I was woken by the sound of constant thuds and tapping on the roof. Now normally when someone hears that in the morning, they begin to panic or overreact by shouting and screaming. Not here though. Every morning, that is the sound that I hear that forces me out of bed, whether I'm ready to get up or not. "Hold on, hold on you impatient, overgrown crow" I said as I climbed out of bed. Still exhausted, I got myself dressed and snatched up my helmet that rests on the foot of my bed every night and made my way downstairs where my dad always sleeps. Looking at his enormous motionless body on his bed makes it look like a mattress is sleeping on top of another mattress. Being sure not to wake him up, I tiptoed out of the house and silently closed the door.

Mornings on Berk are always beautiful. The sun rising from the east side of the horizon, its rays reflecting off of the never-ending body of water in a wide array of warm colors of red and yellow and orange. The mist of the sea reaching all the way up the cliff from where I stand and letting it sprinkle across my face. It must have rained a little during the night because the smell of rainwater splattered over the grass and gravel managed to reach my nose. One couldn't even imagine asking for a more perfect morning.

I walked to the left side of the house where I saw him waiting for me on top of the roof. "Hey there, Bud" I greeted my best friend in the world. The Nightfury jumped from the roof and landed right in front of me with the saddle resting in his mouth. He dropped it at my feet (well, foot) and pawed at it, wanting to go for a ride. "In a little bit, Toothless. Gobber had fishing duty last night and he wants me to help him haul in his keepers".

Toothless looked at me, mildly annoyed. I hated to say no to him, especially with those great big puppy dog eyes he gives me every time. "I'll be right back up and then we'll go for a ride. I promise". Toothless let out a snort and walked the other way. He may be a dragon, but he is surprisingly reasonable. "Thank you. I'll be back soon."

I walked down to the docks on the east side of the island to find that Gobber isn't back yet. What the? Where is he? He's never late. I continued to pace back and forth, waiting for my old teacher's arrival with the fish. About ten minutes passed until I finally saw him in his sailboat waving at me. He pulled his boat to the side of the dock and started to toss me the nets of fish he caught overnight. "Sorry I'm late Hiccup, I had a nasty fight with this last net of fish that nearly pulled me overboard. Nothing ol' Gobber can't handle", he said, swinging his artificial arm in my face.

"Sounds dangerous, wish I could've been there to help you out" I said jokingly. "Take as many nets as you can, we'll come back for the rest later." I picked up about five nets of fish and began walking off the dock and up to the wooden catwalks that protrude from the cliff side, and slowly made my way back up to solid ground.

"You should 'ave seen it, Hiccup. That last net of fish seemed to realize that they were going to be used for a feast later on and began to swim together downward into the sea. Almost lost mah grim on 'em, but they were no match for my strength as I hauled them into the boat." "Hey, that's right! The festival of Berk is coming up this week. I forgot about it", I said, feeling stupid that I forgot about the entire festival. After all, I am the son of the chief and he is setting up the entire thing.

"Yep, five more days, then we feast like champions. And I have an idea of who you're taking to it, Hiccup." "Taking," I asked stupidly. "Oh come on now, I see how you've been laying your eyes on the lass", he said winking at me. "Astrid? Nah Gob, she and I are just friends", I lied; slightly embarrassed that he brought that up. I have had a big crush on her for a long time now, but I was still afraid to admit it. "Yeah right. I saw how she kissed you after you woke up from that coma. I'd say you two are a little more than just friends." "Well, we'll just have to see what happens at the festival", I said, wanting him to stop talking about it. "Fair enough. Now lets get these fish up to the mess hall."

We both heard a loud growling noise up above our heads. I looked up to see a defensive Toothless standing over the edge of the cliff. His ears were pulled back and his eyes narrowed to slits. "Toothless, what's wrong Bud?" He motioned out to the sea, telling me there was something out there. I looked out to the ocean and I did see something: ships, lots of them. But not just any ships, even from this far away, I could immediately identify who those ships belonged to. "Outcasts", I said under my breath. Right after I said it, I could see something being launched out of one of the ships, coming straight for us.

"Look out!" I shouted to Gobber, and we both ran backwards to avoid being crushed by the gigantic projectile. A large boulder collided with the side of the cliff, making a large cracking sound. The massive rock then fell downwards and crashed straight through the catwalk, leaving a massive gap between us, and the rest of the catwalk.

Again, a boulder was launched from one of the ships, this one hit the wall and fell on the catwalk behind us, leaving a giant gap behind us as well, leaving Gobber and I stranded on this one peace of the catwalk untouched by giant rocks. "Oh Gods!" I shouted, realizing there wasn't any way off. A third rock came now. This one hit so close overhead that the impact caused both Gobber and I to drop the fish.

"Toothless!" I cried out. He looked down at me in panic, at first not sure of what to do. Then he jumped down from the cliff, and used his wings to flap down on the catwalk: the only problem was he landed on the catwalk that was separated from the one I was on.

