The Mission
Loki's plan was sinister, dastardly, sick, twisted and a great deal more adjectives then possibly a dictionary could actually use given what he had in mind for all he sought out to conquer and destroy.
All that could sum it up it was more than enough to make you want to vomit up bile he was gonna be that vile. Furthermore, there weren't enough words to even describe actually depths of the evil he was about to commit either.
It started with a crystal made out of black ice; not the traditional black ice either you would find on a road. Not that kind that is so clear you can't tell it's there. This was an actual jet black large glowing pointy ice crystal.
He had a megalomaniac look as well as laughter as he was tossing it back and forth between his hands as he reenters Council Room. His sanity had most assuredly left him a long time ago without a doubt.
His son Jormungandr was first to recognize what his father was playing with, and even though he himself was able to devour worlds, he scared out of his wits at the sight of that crystal, but also something else was clearly scaring him as his snake eyes about popped out of their lidless sockets.
"FATHER?! WHERE DID YOU FIND HEL'S BLACK ICE NIGHTMARE CRYSTAL?!" he asked in a thunderstruck bellowing tone.
"Why you so surprised I have this, son? Hmm? Care to share why your surprise I have your older sister's favorite childhood toy?"
Jormungandr couldn't speak knowing saying the reasons why would be seen as treason and only anger his father and so did his brother as it would only bring to light what happened to their sister.
"What about you, Fenrir? You gonna tell our fellow brothers and sisters in the arms of evil why your darling sister's little Crystal is so shocking?" he dared his furball of a son.
Fenrir kept his jaw shut and didn't do anything at least till his father stomped on his paw and pressed the Crystal to his throat and drew a few drops of blue blood.
"I'm not asking rhetorically. Either you answer the question Fenrir or else! Now, will you and your brother please tell these fine people why it's surprising I've possession of your sister Crystal?! Or do I've to silt both of your throats with it?!" he demanded his golden eyes ablaze with a wild look.
"No! Father! Don't! We will tell the story!"
"Good! Now both of you tell them and don't skimp the details!"
Quaking in fear the two brothers spoke in quivering voices at the same time. "After Hel's betrayed both her family and the Council of Evil and joined the enemy she attempted to do some things to make it impossible for the COE to ever use her old home ever again.
She also in her words " was gonna to do what she could to rectify the mistakes of her past to the best of her abilities and make sure no-one else suffered for who she used to be."
"What exactly does all of that mean? What did she attempt to do? As we still can access the Citadel and other things?" asked the COE in soft trembling voices of their own. Everybody was pretty much pissing their pants right at this time.
"Yes, but it took us 23 years to break through all the spells, charms and other defenses she put on this place. She never wanted anyone to ever gain access to this place ever again after she left it.
Subsequently, she cast a powerful incantation that made her Icefire go to its zenith," as everyone's eyes fell on the Dark Viewing Well that showed Hel herself levitating outside her home.
On the other hand, she wasn't how they remembered her. Which was as an ugly half corpse blue-skinned woman in a tattered unfashionable blue dress with long wild bluish white hair.
This Hel was in a stunning! For starters, her skin tones had even out to be both a light blue and green that complemented each other well and her left half no longer looked like a corpse. So she was just a two-tone lady now. Also, her hair was thick, shiny and lush flowing like a rippling bluish white wave.
Her new outfit was more complimentary now that there wasn't such gaudiness or ugly blues, greens or dark purples, but softer lavenders and pinks. She'd a lovely pink headband with tiny lavender beads. She wore matching earrings and a diamond shaped pendant.
The dress was a lilac off the shoulder dress with a small keyhole and another one around her navel with pink diamonds cinch her waist, the bottom was like a mermaid with rippling shades of light purples and pinks and transparent pink train from her shoulder blades. And finally, her glove was now pink too.
And even her Icefire wasn't the strange blue it normally was. This time it was heliotrope and as she was looking at her home she was cupping her hands together and her face was full of deep concentration.
Then a huge ball of heliotrope Icefire formed in her hands and she started chanting some kind of incantation.
"What did I ever do to you that you should treat me this way?
What did I ever do so wrong that you should cast me from grace?
Though I love to rule in Helheim here, how I wonder about the soft and cool embrace... (Of love.)
I'm just like you, I'm made by He, despised by then, I'm almost me, I'm nearly human.
Look at me! I'm almost a human being...
Pity me...I'm almost a human being.
All my troubles, all my pain, all my agony, what a shame
stems from this thing that you call a "body."
"But I'll sleep well tonight!"
