HTTYD: Blood and stone Ch.5

I do not own How To Train Your Dragon (HTTYD), All rights belong to Cressida Cowell and Dream works.

Sorry for the long time without updating, just a lot has been happening and work has been chaotic. Still I felt I should apologize for the lateness, after all I don't want to lose readers.

We left off as Toothless was tackled to the ground by a female Night Fury, apparently something within Ironclads stone has Toothlesses attention.

"By the great fire breathers of Helheim, another of my kind!" Toothless exclaimed as he got up from the ground, his eyes never leaving the dragon before him. Hiccup, Astrid & Valka were shocked at the sight, they hadn't seen where this dragon came from and even more so was the fact that she was a night fury. "Great Odin's ghost, another Night fury! How is this possible, I thought that they were wiped out or something since Toothless and I had never come across another of his species." Hiccup stated making his dragon eyes go a little slight like, with a chuckle Valka slowly tried to approach the new dragon. "You shall not come near my riders' sibling, how dare you try to pounce on him! He is not a lowly rabbit to snack on or even a tasty yak, he is my precious treasure and I will tear you limb from limb if you so much as scratch a scale on his body!" The new night fury shouted at everyone making Valka step back a few while Toothless was afraid to the bone, tilting his head he felt that he had to be afraid of this female as if it was an instinct within his head. "Easy Midnight, he was entranced by the dragon stone. I mean come on when a dragon sees a stone that was made not by their nest they become entranced by it until they either give it a scale or destroy it, so he pounced most likely aiming to destroy it or in this case try to destroy it." Ironclad stated as he put on a black tunic that still exposed the stone, he soon dawned his chest plate of which covered the stone. Calypso soon giggled at the sight yet she also took in all of Ironclads draconic parts, mentally she licked her lips knowing how much she loved to have that strong tail wrapped around her or have his wing wrapped around her like a blanket. Shaking her head she soon returned her attention to their guests, getting up she inspected Toothless to make sure he wasn't hurt before she went over to the other night fury.

"Easy there girl, this young male made no offense. He was just following his instincts, on top of that he couldn't last a minute against Ironclad." Calypso then went back to her seat where she pulled out her scythe and a wet stone to sharpen it, taking offense to her comment Toothless huffed before walking over to Hiccup who soon began to stroke his brother in scales with a grin on his face. "Oh come on bud you know she's just saying that, I'm sure you could easily take Ironclad down." Hiccup stated as he tried to cheer up his friend, unfortunately though Calypso heard him and stated that if Ironclad could tame four titan wing leviathan dragons than what chance does a young Night fury have against him. "Wait four leviathan class dragons, wait you said you were going to explain something to us. It had something to do with that Screaming Death and that Red Death that were in the arena." Astrid said looking at Calypso then to Ironclad as he put the rest of his armor on, with a sigh Calypso stabbed her scythe into the nearby support beam and faced everyone as well as Ironclad who joined her side.

"Okay to state with this island has four main guardians who help Ironclad move islands and expand this one, the story I told you earlier of which the survivors who hid in the egg chamber. Well three of those eggs were a Screaming Death, a Red Death and the third was a Bewilderbeast egg. Ironclad spent years with them and grew closure to them than many Vikings could, though the most shocking was that they each left the nest to start their own nests. Anyway to the point, Ironclad, Black-Ice, Siren and I all went to each of their nests where he fought all three alpha's and tamed them with nothing more than guys, determination and his intelligence. Upon taming them he merged the three nests together into one, he soon went on to learn what they each held to make them so strong and powerful. Not long from there did his sister die going after Drago Bludvist, he gathered the blood of all three alpha's on top of Black-Ice's blood, Siren's blood and even Midnights blood. Ironclad soon took his sisters knife and slashed it across his chest, he then took all the dragon blood he collected and poured it into his open wound. Black-Ice seeing what he was doing showed up and slammed the dragon stone into Ironclads chest sealing it shut, for several hours he screamed in complete agony as his body transformed. He screamed as some bones were being transformed, he screamed as new limbs began to grow and he screamed as everything changed of him. It broke my heart to hear him in such pain but in truth there was nothing I could do, but in the end he survived and became more than anyone could expect. With the new abilities he obtained he was able to begin his unification to the archipelago not through violence but through a peaceful term, more so we discovered that there is a way to undo the curse on our home. All we have to do is get the three sons' of dingus to repent for the sins of their father, going down the blood line we found that the chief of Ironclad's tribe was a descendent and he already repent for Dingus's sins. The second son of whom was the first to have and use a dragon stone was the ancestor of the healer of Calypso's tribe and again she repent for her ancestors sins, unfortunately though the final descendent was the chief of the blood rain tribe of which the current descendents were Glaiveen the slaughterer and her brother Ash the defiler. Neither of them wants to repent stating that Dingus had every right to challenge the gods above.

