Meanwhile on Berk we Hairy Hooligans were enjoying our way of life. Five years ago our way of life was fighting dragons to the death, but now we have the best well-kept secret just about—well anywhere. Granted it doesn't look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises.

Life here is amazing. Just not for the faint of heart. You while most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call dragon racing.

Now over those five Hiccup and me had practical redesign Berk. We have custom stables, all-you-can-eat feeding stations, a full-service dragon wash, even top-of-the-line fire prevention, if I do say so, myself. We even built bleachers so people could sit down and enjoy our Dragon Races.

Over the five years we had changed our attire and we boys were being to grow facial hair. Hiccup, who is now the tallest of us, now had leather armour and a helmet that he designed himself; he now carried a sword which he called Inferno and now had a modified prosthetic leg that had three different legs and a couple of braids in his hair. Astrid now had a red shirt, fur hood and larger fur armbands; she even changed her hair just like the way Heather had done hers. I now had leather armour, I wore my old quiver that was now full of scrolls and parchment and on my head I had a helmet with a special type of goggles that I could adjust to see in far off distances. Fishlegs now gad furry armbands, a belt with pockets full of cards with dragons on them and a new helmet, but instead of horns it has something that resembles little Gronckle wings. Snotlout, who now is the shortest of use, now wore a shirt that looks as if it's made of dragon scales and a fur cape from a bear. Ruffnut is the only one that hasn't changed her appearance apart from her helmet that now had spikes running across the crown, but her bother Tuffnut defiantly has, he now had spiked boots, a spiked shoulder pad and now had a dreadlocks hairstyle.

Now since I'm not the hero of this story this will not be from my point of view.


Now it all began on Berk during a dragon race. The dragon rider, minus Hiccup, were flying around the village with face paint all over their faces, even their dragons had been painted. Astrid and Stormfly had orange and blue paint, Ragnar and Skull had purple and blue paint, Fishlegs and Meatlug had green and brown paint on them, Snotlout and Hookfang had red and yellow paint, the twins though they had the same dragon, a Hideous Zippleback, but they had different pace paint Ruffnut and Barf had yellow and light green and Tuffnut and Belch had black and yellow paint, though Tuffnut painted his face to look like a skull.

A herd of sheep with targets painted on them were looking up at the sky nervously and were running from house to house trying not to get sported. While hiding in-between two houses one of them was pushed out into the open and was grabbed my Meatlug and her rider, Fishlegs, cheered excitedly.

Then Hookfang slammed into Meatlug, making her drop her sheep and Snotlout caught it. HO-HO! I'm sorry, Fishlegs! Did you want that?" he said smugly.

Fishlegs glared at him and said, "Snotlout, that was mine!"

Snotlout ignored him and pulled over to the twins. "Here you go, baba," said Snotlout tossing the sheep to Ruffnut and smiling at her and added, "Did I tell you that you look amazing today? Because you do!"

"Ugh. Come on, Barf!" Ruffnut said in disgust and Barf let out so gas. "It's starting to stink around here!"

"Nope, still hates you!" said Tuffnut. He then looked down at Belch. "Let's blow this place, Belch! All right!"

Belch sparked the gas creating an explosion that knocked Snotlout back. Then when they flew past the bleachers Ruffnut dropped her sheep into their basket, which full of sheep already.

Stoick was on a podium with Gobber, whose clothing was now filthy and in tatters and whose helmet now had a visor, Spitelout and Gothi and laughed. "Ha-ha. That's nine for the twins, Astrid lags with three, one for Ragnar, Fishlegs and Snotlout trail with none…" he said and stopped when he saw his sons basket was empty, he sighed and sat in his throne. "And Hiccup is… nowhere to be found. Hmm."

"Scared him off with the big talk, didn't ye, Stoick?" said Gobber chuckling.

Astrid flew over to Snotlout and punched him hard in the head in annoyed. "What are you doing, Snotlout? They're going to win now!" she said.

"Yeah, the point of this game is to put the sheep in your own basket," said Ragnar, as flew up next to him.

"She's my princess!" said Snotlout proudly. "Whatever she wants, she gets!"

"Ruffnut?" said Astrid shaking her head in disbelief "Didn't she try to bury you alive?"

"Only for a few hours!" said Snotlout.

"Five years ago Astrid was your princess," Ragnar said rolling his eyes.

