p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c11c8dd299a48b174695d90043f981ac"From befriending dragons to becoming allies with the enemy, Berk had changed for the better. The island was indeed too small to hold several tribes, but it didn't break the distant, yet close, relationship the Berkians had with the rest of the Archipelago. Tribes were working with Tribes in harmony as a new age was slowly seeping into their daily life./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="d4891de929ad4d245cfdfe582af6a9ab"Minutes passed until Toothless finally finished his basket. By then, Fishlegs was already taking care of a customer. When Toothless noticed he was distracted, he gently nudged the basket back where Fishlegs always brought it out from. Then he wandered off towards Gobber's Smithy. After all, he had to retrieve his saddle for when his rider came back. Whenever Hiccup had been away for a day or two, the first thing they did after their reunion was to go out on a flight to make up for the lost times. Back then he hadn't been ready, but now he would./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="97156a1abfdc30411a90e39f16834469""Get that out of my face!" Eret groaned in disgust and pushed him away. He wiped his hands on his pants a little annoyed but couldn't help and look back at Ruffnut. It took him months to realize what he had been avoiding all along since he came there. She was the reason he had decided to stay on Berk even when his crew and family left. She was the one he couldn't find out on the ocean – she was one of a kind after all./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="02c487b96addeabc2c3adb3f26a1f289"Astrid smiled and ruffled his hair. "Of course he is, honey," She said and got up, brushing off the dirt from her pants. Ever since she received the ring, she hadn't removed it. She kept it on no matter what, to show everyone who her heart still belonged to. "Do you want to give the flowers now?" She smiled./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="79503a67725d924d6cc5274c42d51321"Snotlout was one of them. In a letter to Astrid, he had stated that he couldn't live on the soil of Berk anymore – the guilt of what he did to his cousin was burning beneath his skin. He hoped that travelling and spreading the knowledge and peace of the dragons would redeem him one day, and so he was never heard of again. Spitelout traveled with him as well. The two seemed inseparable after Hiccup's passing./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="3c4bcffe1f9b46b8e342173b49b543a3"Fishlegs' head snapped up as he noticed the black dragon strolling down the street. He smiled and petted his head as he stopped by his hut. "Good morning, Toothless," he hummed with a smile and set down the basket of fish before him. Toothless started to eat it right away, shaking his tail slowly with a small warble./p
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