"Please refrain from chipping any of the crystals off of my castle," Twilight commanded with a sly smile, having caught Hiccup examining the crystal walls far too closely for her liking. He shot up straight and walked away with a shamefaced grin. Twilight had taken the human right to her castle, taking a detour around most of Ponyville so that the ponies didn't see him. They had lost Rainbow Dash along the way, as she said that she had something she wanted to do. She would introduce him to them soon enough, but now didn't seem the time.
"They're just so...unbelievable! I've never seen any mineral like them where I come from," Hiccup informed Twilight as he gazed up in awe at the massive structure that glistened in the light, his eyes darting to each part of it as if he were trying to take it all in at once. "I would love to examine these more when I have some free time. I'd love to see what new things I could create with them."
"You're an inventor Hiccup?" Fluttershy asked from atop Toothless' head, the dragon being kind enough to give his new friend a lift.
"Oh, what do you know, we have another scientist on our hooves," Rarity said. "You must share some of your knowledge with Twilight, she just enjoys learning about new things."
"First I'd like to focus more on the dragon problem," Twilight cut in as she used her magic to open to doors to her castle. "Welcome to my home, Hiccup and Toothless. Make yourselves at home." Both Toothless and Hiccup's jaws dropped, hitting the crystal floors when they saw the majesty of the interior of the castle. Twilight couldn't help but smile at the awed looks of the human and dragon, whom she was starting to notice seemed to be just as expressive as its master.
"Wow...this makes all the dragon resistant buildings I helped design look like...nothing," Hiccup muttered beneath his breath as the five entered into a room with a six thrones around a star engraved in the ground.
"Don't feel too bad, the whole place was created by a magic box filled with the power of rainbows that helped us send a centaur to the depths of Tartarus!" Pinkie explained "helpfully" for Hiccup. While Hiccup tried to place what Pinkie said to any sort of reason, a small purple and green dragon ran out from a different room and skidded to a stop in front of Twilight.
"Twilight! You're finally back from your errands with the princess!" Spike exclaimed with joy as he tackled her leg, hugging it tight while Twilight wrapped a hoof around his back. "You won't believe what I managed to do with my fire in the few days that you've been gone!" Spike grinned as he broke free of Twilight's grasp before he looked over at the wide-eyed human, finally noticing Hiccup for the first time. "Oh, are you that human Twilight told me about? The dragon master?"
"By Odin's beard, he actually can talk," Hiccup whispered before he stuck out his right hand and slowly began to approach Spike, gently placing his hand upon the top of Spike's head with a small sigh. For a long moment he stood in silence with his hand upon Spike's head, before Rarity finally broke the silence.
"Um, darling? Whatever are you doing?" Rarity asked.
"Whatever he's doing, it feels nice," Spike lazily said as he closed his eyes and leaned into Hiccup's hand. In a moment Hiccup was on his knees and examining every scale, spine and tooth with wide eyes. Hiccup began to mutter under his breath as he reached underneath his chest armor and pulled out a ragged looking journal, opening it and pulling out a pencil. With quick strokes and movements he drew an accurate picture of Spike, before writing Spike at the top of the page and underlining it.
"You really are an incredible dragon," Hiccup muttered as he squinted his eyes at Spike, the young dragon puffing out his chest in pride. "But not an easy to place dragon. Not a striker, not a boulder, definitely not a tidal. What type of dragon are you?"
"That's easy! I'm a fire breather!" Spike exclaimed before inhaling deeply and unleashing a pitiful burst of green fire from his mouth. Fluttershy let out a small giggle at the sight before Toothless let out a yawn and walked over to Spike, whose eyes shrunk as he noticed the black Night Fury for the first time. He held perfectly still as Toothless prodded him with his nose, taking in a deep breath, and smiled a toothless smile at Spike before he went back to exploring the castle room.