Without this wretched family alive!
These tears are real. I'm jealous. I'm spite and hate. To the core I'm mean. I'm nearly human.
Look at me! I'm almost a human being...
As above, so below, place your bets which way the heads will roll.
Made in your image we are, at least, as twisted and mean as thee.
'Fore your eyes, what a curious sight: I will make your children turn on you and you say, you don't sleep well at night?
Well, we'll take care of that for you...
Never did as you should and you claim, 'It was all for our very own good', 'was a lie, a magnificent lie!
I can make your subjects turn on you and you claim you have lots on your mind?
Well, we'll take care of that for you...
Bells are now tolling, soon heads will be rolling...again."
And as she finished the incantation she hurled it at her Citadel and it became engulfed by this new Icefire. It had formed some kind of protective energy shield all over the place and apparently, nothing was getting in or out.
They watched in bewilderment as neither the climate nor wraiths could penetrate the shield. They could all witness for themselves quite undoubtedly all the powers of Helheim itself threw all its mighty power at it and it didn't even wavier at all.
Then they saw once Hel seemed satisfied that her Citadel was now impossible to access she flew rapidly far, far away from it. Eventually coming to meet Reena and Luriel who were waiting at the site that would come to be New Helheim.
She handed them both two scrolls and then held up her gloved hand and another burst of this strange new colored Icefire seemed to break ground for the new site and also glowed protectively around the Spirits and Seeds of Hope.
The Spirits and Seeds all hugged and kissed her and she then followed them till she disappeared from view as the that was all the Dark Viewing Well showed all of the COE.
"Hmm. So that's the reason why this land is considered the Wastelands of Helheim and that is New Helheim," called out the dark beings of the other Realms finally now understanding the geography of the Realm of Helheim.
"And it would seem you sister's magic changed and she cast a spell to keep people out of her home and it took you this long to find a way to counteract it? And that's why we've not met since the murders of Stoick the Vast and White King?
For the reason that the Citadel was inaccessible? Because something changed her magic and prevented you from getting into her home? Because that Icefire is not the same color as the one inside this place? Therefore something did take place to change her as she herself didn't look the same either." Krashath hissed in his raspy demonic voice.
"All of this makes very logical sense and would make a lovely game of Maces and Talons for sure," Viggo began to say when Drago snarled loudly from his left.
"Must you all think of a stupid game or something as stupid of a color of some hocus pocus?! Brute force will work all the time! Aww!"
"Shut up, Drago! As you might fail to recall your vast army and even having the Dark King on your side didn't stop the Haddocks and their dragons from handing your scarred hide to you!
Now if you all allow my sons to finish?" Loki stated calmly whilst still observing the room at large with those soulless predatory golden eyes.
Everyone zipped their lips and listened as the two brothers, the sons of Loki continued to explain what happened concerning their older sister.
"Well, because she'd sealed off her Citadel we couldn't get inside, she thought even further ahead than that. Because before sealing it off she had concealed all of her magical and dangerous items as well.
As again she desired to 'rectify' her past and undo the damage she had done. Because by the time we could finally get in once more we looked and looked all over the place and even the Imps and Seeds never found a single one of her deadly items.
Either she had destroyed them or hidden them, but we couldn't find them anywhere. We turned this place upside-down and inside-out. Therefore we don't see how our father found the most dangerous and evilest of our sister's creations," they confessed in confusion.
"And what exactly is this thing he found?"
"This little beauty? This is one of my little girl's best toys," Loki said in that soft silky and creepy voice of his as he actually licked it like it was a Popsicle before grinning insanely, "I can with this Crystal give anyone a nightmare. But not just any nightmare. Nightmares that are so much worse and much more like curses.
As they're of a more magical nature. This Crystal takes my own twisted imagination for a nightmare then it mixes that with the targets own deepest darkest fears and amplifies them to be a 1000 times worse!
What's more, these are the most realistic and more than beyond bloodcurdling then your normal nightmares! I can make them last as long as I want and to whoever I want.
The most delicious fact about all of this? The person is to curse to have them as long as I want them too, which could be a few days or even forever if I chose it!
The only way to really get rid of a cursed nightmare from this thing is to do the impossible and turn the ugly nightmare back into a beautiful dream. On the other hand with the kind of nightmares, I create no person mortal or god would ever be able to face that type of fear and conquer it."
Everyone got an ill expression on their features while regarding that glowing black crystal and the expression on Loki's face. "I've already tested this beauty out and no I will not tell you how I found it or how I know to work it. Only that I've got it and know how to use it.
