Okay here's the deal. Everyone loves to write watching the movie fanfics. But most of them are very unrealistic and everyone is out of character and coming from weird points in the time line... it always bothers me, so I decided to write my own. This is just going to be a simple way for the six dragon riders to reflect on Hiccup's story. They are watching HTTYD 1 a little while after the events of the first movie, so their reactions can be genuine and appreciative, and they can learn first hand exactly what happened when they weren't looking.

Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon, everything in bold is from the movie/movie script and belongs to Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders.

Prologue:

The six young dragon riders were chilling at the dragon academy with their dragons, having just finished one of Hiccup's dragon training lessons. It had only been about a month since the dragons had all moved in, and things were still pretty chaotic in the village.

"I just had an idea," Tuff announced. He was laying on the ground next to Belch, his sister annoyingly poking him in the stomach. "Wouldn't it be cool if we could look into a magic portal and see our past?"

Everyone turned to look at him skeptically.

"Yeah," Ruff agreed. "We could watch that time I tricked you into dunking your head into a bucket of yak piss when we were four!"

"We could watch the day I wrestled a bear and became an official Jorgenson," Snotlout suggested, flexing his muscles.

"In order to see our past, we would have to be able to time travel," Fishlegs said anxiously. "And if we time travelled, we could accidentally change something in our past, and that could completely change our present, and that could completely change our future, and – "

"That's completely impossible guys," Astrid rolled her eyes.

"Actually," Tuff continued, "I was thinking it would be awesome if we could all watch how Hiccup trained Toothless without anyone knowing for weeks," he emphasized. Everyone looked at Hiccup, who just shrugged.

"You guys were busy training to fight dragons," Hiccup said as Toothless nudged his hand asking for a head rub. "No one ever paid me much attention anyway, so it really wasn't that hard to keep it a secret."

"Except that you kept mysteriously beating everyone in the training arena, even though you can barely lift an axe," Astrid punched him teasingly on the shoulder.

Hiccup winced. "Yeah I knew you were getting suspicious," he said.

"I guess it would have been pretty cool to witness the first dragon trainer of Berk learn how to train dragons," Astrid admitted. "It's too bad we missed it."

"What if I told you you still could?" A dark-haired girl approached the group from behind them, who looked about the same age as the teens.

"Who are you?" Hiccup asked the girl.

"My name is Rachel," she said. "I am visiting Berk for only a short time. I come from a distant village called San Francisco."

"I've never heard of that tribe," Astrid said.

"Wait," Tuff said. "Did you say that we could see into our past through a magic portal?" He asked excitedly.

The girl nodded, in all seriousness. "If you would like, I can show you moving pictures of exactly what occurred in Hiccup's life in these past few months."

Everyone stared at Rachel. "Cool!" Ruff and Tuff exclaimed simultaneously. "I am in!" Tuff added. "Let's do it!"

Astrid crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "You can't be serious," she said.

"I promise you, I am," the girl replied. "I can prove it." Rachel snapped her fingers, and suddenly the group was no longer in the dragon training academy, but in a dark room. They all sat in strange cushy chairs, and in front of them was a large white rectangle on the wall. Astrid screamed.

"Oh my gods what is happening!" She screeched.

She wasn't the only one who had screamed though. Snotlout was still screaming like a girl and looked like he was going to hyperventilate.

"This is impossible," Hiccup said in awe.

"It's incredible!" Fishlegs agreed with a big smile on his face.

"That. Was. Awesome!" Tuff pumped his fists in the air. "We just teleported!"

The dragons had all been teleported as well, each sitting on the floor behind their riders. Toothless lay at the end of the row next to Hiccup's chair. They all looked very alarmed.

Rachel stood in front of them, and walked over to the white rectangle. "You asked to see Hiccup's past," she said, touching something on the wall, "And that is exactly what I am going to show you."

A/N: The movie watching will begin in the next chapter!