Shelby finished breakfast and grabbed her sword and a fish and walked outside to try and befriend Toothless.
She smiles "hi, Toothless. Drake told me to ask you for a ride around the village on your back."
Toothless opens his eyes and gets up to see Shelby standing in front of him with a sword and fish and growls at the sword.
Shelby smiles and shows him the sword and toss it out of her reach.
Toothless's pupils dilate to curious state.
Shelby grins and offers the fish to him and says "gentle grab."
Toothless sniff the fish and softly grabs the fish out of her hand and eats it.
Shelby then sticks her hand out while turning her head and closes her eyes.
Toothless closes his eyes and touches his nose to her hand and purrs.
Shelby smiles "Drake knows how to befriend any dragon which would make him dragon master."
Toothless grabs her sword and holds it in his mouth and lets her climb on the saddle.
Shelby directs him to the forge and gets off the saddle retrieves her sword and slides it in her holder and pets Toothless's forehead earning a purr.
Toothless takes off to go fish breakfast in the sea.
Shelby walks up to the counter to see Gunnar and Drake repairing weapons.
Gunnar ask "here to get your new sword sharpening already?"
Shelby smiles "no, I just stop by to tell Drake that he has an amazing connection with the dragons and think he should be called dragon master."
Drake stop sharpening swords to hear Shelby praise him on his ability to be able to befriend dragons and give him a title of 'Dragon Master'.
That night after dinner, Drake took Shelby on a night flight, showing her the village lit up at night and the Northern Lights.
After the flight, they returned to his home and got off.
Shelby smiles and kisses his cheek "I look forward to going on more night flight dates."
Drake smiles "if your parents don't mind me taking you on a night flight date after dinner, then I'll be happy to take you on night flight dates."
They walk in to see Eric and Helga grinning at them and ask "what?"
Helga ask "how was the date?"
Shelby grins "it was romantic to see the village lit up at night and see the Northern Lights above the clouds and I want to do it every night."
Eric smiles "sure as long as there isn't inappropriate things happening between you two, we don't mind."
(Three months later)
Drake and Shelby's friendship grew the more they spend time together in the evening taking night flight dates for past three months now.
Drake stop dragons from raiding their village with the help of Toothless.
He even made himself a mask out of Toothless's scales to look like a knight with a armor suit out of black scales that are fireproof and withstand arrow shots.
Today, he was working in the forge when Chief Balder approached him and says "trader Johann is visiting us today."
Drake replies "thank you for the heads up. I wonder how Berk is doing after I granted their wish to leave their island?"
Two hours later, Drake stop to have lunch and write a letter to Gobber and give him a Terrible Terror to send letters back and forth.
Trader Johann sail into port of Kearstay and greeted Chief Balder "good afternoon, Chief Balder."
A small boy in black armor with a Terrible Terror on his shoulder walked up to him and says "hi, Trader Johann. I was wondering if you could give this letter and Terrible Terror to a blacksmith on isle of Berk?"
Johann nervous ask "are you sure it won't attack me, boy?"
The boy shakes his head "no. And my name is Drake Ryder."
He turns to the Terror and says "now Cutie you be good on your trip to Berk, no biting crew members, hungry, eat fish from the sea, stay out of site when visiting other islands."
Cutie nod his head and lick his cheek and flew over to a spot where he wouldn't be in the way of crew members and laid down to sleep.
Drake bought a couple pieces of leather and placed a present in Johann's quarters for Astrid's twelve birthday with a note to wait until her twelfth birthday.
A week later Johann left heading to other islands.
Chief Balder curious ask "are you sure it was wise for you to give that dragon to trader Johann?"
Drake smirks "not sure, but I hope he won't reveal my new name to anyone or the dragon. Gobber will figure it out after the letter and I gave a present to him to give to Astrid Hofferson for her twelfth birthday in a year and eleven months."
Balder ask "do you still have feelings for that Astrid girl?"
Drake scowls "she destroyed those feelings the moment she made that deal with a liar and kissed him in front of me.
All did was show me that she stop caring about me getting beat up by boyfriend when we were friends before she hook up with that jerk."
Balder nods his head "I couldn't get with a girl who does that to me either."
Drake comments "I just made it for her to keep her training up. I have no attraction to her anymore. If I even got engaged to her, I would invoke the annulment cause to end the engagement between me and her."
Balder grins "looks like she won't win you back."
Drake nods his head "and I started slowly liking Shelby more than a friend."
Balder comments "engagement is sixteen and marriage is seventeen, but you have to be married before the baby is born or the child won't have respect of the villagers."
Drake nods his head "thank you for the tip, but I don't think I would be sleeping with Shelby before the engagement if we reach that point in our relationship."
Two months later, Trader Johann arrived at Berk.
The villagers bought some things they needed.
Cutie peek out of captain quarter.
Johann sees Gobber the blacksmith and says "a boy dressed in black armor gave me this letter to give you and this Terrible Terror that is trained by the boy."
Gobber and everyone gasped in shock.
Gobber ask "this boy trained a Terrible Terror?"
Johann smirks "actually this boy named Drake Ryder learned from another boy who went by the name of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third, but Hiccup left to avoid being captured and brought back here."