And I know how bad humans get after a few nights of no sleep and what some hellish nightmares can do to people. So come. It's almost time to implement step one of the plan."
"And what is step one again, Father?" his sons whispered timorously and he turned on them as if they're dolts.
"If you already unable to call to mind I'll hark it back to you dunderheads one more time, but I guess I really wasn't fully thorough enough with my little wild card. Silly me," he chortled evilly.
"We are gonna give all the adults, especially the parents and grandparents a week's worth of cursed nightmares with the power of this Crystal. Sleep deprivation is such a wonderful advantage for the forces of evil.
Not to mention it's so amusing to watch what a lack of sleep will do to whole population weaklings as well.
The children and young dragons won't be harmed, yet. Then at the end of the week, Viggo will lead our smaller forces to incapacitate the youngest generation with the pollen of the Sleeping Serpent flower.
I do hope you all remember to eat the petals which make you immune to the coma-inducing effects because if you don't do not anticipate anyone to come to save your neck. You're on your own at the mercy of our enemies, got that?
Then I'll deliver my note to the Haddocks and while that will send the sleep-deprived humans into a panic, you Krashath will make yourself known to send the dragons into a state of additional panic.
Between them, all being sleep deprived and in a state of panic and also worrying about their stupid home and children? It will be so easy for us to finally take the humans and dragons. And for me to take whom I'm seeking out personally," he chortled at that thought.
"But what about the children and their dragons? We are just gonna leave them to come get us later?"
"Yes, they've always had their parents and grandparents to look to for guidance. Deprived of them they'll be at a loss. They will seek help from Asgard and then we will find a way to take Asgard.
Once we remove their help from Asgard and Valhalla their spirits will be even more broken. By the time they truly have to face us? Well, we shall see if they're ready.
I want to face them myself and I'll love when I take them down myself and have conquered all three generations that have caused me trouble in one swoop. Then nothing will stop us from completing our goals!" he threw back his head in insane laughter.
And he didn't stop laughing for a good twenty minutes before straighten up and saying. "Now no more dilly-dallying time to get step one started.
We are combing what's left of the power of the old Icefire with my magic and the Black Ice Nightmare Crystal to make it go to its zenith of power and then casting it all through the Dark Viewing Well!
And I know the right spell that Hel used to activate its power. So time for some dark singing once more!" clearing his throat he began to sing in that dark spine-chilling voice of his.
"In your sleep, you felt me targeted all you held dear,
in your dreams, I came.
That voice which calls to your nightmares and speaks your name
and does dare dream again, for now, I have found you,
Oh, all of you? Hel of Helheim is there,
inside your mind...
Now, once again with me,
our strange meeting.
My power over you grows stronger yet
And though you turn from me to glance behind
I am always there!
Inside your mind...
I've seen your face
A drawback in fear.
You try to mask your face but I'm still there in your nightmares...
It's the end, you hear...
Your spirit is weak and my power is stronger than all of you combined!
I will always be there,
inside your mind...!
In all your fantasies, you always knew,
that the end will come...
To all of you...
And in this labyrinth,
where you are blind
I will always be there,
inside your mind.
So little ones?
Scream for me!
Scream!"
Back on Berk at this point in time now that all the political squabbles had been dealt with, and all the rebuilding had been completed, everyone was just looking forward to a good night sleep after a long and hearty feast in the Great Hall.
Everyone had spent a great deal of time being extremely loving and affectionate with their families. Saying numerous times how much they loved them and spent the night giving one and all goodnight hugs and kisses.
The skies were clear, the ocean peaceful and the breeze gentle. It seemed for the moment all was alright and peaceful and they could get some well-deserved sleep. They were wrong deathly wrong.
While the minds of the youngest generation and those of the Next Generation Riders were all safe for the moment, everyone else was fair game to what was about to descend upon Dragon Harmony Alliance, and ensnare everyone else's minds into the madness of Loki's own mind.
"Everyone found themselves with their true loves standing over a body that laid motionless on the ground beneath them with bloody and smoking sword in their hand.
They found themselves looking on in bewilderment what was their true love doing? When they got a closer look at the body they all screamed. It was their own body! Their flesh was burned and seared. Their blood was also burned black. The stench that filled the air made all their stomach churn.
"Look at what you made me do, _!" their true loves would breathe, their voices sounded the same but different all at once.
"My love?" they all asked in a frightened tone. Their loves would rock slowly back and forth on his heels and toes, giggling like a little kid. "What happened?!" they cried back out in fear.
