Daan and Valyya were looking down at Hiccup and his group.
"Ah man, not this clown," Ruby groaned and quickly hit behind Sigrid.
"I take it that Windshear and Viggo were able to decipher the locations of the other clock pieces," said Hiccup looking up at them.
Daan smiled at him. "You're smarter than you look. Windshear made sure that I learned the entire story from memory." The two of them started to make their way down towards them. "And guess what it says that there is a piece of the clock right here."
"It looks like to me that you sorry losers haven't been able to find yet either," said Valyya.
Daan then saw Ruby hiding behind Sigrid. "Could that really be my lovely little gem?"
"I'm not your lovely little gem!" Ruby yelled indignantly.
"Our paths were meant to cross again, unavoidable destiny," he cried and quickly rushed over to Ruby. "I can practically feel the thread pulling us together!"
"How about you take that thread and wrap it around your neck instead!" Ruby snapped.
Daan appeared and not of heard a single word she uttered. "Oh, let me sweep you off your feet," he cried.
"Allow me to sweep you off your feet," said Hiccup taking a deep breath. "Fire Dragon's Roar!"
Hiccup unleashed his breath attack upon Daan, but he merely just raised his shield and blocked it.
"I don't have time screwing around like this," he said as if the attack was nothing more than an annoyance. "Because love beckons me to its sweet song!"
Sadly the shield was deflecting Hiccup's attack to Ruby and the others giving them a nasty hotfoot.
"Hiccup, you need to be more careful!" Gustav yelled.
"That shield is not going to be easy to get past," said Toothless grimly.
Hiccup this then went aflame and he slammed them on top of the shield hoping to break through Daan's guard. However, the flames just merely bounced off the shield hitting the ruins.
"When you get out of here!" Gustav yelled at the buildings began falling on top of them.
Fortunately the falling buildings created enough just to hide them from view and Hiccup and the others took this as the opportunity to get away. Strangely Daan and Valyya were chasing after them.
"They're not chasing after us," Gustav noted.
"I hope you were able to lose them," said Sigrid hopefully.
"Exactly how I planned," said Hiccup.
"Not sure of your telling the truth or not," said Toothless.
"Let's just find what we came here for," said Ruby.
Suddenly appearing behind the corner was Daan much to her dismay.
"Hold on my little gem, first you and me need to water our garden of love," he said.
"That's got to be the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life!" Ruby snapped.
"Hold on," said Valyya appearing out of nowhere. "First you and me have to find a clock piece. Have you already forgotten that we were sent here on an important mission?"
"Did I forget my mission? No way," said Daan. He then looked at Ruby with all googly eyed. "I remember my sweet love."
"That's kind of my point," said Valyya facepalming herself.
"You should be more worried about me," said Hiccup landing in front of Daan.
"You dare stand in the way of our love!" Daaan roared pointing his spear at him. "For that I will slice you up and serve you raw. Now I'm gonna give you another taste of my magic spear! Open wide, because he it comes."
Daan then began sending powerful bursts of energy from the tip of his spear. Hiccup however was more than prepared for this and began dodging each and every single attack.
"You can't let them hit you, Hiccup!" Sigrid yelled.
"Listen to her if that thing hit you again you'll shrunken down again!" Toothless yelled.
"Don't worry, bud, I expected this," said Hiccup confidently dodging the attacks flawlessly.
"Try dodging this!" Daan yelled getting in closer.
Hiccup managed to dodge them, but attack it Ruby instead and she screamed as he began to glow.
"Ruby!" Sigrid yelled.
Suddenly Ruby shrank down until she was about 3 inches tall.
"No, no, no!" Ruby yelled looking at her small miniature self. "This is not happening to me!"
"Oh, crap, I missed," said Daan hysterically. He then picked up Ruby. "I'm so sorry, my love, I never meant for this to happen to you! I've gone and shrunk the love of my life! How could I? There's no way that you want me as a boyfriend now!"
