//------------------------------// // Freezing Point // Story: Adventures in the Bermikun Triangle // by Rakoon1 //------------------------------// At the Sea of Beru, Golden Bones and his soldiers were after a wyvern. It was heading towards a vortex, while carrying an egg with his hide legs. Two skeleton soldiers were after it mounting their robotic pterodactyls. Noticing it was being chased, the wyvern tried to mislead them, but they kept at its tail. Fortunately, it was able to get rid of one at some rocks, using then its tail to knock out the other. But, as soon those guards were down, three more appeared on their waverunner. Behind his steer wheel, Golden Bones was looking at the wyver through his telescope. He then told to his soldiers on the waverunner through radio. “Don't let the wyvern get through the vortex! I need that egg!” They then started to fire on the wyvern. The creature tried to use the rocks again, but found itself cornered by a fourth soldier. However, it was able to use a shot from that fourth soldier to hit another and then shot an ice blast, creating icicles that knock down two others. When it turned to the other that had blocked its way, a blast hit one of the big rocks, causing debris to fall upon the tank that had blocked the wyvern. It has been a shot from the Chaos. Dusk on the bow, with Calabrass always beside him. Standing proudly he said: “Nothing starts a day off right like blasting at boneheads.” From the Demoniac, Golden Bones could see that the wyvern was heading towards the vortex. Irritated, he exclaimed: “Idiots! It's getting away!” He then noticed something pursuing one of his tanks and, when looking through his telescope, he saw the Chaos. “Dusk Storm?!” he asked, not believing that brat was again meddling with his duties for Skullivar. And so he turned to the skeletons and told: “All hands! Target the Chaos and destroy this plague of a colt once and for all!” Dusk was now steering Chaos and, while doing it, Calabrass asked him: “You're willing to sacrifice your ship to rescue a big flying lizard?” “No one's sacrificing anything, Calabrass” Dusk replied, turning then to his faithful ship. “Chaos, freecarving!” And so the Chaos started escaping the blasts from the skeletons that are on their pterodactyls, all while pursuing the Demoniac which was pursuing the wyvern. “Wyvern season is over, Bones” Dusk told. “We won't let you hurt it!” As Golden Bones made his periscope come down, he chuckled and said: “Those fools will not spare your hide, you dirty beast.” Commanding one of his ship’s cannons, Golden Bones aimed the wyvern and then fired. Seeing that, Dusk exclaimed: “No!” The wyvern was hit and the shock caused it to drop the egg it was holding, all while being thrown to the vortex. The egg starts falling and Clover was able to see on the extended sails of the Chaos, asking: “What's that?” One of the skeletons' tanks caught the egg with its grappling hook. Seeing that with a telescope, Star said: “An egg! Dusk, Skullivar cannot get his hands on a wyvern egg! If he does… I can’t even imagine!” Noticing his brother’s concern, Dusk realized that egg was really important. After getting to know his soldiers had the egg, he told them through their communicator: “At last! Haul the egg onboard, now!” Clover saw the egg with the skeletons and said: “Yep, he's got the egg!” With that knowledge in mind, Dusk speeded up the Chaos and chased the tank to get the egg. The tank dodged the vortex, heading towards the Demoniac, but it didn’t take long for the Chaos to get side by side with it. “Let's get it back!” Dusk exclaimed. “Go, Chaos, go!” The Chaos then shoved the tank to slow it down and put it out of balance. The skeleton piloting the tank did the same with him, but Chaos was too much bigger and studier to be affected. Turning to Mallet, Dusk told him: “You're up, big guy!” Laughing at the prospect of giving those skeletons what they deserved, Mallet jumped onto the taffrail, preparing to board the tank. Despite another bump from the latter caused Mallet to lose his balance, he was able to get hold on the tank. Opal then used her magic to hold Mallet, doing her best to pull the tank closer to the Chaos through Mallet, who seemed was having fun with all that. “That’s so ragnassalan!” he exclaimed. However, when saw a pillar was very close, Opal was forced to let go Mallet, with the latter barely making through. Once