Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 80 – The Berk Assault
The assault on Berk being watched through red piecing eyes by a blue large goat wearing a red harness around his neck, four gold domes with a gold bell hanging at the middle, white Mohawk, and tail. The black cloven hoof rubbed the goatee a few times as he calmly watched the Vikings and dragons fight his golem monsters on every part of the settlement.
A Roc came crashing down in front of him shattering to pieces with a crystal rolling up to his cloven hoof, he pressed it down shattering the magical crystal core to pieces. “How interesting, they are very capable of fighting a small amount of my golem monsters.” He noticed Luna looking directly at him. “It seems she knows of me.”
“Knows of the echo of Grogar, you are without his horns are you not?”
Grogar glanced at his own shadow as a shadowy black bird came out of it, with a few flaps land before him. “Yes, please remind me how I am just a echo, a shadow, and a dream-scape throw away that has a mission to complete, as you do minion.”
The bird's eye solid eyes stared into his red eyes. “You and me both know I am acting as a servant of information because of the agreement I made WITH Grogar the Father of Monsters.” The bird ruffled his wings. “I play the minion game and only gather information and command your golems.” He picked up the stone head of a Roc with a talon before tossing it to the side.
“Ah yes, the creation that live in the shadows, that hoop from reality to dreams and back again, the creation that feeds of the imaginative creations of the mind without being noticed or effecting the host.” Grogar walk by him to watch the continuous fighting below. “What have you discovered?”
The bird walked up beside him, seeing the larger golems stopped the dragons and Vikings for nearing them, the hydra golems knocking them back. “A pony called Luna, she is a Alicorn and knows of Grogar the Feather of Monsters, he was defeated over 4000 years ago, that you are lacking his horns that the only difference.”
Grogar the Echo looked up at the area of the horns should be, lowering his head slightly grumbling. “And of Wayne my target for my malevolent creator?”
The wing point to Gale flying to the Great Hall with the other griffons, Hiccup and Astrid fighting the monsters off with their dragons keeping the path clear. “That yellow griffon with the black wings, he is Wayne.”
“That the decoy Grogar the Father of Monsters warned me about, it would be placed within the dream-scape as a distraction, a defence...” He turned away walking up one of the rune stones in the ground, pressing his hoof on the bell letting it magic flow out to for a ball hovering over his cloven hoof. “Don't make a fool of me, you were there and it not 4000 years, it two years... Whrisp.”
Whrisp squawked at him with annoyance. “Echo! I searched her mind, I did all of theirs! How do you think I work! The only one I couldn't search the minds was that griffon cause we IN it via a dream generated reality!”
Grogar glance at him. “That is because his a decoy, there is no mind.” He blow the gold orb to the runes, the bird glares at the echo. “Wayne is here, order the reinforcements to push them all to the Great Hall, than force them to give over the decoy and crush it.” Grogar the Echo said calmly to Whrisp. “Than Wayne will be easy to find and my mission will be fulfilled and this existence of mine will come to a end.”
Whrisp coos with a wing over the top of his beak shaking his head. “Such a limited villainous mind, I put up with two years, two and half months of this, for you to not believe me? I told you what you wanted to know, tell your own reinforcements to do it, I'm done! This contract is completed! No more commanding armies! You do it and I am moving on!” Whrisp flap his wings taking off to dive into a shadow and vanish.
“So that how it is? You decided to break your terms with my creator? So be it, my golem monsters will tear you apart as well.” The magic hit the rune stone, it starts to glow and in a instant a pillar of stone with glyph runes all around it light up, soon more of them start popping up one by one around Berk. “Monsters push them back to the Great Hall, do whatever it takes to push them all back!” He turn around speaking out to all the monsters, only they heard what he said.
Grogar the Echo glance to between two of them, a large sum of timberwolves emerged from it. “Go and aid the others to take care of the wolf and dragon that fled into the woods, rip them to shreds.” The wolves howled and ran into the woods. “Now... Time to make my entrance.” His bell rings with magic coming out of it, he point it at a few dragons in the sky, a blast of golden magic misses them but hit a cliff side.
