The next morning… All the teens were gathered outside the Haddock household and were impatiently waiting for Hiccup and Salak to emerge. "I can't believe that l-last week it was dragon training, an-and this week it's Jedi training!" stammered Fishlegs, excited as can be, Astrid was about to reply when the door creaked opened, Hiccup and Toothless emerging with Salak in tow wearing his customary brown outer robe.

"Good morning young Padawans. First, we must go to my ship where I have some training devices that I was able to grab from the temple as I fled, then we'll go to this dragon ring and start the training." At that everyone followed Salak to the remains of his ship, he entered and emerged a minute later holding a heavy durasteel crate with the force, which Salak carried in stride.

At the Dragon Ring…First, let's see what I've got here." Said Salak opening his crate, to reveal; the holocron of Satele Shan, a small case containing a tome called The Jedi Path, eight of the Jedi temples emergency-backup lightsabers, and a handful of blaster pistols were in the bottom along with power packs and other miscellaneous items.

"I have good news" Salak said interrupting the conversation and Ruff and Tuffs newest brawl, as they had started fighting about something innocuous during Salak's investigation of the crate, "I have found several items that will be very helpful in our training."

"Firstly" said Salak "This is a Holocron, or a repository of Jedi knowledge" he said showing the small crystal cube to the group "This particular holocron belonged to a former Jedi Grandmaster, Grandmaster Satele Shan. I also found a copy of The Jedi Path, which is a basic manual for all Jedi, this particular copy was given to me when I was a padawan, and finally I have eight basic lightsabers. Normally I would have you start out with training lightsabers, but since I have none, and if you promise to be careful and only practice with padded sticks at the beginning you can each choose one." This excited the teens to no end, they were about to get a lightsaber! This quickly! Sweet Thor yes!

"You should not choose based on which looks the best but which feels right to you." Salak said emphasizing the word 'feels' before placing the lightsabers out on a roll of cloth on top of the crate as they all stepped forward, "Hiccup, the force flows strongest around you so you choose first…reach out with your senses and let the force flow through you to make your decision."

Hiccup then closed his eyes as his hand drifted over the saber hilts until he selected a plain durasteel alloy casing whose only distinguishing mark was a rather ornate, pointed emitter; then just before he activated it Salak said "No, wait until you have all chosen before you see the color of your blade, it will tell you something about yourself."

Astrid chose next, finding a saber with a spiraling, fluted hilt. Snotlout chose a sturdy robust model, Fishlegs and elegant wide-emitter version, and the twins finding matching sabers with pointed pommels.

"Very good" Salak said "now on the count of three ignite your sabers. One. Two. Three!" all the teens ignited their sabers at once and Hiccup and Fishlegs found themselves with green sabers, Astrid with a purple blade, Snotlout's was blue, and the twins were both yellow. They all stared in awe at the humming blades and waved them experimentally, hearing them hum in different tones as they moved through the air.

"Now, most Jedi choose the color of their blade based upon their field. But most often green blades belong to Consulars or negotiators, whilst blue and purple belong to Guardians or fighters, and yellow blades belong to Sentinels, like myself, who are a mix of the two. From what I have observed of you I say that you have all made wise decisions. Now you may deactivate your sabers and clip them on your belts and we will start examining the book that I have." Pulling out a battered old book with faded silver lettering spelling out 'The Jedi Path' above a symbol that looked like a circular starburst.

But before he could even open the book Stoick ran into the training ring and yelled "Outcasts are attacking!..."and stopped short at the sight of the teens clutching lit lightsabers, then shaking himself out of his shock and asking/demanding "Salak you said you were a warrior, can you fight?" to which Salak replied "I will deal with this myself." walking out of the arena with everyone following him.

At the edge of the village…Everyone lined the cliff's willing to fight for their homes, well that was their original intent, now the entire village, including the teens, Stoick, and Gobber watched like paying spectators as Salak walked slowly down the docks toward the outcasts disembarking their ship, Snotlout squealing "Oh, this is going to be good!".

Watching as Salak yelled "Leave now in peace and never return or I will defend these people!" which shocked most as they were used to simply fighting and not even delivering an ultimatum, but the outcasts simply laughed and drew their weapons.

