(This all takes place before the tv series but after the shorts, and while you don't have to read the shorts with Remi you can. They are Welcome to Legend of the Boneknapper and Welcome to Gift of the Night Fury. I highly suggest you read Welcome to Berk to get a better grasp of the story and who Remi is if you haven't done so. You can also check out Welcome to One-Shots if you'd like which does have some more info about Remi. I hope you enjoy reading and please feel free to leave a review.)
Sat down in the Great Hall with the other teens, Remi had open the scrapbook her parents had made, showing them all of Ash's drawings. Drawings with mystical creatures playing with stick figure Ash and Remi, or adventures they went on at the park. Even Snotlout had to admit, it was cute seeing these drawings. Flipping over one page, Fishlegs stopped Remi.
"It looked like one page was stuck to another." Pointing the the page she had just turned, and there she could see two ends instead of one. Furrowing her brow, she carefully pulled the two pages apart to reveal a hidden picture. It was a polaroid photo of a man and woman with two little kids.
"Wow, I've never seen such a detailed drawing." Astrid admired. Remi just shook her head.
"It isn't a drawing, it's a photograph." Flipping it over, she read the names on the back. Anne and Brian Thatcher with two year old Remira and six month old Ashton Thatcher. It was taken just a month before her parents had lost custody of them due to their drug addiction. Of course she wasn't supposed to know that, but she had snooped around some of her old files when she was twelve. They tried to get custody back, but they both suffered from lethal overdoses seven months after they were taken away.
"Wait, what's a photograph?" Ruffnut inquired. Remi snapped out of her daze. A week after Hiccup woke up from the battle with the Red Death, he and Remi had come clean to the teens, Stoick, Gobber, and village elder Gothi that she was from the future. It was hard for them to swallow the truth but she ended up somehow proving herself.
"Uh, it's like a drawing but taken with a device called a camera. It captures the image you point at and using billions of tiny squares called pixels, it forms a photo."
They all nodded their head like they understood, and while Hiccup, Astrid, and Fishlegs truly did understand, the twins and Snotlout were still slightly lost. Remi placed the photo back in the scrapbook and closed it, feeling tired from a long day of training with the dragons.
"I think I'm gonna head back to my hut, I'll see you all tomorrow." Waving to her friends, she walked out the large wooden doors and called to Nova who was sitting with the other dragons.
"Come on girl, lets get some shut eye." They walked back to their hut near the docks, enjoying the night air and the starry sky. She could never have such a view back home, not with all the light pollution. Walking through her hut door, Nova hopped onto her rock slab which she sleeps on, warming it up and laying down. Remi placed the book back on her shelf and went through her bedtime routine. Her hair down and boots shrugged off, she lay down in bed and pulled her cover up to her chin. She drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
She stood before a gold palace, engravings of clocks on every pillar that sky was a soft pastel yellow and the clouds flew by at an unimaginable speed. It was like the sky was on fast forward. Remi could hear voices coming from the palace, none that she recognized. Walking up the golden steps, she cautiously padded her way through the open halls, following the strange voices she heard. They lead her to a large bronze door with an hourglass lock. Inside the hourglass was silver sand, glistening in the light. With a firm hand, she turned the hourglass upside down, watching as the sand fall down. Before the top emptied out, a sudden burst of light clouded her vision, and she woke up.
Eyes opened wide and chest heaving up and down, Remi sat up in her bed to see it was daylight out. That was the third time she had that dream and every time it seemed she was closer and closer to opening those mysterious doors. Shaking her head, she jumped out of her bed to get ready for the day. Putting on her boots and tying her hair into a bun, she grabbed Nova some fish for breakfast, eating an apple for herself. They both finished their meal and headed out for a nice morning flight, the air nice and cool, barely any wind, and the sun shining down on Berk. As soon as she walked a few steps however, she noticed a crowd of people down on the docks. 'What are they looking at?' she thought, blocking the sun from her eyes, she looked out into the horizon where they were all staring and became slack-jaw. An island, probably only a mile from the shores of Berk, sat surrounded by a golden fog, but what surprised her more than that was what sat stop it. The golden palace from her dreams.
"No way." She gasped. "We need to get Hiccup." Mounting Nova, they flew off to the sea stack that she and the other dragon riders usually trained on. Upon her arrival, she sighed in relief to see nearly everyone was there. Stopping to hover above them, she called down.
"Guys! You need to come see this!"