PICKLES AND PANCAKES!

Well now that I've got your attention, THIS IS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT!

1) Thank you for clicking on this pixelated piece of this website. I enjoy the fact that you will be reading my first story in about…well, whenever I decide to stop typing in bold.

2) THIS IS THE IMPORTANT ONE. This is set in an AU timeline sort-of thing, basically, in this story, the movie happens when they're 12. It is to realistic! (Not sure if that's the right two) Well, movie-world realistic, that is. Harry Potter went to Hogwarts when he was eleven, so ha! Oh, and another thing, Hiccup's mom died in childbirth, during the birth of Hiccup's 5th sibling. I just imagine Hiccup as having siblings and taking care of them, and as a result being very good with children. And yes people do have 6 kids and sometimes even more, my dad has nine siblings.

3) This is also important Disclaimer: I do not own How To Train Your Dragon at all, nope, nuhuh, zero, zip (edeedodazipedeeday…what, so I was in Little Theater when I was younger). I also do not own anything else I might reference that you can look up on the internet and find anything that matches whatever it is exactly.

4) This will include magic and anything else my weird and 'creative' imagination can think up.

Except gore, no gore. (Anybody understand the reference?...no? Nobody?)

5) I think Astrid may be OOC, feel free to tell me if you think so, too. Also feel free to tell me if there's anything else you or someone else notices or wants, grammar, spelling, not enough of a certain character, too much of one, a comment you want a certain character to make during the movie, anything, I'll try to incorporate it. Oh, and just imagine all the teens as looking like the first season of Race To The Edge. I know it's unrealistic, but this is called Fanfiction for a reason. The one thing I will not do is Hiccup's POV for this chapter.

Now...THE FIRST CHAPTER!

"Life is a trip and the road map leads you"

- When Can I See You Again by Owl City

Everyone on Berk was, to put it bluntly, still mildly depressed over it. It was life-changing. Their lives were changed in the aftermath of the Red Death and then changed again only four months later.

Astrid's POV

I'm now fifteen.

Meaning it's been four months short of three years. Nearly three long years since…that. Ever since it happened, things have changed for everyone, even Snotlout. For me, as well as the rest of the dragon riders, we've all softened, granted, not much because, well…vikings, but still. Sometimes I do wonder how he's doing, if he's alive or…..not. After all, he did say in the note he left that he will come back eventually.

Flashback-2 years, eight months, and 12 days ago

"Have any of you seen Hiccup?", I had asked, actually, more like demanded, as soon as I dismounted Stormfly and walked into the Great Hall for dinner. I started to walk to our normal table after I grabbed a plate of what the Berkian cooks prepared for dinner. On my way, I noticed that most people in the building, which was basically our whole village, were talking to each other about something or another. The twins took a break from fighting long enough for Tuffnut to answer me with,

"I saw him yesterday, does that count?"

"She means today, stupid!" Ruffnut sure is charming, isn't she?

"Hey! Idiot."

"Troll!"

"Bride of Grendel!"

Inwardly, I sigh. Another fight between the twins, I can't get information from those two no matter what, can I?

Suddenly, the door is whisked open by none other than the Chief of Berk, Stoick the Vast.

….looking at a note? Huh?

He comes over to our table, the Hall is now completely silent, a rare feat for Vikings, everyone wondering the same thing,

'What happened?'

It's obvious to tell when he's upset by his face, but this is on a whole different level, this is a mix of sadness, relief, and helplessness.

When he gets to our table, he gives me the note wordlessly.

Dear whoever finds this,

This may seem stupid and selfish of me, I know, but, putting it bluntly, I left. I couldn't stand staying in one place anymore. I know it sounds absurd, but it's true. Even before Toothless, I still wandered, whether it was walking through the village paths so many times that I memorized the layout of the whole village to finding a new cave in the forest, I've always wandered. Now, though, I've explored everywhere on Berk that I can, but it's not enough to quench my wanderlust. So me and Toothless left to travel the world and discover new lands, maybe we'll even find more about those ruins I discovered while sailing on a boat two years ago, y'know, the ones that look like big blocks with the letter 'H' on them and have more precise cuts than even the Romans can do? Sorry for telling you in a note, but if I told someone they would've tried to get us to stay, and I really want to do this, we both do, me and Toothless go flying and both of us never want to turn back, I have to almost force him, because it's the right thing to do. I'm not sure how long we'll be traveling for but we will come back, I guarantee it.

