How to train your dragon: the next generation Chapter 10: Blessed Children, a how to train your dragon fanfic

Blessed Children

While the dragons souls were finally setting themselves free of the burdens that had weighed them down so long; their loved ones who did breathe the air they so envied had quite the daunting task ahead of them.

The COE may not have succeeded in their desire to strip the DHA of its Transformation and Enlightenment and thus inadvertently make them all kill themselves and put an end to the spreading Golden Age.

However, there was no getting around the fact that Berk had taken a great many heavy blows from the attack and now many members of the five tribes who were the heart of DHA were now on Berk.

All this meant it was both a mess of politics as well as a chaotic mess of splinters and damage. It always seemed just when they had felt they'd earned a right to a break their lives got turned upside-down again and their home was in shambles.

"Dad? Are you gonna be alright? You don't look like you slept well." Breena asked her dad Hiccup the morning after they adverted the crisis and her words ringed true.

Hiccup out of all his siblings looked like someone who hadn't slept for a week and a bit at the end of his rope. Breena's mother Astrid was comforting her husband and trying to shove a strong drink into his left hand.

"Come on, Hiccup! Drink it! You're gonna need this crazy concoction that Bloodthorn devised when someone hasn't slept and feels depressed! Don't ask me what she puts into it. Your mother just calls it her "Cheer me up Tonic" so drink it!" ordered Astrid sternly.

"You better do as Mom says Dad or she take your head off," Brant called from the breakfast table and then earned a glare from his grandmother so he shut up.

"Hiccup, please just drink it. I didn't request a whole bottle if I didn't think you and siblings didn't all need the tonic. Now you drink your tonic and Boden and Una? That means you as well," Valka order in her own stern way.

Resigning themselves to obey their mother's wishes the three siblings all got a large goblet of a very dark purplish drink and all drank it slowly as their mother had told them too.

"Well? To you feel a little happier? Or that you can at least get through the day without the dark storm clouds dragging you down?" Valka inquired sternly to her babies.

"Well, it certainly at a mix of flavors, a surprising mixture of flavors. I'll give Bloodthorn that," Hiccup smacked his lips.

"I'm sensing a couple different berries, maybe some hanging fruit, and one or two of their hybrid fruits. So 2 quarters sweet, 1 quarter tart and the rest is tangy?" Boden summed up what he tasted.

"I at least suspect it's giving us things our bodies lack from our normal diet of fish, bread and cabbages and this extra nourishment and vitamins will at least help our minds, bodies, and souls feel cheerier and freer," Una surmised as she wiped her lips the stains on them.

"Well, sounds like it's at least making you happier and not so depressed. We've enough doom and gloom in the air. We don't need more here in this house or on the island," Astrid said wisely as she was now massaging her husband's weary shoulders still trying to help her relax.

"Especially now that half of the other tribes are currently parked on our shores thanks to the manipulations of the COE. I mean we are gonna have to deal with my home island and the others in the DHA and tell them face to face what's going on.

That's not gonna be a pleasant conversation to have with any of them. And you know I'm speaking the truth!" Asta exclaimed from her seat at the table. Shaking her beautiful face looked up and said, "This isn't gonna end well if the tide isn't turned quickly."

"Not to mention we have such serious damage to Berk we have to get to fixing and rebuilding it right away! We can't be left in any sort of vulnerable state. We need to check Boden's Dragon Life Force System, the Dragon Voice Boxes are working as well.

Then all the other inventions and buildings you've all spent the last 23 years building. I mean all the building from the clock tower, from the school the to the postal tower we know got damaged!" Orus said in a stressed and tired voice.

Getting to his feet he looked at the room at large to the wonderful large family he'd gained and shook his own head before saying, softy. "I think the cruelest of crimes this COE wants to commit to taking away what our hearts and souls need the most.

Our families. We already have a basic impression that they are responsible one way or another for most if not all the cruelty of this and all the worlds.

