Chapter 1: How to Start a Dragon Academy

This is Berk. For generations, it was Viking against Dragon. The battles were ferocious. Then one day everything changed. I meet Toothless and together, we've shown people here that instead of fighting dragons, we can ride them, live with them, even train them.

The air was crisp and cold as it always is in Berk. The clouds were many but the sun was out giving as much warmth as it could but that didn't matter to the two figures in the sky. One black dragon with its left prosthetic tail wing and one girl with a left prosthetic foot. The dragon is what the Vikings would call a Night Fury, "the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself". Stealthy it would be in the night sky and fast for no one could see the Night Furies at their prime. The girl was riding the dragon for they were best buds as she would call him, her bud Toothless. The girl was 15, short and thin in build and not what one would consider a Viking to look like for she was called Hiccup. Her auburn hair was long and thick, reaching past mid back, and it was flying freely behind her. Her green eyes, kind eyes, were watching the skies as she was flying on Toothless.

They flew down and over the calm ocean and then flew back up, Hiccup laughing as she looked down at Toothless and gently patted him on the head.

"Let's go bud," as Hiccup pulled and up further they went, spinning up into the clouds and then down falling back towards the ocean, flying over so fast.

Click. Hiccup changed the gear of Toothless prosthetic tail-wing and up they went again, twirling through the air, carefree.

"Okay bud, time to meet up with the others," Hiccup said and they flew towards a tall rock formation where four figures could be seen on their own dragons and slowly landed next to Asher and his dragon Stormfly, a blue Nadder. Asher Hofferson, 15 years of age, wasn't as big as most Vikings but he wasn't skinny either, one could tell that he worked out hard. He had blond hair in his signature braid that passed his shoulders which a few hairs loose and his bangs which went over a thin leather bang around his head. Then of course he had nice blue eyes that Hiccup never failed to notice. Those blue eyes actually matching the color of his dragon Stormfly, his favorite girl. Her blue contracted nice with yellow sports located on her wings, back, and tail and with her yellow eyes. She was the perfect dragon for Asher. Both were confident in what they did and never backed down from any challenge that they are faced with.

"Okay guys, best trick competition. Who's up first?" Hiccup asked looking at the other riders.

"Uh…" Fishlegs begins but was interrupted. Fishlegs Ingerman, 14 years of age, was a big stocky Viking who looks like a typical Viking but he was very shy, soft spoken, and intelligent which is not most Vikings. He has short blonde hair and brown eyes and he is paired well with his dragon, Meatlug who is a brown Gronckle. She is probably the most mellowed dragon and she is very kind and loving just like Fishlegs. Both care for each other and are loyal to one another.

"Me!" Snotlout says. Snotlout Jorgenson, 15 years old, brown hair and brown eyes and is the typical Viking, muscular with his highly arrogant, narcissistic, and big ego that gets on everyone's nerves at times but he still has his good side. However, when he does start getting to big for his ego, Hookfang his Monstrous Nightmare takes care of it. Hookfang is red with some orange and a tan underbelly. Both Hookfang and Snotlout care for each other even though Hookfang doesn't listen to Snotlout and tends to do whatever he wants. So, all in all they are made for each other.

"Actually, I think it's…" Fishlegs tries again but same result.

"Me!" Snotlout interrupts again glaring at Fishless. Hiccup rolls her eyes and she wasn't the only one annoyed.

"Sweet baby Thor in a thunderstorm. Go!" Asher says, irritation in his voice and with emphasis, points towards the rock formations. Snotlout sits up slightly and pulls his shoulders back.

"Oh, don't worry, we'll go. And when we go, Hookfang and I are going to light the sky on fiiiiiiirrrrrreeeeeee!" Snotlout wails at the end since Hookfang took off without warning diving towards the ocean and lifts back up slightly heading towards the rock formations. Curving through the air and going around and between them. Snotlout is still screaming and his helmet is so close to the rock that it starts sparking and Hookfang looks slightly back, purring, pleased with himself. Hookfang sours high into the air and then dives down into the water with Snotlout screaming. Hookfang them resurfaces, with Snotlout spitting out some water, and lands back in his spot on the cliff with the other riders. Hookfang landed with a lot of force that it pushes Snotlout forwards and then back up. Snotlout starts feeling at his chest.

"I'm alive? I'm alive!" Snotlout shouts, throwing his arms into the air in victory. He notices all the other riders looking at him and quickly folds his arms across his chest.

"Of course, I am," Snotlout says, buffing out his chest and flexing his arms, as if he won the competition already. Asher rolls his eyes and scoffs at Snotlout.

"It's my turn! Ready Meatlug?" Fishlegs excitedly asks his Gronckle, bouncing in his seat. Meatlug gives a growl of confirmation and slowly starts lifting off the rock with Fishlegs looking very competitive.

"Here we go!" They slowly went around…in a circle and went back to their spot on the cliff. Everyone just staring at them.

"Yes! New personal best," Fishlegs exclaims leaning down and hugging Meatlug while the latter leans upwards and lick Fishlegs on the cheek.

"My turn!" Ruffnut shouts looking towards her brother Tuffnut. Ruffnut, the girl, and Tuffnut, the boy, the 14 year old twins, with their long blonde hair and blue eyes. If they were the same gender no one would be able to tell them apart. Ruffnut is a tomboy but don't make fun of her looks or you will get punched. Both try to be better then the other but they both act the same. They are devious, playing pranks on everyone including each other. Fighting each other all the time and never agreeing on the same thing. All in all, they are the same at times, and luckily their Hideous Zippleback, Barf and Belch, love to be with them since the dragon has a sense of humor. When you put all four together, they become the pranksters. So again, both humans and dragons are close.

"No, my turn!" Tuffnut argues back.

"Guys," Hiccup exhales with a slight eye roll, "same dragon."

"Oh, right," Tuffnut says, as he and his sister pound fists and together get Barf and Belch to dive off the cliffside. Then to no one's surprise, the twins start arguing as it could be heard all the way to the other riders.

"Go left," Tuffnut says and pulls Belch's head to the left.

"No, right!" Ruffnut argues and pulls Barf's head to the right.

"No, no, no, right!" Tuffnut pulls Belch's head to the right then.

"No, left!" Ruffnut pulls Barf's head to the left.