they got passed by it, she resumed to do what she was doing. Once the tank was close enough, Dusk told Clover: “Clover, you're in range, snag the egg!” “My turn! My turn!” the young ghost chanted, excited, while flying around Dusk. He then went up and said, wanting to look cooler like Mallet: “Oooh! I need a good war cry! How about...um...um... Biscuits!” And he went down while shouting, going to get the egg. In response to that, Mallet replied: “We'll work on it.” Clover tried to get the egg out of the grappling hook, but it wouldn't budge. Noticing Clover was having trouble, Dusk turned to his older brother and asked: “Star, can you free the egg without damaging it?” “After years of training with dad and Golden Paladin at shooting?” Star asked, while aiming his horn. “At least give me a proper challenge.” After having his target aimed, Star fired a magic blast that hit the arm of the grappling hook, forcing it to let go of the egg. Clover then landed on the deck of the tank, while catching the egg. But its surface was so hat that he had trouble to secure it. “Hot potato!” the ghost exclaimed, after being able to secure it. “Well, technically a hot egg but that would be an omelette. I'm so hungry all of a sudden.” Seeing the Sea Raiders have been able to get hold of the egg, Golden Bones exclaimed to his soldiers: “Blast these thieves to pieces!” The Demoniac then sent out a torpedo from its bow towards the Chaos. Both the pilot of the tank and Dusk saw the torpedo coming in their direction. Reacting to that, Dusk said to Mallet: “Mallet, give Bonesy a Mighty Helmet hello!” And he spun the steering wheel around which caused Mallet to let go of the tank and him being pulled back by Opal’s magic, as well causing the Chaos to sail away from the torpedo that ended up exploding the tank instead. The spin also caused Clover to be pulled back to the Chaos because of his bond, but the sudden pull caused him to drop the egg. Fortunately, before the egg could hit the water, Dusk, riding on the Plank, caught it. “No extra breakfast today, Bones!” he told, while surfing back to the Chaos deck, with the ship now trying to sail away from the Demoniac who started to pursue him. Once Dusk landed holding the egg with his magic, causing the Plank to return to its place, Mallet told: “That's a catch worthy of the Mighty Helm Rock-Ball league!” “Absolutely!” Clover agreed, appearing with his head from the deck. “So about breakfast...” “I don’t want to spoil this moment, but if you're here, who's steering?” Opal asked Dusk. “No worries, I told the Chaos to keep going straight” Dusk replied. Looking to where they were going, Star asked: “You mean, straight towards the ice vortex that's about to close?!” Chuckling, Dusk replied: “Great plan, right?” Noticing the Sea Raiders heading towards the vortex, Golden Bones said: “The Sea of Sino… Do not let them breach that portal!” And so the Demoniac tried to fire at the Chaos, but before their shots could land a hit, the Sea Raiders’ trustworthy ship managed to enter the vortex right before it closed. Seeing that his prey had been able to escape, Golden Bones released a frustrated shout and then shouted to his soldiers: “What are you lot waiting for?! Find me another vortex to Sino! I need that egg!” After crossing that vortex, the Sea Raiders found themselves in the Sea of Sino, which was nothing more than a mass of cold water surrounded by a frozen land. “Ah, Sino, the Bermikun Triangle 's own epic ice bucket” Dusk said, when beside his friends. "Where the foolhardy sailor be frozen forever" Calabrass added. “Let's get this egg back to its parents before we catch a cold then” Dusk said, turning then to his ghostly friend at the top of the mast. “Clover?” “No mommy lizard in sight” he replied, while shivering. “Hey, can someone burrow me something furry to wear? I'm freezing.” Placing the egg on the deck, the Sea Raiders tries to understand Golden Bones’ interest in it. “What did Bones want this egg for?” Dusk asked. “Is there a biggest omelet in the Triangle contest we don't know about?” “Owning a wyvern would be a great tactical advantage, though I'd hate to be in charge of picking up wyvern droppings” Opal replied. “This is no ordinary egg” Star replied. “Look at these marks, Dusk. I’ve seen in one of the books at your quarter. This egg holds a red-crested wyvern. A royal wyvern!” “If Skullivar controls a royal, the other