Salak counted off ten outcasts and shrugged off his brown outer robe and assuming a classic boxing stance, with the outcasts began to almost roll around laughing, who was this unarmored fool with a fancy club on his belt?

At least until he threw one into the hull of their ship with enough force to send cracks across the planks, then their leader yelled "Oi! Get im'!" and Salak casually defeated them one by one, never drawing a weapon or doing damage that could not be healed.

With the final Outcast dropped, Salak picked them up or dragged them onto their ship then pushed it away from its moorings. Then giving it a mighty Force shove and sending it deeper into the bay, headed out to sea.

Once Salak reached the rest of the village he simply bowed and said, "I believe that I have solved your current problem". Everyone was staring, open mouthed, at this man who had single-handedly taken on ten outcasts and not even broken a sweat, or drawn a weapon.

Then Sven began to clap and soon the entire village was giving Salak a rousing round of applause, he simply raised a hand and responded, "I simply did what I was trained to do, protect the innocent and respect the sanctity of life. Now if I may I believe that my young Padawans and I have some training to do" motioning to his students. All of whom ran to him as he began to walk back towards the Dragon Ring.

On the way back to the Dragon Ring…"Why didn't you use your lightsaber?" asked Snotlout, curious about why the superior-to-all weapon wasn't used.

"It is not the way of the Jedi" Salak began "To cause unnecessary death and destruction. Violence is always a last resort."

Back at the Dragon Ring… I was originally going to have you all read part of my Jedi manual. But with all that action, book learning seems to be a little bit of a disappointment" Salak said "So instead we will practice using the Force to manipulate matter, first we all must pick a target, something small, like those boulders" pointing to the Gronkle food storage near Meatlug's old pen and saying, "Watch me and attempt to do the same."

He then reached out his hand and made the top rock of the pile rise up and then settle back down, but now about ten feet away. "You may not all succeed at first, but even a small wiggle will be a sign of success."

Then Hiccup asked, "What exactly do we do though, I mean how does it work?" ever mechanically minded.

Salak simply nodded thoughtfully, and said, "You must feel the Force…no, no, not speaking to traditional younglings" rapping his fist against his forehead "try to concentrate on the energy in and around all living things and stretch out your senses, imagine the rock moving and try as hard as you can to make what you see in your mind become reality, focus."

They tried for a minute, but no matter how much they strained nothing happened.

"Alright" Salak said, breaking their concentration "Let's try some smaller rocks, those are obviously too big for a first attempt, my mistake and not yours."

Salak walked over and dug through the pile until he had come up with six slightly-larger-than-fist-sized stones, he placed them in a row and designated one person per stone. Then, at Salak's command, they tried again.

For a moment nothing much happened, but then, starting with Hiccup's stone. Each rock began to rise, ever so slowly, they only levitated a few centimeters and the effort looked exhausting. So Salak clapped and they released a pent-up breath as the stones clattered back to the ground.

They all looked to Salak with expressions of exuberance that were matched only by the glowing pride on his face, and he said "Well done! I thought it would take some more time, but the Force seems exceptionally strong with you, you are making fine progress."

"So awesome!" Snotlout said, referring to his newfound powers "Can't wait to use these during Thawfest!"

Salak looked quizzically at them, not understanding the point of reference, so Hiccup clarified, "It's a yearly competition" he said.

"Ah, no, you will not be using them in any competition" said Salak "The Force is to be used for knowledge and defense, never attack or personal gain, perhaps it would be best to now teach you the Jedi code. Everyone sit in a circle."

A little confused they all sat down, Salak sitting cross-legged at the head of the circle.

"Over the many thousands of years of our existence the Jedi developed a mantra of sorts, a code that we live by, it is time I passed it onto you." Said Salak and he began

"There is no Emotion, there is Peace"

"There is no Ignorance, there is Knowledge"

"There is no Passion, there is Serenity"

"There is no Chaos, there is Harmony"

"There is no Death, there is the Force"

A few moments of digesting and mentally analyzing what was said occurred. Ruff and Tuff seemed to have zoned out, while Snotlout was struggling to understand what, if any, implications this would have for his lifestyle. The other three however, actually seemed to try to understand what had been said and Hiccup came to a seemingly obvious flaw in the code, at least as far as his theological knowledge was concerned.

