"Morning sun is the brightest light
Sibling love comes next."
Finn Haddock was often the first one up in the Haddock house. He got dressed as quiet as possible, even tho his brother could sleep thru loud noises but waking him up when nothing important happened, was pretty much suicide. You would have an grumpy Stoick for half of the day and Finn did not want to handle that in the morning.
After putting his dark blue tunic, brown pants, his black belt, his boots and his tan cloth bracers on, he carefully open the door and walked down the stairs.
He knew his mother would be up any minute now, so he grabbed a piece of bread and a water bottle in the kitchen and went out to meet his dragon, Lyrke.
The changewing ate the last of his breakfast and greeted his human with a cooing, which gave him a pat on his head from Finn. Together they walked to the great hall to begin the day with reading the books from the secret room.
As the door closed behind Finn, his mother open her eyes to a dark room. She turned her face to the right and could feel her husband's breath on her face. She smiled to herself and kissed his cheek before swinging her legs over the beds edge and stretched her arms. A yawn was made at the same time. The bedrooms air was cold and even if the temptation was big of just snuggle into the blankets with her husband, Astrid stood up to begin her day.
She got dressed and combed her hair. The room was till dark, but after 19 years of being in the same room she knew how to get around and where everything was. It was only when she began to braid her hair when she lit a candle, which she placed on the table so she could see what she was doing with her hands. Her hair became braided as when she was 20. Having it down became an irritation after she became a chiftness and especially when her kids were little and pulled it. Even if it was years ago her kids was so small, she still braided it to keep it away.
The only one who minded it was her husband, Hiccup. He liked it when her hair was down. Her kransen laid in a box in her wardrobe, where it has been since the day she got married and was waiting to been hand down to her daughter. The only problem was that she had two daughters. It would be easy just to give it to the oldest, Vylma but Astrid had a feeling Magnhild would get jealous. If only her house hadn't been destroyed in the Drago war and her first Kransen hadn't been destroyed. Her new kransen had gotten a new design when Hiccup made her nadder armor.
Astrid finished the braid and open the windows door to let the sun in.
Hiccup groaned and at the sudden bright light and turned the other way. He would get up in a few minutes.
Astrid walked out of their bedroom and down the stairs to start the fire and the breakfast. After 19 years of being a wife, her cooking skills got better and now her food didn't taste terrible and it was eatable.
The fire was high and the cold porridge was getting warm over the fire when she heard her oldest daughter come down the stairs, followed by Hiccup.
"Good morning." Astrid said.
"Morning." Vylma said tired and yawned.
Hiccup walked up to Astrid and gave her a smile and a kiss on the cheek. "Good morning."
"Vylma!"
Vylma looked up, because there's where the voice came from. The voice of her sister.
"Vylma," Magnhild came running down the stairs with a pair of brown tan cloth bracers in her hands. "these are yours and those are mine." she gestured to the tan cloth bracers that was wrapped around Vylma's arms.
Vylma looked down and saw that the pattern on these tan cloth bracers was not the ones she owned had. "It's not a big of a deal. They only thing that keeps these two pairs apart is their pattern."
Magnhild glared at her. "But I bought those as you bought these." she held out the tan cloth bracers in Vylma's face.
Vylma sighed and started to take the tan cloth bracers off her arms. "We should label them."
Magnhild nodded. "That we should." she held out Vylma's tan cloth bracers and Vylma gave her hers tan cloth bracers. Magnhild turned her heel to go upstairs to comb her waist long hair and braid it into place.
As she walked up the stairs, their older brother, Stoick stepped aside so she could pass. Then he walked out of the seven year old door that was two meters from the stairs that lead to the stables, where the family dragons were.
"Vylma." Hiccup said and held out five plates for her to take. Vylma took the plates and started to set the table.
"Finn can't live on bread every morning." Vylma pointed out as the last plate was on the table.
Astrid sighed. "I've talked to him about it and it seems like I need to talk to him about it again."
While Hiccup placed the wooden glasses on the table as Vylma turned to get the spoons, Magnhild came down the stairs hair braided, dressed and with her tan cloth bracers on her arms.
"Where's Stoick?" she asked and looked around the room.
"Feeding the dragons." her mother responded. Magnhild nodded at.
They had all just sat down with their plates filled with porridge when Stoick came back from the stables and he also took his plate and filled it before he sat down with his family to eat breakfast.