We both yelped as we heard another boulder hit the side of the wall. He turned his back and tried to extend his tail out to me so I could climb on, but he was still too far. The ships were getting closer now. "I can't reach you Bud!" I cried, trying to reach for his tail. Suddenly, I felt a large hand pick me up. "Gobber! What are you do- AHHHH", I shouted as he threw me over to Toothless. I grabbed onto his tail, pulled myself onto his body and he lowered me onto the catwalk. "Gobber! Jump!" It was a horrible idea, but it was the only one I could think of.

Gobber backed up as far as he could go, then he ran and jumped over to the other side of the catwalk. Miraculously, his fake hook hand snagged onto the wooden surface and he then proceeded to dangle there. Toothless and I helped him to his feet and he had to steady himself so he didn't fall off. "Run!" I shouted. The three of us ran as fast as we could up the remainder of the catwalk as more and more boulders were launched at us. We each avoided them and made our way up to solid ground.

The ships hadn't gone unnoticed; the entire village was running around, climbing up to the catapults and getting ready to defend the island. Gobber went into his hut to gather weapons ready while me and Toothless ran back to our house to get his saddle on. We reached where I last left the saddle and proceeded to put it onto Toothless as fast as I could.

The massive rocks were now reaching over the cliff and demolishing the buildings. One after the other, rocks flew in and destroyed everything in their path. "Hiccup!" I turned to see my dad panting and had a worried look on his face. "What in Thor's name is going on?!" he demanded. "It's the Outcasts." I explained. "They're attacking the island!" The massive chief turned his back to me and called for his dragon, "Thornado! Come!" he yelled. Then, the Thunderdrum appeared, dad hopped on and flew off to help his fellow Vikings.

Finally I got the saddle hooked up. I hopped on Toothless' back, hooked my prosthetic leg into the mechanism that controls his tail (also prosthetic), and we flew off, preparing for battle.

We quickly launched ourselves into the air and flew to the east, where the ships were coming from. Dodging every boulder wasn't exactly easy, each rock that flew inches passed my head was then replaced with another rock that too flew inches from my head. On rock was coming right for us though, and we didn't have time to steer out of the way. Suddenly, a blur of brown flew in front of me, and it grabbed the boulder heading for the two of us in its mouth. "Fishlegs!" "Hiccup, what is going on here?" the giant teen asked me in a worried expression.

"I have no idea Fishlegs, all I do know is that the Outcasts are firing on us", I said, pointing to the ships. "Lets go get them! Meatlug is getting hungry", Fishlegs said, patting his Gronckle on the head. With that, he and I charged into the ships, prepared to cause as much damage as we possibly can.

"Toothless, plasma blast!" I commanded. The Nightfury then shot a white hot ball of fire into one of the ships, and saw it cause a massive hole in it and it proceeded to sink, the inhabitants of the ship jumped off and proceeded to swim to their fellow boats. We circled around and saw Fishlegs and Meatlug firing lava blasts at the ships, some hitting the ships, and others actually hitting the Outcasts themselves, causing them to scream in a horrible tone and also jump off the ship in attempts to cool themselves off.

Toothless circled around and we were then heading straight for the right side of a ship. "Fire!" Toothless fired another fireball into the ship. This ship must have been carrying some explosives or gunpowder because the entire thing erupted in a massive explosion.

We quickly steered away from the fiery cloud and continued to blast holes in multiple ships. I looked to the island and saw my dad riding his Thunderdrum into the battle. The dragon let out a concussive shockwave from its mouth, blowing an entire ship backwards, and sending the Outcasts flying into the water. Way to go dad! Dad then stopped and he looked down at one of the ships. I looked in the direction my dad was looking and saw the one person I despised the most: Alvin, leader of the Outcasts.

"What is it you want, Alvin?" My dad shouted down to the man. "Simple. I want your dragons Stoick." That answer made my blood run cold. He wanted our dragons? "I assumed you wouldn't simply just hand them over to us, so I went with the next best option." He explained in his insanely gruff and raspy voice. "Well forget it, Al! You're never getting your hands on our dragons!" I shouted out to him.

He looked at me and smiled. "Ah, it's the 'dragon conqueror'. I could use your help to ya know. I can't possibly handle these dragons by myself." "I'll never help you. Why do you even want our dragons anyway? Cant you just go off and find your own?" I asked. "Your island is the one with the most dragons. Why go aimlessly searching for them when I can simply come here?"

Then my dad came back in with something to say, "Alvin, it's hopeless. We've wiped out most of your fleet. Surrender now, and we'll leave the rest of your boats intact." Alvin scratched his long beard, pondering the offer. He looked around and saw that Me, Fishlegs and Dad have indeed destroyed most of the boats. He looked back at my dad and growled, "Fine, you win today. But don't think this is the last you've seen me", he warned. "Boys! Turn the ships around! They've got us", he ordered his men and they let out a disappointed moan.

With that, the ships started to turn around and go back to where they came from. Dad ordered us to go back to the island and tell everyone to meet in the dining hall. The island of Berk has a lot to talk about now.