Dragon Flower

It was a beautiful and yet typical day for the people of Berk. Or what was typical for most. Though for the Haddock family what was typical for them wasn't the same as the others of Berk, for they were anything but your typical Viking family in more ways than one.

Currently all five of them were occupied with a project that was connect to their dragons in some way and enjoying themselves with their project with the windows opened enough to let the sweet fresh air and sunshine inside.

At the table was Hiccup who was currently drawing Toothless for the updated and revised "Book of Dragons" it was combining the children's book with the old one that the people of Berk kept for 300 years. The one Berk kept was highly inaccurate but there were at least some elements of truth.

Consequently the kids had been working with the Riders to make write a whole new book by combining the knowledge they gained in the Academy with both books to form a perfectly accurate "Book of Dragons" Today Hiccup was trying to start what was going to be what little was known on Night Furies and later help Boden and Una with Stardust and Nightrainbow's entries.

Boden was getting Stardust ready for when it was her turn to pose for her picture. She was in a sense little vain and loved to look her best and knew she was a beauty. As a result he'd spend one day a week devote at least two to three hours polishing her attractive silver scales till they gleamed like new. Which wasn't easy to say the least.

Una was also getting things ready for Nightrainbow own entry by trying to write down the notes to the kind of songs he came up with, nevertheless felt incredibly frustrated because it would be easier if she could play the notes herself, though she lacked an instrument of her own. She always felt she be best on a string instrument.

Sitting in their rockers were their parents each working on their own projects, they each were humming their love song as they worked, Valka on fixing her dragon staff and Stoick as he was polishing his dragon's new saddle.

Everyone was quietly working on their own thing when suddenly Boden shot up and started to act strangely.

"You know something? Does anyone need help? Like how about I just do everything for everyone right now? I can do it all! I don't need any sleep! Why do we live in these silly wooden houses, Dad? How about we live in homes made towers of iron or glass?

You know Hiccup let me do all the pictures? In fact I'll write all the entries for all the dragons for the next twenty years! I'm the Dragon Whisperer of course! I'm so much more important than you or Una with your weak powers!" he was speaking very fast and running around the house in a fit of extreme energy.

"You know instead of flying dragons why don't we all just jump of cliffs and fly ourselves? Let's go have some fun now?! Like fly high in the air and jump off?!

I feel so happy right now everything just so perfect like let's go take on the Outcast and kick Alvin butt or bet yet go drive a stake through Mildew and…" Boden carried on with this high energy fast talking grandiose inflated ego for a good twenty minutes.

The family looked at the ten year old and looked at each other before saying aloud, "Trader Johan will be here in three days. Great a trading day. Now everyone gonna act like both chickens with their heads cut off and fighting like dogs over a scape of bone!" Stoick ran his large hand down his face in displeasure at that thought.

"I'll get the children's medicine right now. They'll need it right now and not at bed time. Hiccup? Try and get your brother under control. You know how what we call these "Manic" episodes are like. Una help him," their mother requested as she headed to a high but locked cupboard to get their 'medicine and Hiccup and Una tried to get control of their brother.

Boden was both an empath and though mental illness was an extremely long way off from being truly discovered, understood and diagnosed he would've been diagnosed as a Type I bi-polar if the Haddock lived in a time that mental illness was understood in.

It seemed strangely whenever the local seafaring Trader Johann was three days away from coming to Berk his powers and mental illness collided. It always forced a manic episode because his empathic abilities already picked up the 'manic' energy everyone was going to produce when Johann showed up.

Again the Haddocks were anything but typical and for Hiccup and his siblings they're anything but typical. Not only were they're all on scrawny side with frankly for their time period had high IQ but they had their strange powers bestowed to them from the gods for reasons unknown to them at least for now.

The other things strange was they're all left-handed, gifted in art and musical talent whether it was playing musical instruments or singing.

But what their parents referred to as 'eccentrics" was in fact all of them suffered from various mental illness. And well they may not have proper treatment of proper medicine and therapy that was available in the far future. But it didn't meant their parents hadn't at least made do with what they're able to find around them.

Their parents had finally at least told Gothi since she was the elder and maker of medicine their children other secret and since she couldn't repeat it she'd had agreed to try and make some medicine to help with their symptoms.

Both Stoick and Valka had kept two journals for their children's entire lives. One to track the progression of their mental illnesses and their symptoms and the other was for the same thing with their powers.

What they needed for their kids were basically mood stabilizes, anti-anxiety and anti-depressant and something to help Hiccup with better able to stay focused at times.

Since if they'd been properly diagnosed in the future their diagnosed would've been for each of them. Hiccup would've ADHD, sever anxiety and depression. Boden again was a Type I bi-polar and Una would be diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.

Subsequently none of them exactly had a good stew brewing in their heads alongside their daily lives and their growing strange powers. Hence it was kind of important to have some kind of medicine to at least attempt to get some control on the mental aspects of their life.

