On a dark and stormy night on Berk Duel Academy lightning began to strike across the sky ripping it apart and took the form of a ghoulish figure. Lightning then struck down onto the Academy and the figure appeared within the light with wings and vanished just as quickly as it appeared.
It had been a month since the old returns back from that weird dimension and soon everything was back to normal. It was now the final semester and everyone was busy trying to pass their final exams.
Camicazi and the other exchange students that survived the ordeal were now heading back to their respective academies. Also leaving the island was Mildew and his grandson Mason in order to rekindle the ties they had lost.
There's also been some changes in the dorms as Blaze joined Astrid and Heather in the Obelisk Blue Girls Dorm. Also trading red for blue was Snotlout, but he maintained to wear his black coat for some reason and met up with Ragnar, Fishlegs and Agnar. Wartihog soon returned back to his home stairs in the Ra Yellow Dorm and continue to run the place like a boot camp.
Valka was welcomed back with open arms to Industrial Illusions by Pegasus himself. She had already created some fascinating new cards and it was rumoured that the Dragon Knight were finally going to be publicly released.
Hiccup however had changed completely since his return, he spent most of his days in the Red Dorm. After the events of the Society of Light he was now pretty much the only Slifer left in the dorm, but he didn't seem to mind in the slightest.
Hiccup was currently in his bed with the curtains drawn and then the spirit of Banner appeared over him.
"Hiccup, how long are you planning just lying there?" he asked.
"Who knows?" Hiccup asked.
"What are you doing here in the first place?"
"Thinking." Banner then soon appeared in astral form. "Shouldn't you be a bit more worried about how you going to enter into the afterlife?"
Banner shook his head. "The sadly my experiments with the Sacred Beasts prevents me from doing that. Now I'm happy enough staying here in the land of the living."
"You must be the only ghost in existence that doesn't want to pass on," said Hiccup with a small smile.
Banner then gave him a troubled look. "You've certainly changed. What happened to you in that strange dimension? You haven't seen your friends in quite some time, shouldn't you pay them a visit?"
He then heard a now and turned and saw Pharaoh holding a packaging his mouth. Remembering how long he had spent inside the stomach he quickly vanished and moved away from the large cat as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough and immediately found himself in his stomach once again.
Hiccup grabbed the package that Pharaoh dropped and opened it. He soon discovered that inside was an iPhone.
"An iPhone?" he frowned.
Hiccup activated and discovered that there was already a phone number inside. Curious by this he called on the number placed a next to his ear. It rang a few seconds before someone answered it.
"What do you want?" Hiccup asked. Whoever was only a then spoke to him and his eyes widened. "What?"
In the Academy people having problems of their own, more precisely those having duels.
"I'm gonna finish you off right here right now," said an Obelisk student and a Ra. "I summon Marauding Captain in attack mode!"
However, when the Obelisk placed the card in his duel disk the monster didn't show up.
"What's up?" he said.
"What's wrong?" said one of his friends.
"My monster isn't showing up."
"Is there a problem with your duel disk?" said another one of his friends.
"If it is I'm having the same problem," said the Ra as he placed a monster on his duel disk.
Everyone in the Academy was having the same problem in the immediately made their way to the card shack presenting their cards to Phlegma, who couldn't understand the problem either.
"I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do about this," she said apologetically. "I only sell the cards."
Ragnar, Astrid, Heather and Snotlout that make their way to the Chancellor's office and found Stoick, Gobber and Spitelout talking to one another.
"Sorry for the interruption," said Astrid as the entered.
"I see news travels fast," said Stoick.
"That shouldn't be surprising considering that we are in a Duel Academy," said Spitelout.
Gobber stepped forward. "I've already checked the equipment and there's nothing wrong with them."
"But we don't seem to be having any problems with our cards," said Astrid.
"Some of the students treat their cards like trash, I'm betting they just damaged the card and that why they can't use them," said Snotlout folding his arms.
The Ojama Brothers then appeared behind him.
"I can't believe he just said that," said Black.
"This coming from the guy who scribbled on our cards," said Green.
"A bit hypocritical of him," said Blue.
"And arrogant," Red added.
"Just like the boss," Yellow smiled.
"Just shut up!" Snotlout snapped.
Ragnar rolled his eyes. "More than half the students are having problems and I've already examined the cards there's nothing wrong with them."