Sincerely,

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third

…..WHAT?!

He left Berk? They left?

I understand the concept of wanderlust, and even the fact that if he told someone in person they would eventually convince him not to go.

It's just the fact that he HAD HIS LEFT LEG AMPUTATED ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO! There's also the fact that, as a friend, I'm worried about him. After all, he left, so I'll probably only ever be a friend to him. Might as well start acting like it.

The other teens and Gobber, who were all reading over my shoulder, exploded with comments.

"Wonder what he'll find?"

"Do you think he'll discover new dragon species?"

"I wonder where he is now?"

"Do you think he's alright?"

"Lad's always been interested in explorin', shoulda known he'd pull somethin' like this."

Everybody else in the Hall was watching us, confused, so of course Gobber took the letter, looked at Chief Stoick and waited for a nod from the big, muscled man. When he got it, he started reading the letter out loud.

Complete silence again.

After about three seconds every single person burst into whispers.

"Where is he?"

"What is he thinking?"

"What are we going to do about the dragons, they'll freak!"

"What the Hell was he thinking?"

"Do you think he'll actually come back?"

"He was our best dragon trainer, they all listened to him no matter what, now what'll we do?"

One question stood out the most though,

"Wait, what about his leg?"

This one question struck silence into the hall once again, the job was done not just by the question, though, but also it's asker,

"Snotlout?" The words that I realized a second too late were mine, slipped off my tongue, like water flowing over rocks that are part of a peaceful waterfall.

"Yes?" He seemed surprised by the amount of surprise in my voice.

"Why would you…?" I end up trailing off at the end of my sentence, but he knows what I mean 'Why would you care about that?' I mean, I know that him and Tuffnut have, like, this newfound allegiance to Hiccup and newfound protectiveness over him, but still, Snotlout?

"Well, why wouldn't I care about my cousin?"

"Oookaayy…"

Well, moving past that weirdness, one question still remains,

'How will we tell Hallie, Stormi, Asmund, Dustin, and little Ingrid that their brother left Berk to travel?'

Flashback over

As it turns out Hiccup already did that job for us, he asked his siblings if they were alright with him going, and said that if they weren't, he wouldn't go, no matter how much he wanted to. Guess they were. Don't ask me how Hiccup asked Ingrid because I have no idea, after all, she was only one at the time, but Hiccup always finds a way. Sometimes though, I do need to remind myself of his sibling's ages, not my fault, they just all act more mature than they should be at their ages.

Hallie- 15 years old.

Stormi- 12 years old.

Asmund-8 years old.

Dustin- 5 years old.

Ingrid- 4 years old.

I'm currently walking through the village square while thinking all this, on my way to the Hall to get some breakfast and sit down, when realize just how much has changed since Hiccup left.

Dragons are now integrated into our lives, at least ½ of all Berk's villagers now have a dragon.

The twins have stopped fighting as much, don't get me wrong, they still fight, just not as much as three years before. They also became determined after Hiccup left, why? Because Hiccup told them that the Zippleback from the arena was actually not their bonded dragon, so they went on a mission to find their bonded dragons after he left. Now, Ruff has a blue changewing named Magnhild, and Tuff has a dark green Whispering Death named Egil. Oh, and Ruff changed her hairstyle a little bit, now she doesn't have five braids, two sticking out from behind her ears and three going down to her hips with the hair at the end of the three braid curled into balls, she just has two braids on each side of her head going down to her hips and the hair after the braid is tied let loose.

Snolout has stopped hitting on me because he likes another girl, Eerika, now. He also is now less arrogant, mostly because of Eerika. They've moved up from the 'Hey, I don't know you' stage to being almost best shameful thing is the fact that this girl, Eerika, is a wonderful person, but if it weren't for Hiccup none of us would've ever gone out of our way to meet her.

Fishlegs, well, at least he can hold a conversation without it being about dragons, now. There are rumors going around the village that he likes one of our other friends, Mahin, don't know if they're true or not, though.