"Well, Toothless seems to like you. No, definitely not that class either...hmm, this might take a while," Hiccup muttered while his pencil scribbled away furiously in his notebook and it wasn't until Twilight levitated the notebook out of his grasp that he broke out of his thoughts. "Hey!"
"You can focus on categorizing Spike later, but right now we need to talk about living conditions, meeting with the town, proper etiquette-"
"Aw, come on Twilight, I like the attention," Spike said before he let out a small hiccup, snapping Hiccup's attention back to the small dragon.
"A dragon that can get the hiccups? Amazing," Hiccup muttered as he pulled out another sheet of paper from a compartment in the suit and began to scribble down on the page while observing Spike. Twilight threw her head back with an exasperated sigh before looking down at the journal she still had clutched in her magic. With a shrug she opened the pages and flipped through them, quickly scanning and taking in the pictures while finding to her annoyance that she couldn't read the words.
"Most of those do not look remotely like the dragons that we have around here," Rarity muttered as she peeked over Twilight's shoulder, Twilight nodding in agreement as she saw an image of a dragon with a massive maw filled with razor sharp teeth and white, blank eyes.
"So many different variations and species. And according to this he's trained or battled all of them," Twilight noticed as she looked at a page with a giant, reddish dragon that towered over the others before her gaze turned towards Hiccup once again, the human trying to examine Spike's mouth. "Seems we really did get a dragon master."
"So what's up with the six thrones?" Hiccup asked while looking inside of Spike's throat, holding open the dragon's mouth with his hands. "You said that you were a princess and that you had superiors. Are these their thrones?"
"No, those are for me and my friends. We are the champions of friendship and work to unite all who live in this land," Twilight explained as she walked over to her own throne while Hiccup pulled his head out of Spike's mouth, letting the dragon go. Twilight levitated the notebook back to Hiccup as she continued to speak. "See, each of my friends is a member and when all of us are together we can unleash a power far greater than any other magic in the land. By looking at the markings on our thrones, you can tell which one belongs to whom. This one is obviously mine," Twilight said with pride as she sat upon the throne with her cutie mark.
"So Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie...wait, who's that one?" Hiccup asked as he pointed to the one with apples on it.
"Oh, that belongs to Applejack, our resident honest pony. She's off delivering apples to another part of Equestria, but she should be back soon," Twilight explained as she rose off her throne and pulled out a map of the castle. "Let's see, I have a few rooms available in the lower part of the castle if you're fine with that, but if not I've got a spare bedroom up in the-"
"Nah, I'll just use Toothless for a bed. I've done it before whenever I'm gone from my home for awhile...like now," Hiccup said as realization began to cloud his eyes and he sat down next to his dragon with both hands massaging the sides of his head. 'But just how long am I going to be in this strange land? How long can Berk last without me? With all of our enemies and Drago still being out there? Astrid should be able to cover for me for a few days, but eventually they're going to need me...'
"Hiccup? Are you alright?" Fluttershy asked, stepping down from Toothless' head when she saw Hiccup's eyes change. He shook his head once and gave a tired smile to the Pegasus before looking at her wings with a curious expression.
"You know, I had only read about Pegasus in myths and legends, kinda like the unicorns. How many different variations of ponies are there?" Hiccup asked.
"Three, for the most part. Earth, Pegasus and Unicorn," Rarity explained with a kind smile, cutting Twilight off before she could start. "Unicorns are magical, pegasi can fly and Earth ponies are exceptionally skilled with the mud and grime that I would rather not touch."
"But then there are alicorns like me, a mix of all three," Twilight added as she walked beside Rarity. "Alicorns, at least as long as there has been written history, have been the rulers of Equestria, aside from the few times evil has tried to overthrow them."
"Interesting. A ruler is picked depending on their...features instead of it being passed down through family," Hiccup muttered, getting a curious eyebrow raise from Twilight.
"Seems that your world's hierarchy is different from the humans I...know of," Twilight quickly fixed before revealing too much to Hiccup. "You said that leadership is passed down through families?"
