End Up Here (Open)

[Summer & Swiftscales]

Time and Date:: November 14th (why not), early morning
Weather:: Cold, breezy, starting to snow, light film of snow on the ground
Previous Threads?:: None

As the light glow of the sun started to appear of the waters edge, a lone shape could be seen in the air. As minutes passed the shape became more clear. For those who were looking, a dragon and what looked to be a human riding it, took up the shape. More minutes passed as finally the color and size of the dragon could be guessed. Green scales, what looked to be a big body, with long wings. A Green Longwing flying back towards Berk could only mean one thing, Summer had returned.

A smile broke out of the girls face as she saw what had been her home for her whole life. Weeks had passed since she last saw the island of Berk. This was no thanks to Swiftscales. The dragon had started to feel slightly homesick, so the pair had decided to take a trip up to the mountaintops to Swiftscales first home. "We're almost there girl." The dragon only let out a hum for a response. Even she felt a certain excitement over being back to this place that she had grown to love. It meant that Summer didn't worry about her brother and his shenanigans, or about her family and them missing her.

Plus, it meant fish. Sure, she was spoiled a little bit on the stuff. But when having tough wild animals that resided at the mountain tops being her main food, and then going to the soft fish, who wouldn't appreciate something new and different? The couple weeks away from Berk had been great. Swiftscales was glad to see her old family and tell them of everything they've learned. Summer was glad to get away and not have to worry about covering her brothers tracks, even though she did still worry. The only reason they came back earlier than they had originally planned was because the temperature at the mountains had dropped rustically and the snow had came in heavier.

Summer couldn't stand snow already and that much was making the girl hectic with fear of getting hypothermia. As they finally landed on one of the sandy shores of Berk, it was easy to see that the snow had started down here as well. A thin layer layered the ground and even more was starting to fall. A small sigh left her lips, but her smile didn't fade. It couldn't. She was too happy to be back here. She slid of Swiftscales who automatically took too the water. Summer stood back and tilted her head as the dragon dove under the water once before coming back out and flicking her wings to get the water off. "Don't look at me like that Summer. The dew from flying above the clouds was getting sticky and annoying." Summer gapped and blinked at her dragon. "And getting wet from the salt water and then getting cold from the fresh snow falling is better than that?!"

But the dragon only huffed. "I don't get cold. And don't question me." Summer shook her head as a small smile took over. Whatever, if her dragon thought that was best for her, let her be. She was supposed to be smarter, at least that was what Swiftscales had said a couple hundred times. She shook her head and looked up to Berk. It was too early in the morning for her parents and brother to be up. As much as she missed them and knew that they wouldn't mind being woken up for her arrival, she wanted to wait until they woke up on their own. She looked back to her dragon as the Longwing had taken to tucking its wings to its side and laying down on the snow. Summer took the few shorts steps over to her dragon and hopped up again, laying across her dragons back as they waited for the sun to rise further (even though you couldn't really see it) and the village to wake up.

Tagged: Open
Words: 660
Notes: Anyone feel like happening on the pair and granting them a welcome back or something? Haha

[Horik Stormpike & Argent]

Horik watched as the snow fell to the ground in front of him as he walked along a non existent path along the edge of the forest and the beach. Being cooped up in his house and workplace for too long made him feel forced to go out and stretch his legs, get some air and take his mind off work for a little bit a the least. He had left Argent at home this time granted it was earlier in the morning and the dragon was fast asleep and Horik figured he'd just leave him be instead of forcing him to follow suit with Horik.


The cold air swept by and it made Horik thankful he didn't skimp out on any warm clothing before heading out the door. Head to toe was just fur covered clothing, big fur boots, fur lined gloves, fur capeish thing, fur hood it was all just nice and warm with it, granted Horik liked the cold he didn't feel like loosing a finger or toe today. He kept on walking the border between sand and grass as he minded his own business, not seeing too many creatures out and about aside from the random dragon flying by really. He looked up from the ground and noticed a dragon he hadn't seen for a while, but he was familiar with. He smirked as he started his way towards the dragon, and only when he got closer did he notice the human that accompanied the dragon.


