The next day, December 25th, Christmas / Yuletide to some, and Official Day of Snoggletog to Vikings, within Hiccup's Home:
Toothless was banging on the roof again to place a smile on Hiccup's face as he stated in hinted relief and excitement, "I'm coming, Toothless! Alright, bud, come on down. I was just-" he was perplexed once he saw Toothless had pulled out the old flight gear, "Toothless, what'd you pull this out for? You don't need this anymore. Come on, let's get going."
Toothless moves away from Hiccup to confuse the teen, "Would you quit fooling around? You have your new tail now." Being confused further by the look the dragon had in his eyes, "Toothless?" Toothless breaks off the new tail given to him, "Toothless! Stop! What are you doing?" Toothless pulls up the old gear again, and Hiccup realizes something: Toothless truly wants, no needs Hiccup to help him fly in harmony once again.
Winter in Berk lasts most of the year. It hangs on with both hands and won't let go. And the only real comforts against the cold are those you keep close to your heart. Hiccup began in thought as he asked Toothless while they were in the sky with a few gentle pats to his head, "Okay, bud, you ready?" Hiccup unhooks his leg and somersaults off of Toothless, and they freefall together.
"Yee-haw!" Hiccup exclaimed loudly as Toothless lightly tapped Hiccup with the teen soon spinning within the air. Turns out, that was the best Snoggletog ever. That year, I gave my best friend a pretty great gift. Hiccup hooks back onto Toothless and shakes the snow off the mountain. "Whoo-hoo!" But he gave me a better one!
After flying around a bit more, they headed and landed in front of Runa's Mansion, with Hiccup being confused as to why Astrid and the others, alongside his father and their dragons, were waiting out front, and asked to get all eyes on him, "What's going on?"
"It seems a woman broke into her home last night and for odd reason, made her faint and just waiting to be let in by someone," Astrid tells her boyfriend to make him look at Toothless and back to her as the Night Fury let Hiccup down to stand amongst them yet before he could say anything, the door opened and grew bigger to allow the dragons and their little ones to enter, which they did, and with being startled and amazed by the decorations and more as far as the eyes can see.
Astrid did wake up and fetched everyone while pondering the bizarre female for later, with seeing Sonata was better and making taco-based omelets for everyone, earlier in the morning that is.
"Seems the Lass has outdone herself," Gobber comments to which they all agreed before seeing Rin and Koneko come to them with a quiet, follow us, as they were lead into the adjusted lounge area with the dragons eagerly eating their favorite raw fish, and with them sitting down and began to wait in slight patients… If it wasn't for the twins trying to pull a prank on Snotlout.
"Hiya guys!" Sonata cheered with them seeing she wore a festive Santa hat on her head and with her outfit being under the Santa coat, to which they were puzzled by but was amused by stuffing her face with a soft taco she saved for herself, to which the small group was introduced to that type of Mexican food one day… And let's say, that would be the day of the longest food fight in history for their Clan.
"So you're better now?" Hiccup asked the blue-skinned Siren as she nodded happily before plopping down in one of the extra chairs with giving an understanding nod at Rin as she went to go fetch Runa and Serena, as Koneko was leaning against the wall and eyeing them all for some reason, "Ya! It was just a cold my kind rarely gets, as it simply causes us to go to sleep for days while dreaming whatever a dream is."
This made everyone sweat drop by her words with Stoick and Gobber only amused at how hyper the girl was, before gazing in concern at Runa as she looked paler today but smiled at them all in wordless greeting, and with Stoick holding back a laugh at from watching Serena go right on top of Hiccup, and grinned at him with a slight giggle at sitting on his stomach.
"Ok Serena, let Big Brother up or you won't get any cheesecake later tonight," Runa told her child to make the girl sharply gaze to her in wordless horror to amuse them as by any dessert she tried to when she was with her mother, cheesecake of any given flavor was the child's most favorite, and Hiccup let out a quick wheeze as she quickly got off him before seeing her friend show up sleepily with Zilanette, and went to play with her instead.
The last ones to arrive later on as Runa was trembling and didn't see the perverse looks of Tuffnut and Snotlout as her bust was slightly seen more and jiggled without noticed, and soon paled by the low growl coming from Koneko and head-slamming gently the twos heads to make them give her wordless looks of what, as Sesshōmaru, Ophis, and the unexpected blonde haired woman came into the area from what some of those noticed, guessed that they discussed something to themselves.
"So… Would you want to open presents first, or eat some breakfast?" Runa hesitantly asked as everyone did see how nervous the dragon girl was, and seeing she ignored her paled skin tone as they ate first before twenty minutes or so later with Issei and Rias awake and waiting for them, gave each other gifts then.
Eventually, it was down to Runa, Hiccup, and Astrid as everyone was intrigued and more about their gifts.
"Hiccup… This is beautiful," Astrid stated with her easily ducking down from the enchanted stuffed toy that flew past her head as Serena was chasing it alongside Rin, to make Runa gently shake her head with them seeing it was a custom-made ring that was forged with care and love, as the ring itself held her birthstone on a starry-like design within the gemstone itself.
"Well, I was given advice to make something from my heart, and speaking of which, here Ru-Ru," Hiccup tells his girlfriend before he tossed a wrapped gift as well at Runa, which despite her current state she easily caught it, and was stunned once it was opened to see it was a bracelet of sorts that held pure white diamonds in total of twelve all around it.
"I was lucky to find some coal that actually held those gems from Dad telling me on that," Hiccup gently explained to her as she managed to place it on her right wrist and was still gazing at it with her knowing despite it being customized, it was possibly worth tons of money, "Aye Lass, that there trinket is indeed genuine." Stoick added to which she thanked them before they would open more of the presents to make Runa be rather intrigued by or even startled by them, as one of them was the apple wallpaper present.
After that, they mixed up their traditions with Runa's and the others own, and even managed to convince Ophis to wear a Santa Hat, alongside her comrade Lucifer, to which she stated to Astrid earlier and to them, as to why she was here in the first place in original intent.
Later on in the mid-afternoon, Runa was in her one shall-like thick blanket as she had her eyes covered with her being led somewhere outside her home and with the others also following behind her to where the pillars were, as she guessed this was their last present to her and she was mixed of being wary, and being happy… Despite the dark voices whispering to her at times and with Deathwing managing to silence them as secretly, they kept him up all night as was resting within her.
"When can I take this off?" Runa asked softly as her eyes felt irritated for some reason the longer the blindfold was on her face, as not known to them all, they were being observed up above by an unseen entity as those that recalled her words at times about her home were rather silent yet stunned as Rias gave a look to Ophis who only nodded wordlessly as they made Runa kneel a bit to get the blindfold off, and heard Issei state to her in a good mood, "Now."
It took Runa a while to adjust her sight but was frozen in place by whom she saw was there, and dressed in decent warmed garbs of clothing: It was her godmother: Bellatrix "Bella" Black, and both Ginny and Hermione.
Despite nearly tripping over herself, they caught her in a strong yet gentle hug from the dragon girl herself and with everyone simply watching on in silence with specific few others gave Ophis knowing looks too which she cutely huffed at but with satisfied eyes at her hatchling, and like her, a select few did see the one flower take root once they saw Runa's few tears hit the ground around her.
The four hugged with Runa for at least five or so minutes with Runa tinting as she awkwardly stood up, and saw the bemused faces of mostly everyone and those she knew had a soft spot, amused or glinting eyes while looking neutral at her.
