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Welcome to Dragon City
It had seemed when we had last left Berk things had been in blissful peace with a bright and hopeful future ahead for many generations to come thanks to the bravery and the friendship of the Next Generation Riders.
But alas, nothing good can last forever, it seems, and it also seems true that evil always gets the last laugh in the end.
It was only a short time later when, during the height of summer when once again, all the Souls of Valhalla along with most of Asgard had come through the Spirit Portal to watch the Dragon Races Championship that the world really did come to an end.
It really was worst then even Ragnarok had been predicting to be, and not one of the Haddock's powers had seen it coming.
Loki, who was imprisoned in the most highly secured prison in Asgard, and stripped of his powers, and helpless as a human child, had left a little surprise for all of those he had despised in the event he was defeated, so they still meet their demise.
When he'd broken through the Spirit Portal defense system, both of human-made and spiritual nature, he'd left behind something rather nasty. His own doomsday device, so to speak.
It was the most highly concentrated amount of all his dark powers buried in the core of Berk. It was set to go off when everyone was at their happiest. So they'd meet their downfall triggered by their own joyfulness. A laughing and killing joke all in one.
And it was set to take all of the Archipelago with it, and it is a bonus that all who he hated from Asgard and Valhalla be there as well. So they can all die together!
So he was in his lonely cell whistling a merry little tune as he knew the doomsday device would go off when the race was won, and then they all die.
Well, things didn't go exactly according to his plan. Yes, the magical bomb did go off and set off a chain reaction that started destroying the Archipelago and was going to kill millions of lives by the end of it.
However, it would ultimately fail in killing the ones that Loki had specifically targeted because while Hiccup and his siblings or any of their friends hadn't been able to sense the bomb beforehand?
They, along with Gods, were able to sense it just in the nick of time before it detonated thanks to their deep connection to that Tapestry of Creation.
Though there was no saving Berk or any of their islands. They would all ultimately be annihilated by Loki's supernatural explosive device.
Instead, everyone human, dragon, and gods fled as fast as their wings could carry them to outrun the carnage, pandemonium, and devastation that was ending their lives as they knew it.
Eventually, they had left behind the world they knew all together, even past what they'd gone when they'd first flown to Dragon's Edge and kept going. They didn't have a clue where they're heading.
All that was ahead of them was just the fast deep blue sea and the endless reflecting blue sky. And it seemed they still die, and since the Souls were made alive when they'd had passed through the Spirit Portal, they were able to die again.
And no one was sure if they'd go to Valhalla since their homeland was now gone or what other consequences might happen with the Spirit Portal gone. There were a million things to think about, but the one important thing to think about what ultimately was trying to find a new home for themselves.
And it seemed they'd have to cross the vast, seemingly endless ocean to do that. So thus began the long and harrowing journey as Vikings and Dragons crossed the sea with Gods and Valkyries escorting and helping them best they could.
No one was able to tell how much time it took as days quickly passed into weeks and months, and they all bleed to seem so much alike. But eventually, after what seemed like an eternity, they came to a new land that was vastly different from the land in which they'd been born and raised.
Everything was different about it, from the trees and flowers, all the way to the rivers and sea. Even the animals were slightly different, and it was clear no dragons had ever been to this land.
This was an extraordinary and possibly dangerous new world for the five tribes of the Dragon Harmony Alliance. However, they knew they'd to stick together if they had any chance of surviving.
When they did take a look from above, it was like there were five fairly large areas like islands, a peninsula in the center connecting to the rest of the mainland. The mainland looked prospers as did the ocean that was nearby.
After the long journey, each tribe took the island that was most like their original home, and with a little planning, they decided to build a city together ultimately. One city that they all decided they could live in peace and harmony.
It is like the world they'd lost but better, and they make sure it had parts of things that had lost, so nothing be forgotten. So they're busy deciding these things about how each island be run back home and how to work together when Odin called them all to the center part to tell the survivors some important announcements.
Odin, along with his wife Frigga and their friends and the Valkyries, were all in such guilt and shame that they hadn't stop Loki from destroying the Archipelago and taking so much from those they considered family and friends.
So then and there, they promise to ensure this land and the city to come, which they christen Dragon City, would always be 100% protected and prospers and never fall as their homeland did.
To ensure this, all the Gods present first blessed the land and seas around them and all who were present. Secondly, the Valkyries swore they'd forever watch over all who dwell in this city forever. Never again to reap souls for Valhalla but to guard the Souls of the Dragon City.
Thirdly, Odin, sensing that the dragons wouldn't survive in this new and possibly dangerous world, changed them into what he sensed would be proper and better suited for the future. So thus, the dragons were changed into dogs, but their souls and lifespans were the same.
Then Frigga promised that she would ensure that the Tapestry of Creation would see to it that all who were present would one day be reincarnated and that she, along with Freya and Sjofn, would ensure that they'd all find their true loves once more.
And that is how the days of Vikings and Dragons ended and what leads us to the beginning of Dragon City!