Though currently Ash is no longer able to repent so that leaves only his sister Glaiveen, worse for the matter she plans to continue where Dingus 's plan. In short the only way left to be free of this curse is to kill Glaiveen, sadly though we do not want to kill her but it will be out last resort in the end." Calypso explained to them while taking short breaks from her mug, Ironclad soon got up and began to stroke Black-ice in a calming motion similar to Hiccup when he had a lot on his mind. Feeling curious Astrid caught the part saying that "Ash is no longer able", looking harder at the so called chief and his fiancé. She tried to entice them to explain what exactly did they mean, seeing what exactly she was trying to do Calypso went on to whisper in Ironclad's ear. "I'm sorry Ms. Hofferson but that information is highly confidential, but what I can tell you is that Calypso is the one to hold the whole story behind it." Ironclad stated before he got up from his seat and took to the air, Valka again was intrigued by the sight of his wings. From that point Calypso went silent of which then lead to the rest heading back to where they were staying, Hiccup looked to Toothless trying to figure out what to do next. "You got any idea bud, I mean this place is interesting but we came here for a reason yet we keep getting side tracked by things." Hiccup said to Toothless who for some reason seemed to be contemplating things, he kept looking to the sky where he tried to see if there were any other Night Furies in the sky. "I'm sorry did you say something Hiccup, my mind is still hanging on the whole ordeal with that female Night Fury. I mean seriously that was my first time seeing a female, I felt like how you feel when you kiss Astrid though I don't know if I can honestly say if I love her." Toothless said while continued to look to the sky, sighing Hiccup moved on to trying to figure out who was supposed to teach him to master his dragon stone.

Returning to the sort of home stay they were all sharing, Hiccup continued to contemplate on everything he was told. Around the village he took in all the people who had dragon blood inside them, Hiccup was left to wonder if he should try the same thing at Berk but he always would run into the people who thought it would be a curse. "Hey Toothless out of curiosity what would have happened if I took in your blood bud, like would I get a tail or would I gain dragon claws or anything of the sort?" Hiccup asked his best friend but again Toothless wasn't listening, with a huff Hiccup entered the room to see Astrid helping Valka adjust her long braid. "Something funny is that I remember Calypso saying that if Ironclad could tame four titan wing leviathan dragons, and they only said how he tamed three of them so the fourth is still remaining a mystery." Astrid stated before turning around to allow Valka to help with her hair (Though she was only doing this to be nice to Valka), Valka agreed but her most concern was on how dragon's blood is being used. It wasn't long before everyone was sleeping curled up next to their dragon partners, several hours later Hiccup was again visited by the mysterious woman again. "Oh Hiccup, you are so close yet so far from finding your teacher." Hiccup looked at her with a face expressing a sort of confusion, he then told her everything that he heard from Ironclad and Calypso. The mysterious woman smirked at everything, she then went on to whisper something before she returned her attention to Hiccup. She then told him that he needs to start training soon otherwise things are going to get complicated, a darkness is on the rise and he needs to be prepared for when the day comes. Hiccup was soon shocked awake after the woman's warning, seeing that it was still dark outside he chose to go out for a walk.

Even though it was still dark, Hiccup could see that there were still villagers working. There were villagers working on boats, some getting fire wood and even others examining the new markings that bound the island together. "Okay, this is a little strange I mean seriously does this village even sleep?" Hiccup feeling that possibly Ironclad could be his teacher, heading to the house Hiccup reached the door when he heard a strange noise coming from the house. Going on the defense he grabbed Inferno and was about to burst in to try and help, just before he could ignite his sword or even touch the door knob he heard the sound of panting. Confusion striking him like a bludgeon to the head Hiccup slowly put Inferno back onto his belt, listening more closely he heard heavy panting, draconic roars and the sound of claws raking around hard wood. Taking in all the things he heard he formulated what the source could be, it wasn't until he heard Calypso yell "Oh, by Freya's fire you truly aren't human. Don't you dare stop otherwise I'll make you suffer, oh gods yes." Did Hiccup figure out what exactly was the source of the noise. Returning to the homestead he cuddled into Toothlesses curled form, he soon fell back asleep without any dreams to disturb him.

