Power Packed Weekend

The following weekend after their Spirit Weekend was just as excited as it was a 3 day weekend so anyone with special talents could have the training time they needed to properly learn to control their gifts.

For the Next Generation Riders, they had quite a thrilling time last weekend using their powers and skills during the game of Dragon Air Tag. However, that didn't mean they still didn't need to train in how to use them.

They still couldn't escape their destiny to protect this world anymore then their parents. It was part of the reason they'd all earned this chance to be reborn in the first place. The world needed them as heroes.

After all, the Tapestry of Creation wouldn't have had such a reaction to the three Haddock Children who literally changed everything in the Nine Realms by bringing about the Age of Transformation and Enlightenment if it was crucial they remain in play.

So like it or not they couldn't escape the role of heroes of destiny and having to protect world peace. Human and Dragon Peace Keepers that's what they were for all time and truthfully they wouldn't have it any other way.

Normal was seriously overrated and being bored was no fun. So they were sorta glad this was their life. Though every once and while being normal wouldn't be so bad especially when training weekends got too intense.

After all their trainers weren't just their families, it also was the Gods and Valkyries of Asgard plus Kara's whole family. And just like on Dragon City Family Game Night there 'training' was a bit unorthodox and just a little unusual.

The first training game they played was a living game of Stratego the board game version of capture the flag. But again with different rules. They're playing the old version of the game Civil War style since most hadn't played the upgraded version with the space theme.

The NGR were assigned a number that matched the game piece with one person being the spy and a few being the bombs and one being the flag.

Now they had to get past their families and win the game. This training exercise was for those without special powers. Those who skills were more of the body and mind and not of the special kind.

So this was mainly to help Falcon, Eureka, Destin, Embla, Haldor, Hertha, Jary, Oili, Runa, Whitley, and Esme. As they were the ones without the special powers.

As Stratego was a game of strategy, wits and being clever and decisive it was right up their alley. Falcon was the best warrior out all of them. Eureka excelled at mayhem and distractions.

Destin was the keenest of sight and his cousin keenest of hearing. Haldor was a skilled pickpocket, Hertha could copy anyone skills after seeing them once. Jary had a knack for finding just what you needed when you needed.

Oili and Runa were contortionist and Whitley was an expert at strategy and Esme was a creative thinker who thought outside the box.

This exercise was very tricky and took a long time but when playing a battle game it was never gonna be over quick. Truthfully it was almost like that old 90's show "Wild and Crazy Kids"

Finally, the NGR manage to win the live action version of Stratego by capturing the other side's flag person. So that training exercise was now done. So after that exercise was done it was time to work with those with special powers.

This was gonna be a rescue game. Using their own special talents they'd a different rescue scenario for each team. Their non-power teams were in different dire straights and their powered teammates would've to work together to get through the obstacles and dangerous to rescue and get them the medical attention they needed in time.

So first up was Breena, Edyis, Freja, Merida, Tove, Emerald, and Buttercup. The world they'd been sent to was Utgard land of the Frost Giants. Their objective was to rescue Falcon, Eureka, Destin, Embla, Whitley and Esme from both frostbit and Frost Giants.

They'd only 2 and half hours to complete their mission. So the magical world played out as the group made their way through the reality bubble that had been created for them to play out this little adventure.

Utgard was the coldest place in all the Realms. Not even the Poles on Earth got this cold. The only places that possibly got colder then Utgard was Hel's old prison under her Citadel from when she not been enlightened. Though Purgatory had been designed to be a place to live up to its name.

Hel now Helena wasn't proud of her past life as Hel and that's why she and her brothers had done all they could to make up for the mistakes and sins of their past lives. Trying not to think about it at the moment they watched as the young children completed the mission in the allowed time and saved their friends from the evil Frost Giants.

The next danger wasn't from the cold but a land was magic ruled not logic. The next group search and rescue mission was Vanaheim the land of the Vanir. It was a lush jungle for Brant, Garth, Gyda, Harris, Unn, Mercury, and Daisy to navigate against powerful magic to rescue Haldor, Hertha and Jary.

Again this was a true jungle of madness where magic was the dominating factor and not logic and reason. Nevertheless, the group again completed their mission successfully as a team to rescue their captured friends.

That only left one last hostile location for a daring rescue and it was the REAL HELL in the Nine Realms. Muspelheim the Land of the Fire Giants. It was hotter than the sun, acid rain, everything there burned to the touch and deserts searched for miles.

But it was this hostile and deadly location in this rescue scenario that Erico, Geir, Siri, Vali, and Odyis had to survive from to save the last two hostages Oili and Runa and again they only had 2 and half hours to complete the mission.

Now everyone still watching from the outside of the magical reality bubble really thought the Gods were being seriously unfair with this one. But again they also knew the children had to be ready for any kind of scenario and like it or not there were places just as hellish on Earth as the Fire Giants Realms. Particularly if the threat of nuclear war ever came true.

Despite all the hardships and overall near fatal conditions of this Realm the young children were able to complete the mission and get back without being burned to a crisp.

Everyone was then given magical medical attention and some much-needed refreshments after that training exercise as all three groups been through hell and back.

The last training exercises were one that may seem cruel was but was needed all the same. It was something that Angela and Gabriel really didn't like to do but had to do. And Brundi herself hated she must be part of it as well. Still, they'd sharpen their mental and physical skills as well as their powers.

Now came facing their toughest challenge. Every training session ended with them having to face their greatest enemy. Themselves. The three 27-year-old would join their energies and this would cast a spell that formed a chrysalis around all the children.

Inside their chrysalis, they would face their inner demons and would not emerge from them until they'd faced the truth and could metamorphose from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Sometimes this took longer than other nights.

The biracial heritage meant only Angela and Gabriel could cast this and they needed Brundi for several reasons. They're strong friendship with her, her unique understanding of the human mind and the fact she was a soul that hadn't exist in the past gave her a fresh untainted energy.

Tonight it took 3 hours totally for everyone to emerge from their chrysalis but they had done it. Looks this weekend training session had been successful all around.