Lightning Itself [open]

[Naviera]

Time and Date:: February 4th
Weather:: dark overcast with a good chance of snow
Previous Threads?:: N/A

Navi loved the winter. Her body had a naturally higher temperature than other dragons which meant the cold didn't bother her the slightest. She'd even heard stories of her kind serving within ice for years. The other reason Navi loved winter was the snow. Not only was it beautiful but also served as an excellent conductor for her lighting.

Her stomach full of fish and her body full of electricity Navi took off into the sky. The sun was up only barely peaking through the dark clouds that cast shadows over the land and sea. The young skrill thought this was as good a day as any to challenge her two rivals. The cold would slow them down while Navi would remain unaffected.

As the young Skrill flew through the sky toward where the Night Fury and White Fear nested together, she came across the village of Berk. Navi had heard much about this village from other dragons and most of it was good. Navi normally flew too high in the air for any human to distinguish what dragon she was, but today was a little different. Her curiosity was getting the better of her and she flew a little lower than usual. One could make out her shape and purple color but she still doubted they nearly blind humans below would be able to tell what kind of awesome dragon she was. She wasn't close enough to be considered a threat either. 

Navi glided over the village and looked at all the interesting sights to see. It certainly was much different from some of the other villages she'd seen not that village observing was a common hobby of hers. She had no idea what the differences meant but at least it was interesting to look at especially with all the dragons moving below. It was quite the sight.

It looked like one of the dragons below were about to come up and join her so high in the air but seemed to decided 'never mind' and head back. Perhaps they were like 'Oh its a skrill. Not sure I want to tangle with that.' 

Navi's luck turned on her when an unlikely and unfortunate event happened. It was her own darn fault for paying so little attention to where she was going. A sleepy gronckle tired from a long flight. Navi hadn't even payed attention to the signature of the wings. The two collided in the air. The falling purple dragon may be a top notch flyer but stabilizing after a crash like that wasn't easy. She span and tumbled through the air like a lemming jumping off a cliff. When she finally regained control she was diving too fast and was quickly approaching the ground. She managed to level off but it wasn't enough as she slammed right into the forest trees knocking herself out. Her body tumbled through the branches snapping them off as she fell. Her body finally stopped; rested up against a tree trunk and her body laying limp with one of her wings set in an unnatural position, broken.

[Mouldy Jam]

When a dragon hits another, you might notice, but when a dragon plummets through the sky it's quite difficult to miss. «Look, it's lightening and death itself.» A dragon chirped in, laughing at his own joke. At least until he got a bump to the head. «I don't think that would be enough to kill a Skrill.» The first gurgle a bit and muttered something about ruining his jokes, but still the Zippleback walked forward. They dare not get too close, you generally don't when Skrills are involved, but they still couldn't help but wonder what had happened. «Maybe the humans could help?» Jam sneered and the thought. «Help? Hah! They can hardly help themselves.»

«Hello?» Mouldy called, lifting his voice high enough that the Skrill would hear. «What are you doing?! Do you want it to kill us?!» Jam sparked and snarled at his other head. «Aw come on, it's hurt, probably harmless.» «They basically eat lightening. How is that harmless?» Because of Jams unwillingness to move, they stayed very much in one place now. Mouldy rolled his eyes, head shaking a bit. Attention back on the downed dragon, he let out a soft gurgling noise. «Hey? Uh, you need help? Right?» 

[Scratchet]

Scratchet was tempting fate today. She was trying to inspect to see what the village's fish reserves were like after Snoggletog, but with little luck. With her back, the Vikings were on guard again to keep her away from their precious supplies, and the Nadder was simply trying to find the weak spots.

She took a break, cozied up in the snow overlooking the supply store. It was a little bit chilly for her liking but she knew it was going to get worse. She was grateful that Kenna had built her a little shelter.

It was then when it happened. She saw a skrill she didn't recognise lazily riding the winds. Her spines bristled slightly, hoping it wasn't an agressive one looking for an easy meal (but if it did blow up the supply shack then that was a bonus). She watched a brave dragon try to size up the skrill, but quickly enough backed down, which she cackled for. The dragon must have been young, or stupid to know that skrills are not the dragon to pick a fight with... especially in the air.

But something happened. The skrill crashed in a mid-air collision with a gronckle! "HAH!?" She called out at the dragon's fail, making a passerby almost jump out of his skin. Scratchet flexed her spines in surprise as the dragon plummeted into the forests. Scratchet got up and immediately took to the air. What the heck just happened? The Nadder felt compelled to investigate, even though it was risky.

