Chapter 1: This Is Only The Beginning

Authors Note Part 1: Alright, so just a few things to say before I start the newest installment in the "A New Life" series. First off, know that because of Jack's origins, a few episodes will be drastically changed, since he will understand things better than the Vikings will, and vice-versa. Also note that I will be adding in extra episodes to the stories so that they can last longer. Now, there's also one big thing that I'll be changing in this series, and if you can guess what it is, then I'll announce it for everyone to know before it happens. So the more guesses there are the greater a chance there is everyone will be able to know what I'm changing and possibly look forward to it.

Previous guesses: 0

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Finally, for the people reading this who haven't read the first story for this series "A New Life: Starting Over", I suggest that you go read that first to understand what's happening in this story, and the ones that follow it. (And if it's past Christmas day 2014, and my "A New Life: Gift of The Night Fury(s)" Story is out, I'd suggest that you read that as well.)

Now, I think that I've gone on long enough, so here's the first chapter in "A New Life: Riders of Berk"!

This, is Berk. For generations before I arrived on this island, it was Vikings against Dragons. The battles that occurred were ferocious. These battles left both sides with multiple casualties. One of which, left my best friend Hiccup with only his father to look after him. But then, one day, everything changed… My best friend Hiccup met Toothless. And together, with a little help from me, we were able to show the people of Berk that instead of fighting the dragons. We can ride them, live with them, and even train them.

On a fairly normal day on the sea stacks surrounding Berk, a year after the death of the Red… Death, the dragon riders of Berk are sitting on their dragons. They're waiting for their last friend to show up. The twins are sitting on the two heads of their Hideous Zippleback, each naming their own separate head. Ruffnut, the girl, named her head Barf, while Tuffnut, the boy, named his head Belch. Why they chose these names are unknown to everyone, even themselves. Sitting on the back of the Gronkle, named Meatlug, is the Viking teen Fishlegs. On the back of the Monstrous Nightmare, named Hookfang, is Snotlout. On the Deadly Nadder, named Stormfly, is Astrid. Finally, on the back of one the only two Night Fury's on the island, this one named Frostbite, is Jack.

Unlike the other teens of Berk, Jack is a little different. Not only because he has a Night Fury as a dragon, but because he isn't from Berk. Instead, Jack is from a completely different dimension. One without dragons, and which is centuries ahead of what Berk has at the moment. Though, he has helped out with many of the problems on the island. He came to Berk through the Bermuda Triangle, which was seen as only a legend back on his world. But after the plane crash that sent him through the dimensional gateway, Jack is inclined to believe that it holds some truth to it. Back when he had crossed through the gateway, he kept all his clothing, and thanks to divine intervention, he kept all his belongings as well. However, after the year that he'd spent in Berk, he'd changed slightly.

He now has the same beliefs as the Vikings of Berk, and has changed his clothing slightly to dress like them. Whereas before he used to wear black combat boots, blue jeans, a blue long sleeve T-shirt, and a black leather jacket, now, it was slightly different to fit in with the Viking time period he found himself in. He kept the combat boots since Gobber had told him they were better than even the finest yak skin they had, but he'd dyed his blue jeans so that they were now colored a chocolate brown, and the belt that held them up was black. He still wears his blue long sleeve T-shirt, but dyed it so that it wasn't as light as Astrid's, and was instead a blue that was close to the sea's color. The black leather jacket he kept as well, since Gobber said that it was in better quality than their yak skins, but not as good as the quality of his boots.

As for his appearance, his light Caucasian skin was now slightly tanned thanks to the amount of time he spent outside with Frostbite, and his cobalt eyes had re-gained their gleam that they'd lost after the deaths of his parents. He made sure to go to the village's elder, Gothi, at least once a month to get his hair cut so that it never grew too long. However it was impossible for even the old woman to keep it tamed, and so it still looked like a wild animal had a battle with it and won. The biggest change however, was the bottom half of his left leg. When he'd arrived in the Viking's dimension, he had both his legs intact, and in working order. But now, after the event with the Red Death, he'd lost it. Just like Hiccup had lost his. Even though Hiccup had kept the prosthetic leg that Gobber made him, Jack had changed it slightly.

