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☾ nightfury at the gates (open)

Who: Toothless and you.
Where: Outside the mansion, pretty much anywhere.
When: 6/23
Rating: This is a kid's movie! (G. I'll update if it changes!)
Summary: Toothless arrives back at the mansion without any memory of it. ...'Arrives' is probably oversimplifying it. 'Crashes' is more accurate.

The Story:

It's funny, but Toothless doesn't remember hedges in Berk. He doesn't even know what a hedge is, in fact, but the shape in front of him strikes him as Viking-made. Plants don't actually grow like that, do they? Is he on some weird new island where the plants are different?

All he remembers is flying — and then not flying.

Speaking of which, with a quiet cry of alarm, the Nightfury lurches to his feet. Hiccup! Was he thrown clear? Where is he? The area around him is large, and he can also smell — is that a beach, maybe beyond the treeline? For a moment, he stands unnaturally still, trying to pinpoint the sound of his best friend's voice. But all he hears are unfamiliar voices, and the rustling of wind through trees. It only makes the thrill of horror in his chest greater, and Toothless immediately sets off at a run.

Or he tries to, at least.

His thoughts being as distracted as they are, his mad dash is foiled by the fish pond being in the way. The Nightfury plunges, unintentionally, underneath the surface, and comes up with wide green eyes, scrambling for the shore amidst the frantic movements of fish beneath him. Such is the gravity of the situation that the fish don't even factor into his mind, just yet. He comes back up on land and this time sets off at a much more successful run, soaking wet and wings tucked tight to his body for greater speed.

Every once in a while, he lets out a loud, long, distressed sounding call — sort of the dragon version of Hey! Where are you? With the speed of his movements, hopefully no one will find themselves in his way.

[ooc: Both prose and action spam are fine by me.]

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Hey, Ed's just trying to figure out if Toothless was intelligent and could talk. He had just recently had to deal with a certain Dean Winchester that got turned into a talking goat.

"Okay, good, there's that much, at least. I'm guessing you just arrived? The place likes to pull in lots of different people from different places. And apparently the occasional dragon. So, uh, you aren't at home. Obviously."

Pulls in... Toothless thinks of strong, buffeting winds, catching he and Hiccup by surprise. Something like that could tear them to the ground. Strange that he doesn't remember it, though. The Nightfury makes a rumble of more confusion. Berk doesn't have anything that looks like this... So... where is he?

"Trying to figure out how you got here?" Ed guesses. "Place runs on magic so it used that to get you. And everybody else that's stuck here, including me. I wasn't even awake when I ended up here. I went from sleeping in bed to sleeping on a floor."

The Nightfury cocks his head to the side. He recognizes that word: magic. He's sure he's heard the vikings of Berk talk about it. But he doesn't remember why, or what magic is or does. It hadn't seemed important at the time. Now, of course, it seems more important than ever, and so he makes a far more animated rumble.

Ed has no idea what, specifically that was in response to, he just knew it was to something he said. "Is that about the magic, people here, or me unexpectedly sleeping on the floor?"

He gives a loud rumble in response to magic, stretching out to lay on his belly and watch Ed very closely for his explanation. He's sure he needs to pay attention. Although the first bug or flower that drifts his way is likely going to distract him, but such is a dragon's attention span.

"Okay then. Someone that actually uses magic could probably explain the ins and outs better than I can, but the place is chock full of that stuff. The harmless bits are where it does things like made food appear in the dining room for us or make whatever we want--within reason--appear from the closets. No pulling out your best friend or whatever."

Ed isn't sure what personal belongings a dragon would even have, so he went with a person as an example.

"Not so good uses are these things we call events. That's when it takes a memory from someone's head and changes things around to imitate it. Whatever we're going through can be either harmless, if annoying, or dangerous. An example of a harmless one is when no one was able to lie." Thank you, Greed. "A dangerous one drew on someone where the dead don't stay that way and attacked the living, trying to make us like them."

Toothless does seem to be paying rapt attention. At first, anyway. A leaf drifts by on dining room and his eyes wander, but then snap back to Ed at best friend. That's a phrase he knows well from Hiccup. But it doesn't seem to be good news, and so he deflates a little.

Then he grows wary at dangerous, rumbling a little in the back of his throat. So this place is dangerous, and not just weird? That's good to know.

Ed did wonder if he was going to lose the dragon when Toothless' attention wandered before it came back. "It's generally safe enough between events although not everybody here are the nicest of people. They generally manage to behave though, since it's not like they can leave after pissing everybody else off."