But as she got to the crash site, someone else was there! She kept her distance. Seeing a skrill close up was rather threatening, and the other dragon she didn't know. It could be a potential threat. Zipplebacks were sneaky buggers. She knew that.

Scratchet squawked, her erect spines betraying her cautious behaviour. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" She made her way around the skrill, and saw one of the wings was disjointed. "Broken your wing? And I thought skrills were master fliers, sheesh." She was feeling brave because the dragon was grounded, so couldn't really shock anything, and it's broken wing, so scratchet could easily get away without the hell-beast coming after her.

The turquoise nadder turned her attention to the zippleback. "And who might you be?"

[Gunnar the Gullible]

Ah another day; another hunt, another time to freeze to death while gathering firewood. Such was the way of the vikings. It was at times like these that one young boy wondered how dragons could possibly survive this cold without a shelter. Indeed, there was a boy walking through the forest. He was tall and lanky, trekking through the snow as he mumbled and grumbled about the cold. "Why couldn't someone else get firewood..." He chattered through gritted teeth, pulling his fur vest over his head. It was then he heard a familiar sound; a dragon.

It was enough to draw his eyes upward, to see a dragon seeming to challenge another. He could scarcely make out what kind of dragon the one was, but upon seeing the second a chill went down his spine; for he knew what kind of dragon this was. Oh yes, there was no mistaking it; that.. that was a skrill. Watching it for a moment, he finally drew his eyes back to the ground, taking an axe and chopping at a tree. He already had a pile of branches in his arms, tied in vines, a pile of vines in his hand to bundle up the extra branches he would gather.

Yet a horrid sound made him look up, and to his horror he saw the dragon in question plummeting to the ground. Dropping the firewood, he ran forward without thinking. However, as he neared, slowed, hiding behind a tree. Peering out, he saw a zippleback come forward, followed by another dragon, a nadder. They seemed to both be curious, having come to inspect the scene.

"Great... Just great.. Got myself stuck with three dragons; all of em wild, vicious beasts... Oh Thor-" For just then he saw the skrill, and her wing; it was definitely broken. He quickly went back to grab his branches, untying the vines that wrapped them, leaving the axe a good distance away. Darting over to the skrill, he came closer, edging past the nadder, remembering nadders liked compliments, "Pretty girl, easy.. I won't hurt ya.. Just don't kill me.. and we're good..." He went to the skrill, stopping a distance away. Kneeling down, he dropped the branches and vines. "Look, dragon, I don't want any trouble. I'm just here to help you.. I know you can't understand, but if I leave you here you'll die.. You understand, dragon?"

[Naviera]

Navi woke up to a throbbing head, aching body, and particularly painful right wing. She groaned from pain before opening her eyes. What she saw did not please her in the slightest. A Zippleback asked if she was alright and shortly after a foolish Nadder got up in her face mocking her. It looked to Navi as if some opportunistic dragons were looking to grab an easy meal. If she had stopped to think about it she might of come up with a different conclusion but her instincts were telling her to either flee or blast them into an unwaking coma.

Navi jumped into the air electricity sparking around her body. She was going roar at them but the pain from attempting to flap her wings screamed otherwise. She landed back on the ground with a thump and tried to hide her pain from those around her. Her right wing was broken and now Navi was panicked. Running was impossible so if any of them tried anything she was going to zap them to oblivion. She was aware she couldn't shoot lighting while she was on the ground but even if she couldn't fly a quick jump in the air would allow her a shot and one shot was enough to hit each of them at once.


Navi growled in warning to the other two dragons and then remembered she needed to address the Nadders little insult. "Say that again, It'll be the last thing you ever say." She said in anger. Navi rose her wings into the air to make herself look bigger even if the right one was screaming at her and was hanging awkwardly. Naviera was a young Skrill only half way to full grown and she felt like if she wanted to live she was going to have to give a good show.

The situation seemed bad enough as it is but some human just had to come along and make it worse. It didn't run back for help though and wasn't carrying any weapons(assuming you left the axe with the firewood.) Whats more it walked past the other two dragons as if he didn't look like an easy snack. Then again Navi had never tasted human before. Its possible they were disgusting. She preferred underwater prey anyways.

The human got very close but actually stopped at a comfortable enough range. It babbled on about something. The young Skrill was also curious about the branches and vines it brought. Humans were so weird. Heck this whole situation was weird. "What the heck is all this?" the Skrill asked the other two dragons there.

[Mouldy Jam]

When they didn't get an answer, the Zippleback glanced to each others head. Maybe it really was dead? But before he could spend another moment both heads let out surprised gurgle as a Nadder strutted onto the scene. «Wha?! Who do you think you are?» Jam snarled as the Nadder took charge of the situation. He wanted to get in her face, and prove his worth but Mouldy made moving next to impossible. So instead he just snorted as she spoke to them.

