Hydara

Hydara, a Dream Defender bearing the title of The Guardian Hydra Knights, is a supporting character who is the Dimensional Mate of Ranald's father Tim, Golden Heart's wife, and Ra's father.

## Character History

### Past

Little is known about his early days, but Hydara wasn't always the valiant warrior. He used to be a sealed-up prisoner in another dimension as a punishment for his sinful deeds in the past, costing the lives of hundred innocent villagers just to get their treasures, food, and water. So they cut off both of his dragon wings completely and sealed him away in a deep underground island, and their wizards even cursed his soul by trapping his spirit within his body until it was nothing but a corpse. For a long time, he decayed into a pile of bones and ashes, but his soul remained sealed within his fossilized body. But thanks to Ra's Mother Golden Heart many years later, she freed him from the seal by transferring his soul into her Stargem chest and took him to another dimension: Dreamland. After leaving his fossil body behind, Golden Heart granted him a new life as a Dreamland Beast by giving him a new solid body, powers, strength, intelligence, weapons, armour, and some brand new angel wings to replace his dismantled dragon wings.

Hydara asked her why she helped him. And she answered, “Because I'm your summoning master, and you were chosen as my new comrade.” Hydara felt so confused about what Golden Heart just told him that, so he asked why he was chosen in the first place. He claimed that he’s a notorious villain in his world and he’s supposed to be staying in his prison forever, but Golden Heart said in her honest words, "After they put you in the seal, I sense that you have so much regrets buried deep into your heart and you realized what you did was wrong and unforgivable, but because you opened your heart even after they sealed you, you didn’t feel any anger but instead showed that you are truly sorry of whatever pain and sadness you put everyone through in the past. You wished to go someplace where you could do penance and show that you’re a newly changed dragon. That’s why you were chosen ‘cause I know every sinner and his heart can have a second chance & you will make a fine and worthy summoning comrade. And that's also why I brought you here. Because this is your chance to improve yourself and show everyone that you can atone for your sins and to know that you truly belong here in Dreamland. Answer me this: Hydara, will you accept me as your new Summoning Master and Dream Defending partner?“

Hydara finally understood every word Golden Heart told him and decided to accept her as his new summoning master. So Hydara made a decision, he will do whatever she says and swore to protect his new homeland with all his heart to make up for what Golden Heart did for him by giving him another chance to atone for all of his sins and change his new life forever.

### Marriage and Family Life

Golden Heart & Hydara were a great Dream Defending Team, protecting children, leading them out from the Nightmare Realm, and making children happy at their place called Dreamland where every child deserves to have a good dream time. Many years later, Golden Heart and Hydara were married at the same time as their Dimensional Mates on Earth. Later that day, Golden Heart laid an egg while her Earth Dimensional Mate is pregnant with a child and they're both looking forward to becoming parents when their child hatches or is born. They foresaw that their child and his Earth Dimensional Mate would be a hero of light in Earth and Dreamland, so they called their soon-to-be-born griffin/dragon son, Ra.

Then one day, their egg started to shake as it was ready to be hatched, same goes for their child who is about to let his mother know that it's time for him to be born, what a beautiful moment it is and they're getting close to becoming parents. But then something went wrong with their child's Dimensional Mate on Earth, their child is dying while still in his mother's womb, as he tried to stay alive in his mother's stomach but seconds later he died.

Meanwhile, in Dreamland, Golden Heart and Hydara watched in horror as their Dimensional Mates didn't notice the miscarriage Belem had, and all they do is watch, forced to wait till they noticed, suffering a broken heart. And as for their own child, he's about to come out of his egg, first, they were happy but now they felt so sorry for their Dimensional Mates, they can feel their high hopes within their hearts even though they live in another dimension but they share the same body, soul and feeling, so they can't stand there and watch them suffer the bad news, they have to do something about it, but what?

And that's when they had a thought, there is one way to save them from the perpetual sadness of losing an only child, but it's a huge sacrifice. They have to give up their hatched child to live with their Earth Dimensional Mates as their own since both of their children share the same soul, body, and blood. So, Golden Heart and Hydara decided to send their child to Earth to live in his unborn Earth Dimensional Mate's body as a soul that found it's own home and body. And when their child is about hatch from his egg, they gently floated him down to earth, landing him in Belem's womb and inside the unborn's human body. When the right time came, he finally hatched while still in his Earth Dimensional Mate's baby body. And after that burst of light feeling, that's when the mother felt like her water broke and she's about to go into labor, and just in time she gave birth to a healthy baby boy and made his first whimper. Their Dimensional Mates were full of joy as their own child is finally here. Golden Heart's Dimensional Mate held her new baby in her arms, she cried tears of joy that she's happy that her child is going to have a great life with her, just like with Hydara's Dimensional Mate.

