Chapter 3
Who exactly is this guy?..
"Well miss Astrid welcome aboard the tardis! It's such a pleasure to meet you! I'm the doctor and-", The Doctor goes on as he approached Astrid excitedly before being cut off when Astrid pulled out her axe and was holding it up to his neck. "One more move and I'll cut your head clean off." She threatens as she glared at the so called Doctor, but to her surprise he was still smiling. "This is just getting more exciting! This is fantastic! Not only did I find a Viking that has more intellect then historians believed but now this female Viking proves that women were in combat long before equality was an idea!" He proclaimed turning around and going back to the console to pull some levers and put in some digits.
Astrid was baffled. He didn't even seem phased with how close to death he was. Hiccup was just as confused as she was. "Doctor? You said we are going into the future correct?" Hiccup asks. "That's right young Hiccup" The Doctor responds back. "How exactly are we going to get there in this…. Uh… Tardis?" "Well Hiccup that I cannot tell you because you wouldn't be able to comprehend what I am saying. However, I can say it's like a river or a brook. Time is always flowing and you're just swimming with the current. Well what happens when you get out?" The Doctor asks back.
Hiccup crosses his arms to think about it before Astrid steps in. "You're out of the time flow?" She asks. Hiccup turns and stares wide eyed at her answer. Even the Doctor was surprised. "That's exactly it. Clever girl! Yes, you're outside of the flow of time. But if you go down the stream by say 100 feet and jump back in…?" The Doctor says trailing off. "Then you have moved yourself from the present to the future!" Hiccup exclaims with realization. "Exactly!" He says with a smile before the Tardis goes through a hard shake.
"We're almost there!" The Doctor exclaims excitedly as he pulls a few more levers. "Where Doctor!? Where are you taking us exactly?" Astrid shouts over the noise and rumbling. "Not where my dear! When is the real question!" The Doctor shouts with a smile before it suddenly jolts and everything goes quite. Hiccup and Astrid could only groan in complaint from being tossed about from the landing, but the Doctor was up and running around the counsel grabbing things left and right. "Oh this is going to be exciting. Come on you slowpokes let's get going!" He exclaimed as he started heading to the door. Hiccup an Astrid slowly got up and started heading to the door. "Oh, before I forget. We got to lay down some rules first." The Doctor says standing at the door. "First, don't kill anything. If you do you could possibly alter further future events. Second, do not do anything stupid here. Things change in a few short years. For all you know you could be married to someone or even dead. So try not to do anything that will cause chaos."
Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other with confused looks. What could possibly be altered? They thought as they agreed to the terms. The Doctor smiled as he opened the door. "Allons-y!" He exclaimed as he opened the door revealing a blinding light. Hiccup and Astrid had to cover their eyes from the brightness as they stepped out of the tardis. They could only stare in disbelief at the sight that layed before them. There was Berk but only…. Bigger? "Doctor where are we?" Hiccup asked in sheer shock. "You're on Berk. 811 A.D. . Just in time for their favorite event." He explained with a smile. "Favorite event? You mean the Regatta?" Astrid asked with a bored expression. "Nope. Even better!" The Doctor says before a roar was heard.
"Are we under attack?!" Astrid asks getting into a fighting stance. "Astrid what did I say? No killing anything. Besides there is no attack today. Nor for the past 9 years." The Doctor explained calmly. "For 9 years? Does that mean we-" Hiccups question was not answered as a bunch of dragons flew over them. "Dragons?! What are they doing here, and during the day too?!" Astrid shouted with a slight hint of fear in her voice. "I told you. It's the main event of the day." The Doctor replied. "An what exactly is it Doctor?" Hiccup asks getting over his initial shock. The Doctor turned an smiled, "Dragon racing!" He exclaims as he started running towards Berk.
"Dragon racing!? Wait, Doctor! What do you mean!?" Hiccup asked running after him followed closely by Astrid. This is ridiculous, dragons on Berk? Does that mean we won the war and made them our slaves? What the Freya is going on? Astrid thought as she followed them. They continued running till they were on the outskirts of town and could see all the dragon and Vikings living together. Hiccup could only stare in shock before hearing a familiar voice. "Welcome to the annual viking Dragon race!" The voice bellowed as the crowd went wild.
"Dad? Doctor just what exactly is going on?" Hiccup asks in sheer confusion. The Doctor turned to look at Hiccups confused expression. He understood what he was going through. He had the same look many of his previous traveling companions had. He smiled softly and told both of them to follow him. They climbed up the stairs to a stand near by giving them a view of what looked to be a finished line built off of the arena. There stood 6 Vikings and 5 dragons. From what Hiccup could see it was all the teens that were in his age group. Only older and taller. Then he saw someone he didn't recognize.
He had ragged hair and was quite tall. He wasn't bulky like the other Vikings and wore what looked like armor. He had a peg leg for a left foot but stood tall. Astrid stared at him wondering who he was and why she saw such an unviking like person attractive.
Suddenly he saw his father step up onto a stand to announce something. "Alright! Today's competitors will be the original Dragon riders! First up we have Fishlegs with his Gronkle, Meatlug!" The crowd cheered as he made a bow and mounted the dragon. "Next, we have the Thornston twins and their Zippleback, Barf and Belch!" He announced as the twins started another fight as the mounted the green, double headed dragon. "Then we have my Nephew, Snotlout! With his fierce Monstrous nightmare, Hookfang!" He says as Snotlout flexed his arms and blew a kiss to Astrid who gaged at his action.
"Next we have the beautiful maiden, whose beauty is equal to her ferocity in combat, Astrid! With her trusted Deadly Nadder, Stormfly!" The taller Astrid could only smile and cheer with the rest of the crowd as she jumped onto the Nadder ready for the race. The past Astrid could only look on in shock at her future self. Since when did she become an owner of a dragon? An when was she seen as a beauty? She looked at the doctor for an explanation but he just shook his head, signaled her to stay quiet and pointed to the stranger that has yet been announced.
"An last but not least, the one who ended the war between dragons and Vikings, the one who built Berk to its glory, and the one who brought dragons an Vikings together as friends." Stoick rambled on. Hiccup could feel the love in his father's tone and the recognition towards this complete stranger. "Of course…. He probably disowned me for the better Viking… I didn't need to come to the future to be told this." Hiccup muttered as he turned to leave but was stopped by a hand on his shoulder. "I wouldn't leave just yet. After all, I brought you here for a reason. An besides you may find this to be quite… life altering." The Doctor explained.
"Everyone! I give you the first Viking to ride a dragon, a Nightfury no less, my only son Hiccup!" Stoick announced with pride filling his voice. The audience roared with cheers louder than any of the previous racers. Hiccup could only stand there rigid and confused. Astrid was just as shocked. How could he be the one that ended the war? He can't do anything right at all! Astrid thought angrily as she looked at Hiccups rigid form. Hiccup's thoughts were running in different directions to the point he couldn't take it anymore and just collapsed there on the spot making the Doctor smile. "Yup, just the reaction I was expecting." The Doctor could only say smiling as he watched the dragon race began.