Announcement:
This is indeed an HTTYD (How To Train Your Dragon and all 3 Movies) and a Female HP Crossover Story... I know most of my fics are like that, but who would blame me?. And this story is going to end up slightly different as it is indeed an M-Rated Fic for a reason to which I must also state that this fic will only have Announcements when it is important, cause at the end will be "The Numbers" if they are placed, and also Soulmate Pairings as well and to remind you all.
There are no Numbers in this Beginning Chapter.
There was no dating period for the HTTYD, but I managed to figure and find out the years took place between either 811-890 AD in the year setting, so I'm going with 811 to start with, as I said: I have an idea or two to include said characters as such.
Now the female harry OC is going to be a futa (without balls), and this fic is going to be Beta-Read by a user of the name... Well, formerly read: FireflyoftheShadowWolves and Rowena Bensel, in which you should also check out their works as well, even though they're not Co-Authors and working by myself once more, and this fic will also incorporate into crossovers with a few others in later chapters. Possibly after 3rd Movie is over with as there will be mentions of other Franchised Dragons/Characters in relation as some are in beginning but only mentions. even OC Tribes as such, and there will be OC's as well for certain characters for pairings, siblings, etc. . All the Harry Potter Characters, however, will be based on the Movie Versions (since I like them better than the Books).
There will also be familiar characters as well that could end up being paired also.
As I mentioned, this would start during the day before the 1st Task for Runa Evanthia Potter, which is not only "Female Harry Potter's" name for this Fic, but also the first and middle is both Norse and Greek naming, while the last is normal cannon. And I have some pairings already picked out in mind, and do expect them at precise unexpected times.
Though I mostly hope you like it as the same information applies to this fic as well for thoughts and whatever.
Now to get the saying out of the way: I don't own anything about what I have included in this story (Franchises), and only own my OC's; The ones I designed. Not borrowed, and if others give me an OC, they can use them in their works and ideas for plot and whatnot within this hopeful, successful story itself.
Though I would like to state that (#) is the introduction as always to Borrowing OC that is either I am allowed to Borrow or to Use in specific or single stories as such, which also includes this (which Rowena also gave me two to work with, TY to her).
With that done, please enjoy the story folks!
(Chapters 1-5 fixed/adjusted/added from June 22nd 23rd of 2022 to June 25th of 2022)
Within Hogwarts' Library, on November 23rd of 2014, Sunday at night:
A sigh was heard within the main portion of the Magical School or within Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's Library as the individual presently looks dissatisfied as she closes the book she was just skimming while laying in her chair, mixed on staring upwards as she softly sighed.
The fourteen-year-old female being mentioned has natural silver/auburn mixed hair up to her shoulders and has a Mid C-Cup-sized chest with a developing top hourglass/perfectly slender yet curvy frame that was petite and with lean muscles, to mention was due to still taking potions during First-Year and up for recovering her former yet still frail body, and also working out, a spiral black colored tribal tattoo on the right arm and left leg and from being rebellious as such as it is up to her joints and her entire arm/leg, mentioned, and she moreover has the Heartless-Based Symbol on her forehead.
Her face to mention was like a delicate, upside-down triangle with a hint of it being slightly thin, and her eyes were upturned, deep-set, parallel yet feminine eyes that made her orbs look anime-like at times, since they tend to glow when specific emotions occur, as they were perfectly placed on her face while also having naturally trimmed eyebrows.
This was Runa Evanthia Potter or contrarily understood as the Girl-Who-Lived, and a child by her discovery a while back was under two prophecies.
One that was suggested for the British Community, and one other that was mysterious all on its own.
The explanation of why she was still within the Library for the past three hours, was that she was still searching for a way to not only get out of the competition she was placed in without any choice in the matter: The Triwizard Tournament, but to discover how to try and get her First Task done and over with as she has to encounter one of the many marvelous creatures in the world she lives in within the magical side of things: Dragons.
Now discreetly, she loves any creature within either regular to magical kinds and realized that facing Dragons was dangerous all to itself, but she wanted to try and get things done more smoothly than whatever the Wizard Community does for this kind of Task.
Over the years of her existence in this school, however, to illustrate this, it was one thing after another.
Within First Year, despite the intentions of Dumbledore, she ended up within the Ravenclaw House and befriended Daphne Greengrass and her eventual girlfriend, Tracy Davis, and some other Slytherins, and Hufflepuffs as well.
She even became sisters between Daphne, and Hermione as she too joined Ravenclaw House for a transfer after Ronald Weasley almost got her killed via the troll Incident on that Hallows Eve. Even with dealing with a Shade of her former, supposed to be enemy that she managed to persuade to leave the school alone, despite being a Wrath, and her confidentially keeping the stone.
Second Year she struggled with the issues of her obtaining the ability to speak with snakes in which she found out she could the whole time, and the problems of her being proclaimed as the Heiress of Salazar Slytherin, which did occur after her three friends eventually, non-blooded sister's otherwise known as Hermione, Daphne, and oddly Luna Lovegood as a First-Year back then looking into things while also protecting the blonde and herself from bullying.
Then near the end of that year as well, she had to deal with a misunderstood female sibling, to her slight surprise with also the female being a younger twin to Voldemort: Samantha Lee Riddle,
The younger version was also there keeping her at bay, and was using her powers to be sealed within the book to which she was freed from, and her make twin's soul used her as well to control the Basilisk.
In which Runa also gained serpentine-like eyes with regeneration, and her gaining something new down below that was petite and cute looking, because of a potion her parents and mixed by the Old Headmaster's words gave her to look like a normal female… And to irksome matters as well, she also had to evade Draco's Father after she bought against Mia's wishes, Dobby.
Samantha somehow vanished after she was freed, and Runa didn't know where she or even her little sister Luna went as they simply vanished before the last night feast during that year, but she has received amusing letters, however, from Luna at times from then on that said they were ok and would someday see them in due time, and mentioned the bizarre creatures in her letters they discovered on the way, along with being cryptic on things.
In the Third Year, however, she had to haggle with Ron about harming his little sister, Ginny, as once she went back home the redheaded girl ended up getting into an inward spiral of emotions that Molly didn't understand and she isolated her from things.
So Runa eventually took action for which the former matriarch despised her: She Family-Adopted Ritualed Ginny as her little sister and then she did so to Hermione
The reason was after finding out her incident with the Polyjuice Potion during Second Year resurfaced to her own body instead of the cat, and was soon making her have an earlier Magical Creature Inheritance as a Powerful and Rare, Shadow Nekotama.
Shadow Nekotama, if I may stop to explain slightly, is (in a strange cartoon sense) similar to a Shadowkhan, and that is from one of the numerous shows Runa got addicted to while living by herself ever since her First Year, but their primarily female, and have cat ears instead of humans. They also have two tails, and claws on both of their fingers and toes, and they have a smaller chest size set below their original. Those that have this or are this race are the same person, but also more agile and flexible, and lastly, they able to move into the shadows with ease and use them with having chances to have more increased chances for wandless-based magic.
Anyways, her Third Year was sorta ok except the Dementors resulted in havoc during her schooling, and her Godmother: Bellatrix, alongside her Godfather, escaped from prison to be with her yet Bellatrix was declared the better choice by the Ministry itself and due to finding out, she was largely Potion Controlled for the major parts of her life after she finished Hogwarts, and her mind was sealed for a new personality to be formed… Thankfully she got liberated from yet presently has, to what she described, a new twin within her because of the side effects.
Sirius, on the other hand, was on the run still as despite being innocent, Pettigrew still ran, due to this ti keep her godfather running and thankfully she didn't get bitten by Remus when he was controlled by a strange cloaked man that simply confessed he wanted to test her and her allies… At least Runa believed she didn't get bitten as that night was relatively hazy when her former 3rd Year Dark Arts Teacher was his Beast: Moony, and she found out he was sorry about things.
The Potter Teen also had to deal with the Rogue Dementors that attempted to kill her yet failed when it was found out by her and Mia going back in time the next day, from an updated Time-Turner Hermione secretly had as the other exploded by unknown means to send a few students back in time from both Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff from the stairs, it was actually "Herself" saving her past self with a unusual Dragon Patronus mixed with also her using own Father's Stag Form, for his Animagus Form, to summon two of them as she found out by both her Godparents when she at least mentioned the Stag.
This year, however… She didn't anticipate things to turn out so bad mixed with being weird, as only those that truly understood her, didn't think she was both a liar and a cheat, from her name somehow materialized and revealing itself out of the Triwizard Cup itself before the flames themselves got sent right into her once she walked past it after the Old Headmaster, Dumbledore, held her name in his hands, and fully drained the flames to where I cannot be used anymore.
Eventually Runa found out they were the Ancient Flames from a being from way long before, and the enchanted fire itself was given to Wizards for the favor of watching the tournament in the first place, alongside other things, and the fires were remodified energy of an ancient creature... A powerful yet extraordinary dragon of sorts that came and bestowed said flames to the Wizards, long ago.
Anyway, off-topic.
Presently, Runa has yet to find a way to get out of the tournament, but she felt she was close, and sighed again to herself while feeling the golden and blue mixed flames of Dragonfire being built up within her body once again with her soon seeing her left hand shift to a dragon-like feminine hand and back, and soon recalled the Goblin's doing a Heritage Test on her a day after she had gotten entangled with the Tournament itself, much to Dumbledore's pleas as such... But she felt like she wasn't fully informed on things on that day.
(Flashback, on November 1st of 2014 on an early Saturday morning within Gringotts)
Runa sighed while Hermione was at least with her as she was also uncomfortable as to what she may find out.
Once they arrived via a portkey to Gringotts, she was then led alongside her non-blood sister to where they would be seeing their Ruler for a way-too-long or overdue meeting, to confuse them.
Hermione and her, however, donned outfits that she wanted to style off a mix of certain characters from Anime they liked and enchanted them to grow with them alongside their other outfits as well…. Particularly since Runa anticipated this to be her main outfit to wear all the time, as to her, she thought it was comfortable.
Runa donned a black cool punk-like goth metal spiked yet also studded, link-leather collar choker necklace alongside the pendent being a blue diamond in the shape of a heart. She also wore a mesh-like leather black and an emerald flame-designed sports bra that releases a generous amount of her breasts, along with her being oblivious of her body as regular bras don't sit well with her, similarly wearing on top of that a half-transparent grey shirt and a red sleeveless tank top with silver and gold bolts on to which showed off her stomach. She moreover has ripped dark-grey denim shorts with blue denim lining, and a black studded belt with a bronze chain on the right side of her. She furthermore has on both her non-tattooed leg and arm a sleeve that was decorated in Slytherin Green and Gryffindor Red stripes as the sleeve itself was black with a silver lining, and also wore dark-grey fingerless biker gloves meant for eased hand movements and flexibility. And lastly, she wore low-heeled strap running shoes that were ebony-colored with green lightning bolts on the sides.
Hermione's, however, was largely meant for comfort as she wore a basic sleeveless t-shirt while revealing her red and yellow bra, slightly, with a pale-yellow tank top under that as her belly wasn't shown, a black belt with rune-like etchings within plain denim jeans meant also for eased movement and satisfaction, and regular running female sneakers with having a design of a cat on the sides, in silver colors. Her outfit, however, was also altered to situate her two sets of breasts and slight stretched height to her normal yet obviously stretched torso a bit (D-Cup for top, C-Cup for bottom) and her two tails that wrapped around her upper torso perfectly like an x-like strap, and decently show off her figure perfectly.
Anyway's off-topic from detailing them.
While they were sitting down in the Main Office where the Ruler, Ragaz, resided, they saw the room itself was a mix of being an honorable warrior and a modern businessman.
They did notice bookshelves and whatnot, and also weaponry concerning the Goblin's and possibly his weapons hanging up in pride on some of the walls, and there were on the back walls, alphabetical names of Wizard or Witch Families from all over the world, since the bank itself, secretly, is indeed connected to all over the world yet still had branches for them.
"So we meet, at last, Miss Potter," a rough male voice states to get Hermione to turn alongside Runa to behold a Goblin with black iron armor on that looked battle-worn, and he has a crown on his head.
"Don't get up at all, please, just remain seated," Ragaz notified the two teens who reluctantly did so, and he went over and sat in his chair, and then leaned into it while also staring at them with a plain look, however, they could tell he was amused mixed with being serious while looking at them both, "Now I have been expecting you since the start of age eleven, Miss Potter," he began while intimately startling the two girls, "And judging by your reaction... I take it your Illegal Magical Guardian, Dumbledore, suggestively told you to not come? Since not only are we aware of his doings over the years of your accounts, but to your recently acquired Adult Status."
"My what status?" Runa expressed plainly to him while worrying about the other things as she was not that into politics or their terms as of yet.
Ragaz only chuckled at Runa while clarifying and making her gap along with Hermione blinking dumbly by them yet understood what he implied as she researched more than Runa in politics, "Your status as the Last Potter, officially, Miss Potter… Once your name officially came out of the Triwizard Cup, Gringotts was notified immediately. Due to this, you can be proclaimed as Heiress Potter, and any others due to blood, debt, or other in Title. That is why you are here with the one you can trust… And by the state of things, few who you do trust." At that, he glanced at Hermione briefly before staring mainly at Runa.
"How does it go?" Hermione began to state since it seems Runa was wrapping her mind all over this and making Ragaz glance at her in understanding while getting to what she explained to Runa about, was an Inheritance Test mixed with a Blood Quill, as she would need to sign her name as it was the one type of quill that at the same time, draws blood while also healing the wound, "Just sign your name at the top, Miss Potter, and the Test will work its magic." Ragaz states as Runa did so.
He then grabbed the test while observing things, and after approximately a few minutes or so, he appeared rather impressed mixed with anger, mixed understanding, and utter alarm by the results.
The Goblin King then handed the test to Runa to read, and Hermione moved slightly so she could see the results as well, and they were equally stunned as she was by what it stated as it seemed he gave her a full-on test, instead of the Inheritance Test.
Full-Heritage Test of Subject: Runa Evanthia Potter (Subject's Test will be given to her and a copy given to Gringotts by Goblin Law, as the Test is Self Updating)
Parental Units:
James Charlus Potter (Blood Adopted and Half-Surrogate Father. Blood is considered Full Potter through and through, due to Full-On Ritual. Dead via Killing Curse to Protect Family)
? (Name Hidden by Powerful Magic, Birth Father and Half-Surrogate from a Deal. Is aware of existence yet cannot obtain due to unfortunate rules.)
