[Navi] We Meet Again

[Gunnar the Gullible]

Time and Date:: January 5th
Weather:: Snowing, freezing cold, ice under snow
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CURRENT IC SEASON - DEVASTATING WINTER

The day was just starting, as one boy crept around his house, hours before light even hit the horizon. He was busy finding fish and meat, grabbing as many fish as possible and hoping to Thor the missing food supply would go unnoticed by his mother. Slipping the food into a large basket, he finally clamped it shut with its lid, tying a rope around it to secure it. With that, he crept out of his house, heading towards the forest.

The snow was already falling, a deep layer of it on the ground already. Devastating winter had started with a bang, and a snow storm had been hitting lately, making it nearly impossible to keep warm. Thus he had on several layers, but even with that he was shivering. Yet he knew, deep down, that he needed to find a certain beast and give it food. Thus he was making his way through the forest on that early morning, following the branches he had chopped to find where the beast was laying.

Carrying the basket over his shoulder, fastened by a strap, he struggled to carry it. It was indeed very heavy, so when he finally saw familiar ground he set it down with a thud. Finally he arrived at the same place where the skrill had been; however he didn't see anything. He looked around with a frown. "Where in Thor's name is that skrill!" He cried out in despair, setting the basket of fish down. Suddenly an idea hit him, and he set of a fish at a time making a trail of fish, and having a pile sitting in the middle. The trail lasted about forty feet, with a fish every few feet. At last he went back and sat down behind some brush, hoping to stay hidden until the skrill arrived.

[Naviera]

Navi was beyond relieved when both the human and dragons were gone. She had been sure she was a dead dragon walking but didn't plan on going out without a fight. The human actually ended up being useful though. The brace on her wing kept the thing in the right place so it could heal correctly. She may actually fly again another day.

Navi had been optimistic about her future but now she wasn't. She'd been stalking through the forest for who knows how long trying to find something to eat. She didn't like land animals but she didn't have a whole lot of choice. It was also highly unlikely a storm would come by any time soon which meant she was going to have to conserve her lighting preferably for self defense. Chasing her prey down didn't work. The only time she had a little success was when she would hide in a bush and just wait for something to walk right next to her. Unfortunately nothing came by close enough for her to snatch up. She'd leap out of her cover for the thing and it would bolt off before she could grab it. One day without food would be fine but she was a growing dragon and needed her nutrients.


Her spirits 5 feet under, Navi wandered around aimlessly. She caught a wiff of fish and human and that's when she remember. This is a human island she could steal from their stock pile. Navi tracked the scent down. She didn't plan on getting close to the village she would raid it at night under the cover of darkness. She was just as stealthy as a NightFury and her dark purple scales hid her almost just as well. The fish did not lead to the village though. There was a trail of them just laying on the ground. It was obviously a human trap but FISH!!! She thought it'd be a couple of months before she could fly and hunt it herself again and she was oh so hungry.

Navi searched her surroundings carefully sniffing the area and searching the trees and ground for any traps. After she decided it was safe enough she swallowed the first fish. She repeated the safety check with each fish until she came across a pile of them. 'Ok this is really suspicious' Navi thought to herself. She carefully inspected the pile but didn't find anything unusual beside the fact there was a pile of fishing siting out in the middle of nowhere. Her stomach over ruled her instincts though and she dug in.

[Gunnar the Gullible]

Gunnar hid in the brush, waiting as the snow continued to fall; it wasn't a full blown blizzard yet, perhaps not for another few weeks.. but with devastating winter well under way one never knew when the next big storm would hit. Thus as Gunnar sat shivering he pulled the furs over him, trying to keep warm. Breathing hot air into his hands, he tried to regain some of his warmth but to no avail. He continued to sit there, shivering, and nearly gave up until a sound in the distance caught his attention. It sounded like snow crunching, and bones being broken. His hopes were slightly raised that it might be the skrill; he couldn't tell in the darkness, but he hoped it was her.

For a brief moment he wondered if it was another dragon, having taken advantage of an easy meal. But moments later he was proved wrong, the skrill coming forward and sniffing around before taking a fish. The beast seemed to repeat this with every fish, until she came to the pile. Upon her digging into the pile, Gunnar slowly came out of the brush.

"Hey there, dragon..." He said softly, "I'm not going to hurt you... I just.. brought you this... as a gift... Here." He pulled out a wad of dragon nip from his vest, tossing it towards her. "To take your mind off the pain." He sat down, "It's dragon nip... Most dragons love the stuff. Try it; its good. See?" He took a small wad of dragon nip and pretended to eat it. "Yum... See... now you try..."

[Naviera]

Navi jumped back and started growling as soon and movement was detected. She wanted to fry the human for interrupting her meal. The only thing that prevented her from doing so was the need to conserve her reservoir of electricity. If she got discovered raiding the village tonight she'd need every amp she could use to fight off an whole village of vikings. Not to mention if she wipes em out she might have to deal with some dragon turned pet looking to avenge. She had no idea just how much the vikings of berk and dragons were interconnected.

