A portal opened on the edge of the village, and NightFury999 stepped out, closely followed by NattenRaseri, Kookiecraft, Ace Spiritwell, Mollienaturerocks, Chancy74, The Silver Magician of Chaos, Thorongil82 and their dragons. The sun was setting, and they could hear the sounds of laughter and loud, raucous chatter drifting from the great hall. Their arrival had gone almost unnoticed. A small black dragon with bright red eyes stared down at them,
"Ohhh, this is bad, very bad," He stuttered nervously in dragonese and flew off. A few minutes after he landed at dragon island, black dragons poured out of the volcano, quickly followed by a shadow, one with red eyes and a pulsating crystal heart, that leaked out of the volcano like mist.
Nat's POV
I carefully snuck into the plaza, Waverider, my blue Stormcutter by my side, she had NOT been happy about getting left at home last mission and was not letting me out of her sight. She sniffed the air, like she could smell something familiar, but couldn't quite place it. I snuck up to the doors of the great hall, even though we had been expressly told to stay out of sight. I peeked inside and was shocked at what I saw, A group of Vikings and dragons, but, right smack bang in the middle of them, was Rosal- uh, Sapphire, sitting next to a dragon, slightly smaller than a Night Fury, but similar in shape, except this one was a dark stormy colour, with what looked like swirling clouds moving across her scales, here and there a midnight blue colour, burnished with burning points of light, broke through. I looked up, high above me a storm was gathering in the sky, the dragon's scales perfectly reflected the image above. Sapphire was chatting and laughing along with the Vikings. It began to rain. I ran through the streets and found Night, Waverider close behind me,
"Night! I've found her!" I shouted,
"Where is she?" Night asked,
"In the great hall,"
"Oh dear…" Night seemed to think for a moment, "Gather up the others and we'll meet in the plaza," She said after a pause.
"OK," I jumped on Waverider and we took off.
Ten minutes later
We gathered in the plaza, and were arguing in hushed tones, some were arguing that we should go in there and talk to her, others that we exercise a little more caution. It began to rain, so we retreated to the relative shelter of a doorway, the dragons, of course, having to stand in the rain. Waverider made a shelter out of his wings and I stood there, the large dragon's left set of wings making quite a roomy shelter. I heard a creak and looked at the great hall just in time to see the door open and two figures step into the rain, Sapphire and her dragon. I saw her stare off in the distance, looking towards Dragon Island, frowning slightly. I looked that way, all I saw was black clouds, wait, what was that?
"Umm, guys, you might want to see this," I pointed in the direction Sapphire was looking, a dark mass of what looked like… dragons. Behind them, an indistinct shape lurked. Sapphire's dragon turned, staring right at them, she looked scary, her angular eyes made her a lot less cute than Night Furies. Sapphire made a trilling noise that rang out across the rain-soaked plaza. Her dragon looked at her and then they both turned their heads, in sync, and looked straight at us.
"I know you're there, Skye pointed you out," Sapphire said, we all walked out. "Okay, time to find out what that," she pointed at the blotch in the sky, "is, and since I have the fastest dragon, I'll go," Lightning flashed in the sky and Thorong's Shock Fury, Storm, and Night's Skrill, Lightning, looked up. I looked at the dragon, I mean, it was smaller than a Night Fury, I was about to make a sceptical comment about the dragon when Sapphire swung her leg up and the dragon and girl vanished in a blur, was that a second set of wings? I couldn't tell, they were moving too fast. A few seconds later, there were bright flashes over near the dragon-cloud swarm thing, less than a minute had passed and the pair were already back.
"That was close," She patted herself down to make sure she was all there, "It appears that, from the whispers of dragonese, the dragons in that cloud are under some kind of control, it's weird, there are all sorts there, Nadders, Zipplebacks, Monstrous Nightmares, but they are all pitch black with scary red eyes. There was also something about the creature controlling them wanting to get the G.M.A.D. 'out of the way' or something…" She trailed off deep in thought, we just stared at her, whispers of dragonese? What was this kid on about?
"Let me ask one thing," She started again, "Does the leader of the G.M.A.D. happen to be here?" We all looked at Night, "Ahh…" Sapphire said, "Then you would be the target."
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Sapphire's POV
We collected Hiccup and the other riders and got in the air, almost immediately Night was swarmed and, even though it was a heavy thunderstorm, Lightning was having trouble keeping them away. Three G.M.A.D. members, namely Thorong, Ace and Kookie, rushed to help. Pretty soon we were all swarmed, Skye, being the smallest and most manoeuvrable dragon, was having the less trouble keeping dark, red eyed dragons off our tail then some of the other riders.
"Tetr- Nat! fall back, you're going to get cut off!" I shouted over the howling wind. My arrows were rattling in their quiver, despite the cover I put on it. Hiccup and Toothless managed to catch up to me, we were away from the main battle now, circling high above the dark shape. I heard whispers of dragonese that set my teeth on edge and my spine quivering, I put my hands over my ears, even though the snippets of information would be useful, the hushed whispers were putting me off.
"Are you okay?" Hiccup asked, concerned,
"Fine, but the fact that that creature, that shadow. Heck, let's just call it The Entity, I can't think of a better name right now. It's whispering, in dragonese, always whispering, stuff like, 'protect my heart,' and 'kill the G.M.A.D.,'" I was just randomly spurting phrases I heard it say at that point,
"Hold on, go back for a sec," Hiccup frowned, "did it actually say 'Protect my heart,'?" We both looked down, and saw the pulsating red crystal, right at the centre of it's chest,
"Hiccup, cover me," I said and brushed soaking strands of hair out of my eyes, before diving downwards on Skye. Hiccup blasted the dragons that came to attack me away, helped a bit by Nat, who had managed to get away from her own personal fight. I took a deep breath and slowly, agonisingly, stood up, I needed to get a better shot, I almost slipped on the slick dragon scales underfoot. I gently pulled my bow off my back and an arrow from the quiver. I whispered to my bow in that strange language, the language of Magic,
"Peirce," My bow began to glow, pale orange, like flame, I drew back the arrow. The tip began to glow as well.
I fired.
The arrow seemed to start to fall apart as it entered the mist, but it held just long enough to hit the crystal, dead centre. It shattered. My foot slipped from the force of shooting that one arrow. I clung to my bow as I plummeted down, down, down, to the stormy ocean below.
I almost died that night.
SO EPIC!
Sorry if I seem self-indulgent but I do believe I get to say that much at least.
Before anyone says ANYTHING, I wish to state two (2) points:
1: This story is so close to finishing anyway, I shall finish it on , HOWEVER, I shall put its sequel, One Brave Soul, on FictionPress, with a chapter here to notify thee when the first chapter comes out, and possibly a link.
2: Next Chapter will be the epilogue for ending 1. Then shall start ending 2, which I predict to be approximately 2 chapters and an epilogue.
Unauthorised no 3: HAPPY NOW FRIEND IRL (who, from now on shall be referred to as 'Flynn' ((like Flynn Rider from Tangled)) )
PEACE! :P
Sapphire363.