So, then the poor Zippleback's head gets all tangled up and Barf and Belch's head hits one another and they finally detangle only to hit a rock side and slowly fly back up with the twins hanging onto Barf and Belch's horns. With a slight look between the Zippleback's they flip their head up which flings the twins into the air, both screaming.

On the downfall Tuffnutt yells, "This is awesome and scary!" But then the Zippleback's grab their riders from the back, flip them in the air again, and the twins land safely on their dragon and finally fly and land on the cliff with the other riders. Tuffnut was breathing heavily while Ruffnut was laying on Barfs head.

"We almost died," Ruffnut says out of breath.

"I know," then Tuffnut goes back up, excited. "Go again?" Ruffnut smiles back but gets interrupted by Asher.

"Hey, it's my turn," Asher says pointing to himself. He then looks at Hiccup with a small smirk and a slight twinkle in his eyes. "You might what to take notes…beautiful." He adds with a wink which causes Hiccup to blush. Asher chuckles and then looks forward, "Let's go!" Stormfly takes off, diving towards the water.

"Okay, Stormfly, tail flip!" Asher shouts as Stormfly sticks her tail into the water which splashes the water upwards. "Now twirl!" He shouts again and Stormfly tucks her wings in and twirls. "Quick, upward spiral!" And with that Stormfly dives up into the air with her wings spread wide and spins. "All right, Stormfly!" Asher cheers and praises as Stormfly lands back in her spot with the other riders, who all marvel at Stormfly's and Asher's performance. Asher looks at Hiccup who the latter quickly turns away blushing yet again.

By Thor stop blushing, Hiccup says to herself.

"Yeah, but can you do it without the dragon?" Snotlout says which then Asher turns back to Snotlout and gives him a punch in the arm. "Ow!" Hiccup looks at Snotlout with a raised brow.

"Why would Asher do a dragon trick competition without a dragon?" Hiccup asks Snotlout even though it was probably a stupid question to ask. Snotlout rubs the arms that he was punched in by Asher and looks at Hiccup, questioningly.

"I don't know, why would he?" Snotlout asks. Hiccup sighs, slowly shaking her head, then looking at Toothless, who gives a small smile to her. Asher looks over at Hiccup giving her a small smile when Hiccup looks up and returns a smile in return then…blushes again.

I need to get a work on that blushing problem, Hiccup says to herself. Asher motions for her that its her turn to go.

"Well," Hiccup says petting Toothless on the head, leaning on Toothless' saddle, "looks like we've got our work cut out for us their bud." Then they slowly take off, doing a small vertical twirl in the air. Then as fast as possible shoot down towards the water at a straight vertical angle and before hitting the water Hiccup pulls on the saddle and then they are horizontal with the water, splashing some water around them. They shoot off, and with them being so close to the water it sprays behind them. Toothless flies towards the rock formations scattered around and they twirl around them and sometimes going between the rocks, while still going at high speeds. Then one rock formation is in front of them. Two giant rocks connected by one flat land bridge at the very top.

Hiccup slowly starts standing up on the saddle as they get closer to the land bridge and without hesitation jumps off Toothless. They disconnect, while Toothless is flying up the bridge, Hiccup is running over the bridge as fast as she can. She finally makes it to the other end, and jumps, she looks down and smiles, Toothless. She lands back in the saddle, clicking her prosthetic into the gear stirrup and then fly up into the clouds with a small twirl at the end.

Back at the cliffside with the other riders, they look up in astonishment.

"Yeah, all right!" Snotlout.

"Yes!" Fishlegs.

Asher breaths in a sigh of relief but still amazed at Hiccup.

For the finale, Toothless lets off six plasma blasts while flying towards the others.

"They are still the best," Asher says.

"Another win," Hiccup says looking at Toothless while Toothless looks up at Hiccup giving a small warble. "Good job bud."

They finally land with the others.

"So, it seems that these flying competitions always work in your favor," Ruffnut says, rubbing her chin.

"Yes, they must be…rigged…yes rigged," Tuffnut exclaims dramatically.

"Or maybe it's just skill," Fishlegs says. Both Ruffnut and Tuffnut look at Fishlegs with their eyes drooping.

"Nope rigged," Tuffnut.

"Yep, rigged," Ruffnut.

Hiccup shakes her head with a smile.

"Well, I for one would love some private lessons," Snotlout says looking at Hiccup with a smile. Hiccup's eyes widening, not knowing how to reply.

"Uh…" Hiccup begins but is saved by Asher.

"Ew, for one she is your cousin and two…umm, no," Asher replies.

"Why is she only aloud to give you private lessons," Snotlout replies smugly. Hiccup blushes once again at how he said it but Asher gets angry and punches Snotlout in the face. Everyone laughs and Hiccup covers her mouth laughing slightly. Asher looks back at Hiccup.

"Well then, let's race beautiful, last one to Berk is Yak dung," Asher says already taking off. Hiccup blushes again!

This needs to stop, Hiccup said to herself as she takes off after Asher.

"Hey cheaters," the twins say together and take off with Snotlout and Fishlegs not far behind.

Yep, dragons. Most people on Berk would say life here is better since we made peace with them. Unfortunately, dragons are still, well, dragons.

Hiccup lands first on Berk, looking back she doesn't see anyone yet.

"Well, I think we lost them bud," Hiccup says, as she gets off Toothless, her amputee leg feeling sour.

I must have over done it today, she says to herself. She then hears a lot of yelling and looks around walking with Toothless. A yak runs off being followed by a Gronckle.

"Bad dragon let go of my food," a woman Viking says holding on to a piece of bread which a Terrible Terror as ahold of. The Terrible Terror succeeds and takes the bread from the woman. "Drop it pesky dragon," holding a spoon to the Terrible Terror, then another shows up and takes her spoon, "dragons!"

"Get of my roof you pest," a Viking man says to a Nadder on his roof.

"Let go of that, these are my apples," another Viking says holding onto a brown bag as a Nightmare dragon tugs on it. Hiccup looks over and sees a Deadly Nadder chasing some chickens and takes off with a woman's clothing. "Give me back my dainties dragon!" The said woman yells, shaking her fist angrily.

"Incoming!"

"Look out!"

"Dragon poo!"