wyverns will all do his bidding, and he'll rule the skies” Calabrass told. “Ye saw what their frosty breath can do!” “Yes, they can be as much problematic as dragons” Star agreed with Calabrass. “Mallet eat the egg, problem gone” Mallet replied, picking up the egg. “Mallet, no!” Opal replied, trying to prevent Mallet from doing it. “Have you no heart?!” “Mighty Helm have no heart, Mighty Helm have big stomaches!” “I’m certain that’s not completely true” Star replied. But before Mallet could reply, the red lines surrounding the egg broke and the same happened with the rest of it, much to the Sea Raiders’ surprise, revealing then a wyvern hatchling who looked upside down to Mallet. “Oh no…!” Star said, charging his horn for any eventuality. “Watch out for its breath!” Opal warned, also charging his horn. The baby wyvern made a strange sound for a moment, but then it licked Mallet instead. “Aww, looks like this blood-thirsty beast adopted you, Mal” Dusk said, smiling. A little embarrassed, and yet unable to stop smiling, Mallet said to the baby wyvern, while reversing her possition: “Uh, okay, you too cute to eat or throw away. I will call you Iceface. Later on, as the Chaos sailed on the frozen waters of Sino, some of its parts started to freeze. In the captain’s quarter, Dusk, Star and Opal were looking at the holographic map of Sino. “According to the legends I’ve read, wyverns nest somewhere in a hidden bay at the center of this cluster of glaciers” Star told, pointing to a part of the map. “Many a buccaneer's tried his luck in this maze but none's come back to tell the tale” Calabrass replied. “We're not ready for Sino” Opal told. “Our power supply is depleted, and with this cold...” “So you would rather risking having Golden Bones capture the baby wyvern and use it to control a band of ice-breathing lizards that he’ll use against us?” Dusk asked her. That really caused Opal to reconsider everything and then she said: “I vote for the maze.” On the Chaos deck, Mallet was opening a barrel, with the baby wyvern resting on his head. “This is Mallet's lunch, Iceface” he said. “Mallet couldn't eat the egg, so now Mallet will...” But before he could say anything else, Iceface leaped down from his head and start to eat his lunch. “Iceface! We didn't wash hooves.” He picked her up with her tail. He gasps when he saw that she has already eaten all of his seaweed. “Mallet's lunch!” he shouted, irritated, to the little wyvern. But then Iceface belched at him. “You…” Mallet said, before a smile appeared on his face. “You've got a warrior's stomach, Iceface! No, you need a Mighty Helm name! What about Boreal? It makes Mallet remember home and it sounds cooler.” At that moment, Dusk, Star and Opal arrived from the captain’s quarter and the princess dropped a laugh and commented: “So Mighty Helm have no heart, hum? Mallet made a shy smile, before turning to Boreal and taking a piece of seaweed. “Boreal, catch” he said, tossing the piece of seaweed. Boreal reacted by freezing it with her breath. “Fascinating…” Star said. “Their freezing breath is fully formed at birth.” Mallet went to catch the frozen seaweed and then Boreal whimpered to him what caused him to chuckle. He then turned to Opal and said: “Boreal thinks you smell alike.” “Uh, preposterous!” she replied, in an insulted manner. “I do not smell like seaweed!” Despite enjoying seeing Opal’s offended look, he contained his laugh and asked Mallet: “You can understand her?” “When Mallet was little, he lived with winterzillas” Mallet told. “So Mallet talks beast language.” “Right...” Opal said, a little skeptical. “Come on, Opal, it’s not an uncommon ability” Star told her. “One of my mother’s friend can also talk with animals.” Suddenly Boreal started biting on the side of the Chaos, causing the ship to rumble in displeasure. “The little monster's attacking our ship!” Opal exclaimed, while she and Dusk tried to hold their balance, as Star just used his wings to keep himself in the air. “Hey, no nibbling on the Chaos, Iceface” Dusk reprimanded. “You'll make him jittery.” “Not Iceface” Mallet protested. “Boreal.” “Whatever you say, Big Guy” Dusk replied. Chaos’ rumbles had caused Clover to swing around the Chaos’ sails with his chain, all while saying: “Boreal, I like your style!” All those rumbles caused a barrel to accidentally knock Boreal overboard and she landed on top of an ice flow. “Wyvern overboard!” Clover