They Grow up so fast

Spring was a time of rebirth and love as everything was just starting to grow. And time sure flies by faster the older you got it would seem. It seemed once you hit your teen years time really flew by.

And when you are living your second life really starts to fly by! As you have already gone through this once before! But there still is a major difference from their lives as Vikings and Dragons to their lives as modern-day people who owned dogs.

Right now the Next Generation was young and restless and just starting to enter their first throes of love as the hormones and feelings of love and other desires were starting to awaken in many of them, much to their parents' unwanted displeasure.

For none of the Dragon Riders and Soul Riders were truly ready to see their babies start growing up into young ladies and gentlemen who would seek out the other's attention. And of course, talking about the facts of life or having the sex talk was never easy or comfortable for any parent when their children started to explore one's sexuality.

The grandparents could only offer so much advice and guidance to their unprepared children for this next chapter in parenthood as they said the two most difficult times in raising a child was when they are a baby and when they are a teenager for their own unique challenges.

Though almost all the parents agreed it was the teenage years that were harder as that's when they could walk, talk, and had a little more power to rebel and disobey you and were capable of making bad choices.

Unlike a baby who was truly helpless who may demand a lot of attention, a teenager often felt they could take care of themselves. And with that mindset and those hormones who knows what was going to happen?

There had already been warning signs in the Haddock houses that the girls were at least trying to get the attention of boys and going about it in a way that might garner the wrong boy's attention.

Breena was still attempting to 'adjust' her clothing to 'sex it up'. Edyis was still trying to make her body a little more flattering and Una's daughters through a lot younger still wouldn't stop getting into makeup to try and make themselves more attractive.

It was also obvious that Hiccup and Boden's sons were trying to make themselves look more attractive to get the attention of females.

Given that Hiccup's son, Brant had actually tried to give himself a haircut to tame his wild hair and Erico spent hours in front of the mirror practicing pickup lines and how to be flirty.

As for Garth and Geir? They spent hours reading books that were supposed to tell you how to charm girls and understand the complex female minds.

The only one who didn't seem to have any real interest in learning about love or attempting to grow up faster was little Vali. He was perfectly happy to remain a little boy.

His father Orus using his emphatic telepathy realize this was more of the fact Vali hadn't yet found a female to desire even in the form of a crush. Therefore, with no kind of infatuation going on he didn't see what the fuss was with his older sisters or his cousins.

But if that was happening in the palace that was the Haddock's home it was only the beginning for what was occurring with most of the other children in the Next Generation Riders all over Dragon City.

At Dagur's home in the Berserk District, his daughter Odyis growing up was having well more than a few growing pains he wasn't expecting. Thanks to her mother's former identity as Hel the Goddess of Helheim.

"I really don't know what you expect of me, Dagur! I can only at times vaguely recall what becoming a woman was like when I was Hel and then what I went through in my second life as Helena!" his wife was telling him one day after their daughter Odyis locked herself in her bedroom crying over her first case of acne.

"Well, you could've told me that our daughter's acne wasn't gonna be like normal pimples!" he exclaimed in exasperation as he recalled her acne had looked more like gangrene sick then what you expected acne to look like.

"Dagur! In case you forgot my true form was half a corpse and half a beautiful blue skin woman with bluish-white hair! Doesn't matter I was born a human in this life! Odyis still carries my blood!"

"Well, I thought all she got was your Icefire magic! Not that when she broke out that her skin rot!"

"Please don't shout at me or my brothers are gonna be really mad when they get back from the Slitherwing! Odin you know they love to drink! And you know what they are like when they've had one too many!"

"Okay, I'm sorry. But we've got a daughter who every time she gets a pimple it's really gangrene and on top that she's still got my schizophrenia and the psychiatrist are already worried what this and puberty are gonna do to her!"

"Which is why she's being seen by Orus who empathetic telepathy comes in handy for trickery cases that Brundi's mother Frigha couldn't handle. The both of them are the best therapists in all of Dragon City!

But yes, I'm glad Orus is working with Odyis. Still, I can't help if my past body affects her this way. Let's just hope going to the doctors and talking to an Asgardian healer will find an acne treatment for Odyis.

It's hard enough when you're a teenager or almost one and looks matter. Whether we want to admit or not looks do matter. And Odyis is a very beautiful girl but we need to get these ungodly pimples cleared up first!"

"We'd better, Helena. I'm not dealing with all of her teenage years with this."