Slowly, he rumbles in assent and agreement. It mirrors his desire to be friendly with everyone, so no one has reason to pick up a bunch of weapons and try to hunt a Nightfury. Better for everyone involved if that never happens, really. Toothless is more than capable of defending himself, only surrendering on a few occasions because a friend had asked him to.

Or because a trap had knocked him out of the sky.

Ed frowns in thought as he tries to figure out what else the dragon would want to know. "There's plenty of rooms available in the mansion. Whichever one you pick will change itself around to be something you'd find more comfortable after a few days. Although I suppose that if you really concentrate on what you want it to be like, it'll change sooner."

Toothless blinks, looking confused for a moment. Changing rooms? What sort of rooms changed? How? More of this magic that the viking had talked about, or did the tapestries on the walls move on their own? Having not been inside, yet, he has no idea what to expect.

But he seems to nod, a moment later, in assent. Maybe he'll look for Hiccup inside, next, if he doesn't find him out here. Perhaps Hiccup has already gone inside to see the changing rooms; that does sound like something the viking would do.

"Yes, they change with magic," Ed says, figuring out after a moment what Toothless was confused about. "Magic is the answer to a lot of strangeness around here."

"Another thing you should know is that inside there's a lot of mirrors and there's people that look exactly like us over there. They basically are us although their personalities are switched around from ours, so you'll want to watch out for them. My own Mirror--as we call them--isn't very nice."

Now there is a strange word that the Nightfury isn't too familiar with: a mirror.

He cants his head to the side, listening. Unpleasant people behind... something. People who looked just like the vikings here? More danger. Just peachy. How much danger will he have to contend with to find Hiccup? Not that it matters — Toothless will weather anything to help his viking friend.

Toothless rumbles, again in a confused manner. Why are the vikings warring with vikings who look like them?

Time for Ed to play 'guess what he needs to explain'. "The mirrors or the people on the other side?"

The dragon snorts, which would be unhelpful were it not for the fact that he times it for the latter part of that sentence. But really, he'll take any explanation at all. More information isn't a bad thing, when he has a viking to find and a new island to learn.

"Okay. The Queen of Hearts is in charge over there and she makes copies of us with opposite personalities to work for her. They usually stay over there, but they sometimes come over when she wants them to do something here, or some other special event is going on."

Toothless absorbs this a moment. Warring vikings, it sounds like.

That's not exactly unheard of, although Berk has mostly kept to itself since acquiring the homeless dragons of Toothless old nest. They're downright peaceful, in fact, barring the presence of the dragons themselves. Toothless knows from experience that not all viking encampments are as nice as Berk turned out to be. He used to have the cuts to prove it, before Hiccup started taking such good care of him.

He trills quietly. Who's this Queen of Hearts viking? Is she covered in bloody hearts?

"What, the Queen of Hearts? She's not a pleasant person. It's just as well that she usually stays on the other side of the mirrors. Assuming I'm not forgetting an incident, she's only been on this side once or twice since I've arrived, and I've been here for a little over a year.

Not a huge danger, then, it sounds like. Of course, Toothless has to figure out what a mirror is, but that's beside the point. There's danger, but nothing too overt. Maybe Hiccup is just caught up in trying to learn things about this place. Toothless knows how curious his viking friend is.

His trill quiets to a rumble, as he glances over the grass and in the direction of the forest. Is the forest dangerous, too?

"You don't want to go too far in. If you do, you'll pass out and wake up closer to the mansion," Ed tells him. "It's a way to keep people from getting out that way."

Toothless blinks. What a strange-sounding forest! Passing out from going too far into it? Why? The Nightfury just can't wrap his head around it. (Luckily, or unluckily, his viking friend will probably attempt it at some point, and he won't have to wonder very long.)

Of course, if Hiccup is out there, passed out...

But he'll wake up again, closer. But what if he doesn't?

The Nightfury whines quietly in the back of his throat, more dog-like than cat-like at the moment. This island comes with too many worries, if you ask him.

"Yeah, it kinda sucks." Understatement. "If people try to swim out too far from the beach, they also end up back here. Those that can fly, run into the same problem, too."

Both ears suddenly extend into the air as a thought occurs to him. Maybe they were flying to this strange island and the Nightfury suddenly passed out in the air, along with Hiccup, and that's why he woke up in such a sudden position. It doesn't sound so far-fetched.

Perhaps magic is to blame.

He makes another whine again, looking frantically around them. It's time to look for Hiccup again. But he gives his new friend a gentle nudge, to thank him for the information, before he turns tail — thankfully not hitting Ed with it — and lopes off in a new direction.

Ed is now confused. What did he say? "Uh, you're welcome?" he calls after Toothless before getting ready to head back to the mansion.

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