"Finally decided to come on home I see." Horik commented as he walked over toward the pair that stood ahead of him, he stopped and raised his eyebrow as he looked back out to the sea, "Regardless, seems like an odd time to arrive back on the island. Couldn't have waited at least another couple hours before you got back? He smirked again obviously messing around with Summer as he brought his attention back to her and Swiftscales. He gave a pat on the nose to the dragon, "So how have you two been on your little travels?"

[Summer & Swiftscales]

Bundled in her warmer clothing, and laying on top of her dragon, Summer wasn't scared of the cold as much. Swiftscales seemed to radiate heat, and it helped warm the chilly air around Summer. But as she heard the soft crunch of walking on snow, her hand slowly moved to the bow that was strapped to her dragons saddle. Swiftscales hadn't made any aggressive movement yet, but Summer was a bit on guard thanks to living basically out in the open for the past few days. But a voice spoke out against the silence and Summer dropped her guard as a small smile came upon her face.

She rolled her eyes and shook her head as she sat up on her dragon to look at Horik. "Yeah. It was about time I finally came back home. But, it's not my fault this girl decided to fly a bit faster to get here as well." She gave a soft pat to Swiftscales shoulder before sliding off the dragon and walking a bit closer. As Horik patted Swiftscales on the nose her dragon gave a little huff and narrowed her eyes until Summer raised an eyebrow at her. The dragon instead decided to put her head down on the ground as she watched the pair of humans silently.

"It went quite well actually. We didn't really run into many problems, apart from a couple wild dragons that we accidentally got too close to. But we were quick to get away instead of try and fight them. We didn't war to have to return home to early because one of us got injured to a point of me not being able to use basic knowledge of cleaning it up." If the cuts that either of them had received from a fight were too deep, then Summer wouldn't of been able to do anything about it and their trip would be cut shorter. It wasn't her fault per say. She had just never learned any healing things, apart from cleaning the wound and covering it.

She gave a little shiver as she looked up and saw the snow falling a bit harder, no doubt winter was fast approaching this year and snow would be completely covering the island. Just what she wanted. Not. "What about you? What are you doing up so early? How things been here?" She hoped that whilst she was gone, nothing too terrible had happened.

Tagged: Horik
Words: 405
Notes: Yay!

[Horik Stormpike & Argent]

Horik listened but didn't really bother picking out small details in what Summer spoke of. When he was asked about what he was doing up so early and how things had been on Berk in the last little while, he gave a shrug of the shoulders as he glanced back in the direction from which he came. "Well, nothing important has really happened since you left so be happy about that." He started off before looking back to Summer.

"So one question down, next one. I'm out here because I needed to get out and about to stretch and just move, being in my room and workshop all day for days on end tends to get annoying sometimes, especially when I'm having a block of some kind." He smirked as he looked down to the ground at his feet, the snow was slowly starting to accumulate on the ground around them. Oh how Horik loved the snow, chances of him being outside during the day if it was snowing was fairly high. That would help to explain why he'd be out now, instead of later, but even later seemed like it would snow even more so with the growing darker clouds in the distance. "Anyways, with myself I mean not a whole lot has really been taking up my time. Inventing this, drawing that, saving that Viking in trainings life." He gave a small wave of the hand.

"So, now that you're back on Berk, what do you plan to be getting done? I'm sure you have a lot that you want to get to now that you're home"

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Having heard the huge dragon land, Ullr slipped to the beach from where he had been hunting for good arrow wood. He emerged onto the beach and stared up at the longwing in awe. Over his shoulder Hamingja did the same.

"Wow, You're really big!" Hamingja commented. "How old are you?"

Ullr noticed the inventor talking to the big dragon's rider and approached. As he got close he clicked his tongue.

"Hrk Ye?" Hamingja chirped.

Both males cocked their heads questioningly. While they awaited the rider's response, if she even understood the question, they gazed at the longwing, massive and sleek. It smelled like the ocean and was still dripping water.

'Is that the sort of thing Hamingja will grow into? Or is it a different sort of dragon.' Ullr thought amazed 'I guess if he got that big he'd have to carry me then. That would be odd.'

Hamingja wrapped his wings tighter around his human 'She could eat us both in one bite if she wanted to. I wonder if she would want to be friends?' He turned up towards her ear "Hey can I be your friend? I've always wanted a big dragon to be my friend." he eagerly stretched his neck up to hear what she said.