By mornings first light Hiccup was awoken by Astrid yelling to wake up or she'll drop her axe on his groin, shortly after waking up and heading towards the great hall like building the three were surprised to see a mysterious glowing dragon reminded them of a Frightmare yet it had only two legs, larger wings, a three part jaw and it had a golden glow that was nearly blinding. Running as fast as they could to speak with Ironclad and Calypso, they found their determination to learn what that new dragon truly overwhelming. Within the great hall they found the couple eating a roasted speed stinger leg and a set of yak ribs, Valka was the first to speak thus she asked what kind of dragon entered the great hall before she described it. "The dragon you are describing sounds an awful lot like the chrono-wing species, they're a rare dragon species who can travel the time stream and can only go back to at least a year once every decade. Meaning that every ten years, that species of dragon can go back in time to at least a year." Calypso said to the three, she soon went back to her speed stinger leg. With this new piece of information the Berk Vikings were at first surprised but the one who was most interested in the information was none other than Hiccup, with the information that there is a dragon that can travel backwards in time he was hit with the one chance he never thought he could have. Seeing the look in Hiccup's eyes Astrid approached him and grabbed Valka along with them, she soon dragged them outside and right back to where they were staying.

"Okay Hiccup I know that when you get that look you have a plan or you got something crazy going through your mind, so either spill it and see whether I hurt you or not OR you keep it to yourself and I later beat the living hell out of you for being irresponsible." Astrid said while she popped her knuckles and giving Hiccup her look that he feared, Valka at this time looked to her son trying to help in getting the information Astrid was trying to break lose. Hiccup being both afraid and trying to think went silent yet he also gapped a few times like a fish on dry land, eventually Astrid grew tired of waiting and soon just slapped him in the face. "Alright already sheesh, I was just thinking it through before I told you and the dragon. After hearing about that dragon species you know the Chrono-wing, I may have found the possible way to right a wrong." Hiccup said to them both, at first Astrid was confused but Valka was trying to think like her son to understand what he meant. Suddenly it hit them both at what Hiccup possibly meant, looking at him first Valka was the first to respond. "Hiccup you can't mean to go back in time to stop yourself from running into Drago Bludvist, if you do that then you could possibly prevent our reunion." Valka grabbed Hiccup around his arms trying to shake some sense into him, Astrid was the one to snap her out of it which surprised her since she thought that Astrid would support her on the matter. "Valka I think he means something else, I mean seriously Hiccup could mean that he plans to prevent himself from trying to reason with Drago or even possibly find a way to stop Drago from attacking Berk." Astrid said before she turned to Hiccup to see if she was correct in the matter, Hiccup soon shook his head in a negative fashion saying no. "What I mean was that I could go back in time and prevent my father's death, I mean to me it's worth a shot." Hiccup from there told awaited their reaction, both women were silent trying to contemplate what exactly he could do to prevent a blast from a Night Fury.

"Hiccup if you save your father then what would that lead to, I mean because of your father's death you stepped up and became chief. If you prevent his death then there is a possibility that you won't become chief and you could make things a lot worse." Astrid told him with a great deal of concern in her voice, unknown to all of them the same terrible terror was listening to them of which he soon left to go report to his alpha. Hearing this Black-Ice smacked Ironclad in the back of the head, unfortunately at the time both Calypso and he returned from their meal and he was trying to be tender with Calypso. The smack to the head soon interrupted Ironclad as he was gently kissing Calypso upon her neck. The force of the smack accidentally made him scratch the nape of her neck, he showed great concern before he turned to Black-Ice with a look of irritation. "Is there something you need to say to me my dear brother, please tell me that there is a reason you stopped me from being with the woman I deeply love." Ironclad said as he was donning his armor, he soon finished by putting on his facial mask. "I just wanted to warn you that the humans from Berk have taken a slight interest in our Chrono-Wings. I would be on guard with them since I still do not trust that Night Fury or his human, I mean seriously I doubt he can truly be like any of us." Black-Ice began to rant before Ironclad silenced him by jamming a fish in his mouth, he then told Black-Ice to go calm down and maybe even go try to catch a squid or something. Opening his wings he flew to the lair of the Chrono-Wings, as he entered he could hear as the many dragons began to speak.

"Right on time like we predicted, seriously we could set a sun dial to our predictions. Anyway we know why you have come great chief of Ayerf, and we already know what to do about the dilemma. All we ask is that you allow the three of them to come here, I know that fear for our safety but we are more than capable of defending ourselves." The lead Chrono-Wing said to Ironclad as he approached, once he stood right in front of the leader he brought out a bundle of dried dragon nip and passed it to the leader. "As much as I am tempted to allow that I can't because we both know it's complete garbage, you guys allow the disaster to happen but send one of your own back in time and just have another species of dragon to take out the threat before it reaches you in time." Ironclad then awaited the response from the lead dragon, eventually the lead dragon took the bundle and placed it within the small nest like area it sat in. Eventually the two came to a decent agreement of which he would lead the berk Vikings to the nest of the Chrono-wings but he would bring six Skrills to make sure they do not pose a threat to the nest area, using his dragon stone he summoned the six nearest Skrill and gave them the order to gather the Berk visitors without harming them.