The dragons see a huge explosion with the cliff edge collapsing into the sea, they quickly fled as Grogar fired another magical blast at them. “That's it, keep pushing.” More golem monsters emerged from between the pillars, running, slithering and flying into Berk.
The Vikings and dragons fighting wave after wave of monsters, each waved they destroyed another set emerge, the larger ones stomping down some buildings roaring out as Toothless and Stormfly blast them with fireballs, Hiccup and Astrid looked around seeing that all fronts were being pushed back rapidly, they were losing ground fast.
Stoick shouts out to Hiccup. “Pull back to the Great Hall! Hiccup!”
“We on it!” Hiccup called back. “Come on bud we got to pull back, there too many for even you to take on.” Toothless growled in fustration seeing a large flock of Rocs chasing his fellow dragon friends and their riders from the coastal defence line. With a snort of flames, Toothless unhappily agrees to pull back.
Alpha running on all fours with Spike riding him darted through the treeline, the sound of howling from the timberwolves got him glancing back to see the wooden animals chasing them. “Now we got bark chasing us!?”
“They timberwolves! We got to get away from them!” Spike said with fear.
“That what I am trying to do!” Alpha leap over a few downed trees, sliding down the embankment to jump into a large open area with a body of water in it, he come to a sliding stop turning around to see the twelve wolves jump into the open area snarling at him.
Spike was picked up by Alpha and put to the ground. “Your going to fight them!? I thought we were running!”
Alpha stood in a battle stance with one hand paw out at them, the other to his side, with one paw foot out in front sliding it slightly through the dirt. “We were till I knew we couldn't they too fast.” Alpha said to Spike. “I have no choice but to fight.” The wolves parted, they slowly started to surround them. “They not dumb, this is a pack we facing.” He glanced to the left and to the right. “They examining for a weak point, one or two of them will attack first, soon many more and the rest...”
Spike gulped. “Wh-what are we going to do?”
Alpha eye fell upon Spike. “This is a dream adventure, you are asleep and we alone, you are limited to yourself.”
Spike blinked. “You mean I can be big?”
Alpha rolled his eye. “Yes...”
Spike closed his eyes and glowed to change into a bigger adult looking Spike holding a shield, wearing armour and a cape. “Whoa this is sooo cool!” He stood proud. “Now come and get some dragon!”
One of the timberwolves seemingly waiting suddenly now engage, one lunge at him to get a shield in it face to send it flying, the wolf land on it back to slide a bit before twisting around to charge again with the others, Alpha kicked one, jumped over another to twist around as they attacked.
Spike using the shield to block the wolves to push them back or smash them with it, Alpha leap over Spike, the dragon raise his shield for Alpha to land on it and with a push to a wolf. Alpha kicked it into a tree for it to shatter into pieces but as they landed the wood had turn to clay rock to shatter with a crystal sitting between them.
“They more magical golems!” Spike said seeing it. “They don't regenerate like the real deal! We can destroy them!”
Alpha grabbed one and threw it into another to shatter to pieces. “Good to know.” He countered nine left. “Now to take out the-” More timberwolves emerged and jumped down to join the nine remaining ones. “-Rest...”
Spike growled. “You got to be kidding me!”
“Well it seem we stuck in a rock and a hard place...”
“I wanted to join Gale on a dream adventure, but this is turning into a nightmare!”
The wolves growled as they moved in, suddenly muliple blue spheres come crashing down on the timberwolves, large sum of them blown to pieces. “I know those sphere of energy! That only come from Blue!”
On queue Blue land in front of them in a hero landing pose, a wolf lunge at him to get a glowing blue staff through it chest, the crystal core bouncing a few metres away, the timberwolf turned to stone. “Before you ask, I'll explain why and how I came after we take care of these wolves.”
Alpha smirked. “Fine by me, you could of brought my-” The large hammer slam into the ground beside him, he picked it up by the handle hoisting it over his shoulder. “Show off.”
