Classroom Time Again

The old motto goes "The more things change the more they stay the same" Well in many ways that is true. Furthermore as stated beforehand as all Ten Realms had for the last 27 years merged together Dragon City had dramatically evolved along with the how Earth itself had developed over the last near 3 decades.

One of the most dramatic transformations you could say was pretty much everyone was dwelling in palaces as now the all the architecture of the buildings and homes was an amalgamation of all the Realms fused.

The end result was rather extraordinary, luxurious, and impressive designs that would blow your mind and be worth even more than the old half-million dollar homes of past generations of childhood.

In fact, it looked like the whole Haddock Clan appeared to exist in a palace that Odin and Frigga would be exhilarated to call their own which was still next door to the huge, magnificent and opulent of Kara's family and three of her Valkyrie sisters and their families.

Still again some things never did change even to the year 2045. Valka was still the first one up. She was now a wife, mother, and grandmother and still was the one to keep the family running smoothly.

Consequently, it was up to her most daybreaks it appeared to make positive that her children and grandchildren weekly pillboxes had been filled accurately. That week stock of multivitamins would hold out. Along with having enough for the breakfast smoothies.

The Brunch Club still got together to talk about the typical problems of their families, work, school, and health. Just what you still expect and Lily Luka was still a nurse and still kept everyone up to date on the newest health news.

"You really shouldn't work as hard as you do, Val," Stoick told her softly as he came into their enormously spacious kitchen as she was occupied trying to get the fresh fruit together to make this week supply of breakfast smoothie.

"All this work is what's keeping me healthy, Stoick! Plus you know if not for my friend Lily and having several restorative potions moreover other cures given to us from our children helping with the trade deals from the other Realms, I doubt people be as healthy as they are. Or you be as healthy as you are!" she replied to him as she was cutting up carrots.

"True, that is very likely true, Val. But all things concerning health care are under Dagur's family jurisdiction. Though I'm at least quite pleased with what Hel and her brothers have done with their lives."

"The Icefire Foundation? How they help people who been victimized by the evil of the world? I admit it does seem fitting and a true way to atone for what occurred to them as children and for Hel in both timelines."

"Yeah, us having the rare chance to glimpse both and knowing what she was in the broken timeline."

"I'm just incredibly relieved for her. She's finally at long last found peace with herself and her life."

"So, you gonna try and slow down any?"

"Don't think so, Stoick. I'm not about to become one of those grandmothers who just sit crocheting scarfs and watching soap operas and just baking cookies sometimes."

"Well, no that's not you at all Val," he laughed as he couldn't even picture Valka ever sitting down in front of one of their advance TVs in a rocker crocheting a scarf like a dotting old invalid.

"Good, now if you want to make yourself useful, Stoick, you might want to help make sure your children and their spouses' lunches are all made up for the week. Then check on your grandchildren lunches as well!"

"Then can I get around to getting all the dogs fed ?"

"Yes, I suppose that's what we should do. I'm so extremely satisfied we can all still live under one roof and yet haven't declared war on one another!" she optimistically mused as she got the huge blender ready for the massive breakfast smoothie.

"It's all going according to plan, my beloved. I'm just glad between technology and magic we've had these apparatuses that can hold more than appear."

"I think it's helped again that the other Realms have become so integrated into Dragon City and have shared countless of their bounty and good fortune with us. Or at least what was good about them.

I mean I know lands of ice and fire like where the Frost Giants and Fire Giants didn't have much to offer in terms of building or food. However, at least it helped us in survival training and helped us with medical research in terms of hypothermia and burn care.

So I guess we can thank their unrelenting and hellish environments for at least aiding us in that."

"Or at least somewhat in the direction of environmental precautionary measures to help halt more climate change and disasters."

"That too."

"Well, we had to look what each Realm could offer us and what our Age of Transformation and Enlightenment had done and given everyone a fair chance to show their better half, didn't we Mom? Dad?" yawned Hiccup as he came downstairs into the kitchen with Boden and Una and their respective dragon-dogs alongside them.

Hiccup had grown to be a truly sexy man once more by the time he was 43 years old. He still taken good advice and not grown a bread as he looked far sexier without any facial hair.

Indeed both Boden and Una had become just as attractive as before in their first lives when they'd reached the ages of 38 and 33. It seemed the gene for good looks was highly prominent within the Haddock bloodline.

Also highly prominent in the Haddock bloodline were also some other unique little quirks and talents. Every one of the Haddock bloodlines was gifted in music and dance meaning they could play music and sing as well as dance extremely well.

Which was a good thing the not so good thing was the presence of the mental illness that ran through the family line as well? Hiccup himself suffered from ADHD, depression, anxiety. Boden was a Type-1 Bipolar and Una had Asperger's.

Which their children had all inherited to various degrees just as they had inherited their parents' powers to various degrees. Hence again why they needed to go to therapy just like their parents still needed to do. Consequently, life at home was a struggle and not easy with that many people and dogs living under one roof no matter how big the home was.