Then their true love would stop and slowly turned their head to face them. Their faces would be covered in crimson blood that little by little drizzled down their face. There was a look in their eyes that had never been seen before.
Everyone's normal happy eyes were cold and heartless. Their good nature had vanished from the warmth they once held. All anyone could see and feel was an unforgiving chill of ice and death.
"You made me do it, _. You made me kill you," their love would reply and began laughing all over again.
They'd looked on at them in fear. "W-what I do?"
They'd just continued giggling as they waved bloodstained and smoking sword around. "What did you do? Hahaha, what did you do?" they said as they tilted their head to lay on their shoulder. As their eyes slowly changed from their normal color to crimson red. "You know what you did you little brat! You're the one that did it...ha-ha I watched you do it!"
All any of them could do was whimper as tears fell from their cheeks. "What did I do?!"
They'd be glared at by their true love's bloodstained face scrunched up in unmistakable unbridle anger and irrepressible fury. "How about that? Hahaha, you still don't remember what you did to me? To everyone? Hahaha!"
As the eyes turned from crimson to hollow solid black. "You killed them, you killed everyone, but you didn't kill me no...I was the only survivor and I killed you. Hahaha! But you're still here...ha-ha and you will die over and over until you never come back. I put all my love into you and now it was for naught. Now DIE!"
Then suddenly a whole new second nightmare began to take place!
They would find themselves walking through what could only be described as a dark woods. However, the bark of these trees was black like the wood of a Loki tree. The leaves were a dark sinister red and black in color.
The skies above were as red as blood. The ground beneath their feet was a dark revolting green, along with some patches that were a dead brown in color.
As they continued to walk through the landscape until they found someone. It was themselves and under them laid the bodies of their families! Both human and dragons! All of them were covered in blood and burns.
Everyone would stumble backward with their bodies trembling with fear. Never in the Nine Realms did anyone ever feel so helpless, so weak...so...scared.
"Tick tock. Time is fleeting on your clock tick tock history is ending on the clock" their other self would say in a mocking singsong tone of voice. They would little by little turned to face themselves. Everyone's heart threatens to come out their throat if it hadn't been swelled shut with fear unable to scream.
"Who and what are you?!" everyone cried once they could speak again trying to get a hold of themselves. The other self-tilted their heads as if confused as if they didn't understand that they were the ones being talked too. "What did you do to my family… you…you …you sadist?!"
The dark version of everyone would laugh maniacally. "Who needs family or who needs love? All you need is fear, is death! Hahaha. "
They all worked up the courage to stare at the dark side of themselves. "You think that's what it means? To take innocent people's lives for no godforsaken reason?! The only time I will ever take a life if it was meant to save anyone I love. No, I would rather my own life be taken then one of my family, to protect my village! Even if it costs me my life!"
The dark version of them laughed manically once more before taking the bloodstained smoking sword out and setting it ablaze with dark blackish-purple flames and yelled: "Then die!"
Everyone gasped as they fumbled for a shield or a sword but there were nothing and the burning blade pierced their guts. Everyone gasped and coughed up blood. Their eyes wavered as the dark version of them gently laid them on the ground. Everyone breathed their dying breath."
And that's when every adult human and dragon of the Dragon Harmony Alliance woke up screaming bloody murder! They're trembling and shaking and their children all rushed into their parents' room all screaming loudly what was wrong?!
Naturally, none of the children's parents or grandparents desired to reveal the contents of what they'd just witnessed in their nightmares even though they could see for themselves their children were all shaken to the core by how they were from it.
But a parents' natural instinct is to protect their babies from anything and everything. Even if it's something that they ought to know that is harming them all mommies and daddies care about is making sure their babies are safe and sound regardless of how they are themselves.
As a result of everyone basically told the same protective lie and that they did have a nightmare, but it wasn't anything to worry about and they just needed to get back to sleep.
However, the kids weren't buying it because they weren't stupid at all. They could tell even if they weren't blessed with special powers or not that there was more going on than just bad dreams.
After all, how could every single adult on the island from five tribes including all the dragons have bad dreams at the exact same time? That too big of a coincidence! Something else was going on and whatever that bad dream was it had been enough to strike a fear as terrible as the wrath of Odin into everyone's heart!
"Something is going on that Dad isn't telling us. And he's using his own powers to prevent us from seeing the memories of his dreams!" Breena grunted in frustration three days later while the NGR were all practicing at the arena.
