AN: It's finally here :) Sorry for the wait - been busy with some other stuff, and in case you come here first... you really need to read A Dragon's Soul first otherwise you might not get some of this...

In times of old... When Vikings ruled the land, and Dragons ruled the skies... There were two very special beings who after...

Hey you said I could do the introduction thing.

Toothless you just ruined the whole thing.

Well if someone would of kept there promise and let me do it... That wouldn't of happened would it Hiccup?

Fine whatever! Tell them the rest so we can get started.

Ok I will... Ahem

Five years ago me and my brother, Hiccup, still a strange name if you ask me, found each other and after defeating the Seadragonus Giganticus Maxumas that ruled over the island next to Berk, brought Dragons and Humans together.

Now instead of killing us Brothers-of-the-Snakes, the Vikings ride us and we let them. We even help them when some of them, not saying who...

(Groan)

Get into trouble when they're trying to prove their worth.

Can we just get the story started please?

Ok ok... Mister Bossy.

Well it started out like any other miserable day the Island of Berk could have...

Berk had changed a lot over the last five years.

The empty caves beneath the village were now custom stables for any dragon to use whenever they wanted, there was now an all-you-can-eat feeding station that was always full of fish, a full surface dragon wash that had rotating rods to help the dragons clean themselves, wooden perches for them to rest on so they don't accidentally brake things, where the Blacksmith used to be there was now a Dragon Dentist, where they also made saddles and wing slings.

And the most useful thing in a wooden housed village full of dragons, aqueducts to bring the water to the fire more quickly than having to fiddle about with buckets of water.

And the oldest newest thing, which everyone loved to their hearts content... Dragon Racing. In fact there was a Dragon Race scheduled for that afternoon and all the Terrible Terrors wanted everyone to know about it.

'DRAGON RACE TODAY! DRAGON RACE TODAY! DRAGON RACE TODAY!'

"Aghhh... Why are they always over this house whenever they have news to scream out..." a 20 viking with auburn brown hair and a missing leg mumbled as he grabbed his pillow and turned over to stifle the noise.

'Because this house is higher than the others, so the Tiny One's voices carry further...' the black dragon beside the bed said who was also using his paws to cover his ears to block out the noise.

'DRAGON RACE TODAY!'

Not sure how much more he could take, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, the son of Chief Stoick the Vast of Berk, got out of bed and went over to the window and called out up to the roof.

'Hey guys can you come here a sec please...' in Dragonese, the language of the Dragons to the Terrible Terrors (Toothless and the other dragons have been teaching him).

In a few seconds there was a yellow, an orange, and a white Terrible Terror sitting on the window sill all licking their eyes to wash them.

'Yeah Hiccup?' they asked together beaming.

"Ok guys this has got to stop," Hiccup said as he went around putting his new leather armor/flight suit on. "You can not keep coming to this house and scream to the heavens every new bit of news you hear."

'If I remember that's what you told them the last few times Brother,' Toothless said now stretching like a cat, and shaking sleep off himself.

"Yes thank you Toothless," Hiccup said rolling his eyes before returning to the Terrors.

'We're only being helpful Prince and telling everyone the news and that there's a Dragon Race today," the yellow Terror said cocking his head not understanding how this is upsetting the two sons of Nyx and Artemis.

"Yeah I know..." Hiccup said scratching him smiling. "But can you either do it somewhere else? Or wait until AFTER the sun has risen fully? Please?"

'Ok,' the orange one said giving a cute little salute 'We promise we won't do it again.'

With that they flew off and began delivering the news from the roof of the Great Hall instead, their cries reaching up here.

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'500 pounds of fish say they'll forget that promise by the next Dragon Race,' Noche said coming over to Hiccup smirking. 'Want to take it?'

"No," Hiccup said sighing grabbing his new helmet and going for the door "Because I know it would be a suckers bet because they always do, they have brains and attention spans as small the Twins and Snotlout put together."

Laughing together, Hiccup and Noche went downstairs to have some breakfast before their morning flight before the race.

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When they got there however Stoick was already there looking like he was waiting for Hiccup to come down a large smile on his large face, the sun catching some of the newly greying hairs in his beard.

"Son. We need to talk," he said in his strong voice before Hiccup could ask what was going on.

"Er... Ok if this has anything to do with the Terrors always being on our roof..." Hiccup said getting panicked because he's suppose to be keeping them in order.

"It's not that son. Now listen to me..." Stoick said spinning around to the fire so they couldn't see the look on his face. Hiccup and Toothless giving a curious look to each other but didn't say anything.

"You're the Pride of Berk son, and you know I couldn't be prouder." Stoick said nodding. "The things you have done for this village, and our neighboring tribes have been great things."

"Err... Thanks dad," Hiccup said rubbing the back of his head grinning a bit "But you know it hasn't been just me that has done all this you know."

"Yes I do," Stoick said spinning around to look to his son and to pat Toothless on the head getting a loving coo from him. "But you son, you were the one to start it off, the one who lead us out of the darkness when we were fighting Dragons and brought us into the light of here and now. And as you know every Chief needs a successor to help in times of need..." he said not noticing Hiccup getting slightly uneasy by the words he was saying as he turned back to the fire.

"And as no Chief can ask for a better successor than you I have decided..." he paused for a dramatic effect "To make you Chief!" he said spinning around again but only coming up to an empty room and an open front door.

AN Reminder on how I work...

Bold = me talking to you

Bold and Italic = Dragonese

Normal = the story

Just to point out only Astrid knows Hiccup's secret of him being half dragon - but by the end of this story that might change

Finally I'm not sure how good I'll be with keeping up updates this time around but I'll try my best ;)