A/N Thanks for all the support! I posted this as an experiment to see if I wanted to write fanfiction at all and got a lot of feedback. Thank you so much, I'd love to hear what you think!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, unfortunately.

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Hiccup walked around the village a little bit. He wanted to get his bearing and make sure he knew where everything was. He was surprised how much had changed. He probably should have expected that, living in a place where dragons used to attack regularly, but a lot was unfamiliar. A lot was the same too. The forge was in the same spot, though it looked bigger and had some racks of weapons built out front. His father's house, (He couldn't think of it as his own), was in the same spot at the top of the hill overlooking the village. The great hall's doors were still as big as ever. The barns and storage houses had all been moved around and rebuilt so he tried to take stock of where everything was stored. He found the weapons, tools, extra supplies like leather and wool all by walking down the streets. The food storage was also easy to spot but for entirely different reasons.

"You know sis I think this is our best prank yet!"

"I believe so brother!"

Hiccup rounded the corner slowly peeking around the edge to the weirdest sight.

"The eyes should be higher." The boy said to his sister.

"You're right."

The sister pulled one fish from it's spot on the wall before quickly turning around and whacking the boy in the face.

"Augh..I am hurt I am very much hurt!" The boy exclaimed holding his face.

The sister was laughing and Hiccup knew he had found the twins. What they were doing he wasn't sure it seemed they were building something out of fish on the side of the barn. He skirted farther around the next building and saw two faces with an uncanny resemblance to the twins themselves. How they managed to make their own faces out of fish was beyond him.

Tuffnut threw a fish at Ruff which she managed to dodge. The fish landed near Hiccup so he bent down and picked it up walking out of his hiding spot.

"I think you dropped this."

The twins turned from their fighting hiding fish behind their backs with guilty looks on their faces.

Hiccup laughed and continued, "I won't tell anyone, though they probably won't have to try very hard to figure out it was you."

The twins gave him a confused look.

"It's just that the resemblance is uncanny."

The twins turned around to look. "You know what, " Ruff said, "You are so right, we are good."

"That we are sister!" They high fived or rather high fished.

Hiccup turned to walk away when he heard them call out.

"Hey who are you anyway?"

He turned around to walk back "I'm Eindride, I just entered in the tournament."

"Oh we're in that tournament too but we don't really care about the fighting part." tuffnut replied.

Hiccup gave them a look, "Is there a part that you do care about?"

The twins leaned closer together and gestured for him to the same. When he did Ruff whispered, "You promise to not tell?" Hiccup nodded.

Tuff started "There are people from all over here, and you know what that means?"

Hiccup shook his head.

Ruff continued, "Prank victims."

Hiccups eyes widened before he settled into a neutral face then smirked. "Pranks huh, I bet you have some good ones."

"Oh you bet!"

Hiccup had an idea that could help him, and hopefully minimize damage. "You know where I'm from I was known as 'the trickster jr'"

"Jr?"

"Well the original trickster title belongs to Loki himself but.."

Tuff cut him off with "That is so cool!"

Hiccup smirked and walked off calling over his shoulder, "I can't wait to see what you have planned!"

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Hiccup had explored most of the village and was about to head back when he saw the docks. He decided to go take a look at them. Possible escape routes, extra supplies, people arriving, the works. When he got there he saw lots of ships. Some were traders, taking advantage of all the vikings that would be present, but most were other tribes. He saw the flags of the Berserkers, the Bog-burglars, the Meatheads and a couple others from all over the Archipelago.

As he was looking he almost ran right into a worker. "Woah, sorry didn't see you there."

The fact was the worker wasn't really that hard to miss but he had stepped right into Hiccup's path.

The big man spoke, "That's ok, I'm just trying to get all these ships docked but they have to unload this one before I can have more come in. I love seeing all the people and the cool things they bring."

Hiccup replied, "Well in that case I'm Eindride. I came to participate in the tournament."

"Fishlegs, I'm competing too! Where are you from?"

"Well not really anywhere, I travel around a lot."

"That is so cool! I've always wanted to travel and learn new things, especially about dragons, but this is the next best thing."

"I suppose it is, well I'll let you get back to work."

"Sounds good, I'd love to hear some of your stories some time!"

"And I'd be happy to tell you."

Hiccup walked away casually, Fishlegs hadn't changed much. He still loved learning, he was still gigantic, and he was still a sweetheart.