Hiccup looks up and in comes many dragons flying above and sure enough green poo comes down onto the village. Hiccup backs up trying to get away, "Ew, gross, gross, gross! Oh, poop! Oh, that's so disgusting," and hits someone. She turns around and see Bucket and Mulch, both with shields over their heads, held up with sticks.

"Hey Mulch, hey Bucket, sorry about the uh…" Hiccup says pointing upwards.

"Every day at three," Bucket says, "their regular at least. A tip of the cap." He says tapping the bucket on his head.

"Better than the days where it was kill or be killed," Mulch adds, then looking at Hiccup. "Hey, we got some fish for that father of yours. Bucket, give the girl the cod." Hiccup looks up at Bucket. Bucket lifts a torn fish and Hiccup just stares at it.

"I ate it already? Did I enjoy it?" Bucket asks Mulch. Hiccup looks around and sees a smaller Terrible Terror dragging the fish.

"Uh, Bucket, the, uh, Terror beat you to it," Hiccup says pointing to the Terror. Mulch and Bucket look over and see the Terror who hisses at them then dragging it behind a house. More Terrible Terrors fly in that direction. Hiccup chuckles nervously, knowing she will be hearing this from her father soon.

Most of us here on Berk are willing to take the good with the bad. But there are those who will never accept the dragons, and will do anything to drive them away.

….

It was finally night. On the far side and other side of the island is a single house near the top of a mountain. An old grumpy man with a horrible personality lives there, and he makes almost everyone at the village angry. His name is Mildew. His eyes snapped open hearing a thunderous noise that was shaking the entire house. The axes hanging on the ceiling swing and one of them falls off and slams into the ground almost hitting Fungus his sheep. Said sheep runs into the fireplace, scared. Finally, the thunderous noise stops and the house stops shaking but Mildew gets up and goes outside, with Fungus following behind him, and sees a Gronckle on his roof, sleeping.

"Dragons," Mildew grumbles with hate. "I should have known. Helps himself to my roof, and my cabbage." He drops the cabbage and turns to his fields, seeing another Gronckle eating the rest of his cabbage.

"My whole field!" He gasps in disbelief. "Gone!" He growls. "This tears it, Fungus!" He grabs his helmet and shoves it on his head, grabs his walking staff and with Fungus under one arm, he makes his way to the village.

….

Finally, it was morning and lots of shipments came in. Hiccup was sitting on the wooden floor of the Great Hall, keeping weight off her amputee leg since she stressed it yesterday, with Toothless and Gobber was standing on the other side of Toothless. Hiccup was watching her dad command the village. This was very important to Hiccup, knowing that she would one day be chieftess to the people of Berk. Even though this was very boring for her to sit through, she knew that this was very important for her future.

"Stand the elk up in the back. Fishing boats just came in with a big catch," Stoick her father shouted to some of the villagers, pointing to where he wanted the shipments to be placed. Hiccup looked from her father to the old man coming towards them.

"Oh no, this can't be good Toothless," Hiccup said, patting Toothless on the head, who lifted his head to see what she was talking about. Gobber looks over and starts walking up towards Stoick.

"Stoick," Mildew said wearing his typical scowl, holding his walking staff in one hand and Fungus, his sheep around his other arm.

"Ah, here's Mildew with the complaint of the day," Gobber says pointing to Mildew with his hook hand.

"You've picked a bad time, Mildew. I'm in the middle of storing food. The freeze is coming," Stoick told Mildew with authority, telling him that he really wasn't in the mood. Mildew stops right in from of the stars of the Great Hall.

"It's the dragons again. Those demons are not fit to live among civilized men," Mildew hissed. Hiccup started walking towards her dad with Toothless behind her.

"Neither are you, Mildew. Why do you think we built your house so far outside of town?" Gobber stated.

"Oh, very well, make your jokes," Mildew said climbing up the stairs getting closer to Stoick. "Meanwhile, these dragons are upending our village carts, turning people's houses into piles of rubble! They even disturbing an old, man's rest! Can't you see these bags under my eyes?" Mildew pointed. Stoick looks at Mildew like he had no time for this and Gobber lowers one brow and raises the other.

"He's right. He's hideous," Gobber said. Hiccup laughed lightly at that.

"These are wild and unpredictable beasts." Mildew said turning towards the crowd that was slowly forming, agreeing with what Mildew was saying. "They even cracked him man's skull like an egg." Mildew points to Bucket with his walking staff.

"Eggs? I like eggs! Scrambled, over easy, poached!" Bucket mumbled. Hiccup slaps her hand to her forehead.

"You need to put those dragons in cages. If you don't, they'll eat us out of house and home and destroy the entire village," Mildew said, making the crowd even more rowdy against dragons. Hiccup pats Toothless again starting to get worried but then with determination she addressed the crowd.

"They don't mean any harm! They're just dragons being dragons," Hiccup explained but Stoick interrupts her, pushing her behind him and addressing straight to Mildew.

"Look, Mildew, if there is a problem, I'll deal with it," Stoick stated looking menacing at Mildew.

"Oh, there is a problem, Stoick," Mildew said, who started walking down the stairs. "And I think I speak for everyone when I say that you better do something about it." Mildew left but leaves behind him, several angry Vikings.

Oh, this can't be good for us, Hiccup said to herself.

"Look my fellow Vikings, I will figure out a way to handle the dragons but right now we have to get ready for the freeze and get the shipments stored away safely," Stoick addressed the crowd. As of right now that calmed the crowd and they dispersed, getting the other shipments and getting them stored and away from the dragons.

….

Hiccup was sitting on the top of the stairs where her room was. Toothless was sitting next to her. Hiccup was unbraiding her long hair and slowly putting her fingers through them to get any tangles out. As she was doing this, she was watching her father pace in front of the hearth while Gobber was standing in the corner watching her father as well.

"We can't just let dragons run wild like they own the place," Stoick said walking towards Gobber. He then walked away and sparked an idea. "Hey, we could put up signs!" Stoick exclaimed facing Gobber once again.

"Signs, for dragons?" Gobber said with disbelief in his voice.

"No, for the people," Stoick corrected. Hiccup shook her head and scoffed looking at Toothless.

"Yeah, signs for Vikings, over half of them can't even read," nudging Toothless. "I bet you could read better than half of them." Toothless warbled silently.