"It's not just Uncle Hiccup, Breena! So is our father and Aunt Una and Uncle Orus are using their powers to prevent all of us from using our gifts to get a clue why everyone been having these wake up screaming bloody murder nightmares all week!" Edyis yelled as she was purple with her own frustration at the problem.
"And it feels like our parents are also using their powers to prevent us as well! Normally we are able to sense if there was evil or expel it, but since both our moms and dads have the same gifts, it seems they are using them to prevent us from learning what's going on!" Tove and Unn screamed in equal frustration.
"Why do parents do these sort of things? Really why do they?!" asked the flower twins and their dragon at the same time.
"Yeah! It's not like their doing the right thing! It's the wrong thing even if they think it's for the right reasons!" cried out Oili and Runa with their Zippleback backing them up.
"I guess that's just how parents think and act and have done since time began," sighed Esme, "I don't even have a mother and my two fathers are acting the same as your parents and grandparents," as Opal tried to make her feel better by snuggling as best she could.
"That they think by not telling us what's really going on their protecting us from some sort of danger? How is that really protecting us?" Whitley wanted to know with Garnet nodding in agreement.
"I don't think it is, even if a parent's first instinct is to protect and defend its young in life when you're ignorant and not knowing things, it does more harm than good. So without full knowledge of things you'll fall on the battlefield going in unprepared," Falcon replied and Silvertip also nodded in agreement with that assessment.
"We may not see it," Destin started and Embla "Or hear it the way our parents and other loved ones do," but Firedrake and Shimmertail finished, "But again what you don't know will kill you. For pretending or avoiding something doesn't make the problem go away it just delays the solution."
"True words couldn't be spoken, friends. I mean we are already starting to see the devastating effects of what three nights of being unable to see is doing to our families." Haldor replied and he shook his head sadly.
"It takes a toll on them all in every way possible. Physically, mentally and emotionally," Hertha explained further and then Jary finished explaining the ramifications of these nightmares.
"It's affecting everything in every which way! They cannot do their jobs, it's making them unable to function properly and it's now threatening their relationships with their friends and family!"
"And that goes for our families do!" shouted Sorrel, Twiggy, and Rosy.
"Which makes things all the more dangerous considering some of the dragons and jobs we have on this island. And what we have to do on a daily bases to just survive and run the village. I mean my dad is the Head of Berk Maintenance and Repair and he rides Skullcrusher; a Rumblehorn!
Do you realize what kind of damage a Rumblehorn could do without any sleep?!" Eureka cried in a panic as that image flashed through her mind. It wasn't pretty for sure.
"Or worse! If Dad and your mom's dragon would do if they all four fell asleep? Four heads all asleep and then woke up from whatever this nightmare is?" Merida spoke in a terrified voice.
"Or if Mom has a panic attack from this and then somehow mess something to do with the New Islands?! As she's the one in charge of the Bridges to them and making certain they are appropriately cared for?!" Harris also voiced that anxiety.
"And what if these nightmares cause our parents' Nightmares to get into it at home if Mom and Dad quarrel and they seek to defend their Riders?!" Mercury and Emerald declared in petrified voices. "Dragons and Riders always have protected each other and well Dad come a long way, but old habits die hard!"
"Mom does have a bit of short fuse if her rider Raven is ever threatened. She made a vow to always defend her when they become one," Indigo and Periwinkle confirmed.
"Well, our mothers will also protect their Riders and their wishes to the death. So if they don't want to give answers to our questions on their request? They won't! Even if we beg and plead we can assure you of that right now!" Windrider and Medli informed everyone with great confidence on that matter.
"And don't ask the ten of us for help. Our parents are parents are the King and Queen of Dragonkind. They'll do what's best for all the dragons and if they think keeping the truth is the best then that's what all dragons will do.
So it will be an order no-one would dare disobey!" Sari cut everyone off before they could ask.
"I can't help but sense whatever is going on is a bit of a personal attack. That this is more than perhaps the COE at work again. Like someone really and truly wants us to suffer. Like it's personal." Odyis suddenly spoke up as she'd been very quiet and off in a corner since this discussion began with Spirit.
Everyone looked at the pretty little girl and all had the same look. So collective they all asked, "Why? Why do you feel this is a personal attack on our families?"
"I'm not sure why, it's just something I feel inside me, I can't really explain it in words. My Daddy doesn't think I know but I do. My mom has similar nightmare episodes every month from the 14th to the 19th."
"Your father did mention that to us boys on the camping trip before we had to go save Transformation," admitted Hiccup and Boden's sons together.