Even though it's hard for Golden Heart and Hydara to let their own child go and live with them on Earth now, but after all, they both share the same child, the same homeworld and now Ra shared the same soul and body with his Dimensional Mate even though his other self was somewhere in the other side but he'll be in peace and Ra will soon learn that both of his 2 parents and 2 worlds are truly where he belongs.

He and Golden Heart told Ranald the truth about who he is when he reached the age of 16: their son from Dreamland inhabiting his Dimensional Mate's human body, and that he can't pick between Dreamland and the Human World (Earth) since he came from the same biological parents, it's all because that his Dreamland parents are doing it for their Dimensional mates, saving them from a broken heart from their loss of their child, Ranald's late Dimensional Mate. Which he had trouble grasping, until now. After all, he could've been called Ranald when he lives with his own parents while he's called Ra when he lives with his Dreamland Parents but he has 2 (or 4) biological parents that he can't pick between.

When Ranald visited him and his wife after the events of Pisces: Tai Chi Fist Style (Part 1), his middle head, the leader, reminded him that he was kind-hearted, hardworking, and refused to let what others said define him. The second head said that Ranald met new friends who accepted him for what he is in Aether Worlds Cosmic University, who cheered him on, taught him new things, and even had to rebuke him if he started straying. The third head of Hydara added that he improved himself, and became stronger despite suffering hardships. The fourth head said that since Ranald managed to grow and balance his human and griffin selves, that must be celebrated.

After Golden Heart spoke to Ranald about the wizard Malvor's words, Hydara advises again: "You may not have a good past," Hydara's first head stated. "But that doesn't mean that your future must be defined by it," the second head said. "After all, the past already happened, and the trials you experienced there only made you stronger," the third head said. "The future's not set in stone after all," the fourth head said. "So what you can do is to change your response to your circumstances. If you do that, you can change your future in some way or another." the last head said cheerfully.

He watched as his son fought the Devourer of Worlds, and sealed him away with Mayari. Later, Ranald and Mayari meet him and Golden Heart at the Realm of the Sun's garden's lawn. Turns out, King Athos contacted Golden Heart and Hydara, asking them to bring the Star Orbs back to the Realm of the Sun's Zenith Castle. By day, they would check on the orbs, and by night, they would resume their duties of guarding the spirits of children going to Dreamland. Ra theorized that the reason Athos wanted the Orbs back in the Realm is that they absorbed the essences of Dreamland and the Sun. Ranald gave the heart-gem he kept in his bag to his Dreamland parents. Golden Heart tells her son to visit Dreamland with his friends some time as she flew away with her husband.

## Appearance

Before his imprisonment and death, Hydara was a typical winged hydra (a kind of dragon) with five heads, red eyes, and a body with green scales as hard as steel. But the warriors of the dimension he was native to chopped off his wings and sealed his soul in his body until it decayed and fossilized.

When Golden Heart rescued him from his seal and made him an Oneiric Beast by giving his soul a new body, Hydara became a gigantic anthropomorphic Hydra with 5 heads and 5 tails with symbols on their spike wheels tipping their tails (Bronze, Darkness, Gold, Light, and Silver). He has angel wings, golden, red, and orange scale armour with red shoulder guards, black and golden boots and gauntlets, 5 helmets of gold, silver, bronze, black and light grey, a sword with a red flame for a blade named Scarlet Tears & shield called the Lernaean. He's way bigger than Ranald.

In his alternate form, the 'Boat of Hydara', he is a dragon boat whose five heads merge to form a dragon-head prow with five horns each of a different colour: black, gold, bronze, silver, and white on his black-and-white head. An orb that resembles a Star Orb is nestled between the gold and silver horns, and at the bottom of the middle bronze horn. The bronze horn is where either Golden Heart's Sun Collar Wheel or Ranald's Sun Shield of the Zodiac Wheel is attached to act as a ship's steering wheel that they steer to ferry the children back to Dreamland. His angel wings become wings on his boat-body, and he has a black spiked mast with red sails resembling dragon scales and flames and a yellow flag on his back. His five tails fuse into one tail that has a spiked wheel with a five-coloured Star at its tip, and he's big enough to carry many children. In his boat form, his sword and shield shrink and are kept in his mouth.

## Personality

Each of Hydara's heads has different personalities. The middle head with a gold helmet and dragon crown is their leader, while the other heads with black & light grey helmets are the brooding and snarky Dark-side Hydra & the amiable and gentle Light-side Hydra, and the other 2 heads with bronze & silver helmets are the honorable Strength Hydra & the sagacious Wisdom Hydra. The symbols on their spike tails represent their powerful personalities like the gold spike tail represents leadership, the bronze spike tail represents strength and the silver spike tail represents smarts. Finally, the demon & angel symbols on their spike tails represent their evil & good side; whether they take their fights for good or vengeance. The heads share similar personality traits such as courage and a blazing passion.