"We missed ya too, Rue." Ginny softly told her while gently yet awkwardly patting Runa's lower back and trying to avoid her dropping wings and with Hermione agreeing as Bellatrix watched on in understanding silence as the trio was here for sometime thanks to not only the Goblins, but of Ophis herself getting involved to which the way to get to Runa's timeline herself she was placed into, could only take three people to the area itself.
So, everyone, it was slightly heated arguments but it was declared by Sirius Black himself to let them go and be with her for sometime, and with his sister taking a two-way mirror alongside finding out by an unusual man named Aeroza, their times were synchronized on dates closer to then they thought in the next few months after a point and mostly based on Runa herself, which his words were vague on that.
Once they pulled apart, Runa tinted while they kept her odd trembling to themselves of guessing she was cold mostly, when Bellatrix did whistle from seeing how much her godchild did change, "And it seems whatever happened filled you out in the right direction, Spitfire."
Before Runa could speak, they turned their attention to Stoick who coughed into his hand on purpose to get their attention, and nearly everyone did shiver by the unusual and brief gust of chilled wind that blew through them, "Perhaps it would be best to resume the reunion in warmer quarters?"
Once they were all back in the mansion an hour later with Bellatrix, Ginny and Hermione were surprised at how this old timed village was with seeing looks later from specific people as they went to Runa's home, and Hiccup did kiss Astrid on the lips before she and everyone else went their ways within the vast mansion as to mention, Lucifer pulled Astrid to the side and took her somewhere private to speak, and Ophis was with both Issei and Rias to speak to them privately as well, as it was just in the lounge of Runa, Hermione, Ginny and Bella (Bellatrix) with both Stoick and Hiccup being in the lounge and some of Runa's gifts still there.
Serena was being watched over alongside her friend Rin, by both the house elves, while a certain demon lord and a certain female elf were in the gardens for themselves.
"So, ye be those from her time?" Stoick began to ask the trio to which they nodded with being amused as Runa was soon sleeping with her head on Bellatrix's lap as Hiccup, and by a minor glance to both Ginny and Hermione, Runa had a uneasy sleep earlier today, "Yes, and from what I can tell, it has only been a few months or so since we last saw her." Bellatrix answered to make them blink at this in surprise to which Hermione began to try and explain to the leader and his son for the Hooligan Clan, "What Mrs. Black is trying to say that it was I who explained how Runa came to be in the past, but time seems to flow differently as it has only been two months for us, but longer for Runa herself."
"So what you're saying is that she's only been gone for a few months in your time?" Hiccup tells them to which Ginny nodded at him with a small smile as she glanced at the dragon girl and hiding their shared amusement of her gently purring as Bellatrix was rubbing her hands gently through her hair, "From what that man told us, he managed to make things a bit smoother with Lady Gremory explaining things easier to us that she is slowly going to age until she gets back to our time."
That made both father and son glance at each other and back before Hermione corrected Ginny as she forgot about that, "You mean those she's also involved with as well, as the few girls she's with are rather… Interesting, to say the least."
"Would it also affect everyone she met, or no?" Stoick asked before his son could out of concern with him noticing the minor rapid and creepy eye movement for once that Runa did, as in another reality, a little blonde haired girl who was solving problems within a top-secret lab unexpectedly sneezed on her instructor from inhaling her perfume, and resumed her work without seeing a pair of familiar eyes discreetly watching things, with hiking a solution for her to control herself better and more.
"Not entirely as we were only told it affects just Runa and her lovers, more to anyone else involved." Hermione told them as Stoick was unfortunately called over by Gobber for something to which he told Bellatrix later to talk, and left his son to the wolves, so to speak.
It was tense silence with them ignoring the sounds of slight chaos from the others as Hiccup made the two girls and Runa's godmother to blink by his unexpected question to them, with them not seeing after that, Bella hid the urge to shiver from, "Has Runa ever told you about dark voices?"
"You mean… They're back?" Hermione stated more than questions in an authoritative and demanding tone quietly as the trio guessed that the dragon girl herself was having issues again of nightmares and more, and made Hiccup narrowed his eyes at the cat girl for, "What do you mean 'They're back', it's like you know something we don't."
Ginny, Bellatrix and Hermione glanced at each other before looking at him as they confessed things without realizing they were being watched by unknown forces.
It turned out the voices were on another level as Hiccup knew her life before coming to their Clan was bad, and saw some memories of her time, but he didn't realize it was truly bad enough for someone to take her and do things, especially making Runa truly doubt herself and more at making her seem worthless, not loved even more, and close to the point she was suicidal for a few weeks without meaning too as the so-called voices were not known to their origins, but they guessed something darker was influenced by the most bizarre ritual she was placed into, back then when she was twelve going on thirteen.
It didn't help that the old fool did place her back with her so-called family to further some setbacks, especially since both Sirius and Bellatrix, when they found out, chewed him out at one of their so-called meetings, of learning this.
In turn, Hiccup explained to the trio as to what Runa's adventure was so far with them being told as well from seeing the faint glow of his arm about Loki and more about the Red Death and whom was inside her, to make Hermione confessing of telling him about an Online Game of sorts that had Deathwing as an old expansion end boss, but was currently the mentioned franchise was in Warlords of Draenor, to which she also confessed as lately she was a player to the game for a few years, and might introduce Runa to the game as well at some point, as she, Ginny, and a few others were also a guild in that.
Anyways, off topic.
"So did you find out about them from her?" Bellatrix questions the teen male Viking to which he shook and rubbed his head with his left hand, "She sorta let it slipped only recently, but I don't think her current issue is from whatever it is, though, as Ophis did tell me she might go through her Painful Heats soon."
At those words, Bellatrix had dark thoughts for a few seconds before placing a smile on her face to him, of sad understanding, as the Nothing Drake did privately meet with her and her brother and let's say, they had to do a duel with each other to let out their frustrations and fix up the landed area they chose, and leave it at that.
Hermione and Ginny, however, were perplexed by what Hiccup mentioned yet before they could respond, they grew immediately concerned with seeing Runa was trembling and looked to be in pain, and took a mere second to blink as Ophis was immediately over alongside Rias and Lucifer, who were rather crossed and being impressed, at the same time, to witness the Nothing Drake herself easily carrying her daughter without effort, despite her current appearance.
"It seems it came sooner than expected," Rias comments later on within Runa's room as Hiccup and Astrid decided to keep the festivities going on with knowing how hard the dragon girl worked within her home to do it, much to everyone being mixed on it yet understood, as it wasn't just the Gremory Heiress but also Ophis, Lucifer, and Bellatrix who placed another cold washcloth on Runa's forehead as she was burning up without any covers on her frame.
"And I wanted to introduce her aunt," Ophis stated in a way to make most in the room to sweat drop at her for her blunt yet neutral statement, before she went over and gently brushed Runa's sweat away from her face as despite her body being very pale to be near-white, her face was flushed with what appeared to be a fever, "And it doesn't help much for her also getting sick on top of her pained cycle," Lucifer added to them all with them meeting Deathwing earlier from the aid of the Nothing Drake, and was told a few things.
Once Runa enters this state, there was nothing he could do as his abilities of healing her would be blocked, making her truly vulnerable by anyone or anything, even easily getting sick from basic illnesses going from common to worsening then intended, as a simple cold to make her go into a small few or so hours of a coma until nightfall. Others… She would need healing, as it would knock her out for three or so days, and during this, her fertility rate is drastically increased as well to one-hundred percent afterwards, but she would only gain little comfort and be in full-body pain that will fade as time went.
Which made those in the room glad she did get a cold and not worse, as she would be in constant tears and unable to move at all anyways, and would barely let out words.
