So I know I told you I was going to tell you about Lacie's past but well I was thinking about it and I thought maybe not in this chapter since it's kind of blood gory already. Anyways I'll figure something out since I have time on my hands.
"How should I start this? I never had a time where I had to explain what Mir is. Where should I start Mir? Can I say that he's a special dragon that ... ahh... this is so hard." Lacie said as she was rubbing the back of her neck fumbling with her words. Mir was just laughing along with Lacie's trouble with words.
"It's okay, Lacie we have all the time in the world right now maybe," Mir said to comfort Lacie.
"It's not okay. It's been a while since I was you know kind to people." Lacie pointed it out which made her other dragons agree along with Cygnus. "Alright, can I start with my other partners?"
"Of course, you can do that," Hiccup said smiling that he was going to get some information out of her. Fishlegs was getting closer and closer to them and he was about to touch Angel's wings. Angel noticed it and had Fishlegs on the ground with his tail right at his throat.
"Whoa whoa whoa, calm down Angel. Let him go, he's not a threat." Lacie touched Angel and he only looked at Lacie still growling at Fishlegs. "Come on, you can trust me when I say he's not going to hurt me please?" Angel finally got his tail off of Fishlegs and walked , getting off of him. Lacie let out a breath when Angel backed away from him and started with Angel. "Angel here is an ice dragon. He can shoot ice spikes from his wings and tail. His belly to the underneath of his tail is made of special crystals which makes weapons worthless when attacking his bottom. His hands can generate ice so when he has the enemies in his grasp they freeze instantly. Rather than the targets physical bodies freezing, it is their consciousness or soul that is frozen. It can also be fathomed as a magic that froze the time of the realm of a target's soul in his breath. I call it Cocytus and Niflheim. This technique ignores heat and appearance, using magic to uniformly cool down all the objects within a set area. As a result, a large mass of cold air which contains a fog of liquid nitrogen, diamond dust, and dry ice particles is formed. His wings are at a real disadvantage since they are made up of crystals which is partly my fault he can only fly for like half a day to a day if he had a water source to keep his wings solid. I'm still working on how to keep him in the air without his wings from drying up and making him unable to fly. So anyone of you want to know any other things about him?" Lacie said as she started rubbing Angel on his head.
"Just one question Lacie right?" Fishlegs said before anyone else could ask her.
"Yeah, and what is it... um... who are you again?"
"My name is Fishlegs and I want to know how you came across this fine dragon."
"I met Angel after 2 years after I met Mir. Which I met Mir around 3 years ago when Cygnus here thought it was okay to do another personal summon to me again." Lacie shot a glare at Cygnus who was just smiling away as if she was innocent.
"I was just helping out a friend that's all," Cygnus said to back up herself up.
"I don't think having 3 personal summonings for me in the last 6 months would be helping since it takes up too much time and blood not to mention a waste of time. I was completely fine without a partner, Cygnus, how much trouble did you get into with your father?"
"Not even a complaint from him. He actually congratulated me for helping a citizen with their problems and that I am kind at heart." She was totally shining when she said that.
"I'm going to assume that this is what he said the first time you've done the summoning and you told about the other two with different citizens."
"You are always giving me the benefit of the doubt here. Come on, Lacie can't you trust my word sometimes."
"I am going trust your word when I feel like it."
"But the summoning worked didn't it."
"Yeah, and what is your point?"
"If it weren't for me you wouldn't have met Angel or Mir."
"Though I did meet Demi without your help."
"You guys, don't argue right now," Hiccup said trying to take control of the situation.
"It's none of your business anyways so shut up." They both said at the same time and started glaring at each other that there should have been sparks flying out from their glares. Lacie looked away and continued on about Demi.
"I met Demi when I was on one of my mission by my guardian to have a look at the ruins that were kept in the Halo of Beginnings as well as document the relics that were below the altar. I went down there and found an egg frozen solid around research on what was in the contents of the egg. I found out that it was a fallen angel dragon the deadliest dragon in existence. They are said to defy God in keeping the peace between humans and dragons but they defied him. They defied him because they figured out that he loves humans more than dragons himself and so they started to kill humans just for the fun of it. So I thought maybe just maybe if I can raise him to be a nice one unlike his ancestors then they don't have to fear him but what do you know. Having him by my side wasn't exactly the best option on the table. Anyways, Demi, is still a baby at the moment so he can't do much just confuse his enemies to do some nasty things. What you should fear the most is his Shinigami skill though he shouldn't have learned it yet. I'm still learning on what he can do so I don't know much about him."
"You just said that you found research on him." Fishlegs pointed it out.