While Dagur and Helena dealt with their daughter's skin problem there were other problems that other parents were dealing with growing up.

The Soul Riders children who all were just 13 years old; Whitley, Esme, and twins Buttercup and Daisy were all going through the early stages of rebelling. They were already trying to push boundaries, being a little snappish with their parents and already seeking ways to be more independent.

Their parents were already finding out just how mouthy a newly found teenager could be when they wanted to be. Or that they had their own ideas on what to wear or how their rooms should be styled. Or what they thought was important what was important and what wasn't.

Whitley who wasn't mouthy at all in his first life was getting pretty snarky with his parents in this life. Not truly bad yet but just enough to show he was now a teenager of the 21st century and not a Viking in training to be a Chief any longer.

The Twins were busy arguing with their mothers and father about what was chic and in and what wasn't and how they should be allowed to dress any damn way they liked.

It was Esme arguing with her fathers about how she wanted to decorate her room which they had some minor to a few major disagreements about some of her ideas of how she wanted to make her room more trendy and teenager's room.

Among the Dragon Riders of Berk they're having their own parenting troubles as their children were growing up faster then they liked. While Heather's niece was having skin problems her own son's voice was currently breaking and he was so self-conscience about it.

Falcon was really trying to avoid talking because how his voice was changing while at the same time trying to make himself physically more impressive. His bookworm father didn't understand the need to be physically impressive but his mom sure did.

She tried to tell Fishlegs that while he may've been content to be the class geek, lovable and adorable, their son wants to have a slightly savvier air about him. He wanted to fit in and be cool.

Not to mention he wasn't about to have any bit of fat on his body, not the way she had his workout regiment given her job. Heather only wish sometimes her husband would really put more effort into the workout regiment she had tried to instill for him.

She did love him with all her heart. But that didn't mean she didn't feel the stares at work when he came by sometimes. She could read everyone minds. "That hot sexy mama has that lard butt for a husband? Really?" So she yes truly loved Fishlegs. On the other hand, she did wish he could at least try at times to get into better shape a little.

Ruff and Tuff didn't need to worry about appearance so much. They worried more about not coming off as idiots anymore after years of being jokes to the world. And wanted to make sure their kids weren't laughed at.

Ruffnut wanted to make sure Eureka who was growing into a fine young lady at least was smart and well put together. She didn't want her daughter to be bullied or thought of as an idiot.

Frankly neither did Tuffnut with his daughter Merida who was also one of his pride and joy.

So both twins were making sure their 12-year-old daughters at least were book smart, dressed well and could stand up for themselves. Which was a little annoying to their daughters, though it did touch them to know their parents cared about them so much.

Though Tuff and Hawly made sure little Harris was getting the same amount of love and attention even if like Vali he wasn't growing up nearly as fast as the others and still was content to be a little boy for now.

For Snotlout and Raven they had more of a problem of making sure their children didn't try to make them empty nesters too early by flying the coop; literally. Lately Mercury and Emerald were running them ragged turning into their raven forms and not listening to them at all about self-control.

Anytime they tried to discipline them or reign them in the twins simply turned into ravens and flew the coop and it would take hours to find them. Raven herself was having quite enough of this lack of respect from her ten-year-old.

She thought she would have to be more worried if they learn to respect their future partners seeing how their father hadn't learned to be respectful with the ladies for a long time.

It wasn't till Snotlout had the bright idea a rare thing for him to lock the two of them in a birdcage overnight that they finally stop being wildly out of the wing and were willing to finally again listen.

It was humiliating for the twins to get a lecture from their parents after spending the night in a birdcage. But they listened as they're given a thorough lecture about their improper behavior and what it meant to be a grown up and if they wanted more privileges they'd have to earn them the right way.

At least Tove and Unn were a lot more well-behaved than that. The 12-year-olds weren't causing any issues, we're doing well in school and pretty much the only ones in the Berk District not causing issues for their parents.

The other Next Generation Riders? Well, the girls Embla, Hertha, Oili, and Runa were all dealing with the changes in their body that came with puberty. Needing training bras and getting their first periods and having to learn to shave without cutting themselves.

As for the boys Destin, Haldor and Jary they too were learning to accept the changes in their bodies and like Falcon dealing with their voices taking forever to break.

All in all, whether it was their bodies changes, racing to fall in love or normal teenage angst it was just a reminder time really did fly by and one's childhood goes by really quickly and we all grow up eventually.