? (Name is Hidden by Ancient and powerful Magic until Revealed. Is aware yet currently not available as Parental Bond Blocked. Must be in close proximity to Unblock, and aided Birth Mother by Ovarian Egg-Fusion Donation)
? & ? (Names are Hidden by Not-Known Forces. Does not know but would as soon as they see Tester. This person is same individual yet is two-in-one, but separate individuals, from Stolen Blood Used from Blood Donation at seven and a half years of age)
Lilith "Lily" Maria Uzumaki-Evans-Potter (Birth Mother with mix of Ovarian-Egg Fused Parent via a Deal. Dead due to Ancient Grey Spell and Arts then Killing Curse, and Powerful Deal. The soul is still around yet under service for a few more years. Was stolen from infancy to Subject's Birthworld to be raised, and Parental Units knew who she was and where she came from, but couldn't find a way back)
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes, as Other Parents are Blocked for Ritual/Power Base for Magical/Power Genetic Parents, and Blood Donated/Infused)
Siblings to Test Subject (Via by Blood or Magic):
Hermione Jean Granger-Potter (Adopted Sister by Magic and Blood. Alive)
Luna Lovegood (Sibling by Magic. Half-Fay Race and Gnome Venom for Speech Misinterpretation for Seer Abilities. Alive)
Ginevra "Ginny" Weasley-Potter (Adopted Sister by Magic and Blood. Alive)
Daphne Maria Greengrass (Sibling by Magic alongside Family By Magic to Greengrass. Creature Inheritance not activated. Alive)
Rukia Kuchiki-? (Elder Half-Sibling, Alive. Whereabouts not known and doesn't know at all. Parents is a Spirit and Same Birth Father, and Third-Youngest)
Velvet Crowe-? (Elder Half-Sibling from James Potter, Alive. Whereabouts are not known, but are stuck at age nineteen due to circumstances, due to Magical Blood Transference Mishap with Biological Father at or around nine).
Aqua "Last Name Blocked or Doesn't know"-? (Elder Half-Sibling, Alive. Whereabouts are not known but can be freed either by allies or by Subject via Obustrus Ritual. Elder Sibling will be weak for quite some time and need time to recover true strength. Possibility to gain another Sibling or Forced Soulmate by this action due to location and period. Magical and Donated Blood when younger by Younger Biological Father for a needed Blood Transplant at seven or eight years of age).
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes, and a total of Magical Siblings left: 2-4, Half-Siblings: 3. Must encounter them.)
Cousins to Test Subject:
Naruko Uzumaki (Alive. Whereabouts are not known yet is in Birthmother's Homeworld)
Tayuya Uzumaki (Alive. Whereabouts are not known yet is in Birthmother's Homeworld)
Tionishia (Alive, Not Known)
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes. Some are being blocked via Magic or Powerful Blocks)
Children to Test Subject:
Serena Maria Potter (Alive. Forcibly aged seven years old and counting within a Magical-Based Science Lab via Dumbledore's Funds for Plan B. Obtained during unconsciousness during Second Year after the battle for Testers Semen. Child's Donated Birth Mother is dead via Childbirth yet Spirit is in Captivity. Must be tested once retrieved and when available to do so).
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes)
Godparents to Test Subject:
Sirius Orion Black (By Blood and Ritual, Alive, can't raise Test Subject due to certain things)
Bellatrix Ophis Black (By Blood and Magic, Alive, can be raised if Test Subject wants to)
Remus Lupin (By Words only. Cannot Raise due to unfair ruling within British Magical Law)
Marsha Lee Franadis-Greengrass (By Lily Potter, Alive yet Mind-Blocked at knowing, and must fade naturally as she is slowly aware and in one year, would recall)
Severus Snape (By Both Lily and James Potter, Alive)
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes, as some are being blocked)
Titles and Vaults to Test Subject:
Potter (Via True-Blood Adoption)
Uzumaki (Clan Heiress and Princess)
Black (Via both Bellatrix and Sirius, Due to wrongful imprisonment and others)
Slytherin (By Conquest)
The Balance Dragon (Invoked and given by the Power of the Triwizard Cup)
Le Fay (Biological Mother via Blood Adoption)
? Vault (Not yet have earned, and is hidden. Requires to pass a Personal Test to earn)
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes to Vaults or Earned Newer)
Inheritance to Test Subject (Abilities, Races, or Other):
Orge Genes (For twice the Puberty and Strength, Active. Cannot gain periods due to other genes and gender, instead will go into unknown heat effect. From Blood Adopted and Half-Surrogate Father's Ancestry)
Healing Tears (Active. Due to Fawkes the Phoenix's Tears merging with blood)
Regeneration (Uzumaki Trait, Active, wasn't until Second Year)
Dragon Shifter (Aspect Goldera or Golden Aspect Dragon (Reincarnated and Renewed), Active, and must learn to control abilities by any means. The subject became this not only due to Triwizard Cup's Flames and Power, but reactivation of Soul and Blood. Research is a must as the same effects apply to Ogre Genes for Puberty. Only beginning as Shifter)
Lycan Genes (Done so by Remus Lupin from the grazed bite. Mostly for Flexibility, Speed, and Sense of Smell and Hearing. Once Shifter Gene fully activates, can easily shift without pain to form and back. Tested Subject was indeed bitten yet healed up by detection of Bellatrix)
Acidic Blood (Due to Basilisk Venom, Active. Can only be activated by Subject's Intent to Harm or Defense. Does not harm Allies, Kin, or what tester considers family)
Paralyzing Claws (Due to Basilisk Venom, Active. Can only be activated by either Defense or Battle. Venom also has a chance to cause the Injured to hallucinate slightly instead of paralysis and the Chance is 40/60%)
Hairless and Flawless Body (Due to Shifter Genes. Only perfect hair on the head of the body, eyebrows, and special place (with less will occur). Similar to Veela Race yet only looks. No unwanted blemishes and other will occur as well, but if scars are deep enough, may remain and heal over)
(List will Update Automatically if there are changes. Can gain new abilities or whatnot if anything occurs due to Shifter Genes by injection or other... Other abilities blocked by NAME BLOCKED)
Blocks Placed on Test Subject:
Memory Blocks (17 times during Childhood to now. Blocks placed by Dumbledore, and NAME BLOCKED. Some cannot be returned as they were stolen, and some are part of younger age from things unknown.)
Soulmate Block (Done so by Dumbledore via orders of NAME BLOCKED)
Race Block (Done so by Dumbledore. Unblocked via Venom of Basilisk and Triwizard Cup)
Magical Core Bock (Done so at four months of age in worry of Parents. Enforced by Dumbledore from a year old onwards for 90% Block while Currently Active. Would kill Test Subject around sixteen to seventeen if not taken off by then)
Curses Placed on Test Subject:
Gender Curse (Failed. Done so by Molly Weasley and Albus Dumbledore (Potion Version) to become true girl from Second Year onwards. Cannot be done at all or altered for true gender)
Killing Curse (Survived. Done so by NAME BLOCKED and Voldemort (Tom Marvolo Riddle Jr.), and currently not around or as a Wrath)
Lycan Curse (Failed yet Adjusted due to Genes and Blessings. Done so without meaning to by Remus Lupin during the Third Year)
Potions within Test Subject:
Modified Hate Potion (Active yet keeps failing. Done so by Dumbledore from First Year onwards)
Modified Love Potion (Not Active yet is set once Tester is fifteen to Ronald Weasley. Done so by Severus Snape)
Weakness Potion (Flushed in total: Seven. Done so by Dumbledore)
Infertility Potion (Keeps Auto-Flushing. Total: Close to thirty-seven. Done so by both Dumbledore and NAME BLOCKED)
Gender Change (Female) (Keeps Auto-Flushing since Second Year. Same total as Infertility Potion. Done so mostly by Dumbledore)
Objects from Inheritance to Test Subject:
Cloak of Invisibility (Potter. Can be absorbed into Tester to gain Invisible Ability)
Ring of Shadows (Le Fay. Subject needs to prove herself to obtain it. Location not known)
Keystone (? Inheritance from Ancestry or Other. Subject needs to prove herself to obtain it. Location not known)
(Others have yet to be found or earned to be mentioned. If encountered, can be listed)
Soulmates to Test Subject:
(Hidden until encountered, or mentioned in knowledge. Some concealed in spells)
It then documented the Vaults and how vastly they were worth, the items they contained, and more, along with the properties she owned to make Runa and Hermione comprehend a few things.
One, she was stinking rich for a young teenager.
Two, she would have to find out things and also attempt and get these blocks undone as by what the Test itself declared, she would need to be wary with the Old Headmaster from now on, and possibly the food and drink from the school, with her hopefully telling the others she knows on this to pass around in their own houses to those that would believe them.
Lastly, she would need to get her child from wherever she was, which still shocked her on how low the Headmaster went to even extract her fluids for that... Which she didn't even want to learn as to how he did so.
"Did you want us to investigate things for you, Heiress Potter-Black-Uzumaki-Slytherin-Le Fay?" Ragaz worded with small hints of humor as Hermione noticing her look, making Ragaz ponder briefly by them by changing the subject only slightly, "Is there any way we could shorten the Titles?"
Runa agreed with her while recognizing the conflicted look on Hermione's face by the Test as well, and she remembered she was going to eventually ask for a Test for herself, "Yes, as being called that by everyone is a mouthful."
"Perhaps as you can wear an item of sorts to declare what houses you have as a title, Miss Potter. Choker, Bracelet, or a Necklace? As all you have to do is show the people your item, and they will get the hint," Ragaz offered to get Runa to ponder this before she confided to him she would like a custom-made cuff-like bracelet similar to the current one she is wearing around her neck to which they also took a photo of.
She was soon wearing it later on as instead of the spikes, it would be perfected images of each house engraved in what she was surprised was in her Vault, from what he told her, was Celestial Silver: A rare and hard to find metal as it was rumored a whole mine before it was lost, was blessed by angels.
So once that was done, she got the blocks off and everything… But she didn't expect to have a dragon-like hand that stayed for at least an hour before fading and was warned that her body is slowly adjusting and would at least take a few months or so to control the shifting, as the test claimed, she was a beginner.
Runa also urged Ragaz to investigate the Vaults while seeing to it that if there are real charities involved, have them in her name instead of whoever was originally in it, and possibly if she could afford it, three orphanages in places they would find it best to intrigue the King of the Goblins at this idea that was overdue after many years.
They would also deal with things to collect her child as well, and send her to Runa when able.
Once they left Gringotts and decided to get things, they didn't notice a pair of amber-orange colored eyes covered within wearing a unusual black cloak-like hoodie, look at them in immediate interest before leaving through a portal made of darkness, after casting a tracking charm on Runa herself.
(Flashback Ends; Present)
Runa reached inside the pocket of her jeans and elected to wear her updated accessory at this point as she withheld it during things of easily realizing her First Task was tomorrow and placed it on her sleeved arm, and placed her choker around her neck into her school bag and replaced it with a decently silver small spiked one.
It was indeed just like the collar on her neck, but mixed with the very metal offered by Gringotts, and on each segment indicated the sigil of each house she has gotten as a title. All but one: That "Golden Dragon Title" as there was no sigil at all for that.
She laid extra for this trinket and wanted it to be bound to not only her, but her future progeny of grandkids, knowing that they will have to earn it from knowing about Serena was still being searched by the Goblins.
Speaking, she even gave permission for King Ragaz to have a small monument for trust between her clan names and the bank itself, with it being a shield with her insignias on it.
Anyway, getting off topic.
After admiring it for a few minutes, she sighed before holding back a mocking glare of being scared as Hermione was currently with Daphne while gazing into things for themselves as she was being assisted oddly enough, by two Beauxbaton Girls that stuck with their group and believing she didn't place her name into the cup at all, and they were assisting with the research on finding a way to get her out of it as well.
The first of the two girls was a seventeen-year-old by the name of Rowana Arum (#; Rowana's), and she was a dark brown-haired, green-eyed, fair-skinned Caucasian female, and not realized to Runa, her favorite color to wear were pink, brown and black and based on the outfit itself. It was a black half-sleeved shirt with a pink neckerchief and a black pleated mini-skirt, and she wore brown Mary Jane shoes that are worn alongside dark pink colored socks and a black and brown striped sailor hat with pink trim. She, however, has a leaner athletic/slim yet slender frame, due to her being more active at things, and was a C-Cup, just like the other teen girl.
The other is known as Ashlyn Jones (#; also Rowana), and despite also being eighteen she has light brown hair with natural magenta-colored tips and bangs, hazel eyes, and was a lightly tanned Caucasian female. She too had her favorite colors to wear that are mostly green, purple, and white pastels with dark jeans hence her outfit being a white/lavender tunic top under an olive green robe, with dark blue flexible denim skinny jeans, and green and white sneakers with light purple laces. She has a slim/slender frame, however.
They wore their outfits like the rest of the girls they arrived with, only on the weekends, once they got here.
"You find anything yet?" Rowana asked Runa while carrying five books effortlessly to which the two teens heard Runa sigh before she answered back and not noticing the two giving each other a glancing look at her words, "No. Mostly all I found was how to capture, how to cook," at that, she shivered, "Raise within stables and even a few others that didn't involve at handling dragons as it seems I need the restricted access to get it…" Ashlyn then glanced at Runa, "And due to what you confided us as we became friends, you don't trust that the Old Coot would allow you to do this?" Ashlyn finished for her as Runa nodded. "That sums it up, plus not only been looking for the past three fricken hours on finding a way to get out of this Bloody Tournament."
Rowana immediately looked amused as they understood her, just like her other friends, by now, that she rarely cursed unless she was truly angered, or truly frustrated to the point she was going to give up yet realized she wouldn't, and Runa then saw their gazes with Ashlyn giving her a book that soon made her eyes widened in disbelief as it seems they easily found it: The Book of Tournaments.
"It was misshelved within the row in the way back labeled 'Advanced Potions', for some reason," Ashlyn tells Runa in honesty as the younger teen hastily began to go right into the book and with the two teens looking amused, "And my books I found matched the description of those dragons you may have seen… Well, to their races each book contained that is." Rowana added with Runa only glancing at her and then sighed while understanding once a Ravenclaw, always a Ravenclaw as she was going to read that entire book possibly in ten or so minutes, as from her change, Runa has started to show slow signs of perfect memory, and faster reading.
Indeed almost ten minutes later, Runa placed the book down while rubbing her eyebrows as she was getting what she learned to go into her mind with ease, and stared at them with a tired yet pleased look on her face, "From what I read was largely what Mia and the others informed me about the deaths and stuff in the Triwizard Part of the Book, and I found the clause as well. All I have to do is complete one challenge and then state 'I withdraw while fulfilling my oath', and more, and I can get out of the tournament without the loss of my Magic." She deflated through a little before leaning into her seat, "But that depends on what I have to do though: Dragons," she told them with a mix of ire and worry.
