//------------------------------// // Chapter 78 – Berk-Adventure Begins // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 78 – Berk-Adventure Begins Keeping to the shadows of the buildings, Alpha leap from one building to another through out Berk, the Vikings or the dragons not noticing this large anthropomorphic wolf moving about, he kept low wind too from the dragons. Alpha made his way to Hiccup's home as the drawing the young adult had given to the wolf, he looked to the map and to the house with his good eye. “This better work.” He licked the side of his snout. “I think this is a horrible plan...” He grumbled, leaping off the roof to land at the steps up to Hiccup's home without much of a sound, Alpha looked around before approaching the door as the rays of sunlight start to hit the buildings. “Urg... Better get this over with.” He raised the paw hand up to the door knocking on it a few times. The opened with Stoick staring down at the wolf, Alpha's ears lowered, he gulped at the size and height of this Viking, he just stared deeply into Alpha's only eye. “Grhmmm...” Alpha gulped loudly stepping back a few steps. “I-I-I'm here on the behalf of your son Hi-” Stoick grabbed him by the neck and pinned him against the wall, the wall pawed and kicked to break free but couldn't. “Creature what have you done to my son!?” “I didn-gah-” He felt the squeeze around his neck. “He told me to come to you! I told him it a horrible plan!” Stoick let's go, the wolf land on his backside tail tucked between his legs, coughing and rubbing his throat leaning against the door frame. “That sound a lot like Hiccup, now where is my son?” Alpha coughing a little bit wheezing to get some air back in his lungs. “Ur...” He coughed again. “He on the outskirts near the forest with Lord Gale I serve as protector, his aunt, and others...” He got back up onto his paw feet lapping the side of his muzzle with the tongue. “Good to hear, now what are you and who are you?” “My name is Alpha and I am a wolf.” Stoick gave him a hard gaze. “I seen wolves and you look similar, but not stand on two, have paws that look like hands or even wear clothing.” Stoick grabbed his axe pointing it at Alpha. “Now tell me what are you!?” Alpha growls. “I am a wolf! Just one from a far away land called China! I left my home taking a oath to protect Lord Gale!” He proves it with a howl and a snarl. “Does that convince you!?” Stoick lower the axe to his side. “You would die for this Lord Gale?” “To keep him out of harms way... Yes.” Alpha growled. Stoick saw the hard gaze from the red eye staring back at his own eyes. “Vikings and Dragons were enemies, now we are more like family, if that possible, what you say is. And the fact you came alone to tell me where my son is proves that.” He walk out of the house seeing a few Vikings and Dragons gather, Alpha step into view behind him. “Take me to him.” Alpha looked around at the others staring, with a humph. “Follow me...” Alpha walked down the steps, the other Vikings and Dragons wearily parted as the wolf walk by them with Stoick following close behind him. “Wait!” Alpha stopped slowly turning his head. “We making a detour.” “You asked me to take you to him! Now you want to take a detour!? Make your mind up!” Alpha threw a fit of snarls and growls in the mix of his words at Stoick. Stoick pushed him as he walked by. “We making the detour, follow me wolf.” Alpha howled in frustration. “I am really hating this dream logic, first all sneaky, suddenly they all up and about. Now I can walk without a blink or question why a talking wolf is with the chief of Berk!?” Suddenly his train of thoughts are broken by four dragons landing before him and Stoick, each of them had a rider on the dragons part from the two headed one had two, they look like twins. “Chief has Toothless returned and what is that thing behind you?” The female asked. “Astrid that is Alpha, his a wolf from a far away lands, he came to me because of Hiccup, we going to get Gobber and head out to my son.” “Wolf? But it wearing clothing and-” “Stand on feet paws, blah blah blah! I get it I am not your typical wolf! Now can we get this Gobber thing and head back to Lord Gale and the others!?” They and their dragons stared with mouths opened, he licked the side of his muzzle. “I am never going to leave Dream Cavern EVER again! If this is the mess I am going to be dragged through!” Stoick couldn't help but laugh. “Welcome to Berk and now I am very sure my son is safe.” He walked on, Alpha opened his muzzle than closed it with a grumble under his breath as he followed. Ruffnut gave him a pet on the head as he walk by. “Who the good-” Alpha turn and growls. “You pet me like that again and that hand will be gone with one BITE!” He snap his jaw at her before walking after Stoick. Tuffnut grinned. “Oh wow sis, wouldn't mind a pet like him right?” Ruffnut was unphased by Alpha's actions or words. “Definitely.” Alpha groans hearing the twins. Fishlegs raise a finger. “Is it weird that we just seemingly calm around a talking wolf?” Snotlout walk by him following the wolf and chief. “Your just thinking too hard, weird is the norm.” “He got a point.” Astrid shrugged and followed them with hands behind the back of her head. “Come on Stormfly.” The others followed with their