A.I.: Re-Genesis

Part 3

Chapter 2

That night the twins had been playing Jenga, a game they rediscovered a few years back, in the cafeteria. A lot of Berkians were there drinking mead or eating mutton. It was a jolly affair until Ruffnut screamed: "WHAT IN THOR'S NAME TUFFNUT!"

Heads turned towards where the twins were seated to see what was going on. Ruffnut smacked her brother on his head and Tuffnut called out "But the goal of the game is not to make the blocks fall!"

"That doesn't mean you get to glue the blocks together!" Ruffnut shouted, "Where did you even hide the glue you mutton-head?!" before grabbing Tuffnut by his clothes and trying to take them off.

"Hey, that tickles!" Tuffnut shouted. The Berkians who had been watching turned back to their meal. It was a common occurrence after all.

"Shouldn't you stop them?" Hiccup asked. He and Fishlegs had gotten some corncobs and when they turned Ruffnut and Tuffnut were fighting on the floor.

"Uhm...... why?" Fishlegs asked.

"Because she's your girlfriend," Hiccup raised a brow.

"And that's exactly why I'm staying out of it," Fishlegs stated as they continued to watch the brawl. "Remember when Snotlout got in-between one of their fights?" Hiccup shuddered at that question. Of course he remembered, who in Berk wouldn't. That was also the reason people didn't leave the twins alone with salt anymore.

"Ah there ya are Hiccup," Gobber said from behind Hiccup as he gave his godson a near heart attack.

"Gobber don't do that!" Hiccup exclaimed as he turned around.

"Chief wants to see you. Toothless and Astrid are already in his office." Gobber informed them as he stole a corncob from Hiccup's plate.

"Whaa!" Hiccup exclaimed as his godfather hobbled away with the corncob. Gobber had become infatuated with the plant ever since they managed to grow it around two years back. Back then there was a dispute between the Berkians about the plant that even Fishlegs couldn't settle. Everyone was happy when they had a new food staple but then the question began, where do they sort this food? With the vegetables, grains or fruits. It was such a mundane question yet no one knew how to answer it. Heavy debate broke out to which storage warehouse the corn should go to until Astrid settled it for them. Though she was brandishing an axe at the time.

Hiccup still recalled Astrid's words as she told them to just file it in with the miscellaneous food since it was a vegetable, grain, and fruit at the same time. Her statement caused an uproar within the debating factions and Astrid was asked to elaborate. It was a vegetable because it was harvested for eating, a grain because it is a dry seed belonging to the grass species and a fruit because that was the botanical definition.

Hiccup thought about this as he made his way to his father's office. He knocked on the door once before entering. When he stepped inside his eyes widened as he saw Toothless struggling as he was held under someone's arm while having his hair ruffled. "Stormfly!" Hiccup exclaimed as he recognized Toothless' cousin. "You're back!"

"Hiccy!" Stormfly shouted as she unceremoniously dropped Toothless onto the floor before grabbing Hiccup and giving him a strong hug. Stormfly had blonde hair that was styled into a pixie cut and she wore self-crafted blue armor with some spikes here and there. Those same spikes were now digging into various parts of Hiccup as he was hugged.

"Stormfly could you maybe not cause my boyfriend to bleed out on the floor?" Astrid asked with an amused smile. Stormfly let go and looked sheepish for a moment before she said "I got a surprise!"

"Please tell me you aren't raising scorpions again," Toothless uttered while he picked himself off the floor.

"Noooo....." Stormfly said as she glared at Toothless. "Some old friends of you guys came back with me,"

"Old friends?" Hiccup blinked as he stared at Stormfly with a confused look. His eyes widened when Stoick came out of the adjoining room followed by Ingvar and Taavi. The Chief of the Northlander tribe and his son greeted everyone. Taavi, ten-year-old that he now seemed to be, tackled Hiccup in a hug.

"Big bro!" Taavi was quite enthusiastic as he hugged Hiccup.

"Hey, don't I get some love too?" Toothless pouted.

"Don't get your undies in a bunch old man!" Taavi teased and then laughed at Toothless' dumbfounded look.

"Hey wait, I'm not an old man!" Toothless defended.

"Could have fooled me," Stormfly snorted which earned her another glare.

"You guys, what are you doing here so early? I thought you were going to arrive in two days with the other delegations." Hiccup questioned.

"We decided to hitch a ride with Stormfly and the others. Taavi couldn't keep sitting still when he heard we were going to visit." Ingvar laughed.

"Hiccup! Hiccup! You know what Stormfly said on the way here?!" Taavi exclaimed and just as he was about to blurt it out a hand covered his mouth.

"It was nothing important!" Stormfly quickly said as Taavi caught on and also nodded. "I'll just go show Taavi around while you all talk." She then added and practically dragged the boy out of the room.

"That didn't seem suspicious at all," Toothless said sarcastically.

"Yes well, everyone. The reason I called you all here is because Stormfly got confirmation on which tribes are coming in a few days time." Stoick explained as he handed Hiccup the list. Toothless and Astrid read over Hiccup's shoulder and their eyes widened.

"The Bog-Burglars, The Peaceable tribe,....." Hiccup read some aloud and then his eyes widened. "This can't be right, right?!"

"Aye" Stoick told the group.

"The Berserkers, Outcasts, Lava-louts, and Murderous tribes are all sending delegations." Hiccup looked at the list. "It's going to be a bloodbath!"

"For who? Us or them?" Astrid questioned.

"Sure tensions are going to be high during these talks but I doubt it isn't anything we can't handle," Stoick stated.

"Dad, have you forgotten, we are talking about Dagur, Alvin, Hotshot and Madguts in one room." Hiccup exclaimed. "Remember Dagur wants to kill Hotshot because he tried to take his sister as a slave years ago, Alvin has it out for Madguts because he burned down three of their bases, Hotshot has a beef with Alvin because he left him naked in the desert and Madguts is trigger-happy overall."

"If they end up taking each other out it will be less for us to worry about though," Toothless shrugged "Who else is coming?"

"Uh...... The Feather people, The Defenders, The Uruz......." Hiccup read further.

"The Uruz Chieftain I know personally," Ingvar mentioned. "Goodnatured fellow."

"I still think we should be careful with some of these deligations." Hiccup mumbled.

"While we are inviting these people in under the assumption of peaceful talks I will issue each Berkian a stun gun," Stoick stated. "If a conflict can be avoided then everything will be fine. If not then you all have permission to taser the hell out of them."

"YES!" Astrid exclaimed and the group looked at her.

"Madguts isn't the only one who is trigger-happy," Toothless mumbled but it was still heard and he received a punch to the arm from Astrid.