The unlikely friendship between the young Viking Hiccup, who was raised to believe that dragons must be slayed, and a dangerous and rare dragon, Night Fury.
Long ago a young Viking, Hiccup, wanted to fight dragons at his village that is always under raid. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow him to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention. However, he can not bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon begin a friendship that would change their lives as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species.
This picture is a computer-animated adaptation of a book of the same title. Hiccup is a young Viking boy that lives in a community that places value in strength. Dragon slayers are held in high esteem and thus Hiccup seeks to slay a dragon in order to prove his worthiness to the people of the village. Indeed, he succeeds in downing “Night Fury”, a greatly feared dragon. However, instead of killing the dragon he befriends and ends up discovering that dragons are generally misunderstood and that they are in fact friendly creatures. Thereafter the plot thickens and we are left wondering if young Hiccup will succeed in making peace between the Vikings and the dragons.