Before, it was two rectangular pieces of wood, with a metal foot. Now however, he'd changed it slightly so that the wood was as large as the rest of his leg, slimming down as it got closer to the ground to match his other, intact, leg. The foot was still metal, but instead of being smaller than his other one, he'd had Gobber work on it so that it matched his other foot's size, but didn't have separate toes. Instead, it was rounded at the end to seem like an actual foot, and it allowed Jack to continue to wear his jeans and combat boots as if nothing had happened. He didn't like parading around town, showing off the "war wound" he'd received during the fight with the Red Death. That was one of the things that he didn't agree with the Vikings on. So to anyone who didn't know about what happened to him, they wouldn't be able to tell with just a glance. Jack was just happy that he and Hiccup hadn't lost their legs above the knee, and the two were still able to bend it to their needs.

Speak of the devil, the last person of their group arrived on the back of Toothless. Hiccup was Jack's first friend in this dimension, and also his brother in all but blood. The two were both skinny, both had rough lives before they met each other and their dragons, and had formed a close friendship through the secret that Hiccup had about Toothless and Jack. Now, the dimension traveling teen lived in his own house, right next to the chief's, who also happened to be Hiccup's father. And as Hiccup lands, another similarity is shown between the two. While both their dragons are Night Fury's, both their dragons are also missing their left tailfins. So, Toothless' tail fin was replaced with a red prosthetic one, while Frostbite's was replaced with a blue prosthetic one.

As Hiccup lands between Jack and Astrid, he turns back and forth between the two sides as he speaks up. "Alright guys. Best trick competition. Who's up first?" He asks as Toothless gives a few small snorts and shakes his head after landing.

"Uh-" Fishlegs tries to speak up, only to be interrupted by a certain Jorgenson.

"Me!" Snotlout exclaims, striking a "strong man" pose on Hookfang's neck, blocking Hiccup's view of Fishlegs and getting an eye roll out of Jack at the teen's bluntness.

"Actually, I think it's-" Once again, Fishlegs is cut off from talking as Snotlout turns to slightly glare at the other Viking teen.

"Me!" He exclaims again, now striking a different "strong man" pose where his fists are clenched in front of his chest. At this point, Astrid decides to speak up.

"Sweet baby Thor in a thunderstorm go!" She exclaims in annoyance, pointing out towards the water to get her point across. Snotlout smirks at this.

"Oh don't worry, we'll go. And when we go, Hookfang and I, are gonna light the sky on fi~~~~ire!" He yells the last part in slight fear as the Monstrous Nightmare takes off, and dives at a ninety degree angle down the cliff, getting a chuckle out of the only teen not born on Berk.

"Like you might say yourself Snotlout, "let Thor watch over you with a lightning bolt, and a giant hammer"." Jack says in mock sadness, holding up his fist in the air and getting chuckles and laughs out of the rest of the teens as Hookfang and Snotlout perform their trick, ending with the two of them landing on the sea stack, and Snotlout putting his hands on his chest in fear.

"I'm alive? I'm alive!" He exclaims in relief. Before he notices everyone staring at him with deadpan expressions, though the slight glimmer stays in their eyes after Jack's comment, and he tries to save what dignity he has left. "Of course I am." He says with fake confidence, which fools no one there, except for the twins. Then, Fishlegs speaks up as he's finally able to get a word in without Snotlout interrupting him.

"It's my turn!" He exclaims, before looking down at the Gronkle he's on. "Are you ready Meatlug?" He asks, getting a warbled growl in return. "Here we go!" The Viking teen says in excitement as the Gronkle beneath him starts to flap her wings, and lift off the ground. The two make a circle around the sea stack, before landing in their previous spot. Fishlegs pumps his fist when they land in success. "Yes! That's a new personal best." He says with a smile, before hugging Meatlug, who licks him in her own form of joy. Jack nods at the scene, knowing that it would be harder for the heavy dragon to do much more than that.

"It's my turn!" Ruffnut exclaims, turning to face her twin.

"No, it's my turn!" Tuffnut yells back at her, pointing at himself with his thumb to get the point across. Jack, Astrid and Hiccup all roll their eyes at the familiar scene.

"Guys, you have the same dragon." Hiccup says in exasperation at the two.

"Oh, right." Tuffnut replies, fist bumping his sister as they dive down the rock face and towards another sea stack not too far away. Jack chuckles to himself at the familiar sight of the twins arguing, just before they hit into the sea stack they were flying towards. In the end, Barf and Belch end up doing their own trick, by flinging the twins into the air, catching them in their mouths, flinging them back up onto their necks, and then flying back to the starting sea stack.

"We almost died." Ruffnut says breathlessly.

"I know… Go again?" Tuffnut asks with enthusiasm. Astrid cuts into the conversation before the twins can risk their lives for the thousandth time.