Things that cause disharmony and the pain and suffering that follows it. So we know that they encourage it and keep up the negative energy and want to keep people Untransformed and Unenlightened."

"This is very true so that's why people this world and all the others were stupid for so long, my love. Why we lived for so long being blind, deaf, ignorant and only seeing and hearing what lies we wanted to believe in.

That we miss the truth that was right in front of us. Why what actually matter was missed and why the stupidity of man reigned so long and thus that why that plague went on so long."

"That's till you and your brothers came along and became a cure for this plague. You showed us a better way and it wouldn't have matter powers or not. You unclouded our eyes and opened our minds and hearts." Asta explained what had really happened over this long a lifetime.

"And that's why it's now our job to continue this work of making sure that plague doesn't return. That we are the cure and must keep Transformation and Enlightenment going.

To spread truth and protect our growing family and friends. To make sure each generation is stronger than the last so finally there will be a day there will be no more wars to fight and everyone is truly accepted for who they are and not what others want them to be.

And we can all live in peace, harmony, friendship, and love. That is the ultimate goal for all of us. Is it not?" all the children answered clearly what they understood their duties were.

"You're all very smart and wise with profound wisdom and clarity beyond your ages.

Sill we must get to the matter of dealing with what going on right now. Hiccup? It looks like you and your siblings will have to join the other leaders in the Great Hall to settle things from a political standpoint right now.

If the core members are here I doubt others are far behind. We'll need to prepare for all the Tribes coming to our island for an emergency gathering of all the Chiefs of the Archipelago," Valka foretold wisely.

"Mommy is likely right, BBBFF. But we need to think about the rest of the Berk. On so many levels. There so many things we need to deal with that have been damaged or ruined or need to be checked." Una started to say and Boden picked up.

"We need to check if my power supply was damaged, the automated devices, our weapons supply, food and water, the stables and Nursery and the rest of the buildings… I mean the list is very long and goes on pretty long, bro!"

"Well, we do our best to help with that, sweetheart. Us and the other tribes. They're more than allies, after all, they're friends and I'm sure they'll be able to lend a hand here or there," Asta assured her husband.

"And our younger siblings will be helping us as well. Just because they have families of their own didn't change the fact they are our siblings. That Vow of Siblinghood still makes them our siblings in the eyes of both Berk and Odin.

So they are still our little brothers and sisters. Don't worry, Hiccup. While you and the leaders of the five core tribes do all the boring shop talk we'll get Berk back on its feet."

"What about the Dragons? What are they gonna do?"

"I come bearing a message from the King and Queen on that matter, Chief Hiccup," as Cloudjumper entered the room and bowed in dragon fashion.

"Cloudjumper! Sorry if I've been neglecting you! How are your wife and daughter doing?"

"They've done well with safeguarding the Spirit Portal; on the other hand as Cloudwings is an eye-catching 20-year-old female. As a result, she's ready to flirt with some of the boys, it's making her restless to be stuck at the portal.

Though she understands right now the danger and duty more important than finding a mate," the Stormcutter answered about his beautiful hybrid daughter.

"Well, hopefully, the danger will pass soon and she can find a male as worthy as she is. And you do approve of," Valka hastily added to her companion. Then asked him. "What are Toothless and Moon Shadow's orders for the Dragons?"

"All the Dragons save the Next Generation dragons must gather at Dragon's Glen today at half past one for a Dragon Council meeting. It's where we will discuss what we can do for this threat and what roles we can possibly play to help.

It's been a long time since a Dragon Council meeting been called but in such dire straits we have known its necessary."

"We, of course, trust the wisdom of my dragon Toothless and his wife, Moon Shadow. They've done just as well as a job with their family both of love and blood with leading Dragonkind into its own Age of Transformation and Enlightenment." Hiccup replied to his mother's dragon.

"And of course Stardust and Nightrainbow have done well as part of the Dragon Council as we've done leading Berk so of course White King couldn't have picked better dragons to succeed him.

I know he speaks highly of them as he tells me in my dreams so often. Talking to dragon souls is very useful you know," Boden commented with some pride.