Just as Navi was about to chase the human off maybe eat him if he didn't run fast enough, he pulled something out of his body which Navi thought was sick. Oh wait that's clothing not his body. Navi forgot humans wore such useless garments. What ever it was the human tossed it toward her. The first thing the dragon of course did was sniff the grass like stuff and oh did it smell good. The scent was oddly very pleasurable. The purple dragon was torn between inspecting this amazing stuff and chasing off the human. Navi noticed the human had some more in its hand and ate it, the skrill was compelled to do the same. She was disappointed though after ingesting it that it didn't taste very significant. Now the stuff was gone before she could finish figuring out what the heck it was.

Naviera pounced on the human attempting to pin the fleshy thing with one of her feet. Assuming she succeeded she'd sniff the thing looking for anymore of the stuff. If she found any she'd grab whatever it was in with her teeth, rip it off the human, and jump off the pink thing. She hoped the human would run away after that and may have accidentally scraped the thing with a tooth or two while taking whatever held the dragon nip.

[Gunnar the Gullible]

One moment there was nothing, the next there was a skrill there; and as Gunnar first saw the skrill his heart pounded in his ears. He knew the beast had killed other creatures; for a brief moment he wondered if the beast had ever attacked a human. All kinds of crazy thoughts and fears crossed his mind before he stepped out.

Perhaps stepping out was a mistake, for the moment he was out of the brush he felt inexplicably exposed. He felt like he should run and hide, but he didn't. In an instant the skrills snarl was evident as the beast jumped back. That much startled him; was this beast scared? Or just surprised that he was here once more? Whatever the reason, the beast didn't seem too happy about him being here.

Moments passed and all he could do was stand there, frozen in place as the skrill turned and stared him down. His eyes locked with the beasts for a moment, and he wondered why the skrill didn't fry him on the spot. "Alright, I won't hurt you if you won't hurt me..." He said quietly, before taking out the dragon nip and tossing it towards her. Her reaction seemed to be pleasant, that is until she ate it and seemed angry that it was gone.

Next thing Gunnar knew she was charging towards him; a scream escaped Gunnar as she tackled him, her teeth scouring his vest. Gunnar was visibly shaking, but as she stood there on top of him he took a chance to reach out to touch her nose. With the other hand he pulled out the dragon nip from his vest.

"Ok, ok! Sniff it this time! Like this..." He showed her how with an elaborate sniffing sound and put it up to her nose. As he lay there he got a closer look at her; purple scales, small for her breed.. Perhaps not fully grown yet. He stared into the dragons eyes, before reaching to touch the dragons scales on her nose. In that moment, he felt mutual fear and respect for the beast; for if she wanted, she could kill him. Yet she didn't.

In that moment he felt like there was something between the two; what he couldn't tell. He looked into the dragons eyes; had she ever killed another dragon? Or a human?

[Naviera]

Navi was minding her own business searching for the darn dragon nip when out of the blue the human had the guts or stupidity to reach his hand towards her snout. Navi opened her jaws and was about to bite the boy's hand off when a familiarly pleasing scent entered her nostrils. Her jaws snapped shut biting nothing but air. Looking at the human he sniffed the nip before placing it on Navi's snout. Navi did the same but of her own accord. The wonderful scent eased her mind and relaxed her muscles. She looked into the humans eyes who seemed to be doing the same. She didn't know what she saw but whatever it was it confused her. 

As soon as Navi realized she had let her guard down she jumped away and stared back at the human confused. For the first time seriously concerned herself with the humans motives. First it helps her with her wing. Then it feeds her fish and then it shoves some sort of awesome veggie thing in her face as well as his own hand. What unarmed idiot shoves his hand in the face of a dragon, a skrill no less.

Navi shook her head as if to shake off these useless thoughts. She then charged towards the human to scare it off. Once she had chased it far enough away she would come back and return to eating her fish. Why didn't she just kill the thing though. It was irritating her and confusing her. She had food now and knew where to get more so why did she let the pest live. She swore to herself she'd kill it the next time it shows its face.

[Gunnar the Gullible]

Gunnar flinched as the skrill bit at him, yet to his surprise he was left unharmed. For a moment the skrill sniffed the dragon nip, relaxing. His eyes met hers, and for a moment he felt completely at ease, as a sort of understanding dawned on him; yet just then she pulled back, seemingly confused. HE got to his feet, watching her. For the brief moment that he had doubted she was a vicious beast, that he had actually considered she had a heart, he had been connected; now, with that moment gone, the skrill stood seemingly confused, staring at him. It was all he could do to stare back into the beasts eyes, before suddenly the beast shook its might head, seeming to rid itself of all doubt.

Suddenly the dragons demeanor changed from confused and calm to a sort of I'll-kill-you-now demeanor. As the skrill charged after him, he found himself stumbling backwards a few steps, "Stop! Stop!" He screamed, before realizing that the skrill wouldn't stop. Stumbling backwards, he turned and ran as fast as his legs would carry him. His screams caught in his throat, pure terror filling him. He ran all the way until he came to the safety of the village, where he ran into his house and slammed the door shut. Once inside, his knees buckled and he fell to the floor, his face in his hands, wondering what he had done wrong.