Thank the Gods Gothi was long in this world and knew of countless herbal remedies and also that grounded dragon scales also could be used to help make special meds that the children could all take twice a day with a mild dose of their mother's sleeping potion mixed with her hot chocolate every morning and every night before bed to control their symptoms.

However in this case an emergency dose was needed and anyway the kids all took their meds together at the exact same time to ensure that their journal was kept accurate.

Also so no-one knew what was written in either journal it was written in the secret code that Stoick and Valka had come up with when they'd written each other love messages before they'd wedded.

"Okay I know it's a little early but we need Boden to settle down and given the past times this has happened it rubs off on you two. And we know what happens when it does," their mother was saying as she got a small chest out of the cupboard with some bags with light chocolate coated pills and her sleeping potion ingredients.

"We know, Mom, we know. If one of us is having a mental health day going wrong it soon makes all of us go south. We are that close when one is having a bad day we all have a bad day. OW! Boden! Stop squirming!" cried Hiccup in pain as he tried to hold his squirming brother who'd accidently kicked him in the groin.

"You better hurry Mommy with our medicine. I think Trader Johann visit gonna have a big impact on Berk this time, given how manic Boden is. The crazier the Trading Day the more manic he is!" Una reminded her mommy.

"I'm working as fast as I can with your meds. Thank the gods again Gothi can't repeat your secret and her niece Lily at least is willing to keep her mouth shut too. Since she helps her with making your threes meds."

"Well, she's your friend and doesn't she have children of her own? Wouldn't she understand if she didn't want something that might not be well received or understood about her sons not get out?" replied Hiccup to which his mother nodded.

"It seems all the mothers I'm friends with we all think and feel alike on many issues. Okay your meds are ready. Now drink the potion slowly with your pills and remember swallow them whole, don't chew," as she handed them a couple of pills.

The pills were all in odd shapes with a very thin layer of chocolate over them. It was there to try and hide the bitter and chalky flavor and always taken with a mild dose of sleeping potion mixed with Valka's hot chocolate. Enough to calm them down but not put them to sleep.

After they took their meds she and Stoick wrote down some information in one journal and things settle down for the rest of the evening.

Three days later indeed Trader Johann did show up and people were so excited by it they did act like chickens with their heads cut off and began fighting for his wears like dogs over a scrap of bones.

As the Haddocks approached the boat Valka was holding onto Una's hand so tightly she almost cut off her circulation and Hiccup was also gripping Boden's hand similar. Their mother was going over the rules of "Trading Day" with them.

"Mom! Must we go over this every time Johann shows up? We know this already since we heard a thousand times!

I'm not to let go of Boden's hand and to watch each other back and not let anyone get stomp on and not touch anything that looks dangerous!

We're just trading a few things and doing a little shopping! It's not like going into a warzone!" Hiccup snapped irritably only to earn a hard look from his mother and he cowered as did his siblings.

"It is practically a warzone whenever he shows up and I don't want my children's ribcages to be broken and you all die from asphyxia because people lost their heads over a sale.

So don't talk back to me again like that, son. Understood?"

"Yes, Mom," he squeaked terrified as they finally got to the boat and proceed to shop looking around for what they each wanted. Trader Johann seemed like a really friendly guy who always claimed he had everything you could possibly be looking for on his ship.

Valka went straight up to Johann and seemed to be waiting for something since she didn't say a word but he just smiled and went over to a black box that was full of ice and brought out another smaller box and handed it over to Valka.

"Here you go, Lady Valka, your stander order of the finest strawberries in all the archipelago. I got them from the secret isle I alone known the location too where they grow all year and are the biggest and ripest. Also as you've tasted for yourself most delicious."

"Thank you, Johann, you're good as your word for our little arrangement. No charge right?"

"Of course no charge when it comes to your strawberries Lady Valka. You know our deal. You did nurse me back to health after I party a little too much after a good trading and that was when your with your first child."

"Yes, and my husband had to save you from an angry sea dragon and repair your ship. That's why we made this arrangement of me getting free strawberries every time you come as a thank you for nursing you since I was already carrying Hiccup at the time I was taking care of you for two weeks!"

"Sorry again for the trouble I caused you and your husband those two weeks. But that's in the past and we have our little arrangement now so my debt is paid. How else can I be of service today to you and your lovely family?"

"Well, think can help Una find what she's looking for?" she asked as she took her box of strawberries from him. "She's been eager to find a musical instrument for herself for our family Music Nights and is looking for a string instrument to be exact."

"Yes, something small and has a magical quality to it!" squeaked the little girl next to her mommy.

"Hmm, Mistress Una I've just the thing in stock. Would this please the daughter of the Chief of Berk?" as he reached into one of his chest and pulled a golden lyre and she squealed with delight.

"This is exactly what I was looking for!" she was jumping up and down for joy.

