13 Pangaea and The Dragon

With the time I had to wait till any of the storylines began and Hogwarts is founded, I'd decided to go to Pangaea.

I don't really know how I'm going to get there and where I should enter, but before all that I wanted to go see Ubbe and Astrid, I suppose the little brat Egil as well. It's been about half a year, I kind of missed them, I needed them to know I was going away for a few years maybe even 50 who knows what I'll find over there. I knew Astrid and Ubbe won't live 50 more years they're approaching their 30s, so I might come back every once in a while. I didn't want to make them part of my pack, they'd just had a child adding the supernatural stuff on top of that just wasn't fair to them after all they'd done for me.

When I got back to Birka it was coming to the end of summer, the days had started to cool down and get shorter. Astrid was surprised I came back so early but was upset when I said I wasn't going to be back for a few years the next time I left, Ubbe understanding I had something I wasn't telling them didn't pry too much and I appreciated that so much, they might think I'm losing my mind if I say I'm going to another dimension. Egil had been a little brat, as usual, he kept asking me stuff about where I'd been and what had happened constantly, I just poked him in the head a bit and he sulked and left me alone.

To get to Pangaea I had begun to study the gateway rune, I broke it down and rebuilt it so many times I lost count. It was a simple design but when you look into the mystical aspect of it, it was one of the most complex things I'd ever seen. Saying that we are in 961 if my guess is right, so there are not many complex things around. I perfected my control of the 'Hvittle' charm to help with the process, I was going to use the red stone that Ratatoskr had brought me all them years ago, I'd been channelling my magic into it over the few months I'd been studying the gateway rune when I decided to go to Pangaea.

When it came to Yule, I did the usual gift-giving and receiving. Astrid had made me some new clothes and Ubbe had gotten me a book written by the seer on prophetic runes, his handwriting was atrocious, I could hardly read any of it but what I did was quite informative. The seers used runes as divination but it wasn't majorly reliable and came to their speculation.

I'd made Astrid a necklace of the prismatic crystals I'd collected and a hold all pouch like mine. For Ubbe, I gave him a drinking horn with his name carved into the side, and for Egil, I got him a small seax because I knew that's the first weapon he'd learn after the stick training, no one would want a stick as a gift.

As winter was coming to an end and spring was beginning, I set off again promising to come back in one piece.

I made my way to the place I met Ratatoskr, I'd decided that's where I'd enter Pangaea. When I got there I started to craft the rune, taking out the red stone it wasn't as dark anymore and had a beautiful glow to it, thanks to the magic I'd been feeding it. I took 2 sleepless nights to finish the rune, I was as meticulous as I possibly could be, pushing my perception and magic sight to the limit, making every carve of the rune fuse and mesh together, like it was woven from the finest materials. When I'd finished the whole stone shone in a bright red glow, it pulsed with power and burned up like it was ready to explode.

"Ah has it gone wrong?!" I shouted in panic as I dropped the stone on the flat stone surface, it embedded itself into. When the glowing had stopped I looked at it closely and what I saw surprised me was flush with the stone-like it had been designed like that the rune was a darker shade than the stone so it was easily visible.

"Maybe if I feed it magic?" I said as I looked at Ratatoskr, he held his little hands up like he didn't know, 'why am I asking a squirrel? Hmm maybe I need to meet some new people or finish my ritual design so I can talk to him' I thought with a sigh.

As I approached the stone I held my hand out and begun to flow magic around my body and towards my hand, as it built up in power I touched the rune and a red glow blocked my vision as it enveloped me, a sound of being dragged through the water like a veil was all I heard.

"Huh? Where are we? This looks like where we just were but the trees must be a mile high, are we in the same spot?" I asked myself as I looked around and up into the canopy of trees, I was still stood at the flat stone surface the rune had embedded in, the rune was still there.

When my sight passed the trees a Shadow crossed over me and the sun began to shine, that's when I saw wings and a scaly tail above the treetops.

'a dragon! I made it! It worked! If theirs a dragon over Sweden it must be a Swedish Short-snout, Norwegian Ridgeback maybe a Welsh dragon or a Ukrainian longhorn, it could be any of the dragons in Europe! I couldn't quite see it because of the trees but that's what this area should be even in Pangaea' I was astonished the first thing I see would be a glimpse of a dragon.

I knew Pangaea was one huge continent of the world but the places were Abit of a jumbled up mess. Greenland's connected to Canada, Russia with China and Australia with Antarctica. One huge landmass with lakes separating most countries the Atlantic ocean should be a lake now.

'I wonder what else I'll see around the Europe areas' I was eager for adventure!