"You, Lady Gremory, are devils. Correct?" Bellatrix asked Rias to make her blink with narrowed eyes aimed at Runa's Godmother as she gave a firm nod and a look as if to prove your point, "Would it be possible for her to heal by your ways then? Or maybe someone who has that ability to try and soothe her to make her at least sleep it off?"
Ophis hid a smirk at Bellatrix at the idea as she glanced to see Rias actually facepalmed to herself at forgetting the one person who could do that, that joined them in the holiday and muttered, be right back, and left the room.
Just as she did, and without warning, Runa began to convulse in the bed with having a seizure unexpectedly, to which the remaining people held her down with little difficulty and saw those tears of hers easily falling down her face in utter pain and her one aura of sorts easily showing like a slight dense mist of sorts over her frame.
"She best bring whomever she is intended for, as she is unfortunately experiencing the very worst way of her heat cycle!" Lucifer groaned out from being kicked hard in the abdomen with utter surprise at actually feeling that, in which Ophis inwardly was beaming, despite the situation of how strong her hatchling was while they were soon once again struggling at holding her down and trying to not get clawed either, and Ophis and those aware, ignoring the slowly growing aroma of sorts that was seeping from her and glad she ordered those connected to her to be out of the area Runa's residing at this moment, of her home.
It was a few moments later with Runa slumping in her spot on the bed that Rias came back with another female.
She is a girl around 17 to 18 years of age with long blonde hair and green eyes. Her hair flows all the way down to her back, with split bangs over her forehead and a single strand sticking out from the top, sloping backwards. Her main attire consists of a dark teal nun outfit with light blue accents, a white veil over her head with light blue accents, a brown satchel slung on her right hip (where she holds her personal Bible), and brown boots with black straps in an X-shaped pattern. She also wears a modified silver cross necklace around her neck.
This is Asia Argento, and part of Issei's Peerage, to which she's not only the healer of his team, but also the holder of both a Balance Breaker, a Bishop Piece, and the ability of her Sacred Gear: Twilight Healing.
Which I would also get whacked in the head if I don't mention this:
More of her Bio:
Birthday: May 11th
Height: 155 cm (5'1)
Rank: Low-class Devil
Role: Bishop (as mentioned)
Race: Reincarnated Devil (Former human)
Bust (large C-Cup): 78 cm (31)
Waist: 55 cm (22)
Hips: 81 cm (32)
Thanks now let's resume- Gets whacked by the frying pan of doom by ? or the adopted younger daughter of Aeroza, as she looks at the reader and gives a peace sign, and lets the story resume while dragging him somewhere.
She began to use her healing abilities after seeing Runa's state of distress and saw that the energy she was forcibly sent into the dragon girl, was slowly but surely working she tells them with surprising exhaustion in her time to worry Rias for them both as she kept at it by sending energy into the dragon girl by holding onto her left arm, "Her body is unknowingly trying to block my help, but it's taking a toll on me that I might need rest after."
Rias was rather startled by this with Ophis only gazing on as if it was obvious but didn't say anything as Asia did grunt gently as she pushed more of her ability a few times in quick succession before feeling that she broke through, and Runa immediately relaxed and caused nearly everyone to sweat drop at hearing purr-based rumbling as the dragon teen deeply breathed, with a few twitches of her body, here and there.
"She will rest for a time, but Runa will be upset if we do not at least feast and see to things," Hermione told them ten minutes later as if she knew what their host would expect, and mostly everyone eyeing her and those from Runa's true time period with mixed feelings on this but did so, and random others checkings on Runa, now and then.
Serena was enjoying herself with being told her mother was sleeping off being sick, from being young as such, and everyone was indeed trying to have fun with mixed results at this.
The others were doing their own thing, except Runa's girls were by themselves with silently watching things from their spots in the home itself, before seeing Hermione come over with suspicious eyes while crossing her arms and hesitated before asking them, with seeing them glance at each other at the unexpected yet also expected question, "So you're my friend and sisters soulmates? That right?"
"We are," Koneko responded in a clipped tone to make the other girls to Runa, blink at her attitude to Hermione at this, but blinked and soon looked relaxed to what she told her personally, "I know about what other races there are, as I'm not one of the hostile kind." Hermione then made them gaze at each other for a moment before looking at her when she asked them then, "So has she confessed anything about her issues or her nightmares?"
"Now I think that Runa has been vague about things lately, but we did overhear about her sleep at times." Sonata tells them to make Rin cross her arms with a pointed look to make Sonata sheepish, "How do you know that?" They nearly faulted on each other by her sheepish words with rubbing the back of her head, "I tend to sneak around at night for some late tacos before I ended up sick, and may have stopped for a moment to overhear her talk in her sleep when she sleeps here, in her home."
"I heard a few things while she's asleep, and even got sucked into her dream by Deathwing accidentally letting that happen." Rin though confessed just as Ginny came over with narrowing her eyes for only a moment, as Hermione blinked before pondering things aloud of her thoughts on that, "That might explain a few things as the entity inside Runa, might be powerful but has set-based limits too…" they turned to Ginny though as she sighed and sitting next to Hermione on the large cough near them, "It has to probably to do with that ritual she was under, especially since I was given something to give to you to study, Mia, since you might make things better than all of us," here she gave Hermione a small book that was pitch black with an unusual sigil, but no title, and perplexed her.
"It was given to me by Sirius as he was the one who found it, from knowing his ancestors dealt with many things," Ginny informed them all and mainly Hermione, who was browsing the pages and stated to them in a mesmerized tone, "This book is listing how to enter the Realm of Dreams, of anyone, and many things too besides that."
"Does it have that ritual in the book?" Koneko firmly asked to which Hermione did blink before pointing things out to realize that there would have been a spy in the house back then, if there was a torn page, "If it was, it's no longer there now…" Hermionie blinked once she saw the front-inside of the book, "Well, it seems Sirius' and Bella's theories of other realms isn't far off than before, as take a look who written this small book," and she did show it to state the writers name was Khati Keenrosh-Black.
"Who is this Khati?" Sonata innocently asked them to which they didn't know, but turned as Bellatrix overheard that name with sighing out as she took the book from Hermione with a few grumbles about her cousin and things, before she responded to inform them, "She was rumored to be a Elf-Hybrid in the 18th century before it hit the 19th, and part of the Black Clan that involved and invoked herself with a few others in unusual things and rituals, as a dubbed Warlock. Things that both benefited and ruined mankind…" she gazed at the book before giving it back to Hermione who only nodded at her firm words with no bite to mainly her, "If my cousin entrusted with you that book that was tampered with as it holds many pages as an enchanted book by that Warlock of my ancestry, I hope that spy was taken care of for tearing not one that I can sense, but several pages from that book."
The two out of the others with them understood, as they knew Runa's Godmother was slightly sensitive when it came to enchanted items, as she gave them a slight wave before going over to see Xenovia to speak to her, with Hermione pocketing the book.
It was a few hours later that while everyone was enjoying themselves, they paused with Lucifer being impressed by being near Astrid and Hiccup, and even mentioning it to them at seeing Runa come back down with trembling and looking weakened to get the two to understand from her point of view, by being aided from surprisingly, Sesshōmaru himself, and looked at them weakly yet sheepishly with not noticing her wince after her words sounding soft yet drained, from walking down her large wall-built stairs to the upstairs areas and other halls to that, "Hey… Guys…" she was caught though by the Dog Demon Lord with giving him a sheepish look, and to his only shaking head at being stubborn.
