A/N: Hello All! if you stumble to this I'd like to invite you to read all my other HTTYD stuff first, namely the 'Seasonal Series' and 'Slivers and Slices' as I treat these writings as a layer upon layer/continuation deal; things are referenced from earlier stories and if you want 100% in the loop, and a more satisfying reading expirience overall from this - that's the way to do it. All can be found on my profile page with descriptors and reading order. If you have read 'em all, or don't mind not knowing back-story, then away you go into this next installment!

This is Berk.

It's eight days east of acceptance and still a few degrees south of freezing to death. It's located solidly on the latitude of life-lessons.

Between the jutted rockforms of the sea could be found a once-miserable little island of rock. Steeped with hard-headedness and tradition like most Viking settlements, and filled with such Vikings ready to slay any intruding dragon s- however the village had gone through a rather remarkable transformation.

Dragons now flew freely through Berk skies, perched on the rooftops, intermingling with the humans that had ceased fighting them and taken to be their friends. The influence of Berk was now felt throughout the Barbaric Archipelago and now the island was a thriving place of interest, and had expanded in population as well as trade.

The village had been there for seven generations, and now a new generation was growing up within it, but they were a bit different—they had never known what it was to be afraid of dragons.

These children of Berk were the first to grow from infancy into a society fully accustomed to dragons of friendlier relations. Never did they have to hide inside homes like their parents and grandparents had while adults fought off the fire beasts in raids, never did they have to train to kill them but rather learned to train them when of age.

And growing up in a society that had never had dragons as a constant positive before gave the children an edge over the adults, even the ones who were supposed to know everything about them. For there was more to discover in a whole childhood than a few short years after the time of peace.

This tale follows a few of these children as they grow - grow with dragons as well as each other. It's a story about growing up together in a new society after knowing nothing but the generations of old.