Sighing Odyis looked away for a moment before taking a deep breath and then told the boys what her mom told the girls. "Mom says she's had some dealing with the Gods and the Tapestry told her that our family connected to it in a special way.
It's been stewing in my mind since that day of hearing that. I know we are all connected in the Grand Design and we are part of each other. But I can't help but want to know exactly what the Gods and that Tapestry have got to do with my mom and my family."
"But you heard what Kara said, Odyis. What passes between the Tapestry and the Gods informing you of its contents is private and personal and not meant to be shared," Una's daughters reiterated.
"Yeah, Mommy never told us even all that truly passed the first time they went to Asgard and learned all the secrets and received all those powerful accessories that help them with their powers," Vali confessed to her.
"I get that! I do! But that doesn't mean I still don't want to know! And all of you would like to know what truly went on with your parents and grandparents, right?! What happened 23 years ago, don't you?"
"Well, we'd be lying if the Gods had something to inform your family of and you were summoned to the Palace of Odin sure you'd want full details." Breena and Edyis admitted.
"So I really do want to know why my mother of all people what about she is so special the Tapestry chose her as one of the few special souls; I mean we are all specials, but she's a stand out soul if she was at Odin's Palace!
So if that's true that must mean something highly important! And we do know some secrets from what Merida and Harris got from their rune stones and we do know so far what the COE did!
Well, who knows how many notches they gonna take it up? I think it's about to get a lot more personal! And I'm willing to bet our parents really know a lot more than their telling us!
So they think not telling us will save us, but it won't!" she finished fuming and now her eyes were rapidly flashing with green and blue and back again.
"Calm down, Odyis! You're gonna bring out both one of your crazy spells and might explode if you don't calm down. Try some deep breathing, please. And please tell me you took your meds this morning," begged Spirit as she tried to calm her Rider.
Odyis began to try some deep breathing to get herself under control and then reached into a hip pouch and withdrew some chocolate covered pills and Breena gave her some water so she could swallow them.
"It's alright, Odyis, we all need an emergency dose sometimes of our meds. Sometimes symptoms get too strong then a normal dose can control," she replied in a sympathetic manner.
"I know, I know. My crazy spells can be uncontrolled sometimes very inappropriate behavior or my emotional responses are incorrect or my speech is not making sense. Just like my father when he was young."
"Or when you're really young you tended to be very paranoid and talk about things not there. Though you seemed to have grown out of that," Freja pointed out to which the girl shook her head sadly.
"Well, not really, I honestly can say I still feel my family is always being watched by someone so no the paranoia never left. I have got a better grip on not showing it is all."
"Well, right now we all have to come together and take over for our parents. They cannot do their jobs with their lack of sleep. It's too dangerous. So we got to go tell them to put their feet and stay in bed. And just hope they can get some relief from these nightmares!" Erico stated loudly.
"That's an agreement we all share, Erico. Our own father is very stubborn, like your own," Lightning acknowledged to his rider.
"But right now if there any hope for any of our people and the Nine Realms it will be all of us. So whether Mom or Dad like or not they will have to stand down and let the Princesses and Princes of Dragonkind take over for them." Hope said in a firm voice that brooked no rebuke.
"That includes Aunt Stardust and Uncle Nightrainbow and our Godfather Cloudjumper and his family. They will need to stand down, sister. They will not take it easy that we are forcing them to stand aside." Lucelia pointed out.
"Nevertheless, dear sister we are the heirs to the thorn of Dragonkind. We have the right to take command if the Queen and King are unable to do so. Just as our Riders must take command if their parents are incapable of leading." Majestic pointed out the simple facts.
"It's true what he says, you know. You've got that legal right by the statues of your birth to exercise if you so choose as do we. If our parents become unable to lead or perform their jobs it falls on the next in line to take over till they can resume them," quoted Breena what was the laws since time began.
"That's true for all the islands in the entire archipelago, Breena. It would mean I'd take over for Moralien and Odyis for Breakers. Esme since one her father is of the Shardas clan and they don't have an heir currently with them would have the most legal right at the moment to take command. As for the Outcasts? Well, Alvin had no heirs of his own, but we can take emergency control in this situation, as it's the right thing to do."
"We'll handle the Outcast leadership problems. Again, none of us have any blood ties to the land, but we are friends and they'd wanted all of us to take control, given the circumstances.
So leave it to us, my sister and me with our spiritual powers along with Merida and Harris and their divination powers with the rune stones should be able to handle the Outcasts needs for leadership. If that feels like the right call to the others to you other heirs?" Tove inquired to other heirs.