"Simmer down Una! Or you'll break my ink bottle or crack Boden's pumice stone or his bottle of polish," Hiccup spoke up from behind her.

"Oh, sorry Hiccup! But look!" she cried showing him the lyre. "Great! Perfect! Now we can all jam together!" Boden declared happily.

"Yeah, great. Now let's go try and trade for our items so we can keep them," Hiccup told them as they all went over to Johann and began to haggle. They always left this up to Hiccup who as the oldest seem to know the best way to do it.

"So what do you three have for me this time? And no more spyglasses I've gotten five from you and I only have two eyes."

"What about this wench we built? It will help you pull up your gangplank. We also got for extra this lantern light for message and this foghorn as we call it." Hiccup offered him the things they built.

"I designed the lantern light. You see you put a candle inside and then flashing with different slides you can send messages to shore or at least let people know you're coming in the dark by letting out a bright spotlight," Boden informed him.

"The foghorn is really a large horn you can attach to your ship so if it's lost in a storm or thick fog it will emit a very loud and long range blast of sound so people can find you and with the lantern light it will really help you out at sea," Una explained.

"All three of your tools will be very useful for an ailing working man. Consider it a fair trade for all your items."

They're about to get off the ship when they noticed their father playing with another sword and rolled their eyes. "Dad do we really need another sword?" asked Hiccup to his dad.

"If you must know, Hiccup it's not for me. I'm heading off to my yearly meeting with the Chief of Shivering Shores. The last man who showed up without a gift left without his head."

"Yikes! A little extreme." Una whispered as she joined her mommy on the docks with Boden following. "Yeah and a tad selfish to make people bring you something just so you don't lose your head!"

"That's the Viking way we just seem to love dismemberment. So how long you gonna be gone, honey?" inquired Valka as her husband was heading their way.

"Oh normally five days, but on Thornado I'll only be gone likely two."

"Thornado? You finally named him at last?" Boden asked as he rushed over to the front of the dragon and start to talk with him.

While Stoick was explaining the name came from the fact the dragon had the power of Thor and the ferocity of a tornado and simply it was the only thing he answer too anyway for being stubborn, Thornado was explaining to Stoick's middle child why he liked the name.

Yes, he was stubborn and also those other things Stoick had said about him were true. The real reason though he'd finally settle on the name "Thornado" wasn't because it was the only thing he answered too. It was because his little sister Stormy said she felt that was right name for him. That it was perfect name for a big brother and it made her happy and feel safe.

This made Boden chuckle and wonder if he should inform his dad of the truth of why Thornado accept the name as he looked up to see him hugging Una goodbye and noticed his big brother walking off Johann ship looking very sad.

Running over to his brother he reach him in time to hear him explain to their dad what was upsetting him.

"Toothless accidently broke my ink bottle and Johann doesn't have anymore," he replied sadly.

"I'll see if there any ink on the Shivering Shores while I'm gone, Hiccup and if there is I'll bring it back to you, okay, son?"

"Thanks, Dad. Hope your meeting goes well and that Thornado gets you there in one piece."

"I'm sure he will, no remember Hiccup you're the man of the house while I'm gone. Take care of the family while I'm gone."

"Will do, Dad, you can count on me."

"Have a safe trip, Stoick. When you get back I'll have baked the most scrumptious strawberry pie I've ever made. Since my cooking is never awful when I use strawberries, you know."

"I'll be looking forward to that pie when I get back then. You three behave and mind your mother while I'm gone."

"We will, Dad/Daddy."

"Good, love you all. See you in a couple days. Up Thornado," as he flew away Una ran down the length of the pier till her mom caught her wrist before she fell off.

"Watch where you're going, Una. Why don't you three go to the Academy and get some training done and I'll take your things and the strawberries back to the house?"

"Sounds like a plan, Mom. I just wish…"

"Don't worry, Hiccup, I'm sure your father will find an ink bottle to replace the one that got smashed. Just go have some fun training the dragons and remember in a couple days we'll be having pie."

"Alright! See you later Mommy!" and with that the kids flew off to the old arena to meet up with other Riders.

They arrived just in time to see the Twins setting a large statute they gotten from Trader Johann by trading a family member skull. Hiccup assumed it was for decoration that was until Barf and Belch sent a hot one at it.

"That was AWESOME! My turn! Hookfang fire!" Snotlout crowed gleefully as more heavy fire were sent at the statues.

One by one the dragons either sent fireballs or in Stormfly's case her spines. Though when Toothless, Stardust and Nightrainbow all tried to join in the fun they couldn't summon their attacks they all let out control sneezing. Even scarier was the fact Boden sneezed three times in a row as well.

Hiccup went a little pale when his brother copied the sneezing of the dragons as did Una as both their minds went immediately back to when they found Thornado protecting his little sister Stormy.