"Right. My dad is...was the chief of Berk, but now I am," Hiccup said with a small sigh as he slightly hung his head. Toothless blinked twice before wrapping his tail around Hiccup and licking the top of his head, getting both Hiccup and Rarity to exclaim in disgust as Hiccup was covered in saliva.
"So...you're kind of like a king then?" Rarity asked before adjusting her mane and putting on her prettiest face. "Hello there Hiccup, my name is Rarity."
"Chief is the more accurate term," Hiccup corrected as he wiped the dragon saliva off of his suit and flicked it onto Toothless, who grunted as he tried to paw the spit off of his face. Hiccup then looked up through one of the windows at the sky, trying to take in everything that he had learned in the past couple of hours. "This is all a lot to take in. Do you guys mind if I go sort all of this out?"
"Er, I guess not?" Twilight answered. Hiccup nodded before hopping onto Toothless' back in one well-practiced motion, sliding his foot and metal leg into the stirrups on either side of the Night Fury. He rotated his leg twice and the fin on Toothless' tail responded by moving, getting a smile out of Hiccup before he looked down at Toothless and said, "Let's go flying, Bud."
With a roar of happiness Toothless bounded out of the castle foyer and blasted open the doors with a ball of fire, Hiccup apologizing to the ponies over his shoulder before Toothless rocketed outside and shot into the sky with a burst of speed. Twilight and the other ponies ran outside to see that the Night Fury had already ascended rapidly into the sky, getting an impressed look from Spike.
"Wow, that dragon's fast! I don't know too many dragons that can fly like that," he exclaimed.
"Spike...you don't know too many dragons at all," Twilight reminded him.
"I rest my case."
High above the land, Hiccup could see just how strange this place was from his cold and tough home. Where Berk blew cold air, the air in this land was warm and comforting. Where Berk was grey and mostly rock, Equestria was filled with life and color, so much so that it was a little hard on his eyes.
'It's hard to believe, but even harder to deny. I'm definitely in a different world now. Still half-thinking this is a trick by Loki,' Hiccup mused as he shifted his foot, allowing Toothless to spin to the side and dive down slightly, giving the pair a closer look and the lands below. But as they flew, they quickly found an area of land where the ground was scorched and the smell of a smoke was all too familiar to the both of them. It clung to the air. Hiccup knew what he was going to find before he even saw the torched village, but his stomach sank a bit as he and Toothless gazed over the burned buildings and blackened landscape.
"Seems that she was telling the truth and they do need our help. Talking, magical ponies need our help...this is definitely one of our strangest days," Hiccup said with a shake of his head before patting Toothless on the top of his head. "What do you think, Bud? Think we should figure out a way to get home or should we stay and help these ponies with their dragon problems?"
Toothless' response was to dive down to the town and land dead center in what used to be the square, looking around as he inhaled the air. The dragon's eyes narrowed as it began to move around, sniffing while his eyes moved left and right.
"Smell something, Bud? Is it the dragon that attacked this place?" Hiccup asked, but at that moment Toothless let out a roar of fury and whipped both himself and Hiccup around quickly, fire in his mouth as he looked around for the being that was watching them. But despite nearly feeling the eyes upon him, Toothless found that they were alone. He slowly let the fire die in his mouth before letting out another roar and taking back to the sky with a confused Hiccup in tow.
Yet, while he had been unable to see anything or anyone there, Toothless was certain that they had been watched, that there was something there that his regular sense just didn't see. And whatever it was, he didn't like it and wanted to get Hiccup as far away from it as he could. But as the dragon tore through the sky on his way back to the town, he made sure to remember what the sensation felt like in case it ever appeared again.
And he would be ready if it did.
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"And finally, you appear," a silky voice muttered, yet there was a darkness that clung to every word, a voice as dark as the inky black cave in which the voice took refuge. Yet in the darkness, a white, toothy smile could faintly be seen as the owner of the voice opened their eyes, eyes that were just as white as the smile. "I was not sure whether or not you would come so quickly, but it seems that the dragon master is finally here."
