CHAPTER 1: The Solution
It had been one day after Hiccup dropped Grimmel into the ocean to his death. It was a day of mourning for the Hooligans, Hiccup and his family and everyone on their newly homed island of New Berk as they had said goodbye to their dragons after the Night Fury killer's death.
Way back within the main area of the Barbaric Archipelago, not too far from the now abandoned Old Berk, a young viking by the name of Alfa Yurlin, aged 25, was situated in his hut on Ancient Island, housing the Ancient Tribe - a completely unknown tribe even after everything that's happened on the archipelago over the years.
He was writing a book on yellow-coloured paper covered on either side with soggy brown leather. His book was themed precisely on the consequences, as he viewed it, of the modern day viking lifestyle. His book, which he intended to be an autobiography, was titled 'The Solution'.
The Solution
In this work of mine, I intend to point out the flaws of today's viking life, the philosophy I have settled upon, and in turn the solutions I wish we could hopefully consider in the near future. This work will be written by me and me only, and my context will be the events of yesterday.
I doubt many vikings across these islands will read this work of mine but as I'm fairly isolated thus far in my current views on our lifestyle, I see no other alternative to setting out a building stone. And it's about time one of us had the guts of our well admired ancestors from all tribes across these islands to call out the biggest flaw which has led to our deterioration of the viking life today - the unvikings.
Let me first begin this by celebrating the supposed death of Grimmel the Grisly yesterday at the hands of Hiccup Haddock. I am as jubilant about his death as I was and still am about Drago Bludvist's death a year ago.
Rumours have circulated across the many tribes that the dragons have now gone into hiding for good in what's referred to as The Hidden World, as of yesterday. I happen to believe this to be the case, for out of nowhere many wild dragons flew across our island yesterday nearer the evening as if they were being drawn to a specific direction without any sense of their surroundings.
I feel that this is not a loss, but a good thing for vikings. A world of vikings to the level of our manly, strong ancestors never needed dragons in the first place. Dragons were domesticated and undoubtedly formidable allies in bringing the downfall of the likes of Grimmel and Drago. But the question for me persists - the conditions in which these two were allowed to rise...why has nobody dealt with that?
This is a question I'm going to touch on the most, I will return to the dragons in due course. Over the past years we have allowed the notion of living like true vikings to be brushed under the earth. We have modernized too great our lifestyle. The alienation this has brought was precisely the consequence that led to Drago and Grimmel. To condone those two is a treacherous action but we have to ask these fundamental questions.
The vikings who have promoted this modernization are the true enemy in this world. I call them the unvikings. They eradicated any notion of being a viking, and my hatred of the unvikings stems from the fact we have seen conflict after conflict over these past years which has costed our archipelago dearly. These conflicts have arisen precisely because we have driven the viking lifestyle further and further away to where we are now. Grimmel was no doubt as much an unviking as Drago was, it's people of that calibre that should be taught a lesson through various means.
All vikings should live the exact same lifestyle, in one leadership entirely, as our ancestors of seven generations ago did. We cannot go on in this world wiping the slate clean of our ancestor's lifestyle. How many conflicts did we have back then? nothing to this scale. I am only 25 but rest assured the peace we had back then was practically everlasting from my assumptions. We didn't have to domesticate dragons, we didn't destroy the notion of living a true viking life, and as a result we retained the unity of our fellow tribes without losing our friends and family in conflicts.
When I was a child, I had to be taught to camp out in the cold dark nights of the winter. I had to capture my own hunts and cook the meat on cold sticks in the middle of our forests. I took pride in that, for it's how our ancestral viking friends and families lived. There's a big cohort of our fellow vikings out there who never wanted to get rid of that lifestyle, and now that we've allowed the present situation to build and take over, the line would've already been crossed for these vikings.
The unvikings crossed that line. They led to us having to deal with the likes of Drago and Grimmel with their tyrannical agendas. The unvikings undoubtedly would consider their domestication of the dragons an achievement - and whilst I have already acknowledged the help of the dragons in killing Drago and Grimmel, did we ever need to fix something that was never broken? wasn't fighting dragons also the concept of a true viking lifestyle?
It cannot be appropriate for me to propose us fighting the dragons on that scale again following the peace the Hooligans secured with them until yesterday when they all flew off. That is why I am not only happy to see them leave, but to see them leave precisely into a vicinity where they will never be present in our lives for generations to come. The dragons leaving was no doubt the first step to our recovery in the true viking lifestyle. We're vikings, we have survived without domesticating the beasts before and we will survive without them.
The eradication of the unvikings is the next step. They're still here. Many of them. They have poisoned not just our friends and families with their notion which caused Drago and Grimmel to arise, but our children. It is often said that wiping a stain off often requires strength and determination, and it's my duty to carry this precise effort along into this step. The unviking cannot be recovered or reasoned with or convinced that their idea had led to these conflicts with the Warlords and Grimmel.
May I suggest that the unvikings will lead to the destruction of the existence of vikings as we know it? it's not absurd. Grimmel and Drago are prime examples, those two were precisely unvikings being controlled like wooden puppets by other unvikings, stemming down to specific vikings of other tribes who felt today's lifestyle was appropriate to bring along, replacing the way our ancestors lived.