"Hiccup! Honey! Are you three okay? I mean you did just have the normal meet and greet the people of the District and that was right after we got back from the voyage and then had to get the kids back to school shopping done! I mean that's a lot to do in two weeks!

Are you sure your anxiety under control?" his mother asked her eldest child with her own voice full of anxiety.

"Mom, I'm okay. So I need a few extra anti-anxiety pills. It was nothing. Don't you think the three of us should be more concerned about the upcoming school year? Like when we were kids and you worried about us?" he replied with a sly grin.

"I..."

"Mom! We are fortunate again to have our special accessories. They not only help control our powers but at least have the unintentional side-effect of alleviating some of our mental illness symptoms," Boden reminded his mom as he let his lightning bolt earrings shimmer in the light of the kitchen.

"Not to mention they are all the latest craze in fashion trend, Mommy! We can totally handle things. Trust us. We've already dealt with one rambunctious and adventures lifetime. Dealing with a second one hasn't inhibited us or anyone else in any way.

Now you and Daddy get off your feet and let us take over. I know your still a powerful and sassy woman, Mommy, but even you got to slow down sometimes." Una told her mother as she readjusted her diadem on her head.

"Okay, we'll settle down."

"Great. Okay, let's tackle this together. Boden, you get to tending the dogs. Una, you get the breakfast table set and I'll get to cooking the breakfast!"

"Let's do it!"

Half an hour later everyone was downstairs ready to take on the day. While their children looked physically the same of course their garments wasn't the same as when they'd been Viking. Possibly in color choice but other then that nothing else.

Astrid was already nagging Breena saying the 'adjustments" she made to her outfit were too revealing in the outfit. Breena was dressed in a carmine red version of her mother's teenage attire but had taken scissors and try to 'sex it up"

Asta was giving her daughter Edyis a similar talking too about she was trying to grow up too fast when she notice that she had tried to make her breast look bigger and told her to remove the stuffing. She was 13 years old and didn't need to grow up that fast let her body mature naturally.

Una looked over her three daughters thoroughly. Freja, Gyda and Siri. Una's sharp eyes notice something that was wrong right off the bat. She scolded her daughters for all getting into the adults' makeup boxes and had them go clean off their faces right now.

The young girls grumbled about it. Citing the fact they're young girls who needed to look beautiful and other girls wore makeup and all other reasons and Una sharply scolded them.

She swiftly told them they're all too young for makeup and more to the point she wasn't a fan of those who let the sin of vanity into their lives. She believed in natural beauty came from having a good heart and beautiful soul.

That you didn't need to cake on lies to try and hide who you really were. Looks only matter to the petty and vain minded. It's what's inside that mattered and if they wore makeup at this age it only told her they didn't like their own bodies and felt insecure.

She told them they need to feel confident and pretty as themselves see their own worth in the mirror and not hide it. And so that meant no makeup or other things to try and make them 'look pretty". They need to feel pretty and happy with themselves.

The boys were also getting a few lectures about proper behavior from their fathers as well. Hiccup was busy reminding his sons Brant and Erico that while he knew they're very well-behaved to still not let the other kids get under their skins and that it wasn't their job to correct others, but the teachers.

Boden was encouraging his shier son Garth to try to be a bit more outgoing this year and break out of his shell while his younger brother he told him not to be so impulsive and think before he acts. To try and help the other out.

As for Orus who had to get to his job as a social worker he looked at his only son Vali who looked just like him other than the lilac in his hair.

While his mommy was dealing with his sisters and the makeup his daddy told him not to worry about his clumsy or forgetful nature. Instead focus on being positive, kind and upbeat and trying his hardest and he does great.

"Well, come, everyone, we've got to get you all to your schools and your mommies and daddies need to go off to work. So let's get into the into cars. Grandpa and I will take you all to school while your parents get to the Screaming Death Speedway to get to their jobs.

That's if everyone is properly dressed and made up now and taken their medicine?" Valka asked as she and Stoick cleared the breakfast plates.

"Give us five more minutes and then we'll be ready, Valka. Breena, go upstairs right now and change that shirt." Astrid ordered her daughter who looked really made and finally surrendered to the fact she wasn't going to get to sex herself up.

"Fine!" and stormed upstairs to her room to get an unaltered shirt.

"And Edyis what are you not gonna do ever again?" Asta asked her daughter who looked down at her shoes.

"Never put cotton balls or other things in my bra to make them look bigger?"

"Correct. Honey, you'll fill out eventually but don't rush it. Furthermore in the future don't try and attract sexual harassment by doing that stunt again, alright sweetheart?"

"Yes, Mom. I won't do it again."

"And what will you three girls not do or get into?" Una asked her daughters who said in unison.

"We won't play or get into makeup or make fake makeup. We must feel confident with our own looks and bodies and not care how others see us. What inside matters more than just physical appearance.

Those who judge based on physical appearance are petty and narrow-minded."

"Good."

"And as for all you boys?" their fathers asked them.