Spike stood ready. “Okay now this is a awesome dream adventure! I get to fight with you two!” He grinned.
“Indeed, let's show what we can do to these timberwolf golems.” They nodded and charged right at the wolves as they charged right at them.
At the Great Hall everyone had gathered inside, the largest dragons with Vikings barricaded the two large doors, they using their strength to hold it closed as the monsters tried to break in. Stoick through another boulder into the pile, Luna using her magic to place some on it and even using her magic to create a shield over the door too.
“Do you think it will hold?” Hiccup asked looking at the stuff in front of the door with the light blue magic cast over it.
“As long Grogar doesn't come down and use his magic, I believe we can hold it back till Gale activate the sphere to get us all out of here.” Luna said to Hiccup.
Gale held the sphere looking at it and everyone else. “Aunty I have to make many trips with it, the room is too small for everyone.” Gale stared down at it. “Also I am not sure if my Dream Cavern could hold that many...”
“Hmm... Yes...” Luna knew what he meant. “I have no idea how it will effect your mind too...”
Gale sighed heavily. “This doesn't feel much like a dream adventure anymore...”
Gallus growled. “Than we end it! Come on just end the adventure already!”
Gale nodded. “Your right.” He grabbed the ring to turn it. “So-” He tried to pull it, but the ring wouldn't move. “Huh!?” Gale tried again. “It stuc-” Gale squawked in pain letting go of it as his talons now showed smoke coming off them. “Ow ow ow, that red hot!” He waved the talons to stop, the sphere before his and everyone's eyes were floating.
All the markings started to twist on it own, buttons press down, symbols twist and rings span around. “Dweeb what did you do to it!?” Gilda went to grab it but the sphere released a pulse of energy that sent her flying from it, flapping her wings to get control Gilda was surprised by what it just do. “Cub...”
Gale press his talon against a barrier that was between them and the sphere. “It a invisible shield...”
Fishlegs press his hand against it, he felt it but didn't see the surface. “I can feel it too...” He give it a few taps. “Can your sphere create a barrier like this?”
Toothless fire a fireball for it to impact the shield with the blast fanning to to dissipate. “No...”
“How do we get through it to your sphere?” Hiccup asked.
Gale stared in horror. “I don't know...”
Nightingale punched it hard to get no results. “It our only ticket home! And to wake up!”
“Wake up? What do you mean? We are already awake.” Astrid stepped up to them. “What are you hiding from us?”
Gabby fiddling with her claws. “Erm... Well you see... You and everything else here is-”
“Are of no interest to Grogar the Echo.” They all turn to see a black bird emerge from the shadows to land on one of the few remaining tables. “He out to destroy me and Gale to get to Wayne, but little does he know or fail to even listen with the limited thought patterns that echo has, it doomed to fail from the beginning.”
Stoick moved forwards ready to strike down the monster with a axe. “Your one of his creatures!” He slam it down to have the bird turn to black dust and reform by a touch. “You are only here to distract us! Put our guard down!”
Whrisp wave his wing and all of them part from the dreamers fell to one knee in a instant, even dragons were forced to lower their heads by the strange power that was over them now. Luna left holding the door back from the invading monsters. “I could do more than that you simple fool.” He waved it again and they all stood up. “Now that I showed off what I could do, will you LISTEN to what I have to say!?”
Stoick looked at him with weary eyes. “Fine... Talk.”
“Why weren't we effected?” Gallus asked Nightingale.
“Because we are the dreamers, they are all imaginative beings from the mind of Gale, so simply put it, he just showed how easy it to manipulate the characters in send dream.” Nightingale answered without anyone even noticing them talking.
Whrisp walked towards the sphere putting a wing to the shield, the wavy particles coming off his wing from the touch. “I don't have to say much, this whole battle was lost the moment Grogar the Echo activated the Recall Sphere Jamming Runes.”
“And how?” Astrid asked.
“A simple colour to a simple answer... to a very anticlimactic end to this adventure.” He turn around to them.