The voice then rose from a throne that was made with the bones of numerous different beings and sauntered into the cave, away from the throne of bones that had been charred black by an intense heat, heat that came from the very dragons that the master was there to combat. The voice came to a stop in front of a massive mountain of fire and scales, yet fear never once crossed her eyes as she poked it with her hooves.
"There's a place I want you to go and a...master that I want you to test," the alluring voice spoke, causing the massive dragon to lift its head and gaze down at her with pure red eyes. "Ponyville. Do whatever you need to draw out the master and test his abilities. If he isn't as good as I've seen, then I have no issues with you killing all of them. Fly quickly now."
The dragon bellowed as it flapped its wings, rising to its full height before hurling itself towards the exit of the cave in a fury of power and flame, leaving the voice all alone as another toothy smile broke out across its face. "Yes, with the dragon master here, nearly all of the players are in place. And when they are all together, then we shall see if this vision of death is truly as entertaining as I believe it to be."
Things are heating up!
This is really quite enjoyable. I just love well written crossovers.
You still have my attention.
Adds to tracking list
Damn you Rarity, Hiccup's already taken
great just as the last chapter You never cease to amaze
can't wait for more
6237263 Never doubt rarity And her urge to be royal
Who is that she-evil? Is she a pony? My curiosity is piqued.
If you could, could you change the role Twilight assigned the princesses Celestia and Luna? I can't see them being higher than Twilight. I see them as equals. Still a good chapter though.
6237345 Right here. It's a pretty good read.
6237348 But then again, twilight thinks differently.
6237370 Touche.
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Dammit Rarity ,he is a teen! keep those instincts on check!
But yeah ,Astrid would have her for Stormfly 's dessert.
Hiccup is an explorer and an inventor, but not really a studier. Once he had seen that crystals exist, he would have little further use for them, since they don't do anything. For his purposes, they might as well be ordinary rocks.
Seriously? Given that there is an unknown menace that is threatening their very lives, teaching Hiccup (who has been quite polite so far) etiquette shouldn't even be on the first page of the checklist.
That doesn't seem like the sort of thing he would write down. Until now, the journal was for his own personal reference, and he's not likely to forget something like that.
Last we saw, he was on the bottom of the ocean with only one arm. No rational person would expect him to return from that.
Ten, but who's counting? (Earth, pegasus, unicorn, alicorn, crystal, zebra, donkey, changeling, breezie, siren. Mules don't count; they're a donkey/pony cross)
Is 'She' Lorelei - you know the Viking Goddess / Siren
Is that how she's controlling that Dragon
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1. What about Gronkle Iron? They use metal in their building all the time, but discovered the Gronkle Iron was special, even though it seems to be just normal metal at first. It's not that large a stretch he would be curious about what he could do with crystals from a magical land.
2. Points A and B I agree with, but I agree with you about point C. Unless she's concerned he or they will do something to offend the other, similar to the situation with the Yaks.
3. Maybe, maybe not. Any manuals or information written has to come from somewhere, Hiccup's journal is a decent place for any new information to originate.
4. You mean the guy who turned the alpha specie of dragon into a complete slave just because he was cruel and threatening? Then proceeded to build an army based around those two points, with the backup of said dragon. He still HAS that dragon. It may not want to tango with Toothless again, but there's nothing that says he won't attempt to conquer other areas and get another army with it. A Bewilderbeast is still a Bewilderbeast.
5. Crystal- idk if they would be a separate kind, the Mane 6 were made crystal during their time there as well. Their coats could be an effect of living in the area nurtured by the Heart for so long. Think identifying somebody from New York as a New Yorker (Crystal Pony) by their accent (crystalline coat).
Zebra- even Twilight said in Bridle Gossip that Zebras are NOT a type of pony. (They are a type of horse)
Donkey- difference between Pony and Donkey is similar to Humans and Chimps. Being an equine doesn't mean they are automatically ponies. Changeling- Don't know enough about them to say for certain. But seem more insect than mammalian. Outside being quadraped, there aren't really other similarities.
