Hiccup was relieved to awaken to the familiar pounding of Toothless jumping on his roof. A very panicked Koda was curled up against him, whimpering, "What is that?!"

"Alright, toothless, I'm up," Hiccup called out to his dragon, stroking Koda soothingly, "You're scaring Koda."

The dragon poked his head upsidedown through the window, "Sorry, Koda. It's just me. Hiccup takes too long to get up in the mornings if I don't do this."

"Sleeping in once in a while isn't a bad thing," Hiccup mumbled, holding Koda to his chest as he got to his feet. "Anyway, there's no time for flying this morning bud." Toothless' face fell, showing his utter disappointment. "Sorry, Toothless, but I have to lecture Snotlout and the twins before they fill the heads of children with idiocy. I'm going to get an early start on breakfast. Can you go make sure the others are up to do the same?"

Toothless brightened at this. He was being given a free pass to wreak havoc. "With pleasure!" He cooed before leaping off of the roof to go wake the other teens.

Hiccup smiled slightly to himself, "Looks like he's doing a little better today," He murmured, glancing down to Koda. With this said, he carried the young dragon outside and stood in the center of town to watch Toothless go from rooftop to rooftop, carelessly knocking shingles off as he played the part of a scaled alarm clock.

"I thought you said you were going to go to breakfast?" Koda wondered aloud.

"I will, just as soon as everyone's up. Toothless is incredibly thorough when it comes to waking people up, but I don't want to let him out of my sight. Not after what Barf and Belch said yesterday." Hiccup admitted, "Besides, if they see me, they'll come out to yell at me to control my dragon."

"You're still worried about that?" Koda asked, but before Hiccup could respond, Sky landed nearby and approached them, eyeing Toothless.

"What's that idiot doing?" Sky questioned, watching the phenomenon.

The boy smirked, "He's helping me wake up the other teens. Any chance he can find to torment Snotlout."

Finally, a mob of angered and groggy teens manifested from their homes and converged upon Hiccup. "Would you please do something about your dragon?!" Snotlout complained, glaring at Hiccup.

"Sure. Good job, bud, looks like you got 'em all." Hiccup praised. Toothless retreated to Hiccup's side and purred, making a point of shoving Sky aside as he did so. "Now that you're all here, let's head to the Great Hall for some breakfast!" Hiccup suggested, turning to walk to the massive doors behind him when he was snagged by his collar. He glanced back to see an enraged Astrid glaring at him.

"You had your dragon jump on our roofs to wake us up for breakfast?" She demanded, her voice dripping with rage.

"Actually, I just asked him to wake you up. He chose the method." Hiccup replied. Astrid released his collar in favor of pinching and pulling his ear. "Ah ow ow ow okay! Okay, no, it wasn't for breakfast! We're having an early morning dragon training academy meeting- official business- that I would have told everyone at a normal hour yesterday if someone" He shot a look at Snotlout, "Hadn't decided to play chief for a day!"

Astrid seemed satisfied with this as she let go of Hiccup, instead turning her attention to Snotlout, who said defensively, "I'll have you know I wasn't just playing, and I made a fine chief."

Hiccup rolled his eyes and looked to Toothless. He opened his mouth to suggest he take Sky and Koda to get some food when he remembered that he shouldn't trust Sky to be alone with them. This was getting old fast. Thankfully, at that moment, the other dragons of Berk arrived, and he relaxed some. They wouldn't let Sky do anything to Toothless, and they had him severely outnumbered. "Alright," He muttered to himself, then, to Toothless, he said, "Why don't you take the other dragons down for breakfast and meet us in the arena?"

Toothless hesitated, but allowed Hiccup to gently set Koda on his head before leading the dragons off for some food as Hiccup and the other Vikings went in the opposite direction to get their own. Once everyone was seated with full plates, Astrid pressed, "Well? What's this important official meeting about?"

"Well," Hiccup fumbled under the pressure. "As you know, we're part of the Dragon Training Academy. Thing is, there aren't really any academics involved. Sometimes we learn new tricks, but that's about it. In the past, that arena was used to train children who were coming of age to fight dragons. That's no longer necessary."

"Are you done pointing out the obvious?" Snotlout snapped, still rather annoyed about his rude awakening.

"Right..." Hiccup straightened himself out, doing his best to look like a proper leader. "So, the Chief had the idea that we would use the Training Academy to teach those same children how to properly handle and ride dragons."

Tuffnut groaned, "I don't like where this is going."

"Starting today we're going to have a bunch of preteens running around the arena, so I need all of you," His eyes snapped to Snotlout and the twins, "To behave yourselves and act like responsible adults." To Astrid and Fishlegs, he added, "We're going to start off easy. Fishlegs, you're in charge of the Book of Dragons, so I'm going to ask you to teach the kids about dragons from the book before we move on to introducing the dragons themselves. Can you do that?"