"Hey! It's my turn." She says, pointing to herself with her thumb before turning to look at Hiccup and Jack. "You might want to take notes." She says with a smirk, before urging Stormfly forwards.

"That girl is way too competitive." Jack mutters to himself as Hiccup watches Astrid and Stormfly perform their trick with a smirk on his face. Jack just rolls his eyes, leaning towards Hiccup as Astrid performs a skywards spiral to finish her trick off. "So do you want to show up your girlfriend alone, or together?" He asks his brunette friend. Hiccup goes red in the face as he sputters indignantly.

"Astrid isn't my girlfriend!" He exclaims, getting a laugh out of Jack in the process.

"No, but you want her to be." He says with a knowing smirk, Hiccup grumbling to himself as Jack lets out a laugh, their dragons joining in with their own laughs at the familiar conversation between the two. They're able to calm down by the time Astrid flies back to the sea stack, and Jack wipes at his eyes. Snotlout chooses to speak up at that point, and try to make his failure with Hookfang seem like less of a failure.

"Yeah, but can you do it without the dragon?" He asks her, receiving a punch to his shoulder in response. Jack goes right back to laughing at Snotlout's situation, before calming down and turning to look at Hiccup as he talks to Toothless.

"Well, looks like we've got our work cut out for us there bud." He says, patting Toothless' head before sitting up on his saddle. Jack directs Frostbite to walk forwards and stand next to the other Night Fury and his rider.

"Feel like testing out that new trick?" Jack asks with a grin, Hiccup thinks about it for a minute before nodding. Jack can practically hear exciting music playing in the background as the two Night Fury's dive off the cliff, loop around, and fly down towards the sea below. Then, as if speaking through their minds, the two dragons and their riders pull up at the same time, just before they hit the sea water so that the wind displaces the waves. The two Night Fury riders break off from one another, each swerving between their own sea stacks on their way to one in particular. They finally reach it, on opposite sides, and the riders detach their legs from the foot pedals, and then leap off their dragons. The dragons fly beneath the sea stack, Toothless a few inches above Frostbite, while the riders run across the rocks. High-fiving each other as they run past, before they leap off, and landing on their respective dragons.

They then spiral into the air, spinning around each other in a screw pattern on the way up, before the two dragons lock claws, and spin in a circle in the air. They successfully stay in the same position in the air, before they separate and go off in different directions. They end it off by each of the Night Fury's launching a series of Plasma Blast's into the air in front of them, and then flying through the residue left over. Down on the sea stack, the teens watch the spectacle with small smiles.

"They're still the best." Astrid comments, each of the other teens nodding in agreement, before Fishlegs speaks up.

"Well, Hiccup spent an extra month with his dragon. And Jack was his first human friend. So it's only logical that they'd be the best." He comments. Getting nods in response from the other teens, each of them sagging for a few seconds when they remember how they treated Hiccup before the Vikings made peace with the dragons, and then straighten up when they remember that they're trying to redeem themselves for that. Up in the air, Hiccup smiles down at Toothless, and then at Jack when the jacket wearing teen flies next to him with his own smile present on his face.

"That's another win. Good job guys." Hiccup comments, getting a small coo from Toothless and Frostbite in return, as Jack just nods his head at his best and first ever friend. The two Night Fury riders do one more loop in the air, before flying back towards the other teens on the sea stack below.

Yu~~~p, that's right, dragons. Most people on Berk agree that life is better since peace was made with the large reptiles. Unfortunately, dragons are still, well, dragons.

As Hiccup and Jack land in the town square, they look around to find fairly familiar sights greeting them. A lady is pulled out of her house by a Terrible Terror who's trying to steal her chicken, and succeeds before another steals the bone that the other left in the woman's hand. A Deadly Nadder is sitting on the roof of one of the villagers, and said villager is yelling at it to get off. Then, a Monstrous Nightmare is trying to rip a bag of apples away from another villager, and succeeds in ripping it in half, and spreading the red fruit all over the ground. A Deadly Nadder ends up running through a clothes rack, and said clothes rack gets caught on one of its spikes. Bringing it along as it runs through the village. Finally, a villager backs up in front of Hiccup and Jack, and looks up at the sky in slight fear.

"Incoming!" He announces for everyone to hear. "Look out!" He yells, before running away. Hiccup and Jack follow his line of sight, and notice a large crowd of dragons flying overhead.