OOC: Question, are longwings quadrupeds or bipeds (like European style or wyvern style)

[Summer & Swiftscales]

As Horik started talking about how nothing had really happened, Summer gave an inside sigh. Good. That meant her brother had either been able to lay off his tricks for now, or he just became much more sneaky and they weren't as big as when she was here and able to hide them or stop them before they happened. Sometimes having a twin brother could be dry tiring. She stayed silent as he continued to speaking, not wanting to interrupt someone when she had asked more than one question. Her face broke out into a grin as he spoke of his work. You could tell how much the young inventor loved his job by the fondness in his voice. It was almost the same as Summer talking about flying or doing things she enjoyed.

She blinked a couple times as he waved his hand. Was he acting like saving someone wasn't a big deal, or? "Wait. You saved some kids life? What exactly happened? You can't just say that and think I'm not going to question it." She grinned at him, hoping he'd spill. She knew a couple people who would make you guess and frankly, knowing Horik, she had no idea what he could've been doing in order for him to be around a ViT that he saved. Of course he decided to question her on what she would be doing now that she was back and she shrugged her shoulders as she thought of her answer.

"I can't think of anything super important that I'd have to get to now that I'm back. I mean, of course there's the catching up with the family and talking to a couple friends. I mean maybe after a bit of rest I'd like to fly around the island to some of my favorite spots before this snow makes it impossible to distinguish the beauty." As she finished up what felt like a speech, she noticed Swiftscales shift in her spot as the dragons head picked up and stared in the direction of a young boy with a dragon hanging on his back, that from Summer's angle looked to be a Shrieking Glider. As the young dragon spoke, his young age was apparent to Swiftscales and she gave a short chortled laugh, but she couldn't help noticing the green on the young Glider. It was the only color she could see and for this reason, she decided to humor him. Summer just looked at her dragon wondering if she would talk to the young boy and dragon or ignore them.

The Longwing lifted her head a bit more almost seeming to have a certain grace as she spoke. "Well young one, all dragons of my breed are quite big. My age though, shouldn't you not ask someone that?" Summer could hear the pride in her dragons voice and she couldn't help but roll her eyes. It had taken Summer quite awhile to learn Swiftscales age, the dragon had been hesitant to tell her. "Sorry about her attitude, she does that sometimes. She's only 25 years old. But they stop growing at 16." Swiftscales looked at her rider and snorted, slightly insulted that she let a stranger know her age. Summer just looked at her raising an eyebrow daring the dragon to say something, but they stopped from what could happen as the young dragon said something that sounded like a question. Summer looked to him, blinking quickly, trying to figure out what he said before speaking.

"Ummm...What?" Summer looked to Horik, maybe wondering if he understood what had been said. If he did, she hoped he could clear it up. She felt bad, but it wasn't really her fault that she couldn't understand, was it? The young dragon spoke again, but Summer was still trying to figure out what had been said, so she did't pay no mind to what her dragon would answer. "You don't even know me? How can you tell that I'd be a good friend?" She was generally curious on why the glider would automatically want to be friends with someone it just met, no matter her size.

Tagged: Horik, Ullr, Open
Words: 688
Notes: So that happened. And more people! Longwings are quadrupeds. They are inspired by the dragons from Eragon ^.^

[Horik Stormpike & Argent]

Horik smirked when he heard Summer make comment about how she would question the fact that he saved someone's life and he figured that she would of course, anyone would. He glanced over to the newcomer who made their way over to us, the dragon seeming to be asking questions from what Horik was able to pick up but that was all he was able to make out from it. He smiled to himself seeing them as no real issue to bother with and brought his attention back to Summer.


"Well, long story short. I was going to a cave to look for ores and one of the Vikings in training, Gritspit, came along as he had to check the cave out so we both went in. Turns out after he decided to go further into the cave via a small tunnel, which collapsed on him on his way out, I figured out that the cave was full of acidic pools and the air was basically going to kill us if we stayed any longer. But anyways, I got him out of his little cave in before any more damage could be done and got out. So technically saved a life for nothing. " He finished off as he put his hands out in front of him and closed his index and thumbs together and pulled his hands apart as he smirked.


He rolled his eyes when Summer made comment about how the snow would cover up the beauty of the island, he was aware enough about her dislike for the snow and you didn't need to be a genius to figure that out, "If anything the snow adds to the beauty of the island thank you very much. Nothing like six feet of snow to add depth to the island." Horik was the complete opposite on the topic as he loved the snow, no reason he just liked a change in environment and the snow brought that change every year.