"Stoick," Magnhild began and got her brothers attention. "I been thinking about my tan cloth bracers and I'm thinking of making them into shields."
Stoick frowned in confusion and asked; "How?"
"Well not a regular shield side, but big enough to cover my head."she explained and took a bit of the porridge.
"That's actually a good idea." Hiccup approved.
Magnhild smiled at him. "And I was thinking of your shield and wondering if you have the design papers left."
"Yeah, somewhere over there I believe." he said and gestured to the desk where papers laid in piles and pretty much everywhere.
"Great," Magnhild ate the last of her porridge. "Then I'll start searching." she stood up from the table and started searching the desk for the designs.
"And if you need help," Hiccup began and stood up from his seat. "You just ask." he looked from Magnhild to Stoick.
"I think we got this, dad." Stoick responded.
Hiccup nodded. "Okay, I'll be somewhere on the island if you need me." with that he placed his empty plate and glass in the bucket of water and walked out of the house to start his chief duties.
"And I'll be in the forge if you need me." Stoick said and stood up. "Magnhild, make designs of these shields and we'll talk about it." he also placed his plate and glass in the bucket of water and waited for his sisters respond before he went out of the house.
"Yes, I'll just find dad's designs and I'll start with mine." she responded without facing him. Stoick nodded without her knowing.
Now it was the Haddock girls left in the house. Astrid looked between her daughters. One was a warrior and had a spirit that didn't really match hers. Magnhild was way more into the warrior role than she ever was. And Vylma, the one that was so passionate about dragons and didn't really have a warrior side to her that Astrid knew she was a Hiccup version two.
She smiled at them. Both beautiful, strong and smart. Both being kind and loyal. She and Hiccup raised them good.
Vylma stood up from her seat and took the plate and glass to the bucket of water and was on the way out when Astrid called her.
"Vylma, wait."
Vylma turned around. "What is it, mum?" she asked and walked to her.
Astrid looked up to her, because she was sitting down. "I need to talk to you and your sister."
Magnhild looked up and turned. "What?" she asked.
"Come." Astrid gestured to her daughters to walk upstairs with her.
They walked into Hiccup and Astrid bedroom and Astrid went straight to the closet to get the box that held her kransen. She turned to the girls and took the kransen out the box so they could see it.
"This is not the original Hofferson kransen because that one got destroyed when Drago attacked Berk but I thought that this could be the Haddock kransen. Considering that Valka don't have one to pass one." Astrid explained.
Vylma and Magnhild looked at each other before Vylma spoke;
"You take it."
Magnhild stared at her. "Why? Don't you want it?"
"You're the one that will have kids in future, not me."
Magnhild frowned. "And you know that how?"
"I don't want kids when I'm out there taking care of dragons and keeping them safe." Vylma explained.
Magnhild crossed her arms. "Who says that I want kids?"
Vylma sighed. "You're good with kids."
"Doesn't mean that I want them." she fired back.
"That kransed will just disappear in my hair anyway. No one will see it."
"Vylma."
"Just take it, Magnhild." Vylma placed a hand on her shoulder. "I assure you that I don't want that kransen and I know you want to be like mum. And you would look way better with that one your head, instead of my head."
"Vylma I-" Astrid began but was stopped by Vylma.
"Mum, give it to Magnhild. I don't want it." she assured and took a step back. "I'm pretty sure Magnhild wants it."
Magnhild tilted her head and looked at her sister. "Are you sure? Like really?"
Vylma laughed and punched her on her shoulder. "Yes, now take that so you can continue on your shield design. Which is an amazing idea by the way."
Magnhild took the kransen from her mother hand. "Thank you, mum. I'll give it to my future daughter or future nice if i don't get a daughter but one of my three siblings will."
Astrid smiled at her. "I'm glad to hear that."
"So I was thinking," Vylma began and they started to walk out of the bedroom. "If you can make it also a little crossbow?"
Astrid was left alone in her bedroom and smiled at her daughters as they walked away from her.
She was a proud mum of four children. Wasn't she lucky with getting twin boys and twin girls?
Just knowing the girls future, made this chapter fun to write.
They have a long journey before them and have a lot to discover of themself.
I also wanted to include the scene where they discuss the dragon eye, but I split the chapter in two so it wouldn't be so long.