Several months had passed since the dragons departed and as predicted there had been no more sightings of any Dragon Trappers. In that time the Berkians had finally finished building their village on New Berk.

Despite the fact that the dragons were now gone, they kept the dragon motif so they would still be part of their lives in spirit. Hiccup had managed to design a pulley system that would allow them to lower their boats from the top of the cliff to the sea below.

Every single house had dragon figurehead on its roof and most were actually built into the trees and there were no longer as cramped as they were on Berk. The design was almost identical to that of Dragon's Edge with roadways and gang planks connecting every single part of the village.

They had created their own Great Hall, which was now a wooden building that overlooked the entire village. In the Plaza they had also erected a statue of Stoick and at its base they had engravings of the acknowledgements of the Dragon Riders, one such image showed Hiccup holding his hand to Toothless.

It was now winter on New Berk in the entire village appeared to be deserted, but in fact they had all gathered around in the Plaza, because today was a momentous occasion. Hiccup and Astrid were finally going to be married and the entire village had gathered around not wanting to miss it.

Both of them were standing in front of Stoick's statue and Gothi was overseen the ceremony. Astrid's parents and Valka was standing there overjoyed with the union. Ragnar was serving as best man standing beside Hiccup and Heather was Astrid's bridesmaid. Gobber was also standing there as he was the closest thing Hiccup had to father.

The Dragon Riders were standing in front of the crowd along with Alvin, Dagur, Mala and Atali and all of them were being quiet.

Both Hiccup and Astrid were wearing white formal outfits, Hiccup had a brown fur cape hanging from his shoulders with golden brooches that resembled a Night Fury and had green leaf crown on his head. Astrid herself was wearing a white fur cape with golden brooches resembling that of a Deadly Nadder, she had her hair rolling down to the small her back and she was wearing a crown of white leaves.

Hiccup then extended his hands towards Astrid and she smiled at him before grasping them. Gothi then placed a white sash over their hands and Gobber was bursting into tears, wiping his tears with his prosthetic which was holding a bouquet of flowers.

Gothi then raised her staff and the form some movements signifying the union.

"She just proclaimed you husband and wife," said Ragnar and smiled at Hiccup. "You may kiss the bride."

Hiccup and Astrid then leaned in towards one another and kissed and instinctively Hiccup's placed a hand over her cheek.

"For the Chief and Chieftess!" Spitelout cried.

Everyone then erupted into cheers and Gobber was so excited that when he jumped into the air his prosthetic arm came off and Eret caught it. Snotlout was practically in tears and Tuffnut placed a hand on his back.

"Come, cry into my full thick beard," he said pulling Snotlout into his beard, knocking his helmet off and patting him on the head gently.

"It was so beautiful!" Fishlegs cried.

"Gross," said Ruffnut. Then Fishlegs hugged her and cried on her shoulder and she couldn't help but hug him back. "Okay, you win. I like sensitive guys."

Hiccup and Astrid then turned towards the crowd as they cheered the newly married couple with every fibre of their being.

Later both Hiccup and Astrid stood upon the cliff where they said goodbye to their dragons and they were soon joined by the Dragon Riders and their allies. The two of them were holding hands and Astrid then rested her head on her husband's shoulder they continue to look out towards the horizon.

Nine years later, Hiccup and Astrid were in a boat drifting out to sea and within those nine years the two of them had two children. They oldest daughter was Zephyr, who had her mother's eyes and her father's hair and shared quite a few characteristics with her father. Their youngest son was Nuffink, who had his father's eyes and his mother's hair and quite a bit of her personality.

Hiccup had now grown they fall thick beard and he was wearing his chieftain belt around his waist and a fur cape over his shoulders. Astrid now two braids that ran down her white fur cape. They had taken their children on a little expedition which they had wanted to do when the children were old enough.

'There were dragons when I was a boy,' said Hiccup. 'Oh there were great big sky dragons that nested on the cliff tops like big gigantic scary birds. Little brown scuttling dragons that hunted down the mice and rats. Preposterous huge sea dragons that were twenty times as big as the great blue whale. Some say they crawled back into the sea leaving not a bone or fang to remember them by. Others say they were nothing but folktales to begin with and I'm okay with that.'

Nuffink was sitting in his father's arms, wiping his money knows and watched as his father was sailing the ship. Then he helped his father to drop anchor as they had finally reached the destination.

Zephyr on the other hand was helping their mother to pull the sails down and then leaned over the side to look at their destination. Hiccup then handed Nuffink to Astrid and then leaned over the side of the ship staring out into the horizon.

