Hi readers. peachdoxie here.
I have some unfortunate news for you all: I'm officially leaving this story as unfinished for the foreseeable future. I started this project over four years ago, and it's taken me this long to realize that it was too ambitious. Now that the third movie is almost here (or is here, if you're in one of those lucky countries) I've run out of motivation to finish this. The truth is that I never really had an ending planned out and was hoping to make it up as I go, but now I just don't think I can come up with something that I'll be satisfied with writing. I set too high expectations for myself in this and I was unable to meet them. And, you know, stuff happens. Life gets in the way.
I'm going to publish what I do have written, which is Act II of the story. There's a missing part between chapter 4 and chapter 5 in which Hiccup receives some news and discusses what to do about it with most of the other characters. The last chapter I will upload is also unfinished, but just in the last couple paragraphs. There may be spots elsewhere that I didn't fill in a word or left a transition unwritten, but there shouldn't be too many.
All in all, I am proud of what I did manage to accomplish with this. I think it's my longest cumulative fanfiction yet, even unfinished like it is. I'm okay with leaving it unfinished. I don't see it as a failure on my part, just a learning experience that didn't go as planned.
I hope that you all will be okay with me doing this, and, if not, you can leave. I did my best and this is what my best is in this case.
Thank you, as always, for reading :)