"Boden are you feeling okay? You don't feel like you're coming down with a cold by chance?" Hiccup wanting to know if this was perhaps a coincidence.

"Nope, I've not felt sick all day and I didn't feel like I was gonna sneeze either. It just happened because our dragons sneezed. Something amiss. This means trouble, Hiccup," his younger brother looked up at him with big eyes of dread.

Una started to shiver a bit like she had a chill and Hiccup asked if she was feeling sick and she shook her head, "Not sick but as you know part of my powers is really strong intuition and right now I'm having a very bad feeling the trouble has only just begun."

"C'mon let's go fly and clear our heads. I don't want some doom and gloom filling us up with dread when it doesn't have to. We might be overreacting let's not jump the sword blade here okay?"

"C'mon I'll fly you home," Astrid offered as they started to make their way home and at first things were going okay. Hiccup was trying to keep things lighthearted by reminding everyone about their mother's awesome pie when Astrid spotted some beautiful flowers that she wanted the others too sea, but no did because that's when the dragon siblings lost all control and down they went.

All of them nosedived into the ground and hit the ground hard. For a moment everyone seemed okay then Una started crying and Hiccup got up and rushed over to his sister to find out why she was crying.

Turned out when they hit the ground and she'd been thrown she skidded pretty badly across the ground and her left knee was bleeding from scraps and cuts it received. It wasn't a pleasant sight to look at and Una's tears showed it really hurt.

"Calm down, sis. I got this. You'll be okay. We just need to get you home and clean this up and bandage it so it doesn't get infect. It will be okay."

"Hiccup, I don't mean to sound like a downer with Una hurt, but a little update the dragons are really sick. Because I'm feeling sicker around them and that Terrible Terror walking by over there," Boden answered with a moan as he put his hand to his mouth. He looked very green around the gills.

"I'll carry Boden you take Una and let's hope the dragons have the strength to walk the rest of the way home," Astrid said as she scooped the little boy in her arms as Hiccup cradled his injured and still tearful sister.

The dragons barely made it back to the house where they found Valka in the mist of getting things ready to start baking her pie and she let out the exclamation. "What in the name of Lady Frigga happened?!"

"Astrid can you explain to Mom what's going on? I've got to take care of Una's knee," Hiccup replied as he went over to washbasin to get some soap to clean Una's knee first.

"So that's what's going on. The dragons just starting acting sick and apparently Hiccup neglected to mention an apparently new ability of his little brother is he mimic sick or injured dragons symptoms," Astrid was finishing telling Valka as Hiccup was finishing with Una as he kissed both her knee and her forehead to make it all better.

That made her stop crying at last and just hug one of her big brothers best friends forever and made him remember what he'd promised to do when he was five as he led Una back over to the rest of the group.

"So you have no explanation of why the dragons are suddenly acting like this?" their mother asked as she was wiping her hands off on a towel.

"Um no, Mom. But I'm getting sick of feeling sick like them," Boden replied so his mother tried to find something to give him as a pick me up.

"Well then I've one thing to ask and one other thing to advice."

"What's that, Mommy?"

"My advice is don't try one of Gobber's home remedies for a cure-all tonic. You don't want to know what he puts in them. Since if he says "Best not to ask" it can't be anything good to begin with," she then wrinkled her nose at something because she added "Beside every single tonic he's ever made looks and smells like yak urine so that's not something anyone wants to put into their bodies either."

"Okay note to self never ask for Gobber help for anything to do with medicine. Duly noted, Mom. What the other thing you have to ask?" Hiccup inquired to his mother who replied.

"Are any of the other dragons starting to show any of the same symptoms?"

"Not that we notice of yet," then a lot of screaming through the window, "But I think we just got confirmation that other dragons are sick," he said with a cringe as they went outside and saw all the Riders and the Anquetil sisters who'd been trying to help on their dragons were all out of control and sick.

Boden held his stomach and start to sweat, "Mom, this is really an epidemic and I can tell you right now. Not a single dragon is immune to whatever causing this outbreak. We need help and right now. So anyone got an idea? A good one? Because my stomach can't take this any longer!"

"Well, there only one person who will know what to do. Since she's helped all of you with your mysterious illnesses she should know what do to about this one." Valka replied simply.

"Huh? You mean Gothi Mom?"

"Yep? I'll carry Boden as he's got no strength to walk. You carry Una since I don't want her to aggravate her knee for a couple of hours. Astrid you should come too help fill in Gothi about the dragon symptoms. Let's get going," as they left the house with the younger children getting piggy back rides.

Astrid only paused for one moment to whisper to Hiccup, "What mysterious illness do you all have that Gothi knows the cure too?"

"Shush! Keep your lips zipped about that, Astrid. Never let anyone on this island know me and my siblings are sick in a way that no-one will understand!"

"I'm your special friend, Hiccup and your mother said if you and I are to have a relationship that works there must be trust. So if you tell me I swear I rather die and go to Helheim first then spill it."