We must do something about the unvikings on this basis. They stir up division and hatred against those who simply wish we could live like true vikings, they'd no doubt hate my idea that in order to save the archipelago and return it to back to the era of seven generations ago, all vikings of the same mindset should come under one Chieftan. The unviking is neither human nor worthy to be loved, liked, or given food to eat.
No, these things, these horrifying swarming groups should pay a dear price for what they inflicted on our archipelago - conflicts between fellow vikings, alienation which contributed to the rise of master unvikings like Drago and Grimmel, and a disappointment among patriotic vikings like myself that we have sacrificed the dignity. The only way the unvikings can be eradicated is by working together collectively for the good of the world. World domination of unvikings is a great risk which, in 100 years time, will see us ditch the maces, the battleaxes, and the weapons, for their entire agenda.
For this, we need allies, to step up to the plate.
It's precisely the Hairy Hooligans which I admire the most and who would no doubt make a formidable ally. Stoick the Vast was one of the most patriotic vikings I had ever heard of, for he knew that our world rested with our ancestors. His reputation among the many as one of the greatest dragon hunters sealed the deal for me. His authentic determination to keep the viking lifestyle alive made his loss at the hands of Drago Bludvist even more painful. What a man. What a leader.
Again, I am not going to condone us killing dragons like that anymore, for we have no need to disturb them and the beasts can rest in their world forever, but I do hold Stoick the Vast to that patriotic reputation and will forever admire him for it, because, as I have written already, dragon killing prior to the peace was what made us true vikings - it was a war we faced with the beasts for over hundreds of years after all.
The death of Stoick the Vast only solidifies my hope that we can one day pay the favour back to the unvikings - it was the unviking in Drago Bludvist who perished him after all. We cannot let the unvikings escape karma on that basis.
The idea of an alliance between our tribe and the Hairy Hooligans now under Hiccup Haddock is something to be anticipated. One could argue that Haddock's taming of the dragons created the alienation which contributed to Grimmel the Grisly, but purely on the fact Haddock is Stoick's son, and given he fought on the right side in killing Dragon and Grimmel ultimately, he is no unviking.
In fact, it'd be stupid to not consider an alliance with the Hooligans, one of the most recognised and strong tribes on this archipelago, to deal with the unviking problem. The unfortunate passing of Hiccup's father only leads me to the conclusion that if we were to ever seek it, an alliance would be more than doable with the unified aim of not just eradicating the unvikings, but for the Hooligan Chieftan himself, to avenge his father. The unviking-infested archipelago would be surely saved with such an alliance.
The Ancient Vikings will lead the way. The unviking-ran tribes will not only be taught a lesson but the very territory that these filth reside on will become our own - we must expand our living space for our population is simply overrunning our island. In the event, we would rise to become not just the most formidable tribe in the world, we would also work hand in hand with our allies in the Hooligans to control two flanks - the Hooligans would overrun the seas and territories to their direction and we would maintain order within central archipelago, only within the unviking infested islands.
Extracting revenge and creating living space, a great famine would need to be orchestrated on these islands of unvikings. You have to starve the bacteria to rid it. The Ancient Vikings would subsequently be transported by formidable ships to these islands to raise their families and build the greater tribe as we expand onto multiple islands. The Hooligans would fear nothing from us, for they would join us in our conquest of the unvikings, and it is of my genuine view that the Hooligans would be given lands in exchange for their legacy, it'd be an offer that they surely wouldn't turn down in our mission to turn the world back to where it should've always remained.
As a matter of fact, I'd be smart to make this promise - if the ideology of the unvikings results in the emergence of a familiar figure akin to Drago or Grimmel, then war would be inevitable. We, alongside our allied tribes, would fight in a war of protection against the unvikings. And it wouldn't be me or my leadership that'd initiate such a war, we'd be forced into it precisely because of the unvikings with their monstrous despicable views which would threaten to undo all the work of our patriotic Ancient Tribe vikingsmen. Ourselves and the Hooligans would be unstoppable in our goal of protection.
Fundamentally the things I have listed in this first and most likely only volume of my book stem from a deep desire to stop the unvikings from destroying our way of life like they did when they provoked their fellow unvikings, Drago and Grimmel, to arise and cause havoc particularly to the Hooligans. We need living space not just for our Ancient Viking brothers due to the sheer population we have as one of the largest tribes on these seas, but a chunk of my desire ultimately rests in bringing back the viking way of life that our ancestors lived through, so we can halt any prospect of conflicts of that scale arising ever again, and to bring back the true lifestyle.
A tribe which devotes itself to the duty of protecting the viking lifestyle, eradicating those who hate our way of life, ensuring the dragons now peacefully stay put in their Hidden World forever, acting as guards of the viking notion, sounds like such a tribe with a desire to become rulers of the world. That is not and would not be our aim under my leadership, there's only one group who wish to achieve that - the unvikings.
Lest us pray that we can stop any prospect of Drago or Grimmel arising ever again, god help us mother and father.