"Watch out, dragon poo!" A different villager yells out as a crowd of them rush by to escape the immediate threat.

"Ew, gross, gross, gross, gross!" Hiccup exclaims as he and Jack back up under the safety of the shield umbrellas that Mulch and Bucket have to protect themselves from the almost acidic dragon droppings. "Oh poop! Oh~~~ that's disgusting!" Hiccup exclaims. Jack looks at the two Vikings on either side of them.

"It's three already?" He asks them, getting nods in response.

"He~~~y Mulch, hey Bucket. Sorry about the uh~~~, you know." He points up at the sky to signify what he means.

"It happens every day at three." Bucket comments, solidifying what Jack had said moments ago. "The regular at least, a regular tip of the cap." He continues.

"Well, it's better than the days when it was kill or be killed." Mulch comments, before turning to face Hiccup and points at him with his hook hand. "Hey! We've got some fish for that father of yours!" He exclaims, before chuckling and looking over at Bucket. "Bucket, give the boy the cod." He says, gesturing the Hiccup. Bucket holds up a bag that's been ripped at the bottom, before looking at it and noticing the torn bottom.

"I ate it already? Did I enjoy it?" He asks the other three, Jack shaking his head in sympathy for the man that lost part of his brain in one of the dragon raids.

"Uh, no, uh, actually Bucket. I'm-I'm afraid the uh~~~." Hiccup trails off and points to the ground near the man, showing a Terrible Terror with the cod in its mouth, before it hisses at them, and drags the fish away even faster. Stopping underneath one of the houses where two others join it for the food. The two teens look on with grimaces.

Most of us who are living here on Berk are willing to take the good with the bad… But there are those, who will never accept the dragons. And they will do anything to drive them away. The biggest naysayer being a certain old man, who lives on the other side of the island, alone with his sheep Fungus, and his cabbage field.

The next day, the villagers of Berk are going around town, getting ready for the Freeze. Stoick the Vast, chief of the tribe and Hiccup's father, is in charge of the situation. "Stand the elk up in the back. The Fishing boats just came in with a big catch." He tells them, before turning to his friend Gobber. Gobber is the residential blacksmith of the town, and his best friend. Unfortunately, he doesn't get to talk with him for long, as a certain cranky old man speaks up on the path leading towards the storage house they're standing in front of.

"Stoick!" He yells out with annoyance clear in his voice. The two friends turn to look at him as he walks over to the steps leading up to the storage house.

"Ah, here's Mildew with the complaint of the day." Gobber says, waving his prosthetic hand to the old man in question.

"You picked a bad time Mildew." He says, holding out his hand to try and stop the man from speaking. "I'm in the middle of storing food. The Freeze is comin'." He tells Mildew, before turning around to continue working on storing food. But the old man doesn't stop, and starts to walk up the steps towards him.

"It's those dragons again." He complains as Hiccup, Toothless, Jack and Frostbite arrive next to the storage house and watch the argument unfold. "Those demons are not fit to live amongst civilized men." He tells Stoick. Gobber chooses this point to speak up with a joke.

"Neither are you Mildew. Why do you think we built your house so far outside of town?" He asks with a small smile, Stoick even giving a small smirk before it disappears.

"Oh, very well, make your jokes." Mildew says with slight annoyance, before stepping up onto the porch of the house. "Meanwhile, these dragons are eating our village gone!" He exclaims, gesturing to a Viking woman who's flipping her cart right-side-up, before walking over to listen to him as he continues. "They've turned people's houses into piles of rubble!" He exclaims, gesturing to a couple of Vikings who are fixing a hole in someone's roof. One of which speaks up.

"Hey, Mildew's right!" He agrees, climbing down the ladder to join the growing crowd of spectators.

"Mildew's at it again." Jack mutters, patting Frostbite's head to calm him down as the Night Fury growls slightly at the aging man.

"They even disturb an old man's rest! Can't you see these bags under me' eyes?" He asks Stoick and Gobber, pulling down his skin to enforce his point.

"He's right. He's hideous." Gobber comments, Jack saying the same under his breathe off to the side as Stoick seems to agree, but doesn't actually say it out loud as Mildew continues on his rant.

"These are wild and unpredictable beasts!" He exclaims, the crowd shouting out agreements. "They even cracked this man's skull." He says, banging his staff on top of Bucket's… Bucket, before continuing. "Like an egg." He says, making Bucket smile slightly.

"Eggs? I like eggs! Scrambled, over-easy, poached!" He says with enthusiasm, unfortunately making Mildew's point for him as the old man turns to look at Stoick once again.