"You swear that's true and you'd never let go any farther just you?"

"You kept your promise during dragon training about my secret concerning my feelings and your siblings. You can trust me with your secrets."

Looking around and getting really close to Astrid and whispering directly into her ear he explained about his and his siblings mental problems and that she better keep her promise about NEVER letting anyone ever finding out about them.

To assure Hiccup she'd never let this pass her lips she sealed her promise to him with a quick kiss.

He did blush but didn't have time to say or do anything more because they'd arrived at Gothi's and were greeted by a lovely young lady who brownish blond hair and honey colored eyes dressed in burgundy top and skirt with fur boots.

"Nice to see you, Valka. How is your day going?" she asked in a cheery voice to which Valka allowed a small smile.

"It was going well for a little bit, Lily. I was just getting started to bake a pie when my children came rushing into report the dragons are falling ill to some kind of epidemic."

"Oh my. It must be bad given how your son, Boden look. I remember you telling me at our last mothers brunch how he just discovered a new ability. He mimics sick or injured dragons. He look like he's sick to his stomach."

"It's really bad," he moaned like he had the worst bellyache ever with glossy eyes from his mother's back.

"Um, can anyone else give me a list of symptoms? Before we consult my aunt?" Lily asked. "It will help her better if she knows if she has some idea what to work with. And maybe I can give you Boden some relief."

"Can you also give us something for Una's knee?" inquired Hiccup.

"What's wrong with your sister's knee?" Lily looked at the charming young man and his pretty little sister.

"Well it's like this…" and he and Astrid started the story and when they got to the point of the crash and Una got hurt from it Lily instantly ran to a shelf and got something in a small squares bottle which was greenish paste.

"Remove the bandage a little. This will make sure there will no infection at all," so Hiccup removed his little sister's bandage and Lily smiled, "You did well cleaning the wound, Hiccup. You're a good big brother, but this will keep anything nasty from getting in. Sorry if this stings Una." Lily apologized as the little girl gripped Hiccup's hand tightly as the cream was applied to her knee and the bandage was put back on.

Lily gave the bottle to Hiccup, "Apply twice a day for three days. Clean it everything more with soap and water and apply a new bandage," she ordered him to which he nodded.

She then turned back to the whole group and said, "Time to go see what my aunt has to 'say" don't worry she never whacks me if I misread her words. Though she'll whack anyone else.

Um did you bring by chance any dragons? It will also help to see a patient?"

"We have three of them," Una gesture to their sick dragons who had followed them and Lily showed a lot of sympathy to the sick. "Well this is really bad. We only need one. Astrid there are some pillows and blankets in that chest over there. Why don't you make Stardust and Nightrainbow more comfy and we'll see what Toothless can tell us?"

So they helped Toothless over to where Gothi was and Lily called to her aunt. "Auntie Gothi? We have a problem. There appears to be an epidemic spreading to all the dragons.

It's only affecting the dragons and it's real bad and spreading quickly judging how fast it spread and how fast Stoick's second son start to mimic the symptoms. There a lot of sneezing, aches, pain, um what else are you feeling Boden?"

"Overall just hurting all over. Like you constantly what to throw up, your heads splitting in two and just sick and sick can be," he reported.

"Yeah that's how he's feeling but take a look at Toothless too. So, I'd like to know if you got something to at least take the edge off Boden's sympathy pains and then we can find out how to cure the dragons?"

She wrote something down and she nodded "Okay huh alright I'll go get it." And went over to the many shelves and got another position bottle down a bronze one this time and pour a thick pink liquid into a wooden spoon.

"This is gonna taste very nasty Boden, but it should at least numb some of the sympathy pains your empathic powers are making you feel."

"Do I have to take this?" he wanted to know and his mother stroked his hair and said, "If you want to stop feeling sick till the dragons are cured, yes honey. I know medicine taste nasty, but do you want to feel as bad as the dragons till they are cured or at least have the edge taken off?"

"Okay, but this better taste better than how you say Gobber tonics look!" as he accepted the nasty pink medicine. The way his face looked and he gagged for a moment it obviously didn't taste good as he coughed some but it stayed down and Lily gave him a drink to get the taste out of his mouth.

"How do you feel, Boden?" she asked hopefully to the young child who just looked repulsed by the stuff he'd been forced to take.

"Better, but that stuff was yucky with a capital Y!" Boden was clearly not happy by this turn of events and Gothi niece looked at him also with great sympathy.

"Well, let's try getting the dragons better, because I think you'll have to take another dose of that yucky stuff again if we don't. What do you think Auntie? What do you think going on?" Lily asked her beloved aunt.

Gothi went to work with her bones and other methods and finally wrote the answer to which her niece translated. "My aunt says there something new on the island that the dragons are allergic too. Something that must have come from Trader Johann since he was just here. She says we must get rid of everything immediately or the dragons will get sicker.