"Signs, for Vikings? We're not a big readers Stoick," Gobber said, as he was chipping a wooden duck with his hooked hand.

"Then we'll build a huge net and stretch it around the plaza," Stoick said, walking away waving his hands around.

"I feel like he is just making up stuff," Hiccup whispered to Toothless. "Umm, fire breathing dragons."

"Nets? You do know they breathe fire?" Gobber questions Stoick, thinking he lost his marbles or something.

"I know very well they breathe fire, Gobber," Stoick said throwing a chair across the room angrily. "Maybe Mildew was right." Hiccup got up from her spot running down the stairs.

"No, wait dad," Hiccup said facing her father, "what if…I deal with the dragons?" While picking up the chair her father threw.

"You?" Stoick questioned in disbelief.

"Who else?" Hiccup said, feeling a bump behind her back. Turning around she saw Toothless who then nudged at her side. Hiccup patting him on the head continued, "if anyone can control them I can. I'm the best girl for the job."

"Hiccup, you are my daughter. I know I may have the dragons here on Berk but that doesn't mean I'm not still hesitant with you alone with those dragons. Call me a protective father but I'm just not comfortable with you near them," her father said. Even though they have had this conversation before it brings a smile on Hiccups face, knowing that he did care. Before the peace between dragons and Vikings she would not have believed anything he just said but now she did.

"Daddy, I love that you want to protect me but this is what being a leader is all about right? Trying to fix problems in the village," she said, playing with the ends of her hair, "and while I help control the dragons, you can worry about the shipments that we are getting in for the freeze," Hiccup continued, trying to comfort her dad as much as she could. Stoick sighed knowing that she was right but not having to like it.

"Please, daddy, I promise I will be safe. Well as safe as a can be with fire breathing dragons," Hiccup said chuckling, until she saw her father's face, whose looked scared. Gobber shook his head thinking that this whole conversation was pointless.

"Please," Hiccup pleaded again. Stoick sighed.

"Fair enough, you get your chance, starting tomorrow," Stoick said. Hiccup started to jump in joy. "BUT, if I see a destroyed village or a bite, scratch, or burn mark on you the dragons will be out of here."

"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you," Hiccup said. She then gave her father a quick hug which surprised him, and before he could give her one back she raced up the stairs followed by Toothless. Stoick shook his head amused.

"What am I going to do with her, Gobber," Stoick said looking at his oldest friend.

"Nothing really. She does what she wants, takes that after her mother," Gobber replied. Sadness could be seen in Stoick's eyes, thinking of his late wife.

"Yes, she does," Stoick whispered to himself.

….

Hiccup was sitting at in her chair in front of her desk. Her desk was scattered with papers of inventions, old and new. It was also heavily dirty because of the charcoal that she uses to write and draw. There were many papers with pictures of Toothless, Berk scenery, and…Asher.

"Okay Toothless, do you know what we should do for tomorrow," Hiccup asked as she looked over at her bud. Toothless looked at her tilting his head to the side. That meant two things, why are you asking me or I have no idea. Hiccup groaned. "Me neither. I think we are going to have to play it by whatever happens tomorrow." Hiccup took off her fur vest and took off her shoe, lightning another candle since the one lit was about to run out. She then started cleaning her desk, putting her scenery pictures of Berk in a pile and the Asher pictures at the very bottom so they were out of sight because out of sight out of mind. She then started putting a stack of dragon pictures that she drew, most of them being of Toothless and as she was doing this she found the Dragon Manuel. She placed her pictures in a quick pile then opened the book.

"Kill on sight, kill on sight, kill on sight," she kept repeating as she flipped through each page of dragon. "Wow, we really only had one thing in mind back then." Toothless leaned on Hiccups shoulder. As she finally turned to the Night Fury page and idea came to mind.

"Toothless, I have an idea," she said smiling to her best friend.

….

Morning came and Hiccup got up, put on her prosthetic and shoe, and some brown pants and a green shirt, then finally her brown fur vest. Then with her and Toothless they went out to the village.

"Okay gang. There are going to be some changes around here," Hiccup stated.

"Get out, shoo," a Viking woman said holding giant bowl away from a purple Nadder. "For the last time get your nose out of my bread," she then ran into her home. Hiccup ran over getting the purple Nadders attention.

"Hold on, I'll help you," Hiccup said. The Nadder noticing her turned around and with at stern look said, "No!" Then placing a hand on the Nadders head. This then instantly calms the dragon down. "All right." Thinking the fight was done a chicken flew over her shoulder startling the Nadder who then chased after the chicken. Hearing a crash behind her she turned and saw chickens running from something which was then discovered as a blue Gronckle who destroyed some wooden carts. The blue Gronckle then flew and hit the purple Nadder which caused both to tumble down.

"Okay," Hiccup having no clue on what to do with that. She hears a roar, looking up and saw a Monstrous Nightmare flaming at another purple Nadder on top of a hill. This causes a herd of on-fire-sheep run down a wooden blank going towards her.

"Ahh, uhh," she starts running, "Toothless stop that fight," pointing to the fight above. "I'm going to put out the sheep." Hiccup runs between houses but gets stopped by a golden Gronckle flying to the left and a wooden cart being pushed by a Nadder to the right and a Viking chasing the Nadder. Hiccup looks around seeing destruction everywhere.

….

Up on one of the towers the other dragon riders were seen looking below.

"What is she doing?" Snotlout asked with a face of confusion as he was standing near the edge of the tower, with a clear view.

"Uh, I think she's helping the dragons break stuff," Tuffnut said with a smirk, sitting with her sister, Ruffnut.

"Cool," Ruffnut responds. As they saw Hiccup try to put water on a sheep but instead the sheep runs her over and she falls and slides down the hill. Asher shook his head, standing with his arms crossed.

"Wow, she could really use our help," Asher said, wanting to help his crush, looking at her with worry.

"We'll get to it…," Tuffnut says.

"In a minute," Ruffnut finishes the sentence.

Finally, on the bottom again, Hiccup could finally pour water on the poor flaming sheep, "Sorry about that," not noticing the herd of dragons flying over her.

