This is Berk. It's twelve days North of hopeless, and a few degrees South of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the meridian of misery. My village. In a word, sturdy. And it's been here for seven generations almost 300 Years. There are many amazing things about my village, we have fishing, hunting, and a charming view of the sunsets. Though I never really get to enjoy any of these things. I'm always busy getting yelled at or "disciplined". My life here is a living Hel and I didn't know it yet but it was about to get a lot worse before it got any better.
My name is Hiccup great name, right? Well where I'm from parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls, Ha like our Viking Demeanor wouldn't do that. Oh yeah, I may have forgotten to mention that I'm a "Viking". Or at least I'm supposed to be, you know how Vikings are tall, lots of muscle, stubborn as an ox, fearless, ready for anything and maybe not the brightest tools in the forge, everything that isn't me, if anything that is the opposite of me, I'm scrawny most people refer to me as a "walking fishbone" I know what the village thinks of me, Most of the adults hate me, the Kids my age want nothing to do with me, but after 15 years of this I'm used to it and to be honest the only time people ever notice me is when things never go my way.
Sounds pretty bad right? You have no idea, things never go my way and I mean NEVER. Where I'm from the only thing that ever matters around here is killing, and only killing our greatest enemy, Dragons. Yeah, I said it Dragons, where I'm from we Vikings have been in a war with theses "mindless killing machines" for 300 years, but little did anyone know that was going to change and I was going to be the cause of it. Me Hiccup the Useless actually being part of the biggest change in the world known to Viking kind. Ha you know if anyone would have told me this when I was 15 I would have laughed at them and my dad would have tied the to a mast of a ship and shipped the off to sea for fear they had gone mad, but now looking back on my life I wish someone would have told me sooner.
And this is my story of how my world got turned upside down and how I became something no one else expected of me and how I changed the world and the universe, How I went from Hiccup the Useless to the savior of Berk and the world and beyond. Well for this story to start I guess it would have to begin with a normal day in my amazing life.