Together with their leadership, strength, smarts, good & evil, they became one of the world fantasy guardians, vowing to always defend their homeland from harm's way. And when they hear Ra's call from the golden dragon leader's crown, they'll be summoned out for Ra's assistance in his difficult journeys or battles. And once summoned, Ra will ride on Hydara's golden head or fly right next to him for support, guidance and to fight as a team together.

When Hydara speaks, one of his heads will say something first before the other head says something next but in the right order of their complete sentences. As in let's just say 5 of his heads act like one head, with one mouth and one voice, well it goes something like this:

Hydara's middle head says: "My dear boy, you are truly just like your mother already"

Hydara's 2nd head says: "And even though it's hard for me to accept you as my new master"

Hydara's 3rd head says: "But I will do my best to hear your summoning call"

Hydara's 4th head says: "And to look after you for now on"

Hydara's 5th head says: "Like how Golden Heart did the same thing for me"

Initially, he used to be a typical rampaging monster who steals things and destroys for fun and profit, but after Golden Heart rescued and helped him, he turned over a new leaf and vowed to join her as a Dreamland Beast in defending the spirits of children who visit Dreamland. He cares for his wife and child and cares for his Earth Dimensional Mate and his family just like them, to the extent of agreeing with Golden Heart to give up their hatched child to live with their Earth Dimensional Mates as their own since both of their children share the same soul, body and blood. Simply by sending their child to Earth to live in his unborn Earth Dimensional Mate's body as a soul that found it's own home and body. He also cares for the children in Dreamland with his wife and does his best to keep them safe from nightmare spirits.

He has been known to give Ranald advice when he visits, with input from the Wisdom Hydra Head. In his Boat of Hydara form, since all of his heads have merged into one dragon-head prow, he can use the wisdom of his Wisdom Hydra Head to communicate with the ship's captain (Either Golden Heart or Ranald) by telepathy to give them advice regarding the weather, alert them to any obstacles and nightmare monsters around, or letting them know they have reached Dreamland. He uses his Light-side Hydra Head's gentleness to calm down the children he's carrying on their journey back to Dreamland and his Dark-side Hydra Head's vindictiveness to slash pursuing nightmare monsters and spirits with his single spike-wheeled tail.

## Powers

### Offensive

* Natural Weaponry - As a hydra, he uses his claws, five tails, and teeth on his five heads to attack.
* Penance Flare - Breathes fire from his five heads
* Iai Ryu Sei (居合流星) Strike - A combative quick-draw sword technique used with Scarlet Tears.

### Passive

* Time Freeze -  He uses the power to freeze time in his homeland to give him lots of time to get back home until his assistance with Ra in the battlefield or ferrying children in his boat form is over. And once the job is done, Hydara heads back home and immediately unfreezes time in his homeland once again.
* Teleportation of Objects - He and Golden Heart share this power, and used it to teleport 3 pieces of the heart-gem to Ranald. But their sending powers were too advanced, therefore not only does it takes a while for them to charge up their teleporting powers, but they haven't learned how to send the 3 heart pieces to wherever Ranald is. So when their son is in trouble, they have no time to teach themselves how to teleport it to him in one piece, so they have no choice but to send those pieces to him even at random places that are not far from where he is. Ranald can find the heart pieces by using the magic of navigation from his locket and when he spots one like say, on the edge of the cliff, he has to pass through the rocky obstacles that are rolling towards him. It's a good thing Ranald has been training and studying his body and surroundings his whole life, so thanks for all the training at home and at his school he can overcome the obstacles and able to collect all 3 heart pieces superbly while he's still a human.
* Form-Shift - Changes into his Boat Mode in an instant.
* Dimensional Eyes - With this ability that is shared by all Dreamland Beasts, Hydara can view what's happening in other dimensions aside from Dreamland. As he's the Dimensional Mate of Ranald's father, he can only view events on Earth.
* Flight - Capable of doing this with his wings.

## Arsenal

* Scarlet Tears - A sword with a red flame for a blade, it is one of the weapons given to him by Golden Heart when she gave him a new body. The sword's flames light up only when its owner wields it to protect those dear to him, in this case, his Dreamland family and the good spirits of the children who visit Dreamland.
* Lernaean - A shield given to him by Golden Heart when she gave him a new body. It has his crest on it and is hard enough to withstand heavy blows. Hydara can throw it at a nightmare monster ever since he trained under Golden Heart.