Hiccup at the time was walking through the village with Toothless trying to find Ironclad or even Calypso to try and discuss a possible meeting with Chrono-Wings, to his luck neither of the two were found until suddenly he was lifted off the ground and being carried somewhere. "This seems all too familiar, I just hope that this doesn't lead to another meeting with a long lost relative or worse an even more psychotic madman." Said with a large amount of sarcasm, turning to the side he saw as Toothless was also being carried by what appeared to be a titan wing Skrill, soon a couple more Skrill were carrying Astrid and Valka while Stormfly and Cloud Jumper following the Skrills that were carrying their riders. Upon finishing the short flight they landed in a cavern like area that seemed extremely creepy, the six Skrill gestured for them all to enter but Hiccup seemed reluctant to do so. "Toothless if thing go bad I want to ask that you at the very least get my mother and Astrid out of here, you are the fastest among us so yeah." Hiccup whispered to Toothless who nodded at him, soon they all reached a large spacious area where Ironclad, Calypso, Black-Ice & even the female Night Fury known as Midnight stood. "Sorry about the somewhat surprise but I figured that it would be mildly entertaining, unfortunately I was proven wrong when my dear fiancée told me that it would more of a fright than a funny joke." Ironclad then walked up to Hiccup and looked him right in the eyes, Hiccups draconic eyes looked right into Ironclads Draconic eyes. "I was asked to bring you here because the terror I sent to keep an eye on you three told our alpha that you have an interest in our Chrono-Wing dragons, I want to confirm that you have no intention to use them for evil or abuse their power." Ironclad soon got right in Hiccups face awaiting his answer, Astrid feeling annoyed chose at that time to speak her mind.

"Are you freaking kidding me, you still have a dragon following us! I thought we cleared this up. We can be trusted with sensitive information, seriously we tried to help stop that one guy from attacking but still he overwhelmed us with his power." Astrid then crossed her arms awaiting Ironclads reaction, to her surprise it was Calypso who responded to her irritation. "Ms. Astrid not trying to stomp on your toes on this matter, but we have to be cautious here because unlike your home where you have a sort of semi-peace going on we have a very dangerous battle going on that is still going on. Sure things look peaceful but in truth things are much more concerning and dangerous elsewhere." Calypso said to her though she adjusted her weapons to comfort her a little, she then looked to Ironclad gesturing for him to continue. "Well then since we got that issue out to a point, the Chrono-wings will be testing you to see if you are worthy of receiving their help or even if you are even worth helping at all." From there Ironclad then got out of the way and gestured for them to approach the alpha Chrono-wing, Hiccup bowed to the large dragon along with Astrid, Valka, Toothless, Stormfly & Cloudjumper. "Greetings Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III , we were awaiting your arrival to our home. Please step forward and we shall see whether or not you truly are worthy of our talents, though be warned all of you shall be tested because if you cannot work as one then how can you work with us." Said the alpha Chrono-wing, while this was going on Ironclad along with Calypso, Black-Ice & Midnight left to return to the village but he did order all the Skrill's who brought them to stand guard in case of anything happened.

[On a ship across the dark Archipelago, on a boat heavily armed for war]

Drago Bludvist stood on deck looking over his newly regenerated arm, though it was covered in partially developed scales and it had draconic claws it was a great change to the madman. He did however find the side effect from the dragon blood to be disturbing but in the end he found that it was worth it if it meant e would have a new arm. Using his lengthened tongue he licked his lips in thought of all that he could accomplish with having two arms again. Walking down the deck he saw in front of him stood the one woman who truly did intrigue him, her name was Glaiveen and she was the chieftess of the Blood-rain tribe. Her soldiers soon told him that throughout the Dark Archipelago she was known as "Glaiveen the slaughterer" because when it came to the battlefield she would leave nothing but an enormous pile of corpses that were mutilated beyond recognition. Walking up to her he was going to ask what the plan was and who the target was, she seemed like she was ignoring him but in truth her mind was on what led up to everything. "The plan is that my army will annihilate the only force that still dares to challenge us, and I will personally slaughter the one who took the life of the person I cared for most in my existence." She then stabbed her Glaive into the boat to emphasis her point, she then looked into the sea as if she was sort of mesmerized. Seeing this he was going to ask for further information but was stopped when he heard the sound of his dragon slave gurgling, turning his attention from the woman at the bow to the side of the ship where he saw several ships with several dragons on board.

