. . . . . . . "Hiccup (v.o.): This is Berk. For generations, it was Viking against dragon. The battles were ferocious... then one day, everything changed. Hiccup (v.o.): I met Toothless, and together we've shown people here that instead of fighting dragons, we can ride them... live with them, even train them. Hiccup: Okay, guys. Best Trick Competition. Who's up first? Fishlegs: Uh... Snotlout: Me! Fishlegs: Actually, I think it's-- Snotlout: Me! Astrid: Sweet baby Thor in a thunderstorm, GO! Snotlout: Oh, don't worry, we'll go. And when we go, Hookfang and I are gonna light the sky on-- Snotlout: -FIRE!!!!! Oh, no! Snotlout: I'm alive...? I'm alive! Snotlout: Of course I am. Fishlegs: It's my turn! Ready, Meatlug? Here we go! Fishlegs: Yes! New personal best! Ruffnut: My turn! Tuffnut: No, my turn! Hiccup: Guys, same dragon. Tuffnut: Oh, right. Tuffnut: Go left! Ruffnut: No, right! Tuffnut: N-no, right! Ruffnut: No, left! Tuffnut: OH, NO! WHOA! THIS IS AWESOME AND SCARY! AAAH! Ruffnut: We almost died! Tuffnut Yeah, I know... go again?! Astrid Hey! It's my turn! You might wanna take notes. Let's go! Yah! Astrid Okay, Stormfly, tail flip! Astrid Now twirl! Astrid Quick, upwards spiral! Astrid Alright, Stormfly! Snotlout Yeah, but can you do it without the dragon? Snotlout Ow! Hiccup Looks like we've got our work cut out for us there, bud. Astrid They're still the best. Hiccup Another win. Good job, bud. Hiccup (v.o.) Yep, dragons. Most people on Berk would say life here is better since we made peace with them. Unfortunately, dragons are still, well, dragons. Viking Woman #1 Bad dragon! Let go of my food! Drop it, pesky dragon! Dragons! Viking Man #1 Get off my roof, you pest! Viking Man #2 Let go of that! These are my apples! Viking Woman #2 Give me back my dainties, dragon! Viking Man #3 Incoming! Viking Man #4 Look out! Viking Man #3 Dragon poo! Hiccup Ew, gross, gross, gross, gross! Oh, poop! Oh, that's disgusting! Hiccup Hey, Mulch. Hey, Bucket. Sorry about the, uh-- Bucket Every day at three. They're regular at least. A tip of the cap. Mulch Better than the days when it was \"kill or be killed\". Hey, we've got some fish for that father of yours. Bucket, give the boy the cod. Bucket I ate it already? Did I enjoy it? Hiccup Um, no, uh, actually, Bucket, I-I'm afraid the, uh-- Hiccup (v.o) Most of us here on Berk are willing to take the good with the bad. But there are those who will never accept the dragons and will do anything to drive them away. Mildew Dragons. I should've known. Mildew Helps himself to my roof and my cabbage. Mildew My whole field! Gone! That tears it, Fungus. Stoick Stand the elk up in the back. The fishing boats just came in with a big catch. Mildew Stoick! Gobber Ah, here's Mildew with the complaint of the day. Stoick You picked a bad time, Mildew. I'm in the middle of storing food. The freeze is coming. Mildew It's the dragons again. Those demons are not fit to live among civilized men. Gobber Neither are you, Mildew. Why do you think we built your house so far outside of town? Mildew Ah, very well, make your jokes. Meanwhile these dragons upend our village carts! Turn people's houses into piles of rubble! Viking Man #4 Mildew's right! Mildew They even disturb an old man's rest! Can't you see these bags under me eyes? Viking Man #5 Go on, Mildew! Gobber He's right, he's hideous. Mildew These are wild and unpredictable beasts! Viking Man #6 Right you are! Mildew They even cracked this man's skull! Like an egg. Bucket Eggs? I like eggs! Scrambled! Over easy! Poached! Mildew You need to put those dragons in cages! Viking Man #7 I agree! Mildew If you don't, they'll eat us out of house and home and destroy the entire village! Hiccup They don't mean any harm. They're just dragons being dragons. Stoick Look, Mildew, if there's a problem I'll deal with it. Mildew Oh, there is a problem, Stoick. And I think I speak for everyone when I say you better do something about it. Stoick We can't just let dragons run wild like they own the place. Hey, we could put up signs! Gobber Signs? For dragons? Stoick No! For the people. Gobber Signs? For Vikings? We're not big readers, Stoick. Stoick Then we'll build a huge net and stretch it around the plaza. Gobber Nets? You do know they breathe fire? Stoick I know very well they breath fire, Gobber. Maybe Mildew was right. We have to figure something-- Hiccup No, no, wait, Dad. What if I deal with the dragons? Hiccup Who else? If anyone can control them, I can. I'm the best man for the job. Stoick You're not a man yet, Hiccup. Hiccup Not if you don't give me the chance to be! Stoick Fair enough, you'll have your chance... starting tomorrow. Hiccup Okay, gang, there's gonna be some changes around here. Viking Woman #3 Get out! Shoo! For the last time, get your nose out of my bread! Hiccup Hold on, I'll help you! Just... no! Hiccup Alright. Hiccup