"You should be laying down and trying to relax, Ru-Ru." Hiccup eventually told her thirty or so minutes later as her girls and the others were doing their own thing, and with her in a reclining chair that was decent enough and by house elf magic, adjusted to suit her just fine, and they were also being watched by both Rias and Issei across from them within the lounge with some food on some sturdy paper plates, with them wincing from some of the vikings causing a ruckus a bit in the dining hall that's easily in earshot.
"I know what's… What's…" Runa tried to say before lightly growling to herself, ignoring the understanding stares by a select few as her body trembled slightly, "I know what's wrong with me… Now, Big Brother. But I…" her she winced while quietly thanking Rias of the special drink Ophis made for her in a viking mug and gulped a few sips down with ease, and resumed speaking, "But I want to be with everyone despite my- Ow!" Here she winced at seeing her tail and wings cramped up for a moment or two before relaxing, "Despite my condition."
"But if you're hurting-" Hiccup began to suggest before he stilled by her firm stare at him to impress Rias and making even Issei nervous for, and held back a wince with feeling the special drink slowly starting to work, with ignoring the urges to find her girls or even touch herself, mixed with the pain, "I know. But this is my first time sharing my… My holiday cheer with everyone, and even… And even Serena. I will rest later on, Big Brother… Just let me be, please?"
Hiccup sighed while rubbing his head in a slight hesitant posture but seeing the glance of Astrid to him in understanding before she resumed talking with Lucifer quietly over something from a glance to him and her with a raised eyebrow, made Runa give him a small smile, "Alright. Alright, I know when I'm outvoted." Hiccup made Runa reluctantly agree with a nod though after his words, "If you feel like you are going to faint or the pain gets too worse, you are going back to bed."
"Trust me… I am handling it the best I can," Runa gave him a smile before wincing from feeling her midsection slightly cramp with both pain and something else she wasn't used too before letting out a slight chuckle as Serena came with the younger Rin to see that they did maybe make more cookies, with seeing she over decorated hers, "It's good Serena."
"Sera-Chan wanted to make sure you ate sweets as she knows you didn't eat desert, as Rin isn't sure why she overdid it." Rin admits to Runa with making them raise an eyebrow at Runa's daughter as she gave her mother the cookie before making Rin yelp, and amused them as she playfully dragged her back to the kitchen to maybe make more.
"You have an interesting child, despite the way she was conceived," Rias admits to only get Runa to nod before gently sipping this time the mug, which Hiccup raised an eyebrow at glimpsing it was some type of golden liquid of sorts, "Yes… I will do anything… Anything for her as Mater does… Does for me."
"Ya, and I bet she will make sure of that." Issei decided to speak up to make them gaze at him with Hiccup questioning the elder teen, "Well, how bad can that be?" Seeing him sweat drop to himself with an eye roll to Rias, made Runa glance to where Ophis was and back a few times at being surprised by this, from Rias explaining to the duo, "Ophis isn't that well known a lot for showing her emotions openly or talking a lot. She is as she was claimed to be, after all. So when she found out with things from us being told from realizing you were alive and more, despite things, she vowed to make sure you as her first child, to be happy by any means, no matter what. She would even sacrifice herself for you if it was an option."
"I don't… I don't want her to die…" Runa tried to word things out but was having trouble speaking to which they understood and she blinked at Issei gently using his hand to rub over her own, which he earned brownie points from his girlfriend and wife-to-be, in the future, "I know you don't, but Ophis has a straight-forward mind at times yet while very smart, she lacks the knowledge of many things due to not getting out much of her actual home until she was part of the Chaos Brigade."
"The what?" Hiccup asked with being curious, alongside seeing Runa having that as well on her face, they were mixed with being surprised and understanding as Hermione and Ginny came by with more food for their friend and considered sister, of what occurred and things in a shortened variety of sorts, within the next half-hour.
Once done, Runa blinked a few times before telling them, getting Rias and Issei knowing to look at one another, "But… Merlin is a male…" Rias stopped her to make her then drink the mug as she explained then, "From what we were told before our actual arrival to Berk by that man we told you about, Aeroza, stated there are vast realms and worlds in existence, so alternative or similar individuals might occur."
"Makes sense…" Hiccup murmured with Rias taking sharp notice of the hidden floating eyeball casually going everywhere in the area with hidden feelings as to what that was, from recalling her childhood of studies before gazing back to the Haddock Heir of the Village, "Runa, by what they're saying… Their world is not like ours, and is maybe another Earth linked to ours."
"Oh," was all Runa could say before preventing her hand at cramping up by gently rubbing her left hand to her right, with her claws gently scraping the skin, and turned to Rias at being curious though as she may have heard it a few times from Ophis, "Speaking of that… Who is Big Red?"
Meanwhile with Ophis, she was discussing things at least to hearing range with hiding an urge to frown at hearing Rias explain things about the Red Drake before turning her gaze back to the Dog Demon Lord and Lucifer, as she let Astrid go to be crowd control over the food fight started in the large kitchen, and reminded the duo, "The enemy you mentioned, seems that the ones intended need to be watched over for a time. Especially how powerful of a demon you are yourself, My Lord, struggled and failed to end that person."
"This Sesshōmaru is in agreement, especially when I have found that the Lady of Nothing's own offspring, easily accepted myself and Rin into a pack, alongside several others." Sesshōmaru began with Lucifer and Ophis for once, sweat dropped at his third-person speech, just like his charge, "Though she sent her one other teacher to her current timeline, this Sesshōmaru can sense the danger is not yet over, but merely a kickstarter as time goes."
"Yes, and my own other offspring besides Runa herself, are part of that as well. Runa's Pack that is," Lucifer admits to not only him, but to Ophis as she only nodded with having a hidden smile, but mainly a neutral face aimed at her from her own response to this, "Even though her soul is more than it appears as a previous child to you, I will reluctantly accept you into her life alongside those she has yet to meet. The Ancient One has only told me snippets, but not everything."
"Yes, and I am shocked how strong she is handling her condition at this moment, in honest truth to the seven sins," Lucifer soon admits back to Ophis to make her blink before they saw her give them a shrug, "She is my offspring as yo yours from accidental blood adoption when younger for blood needed by… Past injuries, as she will be strong. Despite the former Black Aspect within her, she has conflicts and other things that still need to be dealt with, and holding back things to unlock… Her potential as she is."
Glancing at each other and back, as earlier up to this point it was politics and pack or kin-based discussions of private moments to the trio, understood she was asking for aid in her own way, "So what has become of her?"
"She is to be a mother of three, not one, eventually, from finding she was forced as she is, and others that must not be discussed in the open." Ophis told them firmly with the duo easily seeing the many mixed emotions from her eyes and understood, and left with her to one of the guest rooms with a reassured gaze at her child who looked at her curiously before giving out a rough voice of laughing at a joke Issei told them.
With Astrid, she gently swirled from the mug offered to her earlier while as herself for the last half-hour on the wall within the hallway that was near the stair and entrance to the lounge area, and hid the urge at wincing from feeling her midsection cramp without knowing why that was, but blinked as she saw in instant slight amusement of Serena and the younger Rin, being chased down in playfulness by Sonata who was wearing a dragon mask in Dragon Chase, and hides the urge to be jumped in place by a gentle yet firm hand on her left shoulder and glanced to see it was Ginny with a look to her, and her only response to that was, "What is it?" Astrid stiffened yet sighed after the redhead's words gently back yet also, perplexed her, at the same time, "I have a feeling you're not used to being a Dragon Girl?"
"I guess, as I have been for a bit," Astrid admits with her flexing her free clawed hand as an example before lowering it from seeing Ginny nod, but asked with narrowed eyes with suspicion as she had some help in secretive training of her body by some of Runa's girls, and even her demon lord of a teacher as well, to which Runa knew of course, "But why does it sound like you know more about that than you're letting on?"
