9-5
While all the kids were taking on the school in the year 2045 their parents were taking on their careers in 2045.
The first and foremost critical responsibilities in the city would be the five district leaders even though Berk was lead by the previous leaders three children collectively. As the Haddock children's relationship was unbreakable and they wouldn't do anything without each other.
Therefore just like their father before them, they kissed and hugged their spouses and kids and told them they loved them and then took their vehicle with their dragon-dogs to the imminent Screaming Death Speedway station that would take them to Dragon Edge and from there to City Hall.
At least they're wearing much more stylish outfits then what their father had worn when they're kids.
As they embarked on their train they commenced going over the itinerary of what today's conference would cover amongst the numerous other articles that would be reviewed at City Hall when they arrived.
"So what's on the schedule today?" Hiccup asked as he looked over the notes on his handheld device in his left hand. He and his siblings were all left-handed which was again unusual but just something that connected them all stronger together.
"Beside those irritating taxes and the city constant budget plan?" Boden asked sarcastically as fixed his ponytail and looked over his own device in an irksome manner.
"Yes, little brother beside that one thing that is as assured as death. What else do we need to discuss?" his brother replied in a dry tone.
"Refurbishing and re-purposing," Una spoke up quickly looking over thing on her holopad and pointed to a few key points lit up on the holomap.
"See here my BBBFF?" as she pointed one lilac-colored fingernail to different spots, "These green buildings are the ones that need to be refurbished and the blue ones are the ones that needed to be re-purposed." as they meticulously examined the map closely, "They've been closed for an extended period of time.
They are in excellent working condition and can be re-purposed for brand-new projects and business for much-needed jobs. It will only improve the austerity and might even lower the taxes." their little sister pointed out sensibly what they could do with numerous regions of the city.
"Very useful observation, Una. You have got a keen mind indeed."
"Thank you, Hiccup. Now, Boden, have you been finding any way to assist in making advancing our output in green technology and clean energy?" Una inquired as she opened a new file on the device.
"I've been in touch with the city power plants and again emphasized how we need green tech and how we need to come up with more ways to save energy. Sadly they've not gotten back to me on how to do that yet."
"That's too bad. If we want Dragon City to continue to be self-sufficient and not become conquered by the outside world we must find ways to maintain our Independence and outside influence and other corruption."
"We do our best bro but we can only do so much."
"I know, I know."
"Well, it's our stop. Toothless? Moon Shadow? Behave please come on," as Hiccup started to gather his things to get off the train as did his brother and sister along with Stardust and Nightrainbow.
When they got out of the central station of the Screaming Death Speedway at Dragon Edge they're greeted with a familiar Scottish accent.
"Good morning, Haddocks. How are you doing today? Did you get your rambunctious brood off to school alright?" called a woman from the main desk.
Looking up they saw Tuffnut's wife a tall dame with short auburn hair and dark green eyes in an Ombra turtleneck dress named Hawly. Beside her were two dragon-dogs who were mixed breeds as their mother Glitter had been a Glistening Mistbreath and their father Smigvard had been a Night Terror.
The Glisten Terrors names were Belladonna and Nightshade and still again looked very much like they did when they lived on Berk in their Viking days as Dragons just now like dogs.
Back in her first life Hawly's life hadn't been easy filled with abuse and abandonment before escaping and nearly losing her life before Hiccup found her and brought to Berk where she and Tuff end up together.
Her job in her first life had been Bridge Keeper to the Seven New Islands; Island that been created by the Dragons for seven different purposes. Thus it wasn't a surprise the thing that most resembled her old job was being the administrator of the Screaming Death Speedway and making sure all the trains ran on time everywhere the city.
Also just as Hiccup, Boden and Una's powers had been restored so had the full powers of Hawly's divination skills. She could read rune stones and use them to foretell past, present, and future.
It had come in quite handy during the Loki Crisis years ago. Still even as she was teaching these skills to her children who'd been named after her parents it wasn't something to mess around with haphazardly or willy-nilly.