Soon he saw as a random soldier came running up to Glaiveen to give a report, he couldn't hear what exactly he was saying but he could tell that she did not like it. In a swift move she ripped her Glaive from the boat and soon slashed the soldier multiple times until where the soldier once stood was a bloody mess, walking over to the side of her ship she whistled with her fingers of which one of the ships with dragons on board threw over a rope that was attached to part of the central mast. Swinging over to the next ship Drago was impressed with her skill, yet he soon watched as she went to each dragon and single handedly pinned down part of them. Pulling out her dagger she stabbed into the dragon while another soldier held a sort of bucket or jar, collecting the blood from each dragon until the containers were filled. Getting a good look Drago could see that the dragons on the other boats were a Scaldren, Skrill, Razorwhip, Night fury & even singe tail. Drago then witnessed as she then brought forth several soldiers of whom she tore open their tunics and soon forced the blood of the Scaldren and Night Fury into most of the soldiers making them transform, but the last soldier was forced to take in all five dragons' blood into him. The soldier soon roared out in agony as he was transforming and having his soul burn. When it was all over Drago could see a smirk on Glaiveen's face, seeing the results he began to understand her plan.

[Back on Ayerf, with Ironclad and Calypso]

Ironclad was soon standing in a remote area where it could be seen that he was in front of the three Leviathan class dragons, at his side were midnight and Black Ice of whom seemed concerned over the matter at hand. Calypso could be seen with Siren behind her with the same concerned look on her face, as she approached Ironclad she soon placed a hand on his shoulder. "You know that we are taking a massive risk here, by showing these outsiders the Chrono-wing dragons we risk our very lives. The gods above seemed really testy when they were nearly slaughtered to extinction by the Blood rain tribe, if it wasn't for our old tribes working together to save the last four of the species then who knows what the gods would do to punish us." Calypso said to the man she loved, Ironclad sighed at her words knowing it was true yet his dragon stone told him that it was the right decision. Looking to the spot under his armor where his stone was located, he knew that the stone was rarely wrong and that it was his sort of contract with all the dragons in the dark archipelago. Looking to his best friend and dragon he wanted to know his say in the matter, Black Ice like Calypso showed that they were both concerned about revealing such a special species of dragon to outsiders. "I have to say brother, I fear that they may try to use the Chrono-wing's ability to change something vital that happened within one year." Black Ice told Ironclad of whom seemed to be deep in thought, eventually he looked to the sky and soon opened his wings. Upon taking flight his head began to clear up but the doubts still remained, not long after that he landed back to his dragon who seemed to be having a conversation with the three leviathan dragons.

As soon as he landed, all the dragons stopped communication. They all looked to Ironclad with a feeling of need, shaking his head he looked to the small gathering and soon stated that if push comes to shove then he will personally destroy them. Ironclad then told Calypso that he was going to head to their home to take a nap, the whole ordeal has left him somewhat tired. Calypso sighed as she felt that her love was being too easy on the guests for an unknown reason, she then thanked all of their dragons before asking Siren to take her to the village where she would help keep it in order. Black Ice taking the hint went on to go help the dragon fully fuse the new addition to their island, to be absolutely sure he knew he would have to have a long discussion with the boulder class dragon on their underground fusing of the terra firma. "I can only hope that Ironclad's decision won't cause more issues, he may be the chief of the people of Ayerf but as the prime alpha of the dark archipelago….I will protect my followers, even if I have to go to war with an island outside the dark archipelago." Black Ice son entered the tunnel system where the boulder class dragons were busy at work fusing the island fragment to Ayerf, several times he had to use his tail to smack a Hotburple who was trying to sleep through the work.

[Several hours later (like six hours)]

All seemed peaceful with Ayerf, the fishermen and their partners who had Scaldren blood inside them were all coming in for the evening. The farmers were all beginning to put their animals inside the barn, while making sure all their hard work today was finished for the day. Soon the villages was almost all in the great hall when suddenly a large flaming boulder came crashing into the village, looking to the direction it came from the village saw three ships from the blood rain tribe arming their catapults and with them were several dragon blood soldiers in the air while some more were coming from the water. Calypso getting a good look at the soldiers found that they had both Scaldren blood and Night Fury blood inside them, looking to her people she yelled to have all none warriors get into the safety bunkers while all the capable warriors prepare for battle. Running to her home she donned her armor and grabbed her scythe with several other weapon she knew she would most likely need, she looked to find Ironclad wasn't in his bed. In a small panic she tried to find him but the sound of more boulders hitting her village drew her attention. Running to the village she saw that the dragon blood troops had already reached the ground and thus were in midst of combat.