Noticing their matching grins with looks she recognized too well immediately, Runa stared at both girls while raising a question with disbelief once again on her face, "You found something out, didn't you?"
"Yes, and you're not going to believe what we found out," Ashlyn states with her being surprised as well by the very book she gave to Runa then, as the two didn't think it was possible yet it would aid her still.
The Day and Time of the First Task Within The Hogwarts Quidditch Field on November 24th, 2014, on a Monday:
Runa was nervous as she understood she would be facing Dragons like the other three champions: Fleur Delacour, Victor Krum, and fellow friend and Hogwarts student Cedric Diggory, but she didn't want to just compete within the First Task to get out of the Tournament itself... But that's the only way I can get out of this bloody thing, Runa thought in irony.
Presently, they were all in the tent as she was relieved that she was able to keep the enchanted book she possessed with her, and for some unusual feeling, Runa placed all her belongings a while back with moreover having gems, gold, and whatnot from her vaults, and her few true personal belongings with having the goblins enchant her current home into a better one in which took all month from an unknown person, probably a fan of hers from knowing about fan-service with those fictional books and "Runa Products", and shrunk it into an odd orb for her to carry around as well.
With it all similarly working with perfectly high-wireless internet to access anywhere without viruses trying to invade it, working plumbing as the waste, well… It goes to a volcano last she heard within the lava, and other things as it was, in fact, a mansion on the inside while on the outside, was an average looking home along with all her things perfectly safe and, without harm, and was enchanted to follow her anywhere she went as well.
Anyways off-topic.
Runa discreetly was drumming on her right arm as that was one of the nervous habits she developed over the years, and the four champions waiting alongside, which included her.
Fleur was nearby her while looking pale, and is a recent young adult, in Wizardry Terms, was nervous like she was and she also saw Victor was on a tent pole alongside having his arms crossed and looking more surlier than usual, which Runa also guessed from his nerves as well as the young teen understood he was a well-known Professional Bulgarian Quidditch Player, but they too have to have fears.
Cedric though, appeared half-relieved while he too was nervous and was pacing back and forth in a single line near the wall of the tent itself.
They then saw after ten or so minutes, Dumbledore, Minister Fudge, Bagman, and the other Headmasters of the other two schools finally enter the "Champion's Tent".
"Well, hello Champions," Bagman started up while gazing at them all as it looked like he wore the odd robes once again to have the coloration of a wasp, "Now as you very well guessed or perhaps figured out by yourselves, the First Task at hand is to be Dragons," at that Runa saw the three Champions gave a small yet short eye-like thanks to her as she informed them a while back since their Headmasters didn't want them to learn it at all, and they became starting friends ever since then.
"Now as the crowd recently arrived outside and the stands are filled, I will be giving you the chance to choose your fate... Your Dragon to face as you possibly could tell by the different roars outside," Bagman kept telling them as it was at this strange time, they heard four specific dragons roar, "Of the four Dragons for you to face as the task is to simply get the next clue for the Second Task: A Golden Enchanted Egg we have placed within the nest of mixed eggs within every dragon, as oddly enough, these Dragons grew up together as a flock."
Bagman coughed into his free hand and then proceeded with the process of the choosing what Runa and the other three's face to face, and Runa seeing Dumbledore had that twinkle in his eyes while glancing away, understood he was expecting her to do this Tournament in the first place, and from what she read, she could have been out within ten minutes... If Dumbledore didn't have to make a scene on that night for her on the cursed Holiday as such.
"Miss Delacour, if you would," Bagman expressed with him holding the bag out, and Fleur lightly gulped while reaching inside, and pulled out a living modeled dragon that was a Welsh Green, and around its little neck was a 'Number 2'.
Krum went next as he pulled out a Scarlet Chinese Fireball with the 'Number 3' on the collar, and he merely looked at the ground once he sat down.
Cedric, to his and her surprise, got a blueish-grey Swedish Short-Snout with the 'Number One' on the collar, and reaching into the bag lastly, she pulled out to all their surprise, a beautiful model of an emerald-eyed Antipodean Opaleye with the 'Number 4' on its collar.
"Now that you have your Dragons, let me remind you once again: The goal is to get the Fake Egg created of gold from the Chosen Dragon by any means. No matter what you have to use, and as long as it's legal, can be used within the Task itself." Bagman then notified them afterward, he left the tent alongside Fudge to prepare the first Dragon, and Dumbledore surprised both Cedric and Runa as he only left while the other two Headmasters for the other schools, commenced chatting with their Champions.
Discovering Cedric was nervous still, Runa decided to be encouraging to him as he gave without realizing, a small smile of appreciation to her tactics, "From what I managed to read, the Fireball is somewhat easier to handle once you can dodge them, well… The fireballs it lets out each time before it explodes… And maybe stay nearby it so it won't do so due to the 'Egg Issue' we were informed, as they are protective of their eggs to the point they won't do anything bad to harm them."
"You never ceased to amaze me, Lady Potter," Cedric noted to get amused as Runa turned from a mix of being praised and embarrassed by his words before giving him a playful scowl when he rubbed her head slightly until he was called, and left her.
After some time, and hearing cheers, gasps, and a lot of other things from Bagman and Fudge commenting on their actions from Cedric, Fleur, and Krumm, it was her turn after almost an hour of waiting.
Though Runa, while waiting, was oddly enough playing with her Living Figurine as it acted slightly like a small pet dog of sorts, and hearing her name remarked aloud from the speakers, froze her before sighing as she pocketed the model in which protested yet remained silent, and left the tent as she also thought they would all return into it alongside the other three Champions, but she guessed wrong.
Runa then saw to make her blink a few times, another tent was set further away.
She then saw that the Quidditch Field was modified slightly and with large boulders and whatnot, and saw the larger scaled version of the very same dragon she chose, and it was somewhat bigger than the other details she read about in the book she has within her home orb.
It was about the same size as a Hungarian Horntail, and those eyes instantly turned to her in immediate warning with looking guarded against the remaining in the nest, along with Runa easily detecting the Golden Egg in plain sight as well, from the sun shining on it.
Runa tinted briefly though by the small whispers of using her outfit instead of the school robes they were like the odd or nice/rude comments about her body confused her though as not understood to her as well, both Rowana and Ashlyn were no longer in the stands, and they both were now hiding near the entrance to the Field itself.
Well, here goes nothing… I hope that book was right, was all Runa thought before she jumped only slightly by Bagman's booming voice announcing her arrival to everyone by a Sonis Spell, "And lastly we have our Fourth Champion coming to the field! Will she prevail over the largest-sized known Antipodean Opaleye ever to date? Will she be able to beat the first-place holder currently? Let's find out folks!"
The crowd from Hogwarts and a few of the other schools cheered at her and compellingly her heart began to thud for a mix of liking the cheering, and mixed with both fear and doubt by the strategy she tends to do.
Runa and the dragon jumped by an immediate blast of the wand, and Runa sighed while debating on the plan, but decided as she was this far to get out of the Tournament, she was going to get this done and over with.
The crowd and everyone saw her reach for her wand… To only drop it on the ground, and approach the guarded Antipodean Opaleye as Runa saw some of the kind's eggs mixed with others in the pile, and they were close to at least thirty or so and with that Golden Egg, and briefly thought it was utter madness to bring eggs from a Mothering Dragon to simply do a tournament like this, but reckoned it up for mainly the craziness of Old Style Rules.
In the stands, Hermione, Ginny, Daphne with Tracy, and even her Godmother Bellatrix, were astonished by what Runa was doing, just like everyone else as a large gasp or sharp intakes of breath could be heard.
"What is Runa doing?! She needs her wand to defend herself!" Ginny expressed worry to her fellow sisters and friends, and Aunt, from her perspective to Bellatrix.
Hermione, however, had a look of instant realization as she didn't notice the other two missing members of their group in their stand, at all, "She isn't doing what I think she's doing by their suggestion?! From what Rowana confided me!"
Bellatrix narrowed her orbs at Hermione as they only saw Runa slowly approach the dragon cautiously, "What suggestion?"
Back with Runa, she was gulping as the Antipodean Opaleye hissed at her in warning to stay back before she blinked her draconian orbs at Runa as to the crowd being stunned and with Dumbledore losing that twinkle in his orbs as he didn't realize the plan changed by her actions alone, and everyone saw Runa slowly moved her left hand outwards as if to touch, and started to speak in Parseltongue, "Easy girl. Easy, I mean you no harm."
To the crowds' amazement and bewilderment and worry of both the Headmaster and Judges, it looks like the Antipodean Opaleye understood her as by that very book itself, Runa learned that Parseltongue was not only meant for just like the Snakes of any sorts or when used right, it can be the Tongue of Reptiles and Dragon's and giving her the skill to be able to communicate to them as if they were people.
The Antipodean Opaleye seemed less guarded with each word Runa spoke until she was close and hissed at her, making her stop moving as she was a mere few feet from the dragon herself, and thought briefly to herself and then closed her eyes, and turning her head away with holding her hand out still, I hope this works and if not, at least I'll be with my parents.
Runa stayed in place while solely waiting for anything to happen: To either be killed or something of a miracle to occur.
It was mere silence from the crowd watching The Last Potter trying to commit suicide by her meager actions alone until they gasped in actual surprise, and Runa briefly stiffened in alarm as she opened her hand aiming at the Antipodean Opaleye, which was full of what felt like soft yet gently smoothed scales, and Runa thought twice yet she opened an eye to then instantly open them both with mixed feelings of relief and joy, as it appeared her idea worked.
The dragon's head was resting gently without much effort upon her entire hand as if in acceptance before she opened her orbs, and an immediate connection occurred between both her and Runa.
A connection of respect, and even understanding between both of their eyes.
The Antipodean Opaleye, however, was only a few steps away from the nest yet near the eggs, and blinked before glancing at the eggs in slight surprise as if she didn't realize that by Runa's next set of words, "I only came here to get the Fake Egg your nest has, O great Antipodean Opaleye. It is what I need to get out of the tournament I wasn't willing placed into."
The Antipodean Opaleye then turned to her and made Runa blink in slight surprise as to the crowd, the Dragon herself started to hiss and gurgle back at her yet to Runa, she heard the Antipodean Opaleye speak to her as if she was equal in terms, or perhaps something else she didn't recall, "I didn't realize my Unhatched Eggs contained a fake, Child Speaker to Dragons. I will allow you to grab the imposter from my nest, and in turn, you free us from our tormented area as these chains restrict us as our handlers are kind yet harsh to not remembering the Dragon Ways."
Runa blinked, however, at this as she didn't understand anything about the Way of Dragons, but she started to move with eased footsteps to not crush any eggs as the Antipodean Opaleye was watching her with a pleased glint in her orbs as Runa found the egg, and grabbed it while carefully maneuvering it back and the Dragon also nodded at her in strange respect even more and with Runa was soon feeling the need to do so, grabbed her wand and watching the dragon maneuvering her neck, shouted out a mild version of what she read about, "Lessa-Bombarda," and made the crowd gasp as the chains were gently blasted off the dragon herself.
Before the Judges or even Bagman could state anything, she soon maneuvered her wand to her voice box and winced at how loud her voice was and quickly making the dragon glare after she was done, right at the Judges and Dumbledore as the old fool lightly gulped, and her friends and Godmother cheered like the others were at the amazing display she performed, "I, Runa Evanthia Potter, declare that I have fulfilled My Oath within the Triwizard Tournament, and competed for at least one task as per rules. I declare I am out of the tournament, officially, by my proclamation and also keeping my power and my magic. So mote it be!"
A golden glow then covered Runa briefly before it faded, and to prove she did summon it during the Third Year, she shouted as the female Antipodean Opaleye was startled yet gazed at the child with more interest as Fudge paled at the Patronus' Image of being just like that dragon from long ago, and everyone impressed, stunned, or in Dumbledore's case was weary by this outcome, "Expecto Patronum!"
The Patronus that was formed was a very large yet golden, phantasmal, chromatic drake-like dragon that long ago those that read about it, remembered it would one day return within a Mortal Shell after it perished at the hands of a Dark Warlock, back then, and it was dubbed as the Golden Heart Drake, or in its terms: The Heart of Aspects.
The Patronus roared while going up into the sky as on the roof of Hogwarts nearby the Quidditch Field, that very same male scowled under his hood and with his eyes glowing in irritation before he then chuckled and obtained an idea, and snapped his gloved fingers before leaving in a portal of darkness.
Back at the field once the Patronus faded away by dismissing it, an unexpected gust of wind started to occur all over the area while the vibe felt off as if something foal or tainted was going to happen, and it did, as the Judges and Aurors hastily placed a barrier spell all over the stands and the booths tents as a large vortex of odd, dark-like energy that Runa recalled feeling to that of a Time-Turner, commenced forming.
To also surprise Runa and those that knew the two, both Rowana and Ashlyn showed up before the unfortunate timing as well, as the three teens, and the dragon (with both the fake and real eggs), were sucked into it.
Not known to them, the Goblins managed to get Serena and were currently taking care of her as we speak, and with the new plan, would surprise Runa to wherever she was, and would easily obtain her.
Unknown Location, at this point and time:
A man sighed while holding the bridge of his nose at this outcome and knew if they were partially getting involved in this universe that he gazed at, still, then things will be mixed.
He was presently sitting down on his chair in a room that held a lot of odds and ends from many worlds, and similarly was clutching onto a large enough orb as he was regarding the cloaked male's damage he just done and understood those girls he sent were perfect as they, just like a few others and his children, were his apprentices of sorts, and didn't at all anticipate this bizarre outcome yet then saw the mixed benefits of this as well.
He was a young man in some kind of special armor, and he was around the age of twenty-two. He has no helmet on so anyone could see his face. His eyes though were slanted on his pupils, but they also looked normal except they had strange small symbols that couldn't be made out. The eyes were of course mixed with a bright green of some kind, mixed with the bluest of the oceans together in color. He was also clean shaved, and he has a scar on the left side of his left eye that was like a single claw mark stuck in deep. His hair, however, was pure white yet his armor, however, represented that of the medieval times as a knight, but the armor was a mixture of silver and gold. The shoulders represented two specific animals. The left one was in the shape of a dragon, while the right was a bird of some kind. He also wore a pitch-black cape that moved like water through waves a little.
This was a Cursed yet Blessed Immortal with power beyond comprehension, honorable, and more. He is known as Aeroza Vontrillizo, and he was nearly doing a favor to that world 'Death' to keep an eye on her future champion, yet it seems like that she has potential for more… But, "It comes across like that I would have to pay awareness if what I saw from my vision, would occur…" he paused before glancing to the corner of the lab-like room and noted to a female figure that was cloaked in pure darkness, "It seems like Runa is destined for greatness and other things, Lady Erebus, as after all, she is also yours, Lady Death's, and a few other's champions and descendant by ancestry from her mother."
