Narrator: Hiccup Haddock


"My name is Hiccup, great name huh? It's not the worse; parents believed that such a terrible name could frighten off gnomes and trolls. Not that our childish viking demeanor would do that anyways. You see, those vikings are stubborn, hard headed, and strong. They put a fight, stood their ground. They were warriors, not me though..

When I was younger, people always saw me as weak and timid. Worthless and scrawny. Could I blame them though? Yes, yes I could. They all sold me short, never treated me much as the heir to the Berk throne. Never treated me like the chief's son.

Why would they be so cruel to me though? Why would us vikings have to put up such a fight every day? Why did they all see me as weak and worthless? Dragons is your answer. The one and only answer.

Long time ago, dragons and humans were not such great friends. Fatal enemies to be exact. Dragons would raid the village, set it on fire, burned our houses to ashes, and take viking lives. Warriors were needed to fight off those great beast. Something that I wasn't.

I could barely lift an axe, let alone kill a dragon. A weak and pathetic viking like me was always told to remain inside and cower. Allow the bigger, stronger, better vikings to handle the dragons. Berk was a war zone. Kill or be killed was the only code we stood by.

However, everything changed on the night where I shot down a night fury. I was so proud of myself, I couldn't actually believe it. I tried to tell everyone that I took down a night fury, but nobody believed me. They started once again with their cruel jokes and their constant mocking.

Little did they know that me shooting down Toothless was the best thing that I could have ever done.

I'll save you time because the rest of the story seemed pretty much self explanatory.

Me and Toothless became the best of friends, and it was because of our actions why Berk and dragons could finally live together in pure harmony. Toothless was the reason why I actually had friends, and why the dragon riders came to be.

Together along with Astrid, Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruffnut, and Tuffnut, we would find dragon hunters, free the captive dragons, and make those hunters pay. It was kinda our thing as dragon riders. We lived by the code that we would not harm or kill any dragons, no matter what.

Sounds fun right? It was, until our enemies started getting smarter.

Have you ever heard of the famous dragon hunter, Grimmel the Grizzly? Yeah, this guy was a new kind of enemy. Smarter than all of our enemies from the past combined. He worked in mysterious ways, knew our move before we even knew it. Worse of all, he was the reason why Toothless was the last night fury.

He let a female light fury loose into Berk's woods, using her as bate so that he could get close to Toothless. He wanted to finish his work and kill the last night fury known to the world. We all fell for his trap, as you know, love is blind.

It took everything to defeat Grimmel, including our dragons. Once he was gone, we had to face the fact that dragons would never be safe in this world. This world would always have dragon hunters looking to kill dragons. To protect them, to finally live in peace, we had to set them free.

I remember that evening, the evening I let Toothless go. I still have dreams about it... It was a day that I could never forget. All my life, those dragons were around, enemies to friends.. But now, knowing that we have rid the world of dragons, how do you adapt?

How do you wake up to realize that your best friend is no longer by your side? How do you feel when you look up into the sky and realize that you have been grounded for the rest of eternity? How does it feel to know that just yesterday, you had everything, and then nothing the next?

It's a hard feeling to bare... And I won't lie to you and say that it wasn't.

But I know what you are thinking now. What about the other former dragon riders? What happened?

Astrid has always been a warrior. She never truly relied too much on Stormfly, making her the one of the strongest people of Berk. Of course, she missed her dragon, but not as much as the other dragon riders.

Fishlegs, I would say that he the most hurt by it. He was the ultimate dragon lover, his power being dragon knowledge. Now, who was he? He couldn't teach the little kids of Berk the history of the dragons, for none of them believed in such "lies". Dragons is what finally made Fishlegs fit in; he had the worst time adapting to our new dragonless home.

Ruffnut and Tuffnut were finally quiet. Tuffnut was more concerned about growing a beard than missing his actual dragon. Ruffnut, on the other hand, has been trying to find a love interest. At first, it was Snotlout, then Eret son of Eret, but now there has been a lowkey relationship between her and Fishlegs. It wouldn't surprise me if they actually married.

Snotlout is the only viking that hasn't changed a bit. He is still cocky, he still tries to tell me what to do, he still states the obvious, and he still think that he's the most handsome viking on Berk. If I'm not mistaken, I would think that Snotlout would actually have a girlfriend. A female that had the same kind of mind like Snotlout. She felt as if she should be chieftess and instead of picking with me (because that's Snotlout's job), she picks with Astrid. No doubt, these two are a perfect match.

Sure. They are taking control of their own lives, but the question is, did the other friendships last? After I married Astrid, it was like the team just completely collapsed. Have you noticed a pattern here? At first, it was the dragon fighting and killing that brought us together. Then it was dragon riding and saving that kept our bonds tight, but now that they were gone... What now?

Who were we now that we were not dragon riders?