"And it's three," Asher said, looking down. "Toothless!" Asher said pointing to Hiccup when Toothless herd his name. Toothless looking up, speed up, grabbed Hiccup by her shirt and dragged her to the nearest house before she could get any dragon poop on her.

Today is not working well, Hiccup told herself, leaning on Toothless.

….

Night finally came and nothing worked for Hiccup today. Hiccup walked up the stairs, slowly, to her room with Toothless walking behind her who lit up some candle using his flame. She then sat on her bed that was covering in sheep wool and furs taking her shoe off including her prosthetic.

"Oh, everything hurts," Hiccup said to Toothless, "even this," holding up her prosthetic. She then heard the door open and close downstairs.

"Hiccup," she heard Asher yell.

"Oh Thor," Hiccup stood up, well as good as she could with one leg. Toothless helped balance her, letting her use his body to balance herself. She then proceeded to dust herself off.

"I can't look like this in front of Asher. I don't look to beat up, do I?" She asked Toothless who gave her a wide-eyed expression and then nodded. Hiccup knew what that meant. "Oh great, dragon pity." She then heard footsteps behind her, turning around to fast forgetting that she only had one leg, lost her balance. Asher quickly went to her and grabbed her shoulders before she could fall. Hiccup looked up at him, slightly blushing.

"Asher, what a nice surprise," Hiccup said, grinning up at Asher. Asher raised a brow and helped her lean against her desk. When she was finally balanced Asher crossed his arms.

"So, how was your day?" Asher asked, already knowing the answer to whatever lie she was about to sprout out. Hiccup started talking with her hands which she did when she was nervous or lying.

"Oh, you know, uneventful, hung around the plaza, you know," Hiccup stammered who then started untying her hair which was another nervous habit she did when she was nervous.

"Yeah, I do know, we saw you out there, it's hard to believe you're still standing," Asher replied with a smirk. Hiccup groaned loudly.

"Help me to the bed, I can't even stand right now and my other leg is very soar for being on my prosthetic all day," Hiccup replied. Asher wrapped his arm around her waist while she wrapped her arm around his shoulders and they slowly walked to her bed. She sat down on her bed and patted the spot next to her which then he sat down. Toothless leaned his head on Asher's lap but looking at Hiccup.

"I am going to be seeing flaming sheep for the next month," Hiccup said, starting to message the bottom part of her leg where her prosthetic would be. She then felt hands unbraiding her hair, smiling slightly with a slight blush on her cheeks. Asher laughed slightly. Hiccup looked over questioningly but neither stopped what they were doing.

"What?" Hiccup asked.

"Flaming sheep wouldn't be the worst thing in anyone's dreams. I think it would be pretty funny," Asher said. Hiccup scoffed.

"Yeah, for you maybe but since that was the only thing I saw today it will be more of a nightmare," Hiccup replied, making Asher laugh a little more. They then heard the door slam open and shut.

"Hiccup!" Hiccup heard her father shout which makes Asher jump up so fast off the bed that it startled Toothless, who was almost asleep on his lap. They then heard his thundering footsteps coming up the stairs.

"Hiccup, what's going on out there? The plaza looks like a war zone!" Stoick questioned, looking down at Hiccup who was still on the bed messaging her leg, looking worried, then at Asher who had his arms crossed again looking a little flushed. Hiccup stopped what she was doing and got up from the bed balancing herself on the headboard.

"Okay, I know it looks bad," Hiccup answered.

"Really bad," Asher whispered but everyone heard him.

"But this is only… uh, phase one of my master plan" Hiccup continued. Stoick looked surprised but did believe his daughter.

"Oh, so you do have a plan?" Stoick asked skeptically.

"I do. Of course, I do. It's very…complex, lots of drawings several moving parts. Yeah, it's pretty wild," Hiccup answered but Asher saw right through it, she was moving her hands to much.

"Uh, huh," Stoick said not fully being her but took the bait anyways. "Well, this better be real, because Mildew stirred up the whole island. And if you don't get those dragons under control, they'll be calling for their heads." With that said, Stoick turned around but before leaving turned to Asher.

"No, funny business. I am downstairs." Then Stoick left leaving an embarrassed Hiccup and a scared Asher behind. It took awhile before either of them looked or talked to each other. Hiccup then cleared her through looking at Toothless.

"Don't worry bud. Your head isn't going anywhere," Hiccup soothed Toothless who walked to her pushing his head into her stomach, making Hiccup sit back down on the bed. Asher slowly got back on the bed with Toothless taking his spot back on his lap. They were quiet for a while but then Asher returned to running his fingers through her hair.

"You do realize that there are, like, a bazillion dragons out there, and only one of you," Asher said. "I hope you really do have a plan."

"Of course," Hiccup replied, squeakily, messaging her amputated leg again. Hiccup sighed. "I will have one before I go to bed," she whispered. Asher shook his head but changed the subject knowing that she would have a plan by tomorrow because she was Hiccup who always had a plan before the start of every day.

"You know you have been over working your leg for the past couple of days especially today with all the running around," Asher said, eyeing her amputated leg.

"I know but I mean, there is so much to do," Hiccup replied, her leg stopped aching so bad so she stopped her messaging. Asher then stopped what he was doing and got up from the bed patting Toothless on the head who got up from his lap. He looked down at her and smiled.

"Well, beautiful, as long as you promise me you will have a plan tomorrow and take it easy with your leg, I will take my leave," Asher said. Hiccup laughed but nodded at the same time. Before leaving, Asher gave her a bow and then left going down the stairs and hearing the door open and close. With still a smile on her face she looked at Toothless who gave her a half a smile, smirking.

"Oh, quiet, you unholy offspring of lightning and death itself," Hiccup said sarcastically, collapsing on the bed. She didn't even remember closing her eyes or turning off the candles in her room but she knew Toothless had it.

….

Light was shining in Hiccups window and right onto her eyes, she groaned getting up knowing that it was day two of getting the dragons under control. She felt disgusting after having not washed herself the day before after the crazy day. So, she was a Viking but she did like to wash regularly. Hiccup put on her prosthetic, her leg feeling better but knowing if she extended it to much that it would be a pain again. She left her old clothes on knowing that putting clean clothes would make no sense. The only thing that felt nice was her hair. Asher was able to get all the mud and whatever else was in her hair, taking all the knots out too. It felt very smooth to the touch, making Hiccup smile. She looked over and saw Toothless stretching.

