go nuts was her voice. Every note coming out of her throat was like a perfect jewel held to the light. That beautiful and perfect." Aria sounded a bit disgusted having to recall this female.

"She was also infamous for stealing away others mates. She never could settle on one male for herself, she was a big flirt and had really no interest in settling down. She just like to play with the minds of the males and break their hearts after showing up the girls," Spectrum quickly explained and then the rest sorta of fell into place for Sjofn.

"So am I to guess the rest of the story is that Bella got you Spectrum under you under her spell and humiliated you and Aria and almost broke you up because of that? And that why Nightrainbow almost wasn't hatched?"

"Well, that's almost all of it with one part you didn't guess," he said as he looked at his wife.

"After she mess with my mate well? That was enough. Me and the rest of the females who she'd wrong had more than enough of her. So we all banded together and banished her from the island.

Don't know what happened to her after she was exiled from Rainbow Melody Island, though we doubt she made it far given how soon after the Genocide happened."

"I see. Well, I guess you wish you could tell that to your son so he know to be faithful and watch out for the wrong kind of females if there were females of his kind left, that is."

"Yes, we do wish we could tell him that story. So he'd know his history. That's our regret we wish we didn't have to live with in this life we live now."

All the while this had been going on Stoick had been in his Spirit House listening to the many long adventures of 233 years of Soulwings. From his saying how he'd hatched alone on a small island by himself and how he became a nomadic warrior fighting to protect and help all he came across.

"It's was such a lonely life when you never even know your own parents, outlived all your friends and so many love you, though you never can truly love anyone back."

"Soulwings? Answer me this. You lived for nearly 3 centuries and you have quite an incredibly memory. You've proven you're a valiant solider and true friend and wonderful to all dragons and great with kids.

So my question is why didn't you just settle down? Why didn't you just let yourself fall in love? Have children of your own? Why did you give yourself this endless quest to fly forever to fight evil?

Surely you could've settled down and had a family of your own? My wife Valka's dragon Cloudjumper mated with a female that wasn't his species and they've a beautiful daughter.

So it is possible for dragons who aren't the same breed to have children. And as Valka and I have told our three children many times over love has no limits or boundaries.

It's not bound by race, religion, age, species gender or any other nonsense. What matters is finding someone who makes you happy, gives your life meaning and purpose and ultimately loves you for you.

What else matters other than that?"

"I guess I just felt my mission was more important than anything else. I gave myself a mission to protect and defend. To fight evil and help others. To put everyone before myself. And I did to my dying breath."

"Soulwings, let me tell you this and I learned it the day my children revealed the truth to me. No duty should ever come before one's heart. There no greater duty then to one's heart.

Second while it's important to think of others there is times where you must put yourself before others. When it's okay to be selfish and think of your needs and wants.

Trust me even Hiccup who was willing to put everyone before himself knows when it's time to think of himself and what he wants and needs for himself."

"I guess it's not the easiest to know when and where to think of yourself then and to understand that duty shouldn't come before heart."

"It's always a battle between the heart and mind but let love win every time and that will always be the right answer."

And the final dragon soul with something to say to someone was Kara who happened to be listening to Deadly Siren as to give Heimdall a break so he could nap and she help watch the bridge with Deadly Siren so he could get an hour sleep in.

"So tell me what your story Deadly Siren is? I can tell you and Heimdall are very good friends and a good match for one another, but I suspect you can't talk to him about everything. Some things be easier girl to girl perhaps?" she hazard a guess.

The beautiful Night Fury nodded, "He's my best friend and companion and all, but men are not so good with the touchy feely stuff no. There been a lot of things I've wanted to talk to a girl with for a long time with."

"Well, we've got some time. So tell me, what on your mind? What are feelings do you have? What are your regrets or troubles? C'mon you can be honest and I won't tell anyone if you don't want anyone to be told."

"Well, all members of my family have the same markings and we're very tight-knit and loving. My mother used to call me her Little Songbird. She was the prettiest dragon I ever saw.

But when the COE attack using the Red Death? There was so much pandemonium and chaos and I got separated from my family in the chaos and I died and I died alone.

They weren't by my side and I've looked a lot around Valhalla but I never found them and I just feel alone as I can't find out what happened to them. We were all supposed to be given second life here.

So where is my mother and father? Where is my kid sister and annoying little brother? And my grandmother? They're all there when the Red Death attacked and I wasn't there to die with them.

And I've been here since the day of my death wondering where in this Realm is my family and why haven't we found each other?"

"Well, I don't know where they are, but I know all of them are here. I'll ask my sisters to help me find them for you, I promise."

"You really promise?"

"Yes. Just give me their names, Deadly Siren"

"My mother's name is Twilight, my father's name is Sundown, my sister is Starry, my brother is Shadow and my grandma is Evening Star."

"Okay, I'm sure my sisters and I can find them for you. Thanks for telling me what's been troubling you after all this time."

"Thanks for listening."

And now that the air had been cleared for everyone it seemed finally everyone could move on and hopefully the people down on Earth would one day hear these stories and feelings too soon as well.

It could make a difference between life and death really it could.