It's been three years since the tribe gathering on Berk.
Drake, now thirteen years old got a letter from Gobbler about Astrid determined to find Hiccup and apologize to him.
Shelby and Drake got closer to each other as unofficial boyfriend and girlfriend.
Eric and Helga started getting concerned about Drake and Shelby's growing relationship.
Eric found them having conversations about the problem with dragon raids and Hiccup's past about his life on Berk.
Drake teach Shelby how to draw pictures.
Helga caught them talk about their feelings towards each other and forming a relationship between them.
Other children even questioned their growing relationship.
Drake woke up in his bedroom and got dressed and headed downstairs to eat breakfast and head down to the forge to repair weapons.
Chief Balder stops by the forge and comments "you and Shelby seem to be getting offely close with each other."
Drake nods his head "yes. I didn't think I would find another friend that would want to date me after my last friend of four years betrayed me. We talked about becoming a boyfriend and girlfriend."
Balder smiles "that's good. You can't marry her until you both turned seventeen."
Drake nods his head "yep, that's four more years before I can marry her if we do love each other overtime."
Balder comments "if she falls pregnant by forgetting to drink the moon tea while under the age of seventeen, you have to marry her before the baby is born. Your not allowed to sleep with a girl until your both sixteen."
Drake ask "what would be a good gift to give to your friend that you like a lot?"
Balder comments "you could make her a necklace to express that you like her a lot with flowers?"
Drake grins "that could work. Thank you, Chief Balder."
Drake begins working on a making a necklace.
By night time, Drake had a small steel chain made and decided to leave for the night since it's dinner time.
He walks in his step-family's house to have dinner.
Helga was cooking fish for dinner for her family.
Eric was spending time with his daughter, Shelby, going swimming in the lake in the forest.
Helga curious ask "so Drake, why don't you want to be called Hiccup again?"
Drake sighs "I want to erase Berk from my life until I feel ready to forgive the villagers of Berk."
Helga comments "they hurt you emotionally."
Drake nods his head "yes, they commented on how bad I would be Chief of Berk and that I'm bad luck to Berk because I'm a hiccup."
Eric and Shelby returned from the forest to have dinner.
Eric comments "it's been three years since you moved in to live here and you gotten close to my daughter and was wondering if you been thinking about asking my daughter out on a date?"
Drake looks at Eric and replies "I would have to check with Gunnar to see if he would let me off the day after tomorrow, because I'm working on an anniversary gift for Shelby."
Shelby gape "your making me a anniversary gift?"
Drake smiles "yes."
As they ate dinner, Cutie flies in and lands on the table and chirps.
Shelby ask "what is Cutie doing here for?"
Drake replies "I don't know."
He grabs the rolled up letter to read:
Dear Drake,
Snotlout has been trying to woo Astrid, but fail miserable. I believe she is in love with Hiccup because after she opened your present last year, she told her parents that no matter what boy comes to them to ask for her hand in marriage, her heart belongs to Hiccup.
She started beating boys that challenge her to a duel for her hand in marriage. Right now she is undefeated by boys her age and gave Stoick her shield as insurance to be engaged to Hiccup.
At night, I think she's crying over Hiccup. Take care of yourself Drake.
Love
Gobber.
Eric gape "that Astrid girl gave your father her shield to engage herself to you?"
Drake sighs "it would seem so, but I can't marry her yet because of what she did to me."
Helga comments "if you plan on going back to Berk after two more years, don't forget about us and don't give that girl a second chance too quickly to make sure she's not playing you."
Shelby sighs sadly feeling uncomfortable with this conversation about that Astrid girl.
Drake comments "I don't plan on going back to Berk for awhile."
After eating dinner, Shelby walks upstairs to her room feeling sad about losing Drake.
Helga opens her daughter's door and ask "you want to tell him how you truly feel about him or am I going to have to tell him for you?"
Shelby sighs "I don't want to lose him as a friend and I like him more than a friend. Maybe even love him."
Helga smiles "then show him you want to be more than friends with him."
She leaves her daughter's bedroom and head to bed.
Shelby thinks about it and gets up and walks across the hall to Drake's bedroom to see Drake laying in bed and silently walks over to the bed and lightly kisses Drake on his lips.
Drake stirs from his sleep to see Shelby kissing him and slowly wrap his arms around her waist to pull her on the bed.
Shelby breaks the kiss to see Drake awake and says "I like you more than a friend and want to be your girlfriend."
Drake comments "I can't be your boyfriend yet because I don't have a gift to present to you to start courting you."
Shelby ask "was you going to give me a gift to start courting me?"
Drake nods his head "yes, I plan on making you a gift to start courting you."
Shelby grins and begins to get up when Drake ask "wait."
Shelby raises her eyebrow in curious.
Drake leans in and kisses her lips softly for a minute before letting her go back to her bedroom to sleep.
Unknown that Helga watch them kiss twice and whispers "Astrid Hofferson, you lost the boy who could have turned out to be a great boyfriend to you."
Eric ask "they get a little heated in kissing?"
Helga shakes her head "no, our daughter ask to be Drake's girlfriend."
Eric sternly comments "he better not break her heart."
Helga shakes her head "no, he said that he couldn't be her boyfriend yet until he presented her with a courting gift which I believe he is in the process of making a courting gift and he kissed her goodnight.
So I know he wants to date our daughter."