"Are we sure that the new duel disks aren't defective?" Heather asked.
"I've already checked with Industrial Illusions and Kaiba Corp and both companies are denying there is any problem with them," said Stoick.
"Then it comes down to the cards," said Ragnar.
"Pegasus is already sending an engineer to check the cards," said Stoick. "If you wouldn't mind would you four correct the cards so that everything runs smoothly when the engineer arrives?"
"Here's a list of all the students having problems with the cards," said Gobber handing them a list. "You might want some extra help on this one."
"You don't need to worry," said Snotlout proudly. "The Snot is on the case and he never fails."
"And we'll be there the moment he screwed it up," said Astrid.
"We'll go to each of the dormitories and get their cooperation and settle the matter smoothly," said Heather.
"Don't worry, sir. We'll get to the bottom of this," Ragnar assured.
With that they left the office.
Stoick smiled. "They have certainly have become reliable. It will be sad to see them go after graduation."
Gobber nodded. "It'll certainly be quieter."
Astrid and the others soon met up with the others as they began to discuss the situation with them. None of them seem to notice that a new member guy had joined the party. He had short blonde hair and was wearing an Obelisk Blue uniform.
"So the rumours of other cards are true," said Wartihog.
"We need to go around and collect the cards," said Astrid.
"I'll help Wartihog at the Yellow Dorm," said Fishlegs.
Wartihog nodded. "Don't worry Lieutenant, the Private and I will accomplish our mission."
"Asmund and I will go around the Obelisk Blue Dorm," said Snotlout gesturing to the strange her with them.
"And Astrid and I will go to the girls dormitories," Heather added.
"While you guys collect the cards I'll make my way to the computer room and go over the system," said Ragnar.
"I'll join you, I'm used to working with computers," said Asmund.
"I can go around the Blue Dorm by myself," Snotlout assured.
"What about the Red Dorm?" Wartihog asked.
They all then turned their eyes to the Red Dorm.
"Hiccup is the only one in the dorm so it should be fine," said Astrid.
"We haven't seen even while," said Fishlegs looking concerned.
"He probably just needs some rest," said Heather. "Don't forget that he went through hell for us."
"We can worry about Hiccup later," said Ragnar looking at them. "Right now we need to collect the cards which is a much more important priority."
Fishlegs and Wartihog were making their way to the Yellow Dorm when Fishlegs found something amiss.
"Hey, who was that guy anyway?" Fishlegs frowned.
"That was Asmund," said Wartihog.
Fishlegs frowned. "Asmund?" His eyes then lit up. "Oh, yeah! Sometimes I forget who he is."
"You have a worse memory than an elephant with amnesia," Wartihog laughed. "Asmund has hanged with you and Hiccup ever since you entered this Academy! I just can't believe that you forgot about him."
Fishlegs chuckled nervously. "Neither can I."
Ragnar and Asmund were making their way to the computer room.
"Do you have your ID with you?" Ragnar asked as he pulled out his PDA.
Asmund gave him a panicked look. "Oh, I forgot it…"
"What do you mean you forgot it?" Ragnar stared. "This is the centre of the Duel Academy. You need your ID to get in." He then frowned and looked at him. "Wait a minute, who are you?"
Asmund eyes then began to glow and he looked at Ragnar with a hypnotic gaze that worked on him in an instant.
"Come on, Rag," Asmund smiled. "We've been in school together for three years now."
Ragnar rubbed his head. "Of course, sorry Asmund."
"No sweat," said Asmund and grabbed his PDA. "Let me handle this. You should go and help Astrid and the others." Ragnar just stared at him as he accessed the door and entered into the computer room. Asmund looked at him just as the doors closed. "Snotlout could really use your help, the Blue Dorm is bigger than the others."
"Yeah, you're right," Ragnar nodded and began to walk off.
Asmund then began to access the computer room console.
"Master, where can you be?" he said as he scrolled through the data. "There must be a hint to where you are somewhere in this data." His eyes then turned to the abandoned dorm that appeared on the monitor. "I found it. So that's…"
He then received a message from Astrid and looked at her face appeared on the monitor. "Asmund, did you find anything?"
Asmund access the communicator. "Nothing unusual."
"I see," Astrid sighed. "Then can you come to the conference room? We've already collected the cards."