Just as I finish contemplating this, I see a bright flash of white-blue light and someone appears in the Great Hall.

Narrator POV

A girl about fifteen years old, the same age the teens are, appeared in front of them.

They all, Astrid in particular, notice that her appearance is that of tan skin, straight, hip-length, dark brown hair with a golden streak on the side and bangs that start just above her left eyebrow and go down to the bottom of her left ear, with warm dark chocolate colored brown eyes that, for some reason, have a sense of authority and security in them and not as much baby fat on her face as she should have at that age. Then, her clothes are looked at, now, this girl is from the year 2015, so, suffice to say, nobody recognizes the clothes she has on.

Astrid's POV

"Hi, I'm Megan, I'm from the future, and I'm here to make all of you go POOF and then you and a few others all appear in my house, and I show you and your dragons a movie of how Hiccup and Toothless met 'till the Red Death and then I make you all go POOF again and you magically transport back here where you all go about your normal lives like nothing happened at all so I'll bring us all there after I answer the questions you undoubtedly have for me– and I'm rambling again, sorry, I do that sometimes, so anyway, questions, 1….2….3….GO!"

A few questions:

Can anyone guess the ancient ruins Hiccup talks about in his note? Yes, they are real. First one who guesses it gets a dedication in the next chapter that I upload after they guess it. (Does that make any sense? I honestly can't tell, since I already know what I'm trying to say.)

2) The four teens and Gobber's questions, can you guess who said what? Hint: Astrid doesn't get a question and Snotlout gets two, 'cause that's just how I roll.

RANDOM FACT TIME: Did you know that Nickola Tesla created an invention called the Wardenclyffe Power Plant in the 19th century that was supposed to use the Earth as an electrical conductor? In other words, he created free electricity with no wires over 100 years ago.

RANDOM QUESTION TIME: What's your favorite song? I'll try and listen to it, even if it's an instrumental or in another language. I listen to music at least 3 hours every day, and always like discovering new music. I have so many favorite songs right now that it's not even funny, I'll list a few:

Do Something – Matthew West

Family Tree – Matthew West

Whiskey Lullaby – Brad Paisley ft. Alison Krauss

That Ghost – Megan and Liz

Livin' on a Prayer – Bon Jovi

Piano Man – Billy Joel

Renegade – Cimorelli

Evolution of Music – Pentationix

Lies of the Beautiful People – Sixx .A.M

Wreck of Who I Am - Elizabeth Huett

Bright – Echosmith

Carry On – Fun

Didn't They – Taylor Swift

Bad Blood – Taylor Swift

Brought Up That Way – Taylor Swift

You're Worth It – Cimorelli

Don't – Ed Sheeran

Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran

Dead in the Water – Ellie Goulding

Explosions – Ellie Goulding

I know, I know, long list and genre variety, but I listen to music A LOT. Oh, and if you like any of these songs, can you please check out my Facebook page called 'Positive Ways', I post anything positive, lyrics, pictures, quotes. Plus, if you want to, feel free to suggest anything for that page, too. Or facts or questions that you want me to put on here.

Just warning you though, I'm at my church Saturday night - we have a meeting for addicts and their family members called "The Meeting", Sunday morning – church, Sunday night – church, Wednesday night – church. Plus, I'm homeschooled 5-6 hours a day, 6 days a week, and I want to learn electric guitar, and I might start up singing lessons again soon. So, I might not update daily or even weekly, but I will. Finish. This. Story. I already have the whole movie script and everything. At least I have my own computer, so when I do have time to write I won't be restricted.

VOTE TIME: Couple? I just want to hear what you think, and I'll try to add mild hints of it here or there.I really have no idea what couple this story will end up having, for all I know I might decide to have Hiccup not be paired with anyone. I'll probably have a poll up about it soon.

Criticism is very welcome, in fact it is encouraged. Flames will be magically turned into solar panels and used as death rays! It is possible, someone did it before and melted a brick.

Man, this A/N turned into a random essay, I was all over the place wasn't I?

Oh well, BBBBYYYYYYEEEEEE! *insert my 2 month old, adult hand-sized, black, white, light brown, and tan Chihuahua named Piper here staring at readers with her head tilted, one ear up and one ear down.*