"Morning Hawly. How you doing?" asked Hiccup to the Scottish charmer who smiled as she flipped her side braid out of her face.
"Oh just fine. Had to help Tuffnut last night getting things ready for his biology lesson. Too much sun from the cruise didn't do my husband any favors, let me tell you! Other then he's not a pale crab stick anymore he did lose a few more brain cells sadly."
"Sorry about it. But you got his lesson plans to figure out for the semester I take it?"
"Yes, I did. Your daughter Breena is in good hands. Or at least I hope. He can still be a bit of a fool at times, but it's part of the charm I fell in love with."
"How are Merida and Harris? And their Dragon-dogs?" inquired Boden to which he got a roguish smirk.
"Well, I'm sure they and the rest of the dogs are savoring doggie daycare as much as possible as that's where everyone pets stay if their owners aren't gonna be home. So I hope they are having a chew bone and ball of a time," she laughed till she snorted once.
"I'm sure they are and the kids?"
"The kids got to school alright and I'm sure they'll be getting home and be glad the first day equals no homework."
"Well, that's good, but we can't stay and talk Hawly. Must get to work ourselves."
"Understood. See you on the return train! Bye!"
"Bye!"
While waiting by the exit it didn't take long for the other leaders to show up. First to show up was Brundi who was as gorgeous as her mother although she clearly took after her father in height given her mother was a very small and petite woman.
Brundi was dressed in a particularly chic burgundy and royal blue suit with matching accessories and with her was the very dragon dog that the train was named after. She had named him White Howler. White Howler still looked like a normal Whispering Death in dog form like a Miniature Pinchers but albino and again White Howler still had the abilities of its past self.
She was bursting with enthusiasm and smiles when she showed up. She seemed eager to work and apparently always brought treats for everyone. Brundi was a smart and talented young woman but since she was also a sweet tooth she really knew how to bake as well.
Dagur was next to arrive with his Triple Strike Sleuther and it looked like Helena had packed the dogs a lot of treats considering the boxes he was carrying. You'd never guess that Dagur when he was taking his meds properly, was a schizophrenic.
Neither Dagur or Heather had it easy between Dagur's schizophrenia and Heather's anger management issues. This had been very hard on their parents Oswald and Odyis considering Berserk were head of the Medical part of Dragon City.
In fact, Dagur's mother Odyis the first had put her dreams of designs for both fashion and interior on hold to take care of both her children's health needs. Still, as a mother, Odyis put her children's needs before her own dreams.
Without Odyis's love, neither of her children would've grown into sophisticated, well-developed and well-managed adults they were. Nor would Dagur and Helena be able to take care of Odyis II who had to inherit her father's schizophrenia though not as bad.
Falcon did have some problems with his anger occasionally but still without either of their grandmother's lives neither of Falcon's mother or Odyis's father would've learned to overcome their problems in a way to help their own children with theirs or do their jobs apparently.
Quickly after that Ase and Tue showed up together and everyone began the leisurely but short walk with their dogs to City Hall all the while catching up about their families and the everyday news.
Once they got to work they check in with the other offices and other minor officials and council members and of course the representatives of the other Realms who always presented during each City Hall Meeting as well as the Heads of City Offices and all the other important people and began.
"So we open today with the purpose of trying to lessen taxes and increases profits through the uses of refurbishing and purposing. My sister Una will point out which building in each of the five districts are which and how each can be done," Hiccup opened the meeting once everyone was assembled and had gotten their food and drinks.
"And the second thing we shall discuss after that shall be how we can make advancement on green technology and cut further down on waste and further clean energy," Boden spoke up as their sister loaded the hologram project for all to see.
Furthermore very soon they're all talking about which areas could be renovated into something useful and inspiring and what could be repurposed into something that would be both beneficial and serve multipurpose.
They did also again talk about green and clean energy, trade agreements, the budget, education, equal opportunities, civil rights and more spirit days and fair representational by each and every group and subgroup. Whilst this was going on it was time to check on everyone's other half was doing in their job.
