Part 3 is now live! Time for the introductions and backstory! As well as probably making some "How To Train Your Dragon" fans mad at one part. I don't think it will be that bad but hey, I don't know my audience...
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There was an awkward silence between the Viking teens and the creature after Hiccup's question left his mouth.
"Umm…" He eventually said. "My name is Rayman, I come from a different universe which might explain to you why I am… well… like this." He gestured to himself, referring to his limbless form. "I came here along with my friends" He pointed to the toad and the girl "to find my friend's home."
Hiccup exchanged looks with Astrid and Fishlegs, not sure if there is truth or not in his explanation. "And where is that friend's home supposed to be?" He asked.
The girl intervened. "All we know is that I am a Viking… the princess of Vikings to be more specific." She explained, it was wired announcing herself like that.
Astrid's eyes went wide and she couldn't stop herself from asking. "Is your name Barbara?"
Rayman, Globox and Barbara's eyes turned to the blonde girl. How did she know the name? Did Barbara know this girl?
"Yes. That's my name." The red-head said eventually. "Do I know any of you? I was suffering from memory lost after the entire thing with my sister." She explained.
Astrid ran to her and she looked very excited. "We never met, but your entire story is a legend to us Vikings. I used to hear it all the time, you were my hero, you inspired me to try and fight with an axe! There are probably generations of Vikings that know you and for the longest time, we believed you were just a myth… but you are real and here!" Astrid was smiling through the entire explanation, something that kind of terrified Hiccup and Fishlegs, it wasn't like her to act like this.
Barbara was kind of flattered by the blonde's reaction to her, but 1 word caused her to raise an eyebrow. "Generations? How long was I gone?" She asked and turned her head to Rayman for some explanation.
"I am not sure how the guy who sent you to our universe and world did it, but lums can also send us through time." He explained.
"So either he sent you to a later time in our universe or either the lums sent us later in time in this one." Globox added.
"Okay, guys. Let's start from the beginning because I am kind of lost here." Hiccup stopped the conversation and the catching up began.
Rayman told the Vikings how they discovered universe and world traveling, how they met Barbara and how they found out who she was. The red-head also told them about her reunion with her sister, Elysia, and how she found out about her past and role. Barbara also told them what Elysia told her about what happened after she was sent away as this part was, as it turns out, omitted from the tale.
"Where is Elysia anyway?" Astrid asked. "I would have guessed that if she caught up with you she will be with you."
Barbara took a deep breath and told them about her sister's fate. She managed to get through it without crying and the Vikings, especially Astrid, showed her sympathy. Even though, Astrid was secretly happy about it because she hated Elysia just from the story alone.
When Barbara asked about the dragons accompanying the teens, Hiccup told them the story of how he and Toothless met and stopped the war between Vikings and dragons… well, most of it, as some tribes are still not excepting to the idea of the beasts being allays.
"So, wait a minute." Barbara turned to Hiccup. "You said you are the chief's son, right?" She asked.
"That's me, in all of my disappointing features." He replied sarcastically.
"So… does this make you the prince here?" She asked back which seemed to catch the teen by surprise.
"Kind of…?"
"Basically, if his father was the king of Vikings he was definitely the prince. But, because the Vikings all broke into tribes when the accident you told us about happened, he is not technically a prince." Fishlegs explained. "But he is the next in line to be chief so… call him what you want to."
"Thanks for building my self-confidence, Fishlegs." Hiccup told him.
It was Globox's turn to say something. "Did you ask him this because if he was the prince and you are the princess you wanted to marry him?" He asked Barbara who blushed hard.
"What? No! Of course not! I was just curious!" She shouted at her friend.
Rayman enjoyed her reaction and decided to tease her a bit. "Come on, Barbara, you know better! He clearly has a girlfriend here!" He pointed to Astrid.
"Shut up, Rayman." The red-head told him while Hiccup and Astrid both realized what the creature said.
"We are not together!" Both screamed in unison, their cheeks burning. "We are just good friends."
Rayman, his friends and Fishlegs looked at them with wired looks because of their reaction to this. It was clear they had something in the past, but apparently not now.
"Anyway, she did point something out." Hiccup said. "If she is indeed the princess of Vikings, what does that mean for Berk?" He turned to Fishlegs. "Any book you read that contained any kind of information about an occasion like this?" He asked and the large boy shook his head.
"Your father might know something about this. Let's go talk to him." Astrid suggested.
"Okay, then." The one-legged teen turned to the 3 new-comers. "Each of you can catch a ride with 1 of us on our dragons."
Globox started to panic. "Do these things fly fast? Because I can get kind of sick."
"You can ride with me on Meatlug." Fishlegs offered. "She flies just at the right speed, don't you, girl?" He petted his dragon that licked him back.
"Are any of the other dragons flying faster than "right speed"?" Barbara asked, clearly up for a bit more excitement.
Astrid quickly answered her. "Stormfly is really fast! All thanks to fresh chicken!" She said proudly, which seemed to grab the attention of the princess.
"Well, I guess you are left with us." Hiccup told Rayman, who turned to his direction.
"How fast is he?" Rayman asked while pointing at Toothless.
Hiccup smirked. "Well, seeing how he is known as the offspring of light and death himself… pretty fast." He said with pride as Toothless let out a small roar in return.
Rayman chuckled a bit. "I doubt he will be as fast as a certain blue hedgehog I know from one of the universes I visited, but I will take your word." He said before advancing towards the dragon.
Hiccup tried to figure out if what Rayman talked about was real or not, but seeing how he met a creature with no limbs, a large talking toad and apparently the long lost princess of his people, he wasn't being that sceptic.
Once all of them suited up, the dragons rose to the air and headed back towards the village to see Hiccup's father, Chief Stoick.
So, that's that.
To calm down the storm before it begins, Hiccup and Astrid are not a couple in this for the reason that they never really act like a couple in anything post "Gift Of The Night Fury" and in early episodes of the show they seem pretty stressed out when they either come in contact or sit too close to each other. All the kisses they had still happened and all, but they are just friends in my series. And let's just say that I have plans for Hiccup's love life that will come in the final story. I advice you to check my other stories titles to see what I'm talking about.
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