Oh hang on she does also have a suggestion so this doesn't happen again when Johann comes back. She says deepest apologies to you Valka as she truly understands that your children's gifts don't work on command.

But if your daughter could try to figure out which object is the 'bad' one we'd know in the future which item to forbid Berk to have on this island."

"What is your aunt suggesting, Lily?"

"She saying to dig a pit and have people throw their items in one by one and since you've let it be known Una reacts to items sometimes she feels if this item is dangerous she'll a reaction to it. So she's suggesting Una touch every object before it's thrown into the pit and see if Una can pinpoint which one it is." Lily finished.

Valka ran her hand through her hair and looked at her daughter. She then let out of a long sigh before replying.

"I don't know if it's possible as again Gothi their gifts don't work on command and what they can control is best at 10% and some just acts as a reflex or out of instinct but we'll do as you say."

"Hiccup you and Astrid oversee the pit and make sure people throw their stuff in. Keep an eye on your brother and sister. If Boden starts to feel better or Una has a reaction let me know. I'll try and keep the main village calm and that things go well from the other end."

"Okay, um it might be to have Skullette and Firefang care for the dragons while we're doing the pit. Someone needs to tend to them."

"Good idea. Let's get to it."

"Before you go take this. I have a strong feeling Boden gonna need another dose of it even if it is yucky." Lily told Valka pushing the pink medicine into her hands.

"Thank you, Lily. See you at Ewe's house next Wednesday for brunch. If all goes well that is."

"See you there. I know it's my turn to bring the eggs to cook the breakfast part of the brunch. You just let Romi and Remi know they need to bring the lunch part."

"Will do. Will do. Let's go."

Well things quickly got underway for the pit and it was beyond exhausting work for all four of them. Astrid was basically the one having to care for Boden while Hiccup had to care for Una who was beyond exhausted from having to touch literally every single item everyone bought hoping it be a trigger object.

Still after three hours they're getting near the end of the line and still nothing. They're now getting to the Riders themselves and it wasn't the stupid statute which had to be rolled in, nor was it Fishlegs's botany book which he was very reluctant to part with. Or Snotlout's mirror which made him fall even more in love with himself then he already was.

"I'm really tired Hiccup. Are we almost done? I've had no reaction and I'm sure Gothi right. I would have a reaction to something deadly and dangerous to the dragons and Boden still not feeling better either."

"And the line almost at the end. Wait where is Gobber? I know he bought something. Astrid go find Gobber and get him down here."

Astrid didn't have to go far till she found Gobber and dragged him down to the beach and shoved him in front of the Haddock siblings. "Okay Gobber where your item you bought?" demanded Hiccup with a cross expression.

"I didn't get anything."

"Yes, you did Gobber! I was there you bought silk, if I remember correctly you traded your broom attachment that you said you used in one your crazy Boneknapper stories to get it. So where is it?" Astrid pressed with a fist cocked.

"It's currently in use, it's my skivvies! They are glorious!" and that made everyone look a little ill.

"I'm not touching that to see if that the item!" protested Una firmly.

"That's gross!" Boden agreed.

"Gobber just throw it in the pit and you're lucky I just trust my gut that silk isn't what making dragons sick." Hiccup told him as he pointed to some rocks.

"Fine" and both Hiccup and Astrid quickly covered Boden and Una's eyes so they didn't have to see what everyone could've gone their whole lives without seeing.

The next day given how Boden walked into Hiccup's room looking still green around the gills and sweaty with glossy eyes it was clear none of the dragons were better.

He was looking for his big brother to make him feel better and so was Una to make her feel better as well. So it feel to Hiccup to tend to Una's knee and giving Boden another dose of that yucky pink medicine and then they had to take their normal medicine on top of that before going outside to hear the Riders bitch at them for their dragons still feeling sick.

It really was unfair to hear Snotlout yell at them like it was their fault he spent the night scrapping dragon barf off his walls, or the Twins whine that their dragon wasn't fun anymore because he wouldn't blow anything up anymore.

Things got extremely bad after Hiccup started to suggest they make a list to find out who didn't give up what they bought. This triggered Snotlout to go into such a tirade he lost all self-control and very nearly attacked Boden and Una.

Which of course caused Hiccup and him to almost to get in a crazy battle of their own when Stoick's voice called out breaking it up before there was a murder done on Berk.

"Hiccup! Put this in the "Book of Dragons" "Never fly on a stomach of undercooked mutton" ugh the Shivering shores will never be the same again," his father shivered.

"Daddy!" Una cried as she ran into his arms crying for she was both upset and quite frankly at that moment fearing for her life.

Stoick was shocked when he picked up his daughter because he recognized how she was crying. These were tears of happy to see him, she was very upset and scared and he took a moment to survey the situation before turning to his sons.

"Hiccup? Boden? What's going on? What happened?"

