It was finally time; everyone had anticipated the day that Hiccup would finally start everyone's training. Hiccup decided to postpone the training until everyone was healthy and at their very best. Everyone in Dragon Class Manor was now raring to go and all went the great hall to meet Hiccup.

"Hey Allan, you know that boy, Hiccup's son. What's his name again?" Tyson started to say, Allan was the tall, broad-shouldered boy and was very serious near all the time. He was intimidating but everyone seemed determined to break his ice.

"Aden" Allan replied.

"Yeah him, you think that he's one of us? You know the classes?" Tyson asked, the last few weeks the group of kids had started to give nicknames for things they didn't know what to call. They called themselves 'the classes' as they all had the emblems on their backs that were from dragon classes.

"I know so, I saw Hiccup and Aden sword fighting yesterday and it didn't seem to me that Hiccup would just pick a fight unless he had someone to train" Allan explained. "What? That's so not fair, we're not allowed to train with Hiccup yet but Aden is?" Allan complained frowning.

Allan stared ahead in thought "I think I know the reason, Aden seems to be way out of our league when it comes to fighting. At least to me, I've only started to learn about knife throwing from when I was 5 but Aden looks to me like he's been fighting since he could walk" Allan explained.

"Well, I'm not much of a sword fighter but I'd still like to attempt a sword duel with Hiccup, too" Tyson replied. They entered the hall to find everyone else sitting at the same table and sat down. Allan purposely sat next to Aden who looked at Allan curiously.

Aden smiled at him "I'm Aden, according to Hiccup I'm a Strike class because of the marks on my back" he replied. Allan nodded "Allan and I'm not sure what mine means" he replied, he seemed embarrassed by this fact.

"I could probably tell you but I'm sure Hiccup's going to tell you in a moment, anyway" he explained.

The girl next to them, a girl with dark blood-red hair and red eyes looked over to them "I'm Kenna, can you tell me about some of the classes?" she asked. Aden smiled "sure, which one?" he asked, she looked sheepish for a second when she blushed "uh… just tell me about yours" she told him.

"Sure, as the book of dragons explains the Strike class dragons are always shown to have vice-like jaw strength, pin point accuracy, lightning speed, and extreme intelligence. My personal favorite in that class is Toothless, he's a Night Fury, said to be the unholy off spring of lightning and death itself. Before the dragon wars were over, no one had ever seen a Night fury before. Bork the Bold's advice for that was hiding and pray it doesn't find you" Aden explained.

Suddenly the entire table was tuning in on Aden's story "whoa, so how did Hiccup find him?" Ciar asked, Aden chuckled. "It's a long story so I hope you guys can sit there a bit" Aden told him then he started to into the tale.

"It was a time of chaos according to my Grandfather, Stoic and the dragons were eating everything but the Vikings were no easy feat. In that time, Vikings were even scarier than they are now; Hiccup was seen as a weakling.

"He was a misfit because he wasn't huge and had a lot of muscle; he was clever though and made this contraption that threw traps. They'd wrap around a dragon to immobilize them, so Hiccup sneaks away from his god father, Gobber.

"He waits and then he sees Toothless, it's incredibly hard to see but the Night fury went down with a screech of its battle cry. Hiccup is triumphant but little does he know there's a Monstrous Nightmare behind him!"

"Hiccup is nearly eaten and half destroys the town by knocking a column down in the process of getting away. Stoic has him brought back to the house, he's always been looked down on by everyone and Stoic was always disappointed in Hiccup before."

"The next day Hiccup goes looking for it, he looks all over the forest and finally he finds the crash site. It's like a meteor crashed because there's broken trees and there's a skid in the dirt. He sees the night fury and thinks it's dead until he puts his foot on it."

"It starts moving and he raises up his knife to kill it but he looks into the eyes of the night fury. It's not a monster, it's as scared as he was, he looked into those eyes and saw himself. The night fury closed his eyes and lays his head thinking that he'd finally met his end."

"Hiccup starts cutting the ropes that bind this incredible beast, when he's free the night fury launches himself at Hiccup. He's pinned against the rock, wide-eyed thinking that it was going to eat or kill him but perhaps the dragon is thinking the same thing and it only roars its mighty roar and tears deeper into the forest" Aden told them all.

Everyone looks amazed "that can't be it, there's gotta be more" ILA, the short blonde haired girl prompted. Aden nodded "there's an entire story to it" he told them.

"And you can tell them that story tonight but now, we've gotta focus" everyone jumped when Hiccup entered.

Everyone groaned when they weren't allowed to finish the story but were ready to listen to Hiccup "those emblems means something, and to find out what they mean we're gonna look over the books" he told them.

"I'll start with the first class and if you recognize the class that matches the one on your back tell Astrid and we'll start making files for each of you" he told them pointing to Astrid "except for Aden, of course" he added and Aden just shrugged.

They started off in the order of the book starting with Stoker class and then working their way down all the way to Strike class. Everyone listened intently and watched for each of their classes and seemed amazed when they found out their class.

"And finally, the Strike class, these dragons demonstrate lightning fast speed, pin point accuracy, vice-like jaw strength, and extreme intelligence. For example, the Night fury, Toothless is among the fastest dragons in recorded Viking history."

"There's another in this category it's called the Skrill, with a spiked tail and back it's normally only seen during thunder and lightning storms. Just standing close to a Skrill will make your hair stand on end with static electricity, it's also known to shoot white fire" Hiccup explained.

The class were fascinated the entire time but suddenly ILA raised her hand "do you think that depending on the marks on our backs we'll have some of the power that the dragons in our class have?" she asked.