"Which I am grateful her Uncompleted and Less-Magical Test didn't reveal it," Erebus states to him while revealing a face oddly resembling Motoko Kusanagi yet she possesses midnight-colored hair with sparkles as if to stars, and showed her top-slender yet curvy frame as her chest size being around E-Cups.
"Indeed as that would have resulted in more harm than good if Xehanort or others got wind of her, the Golden Aspect, redone," Aeroza states as Erebus nodded to him and accepted the cold smoothie he made for her that was her favorite while he conjured a Frozen Coke, for himself, "And she does possess talent as well. Despite being your granddaughter from Lily." Erebus sighed while recalling things, and expressed softly to him, then, "She would be looked after?"
"Yes, and if you wish, I highly indicate you have gifts prepared for her as you and Hecate's involvement of that object: The Home Orb, was a wonderful beginning of a notion, but she would require something unique to maintain herself in case she is ever in a fight or battle. And possibly I can promote at that when the moment comes," Aeroza notified her to get the Greek Goddess of Darkness to ponder this, and then nodded and gave her old friend a small smile, "Very well… But I would like to eventually see her at some point upon her return to Avalon, Aeroza. I have a feeling things needed to be explained… Greatly if her true father has yet to at least check up on her by the so-called Norse God he is, and thankfully James accepted that role by our agreement back then."
Aeroza nodded before shoving a secret box he got into his robes as Erebus then left in a mist of darkness.
Aeroza sighed while adjusting the glowing orb, and saw the area to where she landed to get intrigued as he understood he would be primarily watching her until a time will come to do something or perhaps the "Gift" she will end up getting from him of knowing her adventures were just beginning to take root, and started watching her lay on the exposed ground as the other two girls, were far away yet on the same land she was.
Yet, it comes across most of the eggs that came with, ended up in a specific place while the same Antipodean Opaleye with her own remaining few eggs, were placed oddly and safely, into a cavern in the said isle.
He knew that she would be tested constantly while trapped in the past for a few years, but knew she would eventually come across other worlds once her previous task on the last, is finished, and to what he was intrigued by many visions of outcomes in her future and at times, his aid.
The Isle of Berk, Barbaric Archipelago or Scandinavian Scotland, but more specifically between the Greenland and Norwegian Seas, on November 24th of 811 AD.:
Runa wakened while holding onto her head as she was nearby some fallen trees and winced at feeling her arms and legs felt sore as if- She glanced upwards and did sigh at discovering she may have plummeted from it, but not too high, she reckoned. Otherwise, she would have been dead and she also trembled and shook from getting up.
Runa glanced to the left, and then to the right, and also behind her while noting to herself at presuming she was no longer at Hogwarts, "Runa, it appears England is far ahead of you at this point… But where am I, is the issue."
Runa then decided and inwardly grateful her Home Orb, was still with her at least and so was her wand, and to her brief laugh, the model of the very dragon itself was on her shoulders in a tight clawed grip, to walk and see if she can get a reasonable idea as to where she was.
After almost, to Runa's POV, a few miles away from the previous location, she chose to sit down on a nearby rock while sighing to herself and gave a stare at the model that was gazing at her upside down from the top of her head from climbing, and easily seen between her eyes before she gently grabbed it and sighed while listening to it purr as she then gently, with one finger, patted it on the top of it's… Her head, and recollecting the dragon she faced was female before she then heard her stomach grumble to itself.
Runa started foraging for the First Year by herself and beforehand back with her so-called family from the woods they lived closer to, and she began scavenging for food and was soon wary of the mushrooms, since she didn't remember if they were either poisoned or not, especially since she wanted to understand if she was fully safe or not to place the Home Orb down.
Once she tossed the mushrooms she plucked and absently scratching her hands as she confused to search, she paused while sniffing the air, and then heard her stomach growl again by the wonderful smell of cooked meat as it was either lamb or fish.
Runa was reasoning on either going to where the smell was or moving on and finding something else, from understanding she didn't know what she would expect from where she was.
Her stomach won the war between her doubts and she hesitated yet commenced following that smell.
If she stayed though, she would have encountered both Rowana and Ashlyn who saw her and decided to pursue the younger teen.
In a camp not too far away from Runa, a temporary camp that is were two males, and with one being the eldest.
The first was a teen male around fifteen, and he is rather scrawny for his age, compared to the others back in the Village. He was small, around 5'5 in height. He possesses auburn hair parting to his right with minor freckles on his cheeks, and dull-green eyes. One of his more unique traits is a small, white scar just below his bottom lip on the right side of his face. He also donned a long-sleeve light-green woolen tunic with brown leather lacing at the neck and arms, a dark brown fur vest that matches his boots, and dark grayish-green pants with lacing at the ankle.
The man was a big man and around 6'9 in height, with green eyes and red hair. Like all others in The Village, he possessed a very muscular figure that intimidated those who cross his path. He had barely visible freckles, and his red hair was braided at the back. The trend of braiding carried on his beard which was intricate in its many strands. He wore a large fur cloak draped over his shoulder, a chainmail tunic with striped pants and fur boots, and a large horned helmet that is supposedly crafted from half of his wife's breastplate. He also wore spiked braces over his wrists.
These two were father and son or otherwise known as both Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III or plain Hiccup, and Stoick the Vast: Leader of Berk and the Hooligan Clan Leader of Vikings, and also Hiccup's biological father.
Presently, Stoick came out with Hiccup to teach him how to endure in the wild more as they succeeded in fishing for food from the nearby river, and was impressed by how his son cooked the fish.
The day went smoothly, and perfectly to the Viking's mind yet for Hiccup, it was ok he wasn't too fascinated at doing this, but he also appreciated the time he was with his father since this was considered rare for them both, for the last few years.
"Alright, now tomorrow we head back to Berk, Hiccup," Stoick began to clarify to his son as he was chewing the fish he caught and made Hiccup pause while swallowing his food, "And I believe that Gobber would be relieved of your return to the Smiths. I largely wanted to teach ye some survival skills still as I was instructed by my father, back then, and you did better than I have, to be honest… This time." Hiccup was surprised by that yet before he could comment, they stiffened while Stoick grabbed his ax he brought with him on the log laying there, nearby him, and did a shushing sound from them both hearing some snapping of twigs in the nearby bushes.
Stoick moved instantly and was getting ready to attack a wild boar, or maybe a large animal of sorts, but he didn't expect to hold, by the scruff of her neck, a young teenager (Runa that is), and dropped her while narrowing his eyes and Hiccup only blinking before rolling his orbs at his father and bringing Runa to gulp by the sharp point of his ax that was close to her neck, and noted firmly to make her confused, "Who are you, and where did you hail from?"
Watching her confusion, he interrogated a few times before he and Hiccup blinked as she spoke a different language than them, possibly claiming or asking a question to them, before she gave a hand gesture for them to wait, and grabbed it from her pocket… A stick?
Once she aimed it at herself by speaking unusual words, she stared at them expectedly as Hiccup decided to implore her then, "My Dad wanted to learn who you are, and where you hail from?"
"Firstly, can you understand me now?" Runa asked as Stoick was surprised and made her let out a cute yelp to amuse Hiccup as she stood up and rubbed her bottom before glancing at him with a mix of wariness and a glare rolled into one as Stoick responded to her, with him guarded still, "Aye lass, I can understand ye now… Now answer the question, and tell me what ye has done."
Runa then blinked before looking at their garbs, and then at herself with a shrug as if to wordlessly state, oh well, and proceeded to tell them in honesty as she was weak and simply guessed whatever occurred made her magic be partially drained, "Well, I'm Runa Potter, and I'm from England."
Beholding their blank looks at the term made Runa worry about that, yet added to her words as they only grew confused each time, "The British Isles? London? You don't know Hogwarts?" At the end of the last one though, Hiccup snorted with Stoick while keeping a straight face, guessed that was somewhat agreeable with his son yet saw the fear and concern on the young lady's face, and lowers his weapon along with eyeing her attire, and consulted her then and also taking a different approach, "You from far away, aren't you Lass?"
Runa watching him lowering his weapon to her, felt less guarded by this but answered back to him, truthfully, "Yes, as I'm not sure where I'm at as the last place I recalled was facing against an Antipodean Opaleye within a Tournament I was forced into, and me, the dragon and her eggs, and-" she paled to confuse them while looking around and asked them both in honesty, "Have you seen two elder teen girls? They came with me?"
She yelped through when Stoick heard the word, dragon, and grabbed her roughly yet gently by the scruff of her back as he also held her up in the air, and Hiccup was the one that blinked as he saw her same hand shift briefly to that one hand and back, "Ye were with a dragon? And what tournament by Thor's Beard ye be talking about?"
"Dad, you're scaring her," Hiccup states, and to discover his son was right, he made her yelp while placing the teen in his arms, and asked firmly yet gently once again, one word, "Well?"
She then came clean while making them dumbfounded about her having magic at the end of how she ended up here, and what Hogwarts was until she cast her Patronus Spell once again and made Stoick blink before making them also blink at his words, to her, and oddly enough kneeling as well, "By Odin's Eye, you are the Golden Child."
This only made her state along with Hiccup being equally confused, "Huh? What do you mean?"
Stoick noticing her face figured she didn't understand yet quickly maneuvered the two behind him while also grabbing his weapon as he swore in Norse which confused Runa and made Hiccup give her a look for later as both Rowana and Ashlyn came out with their hands up as secretly, Runa's Spell to understand languages messed up, and made it the entire Isle Inhabitants would understand them, and Runa declared in relief, "Thank Merlin you're ok… You ended up with me to this weird place as well?"
Stoick and Hiccup placed the unusual term Runa used to the back of their minds for now while Rowana offed tiredly and pointing a thumb to Ashlyn, and she gave a playful-mocking glare at her in return, "Yes, and we would have been at you sooner if it wasn't for Miss Shortcut here."
The two then got into an argument to make Stoick stare at them in bewilderment as Hiccup looked at Runa while making her blink at him as he held a hand out, "Sorry for the way we first met ya… I'm Hiccup," seeing he was introducing himself, she gave him a small smile while grabbing his hand and stared softly to him while glancing at her two friends bickering to each other in half-amusement, still, "I'm Runa, Runa Evanthia Potter…" she then glimpsed at the land and then to him to get the teen male to understand her plight still, "Do you know what or where we are, Hiccup?"
Seeing that she just wanted to know, he sat down like she did on the log while amused at his father going over and spectating the two girls that were about to brawl, and made Runa look worried by what he said, "Well, you're on Berk... My Isle's Home, and it's November 24th, 811… What's wrong?"
Runa felt queasy and light-headed all of a sudden by not only this info dumped on her but something weird.
Hiccup then caught her just in time as she fainted to get the three others' attention, and seeing her hands looked red, narrowed his eyes at what she may have touched without realizing, and asserted to Hiccup, "We going back early son, as it seems we need to seek the Healers for whatever is now ailing the Lass."
That worried the two girls and Hiccup as Stoick easily picked her up, and before they could do anything, Stoick, Hiccup, and the girls saw the girls one arm shift to a dragon and back while understanding her situation as well: She was untrained for her destiny as the Golden Child and seeing there were in a hurry, the two held in their shock from both Rowana and Ashlyn using their magic to pack everything instantly and holding back the urge to attack the model of the very Dragon that Runa faced, and easily ran back to the Village with Hiccup and the two teens following behind.
If I can pause here to explain about Berk, Berk is a rather round island, similar to an oval shape, and it looks quite small on maps.
Unlike many other islands, it has very few sea stacks. It contains many interesting geological landforms such as rocky arches and cliffs, beaches, waterfalls, streams, and several large forests. There is also a massive cavern under the village as well.
Berk also receives two weeks of the midnight sun every year, putting it roughly 70 km south of the Arctic Circle at a latitude of around 65 degrees, 54 minutes North.
Berk is known to have extremely cold, long winters and short warm summers. However, the weather seems to be clear, yet cold.
Ty, now back to our scheduled story.
They arrived at the Village, Hooligan Village that is as it is where the Vikings of Berk live.
The village is filled with large houses with an architectural theme of dragons, and the homes are built on land with a slope. There are also quite a few places in the Village as well.
The Great Hall is the centerpiece of the island, serving as a communal hall for the Hooligans. They gather to meet, eat, and discuss political matters, and is arguably the most important and iconic structure on Berk.
A large barn exists at the base of the cliffs, and in front of it are large pens for the yaks the Vikings domesticated. Chickens and sheep are also kept there. The armory also acted as storage for weaponry. There is gunpowder or some other explosive substance inside.
Also, Berk, they have large individual docks for loading and unloading large cargo into the ships. The docks are built from the large cliff of Raven Point; a mountain peak filled with forests and cliffs. At the base of the tallest peak, lay the docks. This is notable because of a large canyon-like structure between the tallest peak and another cliff. A wooden walkway was also built above the docks to view the ships from.
Anyways back to the main issue at hand.
Everyone was perplexed as Stoick returned while carrying a weirdly dressed young lady with Hiccup, and two others following right behind him, panting and huffing as this running was more than Rowana, secretly, was impressed by and went to the Healer's Lodge.
Once there, it seems Hiccup lightly gulped as his crush was here with her mother.
She was a fifteen-year-old petite female, She has long, blonde hair that is styled in a braid down her back with bangs that initially cover the left side of her face and a metal-studded leather band that goes across her forehead. She dons a sleeveless shirt in varying shades of steel-blue, tan cloth bracers on her arms (each bit of cloth goes between her first and second finger) with bicep wrappings above them, a brownish-red skirt with spikes surrounding it, another black skirt underneath the spiked one, and dark blue leggings. She sports a belt decorated with silver skulls with a pouch tied to it and also metal shoulder guards which are attached to two silver skulls. Despite that, she possessed a small C-Cup-sized chest and was at least 5'7 in height (making her petite to Viking standards).
This was Astrid Hofferson, and she was the only child to her mother that included a more similar appearance yet wore a cloak with sigils meant for "Healer" on them and possessed more silvery hair color than Astrid, by the name of Barberia Hofferson: Widow of the Hofferson Family, and best Healer there was in Berk besides The Elder.
Barberia saw the Chief enter and was going to greet him until he placed Runa on the table nearby to get her healer part of herself to kick in which recognizing the puffy hands and sweating body she carried, to realize the child touched the Poison Mushrooms known as Dradly's Demise, and commenced barking gentle orders to her child to get her to blink yet did as she was instructed since she had her special ax, just like her own mother's preference of a weapon, and was going to practice yet this changed things, Astrid guessed.