With the sound of air coming closer to her she moved out of the way of an incoming soldier trying to use the sky to his advantage, unfortunately as she turned she used her scythe and threw it towards her attacker of which embedded itself in his shoulder. Grabbing the chain she yanked it hard making her scythe tear down the soldiers body as he flew, eventually she used the momentum to crash her foe into another thus making them fall to the ground killing them on impact. From there it was nothing but a true battle, her people fought with everything they had taking some losses while their foe seemed to ruthlessly attack them. Calypso at the time had just decapitated another amphibious soldier with her short sword while her scythe severed the wings from another flying soldier, she couldn't help but wonder where her beloved had gone. Suddenly a dagger soon embedded itself into her shoulder making her grunt in pain, quickly turning she used the chain of her Scythe to wrap around her foes arm where she then dislocated it before she snapped his neck with her foot stomping on his throat.

When the invading forces seemed to lessen down making the village think that they had won, from the sea came a horrendous monster of a soldier. He stood good seven feet tall with dragon parts all over his body, seeing this Calypso counted a grand total of five dragons inside this creature. "How in Loki's outhouse can a normal warrior take in five different dragons!? He should have died after the third or fourth, but here he stands." She could tell this creature had the blood of a Scaldren and a Night Fury but along with that she could tell that this person had the blood of a Razor Whip, Skrill & even Singe Tail. "Lord Glaiveen found that buy sacrificing everything that isn't instinct she could get a war beast, and this is proof of her work." A soldier managed to say before an axe cleaved the soldiers head in half, with a sigh Calypso ordered her people to regroup before this war beast could begin its attack. Charging forward her people and her began to try and slay this monster before everything could get worse. Sadly the war beast showed that it was a force to be reckoned with as he sprayed fire from the many parts of his skin, firing several wind blasts & his bladed limbs.

Looking to her weapon she saw that her short sword was reaching its limits alongside her scythe and the chain, she was soon brought back to reality as the war beast brought down a bladed arm. She deflected the attack her short sword shattering it, she was about to retaliate when he soon made a stream of fire from his exposed bicep flesh. Looking around to her people she saw that they too were reaching their limits, if they didn't end it soon then there was a massive amount of death coming. Suddenly she took a punch to the face making her remember that the war beast was after her life, spitting out blood she continued to try and battle this monster. "What the hell does it take to kill this freaking beast, it's almost as if this thing has an unlimited amount of stamina." Calypso said before she took another blow to the face giving her a black eye, her scythe and chain now broken she barely stood up wielding a dented mace and a half burnt shield. With determination she charged forth once more to battle the war beast, in mere minutes he managed to completely destroy her remaining weapons and tear her armor.

She lay upon the ground exhausted and badly hurt looking to the sky with her one none-swollen eye, she heard the heavy footsteps of the war beast as he approached her preparing to end her life. Not able to move her limbs she found that she was truly helpless at this time, closing her eye she tried with all she could to somehow move to at least go down fighting if this truly was the way the gods wanted to end her life. Before the war beast could take a single step forward he was blasted with a stream of fire from one of the local Typhoomerangs, turning to the attack the war beast began to charge toward the massive dragon until he was rammed into the side by a Rumble horn and was soon pummeled by a few Catastrophic Quaken's. This all seemed to work but it was soon proven to be futile as the war beast only grew angrier while his weaponry was destroyed and his armor destroyed, he was now reduced to practically a loincloth to fight in. The war beast soon pounded his chest in rage and soon tackled Snaffle Fang and was about to start pounding it into the ground, until he was smacked away by a Triple Stryke's three intertwined tails. As he got up he was sprayed with Changewing Acid, it burned his flesh but alas he was again enraged attacking everyone and everything that stood in his way.

From afar it could be seen that there was a conflict on the lead ship of the Blood rains attacking ship, screams of battle could be heard from land. Suddenly from below deck burst forth Ironclad with broken chains on parts of his body, several soldiers tried to contain him once more only to soon thrown through the deck. In a final moment Ironclad used his momentum from flying high to break the deck and soon lit their supply of dragon gel. It wasn't long before the ship was set ablaze and soon sinking into the ocean depths, looking to see his surroundings he found that he was off the coast of Ayerf and worse the main source for the conflict was in the village itself. Ironclad soon used every ounce of wing power to fly to the battle, at several points the remains ships tried to catch him using their spear catapults but in his rage he would catch them in mid-air then pull the ships in close before making them stranded in the reef. Reaching his home he ripped the remaining chains from his body and tore his tunic which was destroyed when freeing himself, he soon donned his armor and his weapon before running outside to join in the battling to save his home.