shouted. “She's too young to fly!” Opal exclaimed. “I’ll get her!” Star told. He prepared to go get Boreal, but then he found out he couldn’t move his wings and fell on the deck. Star then noticed that there was ice covering some of his feathers. “My wings!” he exclaimed. “They are frozen! I can’t fly!” “Hang on, Boreal, uncle Mallet's coming!” Mallet exclaimed. Things got worse when they saw that an ice shark, the greatest predator that swims in the Sea of Sino with hard scales with big sharp teeth that are as white as snow. It was very big, capable of swallowing ponies with only one bite. Seeing that, Mallet almost jumped off the Chaos to be stopped by Dusk who told him: “Uncle Mallet. You can't swim!” “Do something!” Mallet begged him. “Save Boreal!” “Clover, with me!” Dusk exclaimed, while going ahead and taking Calabrass. He and Clover leaped out of the Chaos and landed on the ice flow where Boreal was. At that moment, the ice shark appeared, opening its mouth open, which caused everyone on the ice flow to scream. Before that, Dusk, grabbing Calabrass, said: “Calabrass, give me an Eye of Aeria!” And he transformed, turning Calabrass into an axe of lightning. The shark closed its mouth on everyone that're on the ice flow, while starting to move away. “Dusk! Clover!” Star and Opal called. “Boreal!” Mallet called. Despite appearing the ice shark had gotten away, the truth was the chain that connected Clover to Chaos was preventing it from getting away. Suddenly, static electricity appeared from the water as they heard the shark roaring in pain. It was then that the chain pulled Dusk, Clover and Calabrass all out of the water with Boreal, with her being held by Dusk, right to the Chaos. While Clover returned to the mast, Dusk was about to hit the deck, if it wasn’t for Star who caught him with magic and then made him land safely. “And that, my friends, is how you go extreme monster fishing” he said, while Boreal jumped out of his hooves and scampered toward Mallet's, who chuckled and then said: “Poor little Borealy! You scared Mallet you know!” “Mallet, this wyvern is not a harmless baby” Opal told him. “She's a danger to the Chaos, and a danger to us!” “On my ship, we wouldn't allow monsters out of the hold” Calabrass told. “Anyone tries to put Boreal in prison, they'll talk to Mallet's sword!” Mallet replied. “Guys, guys, we're all trapped here in the Triangle” Dusk said, trying to settle the argument. “We're all trying to escape, and we all want to be free. We didn't rescue Boreal from Golden Bones to deny her freedom.” “Dusk is right” Star said. “I know we are a little tense, but we have to think clearly. So let's get her back to her mom before we all wind up with a case of permanent frostbite.” “Fine, just don’t let that monster get to my engine room” Opal replied, what caused both Mallet and Boreal to stick out their tongues at her. Meanwhile, at another part of Sino, the Demoniac had been able to found another vortex to Sino. After they got in, Golden Bones noticed something in his screen: a heat signal that could only come from one place. “You can try to run, Dusk Storm, but your ship's the only source of heat in this frozen wasteland.” The Chaos continued to sail ahead, until they reached the entrance to an ice cave, the ship is about to enter the maze) “The iceberg maze…!” Dusk exclaimed in admiration. They got in and, while he was steering, Star got a call from Opal, who was at the engine room, through the communicator he had next to the steer wheel. “The Chaos's power supply is at 15%” she said. While they were advancing, one of Chaos’ engire hit lightly on a rock. Before that, Calabrass told Dusk: “It be better to float without grace than to go down in style.” “I don't think that's a thing” Dusk replied to him. “Old pirate saying” Calabrass told. “It means: don't go too fast, icebergs will slice through your hull like butter.” And so they continued, advancing slowly and carefully. But, because they didn’t know how to navigate in the maze, they had to choose their way by chance. Concurrently, the Demoniac was about to enter the maze as well. At the bridge, Golden Bones was talking to an hologram of Skullivar who was communicating with his general. “Master, we've tracked the Chaos in a cluster of giant icebergs” Golden Bones told Skullivar. “The boy is taking the egg back to the wyverns” he realized. “Allow him to succeed and it's your