Ginny looked left and right as if she didn't want to be overheard, and whispered into Astrid's left ear to stun the blonde teen by her confession, "Turns out I'm related to the Echidna in Greek Lore by my papa's side of the family in ancestry from a secretive son of hers, and may have a humanized harpy-dragon inheritance I found out from the Goblins back in our time that's going to happen when I'm fifteen or sixteen, as I can do this," here Ginny showed a small flame that looked more closer to blue and green with a shadowy effect of sorts and with not feeling any darkness, but rather, a lighter aspect to it before she dismissed it with ease, "And only Mia and Runa's Godmother and Godfather only know, as my own Mom's on her side has the Veela genes to add to my future pandemic… That, and finding out I have a harpy-dragon sister we found out is named Tricky, for some reason, who's somewhere not marked from an enchantment of sorts, from my Mom's confession of a blood donation to me when I was sick within the Magical Hospital on our first trip to Egypt, to induce this."
"So what's wrong with that?" Astrid stated as yes, Runa let her borrow a few books on some races, and Veela being one of them with the books also being enchanted as mentioned before within her library, to be converted to any given language the person may know, and Ginny sighed before speaking normally to make Astrid understand within moments, "Veela's have either a single or multitudes of mates up to at least two or three people, and I'm mixed on that as I'm into girls, and don't want to end up with a guy at all. Fleur's parents were lucky that her own mother had a single mate with her father, and with my mix, it's guaranteed I may have at least two or three out there…" here she paused before glancing over her shoulder and back to Astrid to which the blonde teen herself made a zipping motion to know she would keep it a secret, "I have a feeling Luna Lovegood is truly my destined one of that, as I feel a tugging sensation whenever we're close to each other, despise being secretive girlfriends for the last month, officially."
Astrid understood by some of Runa's tales of who Luna might be, and made Ginny blink twice with feeling accepted by the blonde teen then with a gentle shoulder squeeze by her, after, "Well, maybe you should tell her? Hiccup and I are a couple and we may keep some, not all secrets from each other, at times, but I have an unusual feeling she might understand." She paused before making Ginny nod at the idea, as she was debating on that or not, "And maybe you should contact whenever you go back, this Tricky person. Maybe they will be surprised by it."
Noticing Astrid winced while unconsciously touching her stomach area after a moment or two of silence between them, or more to the blonde teen's womb area, made Ginny raise an eyebrow with her asking the blonde teen, "You ok?"
"Yep, just fine." Astrid only tells her to only get a nod of suspicion as they then began to discuss things to themselves as within the game room, Koneko was sipping some hot cocoa she pilfered from the kitchens in a bigger mug that's the size of her forearms with ease, and watched as some of the others were playing to what was called, Dance Dance Revolution via the Nothing Drake to better help with Runa's dancing to some songs, from a random comment by one of her soul-sisters, and stilled before glancing to see it was actually Discord who had an equal mug in his hand and gently sipped his, "I may arrived on time for a bit, but I have a feeling my own little sister is close to being found."
"Good." Was all Koneko could say as they were tensed with each other at times, but respected one another as well, but raised an eyebrow when he asked her with a smirk, "You do have to admit, that my apprentice is strong-willed when it comes to her condition right now, and even yourself with knowing what that is like."
Now this made the Rook Piece of a Neko girl to blink at him as he sipped his drink in a way, he was enjoying it, and turned to glance at her from seeing that the blonde twins were playing a shooting game he didn't get a chance to see the title of, "You had a Mate?"
"Only once, but from another realm entirely. I have a feeling though she was resurrected in another life, as she saved my own by sending me back to only get in a feud I wish to not discuss about, encased in stone, and freed at some point, twice…" he paused before snapping his free hand gently and nabbed the barbershop crazy straw that looped into a pretzel shape, and was sipping his drink gently a few times and made Koneko blink once again with him recollecting things, "I even had one offspring with her, but the child was sent separately away as well to something unknown to which, I did try and search but alas… I failed. My mate to mention, was a pure demoness in odd facts, and her parents who were killed back then in untold actions, didn't see eye-to-eye with me but eventually I proved myself by saving their youngest, Tabitha, from a Dark One who was trying to do bad, bad things."
"So I assume something occurred to the world you ended up in?" She quietly replied to get him to look at her closely, but only nodded after a few more sips, "Yes, as it was too late to save that variant of Earth itself, but I know that Tabitha is actually enjoying where she is with being in a deal of her own to not age at all until her own soulmate is around her age, and age up with them to a point to their twenties as a semi-immortal, at least. Especially since Tabitha is a Chaosarinian Race of Demons known as the Chaotiks. From what I know, there are three royal-like rares, and five other tribes of the race itself. There were few left of the demonic tribe of the race itself, but I just hope whatever survivors of that world, survived."
She only nodded wordlessly before having an eye twitch by a comment then to see him smirking at her, "But I can tell you do want to get along more with her though, in a private meeting, if you get it?" He nudged her a few times to try and get a hint to her, which she calmly grabbed his free hand, and casually tossed him to the nearest wall with knowing it won't damage from the enchantments and saw him being indented upside down with using his tongue in a cartoonish sense to easily clean up his edible mug and straw, and the remaining drink with narrowing his eyes at her playfully, "Well played."
With Callie in her secluded part of the area, she sighed with gently swirling her cup of ginger ale that Runa, thankfully, had on hand as extra drinks as few other alternatives, and glanced to her slightly bloated stomach in a soft smile.
The mother-to-be has yet to learn the sex of her baby, but had a feeling she knew it was a girl, somehow, but she stilled as Hermione came over to greet the woman, "Hello? I heard you helped Runa out at times, to which, I'm grateful for that." By the tone of the teen, Callie did detect she meant her words to her.
"Aye, I did. It was both hard yet easy to make sure she stayed healthy at times, up to now, thanks to being apprenticed to Gothi." Callie simply told the medium brown-haired teen to which she gave a single nod to know she understood, until Callie held in a slight wince at feeling her unborn child kick her a few times as despite knowing how small the unborn babe was within her, they would develop fast yet slow as an infant of her race, and blinked with Hermione being reluctant but softly asked to see if it was ok, "Even though I'm not fully human, I can tell that you're not either and yet… Can I touch your midsection to feel the baby?"
Seeing nothing wrong, Hermione amused Callie by actually feeling a gentle yet strong kick of sorts to impress the teen over, but pulled back when Callie asked her then with a raised eyebrow with sipping her drink gently a few times before doing so, "What do you mean your're not human either, Child?"
"It's Hermione, but I guess since Runa and a few others are themselves…" Callie stood frozen for only a moment at seeing what Hermione was, and thought it was impossible but kept it to herself, from the unexpected yet obvious blended scent of her and one particular other, and seeing the teen's natural beauty as to her rare kind of her own race as well.
Hermione was confused when Callie asked to meet her later at her home if she was still around before doing small talk with the medium brown-haired teenager of a Cat Girl, as with Luna, she was talking with some of Runa's girls, both Sonata and Rin, in a far corner with the trio having some actual eggnog with hints of cinnamon in it, and the blonde gently laughing by the joke Rin knew when she was still living within the Village Hidden in The Leaves, when the blonde stiffened of a vision passing quickly right through her eyes.
After shaking her head, Luna glanced right where she saw Runa was at with slight pity to confuse the two girls next to her over, but also glanced to Stoick as well as he passed by in a good mood, and yet before she could say something, the trio stilled as Aeroza was in front of the trio, now.
