(CATTONGUE'S POV)
It was a few hours later after the other riders had arrived and Dreki had finished telling most of the villagers about his travels, Stoick had told the Villagers not to harm the dragon since they are members of a larger tribe so they were free to roam the village and more often than not they were found around the Forge where Dreki was currently working, the village was shocked at how calm Gobber was with several Night Furies around him "so Dreki tell me why did you call your dragon Toothless?" Dreki looked up and smiled "well you see Night furies have this pretty amazing ability to retract their teeth, hey bud why don't you show Gobber what I mean?" said dragon looked up and wandered up to Gobber and gave his characteristic toothless smile and nudged his head under Gobbers hand I watched this and smiled as I walked up to Dreki and said "Dreki we need you and Gobber to come up to the great hall." All three of them looked at me and nodded as we walked Gobeer came up to me and whispered "Iknow who Dreki really is but Don't worry you can trust me with the secret." I looked at him and nodded "I know I can trust you." I opened the door and saw the rest of the riders along with the teens of Berk; Snotlout was trying to flirt with Heather but to no use and he was slowly getting more angry, the twins were talking to Ripper about explosions and Fishlegs was talking to Johann about new dragons and their statistics and Astrid was stood there smiling at them all I turned to Dreki and whispered "go to her." The turned to me and smacked the back of my head "shut it." I laughed and said "well come on Cami said you were a real stud so go do what ever you do." He glared at me and said "yeah well you're just jealous that you're still a virgin." I glared at him and said "fuck you shit head go do your flirting." He laughed and said "no we need to talk about Drago." We walked up to the main table and sat down "alright everyone sit down" said Stoick and everyone walked over and sat down with Heather on one side of me and on the other was Dreki, Astrid sat next to Heather and with Ripper on her right so Snotlout sat next to his father "so what is this new threat that is such a worry?" sneered Spitelout I looked at Stoick and said "his name is Drago Bludvist he is moving up north to find an ally of our whogoes by the name of the Dragon Vigilante he's destroying every tribe on his way up." I saw Stoick pale and he said "Drago Bludvist?" I nodded and he whispered "how?" I looked around and said slowly "he has a dragon army and a fleet of over ten thousand ships each of them with over a hundred soldiers on each." All the people from Berk gasped and whspered between each other "gods we are all dead." "what should we do? "we should surrender." Suddenly Stoick stood up and shouted "SILENCE! WE WILL NOT SURRENDER!" he then turned to us and asked "what was it you wanted to do?" we had came to ask if we can train some of your warriors in dragon fighting and possibly dragon riding." This got an outrage from most of the elders execpt for one "why?" he asked camly everyone was silenced by him and looked between each other I turned to Dreki and nodded to him he nodded back and I turned to "three years ago a boat entered our harbour with a small boy in it he was no older than seventeen, he said he had escaped a roman fort he said his name was Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third he once met Dreki but could not remember him I asked him where he was from and he said Berk I asked him if he wanted to take his body to his tribe but he said no they would not care about his death he died in my arms on our docks, we gave him a proper send off since we had information that he killed thirteen Romans with a knife he was known as an amazing person around the tribes." All the elders looked shocked and looked down in shame "he told us not to hate Berk and to help them when they needed it." The teens looked at me when Stoick stood up and said "Astrid do you know what that mean?" she looked at him and nodded, I culd see the tears on her face "I accept in memory of Hiccup." I turned to stoick and said "if you would allow us to train some of your people it could help us so no one else has to die." He nodded and said "yes you may but I doubt there will be many who will accept." I looked around the table and said "why don't we start with the teens they might be more acceptable of the idea." Astrid stood up and said "I will, I don't want the fighting to carry on and I bet most of you don't want to lose anyone else." Some of the elders nodded and then some one said "I agree with Astrid." A large man stood up and looked at me and Astrid "you're only saying that because she's your daughter!" shouted Spitelout at this the large man who was Astrid's father turned around and said to Spitelout "no I am agreeing with the heir to Berk if you don't mind !" there were gasps around and Stoick sighed "what Arbjorn says is true we talked about a few years ago when a marrige contract between our families and I said that if hiccup didn't come home Astrid would become the heir to the throne of Berk. Now lets take a break to talk about the recent events." And with that we stood and walked away, I sat down with Dreki and Johann "so who do you want to take?" asked Johann, I looked through the teens and said "Well there is Snotlout, Astrid, the twins and Fishlegs and there is me, Dreki, you, Ripper and Heather, Cami, and Thug so I will be on the sidelines I-" I was stopped by Dreki who said "hey why should you be able to sit around whilst we do the hard work? You should help when we need it or do you want your underwear to hang from the flagpole again?" Dreki threatened me and I laughed "okay I will help when you need it but I will be pairing you lot up." I turned to the teens and shouted "hey come over here." Astrid and Fishlegs were the first ones to come over then the twins and finally Snotlout who sat opposite Heather and winked at him then suddenly he groaned and slumped forwards "Heather I told you to pity him not harm him." She turned and said "it is pity." She smiled and turned to Dreki "say Cami says you're quite the stud and said that maybe next time I could join in." Dreki groaned and took off his helmet and glared at Heather "maybe but please don't talk about so openly they kind of frown upon that sort of thing up here." The other teens snickered until Drekki glared at them " but I definitely wouldn't mind have you with us." Heather grinned and said "good I always wondered what it would be like to be with another woman." I laughed and said "well can we get back to business. Heather I'm teaming you up with Astrid" they smiled and nodded at each other "Ripper, you and Cami will be with the twins" they shook hands with each other "Thug will be with Snotlout although I don't know where he has gone." I saw Snotlout shiver "and and Dreki you will be with Fishlegs" they shook hands and said hi "that will leave me free to help at random and I am sending Johann to help with the evacuation of the other islands. We will start tommorow."