"It's the dragons, Dad. They're sick and I can tell you from what I've been feeling for the past day and half it's really bad. Oh Odin make it stop!" as Boden buckled to the ground and his brother tried to help him.

"It's that bad?" Stoick turning to his eldest while looking at his middle child. "Yeah, Dad it's that bad and the worst part? We don't know what's causing it and they're just getting sicker!"

Later that evening Una had cried herself to sleep for the moment so she was resting in her mommy lap while Stoick threw some fresh logs on the fire. He then sat down and let Boden who was still feeling beyond sick lay down on his lap because Valka's was occupied.

Even the medicine was taking the edge of anymore and Hiccup had just repeated what Lily had told him to do for the second time today. He was now trying to make the dragons feel better after tending to his brother and sister.

"So that's what's been going on, Dad. Gothi and her really nice niece Lily told us the dragons were allergic to something and we did exactly as they told us to do.

But Boden's still mimicking their symptoms and Una didn't have a reaction to any of the items thrown into the pit.

And I trust in my gut it wasn't Gobber's underwear made of silk. No way was Una touching that! So I don't know what to do now!" Hiccup want to pull his hair out of his head.

"Well, I'm sure it wasn't Gobber's underwear either, son and no Una surely wasn't touching that. So it's got be something else. The question remains then what is it?" Stoick asked aloud and Valka shrugged herself.

Just then both Boden and Thornado let out a huge sneeze and Stoick had a look of horror on his face. Carefully still holding his second born the family hurried outside to check on the Thunderdrum and Boden was having a sneezing fit.

"He was fine till we got back. And Boden wasn't sick in the house for a couple of hours. So it must take at least a couple of hours of exposure to whatever the contagion is to cause a reaction," Hiccup theorized.

"Well, then lets retrace your father's steps and see if anything that wasn't here before is nearby. Chances are whatever is causing the illness is close by since Thornado been by the house since your father come home. He hasn't even checked in with Stormy.

Who by the way Thornado all the sick dragons have been moved to the old Sanctuary and are being tended to by Skullette and Firefang. They know the best about caring for sick dragons. So your sister is in good hands," Valka informed Thornado who managed to give a weak smile before he let out another sneeze and so did Boden.

Well by now Una had been aroused from her sleep and was more than awake enough with Fishlegs and Astrid help to look around to try and find something that wasn't there before.

It was Hiccup who found something that definitely not there before. It was a flower bush with blue flowers and the closer they got the more sick Boden got like he couldn't stand being next to the bush.

"That bush is like poison! Whatever those flowers are they may look pretty but it's a pretty poison!" he coughed and finally threw up and it was on his father's shoes but his father did get mad.

Instead he just used his cape to wipe Boden's mouth and noted that the flowers had only appeared when he got back.

"I know what these are!" exclaimed Fishlegs excitedly as he took a flower from Hiccup and smelled.

"You do? How? What is it? And details quickly please!"

"It's a Blue Oleander. I read about it from the botany book I got from Trader Johann. They're noted for being very soft, beautiful, and perennial and….poisonous to reptiles!"

"That's means poisonous to dragons!" all three siblings yelled at the same time.

"Oh gods! This is bad! Did your book offer a cure, Fishlegs?" Valka asked desperately looking at her children and the boy looked more than a little shameful and scared.

"Um I didn't get to finish it before it was thrown it to the pit. And I hadn't exactly memorized what I did read, ma'am."

"Then go back and dig it up!" yelled Hiccup loudly and Fishlegs was running faster than a boy his size should be able to run.

"Okay we know what is causing the dragons to be sick. But where did the flowers come from? Since they are obviously not native to Berk. Who brought them and how come nobody saw them if someone did plant them?" Astrid asked aloud.

"Um we saw who planted them." Ruff spoke up as she rubbed her head. She and her brother been butting heads literally.

"Yeah it was Mildew. We saw him plant them at 3:00 am after Johann left. We didn't think much of it at the time mainly because Ruff and I were out well making mischief."

"Yeah, we had plan to pull a prank on Snotlout and spot Mildew planting the flowers though he didn't spot us."

"You two were out at Devil's Hour and saw Mildew planting these flowers? And it doesn't occurred to either of you that anyone out in the hour of evil is doing something evil? When they are a bad person?" Una asked them in astonishment.

"Um what do you mean?" the Twins asked confused and once again the Haddock siblings all did face palms.

Then all of sudden their powers kicked into overdrive again on their own. Hiccup who'd been holding a flower suddenly saw the whole event that the Twins were talking about. He saw it from their point of view and to his disgust Mildew's point of view of how these flowers were deliberately planted.

Boden was now just not sick with the physical symptoms of the dragons he picked up to his disgust the emotions of Mildew as he'd planted these flowers that really made him feel ill.

