After all the teens have gone to bed, Stoick quietly gathers up the entire village for a meeting. Once everybody's settled, every adult in the village - even old Mildew, the cranky, grouchy member who lives as far as they could build his hut and still technically be in the village - is seated and listening, Gothi begins drawing on the wall. Gobber says "Gothi says…the prophecy is coming to pass."

One villager asks "What prophecy is that? The one about the 'Dragon Princess'?"

It's supposed to be a joke, and there's a quiet murmur of laughter through the hall, until Stoick stands and says "Yes. The very one. And it's coming to pass here."

There's a shocked silence, until it suddenly erupts into an uproar. Gobber bangs his hammer down to get everyone's attention, and finally Mildew asks "An' who exactly is the supposed 'Dragon Princess' anyway? Most of the village is here, an' I'm not seeing any Princess, Stoick."

Stoick takes a deep breath, and says "Gothi believes the prophecy refers to Bloom."

There's another uproar, and Gobber has to bang his hammer down multiple times to get everybody quiet again. Mildew says "The girl who rode a flaming Monstrous Nightmare and didn't get hurt? Seems to me she's more of a devil than a Princess, Stoick. An' the way she was talkin' to it? Like she could understand the thing?"

Stoick glares at Mildew, and says "Nobody knows for sure what the prophecy means by a Dragon Princess, but Bloom seems to fit the bill. She rode the Nightmare, stayed on when it was crawling up the wall sideways. She tamed a Light Fury, a species we've never even been able to get close to. And she led us to the Dragons' Nest, fought the Red Death."

"Right, an' I suppose the fireballs everybody's talking about, the ones that they all say came from her hands, are just another part of the prophecy?"

Gobber bangs his hammer down on the table hard enough to split it open, and yells "Mildew, I'm gonna shove a hammer down your throat if you keep talking. Now, shut up!"

Stoick says "Regardless of what we all think the princess part of the prophecy means, the facts are we're now at peace with the dragons. A peace Bloom helped create."

One villager - not Mildew, surprisingly enough - says "We don't even know where she came from! She just showed up during a dragon attack!"

Stoick says "Yes, and that particular mystery is still unsolved. Where she came from…where she came from isn't important right now. What she could do is important though."

Mildew says "Like have us bow down to her or somethin'! She's already your daughter, when she finds out she's apparently-"

"She doesn't know, Mildew. We haven't exactly told her just yet that she's apparently at the center of an ancient prophecy. Her powers are enough to worry about, right along with the dragons. Everybody just treat her normally for now."

"Normal? She sprouted a set of wings, I've heard! An' a sparkly outfit to go with em! An' you expect us to treat her normal?!"

Stoick slams his own fist down on the table, and says "Yes, Mildew, I expect you to treat my daughter like you would any other person in Berk. Or how you would've before everything happened."

Gobber says "She's still Bloom. There's just more we all know about her now. A few worrying things we know about her, but she didn't know about them either. Like…apparently being blessed by Freya and Odin."

After a few hours of debating, the meeting is over - nobody's going to tell Bloom about the little detail that she's part of an old prophecy just yet, that can wait until she's got a grip on her powers some.


AN: Hey, everyone - I know, short chapter. There wasn't much to this one, in all honesty - it's important, but there's no fight scene or anything dramatic. How's Bloom going to learn about the prophecy? Read on and find out! Enjoy!