//------------------------------// // Chapter 81.5 – Another Dream Adventure Conclusion // Story: Griffon of Canterlot // by Electuroo //------------------------------// Griffon of Canterlot Chapter 81.5 – Another Dream Adventure Conclusion Dragons and Vikings working together through out Berk since the defeat of Grogar the Echo at the paws of Blue, the clean up of golem rocky remains to reconstruction of homes destroyed or damaged had already started, Stoick with his arms crossed watched from the steps of the Great Hall, Vikings inside also fixing up the tables and clearing up the mess too within. Gobber walked up the steps towards him. “Stoick your brooding.” Stoick glance down the steps at the peg leg blacksmith. “Aye I am, this was a serve attack on Berk, not only we were pushed back with such ease, that goat used magic of all things to create what looked like living monsters.” He kicked a piece of a stone paw down the steps. Gobber turn following it with his eyes as it bounced down the steps. “Aye that did happen, yet we had also allies with magic that helped us, don't forget that strange looking mind speaking wolf defeated him.” “How could I?” Stoick uncross his arms, rubbing the beard with his hand. “Blue I could see in those fiery red eyes as he struck down that monstrous goat, he is dead set loyal to a fault to Gale.” Stoick walked down the steps. “There will be remaining golem monsters out there, I already talked to a few Vikings and they agree on my idea.” Gobber looked over to the Vikings and Dragons over by the mountain side chipping away at it. “Big stone statue for Blue? Ay.” Gobber turn walking alongside him. Stoick picked up a few big pieces of stone, holding it up on his shoulders. “Aye, this will show those that remain, we are protected by him, Alpha and Spike.” “Now that something to see when it done.” Gobber chuckled. “What of Whrisp?” “The foul black bird? He leaving with Princess Luna and the others, he will never be welcomed here again and that is as good it will get for that bird, he aided them and us to defeat that goat. But it doesn't change the fact he helped the attack to begin with, and dragged us into this mess when Grogar the Echo stole the sphere a week ago.” “Aye, true that is Stoick, that sphere did start everything off a week ago, with all that planning and pretty much winning, how someone's madness for endless power really corrupt them hmm?” Stocik sighed. “Yes, I get your point Gobber, I also fell into that trap myself many years ago, I seek to become the greatest Viking by taking out the dragons once and for all to have them not only our loyal companies, but be the proudest father of a amazing son like Hiccup who showed us another way of living with the dragons, seeing them as family.” Stoick looked over to seeing Toothless being rode by Hiccup fly over with Gabby, Gallus and Gale flying right behind them carrying supplies. “Aye, that is a good reminder to keep.” Gobber looked to the cliff over looking the port lower levels. “Talking of which, it seem the pony princess with a few others having a talk with that bird.” Stoick saw them. “Yes I know, leave them to it, that bird not our problem and with what we dealing with at the moment, I don't want that to add onto the growing number of issues we have to face now.” They continue to walk. As the sun start to draw it last light as it lowers from the sky slowly, sitting at the cliff overlooking the port Luna, Blue, Nightingale, Alpha and Gilda sat or stood before the black bird staring out to the sunset. They asked for answers to their questions and he accepted to it without any terms, Whrisp had already made his mind up to be straight with them. Gilda decided to jump to the first question after a awkward silence for what seen forever. “Why were you working for Grogar? That echo thing, the real deal.” Whrisp didn't turn just kept staring out to sea. “He used Wayne to find a Shade and it happened to be me, that tends to happen when you have life form that only of soul and memories at the time.” “Soul and memories?” Nightingale asked. “Before you knew him as Gale, before the cub full of hope, imagination, dreams, love, and so much more, came the remains of the homosapien, a echo of the life once was.” Luna shivered a bit. “The way you are saying about Gale, he was neither alive or dead over 4000 years ago.” Whrisp slowly turn around to answer this. “Yes that what he exact he was, a shell held by a new form magic you call Pure Magic, without it there would be no Wayne, no Gale.” Gilda's face drained of colour a bit with a deep sickening gut ranching feeling deep in her gut. “Sweet Grover...” She muttered. “How is that even possible?” “No idea.” Whrisp had no answer to give on the subject. “If Grogar knew, he never told me.” Luna looked at the last light fading behind the horizon of the sea. “He created the echo of himself and sent you with that echo into Gale's subconscious, his goal was to steal the magic from within wasn't it?” “Yes. But he failed to take into account there was no subconscious to find, we were basically trapped within his dreamless void till around two months ago.” Whrisp answered Luna's question and added the flaw to Grogar's plan. Gilda half chuckled hearing that, but she went back to the question she had asked. “Still doesn't explain why you worked for that evil goat.” Whrisp ruffled his wings a little. “Your right, I didn't answer that part of the question, the answer is about being discovered and also by the magical law of a Shade, if discovered or caught by any creature, we are to provide our services for one action only, mine was to find the key within the dream to unlocking the pure magic.” He gave the answer to Gilda. “Sounds that you have rules of non-direct involvement, am I correct?” Blue asked. Whrisp nodded. “Correct, we Shades tend to not take sides, even though it seem I did, it wasn't by choice. It was by our magical law, if we break it... We cease to be by the next sunset.” Alpha stared with his only eye. “So all you Shade creatures are bound by this law magical? “ “Yes.” “That sounds like a good safe guard, but also doesn't give you much choice of a mortal high ground does it?” Luna questioned. The black bird lower his head with a sigh. “Yes...” Gilda asked the next one. “Your no long bound by that duty?” “No, I fulfilled our terms to the contact, it was his fault to