And what caused Una to feel sick, enraged and disgusted was she saw the events that led up to this and what Mildew been doing while everyone else been suffering. She saw how he'd conceived this plan, how he'd ordered the flowers from Johann and how he'd paid for them with his bad cabbage (Mildew had the worst cabbage on Berk no doubt about it) and how he'd been drinking happily while they'd been sick and suffering.

She looked at her knee with rage now. She wouldn't have been hurt at all if Mildew hadn't done this. Boden wouldn't be sick like this if Mildew hadn't done this. And Hiccup would've been burden with either their sickness or injuries or nearly murdered by an out-of-control Snotlout if Mildew hadn't done this.

Well in five minutes the whole family nearly broke down the door on Mildew's house and he was demanding what was the meaning of trying to demolish his home and they replied it was because he'd once again tried to murder the dragons.

"What? What are you all blathering about? I've done no crime whatsoever. Nothing you have actual physical proof of anyway. And don't bring up that nonsense that you three are 'supposedly blessed' by the Gods.

The rest of the island may have bought that bunch of lies hook, line and sinker and may also believe you tamed unholy beast and they're your precious friends. But I've commit no act of treason that you can truly prove."

"But you did buy and plant Blue Oleanders and don't lie, Mildew. You did plant those flowers." Valka stated through clench teeth.

"So I bought flowers and planted them. That's not a crime."

"But why plant them at 3:00 am? Unless you didn't want anyone to see you do it? Unless you knew they do something that wasn't gonna make a lot of people happy? That is highly suspicious and Mildew we know you hate the dragons and those flowers are poison to dragons.

So it's a very good circumstance case even if my children's gifts can't be used in a court. There are facts we can use against you. One you bought flowers that is in print poisonous to reptiles, 2 you waited till the evil hour to plant them, and three you do have a motive."

"It's still circumstantial and you're blowing smoke Stoick. You've got nothing to hold me on. Face it you've got nothing. Now I'd like to be left alone. Goodnight." And he slammed the door in their face.

"One of these days," growled Valka as they walked back to the village and found Fishlegs with both his botany book and the revised Book of Dragons. Hoping it was good news they listen to what he had to say.

While the botany book had nothing useful he did find one dragon did had sort of an immunity to the flower and if had venom they could make an ant-venom like with snakes and spiders to cure the dragons. Though according the book the dragon in question the Scauldron didn't have venom.

However this was one of the few times Gobber despite his faults was worth his smelly pants in gold. Since he dealt with this dragon before and confirmed it did indeed had lots of venom.

With little time left they quickly came up with a plan. Valka, Boden and Una along with the Riders would stay behind and help tend to the sick in the Sanctuary with Skullette and Firefang. At the same time they'd get things ready to make an anti-venom.

Stoick, Gobber, Hiccup with two other and Mildew who they'd force to come would find a Scauldron and get the venom. But not till after they forced Mildew to dig up each and every bush he planted.

Valka oversaw Mildew digging up the flowers and when he was done she threw the old man against a building then gripped his arms so tightly she nearly broke them and hissed a very clear threat that she made certain he understood wasn't a joke but deadly serious.

She made it perfectly clear to Mildew that if he ever, ever endangered her children or their dragons again she murder him where he stood. With her bare hands he be dead. And that was a Haddock Promise he'd be dead and she meant it. She swore in the name of Odin's wife she meant it.

And finally, finally that ancient man looked petrified as he finally got it point blank he was dealing with someone who'd in fact would execute him and they wouldn't hesitant at all to break him in two.

Valka was ready to carry out her threat when her husband and son got back from a showdown with a Scauldron. Hiccup told her how the whole thing had gone down.

From how beyond vulgar Mildew been, how scary it been trying to get the venom, how Mildew refusing to help almost cost them venom and it was only because the dragon had bitten him in the ass that they'd gotten the venom at all.

After hearing this she actually pulled her husband aside and seriously asked him if it would be alright to let the venom work its magic and get rid of Mildew for them and then collect it.

After all no-one liked Mildew. He was a danger to their family, the dragons and his cabbage could very give the village food poisoning. Plus he already committed high treason and would likely do it several times more. Therefore why not let this be the death penalty and let him die so they'd be put out their misery and everyone be happier and safer?

Stoick actually was very much in agreement and sadly couldn't do it for two reasons. The two reasons it would be a bad example for their children. The second reason?

Even though they could've lived with one bad example for the children the other was the fact if they let the venom kill Mildew it might not be viable afterwards for an anti-venom.

So simply because they needed the venom for the dragons was the only reason Mildew got to live past that day. Otherwise they'd have gladly let the Scauldron solve their problem for them and no-one think any worse of them.

Gobber on the other hand had to go scream in the forest since he'd never seen anything more disturbing then Mildew bare ass.

The next day after all the dragons had recovered the family was once more gathered in their living room all enjoying Valka's strawberry pie and glad to be happy and healthy.

Just another typical day on the Isle of Berk.