"I know as to what you seen, Miss Lovegood," Aeroza began to make both Sonata and Rin to sharply gaze in realizing things at the blonde to which, Luna did sigh by his next set of words, "No matter how much you want to change the outcome for those two, Runa will be alright but Stoick's destiny was proclaimed as soon as he became the leader of his Hooligan Clan. It is needed, especially since there are far, far worse things than that type of drake you see that has yet to be unleashed to not this time, but another."
"What do you mean as to what she saw? Luna?" Rin asked him before asking the blonde, which he made all three look to them as if in debate, but admitted then to make the two belong to Runa as her soulmates, looked to be thinking, especially how rare it was for Sonata with her disabilities at times sometimes make her act rashly, most of the time, "I can at least soothe your twos worries over Lady Runa, but all I know is that you two, Lady Koneko, and your soulmate herself, will be involved. It will be something that caused her stay, at this time, to this time period to try yet fail at doing so to further the plans set in motion that the group had. That, and there are others that due to the document, or in terms, 'The Contract of VShojo' that Lady Zentreya made Hiccup and Astrid sign, and in her dreams, Lady Runa, would also aid her in due time… And also as to whom I know will join you in being with her as well, and among other things that will occur to surprise you."
Sonata glanced at Rin to see her fellow soul-sister, in terms of them all sharing Runa as soulmates, glared at the man before then sighing in defeat, and blinked as he lightly tapped their shoulders with a look to Luna as a smaller vision passed from what he spoke about, and looked mixed and saw her sigh at knowing, he doesn't want the blonde to tell them at all on the newer vision either, and only stated to the two to make them blink, twice, at, "Lady Zentreya, is something you can truly discuss between both Hiccup and Astrid, as they encountered the entity to save Runa's life. But so you know, Lady Rin," here he gazed at her firmly to make her blink once more in shock, "That fruit you ate, is what affected both Lady Runa, and Lady Zillanette's forms, to which, also will affect you as well, in due time."
"A fruit did all that?" Sonata dumbly asked in equal shock, alongside Luna looking thoughtful now to this, and making Aeroza nod once with admitting things, "That garden you went into belonged to the few secretive children of Pan, in Greek mythology, to which he is a fertility deity, more or less bestial in form. He was associated by the Romans with Faunus, and even the start of that as a Sub-Race as well in another world entirely, with other things to aid in that on a world known as Remnant. Originally he is also an Arcadian deity, his name is a Doric contraction of paon ("pasturer") but was commonly supposed in antiquity to be connected with Pan (''all")."
Seeing their stares right at him, he shrugged when he told them in honesty, "Nothing like a slight history lesson to understand things, especially if you can come with me for only a moment, Lady Lovegood, I have something that might pique your interest."
Luna was reluctant but went with him to eventually get something interesting to maybe do so to not only amongst her, but a few select parties while Sonata and Rin began to quietly discuss things, as a few hours later, Runa was forced to bed rest with everyone concluding the party.
Of course, not known to most of the others there, Luna may have secretly spiked some targeted drinks with the aid of Aeroza, and time-delayed outcomes as well thanks to him for a non-painful overnight change, as their last drinks.
Let's just say that Fate was irked once again as Aeroza's own family relation, Fate Mihashi, was smirking next to her at the outcome her uncle had caused as to what was needed, but she had her own twin, Destiny Mihashi, furthered things to be rather interesting once the changes take place for the targeted females, thanks to him and Luna… Even though the blonde wanted in on it as well, for Ginny, and delaying the effects as well to when it was the perfect time, for something interesting in an overnight pass.
Of course to this, some chaotic entities were thrilled when the blessed yet cursed immortal man told them as well, due to foreseeing it would benefit more than curse them, especially since the owner that aided the duo, was getting chewed out gently by their parent for doing so.
Anyways, back to within Runa's room.
Runa sighed while feeling extremely weakened and gripped her sheets while as suggested, in the nude, and with her clothing as her one accessory on her one wrist, and did faintly blush from mixed pain and pleasure of what her body was doing to her, and tried to go back to sleep with ignoring her lower region being very heated, and stilled when she saw someone unknown staring right back at her, face-to-face.
The woman was slightly older than Runa, probably seventeen or eighteen in true age appearance, with pale hair that seemed to faintly glow in the moonlight behind her, same as her pale skin, while her angular eyes were black pits, and smirking with perfectly sharp teeth. From what Runa could see, she or whatever entity she was, was wearing a black dress with flowy elbow length split sleeves and a silver brooch shaped like a triangle with a circle and line inside pinned to the cinched empire waist.
"Seems like you can finally see me, after so long due to what your going through to unblock that," The woman stated as she casually was floating with ease in an Indian pose, and making Runa weakly but able to move to sit-up in her bed, and stated in a rasped tone to know she would need to drink some water soon, "W-Who are you?"
"Well, I was there the first time you died, but was brought back, Kiddo. And stuck with ya ever since while still performing my duties, of course!" The elder teen woman stated to Runa in a way, Runa frowned with wincing from feeling pain mainly all her lower half of her body to see the teen frown at that, and blinked with slight relief as the pain was still there when she touched her abdomen area, but less, "Doesn't help that you were raped more then three times to permantly cause this type of heat periods though, Kiddo."
"You…" Runa began to try and state, but it was getting hard to speak to which she blinked with a wordlessly giving thankful look to the entity, the dragon girl guessed, and gently sipped the glass of water before the elder teen entity placed it back next to the stand and began to state to her with looking awkward, if her gently scratching her cheek was anything to go by, "I know what you've been through as not only Dumble-Ass-A-Door and one other prevented from you ever seeing me again, but what ya going through, managed to unblock that and more. In truth, I was assigned by a few of ya true parents as your personal reaper, as yes, that's what I am!"
Here, Runa was grateful that her room was soundproof a bit, as the reaper, if she heard right, swirled in a full three-hundred and sixty degree circle while floating in the air, and caused a firework-like explosion explosion that didn't burn anything in her room with introducing herself, "The name is Melinoe! The Greek-made Reaper! And the one that will make sure ya get a decent life, if I can that is." Here, she got up close and personal for a few moments before backing off, "Of course that is entirely up to you, as I'm also assigned to be the reaper alongside a select few you be meeting, as the future Mistress of Death and Ruler of Death, as one of your yet-to-be titles once you down Ol' Voldeshorts' Soul Shards he created, which by that…" Runa winced and blinked as she extracted from her head, a black mass that looked weakened and looked relieved as she placed it into a bag of sorts that looked gothic at best, and in pitch black colors, "I managed to finally nab the last remains of yours thanks to what your going through."
"I… I had him in my… Head?" Runa tried to state out and think, as it was getting a bit hazy to get Melinoe while as she is a chaotic reaper of sorts in neutral-good affairs, to understand Runa's plight and nodded with a solemn look, "Yep. You should actually thank that Deathwing fellow, as he aided me once you changed into what you are, firstly, at getting most of the Soul Shard or in magic terms, a Horcrux. Believe it or not, Ol' Voldeshorts wasn't always as he was, but was tricked at first before continuing on his own. Not by Dumble-Ass-A-Door though, but the other that forced me to keep away from you, until now."
Seeing Runa's shocked face as she guessed what a Horcrux was, from knowing during Hogwarts that someone (cough, cough, the female entity) may have forced a specific book before placing it back into her hands and within the Old Coot's Headmaster Chambers in Hogwarts, and making the dragon girl herself read some of it during the summer before her fourth year began, and nodded at the dragon girl, "Yep. and it gets worse to know that the person serves a dark force that hasn't been seen in this realm, for nearly in time, three-hundred thousand and ten-thousand years ago. A force that Mr. V might know more-of then yours truly, as I only heard snippets of them joining forces with a few other groups to get things done, but they are still awaiting the right moment to do so, once their so-called 'Master' is truly freed. That, and the previous Shadow Lords to further aid in this outcome to at least, your world and few others that are linked to it."
