Four years later
Hiccup approached his father who was standing on the cliff and enjoy the view. Dragons swooped past his head as dragons and riders from all across the archipelago, Føroyar and even nearby mainland were practising for the up coming popular annual Berk Snaggletog dragon race which had been held for three race wasn't easy even for very experience and skillful rider like Hiccup, as the people from Føroyar had been working with their dragons since they were born. Base on the experience from the previous years, the best Hiccup could get was squeezed into the semi final. The only people in Berk who stand a chance of winning are Valka and Eret. It made a lot of sense for the case of the dragon lady, but everyone were awestruck by the latter.
Eret and his speed stinger came in third in the first competition three years ago. It was so hard to rob a sheep from the claws of the raptor like dragon or the hands of Eret. Those two would hit for the houses for cover if ever a flyer came for them. Only the best riders like Valka dare to brother them as the risk of cashing into houses was just too high. However, the match was still very challeging for the two land runner. They were never going to send those sheep to the baskets faster than those who flew. However, they could deliver those points with no interception while the people in the sky were busy fighting for the sheep. They just need to memorize the short cuts of the town and watched out for seldom surprise attacks from the sky.
" Dad" Hiccup asked.
"Son, don't you need to prepare the race?"
" We need a rest."
" Any hope of getting into the final?"
" No, but I know mum can."
" Yeah, she had been living with them for fifteen years."
" I thank you that you allow us to leave and take part in Arkin's plan?"
"You are old enough and mature. The journey is going to be make you become tougher and help you become a good chief. I am not going to stop young people from having adventure and becoming heroes. Besides that, Arkin is doing the right thing for the future. Although we had changed all the tribes near us, other tribes in the Scandinavia are still at war with dragons. "
A week later, the teens gathered at the village square and prepare to leave and they were having their moments with their parents.
" Dad, don't worry about me, I will be fine." Hiccup said.
" I know but you had experienced so many dangerous events before like dangers like you."
" Hiccup, be careful. I had lost you for fifteen years. I don't want to lose you forever." Valka said and put a hand on his shoulder.
" I will be back. All of us will be back." He said firmly and the three embranced.
" Hey, Hiccup, we are leaving." Snotlout shouted on the back of Hookfang. Hiccup gave the two a kiss and joined the left Berk with their dragons and flew to Føroyar to recieved further training. A month later, they left with a squad of other dragon riders and started their mission of ending the war between vikings and dragons across the Scandinavia, the territory of vikings.
June 2010
A small motor boat reached the wooden dock of Berk. Two americans went out from the boat and said thanks you to the ship owner before they walked along the long dock.
They looked around, and saw nadders flew across the sky. A zippleback and two night furies was lying at the cliff which overlook the dock. They both picked up their cameras and took some photos. There were hundreds of images of dragons, and more importantly dragon riders, which were taken during the trip in Norway, Sweden and Iceland, in their devices. They heard the sound of wing flaps, a deep blue nadder landed on the dock not far away from them. A girl with blonde hair who was only twenty around jumped down from the dragon. She put her motor bike helmet away from her head and held it with one hand.
"Hello, my name is Freia. She is Grimmd . Is there anything we can help you. We don't get a lot of visitors." She greeted them in English with a Norwegian accent
"I am Mary, he is my colleague John. We are from US and we come here to see Mr Haddock, Finn Haddock."
"He always welcomes vistors. But he is busy for the moment. He won't be free until noon, there is still two hours from that. I will be your guide for now so you two won't get lost."
"Thanks you a lot. I will ask you even you don't say."John said.
The dragon spoke to the girl with a surprisingly small volume.
"Let's see if you are right" She whispered to the nadder.
" So let me guess. Mary is front Texas and John is from one of the western state."
" Wow, you are right. I am front Texas and John is from California. How do you know that?"
"Grimmd told me"
" Dragons are always amazing. Do you think learning dragonese is hard." John asked.
" I don't know. People like us who grow up with dragons, it is doable. But for people like you two, it is very hard. Our language were very easy to learn compare to theirs, which a lot dragons agreed."
The nadder stepped forward and sniffed them and made the americans a little nervious and Freia smiled."You two can touched her if you like. Dragons actually like being scratched." They lifted their hands to touch the nadder's snout and gave it a scratch.
They entered the village and walked into the plaza with the nadder followed closely behind. They saw dragons everywhere, from the people's front door to house roof, which was a common sight in villages in these three country which was called the countries of dragons. Several dragons came to investigate but they lose their interest quickly after Grimmd explained to them.
"What did Grimmd told them" John asked.
"She said you two were from US. They felt weird since why two tourist would come to here, a remote island. Speaking of that, why do you come to Berk?"
" We are just going to tell are university students and dragon fans. We are very interested in the History part of how viking befriend with dragons and especially the life of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. So we come here to find out the answer." John explained.
" Well, that surprise me. That are plenty of books out there talk about him. I don't see the point of coming here."
"Yes, there are a lot of books about it, but books don't tell everything. Just like the chinese said it is better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books. So we come here during our summer holiday to learn more about him since this is the place where he was borned and became the greatest hero in viking history. " Mary said.
"I get what you mean. Lets take you to the great hall, which has a history of more than a thousand years. You can start your research from there and spend the remaining time." She finally spoke.
They saw a large ancient stone and wooden structure settle on the highest point of the village. Freia pushed and opened the heavy thick wooden door and her dragon stayed outside. From the daylight came in, they saw there was a large fire pits in the middle and wooden long tables and benches surrounded it. Freia walked to he side of the door, press a button and turned on fluorescent tube lamps on the celling. On the wall, there were portraits of chiefs and their son. However, a large painting of seven people standing in front of their dragons and a man-made night fury tail fin was placed right next to a portrait, indicated there was something special about it.
The students approached the two art pieces and took a closer look.
"I think you two know the names of these people right?" Freia asked
"Of course we do" John said
He pointed his hand to the portraits."This is Stoick and his son Hiccup."
He moved his hand slightly and pointed toward the painting."Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Astrid , Hiccup, Valka, Snotlout and Fishlegs. BarfBelch, Stormfly, Toothless, Cloudjumper, Hookfang and Meatlug. I saw this two paintings from books and websites before. But the feeling of seeing them upclose is just amazing."
He took a detail look at the tail fin and said" This is the prosthetesis of Toothless which was made by Hiccup."
"You are right. It is a replica. It is quite unbelievible that Hiccup could make something like this with the technology one thousand years ago."
The three left the hall and walked to the the dragon academy located at the Arena which was as old as the Great Hall. They saw a teacher was giving a lesson to a group of riders and their dragons.
Freia said "Generations of Berkians bond with their dragons and learn how to ride dragons here. The friendships between the humans and dragons here have been lasting for a thousands years and it will last forever."
End