"So, I moved on," said Snotlout.

"Then you tried to hit on Heather," Ragnar reminded.

"I decided to go up market."

"Morel like down market," Ragnar muttered.

They then took another lap around the island and entered the stables, where all the dragons of different ages and breeds lived. After they exited the stables they flew over the plaza where a Deadly Nadder was taking a snack in feeding station and a where a Gronckle was taking a wash. Then a baby Gronckle sneezed and fired a lava blast setting a house on fire.

Luckily Astrid saw this flew under an aqueduct that was placed over the house. She pulled a rope and water poured over the house putting the fire out.

From his throne Stoick enjoyed what he saw and looked at Gobber, who was clapping, and said, "It's time, Gobber!"

"Righty-o!" said Gobber and waved to a Viking standing next a massive horn and said, "Last lap!"

The Viking nodded and as Gobber made his way of the bleachers, he blow on the horn. It was loud enough for the racers to hear and signalled the last lap.

"The Black Sheep!" Astrd gasped and looked down at Stormfly. "Come on, Stormfly! We can still win this thing!"

"Now if me and Skull have anything to say about," said Ragnar and he zoomed passed her.

On the ground Gobber was pulling a catapult into the centre of the plaza. In it sat a black sheep with a target painted on it. As the dragon racers made their way to the plaza, each on trying to get ahead of the other, Gobber got the catapult ready for lunch.

"This is your big moment," he said to the black sheep. The black sheep looked at him confused. "Have a nice flight."

Gobber pulled on the lever and sent the scared black sheep up into the air. Astrid looked as though she would get to it first and got Stormfly ready to catch it, but Ragnar was close behind her determined to get there first.

"Up, up, up, up, up, up!" she said as they got closer and closer to the black sheep.

"Almost there boy," said Ragnar as Skull slowly caught up to Astrid.

Stormfly got her talons ready to grab the black sheep. They were inches from it, when Fishlegs flew out of nowhere and grabbed the black sheep.

"NO!" Astrid cried.

"YES! Good job, Meatlug!" said Fishlegs. However, instead of flying back to the bleachers, Fishlegs tossed the black sheep to Ruffnut. "Here you go, Darling! Mine's worth ten!"

"Yeah! The Black Sheep!" Ruffnut cheered.

Astrid and Ragnar looked at each other with both with bewildered expressions. They then looked at Snotlout like he was crazy.

"You guys are fighting for Ruffnut?" said Astrid.

Snotlout shrugged. Astrid and Ragnar looked back at each other.

"To each his own," said Ragnar.

"I'm totally winning!" Ruffnut cheered.

"We're winning together!" said Fishelgs flying alongside her.

Next thing he knew Ruffnut shoved him away. Fishlegs was screaming and was flying out of control heading towards Astrid, Ragnar and Snotlout. Astrid and Ragnar avoided Fishlegs, but Snotlout wasn't so lucky and the two of them were sent flying.

"Oh, no!" Snotlout yelled, as he and Fishlegs were flung backwards.

The crowd at the bleachers cheered at the collision. Ruffnut and Tuffnut were flying around the mountain. Ruffnut was still joyous, because she still had the black sheep in her arms.

"Whoo-hoo! NO ONE CAN STOP ME NOW!" she yelled in triumphant.

Except for me! We're attached, genius!" said Tuffnut and be grabbed the black sheep. The two of them began a tug of war. "Quit trying to steal all my glory!"

"Hey!" Ruffnut yelled as she pulled on the sheep.

The two of them were so busy they didn't noticed that Astrid and Ragnar were following close behind.

Astrid looked at Ragnar and he nodded.

Astrid got to her feet and stood on Stormfly's back surfer-girl style. Ragnar hanged back ready for an opening.

They had just came around the mountain and Stoick most of know what Astrid and Ragnar were up to, because he got to his feet.

"Get them, Astrid! Come on, Ragnar!" he yelled.

"It's my glory!" Tuffnut yelled.

"You're always ruining everything!" Ruffnut muttered.

"NO SHEEP, NO GLORY!"

Astrid then jumped onto Barf and Blech's back and ran across it. The twins were still playing tug of war with the black sheep and yelling at each other not noticing that Astrid was right behind them. Astrid then somersaulted forwards, grabbed the black sheep and landed back onto Stormfly's back.

