Title: New Blood of a Lost Age

A Halo/HTTYD Crossover

Ok it's been a few days since tuesday which means it's time for the next chapter soooo...

Here it is...

"Do you have Hiccup?" Stoick asked bluntly. He wanted to make sure his only son and his dragon friend were ok.

"Yes, we do" Lasky replied, he wasn't going to elaborate on that unless asked.

"Can we...see him? Can we talk to him?" Stoick was swiftly moving through the questions he had pre prepared in his mind on the journey here.

"No"

Stoick was outraged in his mind, he was screaming curses at this man who kept calm, but on the outside he had to play it cool. "Why not?"

"We don't know where he is at the moment. He's not in his quarters. I think I heard him talking to Toothless about food, which would mean he's in the galleys."

Stoick looked down at his hands. "Okay, but what did ya need 'im for?" Gobber piped up.

Lasky shifted uncomfortably in his seat, this was going to be hard to explain. "We originally took his dragon Toothless for experimentation, however after I experienced the bond between them first hand we decided to skip that part. We still hold physical diagrams, body function and a rather interesting neural chart showing the circumstances needed to achieve peak performance from his brain." He looked to the Vikings who were clearly having trouble processing what he just said. "Okay, the best way to make him think quickly." He received several nods as they all seemed to understand what he was talking about now. "Hiccup was really an occupational hazard, we weren't expecting anyone else to come along that evening. When Hiccup and Astrid flew along it was the perfect time to be able to collect information about your tribe."

"What about Toothless?" Stoick questioned.

"Oh the black dragon? He's a gem, only really fought back when he first arrived but apart from that has followed Hiccup around and not really been a nuisance. Apart from when he was caught stealing fish from the stores. I hear how he looked at the guard in a certain way and the guard just let him go."

"Thas' Toothless alright" Gobber leaned over to Stoick.

"My turn for some questions now" Lasky was trying to be patient. "Why did you attack us? We hadn't been hostile at all."

Stoick sighed. "We're like tha' to all new things. 'tis a Viking way I s'pose."

Lasky nodded.

Gobber whispered something in Stoick's ear. Stoick looked over his shoulder to him and Gobber nodded.

"So, we'd like ta know, what are you doin' on this island. On MY island?" Stoick looked Lasky in the eye pointedly from across the table.

Lasky leaned forward in his chair. A screen appeared on his side of the table in front of him. He tapped on various parts of the table flicking through menus with practiced speed as he spoke.

"I'll be blunt. A few days ago we picked up a signal coming from a ship like this one floating in space. The main difference is that that ship didn't crash in your ocean. The other difference is, unlike us, this one is completely hostile." He pressed one final image on the table and a hologram appeared in the middle of the room. The hologram showed a Covenant Destroyer hovering menacingly in the shadow of the moon.

"Our optics captured this image this morning, it has since moved into the upper atmosphere of Earth." He pressed a button again and the hologram showed the Covenant Destroyer amongst the faintest part of the atmosphere, the very nose of the ship glowing red. "This was taken six hours ago." He pressed the button and again the image changed to the Destroyer now in the atmosphere, but facing away from the camera as if it were headed in the wrong direction. "And this was taken as you walked in the room earlier. The vessel has since moved away from the area, but it seems it's searching for us. I'll give you some background on what that is." He gestures to the ship before he starts talking. Lasky recited the story of how the UNSC went to war with the Covenant. And how thanks to John and the other Spartans the remnants of a huge empire survived to begin all over again. He also told of how humanity came into an alliance with one of its former enemies, and how they mistakenly ended up in another time. All of the Vikings listened intently to this information, fascinated by how their descendants were triumphant in the greatest of wars. Lasky also added in the parts that happened after they crashed in Berk's waters. After he'd finished, the Vikings looked at each other in silence.

Stoick spoke first. "Well, tha' was quite a tale. But, that didn' answer my question."

"We're setting up a base in the clearing on your island to try and get the ship away from us here so we can work on our power situation. We can take it on in the sky but right now we're nowhere near flying. We'll just have to hope that any other tribes will keep it busy long enough for us to get back in the sky, then I believe we'll be able to sort this out. When the Destroyer comes back around you need to get out of the village and hide in the woods somewhere out of the way."

"We're Vikings, we'll take 'em on. We'll take anythin' on and we'll win!" Stoick confidently replied.

The teenagers perked up at this. "Yeah we'll get em' don't you worry" Snotlout spoke with his usual overconfidence.

"No no no we can't let you guys battle the Covenant, it's just not happening. They aren't like anything else you've fought. They are nothing like your dragons who would steal food for their own survival. They will kill you simply because they can and they will not stop until humanity is extinguished. Now please, I have some things to attend to, if you follow the Master Chief" he gestured to John who was still standing in the corner. He looked at Lasky upon hearing his name. "He will take you to the hangar where you'll be flown back to your village where a surprised Hiccup will be waiting." The Vikings stood up and followed the Master Chief out of the conference room where Lasky was still sat, wondering how on earth he'd figure this mess out.

Yup, the next chapter was a big meeting, sorry if you though any differently.

Until the Next Time...