"Not to mention Daddy got a great council of wise, kind and courageous souls of his own helping him run the Valhalla Village now that Valhalla is no longer a senseless endless battlefield where people spend all day slaughtering themselves after spending all night drinking themselves stupid.

Thank the gods were inspired to make it a proper resting place from our own lives and changed that. That we indeed transformed Asgard and Valhalla."

"Well, at least the Gods were wised up onto what is poison to the body and forever to the soul that's for sure and it doesn't need to linger for an eternity and what true rest is. And what matters in life should be what death should be about as well. You did well in your teaching my children." Valka praised them as she hugged and kissed them.

"Yes, that all fine and dandy again. Though it doesn't change the fact we still have an immense amount of work to do to preserve our world so we can continue to show the rest of the worlds what a real paradise is and so hopefully we can achieve the dream we all seek to achieve one day," Astrid reminded them with a hint of impatience.

"Yeah, Dad what do you want me and the rest of the Next Generation Riders and our dragons to do?" Breena asked her father as she was simply the eldest and figure she ought to be the one to ask.

"I feel you and the rest of children and dragons would do best to continue to train and work together at the Academy. Really become a stronger team. Do what you think is best for whatever works for you.

But embrace your gifts and embrace all that makes you and develop a style that all your own and become your own kind of Dragon Riders, Breena."

"Why do we get the feeling, Mommy this is gonna end up with us singing a rather catchy song by the time we get to the arena?" Freja, Gyda, and Siri all asked their mother in a musical way.

"Because my special little girls it just seems music reaches the heart and soul better than just saying it and we feel freer when we sing from the heart is all. So I won't be surprised if you all find your own song by the time you all gather there."

"I'm already feeling the lyrics by seeing everyone thoughts in my head, Mommy! And well our family has always been pretty gifted with singing and dancing. You are the village music teacher," Vali pointed out.

"That I am and we did encourage everyone to find whatever creative outlet they could or whatever means to express themselves and it was the singing that helped free everyone."

"Well, hopefully some more singing will help lighten the mood as we get to rebuilding our home and fixing all that wonderful things you three have built over the last 2 decades.

It might be a good idea even for the Dragon Council Meeting, Cloudjumper," advised Orus to everyone.

"Well, a little musical entertainment never hurt. So let's get down to this. Boden, Una and I will go meet up with the rest of the leaders of the other tribes in the Great Hall to work on the political problems that were caused by COE's messing with the mail." Hiccup started off and then his mother quickly spoke.

"I know what duties my friends and I can do already, son. And I'm sure the others would agree.

Bloodthorn can help by gathering the women who can bake and cook to help restock some of our food supply while Numbskull with some help from Asta's friends in the Moralien's tribe can help with fixing our farming and saving our crops, right Asta?"

"Yes, I was just about to suggest that, in fact. As you know Moralien has the most fertile soil of all the islands in the DHA and as such our part of the alliance was help deliver food to the other tribes.

My people can totally help get our farms and Plant and Animal Islands back up and running. I'll help oversee that duty. I was about to volunteer in fact," she replied with great confidence.

"So we know our siblings will be doing their duties to help with their mothers too. I know without asking for his job is Overseer Birger is gonna make sure everyone is doing their job and is time efficient.

We all know that Breezy, Romi, Remi and their daughters are gonna be working with Ruff's husband Eret who head of Maintenance and Repair on Berk. And working along with them is also Head of Design and Construction Creel and Gala's husbands Amacrain and Mordrel." Astrid rattled off what she knew her mother-in-law was gonna say before she could say it.

"That would mean also since the Shardas clan is responsible in the alliance for metal and other resources for buildings weapons and building materials they'd likely aid in the rebuilding of our many damaged buildings, correct?" Orus asked as he turned to his mother-in-law who nodded.

"That's correct and I got off the Voice Box early with Helena who assured me that her people will be helping with getting our automated weapons system back up and running, restocking the armory and other security issues under the watchful eyes of Brimstone and his wife Leesel."