Upon arriving at the location he found the remain of both his people and the blood rain tribes dragon blood users, the sight sickened him but his thoughts were soon broken when in the air he caught the scent of his beloved Calypso. Following the scent he found large droplets of her blood on the ground which soon lead to her badly injured form leaning on a small barrel panting heavily, rushing to her side he looked her overseeing the extent of her injuries. "What happened Calypso, who dared to do this to you…..I'll gut them with my bare hands, I'll tear out their throat and watch them drown in their own blood!" Ironclad said to the one woman he loved, she merely smirked at him with pain evident on her face. Calypso soon went on to explain what happened and how this battle even started, suddenly from behind him came the crashing of an eruptadon who tried to battle the war beast. Looking to the defeated creature Ironclad was heartbroken to see the extent of its wounds, approaching the dragon Ironclad tried to sooth its pain. Within moments the poor dragon passed away from the wounds, turning to where the dragon came from came the war beast that caused so much pain.

In a fit of rage Ironclad collided with the dangerous beast, as the two titans collided with one another they made a large shock wave that shook the very village itself. To everyone in the villages surprise their chief was battling with all he had and even showing signs of wounding the war beast, but soon that began to change when the war beast swiped at Ironclad and left a slash on Ironclad's chest. A small amount of blood dripped from his wound but alas he did not care, drawing his sword he flew towards the war beast colliding his black sword with both the war beasts' bladed arms. Sparks could be seen from Ironclads sword and the war beasts' arms, taking one hand from his sword Ironclad used his free hand to punch the beast before him right in the face. To his shock the beasts' eyes swiveled like a chameleons, forcing fire from its pores in hopes of dropping the amount of strength of Ironclads punch. With a cheer the village witnessed as their leaders punch not only connected but broke a tooth from the beasts' mouth, Ironclad then began to use the blood of the dragons with his body to combat the war beasts' abilities. With the blood of a Soul weeper dragon he used his enhanced speed to land punch after punch into the monster before his, with the blood of his Red Death he made each punch feel like a blow from three Rumble Horn dragons.

Opening up the front of his mask Ironclad soon sunk his dragon teeth into the shoulder of the beast and soon tore a large chunk of flesh from it, the war beast roared in agony as Ironclad did this making the villagers who survived the attack to look at their chief with hope. Spitting out the disgusting meat trapped in his maw Ironclad was about to slash at the beast before him when suddenly the war beast came from behind him and ascended into the heavens, Ironclad struggled to get free with little effects until Ironclad used his tail to stab into war beast making it let go. Flaring his wings he managed to get an updraft taking him higher into the sky, closing his wings he prepared to sky bomb the war beast but hearing the growling he looked behind him only to see the war beast growling in rage trying to get at him. "OH SO YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME ON THE WAY DOWN NOW DO YA, WELL BRING IT ON SPAWN OF GRENDAL!" Ironclad yelled pounding a fist into his palm, the two were mere feet from crashing into the ground when Ironclad used his tail to grab the war beast by the neck and slam him into the ground fusing the momentum of the fall with his strength. The impact made the war beast cough up blood and bringing a sickening crunch, as the war beast rose from the crater it made everyone around could see that one of its wings was broken horribly. Once the War beast looked to its wounds it let out a roar of rage and charged at Ironclad with more malice emanating from it, again the two titans collided with one another making a shockwave.

"YOU STUPID, WORTHLESS EXCUSE OF FLESH!" Ironclad yelled as he traded blows with the war beast, his sword continuing to make sparks with the beasts' limbs while one hand would punch the beast anywhere he could. With great luck Ironclad managed to slice open the beasts' right arm making it useless to use in a fight anymore, in a twist of movement he then left a large gash in the war beasts' left leg. Unfortunately as Ironclad was about to strike again the war beast used its claws to wrench Ironclad sword from his grip, the blade went sailing before embedding itself in the ground behind Ironclad. Continuing with its attack the war beast slashed at Ironclad ripping his chest armor off and leaving some deep claw marks on his back, Ironclad screamed at the pain but was soon hit with a blast of fire from the war beasts' pores and finally he was struck with a powerful wind blast sending him into one of the homes of his villagers. Getting up Ironclad tears the remaining clothes he wore on his torso, his dragon stone shone brightly while his dragon markings glimmered beautifully. "I think it's time I stop fighting like a man, and start fighting like a true beast!" Ironclad then made his eyes become slits before he charged head on with the war beast, it was soon a battle of the beast with neither side giving until Ironclad took a blow to gut followed up by a kick to the head slightly tearing his mask sending him into one of the barns.