Okay... Hiccup Toothless, stop that fight! I'll put out the sheep! Hiccup Okay, okay... whoa! Viking Man #8 Get out! Get back here with my cart! Viking Man #9 Enough of these dragons! Snotlout What's he doing? Tuffnut Uh, I think he's helping the dragons break stuff. Ruffnut Cool! Astrid Wow, he could really use our help. Tuffnut We'll get to it. Ruffnut In a minute. Hiccup Sorry about that. Astrid And... it's three o'clock. Hiccup Oh, no... Hiccup Oh, everything hurts... Hiccup even this. Astrid (o.s.) Hiccup? Hiccup Astrid? Perfect. I don't look too beat-up, do I? Hiccup Oh, great. Dragon pity. Hiccup Hey, Astrid. What a nice surprise! Astrid So, how was your day? Hiccup Uh, uneventful. Hung around the plaza. You know... Astrid Yeah, I do know. We saw you out there. It's hard to believe you're still standing. Hiccup Ugh...! I'm gonna be seeing flaming sheep in my dreams for the next month. Stoick (o.s.) Hiccup! Stoick Hiccup, what's going on out there? The plaza looks like a war zone. Hiccup I know it looks bad... Astrid [Whispering] Really bad. Hiccup Yeah, but this is only Phase One of my master plan. Stoick Oh, so you do have a plan? Hiccup I do... of course I do! It's very complex. Lots of drawings, several moving parts. Yeah, it's, uh, pretty wild. Stoick Uh-huh. Well, this better be real. Because Mildew's stirred up the whole island. And if you don't get those dragons under control, they'll be calling for their heads. Hiccup Don't worry, bud. Your head's not going anywhere. Astrid You do realize there are, like, a bazillion dragons out there and only one of you? I hope you really do have a plan. Ruffnut That's your plan? Train dragons? Tuffnut Here? Where we used to kill them? Hiccup Right... because we don't do that anymore. That's why it's available. Astrid Actually, the dragons do seem a little nervous. Fishlegs That's because they're very sensitive. Meatlug especially. She lost a cousin here. We try not to talk about it. Astrid It's amazing your dad just gave us the arena. Hiccup Well, it would be, if he did, yeah, but, he didn't, so that's another thing we should try not to talk about. Astrid Wait, so we're going behind your father's back? Hiccup There you go, talking about it! Uh... alright. Everybody, here's the thing. The dragons are out of control. We want them to live in our world without destroying it but they can't without our help. They've been blowing things up in the village... we've gotta do something about that. Tuffnut Got it! Help dragons blow things up! We can totally do that. Hiccup No. I believe I said-- Ruffnut Here's how we're gonna do it: First, we make them really, really angry. Tuffnut No problem. We anger everybody. Hiccup No, you guys, this is serious! Mildew wants all of our dragons caged. And I don't know about you, but that's not okay with me. Tuffnut You're right. She's sorry. Hiccup Okay, then. Next problem: The dragons are eating everything in sight. Now, when a dragon grabs something it's not supposed to have, you can get him to drop it by giving him a little scratch just below the chin. Snotlout Ehneneneneuh! Maybe that works for you and Toothless, but Hookfang and me? We do things a little different. Snotlout When I want this big boy to do something I just get right in his face and-- DROP THAT RIGHT NOW! YOU HEAR ME? Snotlout See? He dropped it. Tuffnut Heh heh. Should we help him? Astrid Yeah, in a minute. Hiccup Alright. We've got a lot of training to do, but together, we can keep these dragons under control. Snotlout Uh... can somebody do that chin-scratchy thing? Hello? You guys still there? Fishlegs Huh. No dragons. Ruffnut That was easy. Snotlout Lunch? Hiccup That's weird. If the dragons aren't here, where are they? Astrid Something tells me that way. Viking Man #9 Ow! Stop it! Give me that-- that's mine! Astrid Stormfly? Snotlout Hookfang? Stoick They've eaten everything! We've got nothing left for the freeze! Mildew I warned you Stoick. But did you listen to me? No. You put a bunch of teenagers in charge! Now look what the dragons have done! Caging is too good for those beasts. Hiccup Dad, I swear I can fix this. We-- we were just starting to-- Stoick Enough, Hiccup! How can I trust you to control all the dragons, when you couldn't even control your own? Hiccup: Oh, Toothless... Stoick: Butcket! Mulch! Man the boats! We need another catch! Mulch: It's too late, Stoick. It took us six months to catch all that fish. Stoick: Don't tell me it's too late! We've got to try! Mulch: Of course we do! Uh, don't tell the Chief it's too late. You're always so negative! Bucket I don't know what it is with me. Hiccup Dad, please! You gotta listen to me. I know dragons better than-- Stoick Not now, Hiccup. I have a village to feed. The dragons have done enough damage. By tonight, I want every one of them caged. Understand? Mildew Bah! You can't just cage