1 The Warrior

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PROLOGUE BY HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK III Courage. You, dear reader, will need courage to read on. This is NOT the last of my memoirs. But the story has become darker now, so dark that I need all my courage just to write it. I am looking back to that time when I was fourteen years old and an Outcast. The Red-Rage had taken over all the dragons in the land and the Dragon Rebellion had begun. The Great War between humans and dragons had started. The Vikings were being led by that dreadful villain, Alvin the Treacherous, guided by his even-more-dreadful mother, the Witch Excellinor. The Dragon Furious was in charge of the dragon forces, and his aim was nothing less than the extinction of the entire Viking race. And the Dragon Furious was winning. The Vikings' only hope was for a new King to be crowned King of the Wilderwest. A King who, according to ancient prophecy, would have all ten of the King's Lost Things.

Nine of the Lost Things had been found. Only the Dragon Jewel, the most important, remained Lost. The Dragon Jewel had the power to destroy dragons for ever… it was the only thing the Dragon Furious was afraid of. Alvin the Treacherous had eight of the Lost Things. I, Hiccup the Outcast, had only one: my little hunting-dragon called Toothless. But I also had Grimbeard the Ghastly's map that showed the way to where the Jewel was hidden. And so I, 'Enemy Traitor Number One', was being hunted through the Archipelago, by both humans and dragons alike. A proclamation calling for my death hung on hundreds of burnt-out tree trunks. My fourteen-year-old self was all alone apart from three dragon companions. My Tribe had been driven out of their home on Berk by the Dragon Rebellion. My father Stoick and my friend Fishlegs had been turned into slaves and sent to the Amber Slavelands.

You see why I call these my darkest times? I had to have hope that things would turn out well in the end, that the small things and the happiness of peacetime would return. I had to remember this through the teeth and fire and talons. I had to have Courage.

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THE PROPHECY OF THE KING'S LOST THINGS The Dragontime is coming And only a King can save you now. The King shall be the Champion of Champions. You shall know the King By the King's Lost Things. A fang-free dragon, my second-best sword, My Roman shield, An arrow-from-the-land-that-does-not-exist, The heart's stone, the key-that-opens-all-locks, The ticking-thing, the Throne, the Crown. And last and best of all the ten, The Dragon Jewel shall save all men.