Struggling to get up he opened his mask enough to spat out a mouthful of blood, before he could charge at the war beast once more his sword was soon stabbed into the ground before him. Looking up at who would do such a thing he saw Calypso gripping her side, she soon approached him and placed a hand on the side of his face. "You can't keep fighting like this, it's not your style and once more you're hurting yourself more than the beast. You are not a beast like that thing, you are a strong honorable man. Just please stop hurting yourself, if you keep this up then both of you will die…..my heart couldn't bear the thought of losing you." As Calypso said this her eyes soon made a stream of tears showing her concern, she soon pulled the rest of his mask off and kissed him lovely upon the lips. Taking her words to heart Ironclad got up from the ground Ironclad put his mask back on and soon grabbed his sword from the ground, he then took to the air and collided with the war beast once more. Once again he was trading blows with the war beast but back to fighting like a man again, it was then that ironclad found a way to turn the tables. Stabbing his sword through the war beasts right arm he was about to finish him off with punch through the heart when before he could the war beast used its other wing to smack him away, Ironclad was about to retaliate but he was soon punched again. The war beast then ripped out Ironclads sword and was about to use it on him when suddenly a spear struck it in the head, it hadn't punctured the skin deep but it left a scratch that slowly bled. Turning around to see who would throw something at him, the war beast saw Calypso panting hard from throwing that spear with all her might.

The Beast seeing how wounded she was he slowly advanced on her preparing to end her life, Calypso tried to back away but found that she was soon cornered. The war beast soon raised Ironclads sword above his head ready to bring it down on her, suddenly Ironclads hand grabbed the arm holding his sword and twisted it thus breaking it. Once the war beast dropped his sword he turned it around to face him while his other hand tore off his mask, grabbing it by the face he forced open it its mouth. With the war beasts' broken arm and badly slashed arm he tried to fight off Ironclad as he soon took in a deep breath, before everyone in the village with the beast mouth wide open he let loose a torrent of fire down the war beast throat. As the fire traveled down his throat, it was burning it away until eventually the war beasts head severed from his body from the raw flames. The war beast body soon fell to the ground lifeless and headless, tossing the head away he walked over to Calypso where he picked her bridal style and soon carried her to the healers hut. When he was walking by he used his tail to grab his mask, it took so little time to reach the healers hut. Black ice who soon came flying down from the sky looks at the damage, he looked to the war beasts' remains sniffing them. He snorted in disgust as the creature reeked of Glaiveen's stench, he soon ran up to Siren who was getting help moving from a Triple Stryke. "Where the hell were you, you couldn't come and help us deal with this attack? For all you know we could have all been wiped out, what could you possibly have been doing all this time!?" Siren yelled at Black Ice, he bowed in apology to her which she rolled her eyes at. "I apologize for my lateness to the battle but I was busy freeing Ironclad from a small group of Blood Rain warriors who used dragon nip to knock him unconscious and take him to their ship, from there me and a group of dragons were busy attacking the remaining ships. It wasn't long after Ironclad forced the ships into the reef that we went to finish them all off, we are just now finishing them off. It weighs heavily on my heart that we lost some of our humans and even our dragon brethren, I can only say this fuels my hatred towards the blood rain tribe." Black Ice then walked over to the healers hutwhere he began to talk with Ironclad on what they should do, "We'll do what we usually do my brother, we'll rebuild, we'll mourn our dead and we will carry this hatred on towards Glaiveen and her people." Ironclad said just as the healer was finished applying medicine to his scratches.

"This time why don't you not stop with what you did to her brother Ash the Defiler, this time make sure to end her life like the monster she is." Black Ice said with anger in his eyes, Ironclad looked to him and agreed on that matter, 'remember dear brother, it takes a man to kill a monster. You are by no means a monster, so be the man to slay the monster that is Glaiveen.' Black Ice thought as he subconsciously wrapped Ironclad in his wing.

To be continued when I feel like it and when I have the time, seriously I apologize for the lateness but moving is a very handful ordeal. If you do not like what you read then you can just bite me and KMA, I didn't force you to read this.

Feel free to ask questions and such, I may answer them if I want.

If anyone can guess the few references I used for this then good for you, it can be tricky.