'There were dragons when I was a boy. Every viking was taught that dragons were the scum of the Earth.'

'Our job as vikings were to rid the world of the beasts. Every child on the island was put into dragon training as soon as they could hold an axe.'

'Well two of us were never good enough to be considered vikings.'

'Where all Hiccup wanted to do was go out and fight.'

'Ylva was more at home patching up the warriors after the raids.'

'Our chief, Stoick, arrived along with Gobber and told me that my parents were killed by a dragon.'

'Normally she should have wanted revenge on the dragons for taking her family, but she didn't blame them.'

'I was taken in by Gothi, our village elder, and was taught more about healing remedies and how to better patch up the wounded.'

'Ten years later, an event happened that changed everything we ever knew about dragons.'

'This is our story about how I met my best friend, and how we each lost our family.'