In the horizon they were at the gateway to the Hidden World and they had anchored off just beyond the horizon of the waterfall. Hiccup was looking through the massed steam coming from the great waterfall and saw several figures emerging from out of the steam.

His eyes widened when he recognised the figure to be Toothless and next to him was the Light Fury. Then they saw three baby dragons with some mixed scales, two of them were basically black but had white highlights while the other was white with black highlights, but other than that they resemble their parents.

Hiccup was overjoyed to see his old friend again and then watched as Toothless launched himself into the sky and landed on the bow of the boat. There had been a little bit of concern whether Toothless would recognise them, it had after all been nine years.

"Hey… hey there bud," said Hiccup gently. He then watched as Toothless load himself onto the boat itself and looked at Hiccup with his eyes at slits. "Remember me?"

Both Zephyr and Nuffink were terrified and they were hiding behind their mother, who shielded them in case the worst happened.

"It's okay," she said gently trying to reassure them.

Hiccup then raised his hand and looked away at Toothless. Toothless then snipped the men recognise the scent and his eyes were filled with joy. A split second later he pounced on Hiccup and began to play with him.

Astrid laughed as Toothless began bouncing around the ship excitedly.

"Hey, I'm glad to see you too," Hiccup laughed as he picked himself up only to be knocked to the ground again by an excited Toothless.

"He's not going to eat your father," Astrid smiled at the two children.

Toothless then began to nuzzle and lick Hiccup repeatedly.

"How to tell holding up?" Hiccup laughed. "It could use some oil and a little fine tuning."

"Look… it's okay their friends," Astrid smiled.

Hiccup laughed and then Toothless gave him one last lick before he turned curiously towards Zephyr and Nuffink.

"Here," said Hiccup holding his hand out to them.

Both Zephyr and Nuffink were still terrified of Toothless, understandable considering that he was the first dragon they had ever witnessed. Nuffink was so scared that he was hiding behind his mother's cape.

"It's all right," Astrid assured them gently pushing them towards their father.

"Come, he won't hurt you," said Hiccup gently. The two young Viking's then approached their father nervously and he then raised their hands up. "Hold your hands up, like this. That's it."

Nuffink placed a hand over his eyes and Zephyr looked petrified. Toothless just litter the two young children curiously.

"Let him come to you," Hiccup instructed.

The two of them closed their eyes tight has Toothless placed his snout in their palms and purred gently. He then opened their eyes and instead of fear they were now for wonder.

If meeting at dragon was not enough for the two young Vikings, they were now having the experience of flying on their backs. Nuffink was riding with his father as they flew through the clouds.

Hiccup had missed this feeling and now he was sharing it with his son and as they flew he threw him up and down, much to his excitement. They then flew down through one of the clouds and seconds later flying by their side was the Light Fury and their children, which they had nicknamed Night-Lights.

One of the Night-Light then fired a plasma blast and disappeared briefly. Then all three of them flew up towards their father and white scaled one got close enough for Nuffink to touch.

Then suddenly shooting overhead was Astrid on the back of Stormfly with Zephyr with her. Hiccup smiled and patted Toothless side telling him to go after them which he excitedly did. They then flew upside down Astrid and Hiccup dropped off Nuffink who grasped his mother's shoulders. They then flew around them and Hiccup extended his hand to Zephyr, who excitedly stood up and grasped her father's hand and then jumped onto Toothless.

With that they flew up into the sky and perform some synchronised flying, Hiccup and Astrid may not have been riding on dragons for nine years but it was like riding on the back of a baby yak. And then they flew up towards the sun with the Light Fury and Night-Lights right behind them.

'Legend says that when the ground quakes, or lava spews from the earth it's the dragons letting us know that their still here waiting for us figure out how to get along. Yes, the world believe the dragons are gone if they ever existed at all… but we Berkians, we know otherwise. And we will guard the secret until the time comes when dragons can return in peace.'

And that is the end of the tale, at least for now, because even though I can see into the future it still is a mystery to me. I'm leaving these books behind so that you can understand why the dragons left and hope you dear reader can find a way to bring peace to humans and dragons.

I have left many clues within these pages for you to find us, but be warned if you only one the dragons for your own selfish ends then then you will meet your ends like so many others. Learn from our mistakes and try and build a better world to not only us humans, but the dragons that live below the earth.

Ragnar then placed his quill down and felt a pair of arms wrapping around his neck. He looked up and smiled to see his wife, Heather, looking down at him. He had had a long and enjoyable life and he wouldn't trade it for anything, though he wished that they could have found a way for the dragons to stay in the human world. However, that job was left of the future generation, he had done his job and now was time for the young to take up the mantle to become Dragon Riders themselves.