"Well day here I come, right Toothless?" Hiccup asked her bud who only warbled as an answer. "Well, if that's the best I'm going to get then I shall take it. Let's go." Hiccup then excitedly ran down the stairs and walked out the door, followed by Toothless. "I think I have an idea Toothless, it makes perfect sense. Come on let's go get the others."

Finally getting everyone together with their dragons they all met at the Dragon Arena where they used to kill dragons and finally told them her idea.

"That's your plan? Train dragons?" Ruffnut said.

"Here? Where we use to kill them?" Tuffnut added on.

"Right," Hiccup replied who put down a basket of food. "Because we don't do that anymore. That's why it's available."

"Actually, the dragons do seem to be a little nervous here," Asher said, petting Stormfly who seemed twitchy.

"That's because they're very sensitive. Meatlug especially. She lost a cousin here. We try not to talk about it," Fishlegs replied to Asher.

"It's amazing your dad just gave us the arena," Asher said walking up to Hiccup, moving his bangs to the side, after calming Stormfly who started to preen herself.

"Well, it would be, if he did, yeah," Hiccup said moving her hands a lot, "but he didn't, so that's another thing we should try not to talk about."

"Wait, so, we're going behind your father's back," Asher said not believing what he was hearing.

"There you go! Talking about it and hey, I've done a lot of stuff behind my father's back, Night Fury is one example," Hiccup said putting her hands on her hips. Asher just smirked and raised a brow before walking towards Stormfly.

"Okay so, we want the dragons 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 got to do something about that," Hiccup began saying.

"Got it. Help dragons blow things up. We can totally do that," Tuffnut said smiling deviously.

"Um, guys I believe I said...," Hiccup was interrupted.

"Yeah, first we make them really, really angry," Ruffnut started.

"No problem, we anger everybody," Tuffnut continued.

"Guys, this is serious, Mildew wants all of our dragons caged. And I don't know about any of you but that is not okay with me," Hiccup said, anger could be seen in her eyes because she didn't want to see any dragon caged especially Toothless.

"You're right. She's sorry," Tuffnut replied, pointing towards his sister, actually feeling sorry.

"Okay then, next problem," Hiccup went into the basket grabbing a piece of bread not noticing Toothless licking his lips. "The dragons are eating everything in sight so when a dragon takes something it's not supposed to have…," Toothless grabs the bread but Hiccup quickly scratches underneath his chin who then let's go of the bread. "You can get them to drop it by giving them a little scratch just below the chin."

"Eh, memememe. Maybe that works for you and Toothless, but Hookfang and me, we do things a little differently," Snotlout says grabbing the bread that Hiccup took from Toothless and throwing it to Hookfang. "When I want this big boy to do something I just get right up to his face and say, DROP THAT RIGHT NOW YOU HEAR ME?" Hookfang replied by grabbing Snotlout upper body with his mouth and then shaking him. Hiccup laughed, enjoying Snotlouts humiliation sometimes knowing Hookfang would never hurt Snotlout.

"See? He dropped it," everyone could hear Snotlout say while still in Hookfangs mouth.

"Should we help him?" Tuffnut asked, while everyone was just staring at Hookfang and Snotlout.

"Yeah, in a minute," Asher said smirking, enjoying the scene too much.

"All right, we've got a lot of training to do. But together, we can keep these dragons under control," Hiccup said getting back to business and grabbing other food items from the basket. All the riders grabbing food as well.

"Uh, can somebody do that chin-scratchy thing? Hello, you guys still there?" Snotlout asked while Hookfang shook him again.

Hiccup felt like today would work out better then yesterday, she could only hope.

….

They started walking around Berk but something wasn't right at all.

"Huh, no dragons," Fishlegs said, knowing something wasn't right.

"That was easy," Ruffnut replied.

"Lunch!?" Snotlout said excitedly.

"That's weird. If the dragons aren't here, where are they," Hiccup asked and then a huge boom was heard and smoke and fire was seen on top of the hill.

"Something tells me that way," Asher replied pointing near the smoke. So, they all ran and heard many Vikings yelling and it led them near the Store House. They were surprised by what they saw.

"Stormfly?" Asher said surprised.

"Hookfang?" Snotlout yelled. Hiccup ran into the Store House that was destroyed which was where all the food was stored for the freeze. She saw her father inside throwing a giant log against the frame of the building.

"They've eaten everything. We've got nothing left for the freeze," Stoick said angrily stomping out of the building who was stopped by Mildew.

"I warned you Stoick. But did you listen to me? No. You put a bunch of teenagers in charge and look at what the dragons have done. Caging is too good for those beasts," Mildew hissed.

"Dad, I swear I can fix this. We were just starting to…" Hiccup started but was stopped by her father.

"Enough, Hiccup. How can I trust you to control all the dragons when you couldn't even control your own?" Stoick said motioning to the side and Hiccup saw Toothless eating out of a basket and then lifted his head up eating a fish.

"Oh Toothless," Hiccup said, not angry at him but knew nothing good would come after today. Hiccup's father went back into the Store Room grabbing baskets that weren't damaged.

"Bucket, Mulch! Man the boats. We need another catch," Stoick shouted.

"It's too late, Stoick, it took us six months for us to catch all the fish!" Mulch replied.

"Don't tell me it's too late, we've got to try," Stoick demanded.

"Of course, we do," Mulch said grabbing Bucket by the beard and whispering in his ear. "Don't tell the chief it's too late, you're always so negative," Mulch said, blaming it on Bucket.

"I don't know what it is with me," Bucket replied. Stoick walked out of the building with the baskets heading down the stairs. Gobber who was assessing the damage in the building walked out with Hiccup who followed her father.

"Dad please! You've got to listen to me! I know dragons better than…" Hiccup tried again but her father interrupted throwing the baskets in a non-destroyed wagon.

"Not know, Hiccup. I have a village to feed and the dragons have done enough damage. By tonight I want every one of them caged. Understand?" Stoick demanded.

"But…" Hiccup tried again but this time Mildew interrupted, standing right next to her, she shuddered smelling his bad breath and body odor.