ignore me.” Blue took another chance to ask a question or two. “Your kind, the Shades. Do they change their appearances and what is your diet?” Whrisp answered the questions. “Yes, we change our appearances determining on the individual we interact with, mainly the young, in the dream we can directly interact with them and in reality we phase through everything, only seen by the young one.” “That sounds like imaginary friends.” Gilda frowned upon saying what it sounded like. “Imaginary friends?” Whrisp tilt his head. “Interesting concept of a name, not one any of us Shades thought of around 4000 years ago...” He paused of a second. “Well to me 2 and half years, strange how time seem to be a concept that this part too, a Shade out of time.” Luna smiled. “Join the club, I and Gale know how exactly how you feel on that notion.” Alpha had a thought came to mind from what he knew about Gale's past, and Grogar's defeat. “Was Grogar losing control of his empire by the time he tried to take Lord Gale's magic?” Whrisp thought about that question. “Yes, in fact that is true, Grogar the Father of Monsters told me that his years old mistakes, one of them turning a unicorn into a griffon by the name of Griffax Boreas, he had created a idol that rallied all griffons together with ponies.” “It sound like the stories I heard, and of Griffax message.” Luna confirmed it. “Did he launch a assult on the island nation of the griffons?” “Yes and it failed, he realised the greed to control so many now was pushing back on him, he knew the only way to win now was acquiring the magic from Gale.” Blue leaned against a rock with his arms crossed. “Losing ground, creating new experiments to acquire Master Gale's magic, it does match up with everything, this cost him the bell too.” “Cost him the bell?” Whrisp questioned. “What do you mean by that?” “Misty the Great with help from the griffons and ponies managed to steal his bell.” Nightingale answered. “She sealed it away somewhere safe and out of reach.” Whrisp hummed a little. “It sound like I was tangled in a mess of an panicking emperor seeing his kingdom falling apart, I didn't know it was that bad for him.” Gilda asked the next to the black bird. “What are you going to do now? Dweeb.” “Go home to the rest of my kind, hopefully catch up with them after being gone for so long, the gateway to the Shade's gathering grounds are open, I know what I done to help the Echo can not be undone, but I only did it because I was bound to...” “Hopefully it will never happen again, since you did in a indirect way helped us to win, I believe this leaves us even.” Luna said. Gilda shrugged. “Can't argue with that.” “Agreed aunty.” Nightingale nodded. Alpha lean down. “You better take the cease out of existence path next time when it comes to Lord Gale.” The shade nodded. “I know you want that, but I can't promise it.” Blue smirked. “I believe I have a way to solve that problem, you need imaginative energy and bound yourself to one that is young, what of one young of mind to the body?” Whrisp's solid yellow eyes turn to look directly into the red eyes. “You mean connect to Gale?” “Correct and I have the perfect form too.” Blue revealed a piece of paper showing it to the shade. “Master Gale drew this before our trip here.” Whrisp looked at the drawing. “That small, cute and fluffy, fly without wings, big long tail, huge paw feet, small arms with tiny paws, big head blue with big blue emotional eyes that look mischievous too.” He looked back at Blue. “Are you sure of this?” The answer came from Blue's telepathic voice. “Yes, do this and your free to go, it will work out for both you and Master Gale, it a win win.” Whrisp took a look around. “What of you?” Gilda raise a talon. “Not getting involved with the mutt on this one, he has a good sense that freaky.” “Agreed, Gale's guardian must have a solid reason.” Nightingale also letting Blue handle this. Luna turn to Blue. “I believe the Dream Guardian knows what he is doing.” Alpha saw the drawing. “Think it too cute for my taste, but I have to say he got a good point, go with it.” Whrisp flew up in front of them. “Fair enough, with that voted here I go!” He started to glow, the dark form engulfed in light. “Your going back already?” Hiccup asked as the Berkains gathered to see their new friends off. Luna step forward. “Indeed, we will return in time, just need to get home.” Stoick put his hand out to Luna. “You are all friends of Berk, be well on your journey home.” “We will.” Luna place her hoof in his hand, smiled at each other and remove hand and hoof. “Gale please do the honour.” Gale twist the orb. “Bye!” Gale warmly smiled. Spike waving his claw hand. “It was fun meeting all of you and the dragons! Take care!” “See ya dweebs!” Astrid smirked. “See you later, also look forward to another race.” Gilda grinned back. “Till next time.” Alpha smirked at Snotlout getting a gulp from the young Viking, he took cover behind Hookfang his dragon. Nightingale bowed slightly. “It was a interesting set of events, I do hope for a speedy recovery.” Gobber laughed. “We Vikings, we bounce back every time! Just look at me!” He showed his arm and leg getting a set of laughter from everyone. Gallus smirked. “Take care twins, you were a riot!” “That we are!” They said together clapping hands together. Gabby giggled. “It was fun helping to work with the dragons Fishlegs! I really like it!” Fishlegs smiled. “It was fun too! You are really good at cleaning up the dragon stables!” “What can I say? I love to help!” She said with pride. Gale twist the final part and they were engulfed in a bluish white cloud, it pulls in and they were gone. “Now everyone back to work! Berk not going to fix it self!” Stoick clapped his hands a few times, they all parted getting back to work. “Hiccup, I am going to need that mind of yours to prepare for something like this could possibly happen again, they are our friends but there are forces out there that isn't.” Hiccup smiled. “What do you have in mind dad?” Luna, Spike, Alpha, Blue, Nightingale, Gallus, Gilda and Gale appear back in the Dream Randomiser chamber. “Thank you for the ride! I'm off home and see you sometime Gale!” They all turn to Whrisp emerge from the shadows, he giving a salute with a mischievous giggle before flying into the shadows once again heading home. “What the buck was that thing!?” Gilda blurted out.