"Yeah, but I torched the place when I got the egg out of there besides I don't like cheating." Angel and Mir started looking around which Lacie took notice of it. "What is it you guys?"
"We kind of taught the Shinigami skill to Demi already," Mir said as he looked at Lacie showing how serious he was.
"And?" Lacie said which surprised all of them.
"And what, Lacie?" Mir answered.
"And what were the results."
"Yeah, he kind of went on a rampage for a bit so I took him and forcefully kept him in the water until he was almost dying," Mir said.
"Oh okay." That's all Lacie said and turned towards the others. "So, for the 5 months with Mir what have you learned about him," Hiccup answered her.
"Well, we know he doesn't have a specific element, he can communicate with us, he has no shot limit and he seems to be on par with my dragon, Toothless, in speed."
"That's all? Wow, that's something you got oHiccup gestured his hand towards the all black dragon who had a different tailfin then his whole body.
"This is Toothless. He's a night fury. The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself." Lacie went up to Toothless and started observing him from his head to his tail.
"Nice handy work Hiccup, I'm assuming you did this all by yourself."
"Y-yes, I did."
"I would show you what I have worked on but I blew that up along with many of my other things when I was on the hunter's ship. There is no way I'm going to let them get their hands on my stuff."
"It's alright, you can make it again at the forge we have here." Lacie shook her head.
"Sorry but the items I make are too complex to recreate."
"What do you mean too complex."
"I'll show you maybe another time I'm tired I just want to get some rest."
"Yeah, we'll talk about this tomorrow." Cygnus raised her hand and everyone's attention went to her.
"Um, where are we going to sleep?" She said and that's when everyone realized that they may not have enough room to keep everyone in their huts.
"I can sleep outside it's nothing I can't handle," Lacie said plainly and started walking away but Cygnus grabbed her hand and started pulling her back to the group.
"That's not okay come on, Lacie, we are discussing things right now so no going off on your own."
"She's right you know," Hiccup added in.
"Fine, Where will you have us sleep then?" Lacie said.
"Well, have you guys stay in the dome and tomorrow we can start discussing building a hut."
"That sounds like a plan to me," Cygnus said as she agreed to the whole thing and Lacie added in.
"By the way, Cygnus, you're rooming on your own. Leave me out of it."
"Lacie, why?"
"I knew you were thinking that way but no thanks I feel the need to have some distance from you."
"Like I said why?"
"The last time I shared a room with you, my regular clothes went missing instead there were skirts and clothing that exposes to much skin. Not pointing fingers here but I rather keep my own clothes instead of finding them incinerated by your maid over there."
"I do not know of such a thing." Cygnus covering her mouth to hide away her smile.
"Yeah keep telling yourself that now but I'm not changing my mind." Cygnus put her hands folded on her lap and responded.
"You are stingy, Lacie, really stingy." Lacie just smiled as she looked at Cygnus and started to walk away. They got blankets and pillows to use against the stone cold ground. Lacie gave her's to Cygnus and went over to Mir and just leaned against him. He put his wing around Lacie to protect her against the cold and went to sleep as well. Angel and Demi were right beside Mir in case something might happen and everyone else went to sleep.
Morning came and Lacie was the first one up even before the sun had risen. She was flying around on Angel giving him water on his wings and also testing many things out. Lacie found out that the bone's to his wings were not as strong as she thought to constantly water his wings. She needed to get the crystals off of his wings as fast as she could either that or building armored wings to strengthen his bones. Lacie thought of ways to get the crystal either on him to make is attacks more lethal or take them down so he could be faster in flying away from a chase. Also, she had to take in the fact that he needs to keep his wings from drying up and breaking apart. Lacie scratched her head not knowing what to do about to Angel's wings. Lacie got on Angel's back and went back to the dome before anyone noticed she was missing. She went over to Demi and started petting him even if he wasn't awake yet. A few minutes later, people were waking up and Lacie was just checking out Mir's injuries which were mostly healed by now.
"Alright, is everyone awake now?" Hiccup opened up the dome with Toothless at his side.
"Yeah, let's get this started I don't think I'll remain sane if I continue to be with the mother-daughter pair over there," Lacie said as she put Demi on her shoulders.