these dragons! You need to send them away now! Viking Man #10 Stoick, Mildew's right! Viking Man #11 Get 'em out of here! Stoick You're right, Mildew. We'll cage them tonight, and in the morning, Hiccup will send them off the island. I'm sorry, son. Snotlout I can't believe we have to send them away! Astrid It's gonna be weird. I got used to seeing Stormfly's face being the first thing I see every morning. Fishlegs Every night before I went to sleep, Meatlug would lick my feet. Who's gonna do that now?! Ruffnut I volunteer Tuffnut! Tuffnut Whatever. What time should I be there? Astrid Come on, guys. Let's get this over with. Fishlegs This is the worst day of my life! We're never gonna see our dragons again! Hiccup We can't let that happen! Toothless is the best friend I've ever had. Mildew (o.s) [Mock regret] Oh, Toothless, I'm gonna miss you so much... Mildew You know what your mistake was? Thinking dragons could be trained. But a dragon's gonna do what a dragon's gonna do. It's their nature. And nature always wins. Viking Woman #2 Oh! Thank you, Toothless. Hiccup You know what? Mildew is absolutely right! Come on, bud! Snotlout Goodbye, Hookfang. Astrid I'm sorry, Stormfly. Now go. Snotlout Ugh. Feels like big, sharp teeth are tearing at this thing in my chest. Astrid That's what it feels like when your heart is breaking. Snotlout I don't have a heart! I'm not a girl! Hiccup (o.s.) Don't close it! Hiccup We are not locking them up. Astrid What happened? Did you change your father's mind? Or are we going behind his back again...? Hiccup Uh... one of those. Look. The dragons are gonna do what they're gonna do. It's their nature. We just need to learn how to use it! Mulch Ah, the nets are empty again. Bucket Did I eat them already? Did I enjoy it? Oop-- am I being too negative? Hiccup Snotlout, scare us up some dinner! Bucket Dragon attack! Snotlout WHOO-HOO! Mulch Hey! Thanks, dragon! Snotlout THAT'S RIGHT! THAT JUST HAPPENED! Hiccup Come on! Follow me! Mildew Huh? Astrid Afternoon, Mildew! Hiccup Three o'clock! Time for the fertilizer! Mildew Fertili--? Fishlegs Okay, Meatlug, let 'er rip! Hiccup Smile, Mildew! We just saved you three months of work! Hiccup That's the way to do it! Fishlegs Whoo-hoo! That was awesome! Astrid How did you know that was gonna work? Hiccup Because they're dragons, and they're gonna do what dragons do. We just have to work with them and not against them. You know who we should actually be thanking--? Mildew There they are, Stoick! Those dragons don't look like they're in cages to me. Stoick No. This is not what I asked for. Fishlegs Oh, no! What's Stoick gonna do to us? Ruffnut I'm too pretty for jail! Tuffnut Ha, where'd you hear that? Stoick You all disobeyed my orders... and there will be consequences. Astrid I told you we were gonna get in trouble. Ugh, you never listen to me! Hiccup Dad, if anyone's going to get in trouble, it should be me. Stoick Nope. You all had a hand in this. Mildew Oh this is going to be great, Fungus. It's about to get ugly. Stoick You took over this place without asking. You released the dragons against my wishes. Things are going to change around here. That's why I-- Gobber You're getting a Dragon Training Academy! Mildew Wha--? Stoick Gobber! I wanted to tell them! Gobber I'm sorry. You're right. Go ahead. Stoick Well, you told most of it! Gobber You can tell him the part about how proud you are of them! Stoick GOBBER! Stoick Hiccup-- well, what he said. You've all made me proud. This Dragon Training Academy is for you. Snotlout Hookfang! My buddy! Astrid Hey, Stormfly! I missed you so much! Fishlegs Meatlug! Oh, who's Daddy's little baby? Oh, who's Daddy's little... Hiccup Hey, bud! Mildew Oh, I'll get those dragons yet. Stoick Now all you have to do is train 'em. Hiccup Not a problem, Dad. After all, I've got him. Astrid (o.s.) Ah-hem? Hiccup (o.s.) And... them, too. Hiccup (v.o.) Dragons can't change who they are. But who would want them to? Dragons are powerful, amazing creatures. Astrid Berk Dragon Academy. I like the sound of that. Hiccup (v.o.) And as long as it takes me, I am going to learn everything there is to know about them. Wouldn't you?"@en . . . . "Hiccup (v.o.): This is Berk. For generations, it was Viking against dragon. The battles were ferocious... then one day, everything changed. Hiccup (v.o.): I met Toothless, and together we've shown people here that instead of fighting dragons, we can ride them... live with them, even train them. Hiccup: Okay, guys. Best Trick Competition. Who's up first? Fishlegs: Uh... Snotlout: Me! Fishlegs: Actually, I think it's-- Snotlout: Me! Astrid: Sweet baby Thor in a thunderstorm, GO! Snotlout: Oh, don't worry, we'll go. And when we go, Hookfang and I are gonna light the sky on-- Snotlout: -FIRE!!!!! Oh, no!"@en . . . "Transcript"@en . "How to Start a Dragon Academy (transcript)"@en .