"Of course! I can teach them every last-"

"Astrid," Hiccup went on, silencing Fishlegs, "You and I are going to be in charge of keeping everyone in line and helping where needed. Snotlout, Ruff, and Tuff, you're going to be in charge of making sure nobody hurts themselves. It's a very simple task. Just make sure they don't fall off of the dragons or do anything incredibly stupid to annoy them. Another part of your job is silence."

"Umm, silence?" Ruffnut wondered.

"Yes. You are not to teach the kids anything. Nothing at all. Just keep your mouths shut and keep them from hurting themselves. If kids start using Terrible Terrors to torment their siblings, there will be repercussions!" He tried to sound intimidating, but, of course, his voice cracked the moment he tried to raise it.

Ruffnut heaved a sigh, "I don't like the Dragon Training Academy anymore. Can we do something else?"

"Yeah, like go back to that island with the frozen vikings?" Snotlout suggested.

"Don't you guys get it? This is really important! The things we teach these children today will be the foundation of the Academy's teachings for generations to come!" Fishlegs pointed out, "We're making history!"

Hiccup gave Fishlegs a look of appreciation, "Yes, thank you, Fishlegs, that's the kind of attitude we need."

This, at least, silenced the twins and Snotlout. Astrid, having a bit more appreciation for the situation, asked Hiccup, "Well do you have a lesson plan?"

"Um, lesson plan?" Hiccup fumbled.

"You know, like how Gobber had us start with the Gronckle and learning how to dodge before working our way up to the Monstrous nightmare." She elaborated. Had he not thought about this at all?

Hiccup shrugged, "I figured telling them about the dragons would be enough for now," He admitted, "But I'm throwing it wide open for suggestions."

"Oh, I have one!" Fishlegs piped up, "Why don't we do one dragon a day, since there's so much to cover, and we could introduce them to that specific type of dragon, show them what it does, teach them how to properly ride, let them get the feel of the dragons, you know? That way they won't get start looking for trouble since they'll be busy."

The boy considered this, "You know, that's a great idea, Fishlegs. Yeah, let's do that. It'll take a long time, and we'll have to go tame some new dragons like Changewing and Smothering Smokebreath, but it shouldn't be an issue, we can just save those for later, start out with what we know best- our own dragons."

Astrid nodded in agreement, "Starting with Toothless."

"Starting with-" He stopped himself when he realized what Astrid had said. "Astrid, no. We don't know enough about Night Furies to teach them-"

"Do we?" Astrid eyed him curiously, "After all, Toothless was the dragon that taught the teacher and brought peace between us. Shouldn't he be the first to be recognized?"

He hesitated, "I don't know..."

"Besides, we have Sky and Koda visiting now, right? We can show them different sizes and colorations." Fishlegs offered.

Hiccup sighed. That was exactly what he was worried about. Sky and children who didn't know how to handle dragons. Not to mention poor Koda would probably be terrified... But they should be included in this, to learn what life on Berk would be like, if this was the future of the island. Eventually, he nodded, "Alright, Toothless goes first then. Just make sure nobody touches Sky or Koda, I'm not sure how they'll do around so many people."

"Fair enough." Astrid said with a small smile before getting to her feet. The group had been picking at their food between talking, so their plates were more or less clean by then. "Ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be." Hiccup mumbled, and with this, the teens made their way to the training arena where Gobber and the dragons were already waiting. Hiccup raised a brow, "Gobber? What are you doing here?"

"Your father and I decided ya might need some help on your first day, so I volunteered, having taught about dragons before myself. Not under the same circumstances o' course... Gobber replied. Hiccup was both grateful and annoyed by this. It would be nice to have an extra set of hand and claw, and Gobber knew his way around dragons, but at the same time, he felt his father should have discussed this with him first. Not that discussion was one of Stoick's strong suits.

"Well, thanks, Gobber." Hiccup said, then shifted his gaze to Toothless, who was slowly approaching him with Koda. "Hey, bud! Busy day for you today."

Toothless eyed his human warily, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Thankfully, Hiccup could answer this question without coming off suspicious. "Fishlegs helped me come up with a lesson plan. We're going to teach about one to two dragons a day, depending on how many details we have on the subject, and have them show what they can do, let the kids get a sense of the dragon before moving on to the next. Astrid had the idea that you should be the first because you're the first dragon to make peace with a human, and since Sky and Koda are visiting, it'd be good to give them a chance to see the direction Berk is going in now."

"You think that's a good idea?" Toothless muttered dryly, not really expecting a response.

"So, that's the plan. The kids should be here soon, so... Um, the rest of the dragons should stay here and watch, see how it's done." There were groans of protest from the other dragons, but Hiccup effectively ignored them as he took Koda into his arms and began directing everyone to their positions as kids of various ages began to arrive.

"Hiccup, I thought you said preteens?" Snotlout challenged, pointing to Gustav, "He's not a preteen."