"Gotcha! Ha-ha!" She yelled triumphant.

"Whoa!" Tuffnut said staring.

"Astrid!" Ruffnut gasped.

Both the twins could do anything about this they suddenly heard a very loud roar behind them. It was so loud that they had to cover their ears and Barf and Belch lost control and crashed to the ground. Ragnar and Skull flew over them, both looking quite placed with themselves.

"Well played! Ha, ha, ha!" Stoick yelled happily. He then slammed a huge hand into Spitelout's back almost knocking him over. "That's my future daughter-in-law!"

Astrid flew towards the bleachers ready to drop the black sheep into her basket. However, before she got a chance, Fishlegs bumped into her knocking Stormfly off course. She then saw Snotlout flying towards her with a large stone hammer in both hands.

"A-ha, excuse me!" he said smugly.

"Stormfly!" Astrid yelled.

Stormfly seemed to know what to do, because she dived down and poor Fishlegs was now the one in danger. He had no chance, Snotlout's hammer slammed into him and the crowd looked away with the sight.

Stormfly meanwhile dived under the baskets spinning, she then make a U-turn. She followed up with a quick upward spiral and flew over the baskets. Astrid then tossed the black sheep into her basket and the crowd cheered loud enough to be heard from Asgard.

"That's thirteen! Astrid takes the game!" Stoick cheered.

Ragnar then flew by Astrid and they gave each other a hi-five.

"You didn't have to help me, you know," Astrid pointed out.

"Yeah," Ragnar admitted. "But I rather you won than the twins."

Astrid nodded in agreement. "Good point."

Astrid then flew over the bleachers, leaned over Stormfly and hi-fived any Viking she could reach. She then flew back alongside Ragnar.

"Where do you think Hiccup is, Rag," she asked.

"I have a pretty good idea," said Ragnar.


Over the past few years after ending the Dragon Wars, Hiccup and Toothless had been flying all over mapping the Barbaric Archipelago. They also went out discovering new dragons and hoping against hope to find more Night Furies.

This was the reason of Hiccup's absence; he and Toothless were flying over the ocean's surface. They were going to face it was hard for anyone to see. They were flying through a school of Thunderdrums that surfaced.

Then Hiccup pushed down on the stirrup that was attached to Toothless' prosthetic tailfin that had been ripped during the Dragon Wars by Hiccup himself. They then both sored up into the clouds during barrel rolls and free falls through them.

Finally they levelled out and flew alongside by several Timberjacks and enjoying the rare sunlight that shone through the clouds.

"What do you think, bud? You want to give this another shot?" Hiccup asked.

Toothless looked at Hiccup and gave him a roar that sounded as though he was complaining about the idea.

Hiccup understood Toothless perfectly and patted him on the head. "Toothless, it'll be fine!"

Toothless didn't seem to think it would be fine, but Hiccup ignored him. He pulled on the stirrup to spread the tail fin out and pulled on a leaver that locked it in place and lastly he unfastened his harness.

"Ready?" Hiccup asked.

Toothless gave a nod and Hiccup slid off Toothless' saddle and plummeted downwards. Toothless dived after Hiccup, who was screaming excitedly as though this was perfectly normal. Soon the two of them looked at each other and they fell and Toothless gave him a toothless smile and his tongue flapped in the wind.

Soon they could see the ocean through the clouds telling them that they should do something before getting splattered all over the sea.

Hiccup then grabbed two hoops that were on each side of his lower feet's. He pulled on them and outstretched his arms reviling a pair of leather wings and began to glide through the air perfectly. Toothless had pulled his wings out at the same time as Hiccup did and was gliding above him. Hiccup then flipped a switch on his chest that shot fin on his back up that helped him to stay balanced.

Hiccup looked back at Toothless, who looked amazed at the sight. Hiccup began to descend and Toothless fired several plasma blasts to create some hot air to lift him back up.

"THIS IS AMAZING!" Hiccup yelled. Then as the exited a cloud they came face to face with several large sea stacks and Hiccup was about to crash into them. "No longer amazing! TOOTHLESS!"

Toothless roared flapped his wings hard, but with his tail fin locked he couldn't get up to enough speed.

"OH, NO! AHH!" Hiccup yelled, as he was about to collide into a sea stack.