«Mouldy-» «No, don't tell her anything.» Mouldy blinked in surprise at the sudden tense reaction. «Mouldy Jam.» Jam's eyes grew to slits as he turned his head to the other head. «Do you ever listen to me?» He hissed. «I listen man, but she asked a question. I had to...» Mouldy had intended on saying more, but a human yelling darted right past him. «Oh look we don't have to get help after all.» His gaze followed the human boy as he got closer than they dare. «What? Where did he come from?» Jam sniffed about in confusion. Why was this human so interested in helping that? He lashed his tail a bit but ended up growling at the pain, noticing Mouldy wince as well.

When a new voice chimed in, they both froze. Hardly even a breath between them escaped. «Is that ...» «The Skrill? Yup.» They hadn't even noticed her previous attempts at flight, having been previously distracted by the other dragon here. However now they both were very alert.

The Nadder was playing a dangerous game taunting the downed Skrill. Sure Jam had considered it early, but as soon as the beast was awake any notions left him. They were reckless, but when it came to dangerous dragons, they had learnt to stay away. The ebbing pain in his tail kept that clear in his mind, and he knew Mouldy didn't needed reminding either.

While focusing on not enraging the Skrill, Jam was quite shocked when she asked them what the human was doing. Mouldy glanced to the humans cargo, some logs and vines, and then back to the downed dragon. «I think... he's trying to help?» Jam sneered and rolled his eyes. «You obviously broke something and he thinks he can heal it.» Turning back to Mouldy he chuckled. «Bet you he's gunna get zapped.» This idea seemed to spark the other heads interest. «You're on.» They hunkered down and gurgled in excitement. This was going to be quite the event. And they were far enough away from the living lightening-rod they wouldn't get hurt in the crossfire. Or, they hoped they were.

[Scratchet]

"Heh, good to know, Moudly, Jam." She wondered if they'd be useful to her. However she squawked when they didn't know who she was. "You don't know who I am?" She poised herself regally. "I am Scratchet, Stealer of Fishies, Upturner of barrels, Official nuisance-maker extraordinaire! The Nadder the Vikings just love to hate!" She ruffled her wings and shook her head proudly. She'd been working on that one. She thought it sounded great.

Suddenly the skrill began to move. Fast. Scratchet was naturally spooked when the Skrill lashed out. The nadder backed up and kept her tail poised just in case, watching with slitted eyes as the dragon crackled with electricity. Unfortunately the dragon's broken wing meant it couldn't leap that high.

The skrill threatened Scratchet and she was ready to heed it. The Nadder was a joker at heart but she knew when to call it quits. She was a lot bigger than the skrill, but size didn't mean anything when the smaller dragon could whip out devastating thunder attacks.

Suddenly someone new burst into the fray - but it was a human. A young one at that. Scratchet had little fondness for the teenagers of Berk after the incident in the dragon arena, of which she had been horredously humiliated.

He made a beeline for the dragon that had no qualms about frying everyone in the vicinity. The nadder could care less if the human got destroyed after what had happened to her, but now she was living in the village, if someone got whiff that she made no attempt to save the boy it could end up in a disaster.

She also had an amazing idea.

"Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa! Hold up!" She squawked, jumping over to where Gunnar was and picking him up by the scruff of his neck, denying the Zippleback's excitement. "You're not going anywhere until I say so." She muffled. She turned to drop him by Moudly Jam. "Don't let him get away - I'm gonna save our butts for the future. You won't regret it."

Slowly turning back to the Skrill, she pulled out her signature grin. "Listen up. I have a deal for you. You see this human? He knows people who can fix up that pretty wing of yours. I know! I broke my foot a year ago and I'm fine and dandy again. But you're a liability."

She held herself more confidently. "I want you to promise our safety whilst you're stuck around here, because let's face it, you're gonna be grounded for a while, Skrill. For me and Mouldy Jam over there. In return this kid and me will make sure you get the bestest care and back into the sky. But once you're back in the air you have to not kill us. Does that sound fair?" She looked between the Skrill and Moudly Jam for confirmation. "I think that sounds pretty fair."

Scratchet warbled contendedly, but she was still wary. The Skrill could once again jump into the air to try and zap them or something. She just have to try and jump at the same time, or something. Scratchet really didn't want to get into a dragon fight. Those things never had a happy ending.


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OOC: That's it. I've officially integrated the spirit of Bill Cipher into Scratchet. XD