"Stoick, wherein Odin's Beard did you find this poor girl at?" Barberia orders him without meaning to as she did eye, just like her child, at the odd outfit she wore alongside the elder teens coming in with Hiccup.
"She found us to the point we had to cancel our Survival Training, Barberia… I thought we wiped those plants out a few years back?" He questioned the Healer then as she sighed while giving him a gentle yet firm look, "Yes we did, but those plants are air traveled to grow and they show up randomly at any given location… And judging by the child's hands, she directly touched them." The Healer observed while Astrid handed her mother the solution to soothe the poison out of the child's system, "It's by a matter of God's Luck she survived as long as she had it on her own."
Rowana and Ashlyn looked at each other for that as they remembered about the Potter Luck, and the mixed-effects it would have and were glad it was the Lucky Part this time.
Astrid though saw this yet didn't question as she was aiding her mother in getting this stranger, this younger teen by appearance, to be better, and with Hiccup aiding as well.
After nearly a half-hour, Barberia wiped her forehead as Runa was sleeping instantly, and was stable and yet to startle them all, she purred in her sleep like a sleeping dragon, and secretly got both Astrid and her mother a stare to Stoick at his wordless look was for later before he asked her, then, "Is she stable to move?"
Barberia shook her head no, and expressed to her Leader gently in explanation, "She needs to remain in a comfortable environment where I can observe her as she has a severe case of the poison itself and is lucky to be alive. Thankfully, it seems she only touched them, but if she ingested it…" the leader nodded, "Aye, I understand," Stoick stated while looking at the two elder teenagers before making them blink, "You two. You will come with me to the Great Hall," he looked at Astrid then as she glanced at her mother for wordless approval, in which she nodded, "I will be making a meeting tonight for everyone. I have learned a few things tonight about our new members of our Clan," both Rowana and Ashlyn blinked that, alongside Hiccup and Astrid, in stunned shock, "And would have to address the issue of them being Magical Wielders."
Astrid looked to be curious and was going to ask, yet decided not to by Stoick's look as Barberia only nodded to him while he gave a curt one back, and left while calling the three: Rowana, Ashlyn, and Hiccup.
Once they were gone, Barberia narrowed her orbs at recognizing some signs of abuse and others, despite the healing the Goblins' efforts that some remained, and confided her child then, "I want you to go to the meeting as it seems I have more touching up to fully heal the child here, Astrid. It seems she had a hard life, and I want to make sure that she was not harmed by the secret intent."
Astrid gulped at the seriousness of her mother as she was only like this in severe cases, and nodded as she grabbed her ax and left.
Barberia sighed while glancing at the same arm Runa had and blinked as it shifted to a dragon one and back, for dragon monster girls, and realized why Stoick saved her as she and a few others read from that book, and then sighed before getting other things to improve the young teen's body to a healthy state as she was secretly underweight and a few other things.
The whole Village was currently within the Great Hall a few hours later as night was falling, and everyone was wondering why they were notified to come for an urgent meeting, and Stoick was at the Head Table along with a few others as well, and in one corner of the room, were a group of kids as Hiccup was by himself at a table alongside Rowena and Ashlyn asking him questions.
The first was a very large and husky male teen around fourteen, and is the biggest out of all the group, around 5'8 in height as well. He has a brown furry outfit, with a tiny Viking helmet with tiny, metal wings on them.
The second and third were fraternal twins.
The first was the male as the female had the same hair color, dirty-blonde, a dark brown long furry animal vest with a very light pale green tunic that goes all the way past his hip. Around his waist, there's a brown sash-like belt that is tied around. He also wears light grey-blue pants and dark brown furry boots. On his arms, he wears a long brown arm cloth armband that starts at his elbows and ends at his wrists. His helmet is studded with four horns: The top two are bull-like, and the bottom two resemble ox horns. Without his helmet, his long blond hair ends with a brownish tint, is unevenly divided in the middle, and appears to look like dreadlocks, particularly in the second film his teeth are somewhat uneven. His necklace's pendant is a large claw or tooth that may have come from a dragon. He was also relatively skinny and had tan skin with dark-blue eyes.
The female twin was the same height, around 5'6 as her counterpart while they were both fourteen, and she wore a light brown, animal skin-like mini vest and a dark blue tunic that goes a little over her hip and ends in tatters. She wears a grayish-brown mini-skirt that also ends in tatters. Around her waist, she wears a metal-leather belt with an unidentified metal crest in the middle of it. Ruffnut wears dark brown leggings and dark blue furry boots. On her arms, she wears a long dark-gray cloth brace (somewhat similar to what Astrid wears) that starts at her elbows and stops at the wrist. A bit of the cloth also goes through between her first and second fingers. Ruffnut's helmet is studded with four horns, just like her brother's, albeit longer and more slender: The top two are thinner bull-like horns while the two bottom horns are longer and curved. Without her helmet, her hair is evenly divided slightly to the side, and short bangs across the left side of her face. She has two small braids near the top of her hair and long braids that reach to her waist. There's also an additional braid on her back. Around her neck, Ruffnut also wears a necklace with the pendant of a tooth or claw that may have come from a Dragon. She's skinny for her age and has tan skin, just like her brother, along with a pair of pale-blue eyes.
The last was a fifteen-year-old male and around the same age range as Hiccup and Astrid, and he was also around 5'4 in height. He wore a helmet with spiral sheep horns, his tunic tucked in his pants with open-stitching and a black vest over it, dark gray bracers on his arms, and matching fur boots. He also was rather muscled for his age.
These teens were in naming order: Fishlegs Justin Ingerman, Tuffnut LaVerne Thorston, Ruffnut Eugene Thorston, and Snotlout Gary Jorgenson.
Yes these guys do have middle names, from what I looked up.
Let's get back to it, shall we?
"So what's this meeting about Babe?" Snotlout asked while crossing his arms to make Astrid roll her orbs at him by the nickname she hates, and then turned to Tuffnut and inwardly groaned as his twin sister gave him a weird glancing at him, alongside Fishlegs and Snotlout, "And who are the gorgeous babes over with The Loser?"
Astrid thought she saw Rowana glare immediately at Tuffnut at that before asking Hiccup something from where they were, and Astrid tried to explain why she at least knew to them.
When she was done, they all had dumbed faces, even Fishlegs for once at Astrid for this, and asked in doubt, "So you're saying that Stoick: Our Chief, brought three strangers to our village and already declared them part of the Hooligan Clan? Just like that in front of your Mom?"
"Ya… It doesn't make much sense, but I figured by what I told you guys of that girl's arm shifting, had to be the main reason why he did so. Mainly me informing you guys that those three are Magical Users." Astrid told them while they sat at a free table presently and she was also crossing her arms to herself.
Snotlout glanced upwards for a second before gazing at the others, "Well, if you ask me, I think this was something similar to back then by what I recalled from what we were taught about… I barely listened yet I did hear things."
"About what? How to tie your straps?" Tuffnut then declared to him before he was shoved out of his seat by Snotlout, and this also made Astrid wonder why she was friends with them yet they then heard the Hall go dead silent as Stoick stood up at last, "I thank ye all for coming to this rather unexpected meeting," he began to tell them all aloud while making sure he was heard, "Now this meeting will be short but I have accepted three new members into the Hooligan Clan by personal judgment."
At that, many of the Vikings commenced to converse briefly or exclaimed in bewilderment to their Leader yet he hit the table with his drinking mug, hard, to silence them, "As I was claiming, there are reasons as to why I have done so, and from what a few of us secretly understand of what the Ancient Prophet foretold before her passing, to us," at that, a few Co-Leaders at the table gazed instantly at him in immediate understanding, alongside one man the teens knew as well to be their local Blacksmith and Best Friend to their Chief.
The man was a fifty-year-old man who was 5'9 in height and was a large, muscular, and bald Viking with a long, braided blond mustache and regular, blue-colored eyes. He also wears a tunic made of fur and a helmet with yak horns. Gobber also wears a prosthetic left arm and right leg. He also sports a 'Prosthetic' tooth, a well-shaped stone.
This was a Viking man known as Gobber the Belch… Let's say you don't want to know how he has earned his name, and leave it at that.
"And I understand this is all rather hasty, but I believe that they are a blessing in disguise, if or from what the Prophecy states are true," Stoick states to get Hiccup to narrow his eyes, along with secretly, Astrid did as from seeing the other Co-Leaders at the table, they knew alongside the few elder Vikings, even the elder herself as she left with an oddly pleased look on her face. "So I would only state they are to be treated like us, and in turn, they would be like the rest of us for supporting the village in some way."
He saw that everyone was either accepting his words or reluctantly doing so as he let out a pleased smile while declaring then and making everyone else uncomfortable with his idea, "Now, where would the three be staying?"
It was awkward silence from everyone then as some looked unsure about this, and Stoick's face deflated slightly before gazing just like everyone else was at Astrid as she didn't understand why she did so, but she didn't want oddly anyone else to house Runa at all as she shouted out, to be heard, "Hofferson Clan will take the one back in our house!"
Stoick looked at Astrid to see if there was any sign of deception or whatever from where she was, and saw none, nodded curtly at her while stating aloud, "Aye, I can agree to that. Healer Barberia needs the girl to be comfortable while she heals anyways," that got a few glances from her friends and a curious one from Hiccup, before Gobber took a few swigs from his drink before slamming it down to get everyone's attention, and made everyone wonder why, "Aye, I guess I can take the other two in, as after all, I have been busy as of late and the home could use the company."
"Very well then, now," Stoick gazed at everyone else in the Great Hall, "While we are all here, is there anything else we need to address?"
It was an hour later as everyone was leaving, and Astrid informed the others she would meet with them later tomorrow or something while realizing her mother might need her for the girl before she paused and turned with surprise by Hiccup calling out to her, "Astrid! Wait up!"
Noticing his look, however, she inwardly sighed while thinking to herself briefly with a fake smile on her face, He is persistent, "Hey… Hiccup. What did you want?"
Hiccup reached into his clothing and made Astrid blink as if it was Runa's Wand, and gave it to her while glimpsing Rowana and Ashlyn nod at him before they left with Gobber to his hut, which was, ironically, a few feet away from his Blacksmith, "This is hers, and well, I figured you may want to hang onto it until she wakes up."
Astrid felt an unusual hum from the wand as if it oddly enough trusted her like the boy it was previously was held in, and gestures to it in wordless question, "Oh," he blinked before he explained briefly to her as Astrid then understood what it was and shortly recalling some stories of Magical Users using such things, "That's what those two informed me was her wand. Not sure what it's made of but I held onto it until Runa could get a better place to stay."
Astrid oddly thought that was sweet of the boy, yet shook her head while glancing at the wand a few times before starting to him as she pocketed it, "Um… Thanks, I think?"
She looks like to have pleased Hiccup, and before she guessed he was going to ask her something, they froze at hearing an unfamiliar, dragon-like roar coming from the sky, and Stoick narrowed his orbs as he too, never heard of that roar yet he did see something white fly by before heading to the East, and back to the mountain that Berk has.
"I guess I'll see ya?" Hiccup then states a few seconds later as before Astrid could reply, she froze at noticing on Hiccup's left shoulder, the model of the Antipodean Opaleye, and Hiccup saw while grabbing it and handing it to her, "I thought it was real as well, but turns out it's a living toy of sorts enchanted somehow to be alive."
Astrid thought it was oddly enough cute as it commenced to stay on her shoulders, and then expressed to him awkwardly as this was the most conversation she ever remembered with the Chief's Son, "Ya, I guess I'll cya."
Astrid then left as Hiccup sighed before he blinked a few times on the rooftop at him thinking of glimpsing a cloaked person there, and shrugged while heading back to his house.
The next day on November 25th, 811 (2014 in matching time):
Runa proceeded to groan while feeling weak somehow and started to sit up with her sight hazy, currently, before feeling her panic slightly at being held down by gentle yet firm hands as the voice asserted gently to her in a tone she was familiar with, "Easy Lass, stay still as your body is still weak from the poison you touched."
Runa then felt her eyes were getting better and saw a pretty woman in Viking gear with a cloak around her shoulders and recalled things, and relaxed as by the setup she glanced, she was a doctor, and the woman saw this as Runa held back a wince by the specific way she touched her as memories of Vernon briefly flashed before her orbs, "Sorry, seems like I may have touched a sore spot while using the cream to heal ye bones."
At that Runa was puzzled as despite being weak at the moment, she felt fine, and yet… She felt heavy as if she was a light lead of sorts, "What… What happened? Last I recalled was talking with Hiccup and-" "You passed out possibly from the touch from that poisoning that mushroom caused you, my dear," the woman acknowledged to her while helping her sit up in what Runa realized that she was in a soft bed, and glanced at her while the woman began to introduce herself, "The name, Child, is Barberia Hofferson, and welcome home."
At that, Runa gave her a blank stare of confusion and claimed the only word she could let out to slightly amusing Barberia at that time, "Huh?"
"What Mom stated is that our Chief declared openly your part of our Clan," a voice spoke up to get Runa to weakly turn and see Astrid coming downstairs as said teen's room being upstairs and her bed she was using was Barberia's on the ground level and blinked at her while looking guarded that the two noticed, and inquired warily, "Why did he do that?"
Recognizing her stance that only Barberia knew, sighed while making Runa wince to gaze at her as she spoke, "The reason is of his own volition and benefit of the Village itself. Most of it is due to what ye may bring in the future, and also to that of ye being a Magical User aid that as well… Particularly since the last one was nearly fourteen years ago that passed for our village."
That made Runa ponder that alongside Astrid as she didn't learn that at all, yet the blonde shook her head as Barberia blinked while checking Runa over, and noticing she was healing a little too well for her tastes from her injuries and poison, and declared, making both teens blink, "I believe some fresh air is needed as it seems ye be healing quicker then Freya's Blessing to her kin long ago."
"Are you sure? She should still lie down and rest Mom?" Astrid stated in utter surprise to which she got a stare from her, "I am sure, as possibly by her power alone she is healing quickly yet slowly." Barberia turned to Runa who looked to be out of place, and started gently to her, "It would do some good to look around as from what my Child equally states, ye be living with us for some time."
Confused while trying to not wince at Astrid touching her prone form, since she has issues with others touching her body unless she understood them better, and tried to relax while Astrid by the wordless gaze of her mother got her order to aid Runa and was irked she would be skipping practice today like yesterday, Barberia secretly behind their backs only gave Runa a sad look before situating her home with ease for later.