Gobber spoke up, "Yeah, about that. Stoick said that it would be good to start them younger so they know how to handle the dragons in the village. It's not like before where we could just send them inside during a raid, they're here all the time. Besides, it's not like doing that ever really worked anyway, did it, Hiccup?"

Hiccup shot Gobber a look, "And if I always did what I was told, we wouldn't be here today now would we?"

"So why should I listen to you?" Snotlout wondered.

Glancing over his shoulder at Hookfang, he gave the dragon a slight nod, at which the dragon spewed a short burst of flame in Snotlout's general direction. "That's why." Hiccup replied smugly, turning back to his cousin, who was now cowering and shouting at his dragon.

"Awesome!" Gustav cheered, scooting a little closer to Hiccup. Slowly but surely, all of the children between the ages of five and thirteen gathered around the Viking teens. Some were nervous, some eager to learn, others too busy fighting among themselves to really pay attention.

Astrid sidled up to Hiccup and elbowed him, "Just like looking at ourselves in the past, isn't it?"

"Unfortunately. I was hoping there'd be more of you, Fishlegs and I than Snotlout Ruff and Tuff." Hiccup mumbled under his breath before raising his arms to quiet everyone. When this didn't work, Toothless moved to the singular child causing the most ruckus and roared in his face. That shut everyone up pretty fast. "Thank you, Toothless." Hiccup said with a small sigh, "But we're not supposed to scare them to death."

"They're still breathing." Toothless protested, but retreated to Hiccup's side nonetheless.

"Alright, now that I have your attention," Hiccup tried again, "I'd like to welcome you all to the Dragon Training Academy. My name is Hiccup, as most of you probably already know, this is Astrid, Fishlegs, Ruffnut and Tuffnut, and Snotlout. I'll introduce the dragons as we get to them." Feeling the need to give a speech (and encouraged by a nod from Astrid to continue,) he struggled to find the words for the impromptu engagement, "Looking out at all of you I see a lot of familiar faces. Some of you look just as eager as Astrid was on the first day, others look like you're either about to faint or start crying. I've been there, trust me. Dragons can be scary and intimidating, but they're usually giant teddy bears on the inside. You just need to earn their trust and get to know them. Thing is, dragons are smart, and they can smell fear. If they sense that you're afraid of them, they might attack out of self-defense because they know that when you scare a Viking, Vikings tend to put up a fight, not run away. Usually. That's why we're going to start you out with dragons more familiar to you, that you may have seen around town. The Monstrous Nightmare, the Hideous Zippleback, the Thunderdrum, the Gronckle, the Terrible Terror, the Deadly Nadder, and, of course," He looked to Toothless as he finished, "The Night Fury."

Stepping forward, he continued, "Now, before we get started, I'm going to do a role call." He pulled out a list of names that his father had given him when he announced that Hiccup would be in charge of the children and began to read off names. "Uh, Sissel?" The youngest, a girl of about five, raised her hand shyly, her face hidden behind flowing blonde hair and a plush bunny. "Kylan?"

The boy beside Sissel, who appeared to be about seven, raised his hand, jumping nearly two feet in the air, "That's me!" He announced. He had the same blonde hair as Sissel, but several scrapes and bruises suggesting he was a bit of a troublemaker. "Sissy's my sister!"

"Uh-huh." Hiccup blinked and regarded the sheet in his hand again. "Right... Um, Roar?" A rather shy and small boy about six with jet black hair raised his hand hesitantly. "Davyn?" Another boisterous boy around twelve with auburn hair raised his hand enthusiastically. "Snotra?"

A girl around six that Hiccup might have mistaken for a boy had she not spoken up raised her hand and shouted, "Here!" She, too, had scrapes and bruises all over, and her black hair was cut short and uneven, probably something she'd tried to do herself.

"Dahlia?" A calm but still enthusiastic girl that reminded Hiccup of a younger (10-year-old) Astrid with flaming red hair raised her hand. "Roscoe?" A large and masculine eight year old boy raised his hand. "Rika?" Another rather battered looking girl of about nine raised her hand after brushing brown hair out of her eyes. "Aaand Rolf?" A boy about seven raised his hand enthusiastically. "I saw Gustav earlier, so I think that's everyone." Hiccup heaved a sigh and looked out at the crowd, "So, let's get started."

Short chapter is short. Bleah. Seemed like a good place to end it. I know it seems impossible for there to be only nine kids between 5 and 12 in the village, but... Cut me some slack here, I mean, really, that's a lot of characters to balance right there, especially for a fanfiction. I threw their ages and hair colors in there to give you an idea, but I'll go more in depth about them when they're being singled out. Right now they're just a mob of kids.

A side note, while I'm DYING to respond to your review, Guest A, I'm afraid I can't answer that because it would ruin things. x.x Sorreh. You'll just have to take my word when I say "You'll see~" in a high pitched and teasing voice.