Toothless fired a plasma blast at the sea stack. This brought Hiccup closer to him and when he was close enough, Toothless grabbed him and wrapped his wings around him. The both of them soon crashed landed onto a peak hard and rolled down the uneven terrain, coming to rest on a small plateau. Once they stopped Toothless opened up his wings and Hiccup routed his leg to switch his Ridding Foot with his Walking Foot. He then got up and brushed himself down.

"Whoo. That came out of nowhere," said Hiccup.

They looked around and saw the sea stack they were about to hit cracking and then collapsed into the canyon.

"We've really got to work on your solo flying there, bud," said Hiccup as he folded up his flight suit which involved folding the wings up and pulling his back fin into place. "That, uh, locked up tail makes for a pretty sloppy rescue manoeuvres, hey?"

Hiccup then removed his helmet and looked at the new island they discovered. It was a sight there were tall cliffs and sea stacks adorned with swaying gold birch trees basking in the dappled afternoon sunlight.

"Oh, looks like we've found another one, bud," said Hiccup.

Then a small pebble hit him on the back of the head. He looked over his should and saw annoyed Toothless looking away from him.

"Oh, what? You want an apology? Is that why you're pouting, big baby-boo?" said Hiccup walking up to him, giving him a baby face. He then tossed his helmet to the ground and said, "Well, try this on!"

He then wrapped his arms around Toothless' body and tried to wrestle with. "Oh, you feeling it yet, huh? Picking up on all of my heartfelt remorse?"

Toothless wasn't impressed and stood onto his hind legs and walked towards the edge of the cliff.

"Oh, come on, come on. Yeah-yeah," said Hiccup as he hung on Toothless helplessly. "You wouldn't hurt a one legged—" He then looked down and saw the sudden drop between him and the ground and hugged onto Toothless more tightly making him give a dragon equal to a laugh. "O-oh, oh. You're right, you're right. You win… You win."

Toothless then fell backwards and rolled over to he was on top of Hiccup. Then the two of them began play fighting with each other.

"He's down! Oh, and it's ugly! Dragons and Vikings, enemies again! Locked in combat to the bitter—" Hiccup wasn't able to finish, because Toothless had pinned him down by pressing his head on Hiccup's stomach. As Hiccup groaned in pain, Toothless then licked him like mad. The only thing Hiccup could say was, "AAHHHhhhh…"

Finally Hiccup managed to free himself from Toothless. "You know that doesn't wash out!" he said as he brushed Dragon saliva off of him.

Toothless laughed, but stopped when Hiccup splashed some of his spit into his face.

Hiccup looked at the newly discovered island and pulled out a notebook from his armour. He opened it and pulled out a neatly folded map, he laid the map flat onto the ground and unfolded it. He pulled some extra pieces of paper, got Toothless to lick them and placed a sheet onto the edge of the map.

He pulled out a dagger and used it to sharpen a choral pencil and sent the compass on his right forearm and lined it up with the two twin mountain pikes in the distance.

"So… What should we name it?" said Hiccup looking at Toothless, who was busy chewing his armpit. "Itchy Armpit, it is."

He then began to draw the new island on the map. "What you reckon bud? Think we might find a few Timberjacks in those woods? The odd Whispering Death or two in the rocks? Who knows? Maybe we'll finally track down another Night Fury." He stopped and looked at the new island in wonder. "Wouldn't that be something?"

He then looked at Toothless. "So, what do say? Just keep going?" He asked Toothless.

Toothless only response was a roar that sounded a lot like a no.

Next second they heard a familiar shriek and extremely loud roar. They turned their heads and saw Astrid and Ragnar landing on the island.

"Afternoon, Milady," said Hiccup, as Toothless ran excitedly towards them. "Where have you two been?"

"That's nice," said Ragnar as he climbed off Skull. "We haven't been here for five seconds and we get 'where have you two been'."

Astrid jumped off Stormfly and pulled her hood down. "Well, I've Oh, winning races," she said patting Toothless' head, before he ran off to play with Stormfly and Skull. "Don't know about Rag though."

"Hey, I'm going to win next time," said Ragnar, as he sat on a rock and pulled so parchment from his quiver.

"In your dreams," said Astrid as she sat next to Hiccup.

"I see the future in my dreams, remember?" Ragnar reminded.