"You need to put those dragons in cages!" He exclaims, once again getting support from the crowd as Jack and Hiccup share a frown and make their way over to the porch. "If you don't, they'll eat us out of house and home and destroy the entire village." The aging man continues. At this point, Hiccup steps into view and speaks up.

"They don't mean any harm. They're just, dragons being dragons." He tells the crowd, Jack nodding off to the side.

"It's not like they can help it. After all, old habits die hard." Jack agrees with his friend, just before Stoick moves his son out of the way and steps forwards.

"Look Mildew, if there's a problem, I'll deal with it." He tells the man.

"Oh there is a problem Stoick." Mildew says, leaning in and getting in Stoick's face before he turns around and starts to make his way down the steps. "And I think I speak for everyone when I say, you better do something about it." He continues, before walking off as the villagers start to yell at the chief, agreeing with what Mildew said. Jack sighs as they continue to yell, before gesturing for Frostbite to follow him, and making their way off the stage to the side, and then walking back towards their house.

"Whenever Mildew has something to say, it never ends well for us. Does it boy?" He asks the white scaled Night Fury. He gets a warbled roar in response to his question. Jack smiles slightly, scratching his friend behind the ears for his response, and making the dragon almost purr at the sensation. Jack chuckles, before continuing on his way to his house, but still a bit worried about what's going to happen next.

"This will not end well for Hiccup." Jack comments from his place standing beside Astrid as the two of them, along with the other teens, watch the brunette in question attempt to calm down the dragons in the plaza.

"What's he doing?" Snotlout asks, looking on with a quizzical facial expression. Tuffnut watches beside his sister with a smirk.

"Uh, I think he's helping the dragons break stuff." He says.

"Cool." Ruffnut agrees, joining her brother in smirking at the teen currently running around the plaza in an attempt to stop the pandemonium. They watch him fail to put out the flaming sheep, and Astrid speaks up.

"Wow. He could really use our help." She says, getting a nod from Jack in agreement.

"We'll get to it." Tuffnut agrees.

"In a minute." Ruffnut amends. This makes Jack shake his head when he realizes that since it's the twins who are saying this, no help is going to be given to Hiccup. And a few seconds later, multiple dark shapes start to appear in the sky above the plaza.

"A~~nd it's three." Astrid comments, looking up along with Jack, before they look away as a single piece drops down towards Hiccup.

"That's gotta stink." Jack says with a grimace, before he sighs and makes his way back towards his house. "Come get me if he actually asks for help. Because something tells me that he's not gonna be any time soon. No matter how much he needs it." He says, getting a sigh, but a nod, from Astrid in response.

The next day, all the teens are present in the previous dragon killing arena. "That's your plan?" Ruffnut asks in surprise.

"Train dragons? Where we used to kill them?" Tuffnut agrees with his sister.

"Right, because we don't do that anymore." Hiccup tells them as he places down a basket in front of Toothless. "That's why it's available." He continues. Only for Astrid to speak up.

"Actually, the dragons do seem a li~~~ttle nervous." She agrees, patting Stormfly's nose to comfort her.

"That's because they're very sensitive." Fishlegs says, placing a hand on Meatlug in comfort, the dragon's eyes wide and darting all over the place. "Meatlug especially. She lost a cousin here, we try not to talk about it." He whispers the last part to the other teens as Astrid stops comforting Stormfly to walk over to Hiccup.

"It's amazing your dad just gave us the arena." She says, brushing some hair out of her eyes and smirking.

"Well it would be, if he did, yeah. But he didn't, so uh, it's another thing we should try not to talk about." He tells the blond Viking female.

"Wait, so, we're going behind your fathers back." She states more than asks the brunette.

"There you go! Talking about it!" Hiccup says in exasperation. "Uh, alright. Everybody, here's the thing. The dragons are out of control. We want them to live in our world without destroying it, but they can't without our help. They've been blowing things up in the village, we've gotta do something about that." He tells the teens. Unfortunately, the twins think he's saying the opposite, and start to come up with ways to help the dragons destroy stuff. Jack sighs at their thoughts, before reaching over, and slamming their heads together like a certain scarlet haired swordswoman does in an anime he watched before coming to this world.

"Please continue Hiccup." He comments as the twins stagger around a little from the force behind the hit.