(DREKI'S POV)
I stood and walked outside and sat down and remembered a song I had heard when I was on my travels:
"Put your clothes now out to dry
It's early morning
The day is unfolding, ever so softly
I will always be, oh, aloud within
It's a never ending song that I sing alone
I am, awake, the only one awake
I see the sun, break out, it slows, no clouds
No crows, no one out, too - Only that you
Don't stop in still water
Don't stop in still water
Now the sun's in your eyes
It dries away your tears
As you and I are the only ones
To move in search of other feet
I will always be, oh, aloud within
It's a never ending song that I sing alone
I am, awake, the only one awake
I see the sun, glow fade, it's late, in shades
Letting the past start, good - Only that you
Dew stars in still water
Don't stop in still water
Don't you know that fires
Eat all the lost sorrows in the morning
I hummed the rest and laid down to see my former village and how it has fared since I left, I suddenly heard movement to my left but made no move to see who it was "you should sing you know." I turned and looked at Astrid and smiled softly "no it's not me really, standing up in front of crowds and singing, if it was another life and there wasn't a war being raged maybe but now? No." she walked forwards and sat down next to me and asked "where did you learn to sing like that?" I watched as she stared at the village and said "well it was a few years ago I had been walking through this city-" "city?" "yes it's like a town but huge sometime going on to the horizion and lots of traders and buildings, any way I had sat down and I heard this voice from this woman, her voice wasso soft yet crisp, so I follow the sound and found her sat on the streets, I later found out that she was homeless so she trying to make a living, anyway I walked up to and asked her to come with me and I took her to the nearest inn where I paid for her food and bedding and left her to find some clothes for her when I got back, she was sat there crying on the bed I aasked her what was wrong and she said that no one was ever as kind as I was and she asked me to take her with me I said ok on the condition that she teaches me to sing like she could, she accepted nd we flew to Dreki island where we stayed she became one of our best fighters and now she has her own house and everything, in fact you've met her." Astrid looked at me in confusion then she asked "Heather was the woman wasn't she?" I nodded and smiled sadly at her "she asked me why I was so kind to her and I replied that I am naturally selfless and she thanked me for being there when she needed it." Astrid looked at me and said "I scared." I did a double take in what I had just heard Astrid Hofferson scared? "why?" she turned to me and I could see the fear in her eyes "I don't think I could ever become someone as great as Stoick. How do you become so selfless? So caring? I was brought up to be a warrior, to fight for the tribe not to rule the tribe, I guess I'm just so scared of failing Stoick I wish I had never hated Hiccup," this shocked me "I wish I had helped him, everyone called him weak but in reality he was the strongest of us all, I mean how could you take that much scorn and hatred and carry on, I know I could never have that sort of strength, I wish he was still here, I miss his sarcasm, his caring and selflessness, his Hiccup-ness I wish he was here." I reached across and took hold of her hand and squeezed it tightly "Astrid, Hiccup is with you, here." I pressed her hand against her chest and said " he will be with you for as long as you remember him he will be smiling down from the great halls of Valhalla for hearing you say that." She smiled at me and hugged me with our hands entwined and against us.
We heard someone walk up behind us and we turned to see Stoick and Cattongue coming towards us both of them with soft smiles on their faces "you would of made a great chief Dreki, and thank you for telling us what had happened to Hiccup maybe it will bring some closure to this all." Then Cattongue spoke up "he is going to chief, I have decided to make him the heir, I have no children and there is no one I could think of taking the job better than you Dreki, do you accept what I'm saying?" I nodded, shocked that I was the heir to a tribeand then Stoick said "I was going to propose a marrige contract between Astrid and Dreki but this will be a biut of a problem." I chuckled and said "I wouldn't really and it would be the best way of solidifying out treaty and the first child will be Berks heir and if there is a second child he or she will become Dreki island's heir if, of course Astrid agrees" I turned to Astrid and saw the shock on her face and then sheturned to me and said "yes I agree."
A.N. the song is called stars in still water by Jonsi I love this song and I hope others do to.
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A.N. Hiccup will replace his name to Dreki and only a few people will know and Hiccup will be sing more songs, he will also be showing off his fighting skills possibly in the next few chapters.