head!” After making that threat, he turned off the communication. Not wanting to face his master’s wrath yet again, Golden Bones turned to the skeletons and shouted: “Deploy the bowblade!” And the mouth of the Demoniac’s bow opened, revealing a type of drill that started to break the ice that was in front of it to create a shorter route through the maze. The Sea Raiders were still trying to figure out their way out. Clover turned to Star, who was beside Dusk, and asked: “Star, are we there yet?” “I can't navigate Clover” he replied. “I can't see the stars.” “The instruments aren't working in these tunnels” Opal said from the engine room. “Every signal bounces off the ice. And the worst part is that we're running low on power and we're lost.” “Stay cool, Princess Worriedness, I know exactly where I'm going” Dusk said to her, whispering then to his brother. “Didn't we pass through that tunnel twice already?” “Don’t ask me” he replied. “Everything looks the same to me. And all this ice is interfering with my concentration, so I can’t get in sage mode.” Boreal was sitting on Mallet’s shoulder and whimpering in fear. “Yeah Boreal, it's a big, big ice cave” the Mighty Helm warrior replied. They entered in another cave that was even darker than the tunnel. But what made it even scarier was what existed there. “Lots of boats ahoy!” Clover shouted. “And starboard! And sternport! Everywhere!” He was right. For anywhere they looked there were only remains of ships. “All the sailors that went looking for the wyverns' territory” Calabrass said. “Okay, this place is really creeping me out” Opal confessed. “Don’t worry about that, Opal” Dusk said. “They were not like us. We're not going to end up trapped in this maze. We're the best crew that ever sailed the Triangle. Right, Star?” “Right” he replied. “We are going to find the wyverns' home, Opal. Stay strong. Clover, can you see anything?” “No, nothing at all!” he told. “No exit, no light, no breeze, no sound. Suddenly, the crew all heard rumble, causing Clover to scream. “What was that?!” Star asked. Dusk thought quickly and then he asked Star: “I know your sage mode is a little out of control right now, but can you focus long enough to see what’s causing this?” “I can try” he replied. Focusing the most he could, Star was able to get in sage mode. Despite it lasted for a few seconds, Star was able to see what was happening. “Oh no!” he exclaimed. “I think Bones found a way to cheat his way through the maze! He's just going straight through it!” Because Bones was forcing his way, ceiling of the cave started to crack, with the stalactites above them being about to fall. “We have to speed this up” Dusk putting his hoof over the level. “Getting iced would totally wreck my week.” He pulled the lever, prompting the Chaos to move forward, while they tried to evade the falling stalactites. “Opal, power!” Dusk commanded. “Star and Mal, protect the ship! Clover!” “I have to check the thing in the place where we keep the stuff” he replied, flying then below deck to one of the ship's rooms. “Smart move” Dusk said, remembering then what he did was pointless. “Wait, you're a ghost! Oh, nevermind. Everyone, eyes on the sky!” As the Chaos sailed uncontrollably, it tried to dodge the fallen stalactites, but the task was becoming harder and harder. “Boreal, stick to Mallet!” Mallet told the baby wyvern. When a big stalactite was about to hit the deck, Mallet took his sword out, which extended, and jumped high, while preparing to make a blow. “Sword, guide my arm!” he exclaimed, while he sliced the stalactite in half, while Star used his magic to levitate some of it out of the way. “I can't do this forever!” Dusk exclaimed, while steering the Chaos. “We need a way out pronto!” “The Chaos has almost no energy left!” Opal told, while trying to do her best to keep the ship at his best to face the present situation. While Dusk continued to evade the fallen debris of the cave, he noticed something at the ceiling: a big hole. “Look, up there!” he exclaimed, while changing the steering wheel’s mode. “Chaos, get your legs out! Surfer-style, Off the lip!” “The Chaos is not a surfer, Dusk!” Star said. “A wave is just a wave, ice or not” the younger brother replied. “I just need to figure out how to ride it.” As the Chaos got close to the hole, it leaped up, revealing its legs that he positioned like skies and then started to slide through a