Breezie- Not gonna touch, we know next to nothing about them period. Insectoid like Changelings, but far more similarities to ponies. No clue here.
Siren- Face and front hooves. Thats it. By that assumption, Windegos would be ponies too... In their backstory it was implied that the three were the only sirens in existence. Seem to be a completely separate creature, like Manticores and Chimeras.
Nicely done...and the little glimpses of our new evil Overlord are quite intriguing. Oh, and the adorable scene with Spike and Hiccup!
It's also nice to see that you addressed that issue with Hiccup taking everything rather well.
I can't tell if Rarity wants Hiccup for herself, she's just being Rarity, or she's trying to get Twilight the hookup...anyone want to clarify this for me?
Can I ask though? What's with the page breaks? Can you not just indent and double space? Or is that caused by the site?
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I've had issues with the site in the past and this is the safest way for me to write.
I'd say this chapter is an improvement over the last one. I kinda like how he is still able to do the "hand thing" with Spike, that's kinda funny.
Well. The writing continues to weaken...
Lets see... The characters continue to feel interchangeable and bland except for Hiccup, the scene setting feels awkward and relies too heavily and the reader knowing about the background already, and things feel awkwardly paced and hurried.
Also you already had the ponies figure out he was an inventor, so having them be surprised by this fact seems... odd.
Also I take it, from the way you described the scene, that the villain is a disembodied voice with no actual figure except a pair of hooves.
If you want a mysterious figure to remain obscure, there are literally hundreds of words that could be used to keep the description vague or ominous. Cloaked, shadowed, hidden, mysterious, ominous, foreboding, dark, looming, dark... And those are the most obvious choices.
Just describing them as a voice means that the reader thinks that the voice alone is autonomous and has no body at all. Which is interesting, but probably not what you're going for.
6237398 He's actually in his twenties in the second movie.
6237398 Yo your half-bro Caramon is lookin for you! (Lol Dragonlance, basicly)
Wait, did they cut that out in the films/TV series? In the books there were English (Norse) speaking dragons (and all the dragons spoke dragonese, Hiccup learnt it). I'd've though that'd have carried over to the series at least. That had so much world building potential.
6237432 I think it is realed he will be in the third movie.
me when i heard loki
6238102 I don't know about the tv series, but I know they didn't have even a single dragon that verbally spoke in any of the movies beyond that of a roar.
Hehhohohohoh, this is getting to be epicsaucy! :D
Nice work on this man, nice work on this.
Now I'm wondering what Twilight knows about humans now...
Were there others? :D
hehe
Keep it up!
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It doesn't matter what Drago did before, because he's dead. The only way he can come back from being smashed under a bewilderbeast would be bogus hand-waving. Any rational person will not expect to see him again.
6238111 Hiccup hasn't seen the trailers
Ok, cmon man, where are you hiding the rest of it?
* checks under rock*
It's here somewhere
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That's racist
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Not really. Chimps and Humans go down to Family (homonidae, but I suck with spelling), then diverge at the Genus level. Horses, ponies, donkeys go down to Genus (Equus), and diverge into specie and then again into subspecie.
Umm, we don't know that. He was on the top of the Bewilderbeast's head when it dove off. The last we see of him is is false arm getting shot off before Toothless blasted off the tusk, sending the Bewilderbeast off scared. At that point he was very much alive. Whether he died or not was never shown. But the rule of thumb for villains in movies: if you can't confirm a body, NEVER expect the villain to be done for. Especially if a sequel was planed before the film was released.
6239292 It is racist. Chimps are inferior to humans, so you are implying that donkeys are inferior to ponies.
That's meta reasoning. A character can't think like that without breaking the fourth wall. You know Drago could appear later, and I know Drago could appear later, but Hiccup saw him get dragged into the ocean and knows that he's probably dead.