With Astrid as she was able to think ahead and grabbed the family's walking stick, not known to Runa, she began leading the young teenager around while introducing her to the Village of Berk.
Astrid, however, was impressed as despite how tired or weak Runa was, she kept going on as this didn't matter yet the blonde understood it was bothering her as their last stop was at Gobber's Blacksmith Shop.
Secretly though, Runa and Astrid easily hit it off while confiding small jokes here and there, and Runa oddly enough felt like she did for Hermione, yet her mind warned her that she wouldn't accept it and would only break her heart of the very idea, that and she refused to live with them while showing she had a house of her own, to her new friends marveled eyes at the Home Orb before giving it back to the Potter Teen on their tour.
Back to the topic, Gobber's Blacksmithing Forge is the main blacksmithing shop on the entire island and was where the Vikings got their weapons during the dragon raids, from what Astrid notified her as well. The forge is also spacious with many weapons inside.
Speaking as such, he was working in the forge currently while Hiccup was as well, for a custom order, and his part of the Shop. It appears to be a small back room with a curtain to separate it from the main building.
Gobber noticed them approaching the Shop and stopped hammering long enough to even catch Hiccup's interest while blinking his eyes lightly, "Ah Astrid, showing the wee Lass around the Isle… Thought she is healing?"
Seeing Runa curiously peeking at the weapons in small interest, reminded Astrid of the wand she kept with her still and told Gobber then quietly to secretly impress him by saying words without showing it, "Well, Mom thinks since she's a True Magical, her body's healing faster than normal. Slow yet quick."
Gobber nodded while watching Runa then checked her pockets before paling rather unexpectedly, and began to confuse Hiccup by wondering what was wrong, and Astrid guessed as she grabbed the wand before coming over and showing it to Runa, "Is this what you're after?"
Runa looked at her thankfully yet she blinked in inward surprise as she felt her wand thrum in hidden excitement from Astrid holding it, and was soon feeling delighted to be back with her, and made Runa curious with her confusing Astrid as she placed her wand back into her open hand.
Runa claimed then to the blonde, making the three Vikings puzzled by her gentle yet hesitant words, "I want you to flick my wand and say 'Lumos' if you can?"
Entertained by whatever Runa wanted, Astrid shrugged while expressing in humor aloud that very word, "Lumos," and they all jumped back in surprise as the tip of her wand lit up, and Runa took her wand back as it then hummed in silent laughter to her before informing to Astrid, in a shocked tone, "Your a Magical like me?"
"Well, that explains ye father for leaving us then through the pillars," Gobber commented without knowing to still the three teens in place, and made Astrid narrow her eyes suspiciously at the Blacksmith he was, and he paused while giving them 'What-I-Do or What' looks, "What do you mean Dad left? My Dad died a long time ago when I was a babe?"
Gobber paled then and decided to distract the teens by rushing around the Shop, then, "Well, I need to get things done and orders to fill. Life as a Blacksmith and all that," he slammed some things onto a counter and began placing them in the heating pit while also hammering away at some cooled down blades before sighing and staring at her.
Astrid firmly raised a question to him since Runa took this cue to leave with Hiccup to wait outside, as the blonde gave the teen male a surprisingly thankful glance before doing so and with her hands on her hips, "Gobber, tell me the truth: Did my Dad die or not?"
Gobber looked to be in a debate over this yet sighed while only confiding her, along with him heating some customers' weapons, "It's not my story to tell ye, Astrid, it's your Ma's mostly." Astrid then gave the old Viking a frustrated look before storming off out the shop and paused before turning to Hiccup, "Could you see that Runa gets back to my Hut, safely? I just… Need to go talk with my Mom."
Once she was gone, Runa looked at Hiccup then to make him look from irked to confused by her question, "Do you have empty spots?"
"Well, this is the best spot within the Village that's empty, Runa." Hiccup notified her later on while discovering it was near his house, to which he was also curious as to why she wanted a vacant spot in the first place.
The Haddock House (if I can mention it), is built on top of the high slope overlooking the entire village. The house is larger in comparison with other homes and is located next to the Great Hall. However, it is also near spacious land as well, and from what Runa saw, it was perfect.
"Well, I have something that might be strange to you Vikings… No offense or anything by the term, that may seem… Very strange itself, as I did mention I'm from another time and place." Runa told him while also explaining, and Hiccup nodded as to make him wonder, she grabbed a strange orb about the size of a large marble out of her pocket, and tossed it up and down into the air as it seems the air did her wonders since she also appeared to be better, and was looking all over nearby his house and then… Flung the orb, hard, at a spot way behind his house, and to catch everyone back at the Village's attention alongside Hiccup staring blank-faced in stupor slightly, mixed with utter shock and hidden excitement before glancing as Runa used the cane to head to her mansion-sized home, materialized in a brilliant silver, gold, and purplish hued flash of light.
"Impressive," was all Hiccup expressed to Runa as he caught up to her, and she smirked while informing him, "You have seen nothing yet," and she placed her hands on the double doors, and allowed them both inside.
Once inside, she saw Hiccup was only frozen as he solely thought that the home was just that, like his on the inside as instead… "Yep," Runa began while popping the letter 'P' at the end of that particular word to get his attention, "I got this strange place by chance and have been living in it whenever I get a chance too, as it has everything, and even inviting the Perkes and the Grangers to my home away from theirs."
Indeed as it was a Rich Person's Mansion For Magical and Mundane inside it as it had everything: A home theater, an Arcade she has gotten from a guy named Litwak while not unplugging the consoles, and also the older arcade games he maintained as well he salvaged. The home itself retained a large dance hall, spa-like bathrooms, and whatever you could think of with many, many rooms.
Runa, however, was glad both families were taking a trip around the globe thanks to her and Hermione suggesting it, otherwise, they would have been sent back in time with her too, and hoped Sally was alright from her... Monster Hybrid Girl Status, and using the trip to find out what she was as the three races.
But she did have a feeling back then to maybe change her mind, but Runa just went with it.
"Well… This is mostly unexpected," was all Hiccup could state in distraction as Runa just shook her head while she realized this was a lot to take in, especially since she felt a strange feeling about him being important of sorts and one other. Despite the small amount of time she knew, she felt close, like a- No, he wouldn't think of me that way anyway as I'm just a stranger joining the Village, she thought to herself in conflicting doubt, and completely began showing Hiccup a brief tour of her home.
With Astrid, she hesitated before entering her home, as Barberia was now finishing a mix of healing cream and heard her child come in, "Ah Astrid. Welcome home," she acknowledged to her child before concern came over her features as Astrid headed over to the table and saw her mother sensed something was wrong, "Astrid. Starshine, are ye alright?" Barberia asked while coming over.
"Not really, Mom… Can you be honest with me about something?" Astrid told her before she questioned Barberia to keep her mother's concern up for her only child, and Barberia gave her a soft stare while touching her face to which she was confused as Astrid moved away from her touch, "You know I always tell ye anything Astrid, ye know that."
What Barberia didn't expect to hear from her child, sighed to herself as she was dreading when the day would come when she interrogated her, "Why did you lie to me about Dad? Gobber told me something else and you told me he died at my birth?"
Barberia sighed while reluctantly pulling away and gave her a look before looking away to what Astrid thought was sadness, shame, and regret mixed in, "I was only keeping ye from the truth till you were a wee bit older, but I didn't expect that Gobber is the one to spill anything to ye…" she gazed at Astrid then and started to tell her why she kept it hidden and kept the truth away from her until now.
(Flashback; Fourteen Years Ago)
Barberia held onto her two fraternal twins with her dear life as her husband, Lucifer Hofferson, was leading them to safety.
An unusual dragon never before beheld on Berk was assaulting the Village, and it didn't look at all happy from the way it was causing only damage and not flames.
It was as if searching for someone or more specifically, them.
"We need to keep moving forward, and look for the Pillars," Lucifer declared to her while glancing back like she was briefly, before heading inward to the forested area and Barberia heard that dragon roaring in dissatisfaction, and soon feeling it was gazing in their direction, "What did ye do to upset the beast, Lucifer!"
He didn't give her an answer as for nearly twenty or so minutes, they kept moving until they came to a site she thought she would never see: The Pillars of God, to what the Vikings called them as they appeared so long ago when they first settled for at least a few years from the first generation, and they all were obelisks with ancient writing on then all in a pentagram formation, secretly, as on the inside of the area, was carved by powerful markings of sorts.
"Why are we here Luci? Why is that Dragon of Darkness chasing after ye?" Barberia pleaded to him while holding both their children.
Lucifer paused and was nearly at the central part of the Pillar, and stared at her solemnly while also claiming only a few words to make her understand, "They come for us, My Lovely Sunfire. Only Stoick and a few others like yourself recognize who I truly am, but they have a fear of not only myself, but for our children, and the potential they have alongside the few others in The Village, in secret, would be the betterment and safety of our world we live in."
They then heard the soulless-like roar within the sky as he summoned an extraordinary blade made of bronze and gold, and in secret, angelic-like runes and the blade seemed to be fashioned for a skilled warrior or knight, and gestures to hide which she did behind a few large rocks nearby as the dragon landed.
It was a pitch-black, armored dragon that was sixty feet tall, lean yet still muscular, and has dagger-like demon wings as it resembled a metallic version fusion of a Red-Eyes Black Dragon with an Armored Frost Wyrm as it also has a glowing, red and amber mixed energy showing from within its body from leylines it retained and roared at him then in a heated breath.
While the two fought, Barberia froze before slowly turning to see a woman wearing Celtic Garbs that were revealing her chest and arms, mostly, as there was a slit for her legs to be shown when she walked, around seven feet in height, and has a delicate yet doll-like face with narrowed eyes that were crimson/sky-blue infusion colors. Her garbs though were mostly black and grey themed in color, and she has pointed ears while having horns show from within her hairline in four ways, to resemble a crown of sorts as they were curled like cute devil horns just like Darth Maul from Star Wars.
This was Rosita Carpathia, a Forced Dark Witch Shifter, and the one who summoned The Beast out of controlled orders since she was a slave to the Dark Ones, and an unwilling pawn to things to come.
"You understand I didn't want it to come to this, Barberia, but the Dark Ones you made me prey upon without realizing, are using me as their Vassel... Their Weapon and Servant to get mostly your Husband… And your children," Rosita tells the mother with mixed eyes of forced anger, and also a mixture of hopeful forgiveness.
Barberia didn't say anything yet commenced to run from her as the Dark Witch let out a sob-like cackle, and went after them.
Lucifer, however, heard the sound and could do nothing about it as he fought with all his might against this Beast-like Dragon that was summoned from the Netherworld.
With Barberia, she was running and moving hastily while holding her two sobbing children as she was dodging purple-like blasts of flames aiming for her, and came then to a cliffside, to her horror, and hearing Rosita calmly then walk and stop a few feet from her, and discovering the eyes shift from blue to red understood the Witch was trying to stop this yet was failing as whoever or whatever was inside her, was too powerful, "This is the end, Sister. Merely give me the children, and I will allow you to leave alive," by the tone Barberia heard, Rosita was not in control at the moment and realized the entity inside her was controlling her at this point.
"Sister, please…. Leave us be. Fight the entity within ye. Ye know ye don't want to do this at all, please," Barberia begged as she saw her possessed elder sister was coming yet paused before clasping the sides of her head and kneeling and screaming in an unearthly-like demonic roar to herself as her eyes kept shifting between red and blue, and dark-like energy was coming from her body in a dark-like mist. "No! Give me the children, Mortal!" The possessed elder sibling claimed in a dark voice while leaping at her with fully red eyes before missing, and was gripping the sides of the cliff in desperate life as her eyes shifted to blue in utter fear as that energy was covering her frame.
Barberia soon placed her two children down further inland while grabbing her sister as she almost fell to her death, and stared at her with eyes shifting between red and blue, "Barberia, you have to let me go! I'm… I'm struggling to keep the Monster back," Rosita confessed with tears falling down her face and with Barberia shaking her head in a wordless 'No', to her, and discovering the cliffside starting to break as the longer the younger sibling held onto her.
Rosita decided while still in control, moved her hands slowly, and made Barberia gasp out a loud no, as she was falling to her death from the misty view.
Barberia was in that position for a few moments until she heard an unexpected cry from her children, and glanced to see a fully black-cloaked person taking her youngest twin daughter, and shortly moved yet was frozen in place by the person pointing at her, and noted in an amused tone, "Your sister isn't deceased. Her existence is owed by their hands… Primarily to the Tainted Dragon, The Possessed Elder Sister to the Nothing Dragon, and doesn't want their favorite little pawn to go to waste by a mere cliff. Although Rosita would be bound to a setting as retribution for her actions against the planned objective to keep you safe, for long periods while earning immortality. But rest assured, this little one would be perfectly fine to where she is going, but for yourself…" Barberia started to scream to freak her two children out to see their Mama in unexpected, convulsing pain, and the figure laughed slightly as Barberia then panted and was forced to kneel on the ground, and was then forced to look at the figure's glowing-amber colored orbs under his hood, "The entity within your eldest, however, will return in due time within another form of a new threat, in later years. I have foreseen it, and more, to which I will share glimpses within your mind to comatose you for a while."
Barberia screamed in agony as he gripped her head, and forced images right into her mind of what he foresaw, and she passed out before comforting the little one and sending the two back to the Village and leaving into a dark-like vortex alongside singing a song that echoed throughout the land as Lucifer, to what Barberia found out, was lost or perhaps was taken.
For Rosita, however, the entity that formerly possessed her fulfilled its oath as now being changed into a doppelgänger of her: The renewed Princess of Darkness and Servant to the Dark Ones, and said entity also made a large Isle for her from it or in terms, her new power she knew that she needed to recuperate for years and hide out.
Rosita was then forever bound to said Isle and the only way to free her is with her one true Soulmate to kiss her on the night of the New Moon and left, as the coal-skinned version of her with demonic wings flew into the sky as the Isle itself was thousands of miles away from Berk.
(Flashback Ends; Present)
Astrid stood still in shock as for once, she saw her mother was crying and didn't comprehend what to do after Barberia confessed to her, and she was numbed slightly to the point that her father may be alive alongside her newly informed twin sibling, and she has a Witch-like aunt somewhere in the world.
"Astrid… Say something, please," Barberia states in a vulnerable voice to shake Astrid out of her thoughts before remarking to her mother while she was down, and Barberia shortly gazing away in shame, "I… I need to go and think about this still Mom. This is… This is a lot to take in for Odin's sake… I'm sorry," and with that, while Astrid heard her mother sobbed quietly to herself, left the hut.