Asmund then turned the image of the abandoned dorm. "I'll be there."
Astrid and the others were in the conference room with a large pile of cards and going over the list to make sure they have missed any.
"Wow," Fishlegs stared.
"That's all whole lot of cards," said Wartihog.
"This is certainly serious problem," said Ragnar as he looked to the cards.
"This is the list that Gobber gave us," said Astrid as she looked over the list.
Snotlout groaned. "Returning all these cards are the proper owners is going to take ages."
The Ojamas then appeared above them and looked at the cards.
Black frowned. "Is there something a bit funky about those cards?"
"Yeah, this something eerie about them," Yellow agreed. "Do you think we should tell the boss?"
"Hold it," said Green stopping him.
Yellow frowned at him. "But…"
"I'm getting tired of getting involved with unusual things," said Green. "Besides, Snotlout doesn't see anything strange about those cards. Even if we did tell him, he wouldn't believe us."
"He's right," Black nodded. "Since we're back in the human world…" He then spun around and suddenly appeared in a school uniform.
Green then did the same. "…we're going to enjoy the rest of our school life!"
"You've got a good point," said Yellow as he did the same as his brothers.
Red and Blue look to know one another and shrugged and they then began to spin around and when they start they were wearing school uniforms.
Then the five of them disappeared without a trace.
Asmund then entered the room.
"About time?" Snotlout huffed he then gestured towards the cards. "Anyway we don't need you anymore we've already got the cards."
Asmund looked at them in his eyes widened. "No…"
For some reason he was the only one in the room they could see the dark aura was covering the cards.
"What's up with him?" Wartihog asked.
"No clue," said Fishlegs.
"So what should we do with the cards?" Heather asked.
"We put them in a safe place until the engineer arrives from Industrial Illusions," said Ragnar.
"Are you crazy?" Asmund stared. "We should dispose of these cards immediately!"
"Come again?" Ragnar frowned.
"You heard me," said Asmund. "These cards are dangerous! We should burn them immediately!"
"What in Sam Hill are you talking about?" Wartihog stared.
"Are you forgetting that these cards belong to students in the Academy?" said Astrid hotly. "There's no way were burning them."
"She's right," Fishlegs nodded.
"Of course, what was I thinking?" said Asmund.
Snotlout just smiled as he leaned back in his chair. "The way I see in our work is done and we can just sit back and relax until the engineer arrives given us the all clear."
Asmund however did not look convinced.
Astrid, Ragnar and Heather took charge of storing the cards. They had already placed them in their suitcases and locks them in the storage area. However, when they left they did not notice that Asmund was in the room as well.
He immediately made his way over towards the suitcases and opened the lock. He immediately open the suitcase and looked at the card collection inside it. Immediately the dark aura that he saw earlier appeared to once more.
"I've got to destroy these things before it's too late," he said.
His eyes then glowed red and there was a big flash.
Suddenly fire alarms echoed across the campus. Unsurprisingly the fire began in the storage area where the cards were located in the sprinklers immediately activated. Astrid and the others immediately entered the storage area and saw the blaze.
"What happened?" Astrid stared.
"I've got no clue," said Ragnar.
Wartihog then came rushing in with a fire extinguisher. "Move it, troops!" he yelled.
He immediately activated the fire extinguisher putting out the fire and then they began to examine the cause. The only thing that they discovered was that the fire centred around the table when they had placed the suitcases. All the cards inside had been completely burnt and destroyed.
"This is horrible," said Fishlegs.
"What could have started the fire?" Wartihog frowned.
None of them actually saw the dark aura emerging from the burnt out cards began to ponder what could have caused the fire.
"Clearly someone came here and started a fire," said Astrid.
"But who would destroy all these cards?" said Ragnar folding his arms.
Snotlout groaned. "Guess it was too much to hope for that the rest the semester would be quiet."
The dark aura then made its way down the cordon out of the campus. Clearly was invisible to the other students, but Toothless then appeared and saw the darkness.
"This isn't good," he said. "Better tell Hiccup."
He immediately flew away towards the Red Dorm as quickly as he could.
In the forest was Asmund, running as quickly as he could away from the campus.
"I need to hurry and find him before it's too late!" he said. "I'm running out of time!"
The same dark aura that exited from the card that seemed to be following him for some reason. Then Asmund came to a stop when he saw the abandoned dorm directly in front of him.