"Ah, you can't just cage the demons. You need to send them away now," Mildew said, yelling at Stoick, right next to Hiccups ear. The crowd that came all shouted in agreement. Hiccup looked at Mildew in anger. She didn't think she had ever felt so angry at anyone then she did at Mildew.

"You right. Mildew," Stoick said giving up, knowing he had to do what was best for the village. "We'll cage them tonight and in the morning, Hiccup will send them off the island." Stoick looking at his daughter knowing that this would hurt her. Hiccup got away from Mildew walking towards her father but stopped at the end of his sentence when he looked at her. Hiccup knew he felt sorry but didn't know what else to do. Toothless came by and stood next to Hiccup trying to comfort his rider, Hiccup putting her arms around her best friend's neck. Stoick gave a large sigh and then left with Bucket and Mulch going to try and grab any fish that they could for the rest of the day.

….

It was sundown and the Viking teens were in the Great Hall eating dinner. The building was deserted except for them and that worked because they were all very depressed that their dragons would be leaving them tomorrow. Hiccup grabbed herself a small bowl of stew and a piece of bread, and walked towards the table where everyone was sitting at. Hiccup could feel her amputated leg starting to itch and hurt again but she pushed through it, knowing that she would be home soon.

"I can't believe we have to send them away," Snotlout said, throwing his arms out dramatically. Hiccup passed him and sat on the other side of Asher who was barely even eating and just looking at his bowl and stirring the stew.

"It's going to be weird. I got used to Stormfly's face being the first thing I see every morning," Asher replied.

"Every night before I went to sleep, Meatlug would lick my feet. Who's going to do that now," Fishlegs whined.

"I volunteer Tuffnut," Ruffnut trying to anger her brother but also trying to lighten the mood but it didn't work.

"Whatever. What time should I be there?" Tuffnut was very monotoned which was weird for him. Hiccup exhaled loudly not knowing what to do to help everybody. She couldn't think of anything to change this from happening.

"Come on let's just get this over with," Asher said getting up. "Hiccup you going to be okay by yourself?" Hiccup looked up at Asher and put on her best smile.

"Yeah, I'll be okay," Hiccup said going back to her food.

"This is the worst day of my life? We're never going to see our dragons again," Fishlegs whined again while they all left the building. It was quiet until she heard Toothless next to her, looking at her with sad eyes.

"Toothless, I can't let this happen. You're my best friend," Hiccup said, patting him on the head. While she said this, she didn't here someone coming up to her until Toothless growled slightly.

"Oh, Toothless, I'm going to miss you so much," Mildew walked up trying to make a girly voice. "You know what your mistake was girl. Thinking dragons could be trained. A dragon's gonna do what a dragon's gonna do, it's their nature." This caused Hiccup to lower her brows and she get angry while Toothless growled lightly again. Mildew turned around without saying something, "And nature always wins."

The doors opened, two men had opened the door which caused cold wind to come in and blow out the fire in the middle of the Great Hall. It was already dark outside, the sun having already gone down. Toothless turned around and blasted a fire back into the giant round hearth.

"Oh, thank you Toothless," a woman said who just came into the building. Then an idea came to Hiccup's mind.

"You know…Mildew is absolutely right," Hiccup said to herself then looking at Toothless. "Come on, we have to stop them bud before they lock up their dragons," Hiccup said to Toothless. They ran out of the Great Hall and then Hiccup jumped onto Toothless, clicked her prosthetic in, changing gears and they were off towards the Dragon Arena. Hiccup finally made it to the arena when she saw them closing the gate.

"Don't close it," Hiccup shouted, finally landing next to the gate lever, jumping off Toothless and reversing the lever which opened the gate. "We are not locking them up," Hiccup said with strong authority. All of them were holding torches since it was dark outside.

"What happened? Did you change your father's mind?" Asher asked but saw how Hiccup was playing with the tips of her hair. "Or are we going behind your father's back again?" Asher already knew the answer.

"Um, one of those," Hiccup replied hearing Stormfly coming up next to him making his chicken-warble sound and then hearing the other dragons walking closer to him. "Look the dragons are gonna do what there gonna do, it's their nature. We just need to learn how to use it and I have the best idea since forever and we start tomorrow."

….

It was the next morning and the plan was now in action. They flew towards the boats where Bucket and Mulch were at trying to catch fish.

"Okay Snotlout scare us up some dinner," Hiccup shouted.

"I'm on it," Snotlout replied, which then Hookfang dived into the water.

"Dragon attack," Bucket shouted but then Bucket and Mulch were amazed when they noticed fish in their nets, thanks to Hookfang and Snotlout who then went back above the surface.

"Hey thanks dragon," Mulch shouted.

"That's right! That just happened," Snotlout praised himself.

"Come on, follow me. We have a lot more to do," Hiccup said to everyone and their next mission lead them to Mildews hut where Mildew was farming.

"Afternoon Mildew," Asher shouted. Stormfly opened her tail spins, digging a trench in the ground which then Hiccup followed pouring a bucket full of seeds.

"3:00, time for the fertilizer," Hiccup shouted when the dragon herd came in and did their business.

"Smile Mildew, we just saved you three months of work," Hiccup shouted to Mildew, "and now off to get the boars!"

They then flew off to the woods where Tuff and Ruff were rounding up the boars and with a little help with Hiccup and Toothless, were able to lead the boars to the farm house.

"Woohoo that was awesome," Fishlegs excitedly said when both him and Asher landed in from of the farm house.

"How did you know that was going to work," Asher asked Hiccup who landed next to them.

"Because they're dragons and dragons will do what dragons do," she said getting off Toothless. "We just had work with them and not against them. But you know who we should actually be thanking?"

"There they are, Stoick!" Hiccup turned around and saw Mildew and her father. "Those dragons don't look like they're in cages to me," Mildew continued.

"No this is not what I asked for," her father said looking at Hiccup with disappointment.

….

After the confrontation with Mildew and Stoick, the riders were asked to go to the Dragon Ring with their dragons and a huge village meeting would take place there. So, that's what they did. Soon the riders and their dragons were in the ring but the dragons were locked up as ordered from Stoick and the other Vikings were outside the ring looking in. Finally, Stoick and Gobber came into the ring with the gate slowly opening.

"On no, what's he gonna do to us?" Fishlegs squeaked, fidgeting.