"Thank you, Jack." Hiccup says a bit uncertainly, before looking back at the other teens. "Guys, this is serious. Mildew wants all of our dragons caged. And I don't know about all of you, but that's not okay with me." He says, getting nods of agreement in response. "Okay then, next problem. The dragons are eating everything in sight." He says, taking a loaf of bread out of the basket that he'd placed in front of Toothless. The Night Fury in question licks his lips when he sees the piece of food as Hiccup waves it around. "Now, when a dragon grabs something that it's not supposed to have, you can get them to drop it by giving them a little scratch just below the chin." He says, demonstrating with Toothless, making the dragon's eyes roll back a little at the sensation, and his jaw to drop open. This lets Hiccup grab the bread from out of his toothless mouth.

Unfortunately, Snotlout tries to show Hiccup up, gives the bread to Hookfang, and then "orders" his dragon to drop the food. It works… Since Hookfang tosses the bread away and instead picks up the Viking teen in his mouth. The dragon shakes him around with slightly narrowed eyes. Tuffnut laughs a bit at the situation.

"Should we help him?" He asks with a smirk, Astrid, Ruffnut and Jack all having the same smirk in place.

"Sure…" Jack agrees.

"In a minute." Astrid continues just before Hiccup speaks up.

"Alright, we've got a lot of training to do." He tells the teens, making them turn their attention to the brunette. "But together, we can keep these dragons under control." He says, reaching into the basket and taking out some more bread. The other teens smiling slightly as they walk over to take some of the food

"Uh, can somebody do that chin scratchy thing? Hello~~, you guys still there?" Snotlout asks as Hookfang shakes him again. Jack sighing as he walks over to free the other raven haired teen of the group.

A few minutes later, all the teens walk through the town, only to see that none of the dragons are in sight. "Huh, no dragons." Fishlegs says, scratching his chin in confusion.

"That was easy." Ruffnut comments.

"Lunch?" Snotlout asks, happy that they don't have to do anything.

"That's weird. If the dragons aren't here, then where are they?" Hiccup asks, only for a large explosion and a scream to answer his question. Everyone looks in the direction they came from to see a large mushroom cloud of smoke appear.

"Something tells me that way." Astrid says with her hands on her hips as Jack facepalms.

"And that's why I tell you not to say those things Hiccup. Believe me, it's happened enough in my world." Jack says as the teens all run in the direction of the explosion to see what caused it. Even though they already had a good idea. And they arrive to see everyone's dragons, sans Frostbite and Toothless, eating from the food that was placed in the storage house.

"Stormfly?" Astrid asks in surprise.

"Hookfang." Snotlout says in disbelief as Hiccup goes running over to talk to his father and Jack sinks to the ground.

"Great. This is only going to help Mildew's case, and hurt ours." He grumbles, being proven right as Stoick comes out of the storage house, Hiccup behind him trying to beg to have another chance.

"Enough Hiccup. How can I trust you to control all the dragons, when you couldn't even control your own?" He says, gesturing to a certain black scaled Night Fury eating a fish. Jack looks around, and is relieved to see that Frostbite isn't a part of the raid… Until he sees the white scaled Night Fury pop his head out of a pile of fish.

"Frostbite? Oh not you too." Jack groans as he places his head in his hands. The dragon just tilts his head to the side in confusion. Then Mildew speaks up.

"Bah! You can't just cage these dragons. You need to send them away now!" He exclaims with a glare. A crowd of Vikings that had gathered to see what the explosion was about cheering in agreement in the background.

"You're right Mildew. We'll cage 'em tonight, and in the mornin', Hiccup will send them off the island. I'm sorry son." Stoick apologizes before turning and walking away as Toothless walks over to stand beside the brunette teen. Hiccup sighs, before turning around with the Night Fury, and walking off.

Later that night, all the teens are in the Great Hall having dinner. But no one seems eager to actually eat. "I can't believe we have to send them away." Snotlout says in dejection.

"It's gonna be weird. I got used to Stormfly's face being the first thing I see in the morning." Astrid comments, spinning her spoon around in her bowl as her food takes the shape of the dragon in question.

"Every night before I went to sleep, Meatlug would lick my feet." Fishlegs says, much to the confusion of the twins, and slight disgust of Jack. "Who's gonna do that now?!" He yells out, slamming his body onto the table in depression.

"I volunteer Tuffnut!" Ruffnut says, nudging her brother.

"Whatever…" Her brother says in response. "What time should I be there?" He asks, getting a surprised and slightly disgusted look from his sister, as Jack understands that he's just as depressed as the rest of them.