Runa slumped in her bed at that, to get her to gaze at the reaper who gently patted the in-pain dragon girl on her right shoulder with a small smile, "Hey, they don't have full plans to do so until a few or so years in your original time as they have yet to make plans or moves to do so… But so you know, that I met Lily, to which…" Runa blinked as the reaper grabbed from the same bag a pure glowing orb and told her softly as she crushed it, and tossed the remains to see it became a slight mist and was forming into something, "She doesn't have a physical body yet but Lord Hades, allowed her to visit you tonight. Even though she is his second wife in your true time with letting your birth father, James, pass on."
It was indeed Lily (movie version) as with the aid of Melinoe, Runa was able to get up and hug her birth mother, somehow, with the reaper only stating it was her being aiding on physical touch, as Lily did inspect her baby girl with softly stating to her with seeing she wanted to cry, but as a specter at the moment, she couldn't, "It's so great to see you my little star. Look at you! You are growing up nicely."
Runa blinked at feeling her throat was soothed by the reaper moving away after, and making both Lily and the dragon girl to blink twice, at seeing she was reading a comic book of sorts to allow them some time to talk, and they did, for nearly a few hours with Lily also telling tales and more to Runa during that time as well.
Of course when it came to her placement with the Dursleys, Lily frowned yet understood to make Runa blink at her birth mother, "In our wills, I specifically stated for you to not ever live with Tunie. Sure, she was mixed on our magic usage, but it was mainly Vernon who hated it… It seems Dumbledore and whoever was interfering with your life back then, would need a thing or two in vengeance to an Evans."
Seeing Runa's gaze to her, Lily softened her hard features with making Runa sit on her bed more comfortable, as she explained a few things to them, "You see, the Evans Clan is a long line of powerful woman and also mixed heritages of others, especially to our famed ancestor, Lina Evans or otherwise, Lina Inverse: The Slayer. So no doubt once you truly pay for an actual test by either the Goblins or another source, it will reveal all those of your ancestors via all your parents. Whenever you cross with an Evans, it is with dire consequences as well. In fact, I think the Black Clan might also be part of our forgotten line as well, but filtered as clan cousins at best, as they took more… Darker routes for vengeance than what an Evans might do. Especially since you are back to the Black Clan thanks to James being the son of your grandmother, who is a Black."
"That is rather confusing," Runa admitted to get Lily to lightly chuckle at her child, and nodded as she agreed, "I wasn't the best when it came to clan politics, but James due to his upbringing was, even though he was fully blood adopted by his secret he shared with me, as a True Potter and Black."
"Papa was adopted?" Runa now asked in bewilderment to which, Melinoe gazed sharply at Lily at that before shrugging, and resumed reading her long comic book as Lily nodded once again, "He told me he was, but before he could reveal to me as to what he found out as to whom they were, we were killed."
"Would they be alive?" Runa asked her with Lily and the reaper were the ones to see Runa's eyes glow a few times from her current conditions and emotions at that, and made them look at each other before Lily gazed at her, "Not sure in honesty, sweetie. But if they were, they would be impressed by how you prevailed and everything, like I am. No matter what you do, I will be proud of what you choose to do. Like our main ancestor goes as a motto, 'Where monsters rampage, I'm there to take them down! Where treasure glitters, I'm there to claim it! Where an enemy rises to face me, victory will be mine!' Not sure how she worked that out, but we were protectors as well to all in our clan, and not just the rich and the poor, but also to those we cherish as our allies and friends, no matter what race or gender. In truth, I may have discovered that Lina might even be alive again, but sealed away. Somewhere. Hades mentioned it to me when I asked to meet her."
Runa perked up at that, as they talked to how Runa's stay was, and other things, and even the woman who was still in a guest house nearby Hiccups, out of Runa's aid and suggestion on that, to make Lily give Melinoe a glance briefly unseen by her child though with knowing in the female reaper's eyes at that, especially knowing her birth child made her a grandma before she was even an adult, but understood things as well.
Eventually, Melinoe managed to grab an unusual pocket watch to dishearten both Lily and Runa at this, as the reaper sighed out to the dragon girl then, "It's time to take Lily back to Hades, as he agreed the visit will be longer then now once she gained a body of her own, that is in the works to what a certain man suggested."
Both Lily and Runa gave a bewildered stare at the female reaper at this to which she shrugged, and made Runa blink at the ethereal-blue vortex she summoned by using her finger to rip into the air to do so, as Lily gave one final hug to her birth daughter and left into it.
Melinoe gave Runa a searching look before telling her then from seeing the dragon girl wince in her place, with the reaper being nice for a rare moment, to place her and tuck into her bed to try and sleep off her heat period, and to make the dragon girl blink at the new confession, "The Hades your birth mother is married too is a different variation though, then the one that also helped you at the most. In truth, this and that variation helped you the most alongside the use of yours truly, to save you four times."
Seeing Runa yawned without being bothered by the dragon girl's teeth and the insides of her mouth, alongside tongue, chuckled to herself as she told the teen then with vanishing in a puff of black smoke, after, "Get some rest as I have a feeling you are going to have an interesting time the longer your here."
In a secluded part of Berk, at this moment and time:
Hermione while wearing a furred cloak given to her as a gift from one of Runa's Viking friends, shivered still as she wrapped it closer to her frame as her true self, her tail dragging into the snowy ground as she came upon Callie's hut-like home, hesitated once she was at the door to see the lights were still on, and gently knocked before nearly tripping over herself as the pregnant woman opened the door.
Of course, Hermione wasn't expecting to see Callie's true appearance as well, similar to her own, but without the extra things on her chest, as the pregnant woman let the medium-brown haired teen inside.
Once the door was shut, Hermione was suspicious when she saw a cloaked man gazing at her in a chair Callie had within her home, with his hood up and appeared guarded upon seeing her, as Callie offered her a chair as well, which Hermione reluctantly sat down into it.
There was slightly tense silence before the man removed his hood to reveal it was Braig himself, and made Callie look awkward as Hermione looked at the two in suspicion, "So you're Hermione, right?" The medium-brown haired teen only nodded while still suspicious as she noticed that Callie looked nervous between her and the man, "So, how have you been?"
"I'm sorry, Sir, but do I know you?" Hermione asked while crossing her arms, and with an agitated tail and flickering of her right ear a few times as he only looked amused but stated with a slight mockful sigh, "I suppose you don't know, as it seems you only recently unlocked your heritage." Glancing between the two in being both wary and cautious, she made them blink as she quickly got up and stated in a guarded tone, "Maybe it's best I leave-" she was stopped to her surprise when Aeroza casually entered the home to make the trio blink at seeing him here, for.
"I highly suggest you sit down, Miss Granger, as after all… You were only adopted as one, correct?" Aeroza told her gently to make the two see Hermione stiffen in utter shock by his words, and soon stuttered out to him, "H-How d-d-id you k-know that?"
"Well, why do I think ahead and to stop you from leaving these two in the first place?" Aeroza only told her to make them all stiffen with the man lowering his hood to reveal it was Braig, the man losing his smirk at realizing as to what he was saying, and Callie without anyone noticing, holding her midsection as well since Hermione stated in sharp realization, as the teen warily glanced between him, and to the other two, "They're my parents?"