Hiccup and Boden's wife along with Dagur's sister were all it was the Dragon City Guard met. It was where their armed forces for anything related to what the outside military and navy were concerned met.
The three beautiful and highly sexy women may've been mothers and in their 40s but they're nevertheless kick ass sexy women and all looked very sexy in those form-fitting uniforms they wore.
They're still as grueling and hardcore as they're in the past with very the same training regiment as before with some new tricks added. But they still expected you do what they said without one word of complaint about it.
What these three ladies did for training the Warriors of Dragon City wasn't easy. They're not the toughest, most grueling and deadliest warriors themselves for nothing. You didn't just break a sweat with them. You sweated bloody tears with them because their training was the most intense you could ever be put through.
It was very demanding, rigorous, and again hardcore and anything but easy. They demanded almost perfection as they put their warriors through their complex obstacle courses, training sessions, and weapons classes and that started before the crack of dawn at five a.m.
Training with them starts with a five-mile run, then climbing up and down the tallest building stairs 10 times, then it was sit-ups, crunches, push-ups and that was just warming up. After spending two and a half hours warming up then came the next part of the training.
To teach their warriors balance they'd go to the bay and have them stand on a boat while they rocked till they didn't fall over. Learning to dodge had hard rotten food thrown at them.
After that came learning to fight devoid of their senses which meant being blindfolded and with their ears plugged. Then they tie up an arm or leg to show what happened if one of your body parts failed you.
Then after you went through all that came learning to use all weapons till you could use them perfectly and hit your mark every time even in the dark, be ambidextrous and uses your opponents' weakness against them. To also realizes a fight avoided was a fight won.
Though even with all that training you still had to go through some very grueling races and challenging obstacle courses that were never the same two times in a row.
"You think we're tough now? We're going easy on you! Peace doesn't come without sacrifice! You must fight with love in your hearts and be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice if you must!" Astrid was walking up and down the new recruits in front of her.
Just a bunch of kids fresh out of college and she could tell they had no idea of battle. None of them had lived either of her lives or seen their true love almost die a thousand times or been to other worlds and back. They didn't know the truth or reality.
"You must be able to rely on one another as friends, family and a team! Like you are brothers and sisters! In the heat of battle, you'll see things you wish you could be unseen. There are worlds far worse than even the ones we've been visited by so far!
You've not lived and died once before! I have! I've seen and tasted blood before! I've seen so many horrors I wish I could unsee! But you don't run from the nightmares you embrace them!" Astrid continued to drill into the new recruits.
"You never know what breath shall be your last. Never know who is lying. Who is friend or foe? But trust your heart and instinct. Be strong of mind, body, and spirit. Remember who you are and what you are not! Remember what you are fighting for!" Asta reminded them as she walked the other direction
"Live each moment as if it's your last. Keep love in your heart and never become what you fight against. Never become evil! Do what right not what easy! Understand your enemy.
There are shades of gray it's not black and white. Seek forgiveness. Take not revenge but let justice come when it comes. See and hear with eyes unclouded by hate and remember everyone is a victim and who you think is the enemy might be more like you then you think!" Heather emphasized as she walked down the lines.
If those 21-year-old kids were confused before they're really bewildered now as they began their training for the day. It wasn't just getting their body trained for combat it was getting their minds and hearts ready for it as well.
The one who'd be getting everyone ready mind wise was the second best therapist in the city after Brundi's mother. Orus with his power of emphatic telepathy always had therapy sessions with new recruits and a lot of other people.
He used his gift to really get into other's minds literally and with reading their minds and emotions was able to help them by far. It really did help with people suffering from traumatic experiences or PTSD.
After leaving the Dragon City Guard Base let us drift through the Five Districts one by one.
We shall start with Berk.
The rest of the former Riders were busy teaching at the High School. With Fishlegs being the history test given his love for books and facts what else would he teach?
Tuffnut was the science and biology teacher since for some reason back in the days of Vikings he and Ruffnut had developed a knack for the Book of Discoveries.