"Come on guys, let's get this over with." Astrid says as she pushes herself to her feet.

"This is the worst day of my life! We're never gonna see our dragons again!" Fishlegs exclaims.

"This is the second worst day of my life.." Jack agrees as they all walk towards the doors. Hiccup and Toothless staying behind.

"We can't let that happen." Hiccup says with conviction. "Toothless is the best friend I've ever had." He continues, leaning down to pet the dragon in question before he notices the look that Jack is giving him as he walks towards the doors. "Best dragon friend." He amends his statement, getting a nod from the dimension-traveling teen in question as he walks out the door with the other riders, gets on Frostbite, and flies towards the academy. They land in front of the doors, and get off their dragons to let them enter the arena.

"Goodbye Hookfang." Snotlout says with a low voice.

"I'm sorry Stormfly." Astrid apologizes to her Nadder, rubbing the dragon's nose before gesturing towards the door. "Now go!" She says, the dragon doing just that as Jack pats Frostbite's nose.

"We'll find a way out of this. Don't you worry bud. I'm sure that Hiccup is thinking up something right this moment." He assures his Night Fury, getting a coo in response, before the dragon turns and makes his way into the arena behind all the other dragons.

"It feels like big, sharp teeth are tearing at this, thing in my chest." Snotlout says as if he's in pain, turning to the other teens.

"That's what it feels like when your heart is breaking." Astrid tells him. Snotlout recoils slightly.

"I don't have a heart. I'm not a girl." He says. Jack just turns to look at him.

"Snotlout, every living being has a heart. Without it, you wouldn't be alive right now. Therefore, you do have a heart." He tells the other raven haired teen. Snotlout holds up a finger as if to argue, but pauses when he thinks about what Jack says. In the end, he just turns away with a huff right before another voice rings through the air.

"Don't close it!" Hiccup's voice calls out, making the other riders turn to look at him in hope as he lands in front of them with Toothless, and stops the gate from closing. "We are not locking them up." He tells the teens with his arms stretched outwards to get his point across as the dragons start to make their way out of the arena.

"What happened? Did you change your father's mind?! Or are we going behind his back again?" Astrid asks. First with enthusiasm, but then with annoyance as she asks the second option.

"Uh, one of those. Look, the dragons are gonna do, what they're gonna do. It's their nature. We just need to learn how to use it." He tells the teens, spreading his arms wide to emphasize his point. The teens all smirk a little at that, and then nod in agreement.

The next morning, the teens put their plan into action. Snotlout and Hookfang scare some fish up for dinner, Astrid and Stormfly, Hiccup and Toothless, and Fishlegs and Meatlug help Mildew with his cabbage field, and finally, the twins and Barf and Belch, Jack and Frostbite, and Hiccup and Toothless help to heard the runaway boars back into one of the barns, before everyone lands in front of the same barn. "Woo-hoo! That was awesome!" Fishlegs exclaims when he lands.

"How did you know that was gonna work?" Astrid asks Hiccup as he lands with Toothless. The brunette smiles slightly at the question.

"Because they're dragons. And they're gonna do what dragons do. We just have to work with them and not against them." He tells them, swinging his fist a little at his words. "You know who we should actually be thanking?" He asks, only for a different voice to break into the conversation.

"There they are Stoick." The teens all look in the direction the voice came from to see the chief and Mildew walking towards them.

"Speak of the Devil and he shall appear?" Jack mutters under his breath to Hiccup, who gives a small nod in response.

"Those dragons don't look like they're in cages to me." The aging man continues, looking at the chief.

"No. This is not what I asked for." Stoick agrees with a slight glare, making the teens shrink back a bit, before they're all instructed back to the arena, and the townspeople come to see what's happening. As the teens stand in the middle, Stoick and Gobber come walking in through the gate with identical scowls on their faces.

"Oh no. what's Stoick gonna do to us?" Fishlegs asks the other teens nervously.

"I'm too pretty for jail." Ruffnut complains, getting a look from Tuffnut and Astrid.

"Heh, where'd you hear that?" Her twin asks her, getting an eye roll from Astrid as Stoick walks towards them with Gobber at his side.

"You all disobeyed my orders. And there will be consequences." The chief of the village announces.

"I told you we were gonna get in trouble. Ugh, you never listen to me." Astrid says to Hiccup in annoyance. Making the brunette sag slightly before he steps forwards.

"Dad, if anyone is going to get in trouble, it should be me." He tells his father, getting a surprised look from the rest of the teens at his announcement.