"Master Salak" asked Hiccup

"Yes" Salak replied

"That part about death, it seems…wrong. We all go to Valhalla or Niflheim after death, right?" said Hiccup, asking his question aloud.

Salak stroked his beard, though he didn't know what either of this "Valhalla" or "Niflheim" was, he could reasonably extrapolate from the context that it was an afterlife of sorts.

"The ancient wisdom of the Jedi teaches us that when we die we return to the Living Force, and our spirits reside within forever, though some powerful Jedi of legend, such as the Jedi, turned Sith, turned Jedi again, Revan, could show themselves in the mortal world through the Force. So, if you see it from a broad perspective, the two views are not entirely irreconcilable." said Salak

Salak decided to have them recite the Code several more times, at least until they seemed to get its tenets.

Salak next decided to ask his Padawans what they wanted to work on, their answer was predictable… Lightsabers, of course.

"Very well" said Salak, "Do you have any training swords?" he asked

"Why?" asked Snotlout, eager to test his lightsaber

"Because the probability is very high that at least until I teach you the basics without an ignited blade you would return home without a head." Salak said tartly

Snotlout turned white and scampered off to grab a training sword for each of them, and one for Salak.

Snotlout returned and handed out the training swords, which were actually just wooden poles covered in cotton batting, excellent tools for sword and lightsaber training alike.

"Now there are seven forms of lightsaber combat" said Salak, "I specialize in Form IV, Ataru. But first we will start with Form I Shii-Cho, also called The Way of the Sarlacc and known as the Determination form. Its use stemmed from when Jedi went from metal sabers to lightsabers, and is the first form that all Jedi learn."

"I want you all to attack me with your poles and we will see where we go from there."

"Wait! You want us to attack you?" asked Ruff, with no small amount of surprise

"Yes" said Salak "That way I can see what we must work on, and where each of your strengths lie."

They all nodded and leapt to attack Salak, who within a minute had disarmed each of them, leaving them lying on the ground groaning while he had nary a scratch.

"Well" said Salak walking around and pulling them to their feet "I think that against a fully trained Jedi Master, you all fared rather well"

They all stared incredulously at the man who had just soundly kicked their… behinds as Salak continued "If I may I will suggest what Lightsaber forms would be suitable for each of you to practice."

"Hiccup and Fishlegs, I believe that you should take up Form VI, or Niman, also called the Way of the Rancor, it is the form of the diplomat, and will suit two scholarly young men well. For I do not believe that you will make a career out of combat alone, and it is said that while you would not be able to defeat a master of practically any other form. Mastering Niman will allow for other studies outside of the combat arena, something I believe that you two will excel at." Salak explained

"Astrid and Snotlout" Salak said turning to them "I suggest form V Shien, it is a form based on raw strength and physical power, it seems from the choice of weapon I saw you carrying, Astrid, that it would befit your style and Snotlout's physique." Their faces lit up as Salak said this and he continued "You will make two fine Guardians one day."

Salak last turned to the Twins "And finally, Ruff and Tuff, I believe that you should both train in Ataru, my form of choice. And one which is composed of leaps and bounds that will confuse and befuddle your opponent while giving you unmatched maneuverability. It is a fitting form for two sentinels-in-training."

They all looked quite happy with what Salak said and before the sun fell they had a grasp of the basic body zones, areas of attack, and had a fair handle on the most basic basics of Shii-cho.

"Very good" Salak said "However it is getting late and I think that we should all adjourn to the Great hall and call it a day" they all looked a little disappointed but followed their masters suggestion and went to the Great hall.

At the Great hall… Salak was the guest of honor tonight, seeing as how he defeated the outcasts single-handedly, and everyone seemed to be having a good time. The Padawans decided to give a full blow-by-blow account of their day to Stoick and Gobber, though interrupted with many a question from the pair throughout the telling.

At the end of the recounting Stoick said to Salak "Well, I hope that all our young ones here will soon be able to fight like you were able to today."

To which Salak replied "With training, they can do more than that, for they are some of the most talented that I have seen in some time, they have quite a future in the Jedi arts."

All the teens smiled at the kind words from their master and went over to tell their parents about the day's events before turning in for the night.