how to train your dragon · vikings · dragon riders · fantasy · adventure · ensemble cast · friendship · action · medieval setting · non-verbal dragons
Three years have passed since the flames of the Berserker War died down. In the cold, wet dark of Outcast Island's prison, I—Dagur the Deranged—wait. Another prisoner eyes the cloth-wrapped lump I call my meal. His jealousy curdles into violence; he lunges. My fist meets his jaw with a crack. The 'food' falls open, revealing not bread but cold, hard iron: a key. The corridors erupt. Guards come at me, and I fight with a brutality honed over three long years of plotting. I find the guard who smuggled me the key, the traitor. I drive my knuckles into his gut. 'I hate a turncoat,' I spit, before taking my freedom and vanishing into the mist. My vengeance has a name: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. On Berk, the day dawns grey and routine. Hiccup and Toothless slice through the low clouds,…