wall. That caused everyone on board to hold on. “Ragnasala!” Mallet exclaimed, taking hold on Chaos’ prow. “Dusk!” Star called, while getting hold on his younger brother. “Opal, on my mark, push the engines to the max!” Star ordered. “We're at 5%” she said. “I hope you know what you’re doing, Dusk Storm!” When the Chaos almost reached the exit, he extended his sails. “Opal, now!” And so she transferred the very last bit of energy that Chaos had on the engines and the Chaos zoomed out of the cave. He went up for a moment and then landed on the cold water of the sea, in safety. However, that feat caused his engines to die and the sails to be collected. At the engine room, Opal looked to all the instruments and then said: “That's it, we've used all the power we had left.” “One thing at a time, Opal” Dusk replied. “Look!” “I can't believe it” Star said, while Mallet returned to the deck. “We made it. It is Wyvern Bay! They were facing a massive tower-like pillar of ice, where wyverns could be seen flying around. It was then that a wyvern that looked a lot like Boreal because of the red crest. It should be the Wyvern Queen, which flew past above them and went into her territory, right at the top of the pillar, covered in spikes of ice. “At least Skullivar won't have his flying ice squadrons” Star said. “You got to give Boreal to her mom, Mal” Dusk said to Mallet. “But it's cold here, and Boreal's tired” Mallet said, with Boreal over one of his forelegs, going then to pet her. “Maybe she should stay with Mallet a little longer.” “We already talked about it” Star said. “She's a wild animal, Mallet. You can't keep her.” Boreal rubbed her head on Mallet’s face, while groaning at him. “Boreal says she wants to stay” Mallet said. “You can't force her to go.” “Come on, Mal, wouldn't you want to go home?” Dusk asked. That caused Boreal to whimper at Mallet, while the two looked at each other. Mallet knew what he had to do, despite it was the hardest thing he had ever done. Moments later, Dusk and Mallet were both climbing up to the ice pillar where the Wyvern Queen lived. It would be easier if Star could use his wings, but they were still were frozen and the most possible thing to happen was they freezing again. “What if we do not find her mother?” Mallet asked, with Boreal over his head, still trying to find a way to keep her. “Think about it? Boreal might get rejected by the others. Or eaten!” It was then that a rumble was heard behind them. They all turned around to see that the Demoniac has finally arrived, breaking the ice that was on its path. “Oh no” Star said, with Clover at his side, turning then to Opal through the communicator. “Any bright ideas from our Engineering Department?!” “Well, we can't powers the cannons, but I can still use my own energy!” she said. “But in that way, you can…” Star started. “Don’t worry, it’s just a bit so we can protect ourselves” Opal replied, charging her horn. “Besides, I’m always careful.” She then started charging the Chaos. After she was done, she felt a big wave of weakness, but she managed to stand still and then exclaimed: “Chaos! Now!” Chaos's eyes started glowing, as he was back on. With the Chaos in front of him, Golden Bones commanded: “Slice that rotten raft in half!” The Demoniac was about to hit the Chaos with its bowblade, but he was able to move away just enough to dodge the attack, causing it to hit the pillar. Seeing what was happening down there, Mallet said: “We have to go back! Too bad, means Boreal will have to stay with us!” “No, I'm going, you stay” Star said. “Find her mother. You speak wyvern, so I'm counting on you. Taking Calabrass, Dusk used his blade to slide down the pillar, speaking to Calabrass while doing it. “I'll transform when I'm down there so we could hit Bones with a full power blast!” “Great plan” Calabrass said. “Provided we make it in one piece!” Down there, Golden Bones had the Chaos surrounded. Standing outside of his ship with his soldiers, he said to Star: “No more games. Give me the egg, now.” “You're too late, Golden Bones. Dusk and Mallet took the baby to its mother. Take that instead! And he fired a magic blast at Golden Bones, which he dodged. “No, thank you” he replied. “But your vessel, and your crew might make a meager consolation prize.” And he made a sign to the skeleton army that proceeded to attack the Chaos with Star and Clover both trying to defend it. Opal got out