The married couple was gone for the week of celebrations, spending that time in the cove, their dragons finding them the following day and joining them. When they came back, there was no resistance to Mia taking her place as the wife of the chief, if Hiccup was unavailable her decision was used as though coming from the chief. A surprise was waiting for them when they walked back into their home though.

In the week they were in the cove, Valka had arranged for a small house of her own to be built further down the hill, near to Gobber's home. She had hinted that they would need the room for their budding family and she was doing it from her heart. The couple had been sad to see her move but grateful that they wouldn't have to be quiet too much, taking the enclosed room and warding it so Mini wasn't traumatised.

2 months after their wedding, Mia was throwing her guts up between her duties as Astrid's attendant for her wedding to Eret. She kept passing it off as a bad meal so to not take the light off of her friend's special day, though the women knew it was definitely not that. Hiccup already knew, she'd known for a month and had told him the instant it was confirmed, but was keeping silent as Eret and Astrid had told everyone they were to be wed the day after.

It was the middle of an awful snow storm that Mia gave birth to her first child, a son with bright red hair. Astrid, who was showing her own pregnancy, and Valka were the ones to assist her in the birth, Hiccup sitting by her head. After he was placed on her chest and he began to feed, Mia looked to her husband and softly said, "I think I have the perfect name for him."

"And what would that be my love?"

"Stoick"

Hiccup shone as he nodded, a tear in his eye, "I think that is perfect."

Stoick was joined in his birthday by Mist and Toothless' son and daughter, the eggs were sitting atop the tallest mountain of Berk until they began to hatch, at which time their parents carefully carried them the long walk down to the house. The daughter was hatched first, her dark red scales shimmering in the fire light, her baby brother coming about an hour later, his scales deep gold. Mia had just tiredly laughed as she fell asleep, Stoick already showing the family talent as his blue hair rest against his mother's breast.

Over the years Berk exploded in size, in both humans and dragons alike. Mini had taken Griffin as her dragon, he was fit with his first saddle 6 months after he hatched, his sister Rose being trained by the young girl also but so that she would one day carry Stoick. When she was 7, the girl declared to everyone that she wanted to be called Hermione Haddock, not that anyone minded. And by the time she was 17, Hermione had 10 siblings that she loved to death, and Griffin had 4 sisters.

Mia had been expecting it for a few years, Hiccup too. One day she had been reading one of her books, a habit that none of the others in Berk understood but didn't worry about, when she noticed a drawing. It was of Godric Gryffindor and his wife, the couple who were Harry's ancestors on the Potter line. She had never seen a picture of the woman, she had been described as a metamorph so no one really knew what she looked like, and she had never been named. But Mia's heart had slammed into her chest when she saw the drawing, it was of her child.

Instantly she had told Hiccup what was going to come, they had celebrated in knowing that their first child would be loved by a strong and brave man, a good man, who would cherish the ground she walked on. So when Hermione had come to say she wanted to travel, explore, her parents had been very happy for her and just told her to remember her family.

Stoick married Astrid's first born Hilda and started the new generation quickly. The other children married those from Berk, a number of them were Eret and Astrid's children, soon people were moving to the outlying islands as they were outgrowing Berk. With the dragons though, families weren't too far away, and the dragons were flying at all hours.

Hermione and Godric came 5 years after the young woman had left, they were wed on Berk, most of the people flying above the couple to leave the ground for the large Haddock family. Mia didn't let her daughter forge a sword for her intended, she instead handed her over the sword that the Sorting Hat had given her all those years earlier, knowing that that is what was meant to happen. Godric also bonded with the 5 year old Night Fury, Raven, who had finished her growing.

Valka passed on after watching her first grandchild marry, the new couple staying in Berk after seeing how weak the woman was. Cloudjumper had been the one to alert everyone when she did pass on, the old Stormcutter letting loose a stream of fire before collapsing and crawling in to curl around his best friend. By the time Hiccup and Mia had raced into the house, both of them had passed onto the other side.

While Mia had cleaned and dressed her mother-in-law into her finest clothes, the men had taken Cloudjumper from the house to the large barge that they had gotten ready since noticing Valka was ill. They were able to make the ships easily now, having lost Gobber and Grump the previous year, Gothi and her eldest Terror Firebird the year before that. Cloudjumper was placed around the raised platform that would hold Valka. Coming down the steps to the ship was Mia carrying the woman she had looked up to for years, her descendants following them.

With tears in her eyes, Mia had tenderly lay the woman down, conjuring a rose that joined Stoick's battle-axe on Valka's chest and body. Wrapping her arms around her love's shoulders, they walked off of the ship.

Eret set it to sail while Astrid lit the bonfire, joining the line of people with bow and arrow. Hiccup and Mia shot their arrows off together, followed by their eldest 4 children, and the rest of Berk. The celebrations went on for weeks, everyone wanting to make sure that those who had left them were having a wonderful time in the afterlife.

Fireballs were bursting in the sky above them, singing and instruments were going strong from the hall, but Mia wasn't there. She was floating two large tankards of ale behind her as she walked to a large tree nearby her home. Quickly changing over the attachment for her latest leg, the witch climbed up the trunk, the drinks safe, and breeched the other treetops, finding her love sitting on the platform they had built a year after their wedding, "Hello stranger."

"My love," Hiccup said with a sad smile, helping her to sit beside him, taking their drinks.

Mia looked over the man she had married 20 years earlier. His hair had grown substantially, he had long braids now that had been tugging toys for numerous children and now their grandchildren. His attempts to grow a beard had been given up years ago, he would never have the bushy beard that his father was known for, but he did have a rather long goatee that was also braided. The one thing that hadn't changed in all those years was his passion for inventing, for trying to better his people's lives.

"She is back with the love of her life," she rest her head against his, "Watching over us all."

Hiccup just nodded, drinking and looking over the lands that he was the protector of. After the fireballs stopped, he kissed her tenderly, "I'm so lucky to have you."

"We're both incredibly lucky. 20 years and we have 11 children, 2 grandchildren, 8 dragons, and a legacy that will live on for many centuries to come," Mia sighed in pleasure, "And we are as much in love with each other as the day we married."

"As we will until the day we too pass onto the other side and see our families once more," he pulled her into his lap and grinned, "We've not done this in a while."

"That's because we almost fell last time," the people below who were heading back to their homes heard the laughter coming over the air and just shook their heads, Berk was the land of dragons but it was also the land where love always came first.