"We think you four with your gifts would do a fine job in taking command of the Outcast and using your gifts wisely for this emergency purposes," the others agreed.
"We also agree your dragons are strong and wise enough in all areas to help assist the Outcast Dragons in the terms of leadership they'll need as well. So you've our blessings as well do take over there as well," Gray and Luna both told them at the same time.
"So as it is we need to take control of the situation and have the ten of us Princesses and Princes with one of the five tribes. It should be one Prince and Princess helping oversee each with the help of the Dragon of that heir." Selena advised wisely.
"Good call, Selena. We better decide who with who now before we go to relieve our parents of their duties," Firethorn concurred.
"Well, I think this is how it should go. Breena and Selena along with Garth and Gray should stay and oversee Berk. That seems good for both human powers and dragon powers as well.
Brant and Majestic and Edyis and Lucelia should help Esme with the Shardas Clan again it seems good with powers and beneficial in other ways
Erico and Lightning will be paired with Freja and Sari and help Whitley with the Moralien Clan for the same reasons.
Geir and I with Gyda and Luna will be helping Odyis and Spirit deal with the Berserkers.
Which leaves Siri and Hope with Vali and Firethorn to deal with the Outcast." Black assigning his siblings and their Riders teams and locations to go too.
"We will do as you command, Black. But we cannot leave out the rest of the team," reminded Luna.
"Yes, we need to make sure the rest of us dragons and our Riders are where they can be most beneficial as well. My brothers will be helping with the Outcasts, but where would you like me and my Rider Eureka?" Maya wanted to know as she looked at her little brothers with concern.
"I think if you don't mind me saying this, but I feel us who the children of the original Riders of Berk have had a duty to stay within Berk and assistance there. Therefore I, Eureka and Mercury and Emerald will stay in the village and help out where we can there." Falcon spoke on behalf of his fellow Rider Children who all nodded in agreement.
"Well, then if your duty bound to help your island then we shall help Whitley with the Moralien clan, though we could still use some backup help." The flower twins admitted.
"As could Odyis and I. I'm both a member of Moralien and Shardas due to my fathers, but I cannot help them by myself," Esme said in a practical manner.
"We can help you out if all think smartly about where we can best offer our services. Destine and I shall offer our keen eyes and ears to help you Esme out with your Daddy's birth tribe," Embla said in a kindhearted voice to which Esme looked very grateful.
"And the three of us will offer our assistance in any way we can to the Moralien clan," Haldor said as he and his two cousins walked over to Whitley's group.
"Which leaves me and my cousin Runa to offer any help you'll need Odyis to help with your tribe." Oili smiled brightly to which Odyis returned it with a bright smile of her own.
Now that they had a plan of attack they put into action and they quickly went to find their parents and formally informed them for the time being they relieved of any and all duties till these nightmares had passed and they had gotten a solid week of sleep.
Though on one hand the parents were relieved that their homes would be taken care of, they were, on the other hand, unhappy about this burden, being forced on the children to take command, as they're being cursed by the intensifying nightmares that were threatening their sanity.
That Saturday in a desperate attempt to get some sleep after being deprived of it all week by these relentless nightmares Valka had made everyone the strongest sleeping potion she could concoct and everyone had two extra-large servings of it.
It seemed this would finally do the trick as surely the potion would knock them out into oblivion and there be no chance to dream anything or even remember anything. No-one realized how very wrong they were.
Loki was watching from a lone black rock just outside the boundaries of Berk and its New Islands and he was smiling. It was the night of the new moon so it was so dark you couldn't even see your nose in front of your face.
He didn't even glance behind him to the minions of his COE all dressed in black. He simply whispered one simple sentence. "Began phase two now."
Viggo led his team in under the cover of darkness. They swift, silent and invisible as they invade the slumbering village and on the strict orders of the village found ever child both human and dragon's bedroom.
Once they located the room they threw a dark purple substance into and the effects of it led anyone who breathed it in to become comatose. You could tell this wasn't just them sleeping they're truly in a coma.
Once they're sure every single child both human and dragon on Berk and the New Islands was in a comatose state Loki calmly walked into the sleeping village with his letter and walking right up to the Haddocks house knocked once loudly and left the message at the doorstep.
He then transformed into his raptor shape and flew onto the rooftop to watch.
The adult Haddocks all came to the door with their mother and picked up the note.
That infernal Hiccup was the one to read it aloud to his family and he went so pale as he read it as if he lost all the blood in his body and his heart was not beating at all as he read it.