Ruffnut who in her adult life on Berk been a teacher's aid in the Berk's School that they'd built in their adult lives was now teaching Social Studies while her husband was working for the city and currently was at city hall for the meeting to find out what City Maintenance was going to be doing next after all the big decisions were made.
And Snotlout being loud, egotistical and just being himself was well suited to be the gym teacher though Kara still had to wring in him a lot or she gets more than enough angry emails wanting him to be removed for both improper behavior and being an asshole.
Just as in the past all the Riders had adopted little brothers and sisters who were the children of Hiccup's mother's brunch club. Everyone but Astrid had two as her dragon-dog had four children while the others had two or in the case of Ruff and Tuff a dragon with two heads or this time a dog with a single pup.
The Chief of the Berk division of the Dragon City police force was Brimstone Anderson who was Snotlout's adopted little brother. Brimstone's wife Leesel was Assistant District Attorney in Dragon City.
Right now she has currently involved a rather big case for Dragon City. It was Dragon City vs one of the cult members who still worshiped the ways of the Council of Evil. It was a high profile Attempt Murder case and she was working very hard on it right now.
Which was why security at the hospital was higher and Bloodfire and her husband were protecting key witnesses who'd already been attempted to be silenced in the case.
They're the best security officers the hospital could ever have including the attempt murder victim who been a former district leader. In this case, it was Kustaa Hagan who'd raised Una's husband Orus after he'd been orphaned.
Brimstone had already informed the other districts to protect all the current and former district leaders and their families till this case was resolved. Which was making their friend Birger work overtime in City Hall as record keeper as he had to pretty much coordinate everything for everyone who worked there and make sure the city didn't fall in on itself.
At least Birger's sister Ria who like Bloodfire and Birger all Astrid's adopted younger siblings only had to focus on her job which was replacing her mother Breezy as the high school art teacher.
She'd taken the position when her mother had retired to enjoy more time with her grandchildren. This was also after her father who was a butcher had needed to get a pacemaker put in because of a heart condition she felt she was needed more at home then.
When you called 911 in the Berk district you could at least expect one of Lily's sons to answer it and you never had to fear death on their watch as no one ever died under their care. Their record was spotless at least ever since they'd become EMTs.
Alle and Velika had been kept busy working for a school for special need children using a wide range of therapy tools including animals. And truthfully they still preferred it when their father was silent and not vocal.
Still, it gave them a sense of purpose helping those children the rest of society would reject, shun or make fun of and they would take care of them and give them love, comfort, and hope.
Creel and Gala had their hands full running the temp agency started by their mothers finding jobs for all the people who came in who needed jobs for any number of reasons and in any of the districts.
It was exhausting, gave them headaches and some days they wanted to curse but they still did it as they knew how important bringing home a paycheck was.
Skullette and Firefang were kept even busier now that they were in charge of the entire Berk Wildlife Preservation Park and that included the Nursery where all the new babies of so many different species were born each day it was driving them crazy at times.
If those sound like a headache job then Raven's Model Agency would seem like a cake walk but it wasn't. As all her clients were the sons and daughters of Valkyries. But somehow she was not just the manager of the models but the go-to person for all the Valkyrie children.
So all who ended up in the entertainment business all called her and she helped them any way she could and had to hire a large staff to help keep everything straight for all the Valkyries. So it was a headache for one little raven given a human body.
At least there was some help from Hel and her brothers using the Icefire Foundation who helped support both their old group home but added the Valkyrie children while also continuing to help victims of evil acts.
While the three Skarpin brothers in Moralien were kept busy both at City Hall and running their farm and their Twins had to run the greenhouses.
All in all 9-5 jobs really didn't work out like that. You didn't really work 9-5 you worked till you got the job done and just tried to balance work, marriage, family, and kids and you just had to hope it all worked out in the end and in the end it better work out.
But this little dance had gone on since time had begun so yeah even by the year 2045 the dance was still going and it goes on till kingdom come! So can we continue to have this dance, please?