of the engine room to help, but even with her help things were pretty complicated. It was then that they heard a familiar voice souring: “Look out for falling ice.” And Dusk landed onto the ship and took down some of the skeletons. “And good guys!” he added. “Foolish boy” Golden Bones said. “You are trapped. Powerless. I'm going to defeat you and bring Skullivar an army of wyverns as well as the Eyes of the Seven Seas.” “All you're gonna get is a headache!” Dusk told. “Calabrass, give me the Eye of Blazz!” And so he and Calabrass transformed. Dusk didn’t lose time to attack Golden Bones with a blast of fire, but the flame didn't reach far enough, extinguishing as soon it was casted, much to Dusk’s confusion. “There can be no fire on Sino, Zak Storm!” Calabrass replied. “The whole sea is covered in everlasting magic cold. Our fight hasn't even started yet and you've already lost.” “He's right, Dusk” Calabrass said. “I gave everything for that strike.” “He's wrong” the young unicorn prince replied. “I don't need magic power to teach you a lesson, Bones! And so he detransformed and started charging the skeletons. Meanwhile, Mallet managed to climb to the Wyvern Queen's home. Arriving there, Mallet found her, with her back turned to him. “This is your mommy, sweetie” Mallet said to Boreal. “The Queen of the Wyverns. Mallet is just your uncle, you need to go with her now. It was then that the Wyvern Queen turned around and roared at him. “Mallet isn't afraid” he said. “A Mighty Helmet warrior has no heart, and a Mighty Helmet warrior isn't afraid. Ever.” Approaching the queen carefully, he started to hand her Boreal, while saying: “Nice mommy. Very nice.” The Wyvern Queen returned to roar. Simultaneously, Golden Bones and Dusk were battling each other on the Demoniac, while Star, Clover and Opal were surrounded. But then the skeletons surrounded him, stopping them from fighting. “Well look who can't fight his own battles” Dusk said. “Afraid to fight me one-on-one?” “Surrender, Dusk Storm” Golden Bones offered. “Give me Calabrass and I'll grant you and your friends safe passage. You have my word.” “You still don't get it, Boney” Dusk replied. “I won't let anyone be Skullivar's prisoner. Pony, wyvern, or enchanted sword.” “Arr!” Calabrass shouted, in support for Dusk’s words. “Then I'll have my skeletons pry your cursed sword off your frozen body” he replied, kicking Dusk out of the Demoniac. Dusk was about to fall into the freezing water, but then a wyvern caught him. Grabbed by the wyvern’s legs, he saw Boreal actually flying next to him. “Boreal, good girl! Who's a fast learner? Yes you are!” The little wyvern made a sound similar to the one of a laugh. Mallet appeared at the other side, riding another wyvern, shouting: “Ragnasala!” And with them there were other two wyverns and they prepared to attack Golden Bones and the skeletons. Before that, Golden Bones commanded: “The cannons! Fire! Fire, you idiots!” The cannons were ready to fire, but the wyverns froze all the Demoniac's cannons, along with some soldiers. Dusk landed on the Demoniac and, together with his brother and friends he helped fighting the skeletons. Turning to Star, Clover and Opal, he said: “Mallet found us some new friends!” And they saw Mallet approaching on the wyvern. They all then returned to the Chaos, including Mallet. Boreal arrived to nuzzle Mallet, while Clover said: “And for today's dinner: frozen marrow-bones! We won!” “Now, how do we get out of here?” Opal asked. “I don’t know about you, but I’m dying to get out of this cursed sea.” “So do I” Star said, while massaging his wings. “I can barely feel my wings. I need to warm them.” “If only the Chaos could fly, right, Boreal?” Dusk said. Noticing what he meant, Opal replied: “Don't fool yourself, Dusk. Boreal is just a wild beast. She cannot understand...” Boreal suddenly roared very loudly and then three wyverns appeared and started lifting up the Chaos, much to Opal’s surprise. “See?” Mallet asked, while petting Boreal. “Dusk speaks wyvern now. Like Mallet!” “Yeah, that’s what it seems” Star said, going to pet Boreal too. “What do you think, Opal.” She ended up smiling and went to pet Boreal too. Going to the prow, Dusk said: “Hey, Bones. Next time bring Skully a chicken! He'll get a new egg every day!” And the Sea Raiders all laughed in amusement as they see Golden Bones is frozen into a huge block of ice on the Demoniac.