6239176 right. Silly me.
6239460 Wait wait wait, so you're saying that it's racist because Arni said that donkeys are not ponies, and that they are inferior to ponies?
Love this!
A great improvement from the last chapter, and much better dialogue. Rarity wasn't quite as creepy, and felt much more in character with her advances. Could still use a bit of polish, but you've improved noticeably in a single chapter. Nice job.
6237432 For your first point, an inventor has to be a researcher. One can't invent without knowing the properties of the material with which they work. Also, any inventor worth their salt is always on the look out for new material to work with.
Second, etiquette is actually very important. He's going to be staying there for an indeterminate amount of time, and will need to interact with ponies to accomplish his task. Therefore, it's important to understand hoe to interact with ponies without faux pas. For example, many portray touching a pegasus' wings as similar to touching a woman's breasts. This is something that he needs to know. Remember, etiquette isn't just table manners and proper tea drinking, but interacting with others in a socially acceptable way.
Third, if he has written training methods, or vulnerabilities, it can be deduced he's trained or fought them at some point. It doesn't have to say "I kicked it's ass" to let you know he did. It could have been worded better, to get that across, though.
fourth, unless a body was found, it would be foolish to assume he's gone. Seriously, have you never seen James Bond movies
Finally, Crystal ponies are still earth ponies, pegasi, and presumably unicorns. Though there haven't been any crystal unicorns in the show that I noticed, there were crystal pegasi in Cadence's guard in one episode. Zebra's, according to Twilight, aren't ponies, nor are donkeys. Changelings and briezies are pony-like, but not necessarily ponies. Not enough information has been given on them to know. Personally, I like to portray Changelings as ponies, but that's just me. Finally, as far as is known, the only sirens were the three that were banished through the mirror, which would mean they no longer exist in Equestria.
Most glorious! I really liked how Hiccup gave all the attention to Spike, the poor Little guy needs more of it........even if the entire crystal empire praticly worships him......bah! That's beside the Point!
I also really liked how Rarity apparently got a bit of a crush on him, i do so hope there will be more of that, sorry Astrid, i do like you and Hiccup together, but this is a MLP crossover so the mares have dibs!
6240712 Um, yes. What else would you call that?
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Don't have much to say here beyond loving Hiccup and Spike's interactions, and Twilight and Hiccup's interactions...and Fluttershy and Toothless' interactions.
Moar plz.
6241161 Sorry but I have to agree with Arni here: Donkeys are not ponies, right? And in Equestria... We're pretty sure donkeys don't make up majority of it either, ponies were the ones ruling over, so in a way donkeys are "inferior" to ponies, but it can be vice versa if we look at them in another way.
6242600 Just so it's not taken the wrong way, I wasn't implying that Donkeys were "inferior" to ponies. The Human/Chimp thing was just to show that similar creatures can vary greatly. It just takes one split on the classification chain to make huge differences.
Let me guess. Alpha Dragon. Some evil Pony. Drago. I didn't hear about Apple Jack because of her errands? Weird... but cool too, Great chapter
6238102 Indeed. This was one of the few adaptations that came out better than the books.
I read the books after the first movie came out, and to my disappointment, they sucked.
But both movies & TV series were fantastic!
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& sometimes, even WITH a body, don't count the villain to be out of the picture. Especially if there's a clever script writer & lots of $$ for big named stars
You say this is before HtTYD2, but if his father died AND he has his suit already (The Netflix series shows the events between HtTYD-HtTYD2), then this is clearly after.
Author, explanations?
6267100 This story is after How to train your dragon two, it could have been a miss type or you read it wrong. Stay Classy
We went over this last chapter Rarity, he is an Inventor...
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That's putting is mildly. Hiccup is the original Leonardo Da Vinci. Seriously, he's so far ahead of his time, it's not even funny.
2. Fluttershy riding Toothless? Now that's a picture I want to see.
3.
Don't dude, just don't.