Astrid ask "Hiccup trained dragons?"
Johann notice her and says "oh and Hiccup also gave you a present with a note to wait until your twelfth birthday before you can open it."
Gobber looks at the envelope to see it says 'read alone'.
Gobber leaves walking back to the forge with the Terrible Terror in his hand.
Once inside, he opens the envelope and pulls out a letter to read:
"Dear Gobber,I'm alive, I found a home on an isle of Kearstay that is East of Berk past two islands. I meet a new girl that is ten days younger than Astrid, because it took me two days by flying on Night Fury doing Island hop and eight days later was her birthday.We started a friendship and I take her on night flight dates and talk about our days. I been living with her and her parents.The Terrible Terror is named Cutie because if he steals a fish and is caught, he gives this cute little expression begging for the fish. If you want to send me a letter back with update on how your doing, roll up a letter and tie it to his leg, point it east and say land on third island to give to Drake Ryder, Dragon Master.P.S. That's my new name and tittle. Don't tell the villagers I'm Hiccup in disguise.Gobber rubs his forehead "Hiccup changed his name and started a friendly relationship with a girl? Oh boy, Astrid is not going to be happy that Hiccup moved on in his love life.
Then again, she betrayed him by hooking up with his cousin that bullied him and she always came to save him before her tenth birthday."
Gobber writes a reply and sends Cutie East to Drake Ryder.
Stoick watched him send a Terrible Terror East and ask "why did you send a dragon East for?"
Gobber comments "Hiccup taught this boy, Drake Ryder how to train dragons and told me to send the letter back as Terror mail."
Stoick gaped "where's Hiccup at?"
Gobber replies "don't know, he doesn't stay in one place all the time."
Stoick sighs "if he returns, I have a lot of apologies to make up to him. There won't be no forgiveness for exiling Hiccup and Valka would have my head if she's still alive."
(On Kearstay)
A little over five months since Hiccup accepted his unofficial exile and met a girl and found a new home.
He changed his name to Drake Ryder, Dragon Master.
Drake just finished rebuilding a sword after shattering the sword due to it reaching it's sharpening limit.
Gunnar grins "I thought the customer wanted a new sword?"
Drake nods his head "he did, but he said this
sword was last of his father possession so I told him to give me a few days to play with it and I also threw in a little Gronckle Iron mixed with regular steel to form a strong sword to chop through anything except another Gronckle Iron blade."
Gunnar grins "keep this up and you'll be promoting to blacksmith level, then next promotion is master blacksmith of the Island."
Shelby stop by the forge and ask "uh, Drake?"
Drake stops what he was doing and walks over to the counter and ask "yes, milady?"
Shelby nervous says "my older sister and her family are visiting from an island South of here and Chief Balder got a letter that they are required to attend a meeting to discuss dragon raid problems."
Drake sighs "I was afraid of that."
Shelby sighs "Balder said he was thinking about bringing you as Dragon Master."
Drake gaped "he was thinking about what?!"
Shelby sighs "he was thinking about bringing you as the Dragon Master, since you befriended a Night Fury."
Drake sighs "I would have to bring Toothless in order to prove I'm Thee Dragon Master."
Shelby curious ask "do you think it could be a possibility that some of the kids from your Island appear at the gathering?"
Drake nods his head "yes, so I'll just wear my mask."
Shelby kisses his cheek and grins "don't work too hard."
Drake grins "okay, milady, I'll try to not work so hard."
Shelby leaves to go tell Chief Balder he inform Drake.
Chief Balder grins "did he take the news great to hear the gathering is on Berk?"
Shelby smacks her forehead "I didn't tell him that part. I was thinking the gathering was on another island. I'm so sorry, Chief. I'll go tell him right now."
Drake poured the molten Gronckle Iron in the mold and dump a bucket of water on top of it to cool it down.
Gunnar smiles "you said they think hiccups are beneath them?"
Drake nods his head "yes. They drop me after I turned five years old and mock me as I walk past them, so I when they agree that they could live better with me gone, I took off and didn't look back."
Gunnar grins "this rebuilt sword would definitely prove them wrong about hiccups."
Drake sighs "and before I left, I couldn't lift wooden swords until I started working with Toothless and grow."
Shelby stops by and says "Drake, I was thinking the Tribe gathering was on another island, it's not, it's on Berk."
Drake drops the tongs and looks at Shelby "it's on Berk?!"
And faints on the floor.
Gunnar laughs "I wonder if he'll faint when you tell him your pregnant with his child after you two tie the knot."
Shelby blushes at the future.
Gunnar dumps a little water on Drake to wake him up.
Drake sputters water and says "if the gathering is on Berk, I'll have to wear my mask all the time and have to modify it so that I can eat without revealing my face."
Shelby grins "or you could go as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third and become a member of this Tribe?"
Drake sighs "if I go as Hiccup, there would be a chance that I would be arrested for treason for befriending a dragon."
Shelby sighs "that's tough choice to choose between hiding and risk getting revealed or go as Hiccup and face possible treason and then again, you'll have our Chief to protect you from your tribe."