Astrid ignored him and looked at Hiccup. "Real question is, where have you been?" she said.

"Yeah, you miss the big Dragon Race," said Ragnar as he began to write.

"I've been avoiding my dad," said Hiccup.

"Oh, no. What happened now?" Astrid asked and Ragnar looked up.

"Oh, you're going to— you're going to love this," said Hiccup handing her the charcoal pencil and she began to draw. "I wake up, the sun is shining, Terrible Terrors are singing on the rooftop, I saunter down to breakfast thinking all is right in the world and I get:" He then did an imitation of Stoick "'Son, we need to talk.'"

"Not now, Dad. I've got a whole day of goofing off to get started," said Astrid, as she shook her shoulders and did a terrible imitation of him.

"Okay, first of all, I-I don't sound like that, who—what is this character?" said Hiccup.

"Actually, I think it was a pretty good imitation," said Ragnar, who was strangling not to laugh.

"You're not helping," said Hiccup and looked back at Astrid. "And second, what is that thing you're going with my shoulders?"

Astrid then shook her shoulders around so more and Ragnar laughed uncontrollably.

"A very flattering impersonation, anyway he goes:" He then imitated Stoick again and matched up and down proudly. "'You're the pride of Berk, son. And I couldn't be prouder!'"

"Ah, thanks, Dad! I'm pretty impressed with myself, too!" said Astrid imitating him again and waved her hands about.

"When have I ever done that with my hands?" Hiccup laughed and waved his hands about.

"You just did!" Astrid pointed out, as she and Ragnar laughed.

"Ah-kay, just hold still. Very serious," said Hiccup grabbing her shoulder, he then looked at Ragnar. "And the same goes for you, Rag."

Astrid gave a mocking nod and Ragnar listened intently.

"You're all grown up," said Hiccup still imitating Stoick. "And since no chief could ask for a better successor, I've decided—"

"To make you Chief!" Astrid finished excitedly. She and Ragnar got to their feet. "Oh, my gods! Hiccup, that's AMAZING!"

She then punched him hard in the chest activating his back fin that wacked Ragnar in the Face. Astrid laughed at the sight, as Ragnar rubbed his nose.

"You're going to wear out the spring coil," said Hiccup as he wind-up the back fin down and Astrid nodded pretending to understand. "The calibration is very sensitive."

Next second the three of them got knocked down by their over excited dragons.

"Anyway, back to the whole Chiefing thing," said Ragnar as he and Astrid got up on to their feet.

"Yeah, so… This is what I'm dealing with," said Hiccup as Astrid helped him up.

"What'd you tell him?" Astrid asked.

"I-I didn't. By the time he turned around I was gone," Hiccup explained as Astrid picked the map off the ground.

"Huh, well… that's a lot of responsibility," said Astrid as she handed the map to Hiccup. "Ragnar would have to the map, for sure, and I'll need to fly Toothless since you'll be too busy, but…"

She stopped when she realised what she just said. Ragnar seemed to understand and they both looked at Hiccup.

"I-It's not me, Astrid, all those speeches and planning and running the village, that's his thing," said Hiccup.

"Yeah, but Hiccup you're the heir," Ragnar pointed out.

"Ragnar's right, you're missing the point," said Astrid. "I mean, Chief. What an honour. I'd be pretty excited."

"You still haven't gotten over the time you had to take over when Dagur kidnapped your dad," said Ragnar.

"It's not only that," said Hiccup as looked down at the new island and sat down at the edge. "I'm not like you two. You guys know exactly who you are, and you've always have. But, me? I'm still looking. I know that I'm not my father, and I've never met my mother, so… what does that make me?"

"What you're searching for isn't out there, Hiccup," Astrid said sitting down next to him and plays with his braids. She then placed a hand over Hiccup's chest "It's in here. Maybe you just don't see it yet."

She then kissed him on the check, but quickly pulled away, because some of Toothless spit was still on his face. While she brushed it off, both Hiccup and Ragnar looked into the horizon.

"Maybe," said Hiccup as he got up. "But, you know, there is something out there."

"He's right," said Ragnar pulling down his goggles and adjusted them.

"Rag, you're supposed to be on my side," said Astrid angrily.

Hiccup then pulled her chin and pointed it at the horizon. The moment she did she realised what the two of them were talking about. She saw passed the two pikes a huge cloud of smoke.