Finally he brought his attention the the new comers and raised his eyebrow when Summer looked over to him seeming to see if he knew what was said, he gave a shake of the head to her and looked back Ullr and the dragon and awaited for a response from them.

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Hamingja looked up at Swiftscales again "Big dragons protect little dragons, like the humans do, right?" He curled his tail, "Sorry if the age thing was wrong... I don't know a lot of dragon customs."

Ullr glanced back and forth between the two humans 'Oh, I hope I didn't interrupt a private conversation' He took a nervous step back and clicked his tongue.

"Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt a private conversation. We can leave if you want..." Hamingja chirped, glad that the human female understood Draconic.

Both human and dragon glanced back at the other human, a male "Does he speak dragon too?"

Ullr extended a hand to Horik in greeting. He smiled harmlessly, Hamingja imitating the smile, but with more teeth.

'I didn't even know there were humans who speak draconic. I wonder if she could teach me?'

Ullr clicked his tongue and Hamingja clicked back a slightly different pattern. Anybody who listened to them long enough would be able to identify an almost language.

"Can you teach Ullr to understand draconic miss human?" he looked at the female, "I can't get the human words well enough to teach it myself."

Ullr raised a questioning eyebrow at his dragon, who promptly clicked back. His smiled and nodded, almost pleading with his eyes.

[Summer & Swiftscales]

Summer couldn’t help but widen her eyes in surprise as Horik described how he saved the ViT. So he actually had. That’s pretty cool. ”Wow. That’s still good! You saved a young kid and didn’t get hurt in the process. At least, it doesn’t look like it. Did you get hurt at all?” Her eyebrows furrowed a moment as she looked at him. He still had all his limbs, so if he did get hurt at least it wasn’t too serious. She couldn’t help but roll her eyes. ”Sure. It’s great. For tall giant people. But for us shorties it proves a bit of a problem. I mean, I don’t have the stride to easily walk through it.” That was where Swiftscales came in though. She could easily sit on her dragon if they had to walk through the snow since her dragon was so large.

As the young dragon spoke, Swiftscales nodded. Yeah. They did. Or at least some did. ”Some do. Some could care less. But I guess your right. Before we can become ‘friends’ though, don’t you think we should know each others names?” The tone of her voice was soft and held a bit of a chuckle. ”I am Swiftscales. My rider’s name is Summer. What are your names?” Swiftscales didn’t introduce Horik. If he wanted the new people to know his name he would say it. Or perhaps they already knew each other?

As the dragon spoke up once again, Summer gave a soft smile. ”You are fine. This is the open coast after all.” They should’ve been fine. It wasn’t like Summer and Horik were having a private conversation, right? ”Aren’t they Horik?” She asked Horik, just to make sure. Maybe he had a different idea? As the dragon questioned again, Summer looked to Horik with a smile. She knew he did, but he had been oddly silent as soon as the two had walked up.

For a moment the two started clicking back and forth and Summer rose a slight eyebrow. What the? But as the young dragon spoke up again Summer realized they had been communicating back and forth. Did the young boy not speak? But, she figured it would be rude to ask so she stayed silent at the end. At the dragons question and , Ullr was it, pleading face, Summer would have a heard time saying no. She nodded. ”I can. I taught my brother didn’t I?” She transitioned between human and dragonese without really realizing it as she spoke again. ”I mean, I can sure try. Don’t know how easy it’ll be though.” Especially if Ullr didn’t speak, but she didn’t say that.

Tagged: Horik/Ullr
Words: 445
Notes:

[Horik Stormpike & Argent]

Horik stood back for a moment, listening to the newcomers speak to Swiftscales and Summer and he didnt bother to butt in at all, he wasn't exactly too interested in the conversation as it was. The thing that caught his attention again was when Summer asked if he had been hurt during his little rescue, he gave a shrug of the shoulders and thought about it briefly.

"Well. Aside from the fact that I had somewhat of a breathing problem for the first couple days afterwards, due to the fact I had been inhaling acidic gases, There wasn't any permanent damage of course. I'm breathing just fine now that things have had time to fix themselves." He explained, giving a comforting smile at the end, basically showing that he wasn't too bothered by the whole experience overall. Nothing permanent at least. He smirked at Summer comment about walking around in the snow.