dragons. Fishlegs with his dragon glance at each other. “I do have a point don't I?” The dragon lick him in agreement. “At least you agree.” He rubbed the scaly head, they followed the group. Hiccup sat in front of Gale drawing into his book as the young griffon had his wings spread open, the Viking taking note of the appearance of a teenage griffon, including Gallus to a adult one from Gilda, Nightingale and Gabby. “You two still growing and yet this shows that wing span from any of you even with feathers says it about a third too short. The body mass is too big to give any of you lift, even for you Princess Luna...” He drift the charcoal end of the sketches he made. Hiccup turn his attention to Spike munching on a gem from a bag held in one claw, using the other claw hand to put each glimmering rock into his mouth. “And you Spike, not only you can speak, your jaw is impossibly strong for a baby dragon, I mean you are chewing on those rocks as if it nothing, your body also is differently shaped to any dragon as well, I can't even find any wings on you at all.” Hiccup said. Spike shrugged. “I can't help you on that, Twilight my sister hatched me around ten years ago during a magic exam to get into the school for Gifted Unicorns run by Princess Celestia.” “Annnnd that the part I find a hard time believing, magic. Really?” Luna rolled her eyes using her magic to pick him up, Toothless watched with a curious tilt of his head seeing his friend float in a blue aura emitting from Luna's horn. “Do you wish to explain to me how I can do this?” Hiccup shook his head. “Nope I'm good!” Luna lowered him back down onto the downed tree trunk. “That feeling is sooooo weird.” “Prince Hiccup each of us from Equestria and Griffina have magic in us, it a core energy that flow through us, it how my and Nightingale's mane and her head feathers move without wind, it access magic within us.” Luna stated using her magic to take the stick to draw a orb in the middle of the diagrams, with lines going outwards, mainly to the wings and limbs of those with only wings Gilda rolled her eyes. “Dweeb, without our inner magic cores we wouldn't be able to fly, it basic 101 for us. And also give us the ability to control weather, Griffons and Pegasi.” “Control weather?” Hiccup frowned. “Can you prove it?” Gilda smirked. “You are going to eat those words.” She open her wings, with a mighty flap the griffon zooms straight up at high speeds. The blast of wind from take off made Hiccup cover his face, he looked up afterwards seeing her zoom right up to the clouds, she was climbing at speeds he and Toothless have done a few times after gaining some speed from some flight. “Wow she fast...” Gallus sat against a tree with his forelegs crossed. “Not sure why I agreed to this, it boring.” Toothless came up to him and sat by the griffon. “What do you want?” Toothless gave him a lick. “URG Gross!” He quickly got up wiping his face with his talons trying to get the slobber off his feathers. “He like you.” Gabby giggled. Gallus flick some of the saliva from his talons at Toothless' face, he reacted by shaking his head and using his foreclaw to clear himself. “Well he can keep his lick likeness in that mouth of his.” Gallus flapped his wings flying up to a tree branch, resting his back against the tree truck with forelegs behind his head. Toothless watched the navy blue tuff of the tail tip wave back and forwards, he groans unhappily as he unable to reach Gallus. “Guess he not the dragon licking type bud.” Hiccup add a detail into the book about the griffon foreleg being very mobile alongside the talons, the reverse claw of the three forward ones able to move forwards to them and act like a thumb. “It interesting how the inner claw can be fully reversed to move forwards to a inner claw that act like a thumb, it shows that the talon joints are far more durable than they look.” Gallus rolled his eyes. “I KNOW! I am a griffon for Grover's sake! It griffish 101 for us!” Gallus lean over the edge glaring down at him. “How about we stop waiting on the outskirts and go already!” “We will go when I say.” Luna said back, Gallus grumbled disappearing from view. “Nephew...” “Yes Aunty?” Gale walked up to Luna. “Be prepared for us to leave, just encase things go south.” “I got it one turn away already.” Gale padded his bag. “But I am sure it be fine.” Gale looked over to Berk. “How cool is it? We get to have a dream adventure together?” “It wouldn't be happening if you didn't lose that sphere of yours in the first place.” Luna said dryly. Gale turn to her. “I didn't know how it ended up here, or why this place out of those many tries to break out of the nightmare cycle my Randomiser was on.” Luna sighed. “indeed, that nightmare of Grogar is still troubling... As if there a piece of-” She paused. “No it couldn't... That-” “Aunty?” Nightingale kept a eye out for anyone approaching. “I see Alpha with-” She saw the group of Vikings and Dragons. “Aunty Luna, Alpha bring quite the crowd with him, I see seven Vikings and four dragons, five if you count the two headed one.” Spike quickly came up to Nightingale. “Two headed!?” He saw the dragon with the two long necks with a head on each. “Oh wow there dragon does have two heads!” Luna and Gale saw it too, what bothered Luna was quickly push to