"Does that also include the Dragon Nursery where Skullette and Firefang are? You know Bloodfire and her husband are in charge of security there and Alle and Velika are school teachers to the hatchlings there too, Mommy," inquired Una curiously.

"Well, that will actually be overseen and helped by Bloodfire's husband's people. The ones we relocated 12 years ago to Refuge Island. They want to make themselves useful.

So they're repairing the Nursery, Dragon Stables and the Dragon Postal House by the Postal Tower. Skullette and Firefang can oversee them in the Nursery. Bloodfire and her husband are watching them in the stables and Alle and Velika are helping at the Postal Tower."

"Okay but what about Ewe and Lily and her sons?"

"Ewe is still getting the Laundry Hall/Clothing Factory back in order and trying to get everyone's clothes and bedding replaced for what was destroyed. Lily and her sons are busy with a 113-year old Gothi ready to treat anyone with medical injuries."

"Sounds like we have everything covered except, Mom you didn't tell us what the Outcast are doing to make themselves any use?" Boden wanted to know.

"They are forming a protective perimeter around Berk and the New Islands along with the rest of the Riders to watch over Berk. So all the other Riders are with the Outcast tasks with finding and stopping any potential threats."

"Well, at least everything covered it would seem, BBBFF. We might as well get to our meeting. And as for you kids? You might as well get off to the arena and start training your hardest."

"Will do, Mommy!"

And with that everyone quickly got to where they had to go to execute their duties as swiftly as they could.

The large group of Next Generation Riders was in most definite need of an inspirational song to lift them up after they felt shaken to the core and full of a doubt after the attack and worried if they could ever live up to their parent's legacy.

So it fell upon the ten grandchildren of Stoick and Valka to sing that inspirational song which just as Una had predicted they'd know the right words to sing to fill their friends and family with the all the love, strength, courage they need.

They just sang about embracing what they needed the most. The most magical things ever. Their talents and loved ones and that would give them the strength they need.

So when they flew in and saw the doom and gloom downcast looks they just opened their mouths and sang their hearts out and swept up everyone in song and dance.

"So you have magic

And it's not that great

But when it found you

You know it was fate

And it might seem scary now

But it can be wonderful, too

So how about we embrace the magic

And make the magic part of you?

You take a little dash of magic

And you let it ignite

Mix things up a little bit

And it might start to go right

In just five seconds flat

How the story has changed

All 'cause now you've embraced the magic

And it just got better in every way

I say embrace the magic

No more holding back, just let it out

If you can take the magic

And learn a little more what it can do

Once the magic is part of you

What's standing in your way

That you can't move today?

You've got the strength in you

To make your dreams come true

No need to shield yourself

From the magic that can help

Protect from any harm that might come

So you have magic

And it's not that great

But when it found you

You know it was fate

So if you listen close

You might make a new friend

And together we can make it!

I say embrace the magic

No more holding back, just let it out

If you can take the magic

And learn a little more what it can do

Once the magic is part of you

Once the magic is part of you!"

"The magic we all share is our love for our family; the fact we are one family bound together by love and friendship and each of our unique talents is also as magical as any blessing from the God's Tapestry," Breena explained as the song ended and what it meant.

"And we can't let that precious magic be taken away any more than our Transformation and Enlightenment. There has been too much gained all of it worth more the gold and diamonds that we cannot let the COE ever take from us." Edyis spoke in a stronger voice clearly overcoming her shyness.

Which is why it may be a good idea to remember what it says on the Vow of Siblinghood we all swore to uphold like our parents when we're old enough to understand it and take it ourselves." Freja.

"We'll take the lead in helping people remember that!" cried Tove as her sister/cousin added. "Yeah anything of that much importance is sure to have great spiritual power and if we say it maybe we can bring it out," add Unn.

"It most likely is a good idea if we all said it together as one. As when we said your protection spell it helped in our first battle against those shadow wraiths," Gyda pointed out and the two girls nodded.

