the secret island

chapter 1: the beginning

Our story, which I want to tell you now, actually didn't start here. It didn't start when my brother was 22 and chief, it didn't start when we saw the 20-year-old hiccup. It started back then when nobody would have thought we would one day live peacefully with the dragons. When everybody was against one enemy. The dragons.

We go back 6 years ago. A few ships are on their way to visit old friends. The chief is standing on the top and looking ahead, looking forward to see his old friend again. Stoick and he go way back when they were younger. He suddenly felt someone jumping on his back. "father, are we there soon? I want arrive already.", the man looked at his 10-year old daughter with a smile. Her slightly curly copper hair didn't even reach her shoulders yet and her chocolate brown orbs stared into the sea.

"soon, Freya. Just a little bit more. Patience is something you still have to learn.", "I hardly doubt she will ever learn it, not with her temper.", said a male voice. They both looked at the young boy who joined the two accompanied by a woman. The woman chuckled at his comment but Freya just huffed and jumped down from her father's back and tried to hit her brother. Because of him being already 16 and therefor taller and stronger than her, he was able to dodge her attack with ease. His hair was a dark brown and his dark green eyes came from his mother. Despite the siblings often hitting each other and fighting a lot, they share a close bond.

After one more hour Berk was in sight and soon after they arrived. Berk and Hembränt go hundreds of years back. They are strong allies against the dragons and it happens once a year that one visits the other. The people descend from the ship and Stoick comes and greets his old friend Egil and his wife Berit. Behind the chief of Berk follows his son Hiccup. Who actually immediately joins the two other children on the side. Hiccup and Mar, whose name is actually Mari but nobody calls him that except his sister, have been good friends from the beginning and have been even as close as brothers at one point. Hiccup who is 14 at that point, gets along well with the two and is liked extremely by Freya.

The two clans walk up the way to the village and soon the adults leave the children alone to discuss the adult stuff. Before mar would be able to argue about the fact to stay outside too, he caught his parents' look and decided to leave it. He doesn't mind being with his sister and hiccup, not at all, but he's 16, he isn't a child anymore in his eyes, so it does annoy him. The two boys were already on the way to the hut when Freya said she would come later because she wants to see the island a bit. After agreeing in staying inside the village and not leaving it or to go in the forest, they let her go off.

After strolling around a bit she ran into a small group of other children who have to be around Hiccup's age. The group soon noticed the girl and began to talk to her, they asked a lot of questions after they had seen the emblem of her clan. Over an hour she stayed with them but then she said goodbye. The group didn't know about there being a daughter, they knew Mar and on this visit they started to like Freya a lot. Especially Astrid who found out about her being very similar to her and started to have a soft spot for the daughter of Egil and Berit.

When they left the whole village had met Mar and Freya for sure and they sure wouldn't be forgotten soon. The chiefs had already set a date for the next visit and were looking forward to keep being allies in the war against the creatures. The dragons. The dragons are causing a lot of damage everywhere and have to be slaughtered for the sake of survival and safety. That's how every clan lived in that time and more and more sailors would be victims to dragon attacks on the sea, so everybody tried to be careful on long travels.

As the family was on the way back to their own island they were already looking forward to next time. Mar and Freya were hoping it wouldn't be too long. But how wrong they were.

Because just a few months later as they were onthe sea on a trip with their clan which was a common tradition at hembränt,they suddenly spotted them. "dragons!!!"