"Alright, first we need to find a good place where we can build the huts for all of you." Hiccup said which only Lacie, Hiccup, and Astrid went off looking at the space to make extensions. They walked around to a plain view of all the huts and they weren't near the cliff or the watch towers. Lacie didn't seem to find it worthy enough to make since the ground was too soft and could collapse on them at any moment. There was also a steep sink in the place but Lacie seemed keen on finding a use for it. Lacie told Hiccup and Astrid that she'll have her place there but she would go looking where Lana and Cygnus were going to be staying and also the maid. That's when Lacie started having second thoughts about the whole arrangement and decided that their hut was going to be near her's like maybe around 50-75 meters or so. When everything was decided Hiccup and the others went to grab some logs for them to start building but Lacie stood behind and started working on the blueprints on the place. She knew that she would be needing more than just wood to make everything stabilized. She looked around to see if anyone was looking and she pulled out her dagger. She cut her wrist to take out items that were from a storage in her secret place and she got some items from her stuff that she hid away from the hunters. She felt bad that she lied to Hiccup and the others but she couldn't trust them just yet. She needed time just some time to open up to people if she was capable of such a thing anymore. She began grabbing her gloves, toolkit, and some blank pages out of the place and closed the space away. She took a pencil out of the toolkit and started sketching out the plans for Lana's and Cygnus's house. Since the maid won't go anywhere without them she thought it should be fine if she could stay in one place. She made it as a two-story hut. The main floor was where they could relax and maybe have tea also had a room where the maid could sleep in. The second floor was for Lana and Cygnus to sleep but there wouldn't be any doors to connect the room. Just a movable wall to separate the rooms and a backup wall where the wall can be then put away in case of anything. There will be a balcony where they could enjoy the night sky and relax in a place like this. There would also be an open space where Lacie's and their hut would be a landing for their trip to each other's places. The rope would have a stopper somewhere to make sure none of them would fall and since they didn't have the arm strength to hold onto the system. Lacie had to design a chair or maybe a board to make things go along. Their way down the hut was going to be tough too since they didn't have dragons and Angel would be there for them much. Lacie thought of making one of those levers that can carry you up or down by just rotating the gears. When she finished she didn't even notice that people were right behind her and when she brought up the finishing touches to the sketch of Lana's hut in the sun to get a better view on it there was someone right behind her and finally said something which surprised her.
"Wow, that's very detailed did you finish all that when everyone else was collecting logs?" Lacie almost tore up the blueprint in half and turned around seeing Hiccup and the others.
"Yeah, I thought it was better to finish their hut before mine. Besides their's is going to be much simpler than what I'm planning to do with mine." Hiccup glanced over behind the blueprint and saw some things that didn't look familiar to him.
"Hey, Lacie, what are those?" Lacie looked over where Hiccup had pointed and had a shocked face.
"Damn, I forgot it put those away oh wells. This toolbox helps me hold my tools in making a lot of things and my gloves you know what those are for and no these aren't for fighting people just helps me not get any splinters and these pages just help me make stuff like these."
"And what's in your toolbox?" Lacie put down the page and placed a rock on it making sure it doesn't fly away. She lifted up the latches, unlocking the box and opened up the lid. Hiccup was right beside her when she opened it and it had many things that were unknown to him. He was about to touch it but Lacie slapped his hand.
"Don't touch it." Cygnus came up to her and said something.
"To think you kept that old thing all this time. I could have gotten you a new one."
"No thanks, I want to use this until it breaks on me besides it's the only thing I had when you found me."
"You mean you had someone make this box out of the basket we found you in?"
"Of course," Lacie started caressing the box. "It's the only thing that connects me to my real parents. Anyways, I don't want anyone to touch the stuff in my toolbox. Even if it's stuff you guys have never seen just don't touch it. They are special to me and I don't want any of it to break or somehow lost on this island."
"We understand, Lacie, I promise you that no one is going to touch your toolbox. So can you tell me where you got it since you didn't have it when we first met you nor did you have it when we were in the kingdom."
"I was found out huh. Thought I could pull a fast one on you guess I was underestimating you guys."
"So are you going to tell us or what?" Ruffnut said as if she was losing her patience. Lacie gave out a sigh of relief.
"Hiccup, Astrid, you saw how those students attacked me with elements right?" They both nodded at the same time. "That is magic, they can either borrow it from their partners or they can use their own. Sometimes if a person is skilled enough they can combine their magic together and make it even better." Lacie trying to explain to them but it wasn't making much sense to them. "So think of it like this. Mir can do all sorts of things when you were observing him right and you, Hiccup, also witnessed how Mir burned down the entire Kingdom when I was with him can you tell me the difference and yes I said to burn the entire kingdom down, Lana. It was necessary to make sure they don't rise in numbers." Lacie finished and turned to Lana to explain what was going on and she understood that she had to take action. Hiccup was thinking about the difference of him.
"It's because he was much more powerful in taking down the entire place than he was with us."
"Exactly."
"Wait, Hiccup, you said not to blow stuff up but how come she gets to burn an entire kingdom down," Tuffnut said.
"I-I'm not in charge of her."