She didn't know why, but she unexpectedly felt a dread-like feeling all over herself that this was the blonde teen's last time glimpsing her, but shook it off as she wiped her own eyes while not watching Hiccup and Runa blinked as they were slowly becoming friends, and saw her running past everyone and them.
Before Hiccup could stop her, Runa's other part of herself, her comforting part that is, kicked in and took off after Astrid. This made Hiccup groaned to himself with a small facepalm before he took off after them.
Not realized to them, a crimson cloaked person was on the nearby roof and glanced at the three teens leaving before glancing at Astrid's Home with a hidden smirk under the person's hood as the person then snapped their fingers before vanishing as miles outwards of Berk, a vortex-shaped was formed as a long-forgotten roar was then heard, from long ago, and emerged before swiftly heading to the Village.
With Astrid within the woods, later on, she was at least thankful that she had her ax with her as she was swinging it against the few trees that she was letting out her mixed frustrations on, and was doing this for the past few minutes now, and sighed before heading over to grab it and stilling and almost chopped Runa's head off while she stills herself in fear.
Astrid instantly looked apologetic at her, however, while expressing to soothe Runa slightly, "Sorry, I was just practicing my ax again."
Glimpsing her look as she rolled her orbs at Hiccup showing up then while panting to realize he ran after Runa and was guessing she was under his care, currently, heard her speak softly that she stiffened in slight surprise, and only confused the Chief's Son by them, "You're lying."
Astrid was secretly impressed yet sighed before placing the ax gently behind her back with ease, and confessed to Runa softly with glancing away from them, "I guess you're right, as I'm bothered by what Gobber meant as Mom confided me…" "But you're out here trying to deal with it yourself in your way?" Runa finished making both teens blink at her as from her words while tinting and looking away then, was from experience. "Yes… Actually," Astrid admittedly notified her.
Astrid then gazed at Runa with a perplexing look with her weapon on her side gently and her free hand on her hip, as Hiccup wanted to understand since he wondered how his friend knew, "How could you easily tell I was lying?"
At that, Runa shrugged while glancing at the two with a sigh as she sat down on the log nearby Astrid did long ago when she was twelve, and Hiccup stood next to Astrid and was nervous only slightly within her presence, "It's something I always knew somehow, along with a few other things my entire life."
Runa then sighed before adding to her words as both teens then sat down near her then as they saw some of her bruises she kept hidden to herself from her clothing as she without realizing, uncovered them while glancing upwards, "Most of my life I put up with the lies I realized those that I can and couldn't trust, expressed, but I placed them to the back of my mind and yet… Wondered if I merely followed my heart and trusted myself more, then I wouldn't be in the situation of being within the past like this. Mainly being involved with the tournament and other things."
Hiccup understood with Astrid only slightly at that, and Astrid to her surprise, Hiccup, gently placed a hand on the girl's arms as they saw her close her eyes and secretly let a tear escape from her right one before she wiped them while acting she didn't, and she along with Astrid stared at Hiccup in slight surprise as his words also were meant for Astrid. "You do know it isn't your fault for what occurred, at least from what you know about yourself and your past."
Astrid saw him glance at her and was secretly touched only slightly while including Runa, as said girl blinked at him yet before she could reply, they all froze at hearing from the direction of the village, a familiar metallic gong to which Runa wasn't in the know, and they paled while confusing alongside making Runa yelp as she was grabbed by both of them to start running back to Berk.
"W-What's going on?!" Runa exclaimed to them nearing The Village's sight on the cliff, and froze as Astrid was shocked at beholding the very dragon her mother told her about, was attacking Berk once more after so long, and they ran down to the village and once they have gotten there, it was chaotic as Vikings were putting out fires while a few were shooting off rocks and whatever they could find at the flying dragon as it roared back in irritation, and searching for something or someone.
Runa and Co. then bumped into both Ashlyn and Rowana as she blinked alongside them at seeing Rowana had cat ears and a tail now, and questioned it for later as they both had from naming order, a lance for Ashlyn, and a staff for Rowana that seems fancy and Greek-Egyptian made of sorts with matching their outfits colors in the design.
The dragon roared as Vikings fled the large area they were in within Berk as it landed, and was mostly looking right at Runa, to her confusion and fear by its gaze, as they heard an immediate wicked-like low chuckle as they were all guarded as a person in a crimson cloak emerged beside the dragon and patting the beast's left side while looking at them all, "Seems to me I took the opportunity to come as ordered and discovered a few things worth interests at least."
They narrowed their orbs at the cloaked person as they saw glowing orbs of mixed amber and red eyes under that hood, and Astrid pointed her ax at whoever this was with as a threat, and only got a chuckle in response as the dragon growled, "Who are you and why are you doing this?"
They were then taken aback by the words of the person as they looked at a bewildered Runa as the person pointed to her at the end, "For many reasons as I accomplished a few already in motion, but I am merely here as orders to Test someone… Her particularly."
"Me? What do you want with me?" Runa asked as she had a terrible feeling like they did, about this as the eyes the person had gleaned by her question, and stated as if it was obvious, "Mostly to Test and see if you are who you are, Child. Alongside what I mentioned that has occurred during my pet's distraction, I have much more pet's as I, The Crimson Collector, was told to do so."
They all then became wary by the person's laugh before glancing at each other at the person's next set of words, "My employers will be meeting you in due time, Golden Child, and hopefully to Test you even more… Sadly, I think it's time I end things by having Charastris to end this Village, farewell," the person then snapped their fingers to get the dragon to oddly gives a wicked smirk at Runa, mostly, as the Crimson Collector vanished and the Beast began to charge at them all.
Astrid tossed her weapon right at the dragon for it only to bounce off before Hiccup grabbed Runa as she let out a cute yelp, and fled with her by their looks to learn she was the dragon's target, as Astrid, the Vikings of Berk, and even both Ashlyn and Rowana commenced fighting and distracting the dragon.
With Runa, a few minutes later, she was for once both highly impressed and irritated by Hiccup's strength he secretly held, and wouldn't let her go as she kept glancing back to the battlefield within The Village of Berk as at this point, they were back or close to the wooded area, and she heard the screams and whatever was occurring since her heart was telling her, despite The Beast, she had to be with them. "Hiccup, stop, we have to go back!"
Hiccup stopped while gazing at her as if she was insane slightly as she only gave him a firm stare in return for his words, and gestures to her, "Did you see the size of that dragon? Particularly since that person declared it was mostly after you for a test or something?" She only crossed her arms under her chest while still giving him a firm yet determined gaze, "I am going back."
Hiccup was sorta surprised by her tone of words to him as long as he knew her for a short amount of time, he understood her only slightly as this bravery she had against him merely trying to protect her, and her in turn only heading back to save the others… I guess I have no choice, "Then I'm going back with you then." He informed her to get Runa to blink as she looked ready to retort back to him, and he saw her give him a small smile which he thought suited her, "Then let's go kick some dragon ass, Hiccup."
"Keep the buildings away from the flames!" Stoick kept notifying his Clan while they placed out buckets of water to combat the odd, and long-forgotten blue flames this Beast from long ago had while some of them tended to the wounded and also the few others, like Rowana and Co. (meaning the Berk Teens and both Rowana and Ashlyn), were surprisingly leading the beast away from the center of Berk yet it was persistent and refused to leave it as well.
He then almost got jumped as a fire elemental this thing created nearly had him until Gobber whacked it into the sea as most of the Vikings, alongside both Stoick and Gobber, were presently evacuating to the caverns, and once Stoick thanked him, he saw Hiccup was with one of three new Clan Members, Runa, and they were moving easily through the crowd before he could stop them from going to where the action was: The Beast.
With said two teens, Hiccup was once again surprised by how fast Runa was, despite the frame she has, and managed to catch up to her as they froze mid-word at beholding Rowana, Ashlyn, and Astrid the only ones currently working together as the other teens fled with noticing Tough Nut was injured only slightly and didn't pay them a glance while Hiccup saw Runa grab a discarded blade on the ground, charged while trying to lift it, and made him only sigh as he found a dagger, and ran after her.
The dragon roared in anger at Astrid while tail swiping both Rowana and Ashlyn away from it, and charged while opening the large maw it has as Astrid proceeded to dodge and whacking her ax at its face and even making it howl in utter rage.
Astrid then to her immediate horror while glancing at the dragon in fear, was going to devour her until she heard a yell while hearing both Rowana and Ashlyn declaring her name aloud in utter surprise as she somehow punched the dragon back a few feet away and slicing with her magic channeling into her borrowed blade, to slice one of its main spikes off.
Runa blinked while glancing at her glowing hands of silver and gold briefly in shock as it faded before staring at Astrid as Hiccup, to their surprise, helped her up yet they were guarded as the dragon roared upwards by the blue flames and briefly lit up the sky from where it was it caused, before glaring right at her as Runa was secretly stunned she was able to hear this dragon wickedly declares in anger, at her, while noticing and feeling it's one of many main spikes it had was gone, "I WILL KILL YOU AND THESE MORTALS FOR RUINING MY BODY!"
"Move!" Shouted Astrid to everyone as they ducked when the dragon, Charastris, breathed fire and tried to crisp them, and when it or he was done, Rowana zapped him with some magic yet ducked by almost getting sent away from above her, by his tail, and Ashlyn, unfortunately, got sent back into some hay that has yet to catch fire.
Runa, Astrid, and Hiccup commenced dodging while Runa sent her borrowed sword right at the left-wing Charastris had and making the dragon then focus on her and tried to eat it / burn her as such, yet was annoyed while impressing the others as they were following them from Runa leading him away from the Village, and to the woods, "We have to stop her! She's going to get herself killed!" Ashlyn states to them while holding her left arm with a wince, and Rowana seeing this sighed while gazing at the two, "Go after her please, as that thing is not what it seems. I need to tend to Ashlyn as it seems she got bit."
To confuse them, Ashlyn saw her other arm indeed had an unusual green solution of sorts to which she nearly leveled over unexpectedly from feeling weak, and Astrid nodded while grabbing a reluctant Hiccup, and raced after both dragon and Runa.
Rowana only gave her friend a stare as she was sheepish, and only shook her head as, despite her size, she easily carried her to where she recalled from Gobber, one of the few good Healers was, and froze briefly before heading to the others with thinking of one thing: Astrid is not going to be happy at all about this.
With Runa, she was running as fast as she can while tripping here and there away from the ground yet rampaging Charastris, as said Dragon was truly ticked off about not only that but wanting to end her officially as incredible chances would have it, there were near the very same Pillars as long ago.
Runa then began to hide behind a pillar while Charastris still raging, snarled out while chasing after her each time for the next few minutes in angered frustration, "Hold still you blasted Hatchling! LET ME END YOU!"
"Not on your life- Fuck!" Runa states before she almost tripped and scraped herself at least, before running as Charastris chased her while Astrid and Hiccup (who was breathing hard), we're worried about her as they still went after them as they all eventually came to old ruins of sorts and Charastris breathed blue flame right at Runa.
Runa was once again able to dodge while tossing loose stones or whatever she could find that only irritated Charastris, and the dragon then spit out smaller bursts of flames at her as she ducked.
It was at that moment she heard the dragon roar in unexpected pain as parts of his leg were sliced by Astrid before she could say something to get away or anything else, she saw a person appear out of nowhere while wearing a dark fuchsia cloak, and stunning Hiccup alongside her in immediate horror as the dragon stayed in place as whoever this person was, shoved a sword right through Astrid's gut.
The blood appeared effortlessly, and the person swiftly removed the dark-like blade with glowing green runes out as a solution dropped from the sides, and Astrid fell to her knees and clutched her wound in utter shock, pain, and horror at the unexpected attack.
The dragon saw the person stare at him before vanishing in a crimson and dark infused vortex, quickly, and swiftly moved while sending Astrid away, and into the building, as Hiccup ran over to her as Runa only stood frozen at her location from hearing the dragon laughed as if this was planned while Hiccup held Astrid's wound since she tried to sit up, but was held in place by him as she looked like she was weak, and understood she was going to die by the way the wound looked.
Runa saw both teens as her whole body felt off, numbed even as she listened to their conversation and also hearing the dragon only laughing at this, in twisted amusement, "Hang on Astrid, you're going to be ok." Hiccup notified her with the blonde discreetly surprised by his concern for her yet she weakly shook her head and expressed softly to him, "You know I'm not going to Hiccup… Just tell Mom I'm… I'm sorry."
Hiccup felt her pulse grow weaker and saw Astrid close her eyes yet before he could rage or anything, he soon turned to Runa as she did instead.
Her body was then showing off an aura mixed with eerie green, silver, and gold hues as her eyes were also glowing a pure white, while her head was upwards.
This also caused the dragon to nervously back up as Runa held in her breath before feeling her entire body was tense as she yelled even louder while staring blankly at the sky as it darkened.
Everything and everyone on Berk was confused or bewildered about the weather-like situation as that energy of Runa's, spread while not only healing Astrid's wound to Hiccup's amazing wonder before returning his gaze to her, but the building's and everything within Berk itself proceeded to repair and fix themselves to get Stoick back at Berk alongside a few others, to gaze at the said location from where they were due to storm clouds of unnatural details formed, around Runa's location.
Black and pure white lightning struck the area as Runa's magic was growing out of control that aura shortly returned to her frame, and grew denser and denser with a louder yell, a beam of said energy shot right into the sky as her body commenced to change right before Hiccup's very eyes and ignoring some parts that occurred.
Firstly, Runa kept screaming as her body grew and changed all over as the bones, and whatever could be heard cracking was remodeling themselves on her frame as her clothing came off effortlessly to leave her in the nude and became ash at first before collecting to the point it became an orb and rolled slowly to Hiccup as the sky kept going from a bright day to a night and back, a few times.
The dense aura then completely covered her as all the years or tormented abuse as she was growing up till now, was fixed, unblocked, and flushed from her body as proof of potions and the blocks showed on her naked frame as black ooze also seeped from her strange scar, and that healed up entirely, alongside other darker fluids that misted away once they were fully out of her.
She screamed once again as she was fully engulfed while still changing to whatever was occurring as her energy, when done, pulsed throughout not only from the past but to her true time, alongside her true time's secret, in particular people that felt it in their particular locations.
Then the aura that was around Runa started to slowly fade away alongside the storm clouds clearing to reveal an improved and new Runa as she was only still, and gazing up at the sky.
She had the same hair and iris color as before yet her sclera became red-orange with her pupils immediately slit, either like a dragon or demon. She also gained an increase within her frame while her skin became ashen-grey, and her hair was styled to dreadlocks as she had three horns on her head: Two on the sides from within her forehead as they curved like a vizor slightly as the tips were pointing upwards and the center horn covered her entire central part of her head, alongside it having small ember-like spikes showing as the central horn also was placed with perfected ease down to her spine while seeing it as part of her in which near her bottom, was a horn-like tail that swayed back and forth.