"So let's all of us say it together now. To show we remember what it says and that we renew the vow once more to strengthen it in our hearts and souls right now." Siri suggested to which everyone nodded.

So everyone gathered together to their closest relative and holding everyone's hands or claws which every it maybe they all loudly and clearly recited the Vow of Siblinghood that had been written so long ago from a very special event that happened on Berk.

"That we the brothers and sisters of Berk solemnly swear in the name of Odin and all present to take full responsibility for ourselves, our friends and most of all our little brothers and sisters."

That I will love and protect my younger siblings and teach them how to live honorably as I have done before them.

We will be faithful to our families and love and honor them. And be willing to lay down our lives for them if the need arises.

We will teach our younger brothers and sisters to love with all of their heart and mind and strength. And train them to honor authority and live responsibly.

Together will confront evil, pursue justice and love mercy. We will treat others with kindness, respect, and compassion. And work diligently to provide for both our siblings and needs of our family and community.

To always remember to forgive those who wrong me and reconcile with those I have wrong. Remember to walk with integrity to be answered either the gods or fellow friends or siblings."

As they finished reciting even those weren't born on Berk as they all had some tied to Berk it did fit, but more importantly, you could feel a very strong and powerful energy being radiated from this young group.

Now that they'd been reenergized by both an inspirational song and reminding how strong their bond was and what they meant to each other they knew what they had to really do.

So it was time to get back to business and really get their training started. To do that their whole being had to be trained so mind, body, and spirit had to be had it zenith if they're to face the dangerous threats that were coming.

Destin and Embla began to really start training right they need to get their bodies in better shape from the inside out. So a new and better diet was needed. As their grandparents had spent their lifetime improving the quality of food for Berk they'd be in charge of everyone and that included the dragons' diet during the training.

And that meant starting that very minute they'd have a much healthier body by giving themselves the best diet so their bodies could perform at peak condition.

Falcon said that was a good first step with getting their bodies ready to fight but as he said before he'd still have to put them all through the exact same rigorous training sessions that his mother Heather was in charge of teaching to young warriors.

Hertha offered to teach them some rather unique training techniques that she'd discovered came from art. She said they'd be very useful in fighting with weapons and battled she assured them of that. So she could help them use their mind in their imagination in battle thus their mind.

Whitley and Esme still offered to help with teaching strategy and creative planning. As for Buttercup and Daisy, they're going to brew a tonic that their mothers and great-grandma promised with cleansing all the toxins both physical and spiritual form one's mind, body, and soul.

Tove and Unn were going to work on more protection spells and practice their talents in case they're called upon to cleanse and expel evil. Merida and Harris went to practice their divination powers and Mercury and Emerald went to try to do more with their speaking to birds.

Eureka was going to help teach others how to be a distraction and find good ways to make use of a diversion with the help of Una's children teaching their mother's secrets of how to stay so well hidden.

Oili, Runa, Haldor, and Jary all worked with Boden's three kids to help teach everyone the tricks of the trade expanding on locking picking and being escape artists.

This left Hiccup's children with Odyis to better train the dragons to use their skills and the knowledge they'd learn in school to be a better team and work like a flawless team and be able to think for themselves and surprise the enemy.

It was long and bitter work that was for sure that long week to be up before the sun and long into the night for one and all. It didn't get any easier for anyone, not the older generation or their parents' generation to get things better as they're trying to rebuild Berk, solve the political turmoil and the dragons do what was best for them.

Finally, at dusk on Saturday, a great gathering had arrived at the old arena to tell one another what had come from this long and tiring week. The oldest generation was first to give their report as the other listened with great patience.

Once Valka had spoken for her and all her friends that they'd indeed succeed with their duties and that things were finally getting back on track she told her eldest son they wanted to first hear if the political problems had been worked out?

Hiccup was first to speak that it, of course, wasn't easy to work out the complexity of what the issues being leaders of five islands that made up the original members of the Dragon Harmony Alliance.