"Nope. You all had a hand in this." Stoick tells him. "You took over this place without askin'. You released the dragons against my wishes… Things are going to change around here." He tells them as he paces in front of the gathered teens. "that's why I'm-" He's cut off as Gobber comes into the picture with a large smile on his face.

"You're getting' a dragon training academy!" He exclaims, causing murmurs to break out amongst the crowd.

"Gobber!" Stoick exclaims, sounding annoyed and slightly angry. "I wanted to tell them!" he continues, now just sounding slightly upset that he didn't. This makes surprise show on all the teen's faces, before they smile at one another.

"I'm sorry. You're right. Go ahead." Gobber says with a small knowing smile.

"Well you told most of it!" Stoick continues with annoyance clear in his voice.

"You can tell 'em the part about how proud you are of them!" Gobber continues.

"Gobber!" Stoick yells at his friend, now angry and annoyed about how Gobber's taking all the words from his mouth. He then sighs and turns to face the teens. "Hiccup… Well, what he said." Stoick says, gesturing to Gobber. "You've all made me proud. This dragon training academy, is for you." He says, pulling down on the lever that releases all the dragons from the cage. All the teens then run forwards and wrap their dragons in hugs as cheers erupt throughout the crowd watching. "Now, all you have to do, is train them." Stoick tells his son.

"Not a problem dad. After all, I've got him." He says, gesturing to Toothless, only for the clearing of a throat to get his attention, and make him look at the other teens standing with their dragons. "And, them, too." Hiccup amends his previous statement.

That night, Jack sits in his room, and writes out the events of the last few days onto a piece of paper, holding it up to the light to make sure it was good, before nodding his head with a smile in place. He turns around to look at Frostbite, the Night Fury giving the teen his own smile, before settling down on the rock slab that Hiccup had suggested he get for the Night Fury to sleep on. It turned out to be a good idea, because just before Frostbite lies down, he warms up the rock with a stream of fire.

Dragons can't change who they are. But who would want them to? Dragons are powerful, amazing creatures.

Jack, Hiccup and Astrid watch as the symbol for the academy is hung above the gateway to the arena by Fishlegs on Meatlug, and Snotlout on Hookfang. This image has two Night Fury's on it. One is black, with one of its tailfins colored red, while the other is white, with one of its tailfins colored blue. They're positioned so that it looks like they're flying around each other in a Ying-Yang pattern, and they're each spewing out blue flames, which converge into a circle in between the two of them. "Berk Dragon Training Academy… I like the sound of that." Astrid compliments, slugging Hiccup's arm in a playful manner.

"Gotta say Hiccup. Good job on the name. And the symbol isn't half bad either." Jack says with a smile, placing his hand on Hiccup's shoulder as they look at the symbol in question.

As long as my friend Hiccup is alive, I can tell that he will try to learn everything about them. And I'll help him along the way of his journey. After all, if you were in our shoes, wouldn't you?

Authors Note Part 2: Well, here it is. The first chapter of the newest story for the "A New Life" series. So, what did you guys think? Was it good, bad, okay? I want to know your opinions on this so far. I also want any suggestions for this. Such as, what episodes from different TV series should I use for this story? I already have two ideas, but I want more. I'll have to watch the ones you suggest, but if you have any suggestions, go ahead and write them in the review section below for me to check out. And, speaking of reviews, here are the responses to the last reviews for "A New Life: Starting Over"

Anime PJ:

Thanks for the compliment! It's nice to know that you think that way about my stories, and I hope to keep you entertained. However, as for watching the show on Netflix, I'm sorry to say that you won't be able to, and that you'll have to wait until Spring of 2015 to do so. But if you go to "www. Watchcartoononline .com", (without the breaks) then you can watch the first and second seasons of the TV show.

DarkLord98:

Yeah, I can understand why you can think that. However, I hope that the beginning part, with the changes to the leg, made it so that he felt like less of a rip-off of Hiccup. But I can understand if you still think of it that way. As for making Hiccup seem smarter in this story, that is a high probability. But if one of the chapters requires him to be as "stupid" as he was in the show at times, then I'll make it so that he's still like that for that specific episode. But, for other chapters, I'll most likely try to make him at least a bit smarter than he was in the show.

Now, In case some of you still refused to go read the first (2) story(s) of this Fanfiction, then I'd suggest you go do that now. Especially since there's significant background in them, that will come into play during this story, and the ones that follow. Now, I think that's about it for this chapter. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I hope to see you all next time!