She moreover has medium-sized pointed ears with the top being close to jagged slightly. Runa's face was furthermore changed to have a delicate oval shape, and her eye shape also became simply large and angular.
Her figure has changed drastically, as instead of what she had before, she gained an older, more overdeveloped look (looking around eighteen) with wide birthing hips with a tucked-in waist, thick yet slender thighs, a slightly muscular yet mostly slender body with prominent glutes, and lastly a large DD-Cup sized breasts. She similarly gained a tattoo-like version of her birthmark on both sides of her arms in a pale skin tone color, and matching colored tiger markings on her sides, and legs. Her figure to mention was that of a gorgeous goddess of sorts, than the previous.
She then let out a grunt as she didn't notice it yet Hiccup did, as she then grew a dragon-like, ridged yet flexible sizing, dick of sorts from where her clitoris once was as an impressive ten inches long and eight-inch girth, in size, before that went right into her as a retractable one since the opening closed.
Her energy then returned to her body and covered her as a new outfit materialized over her nude form in seconds, and she lowered her head while glaring sharply at the dragon.
Her new outfit was largely armor to match her look as her upper torso mainly retained a skin-tight plate of sorts (like her lower) that was dull-grey in color along with the central part glowing as if on fire in an open-wound sort of way, and her upper bust part of the armor has small spikes at the top while it revealed her cleavage decently yet to the point. Her left arm was covered in a claw-like, bronze gauntlet of sorts while her right arm has an etched bronze band, and the entire armor was one suit. Her lower part of the armor itself was generally simple yet around her hips to her special place was a metallic-like bottom of sorts you find at the beach with it having a sigil on the center of it (both bronze and crimson metal). Her legs had delicate yet warrior-like plated gauntlets as at the back and front of where the feet were, were dragon claws.
Runa glanced at Hiccup and saw the alarm in her orbs at discovering an unusual line that was faint, forming between him and Astrid, but shook it off as she got into a stance 'Goku Son' goes into while feeling that Astrid was ok, but growled out to Charastris in a more mature sounding of her voice (with it still sounding like her as well), and shocking Hiccup by what she unknowingly declared, "YOU WILL NOT HARM MY SIBLINGS!"
With that, she instantly charged at the dragon who started to fight her as well.
Hiccup felt Astrid move slightly while he witnessed both the dragon and Runa circling each other before she tackled the Beast, and they commenced wrestling and figuring with each other and with the dragon himself trying to bite her as well, "How… Am I alive?" By her tone, however, she was weak and confused.
Hiccup turned to her as she had a slight jaw drop at beholding the improved Runa facing against the same dragon the blonde realized was the same one from long ago with ease, mixed with a few struggles, and proceeded to try and help her up and move to a safer spot as they were witnessing this amazing fight, "I think it was her after she… Changed," was all he said to Astrid as they hid behind a fallen large tree that the dragon caused as to them, it seems Runa was solely acting by sheer instinct while battling Charastris.
Astrid was astounded by not only that but was stunned by what he perplexingly expressed next to the blonde as they winced when Runa was tail swiped into a few trees before getting hastily up, and tackling the dragon again, "For some reason, she called both of us her siblings."
Astrid was about to respond to Hiccup before they ducked as a blast of blue flames from Charastris was trying to torch Runa as she was running around in circles, before leaping and punching the dragon with her right fist, hard, and sending the dragon a few inches back as she kept punching his face and sides, both left and right, before she soon surprised the teens as she roared in unexpected pain from Charastris biting her arm, and let go, instantly, after several hard punches as the last one hit his left eye.
Charastris roared in immediate pain at that as she busted it while noticing some blood oozed from the former location of his eye, and Runa abruptly felt a large, burning sensation of sorts was coming up from someplace within her body before she instantly opened her mouth, and startled the two teens in awe as she quickly and without effort, breathed golden flames right at the dragon who roared in immediate agony and was also cursing at her until it burnt up, and then died.
Runa stood up before her eyes glinted slightly at this and moved her head upwards before sending another set of those very golden flames into the sky itself as said flames, were very easily noticed for miles on out from the Isle of Berk, and Stoick and the others, from their location, realized that something important has just occurred, and the smoke was oddly enough rainbow-like in the color that the flames exhausted out while she did so.
After a few minutes of doing that, Runa stopped sending flames into the sky and unexpectedly felt weak as she rolled up her eyes along with her mouth smoked for a few moments, and got Astrid and Hiccup to move as the blonde teen's recovery time thanks to Runa, secretly, was sped up slightly, was caught by them as she went unconscious.
As they were struggling to carry Runa since she regained a heavier yet a somewhat lighter perfect weight (due to her change), they didn't see the same person that stabbed Astrid return and held a hand out as the charcoaled Dragon was converted into a charcoal-like blue crystal of sorts in the shape of a diamond, and pocketed it before leaving the scene.
Unknown Location, Miles away from Berk itself several minutes later:
The Crimson Collector scowled under the hood this person wore while holding onto the former dragon pet the person had, within a barren isle, and sighed while burying it in the ground near the person as the person's hands also glowed blood-red, and a dragon-like tombstone showed.
The person stood near the gravestone for a few minutes before stilling, sighed, and barely glancing behind at the person that immediately appeared behind them in a black vortex, and expressed firmly to him, "What do you want, Braig?"
The man around the same age as the cloaked person appeared, smirked at that name as he also wore an unusual black cloak that his group he was part of only recently, wore largely all the time on missions or whatever, with matching boots and gloves. Though, his cloak is even more distinguishable by his shoulders as they sag slightly. His sleeves also appeared to be closer-fitting as well. In terms of his facial features, the man supposedly named Braig, sported golden eyes, pointed elf-like ears, upturned eyebrows, and dark hair with several grey streaks tied into a long ponytail. He also had two visible injuries on his face; the first was a damaged right eye covered by an eyepatch, while the other is a large jagged scar extending from his left cheek to just under his left eye.
"It's Xigbar now, or you could also call me by my secret name if you want? You more than earned that right, Callie." Xigbar states to get the person to scowl at their or her name as she lowered her hood to reveal a young woman around twenty in age appearance, and has ebony-colored with violet highlight hair that was natural, and tied up into a small ponytail behind her head. She also has a slightly curved, upside-down triangular face without any pointed chin, has narrowed, feminine-shaped eyes with a mix of both crimson and grey in her irises along with having green sclera, and was around 5'5 in height as she used a minor illusion to make herself look taller. She also has light-brown hair that's curly slightly and in a messed-up style.
Callie raised an eyebrow at that, and started to amuse Xigbar even more while walking toward her, "You allowed yourself to be filled with more darkness while pretending to be that race?"
He only nodded and grabbed her hand and started gently to her, as secretly, despite him being as he is, they were both a secret couple. "Yes, and it was easy as pie… So to speak, my Crimson Fire." Callie rolled her orbs playfully at that before glancing back at the headstone to make him sigh, rubbed the back of his head slightly, and confided her, "You do realize you didn't need to even send that pet of yours from science to test that child, right?"
He hid a scowl from himself at the mention of her current boss she was hired for as she was a Mercenary of sorts, "Yes, I know, and I also overestimated the Child… I don't know why he wanted her tested in the first place yet I'm glad I don't have to work for that bastard anymore."
Raising his eyebrow while he held his lover, she gave him a look while sighing, "I… I might be under the weather of sorts," noticing his look still, he moved away in slight surprise by her answer, "I, well… We're expecting."
Xigbar had mixed feelings of joy and worry at that, as the joy part was the knowledge of him being a dad, but the other was for the safety of both her and the little one.
Callie stilled before relaxing within Xigbar's hold as he settled her down while to amuse him and irk her, her Nekotama features arose and making her playfully pout as he made her purr without meaning to by rubbing her head, gently.
"I promise there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you or our expecting child, Callie, but there are things I also have to keep in motion as I have recently gotten in contact with Ava." Xigbar tells her gently while leaning down slightly and kissing her lips, and making her blink in utter surprise at that, "So she survived alongside those that either went with the Dandelion Group and stuff, back then?"
"Yes, and the sad thing is that during the War, they were somehow taken and converted into gems before being scattered around the world, and she decides to remain in hiding until further notice," beholding Callie's sad look on that as she remembered others during that time and even gave up her right as a Wielder back then to make sure she lived for her lover before her and made her look to him in the eyes and understood it was inevitable.
Once he pulled away, he asked her as she gazed to the sea as the burial site for her one of five pets, was at the cliffside he admired so much, and she stilled while not being sure, "Where will you go? As you realize you have only one use left on that odd item… You're 'Time Turner' as such, as I can easily go back and forth in time from what I learned?"
Callie shrugged before being honest with him then, "I was thinking of hanging up the Collection Business and settle down somewhere, and possibly go wherever I can while keeping our child safe, Luxu," Xigbar held back a smile at the use of his vessel name and held her a few moments as with her, he can be himself without the worry of everyone learning he was a softy back at the group he was working for at least a year.
It was then he got an idea, and he made her blink in a 'What' look him in wordless confusion over, "Why not stay within Berk? I have a feeling they won't know who you are as you disguised your voice for your only encounter, and that way, I can secretly keep tabs on not only you when I can, but also see if Marluxia and Larxene could come now and then to keep an eye on that Golden Child-" they both looked at the direction where Berk was as a powerful wave of aura came quickly and almost knocked them down before blinking at how powerful that energy was.
"Well, it seems she sent her last wave that went once again forward in time, I imagine," a random voice noted to the two as they rapidly looked to see a man that Xigbar narrowed his eyes and pushed Callie behind him, and claimed to the other man in a firm order while summoning his weapons, his Arrowguns, "What do you want?"
The man raised his hands gently in a surrender motion while stating to them gently without meaning of a threat at all, "I truly mean no harm, as I was solely departing by, and I was also astounded at how ample of power that Child herself has transmitted as it captivated my intrigued attention."
That earned Xigbar to lower his weapon slightly as from his tone, he was saying the truth while narrowing his orbs still and imploring before Callie could, as he seemed somewhat familiar to them both, "That doesn't explain your actions now, does it?"
The man chuckled at that lightly for a brief moment before agreeing with Xigbar, "Indeed not, as I was simply going to offer a stable route for your Lover here in case fatal circumstances occur, as your child is required within this world," that made Callie stiffen and Xigbar held his left weapon at the man who didn't at all seemed phased by it, "What do you mean?"
"It's a simple truth, as I foresaw her helpful in events to come to said Child, but to how I know this… Is the mystery itself," the man claimed while making them blink as he made without nothing, a frozen drink of sorts materialize right in his left-gloved hand and sipped it a few times before continuing his words to them, "I do understand you do not realize your kind though, Callie, or the fact of your half-sisters being alive still in a distinct, modern duration of this very world, secretly… And I am here to assist with that, and more, If you two want?"
Noticing he was being honest with them, Xigbar lowered his weapons before dismissing them, "What is your offer?" He asked the man who only smiled at them.
The man then summoned a contract of sorts made out of magical paper, and Callie started reading it while being impressed as no setbacks or soul was taken as such for this, to realize he wasn't a contractor demon, but a man of professionalism and whatnot, "I solely want the Child within you safe and sound, and in due time, services will be needed and whatever could be given for the Golden Child as I previously found out besides your current group, Luxu or whomever you agree to call yourself, there is one other besides the one I remember that would want nothing but to see the child harmed and then utilized as a Key of sorts to unlock a forbidden door. A gate that has long overlooked yet rediscovered by this very faction as the one overseeing it was a former group of the one I recall."
That got their attention and by noticing his face, he didn't want to at all discuss who this group was, and nodded as the violet cloaked person now showing themselves and froze at noticing the man, and pointed at him with a glare under their hood, "You!"
"Yes me, and I see you are doing well for yourself, Mashani," at the name, the violet cloaked person lowered the hood to reveal a young teen girl around fourteen as she possessed silvery eyes that were almond-shaped to be slightly big, and had a delicate oval face while having two lightning bolt-like marks in teal color on her cheeks, and a button nose along with having short, auburn and violet infused hair.
Callie was surprised her partner who too left the group that wanted the Golden Child for her power, knew this man and before she could ask, the man raised his hand and confided them all while irritating the young teen, "We have confronted before when I regained her life, and in proper time, her obligation to me will be expended in full and yet… What you performed was uncalled for by attempting to harm a soul of the past to then try and shift your fate for your future. But I will forgive you on that, Child."
"Well, I wouldn't have to if you just allowed me to merely die and join my Clan!" She shouted at him to which he shook his head, and noted gently to her with sympathetic understanding while also astonishing her largely and making them wonder what he meant, "I redeemed your life due to your residing Clan wanting you to live, Child, as compensation to me for the Dark One's soul back then… But the situations will, in due time, entangle to the modern periods of this world as well."
At that, he looked like to have forgotten something before he snapped his fingers, and in Mashani's hands was a small chest, "Consider that as your next assignment as you will have to go to the present timeline to do so, and you will comprehend as to why after you make sure that the individual I am requesting to you to defend, to be protected… But besides that, I must go and solely anticipate the Golden Child until the time comes I am truly needed, as after all: Potential Wielders like her will be important for the True War to come."
With that, he left as quickly as he came in a rainbow vortex under his feet as that quickly closed up, and the two saw Mashani sigh to herself while she was checking that chest, and without a word to the two and also giving Callie a look, left in a vortex of her own.
Xigbar felt like he should head back, and kissed his wife while nodding in thought to him then, "Please head to Berk while keeping safe. Just promise me you will be alright as I don't know how long I will be gone this time?"
Xigbar then left as Callie sighed while pulling her hood up, and left in her vortex as not known to them, a pair of angered orbs vanished from his hiding spot, and left to go report this to his master.
Well, what do you all think? As I stated, the true crossover events won't happen till after the end of the third movie for the HTTYD Franchise. I merely thought I would hint as to what Franchise it is, and I have a feeling, later on, you will all know what child is within Callie as such…. In due time, as I am not spoiling it.
Besides that, the redesign of Runa was all thought to be looking things up and everything, and the futa part is for later on when the time comes (not lemon but mentions), but not now as unlike some fics on Rwbyknight's Profile, have some plot with smut-based fics (which sadly I had a tiny hand in some of them and which I won't say his fics are not bad, but they are interesting and good in a way you might appreciate his works, in which I should mention checking Rowana Bensel's works as well).
And if you guys don't recognize the one man I introduced in the end, he is mostly in all my fics for a particular reason.
With that, I hope you enjoyed this fic as much as I had fun writing it. Til the next chapter, peace out!