the side as they saw the dragons with the Vikings coming up. Hiccup put the stick in his book closing it up. “Here we go.” He wave for Toothless to come up by his side. “Ready buddy?” Toothless nodded. “Princess are you and the others ready?” Luna look up to Gallus. “I'm coming...” He grumbled leaping off the branch flapping a few times to land on all fours beside Gale, the two teens and Nightingale walking up beside Luna, Spike just by her right forehoof. “We ready.” Luna nodded. Hiccup straighten himself and took a deep breath. “Alright, let's get this over and done.” As both parties now only meters apart. “Hiccup...” “Hi Dad...” Hiccup waved nervously. “Your going to love what happened to me...” Stoick frowned. “Alpha told me you were transported by that sphere with Toothless to Dream Cavern and they brought you back, and this was your plan.” “A horrible plan...” Alpha muttered. “It was...” Hiccups said. “I thought it was better for Alpha to bring you, I wasn't expecting my friends and Gobber to show up too though...” “I told you not to mess around with that thing, your lucky to have ran into those that cared about your well being and bring you home.” Stoick said pointing to the ground. “You have any idea how much danger you could of brought to our home with that stunt?” Hiccup sighed “Alot... But at least it worked out didn't it? We got to meet some friendly creatures that aren't dragon for the most part.” “Aye, that we have.” He look upon them. “I gather the beak, talons and paws with the feathered wings are the griffons?” Alpha nodded. “And that mean...” He eyes fell upon Luna. “You are Luna, the Princess of Equestria, the aunt of two of the three-” He looked around. “I was told there was five griffons.” Gabby popped up in front of him. “Hi! I am Gabby! It nice to meet you Stoick the Vast! Father of Hiccup! He got a really AWESOME dragon pal too!” She grabbed his hand with both talons shaking it. “Wow that a really big hand you got! I bet your super strong too! Like to claw wrestle some time?” Gallus slapped his forehead, Nightingale shook her head, Gale stared, Hiccup was very nervous at what might happen next. “Yes... Nice to meet you too Gabby...” He slowly said staring down at her big emotional eyes. “Do you mean arm wrestling?” “Yep!” She giggled. “He better not, she WAY stronger than she look.” Gallus warned Hiccup. Hiccup rubbed the back of his head. “This is not exactly what I had-” A cloud lowers to the left of them, Gilda walking on it sat down. “Hey dweebs, one cloud as promised.” She slyly smirked. “Now do you believe be you lame dork?” She directly said to Hiccup. “-In mind...” Hiccup rubbed a thumb and finger against the bridge of his nose, Spike put his claw hands over his snout trying not to laugh. Gobber blinked. “Are you all seeing what I am seeing or am I going completely mad!?” “I see it too Gobber and I can't believe what I am seeing...” Stoick replied. Astrid put her hand out for it to go through the cloud. “How is that even possible...” “Magic you dweeb.” Gilda chuckled. “I give up... My plan go awe!” He threw his hands up in the air in defeat. Alpha muttered. “Told you it was a horrible plan...” Toothless giving a grunting laugh in response. Luna directly look to Stoick. “I gather you want a expectation?” Stoick couldn't stop staring at the cloud and Gilda. “Yes... I would appreciate that...” “Okay that weirder then the weird norm we have.” Snotlout rubbed the back of his neck. “The way she just chilled on that cloud is awesome.” Ruffnut chuckled “Sis it awesomely weird how she chilled on the cloud!” Tuffnut chuckled too. Gilda chuckled too. “I like these two, they seem less dweebish then the rest of you, part from you Gale, your just awesome.” The twins fist bump each other. Gale shrugged. “Wow things just gone past eleven on the ten o metre...” “That it has dear nephew... That it did...” Luna said. “Stupid dream logic...” Alpha grumbled. Stoick rubbed the bridge of his nose. “You know what...” He turn away from Gilda, she chuckled as he don't want to even try to understand how she sitting on a cloud. “It morning and this is just way over my head, how about we all go to the Great Hall and have breakfast as our honorary guests?” Gilda hopped off the cloud with a few flaps and gave it a twist kick puffing it out of existence. “Cool with me dweeb, I wouldn't mind some cooked fish.” She calmly walked by him. Hiccup clapped his hands. “Well dad, it look like things are good, lets get going shall we?” He tried to walk by Stoick to only be grabbed by the arm. “Hiccup we going to have a very long talk about this whole mess.” Hiccup groans knowing he was in for father son talk in the not so good way. “The trap been sprung master, he is here.” “Good. Are my creations ready?” “Yes they are.” “Are the Anti-Recall dampers in place?” “Yes they been installed around Berk and one activation away.” “Good, no escape or waking up for Wayne. The pure magic will be his through the veil of dreams, it one of many methods I... He had in mind to acquiring the magic from that being, once acquired I be transferred to my true-self.” “Master?” “We are but a echo, a piece of the greater whole minion, we are created to serve our purpose.” “Shall we set sail?” “At once my minion, it time to claim what is rightfully his.”