"Touche, Hiccup, you are a liar." Tuffnut roared out only to be hit in the head from Snotlout.
"Would you guys shut up so what if Lacie just blew up an island it's not like she did it for fun am I, right guys?" Snotlout trying to get the atmosphere better but everyone just glared at him.
"Anyways, I can get help from my dragons or I can do it myself which got me to grab some items from my secret place that no one knows where it is to here. So no more questions I need to get started on their hut." Lacie started gathering the logs and started building the supports to the huts. She had to make sure that each log wasn't damaged in any way and to figure out where to put more stabilizers. When Lacie was finished making the whole support system she started making the main floor though making on the support system would be so wise so she made it on the ground. She pulled out her measuring tape and started making each piece of wood exactly to size. She made each flooring piece by piece so it would be easier for Mir to carry up. When half of the flooring was on the support system she was on the floor doing everything instead of the grassy layout. When she finally finished the whole flooring for both of the floors in the hut it was already dark. Of course, she had to put you some walls in case they might collapse on her and also she didn't want to do it again. She was finished more than she could do alone so she thanked Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs and maybe Snotlout but not the twins because for most of the time she was about to have Angel freeze them in place for the whole day. Everyone was having dinner but Lacie didn't touch her food because she was busy helping Cygnus with her food.
"You know, Lacie, you can always ask for our help with building the hut." Hiccup said as Lacie came back with a clean set of gloves for Cygnus.
"I'd like that but I'm more worried about the idiots over there trying to catch Demi." Lacie pointed over to Ruffnut and Tuffnut who were trying to catch Demi until he landed on Lacie's shoulder. They were about to grab them until Lacie took a step away from them and grabbed their heads and bash them together. They fell down while Lacie still had her hands in the air where their heads used to be and just dropped them to her side. "Anyways, I just need another helper with knowledge in reading the blueprints since I don't like wasting time in explaining how it works."
"I guess that only leaves me can I look at the blueprints to get a good idea on what you are doing." Hiccup said as he brought his hand out to get the blueprints. Lacie handed them over to him and watched his reactions to them. "I can;t seem to read this." Hiccup finally said which confused Lacie.
"It's just normal English what's so hard about it."
"The letters, I've never seen them before."
"Oh, hmm this is hard just have Cygnus to translate them for you since she really has nothing better to do than to bother others."
"Hey," Cygnus said as she finished her dinner.
"Anyways, all you have to do is take a look at the layout for the second floor I should be done the first floor in a matter of time. There's also the walls and the roof also the series of transportation in getting there and to the edge. Hmm, maybe I'll just start on the first floor and think about that later." Lacie started mumbling after that and started to walk off until Demi told her that she forgot her dinner. She got Demi to take it for her and went off walking towards the unfinished hut. She knocked the pillars to see if they could hold against the wind or water in case a tsunami came through. Lacie started on the logs and input where each cut had to be made when she was finished she went over to the dome and went to sleep.
Over at the dinner...
The twins got up from their little bashing and everyone was having a great time. Cygnus was having fun teaching Hiccup how to read their letters even though there were multiple attempts where Cygnus tried to run with the blueprints. Though Toothless also brought her back even before she was out the door.
"Come on, I can be of help really. I can do some stuff like lifting the logs." Cygnus trying to get something out of Hiccup.
"I don't think, Lacie would let me have you help in all this."
"I don't want to be a burden to everyone." Cygnus trying to plead her way through.
"Why don't you ask Lacie about this?"
"Maybe I will." Cygnus stormed off to where Lacie was.
"Don't worry about my daughter she just wants to explore what's there in the world. Because where we meaning her parents were so scared that our only daughter might lose her very quickly. So we forbade her from taking anything that seemed dangerous. Lacie, however, came in and Cygnus took an interest in everything Lacie was at the castle for. Whether it was repairs or redecorating even helping out with the pets. We also took in Lacie for a bodyguard since we seemed to find it right to have someone her age to confide in but who would have thought it would backfire on us. Cygnus would actually attend fighting lessons with Lacie and since she is a princess, Lacie couldn't turn her down." Lana started reminiscing about the past and started laughing to herself. Everyone didn't understand a word Lana had said but didn't even dig deeper into it. After a while, they started heading off to sleep Lana noticed that Lacie was already asleep. She walked over to Lacie and woke her up even taking the death glare Mir gave her. Lacie was half-asleep when she opened her eyes.
"Mind following me, Lacie." Lacie shook her head and started walking out of the dome to a cliff where they were no clouds in the sky. "Lacie, you overworked yourself," Lana said to Lacie who was fully awake.
"I didn't I still sleep and I feel better working don't even notice it at all."