"I'm too pretty for jail," Ruffnut exclaimed while Tuffnut snorted in disagreement.

"Where'd you hear that?" Tuffnut replied.

"You all disobeyed my order and there will be consequences," Stoick growled to the group.

"I told you we we're going to get in trouble. You never listen to me, beautiful," Asher mutters at Hiccup, with his arms crossed.

"Dad, if anyone is going to get in trouble, it should be to me," Hiccup began saying, knowing she couldn't let everyone take the blame since it was her plan.

"No, you all had a hand in this," Stoick interrupted, who then paced in front of the group. "You took over this place without asking, you release the dragons against my wishes, things are going to change around here that why…" Gobber got in front of Stoick interrupting him.

"We're getting a dragon training academy!" The villagers gasp and Hiccup's eyes widened who then looked at Asher. Asher dropped his arms and looked down at her, smiling.

"Gobber! I wanted to tell them that!" Stoick retorted, slightly whining if Hiccup did say so herself, who giggled at her father's response.

"Oh, right. Sorry," Gobber exclaimed. "Go ahead."

Stoick sighed heavily. "Well, you already told most of it."

"You can tell then the part about how proud you are of them!" Gobber said.

"Gobber!" Stoick was slightly angry at Gobber.

"Hiccup, well…what he said," Stoick stammered. "You've all made me proud. This dragon training academy is for you." Stoick walked to the lever that was locking the dragon and switched it up which opened the gate and released the dragons. The crowd clapped their hands, happy with the decision that Stoick made, well except one but who really cared.

"Hookfang!"

"Stormfly!"

"My Meatlug, whose daddy's little girl!" Meatlug pushed into Fishlegs.

"Oh Toothless, my bud," Hiccup said running up and hugging him.

"Now all you have to do is train them," Stoick said, standing next to his daughter. Hiccup looked up at her father, so happy, smiling with a twinkle in her green eyes.

"Not a problem, dad. I mean after all I've got Toothless," Hiccup said, until she heard Asher clearing his throat, loudly. Hiccup looked over seeing Asher with his hands on his hips and giving her the evil eye. "Oops, and Asher too…and uh," Hiccup stammered. "Stormfly, Hookfang, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Meatlug, Ruff, Tuff, Barf, and Belch. You know everyone." She then looked at her father, smiling nervously. Stoick just shook his head and grabbed his daughter hugging her tightly.

….

Later that night, Hiccup was sitting at her desk drawing all her friends in a new book she made, it was on the very first page and on the top, it said Book of Dragons owned by the Berk Dragon Academy. She came up with the new Dragon Book a few nights ago. Instead of the old one always saying kill on sight on every page, she created a new book that will have everything about the dragons that were true and now since they have the Dragon Academy it can be used to help train dragons as well. She finally finished the picture and turned the next page and wrote Index.

"Well, this will start looking great. We can use the older book to help fill in the blanks and then whatever we find out we can write it in here," Hiccup said holding up the nice big book filled with many blank pages but hopefully in the future they will be able to fill each one of those pages. She looked at Toothless and smiled.

"Well, I guess we should starts filling a page," Hiccup said flipping through a few pages then writing, 1, and below she wrote Night Fury.

….

In the morning, Hiccup got up changing out of her night clothes that only consisted of loose cotton pants and shirt. She put on her prosthetic, changed into her favorite green pants and shirt and put on her fur vest. She left her hair loose, grabbed a bag, placed the new and old Dragon Book in the bag and raced out of the room followed by Toothless.

"Let's go help out," she said jumping on Toothless and flying into the hair and soon was followed by her friends and together they helped with the village for the freeze.

By the afternoon the chores were done, they landed at the once Dragon Kill Ring and know the Dragon Academy and together they started figuring out what to do with it.

"Hey guys look what I decided to do," Hiccup said going into her bag and taking out the new and old dragon book. "I decided to make a new one where we can write in the information that is right about dragons and how to train them or if they can be trained."

"Wow, that's a good idea. We can take the old information from the old book, like how they look and their abilities and place them in the new book and then add any other characteristics that we find out about them in the new book," Fishlegs exclaimed, overjoyed with the new idea. Fishlegs opened it up and saw the Index and already saw five dragons in it: Night Fury, Deadly Nadder, Gronckle, Monstrous Nightmare, Hideous Zippleback, and Terrible Terror. Opening it to the pages that were filled, it gave the class of the dragon, attributes, fire type, special abilities, weakness, personality, colors, habitat, and if it was trainable. Then the other page had a picture of the dragon and what the eggs looked like.

"Hiccup, this is amazing!" Fishlegs exclaimed. "And we still have added space on this dragon, just incase if we find out more about them. Oh, my Thor!"

"I know but I didn't add other dragons in their because we still don't know much about them yet. So, until we look at them up close we will use what we know in the old book and see if it's true about their nature. If it is, then we will add them to our new book," Hiccup said. "I'm so excited."

"Me too," Fishlegs said, both slowly jumping up and down.

"Uh, nerd alert," Snotlout said to the other.

"Really? Why don't they get married?" Tuffnut said, who was then elbowed by Asher.

"Okay, know what will we do about the Berk Dragon Academy," Asher asked trying to get his crush and Fishlegs focused at the task at hand. Hiccup looked over and started thinking.

"Well, I decided to call it the Berk Dragon Academy or Berk Dragon Training Academy," Hiccup said and I've already created something. C'mon let's go to the blacksmith," Hiccup said jumping on Toothless and headed over with the others following.

When they landed Hiccup headed to the blacksmith and there was something covered in a tarp. Hiccup ran over and uncovered it. It was a wooden round piece with a Night Fury, which was Toothless if the red on the left tail fin was of any indication, with the words Berk Dragon Academy on it and that was just the start. They were able to hang it in the front of the Dragon Ring and marvel at the new addition.

"Berk Dragon Academy. I like the sound of that," Asher stated nudging Hiccup with his shoulder. Hiccup smiled.

"Yeah, me too," Hiccup responded.

Dragon can't change who they are. But who would want them to? Dragons are powerful amazing creatures. And as long as it takes me, I am going to learn everything that there is to know about them. Wouldn't you?

Authors Note:

I don't own any How to Train Your Dragon material.

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