Hiccup sat on the table behind thinking a moment "it's possible but remember that I'm not exactly an expert on this stuff either despite knowing about dragons" he replied.

"So, we could have the same power as these dragons?" Tyson asked excitedly.

"I only said that it might happen so there's no definite answer" Hiccup told them firmly giving them his very serious look. They also went serious as an effect and Hiccup looked at Astrid and gestured her forward. She stood at the front looking at the book she had in her hands.

"Mystery class: Marcus

"Starting Monday with just Hiccup, sorry no one else is available for an expert on this class" she told Marcus who blushed and shrugged looking at the table.

"Boulder class: Allan

Starting Tuesday with Hiccup and Fishlegs as coaches" Allan kept his stoic look and seriousness but the nervousness showed as he gripped the table and his knuckles turned white.

"Fear class: Ciar and Finn

Starting Wednesday with Hiccup and Ruffnut and Tuffnut; how's that for irony?" she added to Hiccup who chuckled. The twin's high-fived and looked excited to start.

"Sharp class: ILA

"Starting Thursday with Hiccup and me" she read off winking at ILA who smiled looking confident, tossing her blonde locks over her shoulder.

"Tidal class: Tyson

"Starting Friday with Hiccup and Stoic" she read, Tyson looked happy then suddenly very pale as he thought of having to learn from the scary chief of Berk.

Stoker class: Kenna

"Starting Saturday with Hiccup and Snotlout" she read off, Kenna perked up her red hair gleaming from the torch-light.

"Strike class: Aden

"Starting Sunday with Hiccup" Astrid finished looking at all the kids "well, you start the mornings I told you but the rest of the days you'll be doing chores" Astrid explained and they all started complaining except Aden, Marcus and Allan.

They were all used to doing chores in their homes "don't complain, we all think that giving you chores will heighten the need for responsibility and the chores we're giving you are sure to up your body's strength and stamina" she added.

"Fire was gaining on Hiccup's falling body, Toothless had lost his tail thin that allowed him to fly so the only thing he could do was flap down ward toward him" Aden explained dramatically at the camp fire outside of the Dragon Class Manor. Toothless had decided to tag along and acted out all of what Aden was saying.

Toothless spread his wings out "The fire engulfed them and nothing could be seen through the smoke and ash covering it. Finally, something did show through, Toothless was lying on his side wings wrapped around his body" Aden explained, everyone leaned in.

"They had done it! They had killed the Queen but where was Hiccup? Toothless opened his massive wings painfully as he was weakened with hitting the ground and risking his life. Hiccup was unconscious in the middle but alive… he had lost his leg that day but in exchange he was hero" Aden finished.

Toothless went on his hind legs and puffed its dragon chest out then made a thump when he went on all four again. Aden laughed as Toothless nuzzled him and everyone clapped at the end of the story "you're a good story-teller" Tyson told him looking at Toothless.

"Thanks, I think Toothless thinks so too…stop, that tickles" he told Toothless who licked his cheek "you seem closer to Toothless than Astrid and Stoic, why is that?" Allan asked curiously. Aden cocked his head and Toothless curled around Aden pulling him close and nuzzling his back.

"Well, I guess Toothless thinks of me like a hatchling" he replied and they all frowned in confusion "hang on let me explain, Dragons every few years go and lay their eggs and when they're born they're called Hatchlings or baby dragons."

"Anyway, with dragons it doesn't matter if the dragon is of a different species or anything, dragons will protect any young dragon. I've known Toothless pretty much my whole life and he used to carry me around in his mouth by my clothes so that would explain it" Aden added.

"So, like a mother?" Finn asked smirking and then laughing.

"You wouldn't be laughing if you had something as scary as Toothless launch itself at you, besides, Toothless is a boy so he's more a 'Scary-daddy-don't-date-my-daughter' kind of Dragon" ILA pointed out making them laugh.

"But what about whole growling at us when we first arrived?" Ciar asked.

"Dragons are territorial but these dragons think of the humans on this island as a sort of territory so when something is threatening the people on the island than they get a little hostile because they have a need to protect. But once they know you're trust worthy than you sort of become part of their territory or what they need to protect. Toothless wouldn't be so relaxed if any of you weren't to be trusted" he added rubbing Toothless' head. Toothless crooned in response.

"How do they know?" Marcus asked barely loud enough for Aden to hear.

"I'm not sure really but I think they've got some sort of sixth sense like other animals do, you know how they can predict the weather and all well I think that dragons are like that too" he explained.

Marcus nodded thinking when Toothless lifted his head toward Marcus tilting his head curiously 'you better go to sleep soon, you have training tomorrow' a deep and soothing voice said in Marcus head. Marcus jumped, gasping but no one seemed to notice so he shook his head thinking it was his imagination.

"Well uh g-good night" he told them and then headed to his room, out of them all he was the only one who got his own room. He didn't mind but it made him feel separated from everyone, even in his old village he was cut off from them.

His father, who wasn't really his birth father, hated him and made sure to make Marcus cut off from everyone. He was often hiding from his 'father' because he did something wrong or something he didn't do at all. He was good at hiding, he was silent, sneaky and he was sure that the people here wouldn't like him either if they ever found out.

That Astrid woman seemed really mad at him a few weeks ago; she ordered him to sleep and made him drink leafy drinks that were medicine. He didn't really understand but he was grateful for the food she made even if it was slightly over cooked.

By the way, if you would like to know how to pronounce ILA's name it's Eye-lah.

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