"Do our best with our best qualities and help each other out with our weakest."

Elsewhere everyone was having a similar start of the day. Trying to get the sleep out of their eyes. Having a healthy breakfast, talking about family and work and a few choice words with their kids.

Finally, though everyone was at their respective schools which just like everything else in the city had gotten quite the makeover in the last 27 years.

The only one in high school was Breena being 14 years old and now attending Berk High School which means her Principal was her family Guardian Valkyrie and Godmother Kara. Like said before she hadn't abandoned her post after Loki had died.

She simply continued working her Midgard job and doing her duties to her blood family and god family.

She still looked amazingly beautiful and stunning when Breena was dropped off at the high school.

"Well, well, hello Breena. Welcome. So glad to have the first Haddock Grandchild at last attending the school I watch over. You do know your father had the highest test scores the school has ever seen right?"

"And my mom was again the most popular girl ever during her time here and she was homecoming queen, straight A student and had the most beautiful voice of the girls in the school choir?" Breena replied before Kara could speak and then smiled.

"My parents have told me all the time about the school days, Kara. I know my Dad knew the stats on everyone in school and nobody noticed him."

"Well, he was still a very remarkable person even before what happened that changed everyone life."

"Yeah, I know," as she swung her auburn ponytail over her shoulder. Then nervously added, "Are you expecting me to live up to my parents' greatness?"

"I don't expect you to do anything but your best, Breena. As I'm sure that's all your parents and grandparents expect. You may still be a Next Generation Rider. But your free to carve a new path of destiny for yourself in this lifetime."

"I guess, that's true. So how do I start to do that, Kara?"

"Well, on campus I'm Mrs. Wings and secondly take this," handing her thin tablet.

"What's this?"

"A gift. It's a day planner with a holo clock and reminder and a bit of magic. Not only with this keep your class schedule and homework assignments straight. But it will help with time management and all other school-related work and your life outside of school.

The rest of the NGR will all be getting one. It's a gift from all of us who you helped in your past life. Now if you look at the first entry listed in your planner you've got to get to your locker here," she pointed to the locker on the holomap.

"Use the planner to open your locker and then proceed to where the map tells you your homeroom is and then begin your school day."

"Thank you, Kara! I mean Mrs. Wings!" she blushed as red as the flowers in her hair.

"I let it slide this time."

"Okay, it looks like according to this planner I've got homeroom, music, history, biology, art before lunch. Then after lunch, I've got a gym, social studies, and math." then her blue-green eyes widen.

"You realize what that means I take it?"

"Yeah, I do. It means I've got Fishlegs for History, Tuffnut for Biology, Ria for Art, Snotlout for Gym and Ruffnut for Social Studies!" she cringed thinking about her dad's friends and her mom's adopted little sister as her teachers.

"Well, show them respect and again do your best to get the best grades you can this semester and let's see if you can match wits with your father."

"Will do! Gotta go!" as Breena hurried into the school get her first day of high school started.

Berk Jr. High was very packed with most of the other children who were all thankful for those Dragon Day Planners as they're calling them. If not their first day and the rest of their lives could've been really messed up.

The sixth grade class of anxious newcomers who had just left the playground behind and were moving up in life were Destin, Embla, Haldor, Oili, Runa, Geir, and Gyda.

It was such a big change to be no longer consider a child but a preteen and have lockers and not just a coat rack and chubby in the back of the class like at their old school. Or the fact they had to go to different classrooms.

It was faster paced with harder subjects and more peer pressure and much bigger and scarier.

Luckily they had people gone through the transition the year before assign to help them. So there was Falcon, Eureka, Merida, Tove, Unn, Erico, Garth, and Freja.

Though while the 'middle' siblings were helping the youngest get adjusted to the new school the 'oldest' was helping the 'middle' get ready for what was to come for their last year which they're dealing with them themselves.

As eighth graders, Brant and Edyis did that at Berk Jr. High to the seventh graders just as Whitley, Esme and Buttercup and Daisy did the same at their Jr. High in the Moralien District.

Odyis didn't have any of her friends in Berserk District to help her in her junior high but her mom's old creation Ms. Reena and Ms. Luriel who were both the principal and lady who ran the group home were her mother and uncles grew up were more than happy to give her comfort and help.

As for the youngest at Berk Elementary? Well, those in the fifth grade were Hertha, Jary, Siri was all ready to take on their last year of elementary and then go to their lives as preteens.

Vali was happy to start his school year as a fourth grader and Merida's little brother Harris was in 3rd grade and happy in his classroom as well.

The first day can be the most challenging after having a summer of fun and freedom. But things were made easier as everyone teachers even the "Dragon Riders" were nice and no one got any homework the first day back.

Today was simply about getting used to school and learning about the new building for some and for others learning the do and don't of growing up.

All in all school life remains the same no matter what decade you live in. Fashions and trends may come and go. Subjects and what in the may change but the fundamental of school never actual changes and being a kid in school never really changes at all.