Hiccup:

There were dragons when I was a boy. There were great, grim, sky dragons that nested on the cliff tops like gigantic scary birds. Little, green, scuttley dragons that hunted down the mice and rats in well-organized packs. Preposterously huge Sea Dragons that were twenty times as big as the Big Blue Whale and who killed for the fun of it. Dragons black as the night that were the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself, colourful dragons that chucked quills at their attackers. I saw them all and more. I trained them and lived with them, but now, now, they are disappearing from Midgard and no one knows where they go. They go where no one goes. It breaks my heart to think of a world without them. The world is filling with darkness as they blink out of existence one by one like stars behind cloud.

I am Hiccup Chief of Berk, husband of Merida, father of Moire and Kol, I am forty-two years old and I am lucky enough to still call a dragon my best friend. I am sitting on the top of Raven Point looking out over my island in the gathering twilight. As far as I am concerned Berk is the best place on Midgard, the place where my family live and thrive, the place where there are still dragons roaming the skies. It wasn't always so, up until a few years ago the island felt unbearably confining then Merida filled my life with light. She is my home, my sun, and my life. I still burn for her the way I did when we met five years ago. Without her the disappearance of dragons would be insufferable, she makes the situation tolerable.

Each day I visit nesting sites with Fishlegs, every few months that go by another nest will disappear. We never see them leave and we struggle to track the way they go as much of their habitat is near the ocean. There appears to be no antecedent for their leaving, nothing that us humans can identify at least. There is no evidence of them being attacked or taken by dragon hunters, it's like they simply cease to exist. The dragons we use to get to the nesting sites don't appear to be affected by the others leaving, they don't exhibit an urge to depart Berk. The Hooligans and I am at a loss. The High Council and I meet regularly to discuss the issue but no answer has yet to be found.

Merida:

I have been living on Berk for five years now. I am a wife and a mother, a tracker and hunter. I am useful and have more friends than I ever expected to have in me life. Life on Berk is everything I expected it to be and more, the Hooligan's are welcoming and I feel more at home here than I ever did in DunBroch. Hiccup and I grow closer each day and our little family flourishes. Our daughter Moire is like her father; thoughtful, quiet and considerate, with me blue eyes and her dad's auburn hair, though curly like mine. Her younger brother Kol is more like me and the triplets – adventurous, mischievous and outgoing. He has wild red curls and green eyes. They are both skinny like their dad. The sunshine of our life is marred by one thing, the slow disappearance of the dragons.

It is devastating Hiccup, I can see it in his eyes. He is gone long hours, sometimes days with Toothless trying to find out where these precious beasts are going, each time he returns defeated and it is breaking him. I try to be strong, because I am good at it, but it is hard to see the one you love heart breaking a tiny bit each time a nest is empty. One day the Night Fury's will go and that will be a hard blow to heal. I do not know what will become of us without the dragons our way of life is intrinsically linked to them.

Still life here on Berk goes on and there is always something to celebrate. Today the Hooligan women and I will go to the Hot Spring Caves to begin the rights of washing away a women's maidenhood, there will be a wedding in the next few days. Me brother King Hamish and his wife Aine are here to witness the wedding, they have brought me nieces, four of them, two sets of twins (Ailsa, Maili, Runa and Saga) to see their cousins. It is good to see me family, without the dragons it would be nearly impossible to meet with them so regularly. It is one of the things that worries me should the dragons become extinct, I would lose contact with me Clan.