"I can tell that you're sick. Just how many years did you stay at the castle?"
"I'm going to say 7 here maybe 8 lost count a long time ago."
"Yeah, and I think I know when you are overexerting yourself."
"I can have Mir heal me to be healthy again."
"I meant mentally. You are exhausted from everything so why not rest it's not like we are in a rush."
"Lana, you don't know when the chairman is going to find out that you and Cygnus are still alive."
"He probably knows that you torched the whole place down so he has nothing to prove that anyone is alive."
"I'm getting sleepy and it's cold out. Let's go back and go to sleep."
"Let's just sit here and gaze at the stars."
"I already looked at the stars."
"Just sit down and enjoy the peacefulness."
"I don't understand"
"I heard what happened to you during the last 5 months."
"Oh, was kind of hoping that you didn't hear about that."
"Well, I did and now I'm saying you need some real rest. Be at ease since you know that no one here is going to hurt me or Cygnus." Lacie sat down beside Lana who was gazing up at the stars. Lacie was getting sleepy and just fell asleep right beside Lana. Lana just smiled at the defenceless Lacie and just laid her head on her lap. The maid went up to Lana and Lana told her to be quiet because she knew that Lacie was a light sleeper.
"Your Highness, I don't think you should let a person like her taint you dress," She said in a disgusted voice.
"I told you to be quiet, Marie. I don't care what you think of her but don't you voice your opinions in front of her. Leave my sight right now and take care of Cygnus. I'll be here with Lacie." Lana ordered the maid in a firm voice. The maid left and Mir came up to them instead. He wrapped them around his body to make sure they didn't catch a cold for being outside. "Thank you, Mir. For being by Lacie's side when no one else was."
"Of course, I'll do anything for Lacie," Mir said in return to her. Lacie woke up and the sun was already up before her. She felt something soft on the back of her head and looked up at Lana's face. She got out of Lana's arms and Mir's wings and started working on the hut. After a few minutes, Hiccup came to help out as well Lacie showed Hiccup what to do on the second floor. Lacie was almost finished on the first floor just needed to add some other stuff. When Lacie was finished Hiccup was finishing up putting the walls for the hut. Even though Lacie never asked him to but she didn't push on the subject since he wasn't causing any trouble.
"So, Hiccup can you help me with the walls?" Lacie said to Hiccup as she was installing something in the ceiling.
"Aren't we finished with the walls?"
"No, it's the one to separate the room into two. So all you have to do is place the wall here while I tighten up the rollers from above okay?"
"Okay, I got it."
"You're going to have to that at least 6-8 times," Lacie said as she went up to the ceiling. They did this until Lacie was finished and started putting on another layer of wood in case something might get stuck in the rollers. She made the roof with the others help and they were all finished since half of the group did the interior while others did the rooftop. When everything was finished it took time to make some bridges and zip lines while Lacie was playing around in the forge. Lacie was working on the stuff to make it faster than having to bring up the zip lines over and over again. Lacie was in a slump and thought it was a good time for her to go flying around with Mir She also had to think of a way to keep Angel's wings from drying up. Lacie was looking around the island which amazed her until she found Hiccup and the others doing some sort of training with boats and other stuff. Lacie was amazed at how they performed well for some of them anyways. Lacie decided to stretch out Mir's wings to the fullest extent since he was resting most of his time She raced against her own time which wasn't as much as she thought since she didn't have a timer on her. When she was in the air she thought of something and asked Mir to bring her back to the forge. Lacie got off of him and started making something. "Mir, slowly burn in the forge okay?" Mir nodded and slowly added his fire in the pit. Lacie made individual rings over and over again until she made over 20 of them. She then made a bigger ring that was about to hold something in the middle. She stopped Mir from making more fire and began putting the rings together to make a long necklace. When they were all together she sanded them down and polished them to the point it was shiny. Lacie called Angel over and asked for him to break off a crystal. He gave her a tiny piece and Lacie cut herself with it letting the crystal absorb her blood making the once blue crystal all red. She made the crystal fit into the middle of the larger piece of the necklace and started to enchant it. When she was finished she placed it over Angel's neck and waited for its effects to come it. It took a while but when his wings were drying up the crystal shined and made mist around it.
"Thank you, Lacie," Angel said to her.
"At least that's out of the way I hope I can finish my hut before anything else happens." A couple weeks later and Lacie was finished with her hut and she figured that she'll add more to it when she get's the idea.
Ahhh I made it long again. Ahem anyways I have Lacie's hut all in my mind but I don't like spoiling it for you guys so I won't say a word to anyone even if ya beg. Cough cough tell me if I made it too detailed.