"There it is," he said.
He then heard a sound behind him and turned. Emerging from a bush was the dark aura, the same one that he had seen within the cards.
"No way," he stared.
The dark aura try to make a grab him, but he quickly rolled out of the way. He then quickly ran away from it as quickly as he could and it follow him knocking down trees in its wake. Asmund was so busy looking at it that he failed to notice where he was going and saw that he had reached the cliff.
He turned and saw the dark aura circling around him. "Not when I was so close," he said.
"So this is him, huh?" said a voice above him. Asmund turned and saw Hiccup looking down at him from the cliff with Toothless by his side. "Time to say hello, bud."
He then jumped off the cliff and landed right in front of Asmund.
Asmund stared at him. "You're…"
"Stay behind me," said Hiccup. "I'll want to talk to you later." He then turned his attention onto the dark aura. "Stop hiding in the shadows and show yourself. There's no way you can escape now, you might as well face me in a duel."
Then the dark aura laughed and began to swirl around. "I'm impressed that you were able to find me human."
"Unfortunately for you I have certain abilities that allow me to see what you truly are," said Hiccup as they began to circle around one another. "I know that your spirit has been lingering in the duel monster card my friend collected and you're misusing."
The mist laughed. "I see… you are certainly different from the other humans on this island."
The mist then took the form of cards and began to form a body and soon standing directly in front of him was a black haired man with a beard. He had a scar running across his right eye and he had a fixed expression upon his face.
"The name is Krogan and I'll be the last person you ever duel," he said.
Hiccup smirked. "Loads of people told me the same thing right before I defeated them."
"But none of your opponents will quite like me," said Korgan.
He then raised his left arm and immediately disintegrated the cards covered in a dark aura. Seconds later took the form of a duel disk and then he turned and looked at Hiccup.
"You're clearly going to be trouble in the future and taking you out now save me a massive headache," he said.
Hiccup then activated his duel disk. "Don't be too sure of yourself, I might surprise you."
"Let's duel!" they yelled.
Hiccup: 4000
Korgan: 4000
"I'll make the first move," said Krogan as he drew and immediately played the card he drew. "Say hello to Dark Archetype."
Suddenly appearing on the field was a strange looking creature with tubes over its body. It had four legs and a long tail, but Hiccup couldn't quite describe the face. (ATK: 1400/ DEF: 400)
"And next I'll play a card facedown and with that it's your turn," said Krogan placing a card facedown on the field.
Hiccup frowned of the new monster on the field. "Never seen that monster before."
Krogan smirked. "What's the matter is scared of my beast?"
"Hardly," said Hiccup. "I don't care what kind of monster you call, I'll take it down."
He then drew from his deck. "And now I summon Dragon Knight Toothless Jr to the field."
Suddenly appearing on the field was a miniature Toothless. (ATK: 400/ DEF: 600)
"But he won't be out for long because by sending him to the graveyard I can now summon Toothless from my hand," said Hiccup.
Toothless Jr then began spinning around creating a massive tornado and when he stopped he was now fully grown. (ATK: 2500/ DEF: 2200)
Asmund stared at him. "He summon a high-powered monster on his first."
"Quite the monster for your first turn," Krogan noted.
"If you like him now wait until he attacks, because I'm going to send it straight at your Dark Archetype!" Hiccup announced.
Toothless then began to form a plasma orb within his hand and tossed it straight at Dark Archetype.
"Sorry to burst your bubble, but you triggered my facedown card," said Krogan revealing his facedown card to be a trap card. "It's called Zero Gazer. I can only activated when you attack and by exchanging my monsters attack points I'm able to draw one card from my deck."
Hiccup stared as Dark Archetype began to lose power and Krogan drew a card. (ATK: 1400-0)
"Why would you lower your own monster's attack points?" Hiccup frowned.
Toothless then slammed his plasma blast at the Dark Archetype destroying it immediately and send a massive shock wave directly at Krogan.
Hiccup: 4000
Korgan: 1500
"Because my monster has a unique ability," Krogan smirked. "You see whenever Dark Archetype is destroyed as a result of battle I can then summon a monster to the field so long as it attack points equal to the amount of damage I took. However, I must send monsters to my graveyard whose levels equal to the mods I want to summon." He then held out Familiar Knight and Zure, Knight of Dark World and send them to the graveyard. "Now by sending these 2 to the graveyard I'm able to summon Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World!"