"Indeed… Though, there are preceded events I cannot interfere, otherwise, you would have not been able to meet with Runa within your true period of time to this world," Aeroza began, "But that doesn't mean you will not get a chance to see them as to now, and to when you eventually return, as sadly, Runa is still not allowed to go back due to complications amongst Gods and few other parties, that has caused things to go on as is."
"You mean we get to-" Callie tried to say things before Aeroza gazed at her and back to Hermione with a finger raised, "If you let me continue, please? Yes, you two will see your child, but as you see her as before you right now, but from events I cannot state. Messing with both time and space is a fickle thing, but is it worth ruining your child's eventual future?"
The trio gazed away from him at that to make Aeroza let out a soft sigh, before looking right at Hermione, "I wanted to proceed these events to this day of you meeting with your parents, as once you return, your father will at least be there as your mother, is still missing."
"I get… Taken?" Callie warily asked in growing fear as Braig quickly gets up and comes over to his wife and soothes her with a firm look at the man, as Aeroza sheepishly rubbed his head, "I regrettably state my apologies, but I cannot inform you to whom or to what does take you, but to know your child will be loved by The Grangers Clan as if she was one of their own."
Here, Aeroza gazed at Braig as he regrettably nodded at the man's words then with Hermione understanding within moments alongside Callie by his next of regretful words, "You wouldn't have been able to raise her at all until a specific point, due to whom you work for would take interest, especially since she has the potential to wield a particular type of weapon as well, amongst few others."
Now this made Hermione raise an eyebrow at Aeroza who simply shrugged, but made them jump of him summoning a rainbow vortex as the trio gazed at each other awkwardly, then, "Just so you know, Callie, you will be alive, but imprisoned for sometime by whomever took you as it is with your child's and Runa's aid they will not only free you, but others, that were kept at bay to try and not interfere as to what was planned, or to come, of this world. But not much more I can reveal without upsetting the balance of things, as despite my words biting at my very heart to not uphold my own honor to force myself unto not telling any of you more, it would alter time and space, and end some lives that are currently amongst the living. To when you will be taken, is unsure, but you will be taken, regardless of any outcome."
As he was about to leave, he paused and stated one last thing to let the trio bond for now, to Hermione then to make her ponder his words, "You and several others are destined to not only aid Runa, but many vast realities and worlds, including your own. My words may have seemingly been harsh to you and your kindred, but as I stated, I do apologize in advance to what will transpire to not only your mother, but those that will end up saving this village by a brief respite of a price. Due take care, Miss Granger, and do bond with these two as you will meet some of your father's colleagues at some point as well, whence you return, and they will unto Lady Runa in due course."
Within the undiscovered parts of America, within the future location of Washington, DC, in Maryland:
The one person who made a deal on the one isle, the one whose tattoo states, 'Soldier', appeared with ease from a shadowy vortex on the vast untamed landscape with one goal in mind, after the minor order: To fetch and awaken an ally sealed away, earlier.
The male, shrugged his shoulder blades before grabbing a dark looking crystal and touching the top of it, saw it glowed and soon sent a silvery trail path for him to follow.
The male paused with seeing wild deer grazing, and soon sent them packing with a minor burst of dark-like fire from their hands, and resumed walking calmly until he eventually reached to an open cavern that beheld a barrier of sorts, with it being unnaturally made with it hiding it's true appearance to that of a Chinese Dragon.
He tossed the crystal right at the barrier to see the barrier rupture from this, and dissolved to the point to allow the man to enter with haste before it was brought back up within a moment.
Once inside, there was an Aztec-based and hand-carved with tools coffin wrapped in all enchanted golden chains, with the design to make the man smirk to himself to know his target was trapped and sealed within, but soon frowned at recalling things and grabbed a small pouch from his robe, and spilled a powdery mixture into his hands before blowing it gently into the vast room all over to see there was invisibility-enchanted ropes to trigger traps.
Once he disabled them all, he circled the coffin with truly admiring the craftwork the former tribe that once lived in this area had done, but was on the main side with seeing something that once he brushed the leftover grime and dirt away, a star-based slot.
He got what appeared to be a pentagram device that opened with ease into the same slot design, and placed it into it, and turned counterclockwise three times to the right before one single turn to the left to heat a satisfying click sound.
The man stood back a few steps after hearing faint traces of constant hissing on the sides, and wasn't phased as the top was sent upwards to the ceiling and stuck there with black mist and smoke soon trailing down the side of the coffin itself. A darkened beam of light soon abruptly was made and easily went through the ceiling, the lid evaporating, and making a eased chunked size of a perfectly cut hole before it faded as a skeleton was soon popped out to the other side and with the darkness flowing into it, began to take shape and form.
After some time, the reformed individual calmly stood up with clothing mixed with armor, reformed upon them as they gazed at the man who freed them with calculating eyes.
He, yes he, wore a pitch-black armor. He had on his gear a gold and silver skull on each shoulder as his armor reminded me of 'Arthas', in the 'World of Warcraft', and with strange runes all around his armor in perfect placement. His helm however was that of a gothic but demonic black dragon which was looking as if it was snarling with glowing red eyes. The person also had pointed ears as well as the red eyes that misted a bit every time he blinked, or moved them. The helm only covered the top portion of his head, but not the lower, which matched the blackened steel color. And he was grinning with razor sharp teeth which looked to be stained in blood at the tips, at least from any angle. Finally, though, he had a somewhat longer and dark-purple forked tongue, which showed briefly before going back into his mouth.
This forgotten Lord and General of Darkness to the one group, was sealed away by an alliance between the lost tribe, and several others before they left the area to its hidden location to be kept buried, ever more. Of course, he was sent back into time before he was truly defeated by a former ally of his, that is, and ended up trying to rule the land yet failed.
He had many titles to which, some are active, but none more so as to who he was: Shadowlord General Number Eight, Zarlandros, The Vile Chaos.
In truth, he looks similar to one man to which, sneezed within his location but didn't mind things.
Still sharply grinning at the man at knowing who or what he truly was, took in a breath of air as if he hasn't breathed it in so long, which was the truth, and exhaled before stating in a voice similar to Kyle Hebert to the one who freed him after scenting it has been nearly a thousand or so years being imprisoned, "So it seems I am needed once again? Well, then tell me… What are my orders?"
Well this is rather unexpected for an Old OC of mine to make a slight appearance, but for what reasons… That is for everyone to guess and wonder for themselves. And as well, who is this unknown entity of a male that freed him, too? What will come to what was seen within Luna's Visions, and also actions to the one party with the aid of Aeroza? And other things? You will all have to find out in due course, and to what will occur or pass… Once that chapter is up for it that will lead eventually into the 2nd Movie!
I know this chapter is small, but it is worth the wait and while, and informative on a few things that will transpire in due time for this story as well.
Other than that… I have an AO3 Account now!
That's correct, as I will now be also moving to what I have here on Fanfiction to the one site, under AeonmasterAeroza. So look for my stories there as well (and also, starting there for updates too before posting them here, on the Fanfiction Site itself).
In truth, I might end up placing my remakes onto that AO3 Site as well, one of which I may have a few chapters for… The remake of Ranamon's Little Girl! That, and finding out the series of Disenchantment, is officially over and will make things a bit easier on my end to go into all the episodes for my one story, and work on my others once I have free time or not get stuck, which sadly, I have no CO-AUTHOR or anyone atm to bounce my ideas off too to make further or quicker updates to my stories.
So expect some delays in truth.
Now until the next chapter is out, hope you all post in the comments as to what you think may happen, and cya until then.