[LN] Danger Zone

[wherenoonegoes]

Every so often, in the rare times where things were quiet on Berk, Hiccup and Toothless would take off and tear around the sky for a few hours to clear their heads. Chiefing, and Alphaing, was difficult work even for those who'd been doing it for years, and the pair's experience with either was less than optimal. The flights were their way of relaxing.

Of course, it'd be more relaxing if they weren't, according to the position of the stars in the sky, suddenly hundreds of miles away from where they were supposed to be, being chased by nine armored humanoid beings flying monstrous creatures that even Hiccup hesitated to call dragons. To top it all off, the nine were followed by a small army of shadowy creatures equally as monstrous as their mounts.

Faced with this, it wasn't surprising that Hiccup had decided to put off figuring out why he could now hear Toothless's thoughts until after he and the Night Fury were out of mortal danger.

Hiccup turned his head back to take a look at their pursuers. "Okay bud, don't panic, but I think they may actually be gaining on us."

What?! Toothless's eyes widened, How can they be gaining on us? I'm supposed to be the fastest thing up here.

"I'm sorry, but apparently you aren't."

So then, what's the plan?

Hiccup shrugged. "Way I see it is we've got one of two options. We can either try to outlast them on endurance, or turn around and take them head on. Honestly, I'm not liking our chances either way."

Well, if we're doomed no matter what, I think we should do our best to make 'em regret it.

As one, the pair turned around, Toothless's spine beginning to glow a bright, luminescent blue. They charged, the dragon firing explosive balls of plasma into the mass of ink-black terrors.

Comments

[coolcoolcool]

Abed pointed to Astrid. "What she said." He added. "Oh, also, in this world, it's the future, and you're fictional. Except that doesn't mean you're not real, it's that writers here magically divined the stories of your lives and didn't realize you were real in other worlds." He added, "The three of you are all from a fairly successful animated children's movie which was, incidentally, made by the same animation company as the movie about this universe. Except your movie was a lot better and had a much better showing in this box office. This universe was a flop." Another pause. "A movie is a play that magically gets recorded so other people can watch it in a magic moving picture box. Except it's not magic, it's technology, but it'd probably look like magic to you. In any case, your movie's better," he gestured around the Pole, "this movie sucked. Horrible pacing."

[mark_in_the_sands]

"Abed, spoilers!"

Cassie turned back to Astrid and Hiccup and Toothless with a winning smile. "Roughly what they said. Also, we are so going to talk axe-throwing later. And the more appropriate places to do it." Because she was totally up for axe-throwing, but Phil was going to make grumpy noises about that new crevasse in the wood.

"Basically, there's this...entity that we're calling 'Kuk', since it doesn't really have a name. It wants to destroy all of reality. One of the creatures here, the magical ones, opened the door and let Kuk in enough to weaken the walls of reality. If it gets all the way through, it'll destroy this reality and use it as a stepping-stone to destroy all the others. His presence is also causing chunks of reality to drop off, fortunately we can find them and put them back into place.

"Now, stories travel through the walls of reality more easily than people do, so that's how the kids here know about us. When Kuk started weakening the walls of reality, the kids reached out for people who made them feel safe. They reached for us, and we fell through. Because of the way this world works, we get some kind of beyond-human abilities that get more powerful the more kids believe in us. There's a kid we know who starts us all off, we'll introduce you guys as soon as everyone else gets back."

She took a deep breath. "We also can't get back to our realities until this is fixed, not necessarily on a permanent basis. Upside, the people who have gone back and then ended up back here, more time is passing here than in our home realities, so our loved ones aren't going to freak out about us vanishing."

She ran her fingers back through her hair, pursing her lips. "I think that covers the basics. Questions?"

[wherenoonegoes]

"I have questions about my sanity..." Hiccup muttered/

You didn't have any to begin with. Toothless bespoke to both Hiccup and Astrid.

"...I'd argue that, but I'm fairly sure the evidence is against me. Er...where exactly are we right now? And were those things that attacked me working for Kuk?"

[coolcoolcool]

"Right now we're in the center of all whimsy and wonder in this universe - Santa's workshop," Abed said, holding out his hands as if presenting something delightful. "One of the Guardians that protects the kids of this world builds toys here that he delivers to all the good girls and boys of the world one day a year during the winter - Christmas. It's way up in the North Pole." He went on, "Those things that attacked you were Nazgul, horrible undead wraiths that were summoned from a world where they're real like you were. This is the first time we've seen them but they're probably working for Kuk if they tried to kill you before we could get to you."

[badasstrid]

"If they're undead is it possible to make them deader?" Astrid asked bluntly. They had hurt her boyfriend. She'd seen him lying there pale and cold one time before, when they'd had to get him back to Berk after he'd lost his leg. After that, she'd never wanted to see him that way again. So now she had a very vested interest in un-aliving these things.

[mark_in_the_sands]

"Yes actually," Cassie said, baring her teeth in a grin. "And the big boss Nazgul can specifically only be killed by women. I suggest ranged weapon over melee so you don't pass out and need to be revived with athelas."

Oh but did she like this girl.

"But before you go roaring off to do that, I suggest you guys take a moment to camp down and recover."