Suddenly appearing on the field was a powerful looking beast with the staff in his hand. (ATK 2500/ DEF: 1800)
"Great, now he summon a monster with equal strength of Toothless to the field," said Asmund.
"I'll place this card facedown and end my turn," said Hiccup as he placed a card facedown on his field.
Krogan then drew and held out the card he drawn. "I think I'll give my monster extra boost thanks to, Axe of Despair. With this card now equipped to my monster it now gains 1000 extra attack points making it more than enough to crush your Knight."
Suddenly appearing in Reign-Beaux's hand was a large axe. (ATK: 2500-3500)
Krogan then smirked at Hiccup. "Clearly that monster of yours is your ace and once I take it down your defeat will all be that sooner. Now attack, Devil Vortex Force!"
Reign-Beaux swung his mighty act sending a massive shock wave straight towards Toothless.
"Sorry, but Toothless isn't going anywhere, because I've got this card," said Hiccup revealing his facedown card which revealed to be his Dragon Defender trap card.
Toothless break himself will the attack and managed to hold his ground despite the power behind the attack.
"What?" Krogan roared.
"My Dragon Defender is able to protect all Dragons on my field from battle this turn," Hiccup smiled. "And thanks to his ability to toothless counts as a Dragon."
"But you still take damage," Krogan reminded.
Hiccup was then hit by the shockwave of the attack.
Hiccup: 3000
Korgan: 1500
Krogan glared at him. "You might have saved your monster this time, but on my next turn you're through."
Hiccup smiled. "So, but you missed your chance you're going to regret not finishing me this round." Hiccup then drew. "I activate the field spell card Dragon Sanctuary."
Hiccup then placed his field card in his field card slot and immediately the field around them began to change. They found themselves in a very peaceful underground oasis and they could see dragons flying overhead.
"What is this?" Krogan demanded.
"The first step of your defeat," said Hiccup. "As long as we're in the Dragon Sanctuary all Dragon-Type monsters will now gain an extra 500 attack points."
Toothless then began to glow as power increased. (ATK: 2500-3000)
"And I'm not done, because next I play my own equipped spell, Dragon Knight Axe," said Hiccup holding out a spell card. "Now thanks to this but is about to get an 800 point power boost making him more than strong enough to take on your Reign-Beaux."
Suddenly appearing in Toothless' head was a battleaxe. (ATK: 3000-3800)
"No!" Krogan gasped in horror. "It's too strong."
"Now attack, bud!" Hiccup commanded.
Toothless then charged at Reign-Beaux and then slammed his axe right on top of him destroying him instantly.
Hiccup: 3000
Korgan: 1200
"And now I activate toothless is special ability," said Hiccup. "You see whenever he destroys a monster as a result of battle, the owner of that monster gets hit by the original attack points of the monster that was just destroyed."
Krogan looked up as he saw toothless standing right in front of him as the smoke dispelled.
"What?!" he roared.
"Take him down, bud," Hiccup ordered.
Toothless then began to pull the plasma blast within his hand and then fired directly at Krogan burning away the last remains of his life points.
Hiccup: 3000 (Winner!)
Korgan: 0
Krogan then vanished into a form of cards and the holograms began to fade away.
"Hiccup Haddock, it's not over yet…" said Krogan's voice. Hiccup then saw the dark aura in front of him and narrowed his eyes. "This is just the beginning. We will meet again."
Then the dark aura vanished into thin air.
Asmund then approached Hiccup. "Thanks, Hiccup. You really save my bacon."
Hiccup then turned to face. "Now tell me who you are," he said. "And why was he chasing?"
Asmund stared at him. "Come on, now Hiccup. You couldn't have forgotten me, it's me your friend Asmund Stoneson."
Hiccup narrowed his eyes. "Never heard of you."
"Start playing around Hiccup, we've been together for this whole entire time," said Asmund as his eyes began to glow.
"Your cheap tricks won't work on the," said Hiccup.
Asmund eyes then widened as he backed away from Hiccup, because his eyes had completely changed. His left eye was now a hazel colour and his right was a much darker shade of green.
Hiccup then narrowed his eyes. "Now this is the last time I'm going to ask you. Who are you?"