Two days later, Drake finished making the necklace for Shelby with charms carved out of wood to attach to it: two parents holding a baby, sword, a girl and boy holding hands, flower.
Tonight, everyone was eating dinner in the hall or tell stories about their life.
Drake wraps the necklace in a box and walks over to the hall and walks over to where Shelby and her parents are sitting and says "Shelby Hartson, I made you a gift to ask you if I could court you?"
Eric and Helga watch with smiles along with the villagers.
Shelby opens the box after ripping the paper wrap off to see a necklace with wooden charms attached to it and ask "what does the charms mean?"
Drake grins and explains what charm represents what and says "I can add more charms to it for more events in your life as memories."
Shelby grins "it's perfect. Thank you, Drake and yes, you can court me. Can I have a dance with my boyfriend?"
Drake bows "I would be honored to dance with you."
Drake leads Shelby over to the dance floor and begin to soft music.
When the song end, Drake leans in to meet Shelby in a soft kiss that turned passionate.
Shelby gape feeling his tongue enter her mouth a little bit.
Drake breaks the kiss and says "I would like to be your boyfriend and I also want to give you this" presenting a ring to her and comments "this is a bound ring incase visiting suitors want to ask you out you can show them that your kinda engaged to me if I ask will you marry me in the future."
Shelby and everyone gape at what Drake just ask her.
Shelby kisses him and says "yes I'll marry you in the future if we last that long."
Drake slips the bound ring on her ring finger.
Balder comments "you know the heir gets to choose first?"
Drake nods his head "my ex-dad had that rule too."
Balder comments "I have a son, but he left travel the sea and got lost in sea. I haven't heard from him in years until a week ago, when a traveler claimed to be my lost son said he would be returning tomorrow."
Drake comments "I look forward to meeting him."
After eating dinner, Drake and Shelby headed home while Eric and Helga stayed to chat with the villagers.
Drake walked home with Shelby.
Drake went upstairs to his room to change into pajamas and climb into bed.
Shelby finished changing into her pajamas and decided to room with Drake until her parents come home.
She walks across the hall to Drake's bedroom and enters to tuck herself in his bed.
Drake turns over to see Shelby and says "goodnight, milady."
Shelby replies back "goodnight, my Dragon Master."
An hour and a half later, Eric and Helga return home and head upstairs to bed.
First they check on the kids.
Eric peeks in Drake's room to see Drake and Shelby sleeping in Drake's bed facing away from each other.
Helga looks inside to see her daughter in Drake's bed sleeping.
They leave closing the door and go to their bedroom.
Eric ask "I wonder who's idea was it to sleep in the same bed?"
Helga answers "I'm not sure who, but I don't think Drake seems like the one who wouldn't sleep with our daughter after just becoming boyfriend and girlfriend."
Eric sighs "tomorrow morning, we'll ask them what happened and ask Drake about some of the rules in his old village."
Helga comments "he had a horrible childhood that I think he would be afraid to break a rule or do anything to damage our reputation in front of the village."
They had to bed after changing into pajamas.
Next morning, Drake woke up first and realized that Shelby, his girlfriend was sleeping beside him and left the room, heading downstairs with a paper and a pencil.
He walked downstairs and sat at the table and begin to write a letter to Gobber.
Eric and Helga got up and headed downstairs to see Drake writing on a paper.
Helga notice his facial expression and ask "Drake, do you know any rules from your old tribe concerning dating and sleeping in the same bed with your girlfriend."
Drake sighs "I didn't ask Shelby to sleep in my bed last night. In my old tribe, boy and girls aren't allowed to sleep in the same bed because the girl is to remain pure until they get married."
Eric ask "are you afraid to do anything intimate with our daughter?"
Drake bows his head and nods his head "yes, because heir is supposed respect the girl's family image in front of the villagers otherwise he loses credibility to earn the right to marry the daughter."
Helga curious ask "did anything happen between you two last night?"
Shelby answers "no, nothing happened between us last night. We didn't even cuddle in bed."
Eric ask "what about before we got home an hour and a half later after you two came home for bed?"
Drake shakes his head "no, nothing happened because I was ready for bed."
After eating breakfast with the family, Drake gives the letter to Cutie and heads to the forge to work.
Gunnar wasn't there to work, so Drake began working on a dented sword.
Gunnar walks in to see Drake working on a sword and ask "Drake is there something wrong from your past?"
Drake sighs "my ex-bestfriend that I had a crush on and maybe even love and she broke my heart and made me feel unworthy to date any girl."
Gunnar ask "did something happen to bring this painful memory up?"
Drake nods his head "Shelby slept in my bed last night and we didn't cuddle with each other."
Gunnar gape at that, but didn't say anything and got to work.
Lunch time came, Drake walk to dragon arena to visit Toothless.
Helga stop by the forge to check on Drake to see only Gunnar and ask "do you know where Drake is?"
Gunnar shakes his head "no, but he was sad about his ex-bestfriend that he had a crush on and may have been in love with her and she broke his heart.
With Shelby sleeping in his bed made him a little upset because that Astrid girl made him undesirable to date him."
Helga gape at that in shock "that's why he hasn't ask my daughter to court her or ask us for permission to date our daughter for three years!"
She leaves walking around the village looking for Drake with no luck and decided to check the dragon arena to see Drake sitting next to Toothless petting him.
She sighs "Drake?"
Drake turns to see Helga and says "hi."