Ase and Dagur had agreed with this assessment and even Tue had spoken up for his birth clan. And while they didn't have a representative from Outcast Tribe, Boden and Una did say it'd been one extraordinarily hard week for all involved.

For example, Boden said for him as an empath and being one whose own internal emotions went up and down, having chiefs from all the islands in the Archipelago there was driving him mad.

Una further stated that her own powers had been going a bit wild during the whole time they'd been trying to sort out all the mess that the COE had caused by intercepting the mail.

For her, it was hard to pay attention with her own attention split between trying to have one ear listening to the living and the other listening to the troubles of what was going on with the spirits. And every other minute getting some troubling vision filling her mind. So no she'd been not having a picnic during the meeting.

Hiccup admitted he barely held it together due to his problems with anxiety and his own powers and he could feel that Dagur was about to have his crazy spells come on more then once.

Which Dagur admit he'd nearly gone into his 'crazy spells' at least five times during the tortures week-long meetings and barely held it together and they wanted to know how Ase handled it as it was new for a woman to be in charge of her tribe.

Ase said she had her own problems with the glares and sneers and about lost her temper more than a few times and looking at Tue who'd been part of the meeting since they felt he should be there to help with the Shardas new leader he'd been given some disrespectful looks for who he was.

Needless to say, it was ultimately a very hard week for one and all to get through the mess that was political and get every single issue sorted out to everyone satisfaction and still have this Golden Age still intact by the end of it.

Toothless and his wife Moon Shadow said it hadn't been easy for them in their own week-long council meeting with Dragonkind going over their kinds issues. They'd their own worries, troubles, and fears and a few personal issues and that had been no picnic either.

It wasn't till they'd finally come to the end all sang one song to show they're committed to each other as well as their humans and working together to end this threat to both them they'd at last been able to resolve most of the issues.

Cloudjumper's family decided to sing the song they'd sung to demonstrate what they dragons were devoted to doing and that they're seriously committed to their King and Queen's families and to friends the human race.

"You've made us courageous and you have shown us the way. You and your children will bring forth the generation that finally breaks the cursed evil chains of the past. It is thanks to you both we are courageous enough to try.

Thanks to you now we are true warriors on the front lines standing unafraid. No longer will be watchers on the sidelines watching all that is good in this world and our precious families slip away.

No longer will you have to ask "Where are you my friends of courage?" We now understand we all are made for so much more. Our hearts are pounding now as we cry out with pride we will serve you forever Toothless and Moon Shadow!

We are made to be courageous and we are taking back this fight we were made to be courageous and it starts this very night! The only way we now stand is forever with wings and claws together within our human friends' hands.

We shall be courageous! We shall be courageous!

This is our resolution it is the answer to a long-ago call. We shall love our husbands, wives, and children and we shall not any one of them fall. We will all alight a passion that was buried deep inside. No longer will be watchers the warriors of the King and Queen have arrived!

You've taught us to seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly through life. In the war of the mind, we shall make our stand in the battle of the heart and the battle of up ahead we shall remember what you said. Seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly through life.

We shall be courageous!"

Everyone was liking this and made the rest of the parent generation express how they'd done a pretty fine job getting Berk rebuild and up to its former glory in just a week.

Now all eyes turned to the Next Generation Riders who said it was time to show just what they'd spent all week training for. So everyone took their seats in the arena to watch as the Next Generation Riders showed-off a dazzling display of teamwork, impressive riding talents, and highly competent warrior capability.

The dragon themselves showed-off just how intelligent they're on their own, how to work as a team, their impressive unique talents and to think for themselves.

Then one by one all showed how they worked to improve their special talents and help teach what they could to others and all worked together to solve any problems.

Tears of liquid pride streamed down all of the past generations faces and everyone was feeling they could now truly face whatever evil that COE could face.

Little they all know in the Earth Realm or in Asgard that COE was about to play its End Game and no one would really be prepared for it when it came! They just had to hold on to the love they had was the best they could do. The love they had was the only thing that saves them for what was about to come.