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Chapter 5

Tony's smooth hydraulics sped him toward the shining golden Asgardian palace. He had a few people chasing him, shouting at him about Thor, but he ignored them. When he got to the castle, he was met by three men and a woman, all pointing weapons at him. The woman gasped when she saw the burns on his clothes, and the way he was struggling to stay conscious. She snarled at Tony.

"What have you done to him?" she yelled at his mask. Tony's faceplate went up to reveal his face. They all jumped back. He offered the man in his arms to the short, squat Asgardian.

"Sorry," he said frowning guiltily. "A member of our team -a half dragon- was under mind control and shot a fireball at him..." the warriors looked at each other, wide-eyed.

"Come with us." said the woman, taking off as fast as she could. The four men followed.

The rest of the team looked after Erika as she ran away as fast as she could. They saw her leap over a large boulder, uprooted from the sea by the tusks of the huge sea dragon, and disappear.

Clint looked abashed. Natasha had her usual stony face on, but Cap could see the glimmer of worry in her eyes that she was trying to hide. Hulk was growling in rage at the Bewilderdeath, but was staying put until Cap gave him the A-Okay to smash. Falcon was knocking his head on a spike of ice, trying to think. Steve's brain was going into overdrive, trying to think of ways to help Erika and get rid of Loki and the Bewilderdeath.

Then they all heard the Bewilderdeath roar, and saw the dragons swarm around him. Natasha's breath caught in her throat when she saw Erika fly up from behind the boulder, flying low to the ground toward him.

Just as she glided past Loki, he reached up with his staff and hooked it on her wing "shoulder". He yanked hard, bringing her down onto the tusk. The mischief maker then proceeded to mount her like a horse, finally letting the dragon take off.

All the Avengers that were left ducked for cover as the huge dragon dived into the sea, causing a 60-foot tidal wave to wash up on shore. Sam grabbed Cap, and Natasha and Clint scrambled up onto Hulk as the water reached the beach. They all watched in dismay as the swarm of dragons flew out to sea.

"Aw, great." muttered Hawkeye. "What now?"

Natasha sighed. "Go after her."

Falcon and Hawkeye looked at her incredously. "How?" asked Falcon. "I'm the only one left that can fly."

Natasha rolled her eyes. "I'll let you two birbrains figure it out." she snapped, walking toward the quinjet.

"Oh yeah." deadpanned Hawkeye.

"And it's birdbros!" yelled Falcon as they followed her.

Steve rolled his eyes as he climbed aboard. "That's worse than something Stark would come up with." he said. Before they could all climb aboard, a thunk was heard on the roof.

Hawkeye, who had just sat down, looked out the windsheild with a start. He was met with a certain masked vigilante, white lenses and all. Yelping, the archer jumped back. Spidey chuckled. "What's happening, Jumpy?" he asked.

Natasha rolled her eyes. "Now is NOT the time for jokes!" she snapped. Spiderman crawled down the window and did a flip, landing on the sand.

"Well excuse me, grumpy."

Hawkeye looked annoyed. "Do you have dumb nickname for all of us?" he asked, unimpressed.

"Yup!" chirped the spider. He pointed at Hawkeye. "You're Jumpy, Widow is Grumpy, Hulk is Smashy, Cap is...uh..."

Sam raised an eyebrow. Natasha pinched the bridge of her nose. These boys would be the death of her. "WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!" she yelled. They all jumped. Good. "Erika is out there, alone, probably being mind controlled! LET'S GO!"

Spiderman rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry." he muttered. "I didn't know." He looked around. "Where are Tony and Thor?"

Steve looked down. "Erika nearly killed Thor. Tony took him to Asgard."

"Aw, great." muttered Spiderman. "Why do I always get the big reptiles?"

Everyone but Falcon and Spidey were in the jet. "You coming or not?" asked Hawkeye.

Peter jumped on top, securing himself with a web. "Yup. Let's go."

Everyone rolled their eyes at him, and Falcon took off. The jet quickly followed. They all followed the rapidly disappearing flock of dragons, but only one thought was on their minds. Please don't let us be too late.

Tony ran after the four warriors, after dropping Thor very uncerimoniously at Frigga's side. With a quick "Thor'shurtweneedtolooksomethingupit'simportantberightback!" they had all galloped off. Needless to say, Thor's mother had been extremely flustered.

The one that looked like an Aisan pulled a book off of a shelf, tossing it to the girl, who introduced herself as Lady Sif. "That's Fandral," she said, pointing to the Aisan. "That's Volstagg," she continued, gesturing to the blonde, tall one. Lastly, she nodded toward the short, bearded one. "And that's Hogun." Tony nodded.

Volstagg grabbed another book. It was old, had a tan cover, and a dragon symbol on the front. It was written in Viking runes. (Sound familiar?) "Book of Dragons." he translated. "We confiscated this from a Viking town by the name of Berk. It might tell us how to defeat this mind-controlling dragon." They all sat down at a circular table.

Tony flipped the book open. Jarvis translated it for him. "Book of dragons by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third." he snickered. "Dragon classifications: Boulder class, Sharp class, Mystery class, Tidal class-"

Tony interrupted the AI. "Scan and see if there is any pictures of the big dragon."

"There appears to be two different pictures that both look a bit like it, sir."

"Okay, what's the closest one?"

"20 pages in, sir." Jarvis said helpfully. Tony flipped to the page, completely oblivious to the strange looks the warriors were giving him. To them, he was talking to himself.

"Bewilderbeast." started Jarvis...

More BoD next! :) Plus, we will catch up with Erika! :) see you soon! :) Don't forget to review!