He gave yet another shrug of the shoulders, this time giving a grin along with it to show his amusement at the remarks, "Well you have a dragon, if it really bothers you that much then maybe you should just get on her back and make her walk through the snow for you." Crossing his arms and keeping the amusing grin on his face, he waited to see if Summer to snap back with any sort of comment, though he assumed that she would knowing her.

Horik heard the comments about learning dragonesse and he raised an eyebrow curiously. Personally Horik knew a small vocabulary of words, he was still working on it in his spare time but he at least wasn't a beginner in the art. He returned to what he had been doing previously, now taking little interest in the conversation again and waiting for something to come back his way in the form of a question or response from earlier comments he made.

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Ullr tried to poorly hide a smile when Summer mentioned tall people walking through the snow. He preferred to use the snow as camouflage rather than an obstacle, but then, very few Vikings tried to hide from their prey.

"My name is Hamingja Miss Swiftscales. My human is, I think the runes are Ullar. It's hard to read his writing sometimes, and he can't sound it out to me."

The boys listened to Summer a moment longer, following her comment to Horik.

"You can really teach us?" Hamingja chirped excitedly, clicking the message to Ullr who responded with a smile and a bow. He clicked back and Hamingja translated "Thank you for teaching us draconic, We are grateful..." The clicking resumed back and forth followed a chirp.

Ullr crossed his arms and glowered at his dragon, then huffed and clicked his tongue again.

Hamingja puffed up his wings slipping off the boy's back and clicked back. When Ullr clicked again, dropping his shoulders, the small dragon huffed and turned back to the older dragon rider.

"He wants me to tell you look pretty." he chirped to Summer, then turned to Swiftscales and whisper-chirped "Why do humans put so much stock in appearance. Shouldn't they be more concerned about talents or abilities. It's like the species is trying to die out."

[Summer & Swiftscales]

Summer listened to Horik speak about what troubles he had gone through thanks to saving the ViT. At least the damage was minimal and was quick to heal. It still brought a small frown to her face as he spoke, although as he gave a reassuring smile, she felt her own frown falter as a small smile took over her features. "That's good then! Well, I mean breathing in those gases of course wasn't good, but that fact that you were quick to get over it." She gave a slight pause. "I couldn't see you taking it easy if the damage was worse than that." It was true though, she couldn't see Horik sitting in his house waiting for his body to heal itself, she felt as if he would get too bored too easily.

Summer rolled her eyes at his next comment. "What do you think I do?" Honestly though, did he think her stupid? "Of course I use my dragons height advantage. Not only that, but her walking pace can be much faster than mine, so we are able to get places way easier, way faster." Swiftscales gave a snort of breath, smoke curling out of her nostrils, at Summer's words. Summer's eyes widened and she looked at her dragon with a sheepish smile, the Longwing only turned her head as Summer sighed. She could see Ullr try to hide a smile out of the corner of her eyes and could only feel slightly embarrassed that someone else was hearing about how much she disliked the snow.

Swiftscales nodded to the dragon and his boy as they were introduced. "Well, in either way, it is nice to meet you both." Summer only nodded as the boy and his dragon, more so the dragon since he actually spoke, spoke their appreciation. It would be an interesting time, whenever they would do it, of that she was sure. As the two started clicking back and forth to each other, Summer's head tilted slightly, wondering what exactly set the basis for their clicking in the first place. It was very interesting and maybe during one of the lessons, she would have to ask the two about it.

As Hamingja spoke up again, Summer felt her cheeks get warm as a light blush took over her features. Her eyes shot to Horik for a moment before she looked back Ullr and Hamingja. "Umm. Uhhhh. Thanks." She managed to get out after a couple moments, not really sure how to respond at the beginning. As the young dragon whispered to Swiftscales, she gave a small chortle of laughter as she watched her rider, fail in speaking for a couple moments. But she was quick to defend her rider from the young dragons words. "May you be true in some aspects, I happen to know that Summer excels with her bow and arrows and her dagger when needed. She is also pretty up-to-date on dragons and their breeds. Or she tries to be." Her tone was soft as she spoke fondly of her rider.

Words: 510
Tagged: Horik and Ullr
Notes: None at the moment.