"Why so silent, Berk? Did you think that I had left you for good?
Have you missed me? I have come to bring you a warning. Here, I bring the finished score: SURRENDER NOW!
Fondest greetings to you all, just a few instructions before we start: The doors to the Realms are closed now. Odin, Frigga, and Kara must be taught not to interfere, not they're usual ticks of turning tides of war and the Riders and dragons must learn that their place is APART, not together.
As for our stars, Hiccup, Boden, Una Haddock? No doubt, they'll do their best. It's true, they are a good team. They know though, should they wish to defy me, you three have one more lesson to learn: You all won't survive…"
"We need to call a Blood Red NOW!" Hiccup yelled and they were all in agreement and they raced to the Dragon Lung to call for it.
But no sooner were they alerting the whole damn world that they're calling a Code Blood Red that all the Dragons were all acting wild and crazy and adding to the chaos and pandemonium!
They all going crazy! Every dragon on Berk abandoned their humans just threw them off or left their homes and all started making a sound that was a cross between a warning call and battle cry.
All the dragons converged on the Nursery and kicked out all the humans to force all deep into the Nursery especially the women and children were forced even deeper inside.
Outside the Nursery, every male on the island except for Toothless and Cloudjumper was standing outside the Nursery looking like an army and wouldn't let anyone go near the Nursery.
No-one on Berk could figure it out what was the reasons for this behavior. Boden, however, didn't just hear them screaming the same word over and over again in out loud but also in their heads. They screamed it so loudly and with such intense emotions attached to it, it caused him to become physically ill from hearing and feeling it.
But they all heard them all screaming "KRASHATH! KRASHATH! KRASHATH!"
Everyone was just so perplexed and even in the mist of their own chaos was like what was causing the dragon's chaos and panic? This was more than just fear this was rage, fear, and anger, yes. But it was something they'd never seen from any of the dragons before now.
But all the dragons everywhere kept screaming this name again and again 'KRASHATH! KRASHATH! KRASHATH!' and not a human living or dead knew who that was.
However, one and all was about to find out what was causing all the dragons to have such an uproar and why they also were so determined to protect the females and children.
Even though there was no moon the torches were still burning, so when an enormous shadow blocked out their light and from the blacken sky even blacker then thought possible as it descended they all saw who Krashath was.
This was a dragon-like no-one in all the history of Vikings had ever seen or heard of before and it was enough to scare anyone to death! It was a dragon but this wasn't a dragon for the only true word to define him would be a demon. He was larger than a small mountain, whiter the bone and eyes redder than blood and they're hungry. What they're hungry for was obvious. He was a demon dragon of lust!
The white demon smiled his twisted smile and began to speak but instead of speaking he sang in a harsh raspy voice that even added more reason to call him a demon and not a dragon it also confirmed he was a demon of lust.
You have come here, in pursuit of your deepest urge that fate which 'till now has been silent, silent.
I have sought you so that our passions may fuse and merge! In your mind, you've already succumbed to me drop all defenses, completely succumb to me, now you are here with me, no second thoughts, you've decided, decided.
Past the point of no return, no backward glances the games of make-believe are at an end. Past all thought of if or when no use resisting Abandon thought and let the dream descend. What shall raging fire flood the soul?
What rich desire unlocks its door? What sweet seduction lies before us?
Past the point of no return, the final threshold what warm unspoken secrets will we learn? Beyond the point of no return!"
Then coming from behind this demon was an army of beings in robes so red they're almost black and then everything and everyone was caught up in a desperate battle.
The side of good was at a severe disadvantage as Loki knew they be from being torment and lack of sleep and worried about their home and children and then there was the intimating factor of this psychologically intimating army and demon.
It was chaos, mayhem and pandemonium and all the children were in a coma and unable to help them.
And in the mist of this blood splatter, gore, screams and violence, Loki in his raptor form flew swiftly and silently to one of the New Islands unseen and headed straight to one of the Guest House.
He seemed to know exactly which one he wanted as he headed directly toward with deliberation and no hesitation.
In the dark and blood-soaked air, you couldn't make out which guest house he was at as he reverted back to his true form. This time when he went to the door he didn't knock. He blasted the door off its hinges.
Inside the guest home, there was the sound of a young woman screaming and the sound of a child crying out in fear as well.
Loki with a creepy smile and in an even creepier smile let himself in and called out. "Oh, hello my darling Daughter of mine! Guess what? Daddy decided to come by for a visit!" and then walked into the shadowy room where the screaming continued.