"You're right!" Ruby yelled angrily. "But turn me back anyway!"
Daan then placed her back down onto the ground and grabbed his spear. "Of course my dear."
He was about to touch her with his spear, but then suddenly stopped as an idea popped into his head.
"Hey, what's the hold-up?" Ruby asked.
"I kind of like this cute little version of you," he said with a large smile.
"Huh?" Ruby stared.
He then picked up in the palm of his hand much to her confusion. "You were very hard as a normal sized girl, but now you're like the cutest thing I've ever seen. I want to carry you everywhere I go."
"That is not happening!" Ruby yelled furiously.
Daan didn't listen to a single word she said. "I'm going to carry you around for a little while okay. I've got a special place at home for you and then I can look at you anytime I want."
"I'm not some kind of action figure you weirdo!" Ruby yelled.
Daan then placed a piece of string around her and attached her to his belt. "I'll hang you right here and will always be together."
"You really have a strange way of courting women," said Hiccup in disbelief.
"That's putting it mildly," said Toothless.
"Yeah, he's even worse than Snotlout," Gustav nodded. "And I didn't think such a thing was possible."
"I've heard of close relationships, but this is ridiculous," said Sigrid.
"Well, you guys just tell me out here!" Ruby yelled.
"Now that my tiny beloved it is by my side, I have the heart of a lion, I fear no man!" Daan yelled facing Hiccup and raised his spear. "And thanks to her my aim is true!"
Daan then began filing another barrage of energy attacks from his spear. However, just like before Hiccup began dodging them almost as if he could see them coming.
"Cut it out, Daan!" Valyya yelled. "You can fight him later. We need to find a clock piece first."
"Can't you see that I'm busy right now?" Daan smiled. "Go on, I'm sure you can find it."
"I can't because Windshear gave you all the details about how to find it!" Valyya reminded. "I don't even know where to start looking!"
"What do we do?" Toothless asked. "The whole reason we came here was to find one of the clock pieces too."
"But there's no way we can leave Ruby behind when she so tiny and helpless," Sigrid cried.
"I've had enough of this," said Hiccup as he jumped back to dodge one of Daan's attacks. "It's time that I went on the offensive."
"Try it, pal, but my shield is able to deflect anything you throw at me," Daan smirked.
"Now who set out under fire anything you?" Hiccup smiled and then places hands together. "Fire Dragon's Plasma Blast!"
Hiccup then fired a plasma blast from his hand and Daan raised his shield believing that Hiccup was attacking him. However, instead, the plasma blast struck the ground creating a massive explosion and creating an effective smokescreen.
"What happened?" said Daan looking around wildly.
Then suddenly there was a nasty smell appearing around him and he began to choke. Ruby was also beginning to choke and then soon gas appearing around them and realise what it was instantly.
"Hiccup! What are you doing?" Ruby yelled.
Hiccup use the smokescreens to get behind Daan and then unleashed his gas canister around him.
"The only thing I could think of to throw him off balance," he said.
Daan was moving so frantically that the string attaching Ruby to his belt snapped.
"No!" he cried. "Our thread of fate has been broken."
Ruby began screaming, because from her perspective the ball was enough to kill her.
"I got you!" Gustav yelled and unleashed his purple flames.
The purple flames caught Ruby, but sadly it was still quite hot much to her dismay.
"Hot! Hot!" Ruby cried. "Someone get me out of here!"
"Hold on, Ruby, I'll help you," said Toothless fly next to her.
Ruby quickly jumped onto Toothless' head and then took off.
"Hey!" Daan yelled. "Give me back my beautiful bride, cat!"
Ruby sighed with relief on top of Toothlesss' head. "Thanks, you're a real lifesaver. Now it's time to get the heck out of here."
"Just hold on site," said Toothless.
Daan however wasn't going to allow them to get away that easy and began chasing them down. "All I have to do is turn you back to normal size annual fall to the ground like a sexy sack of potatoes," he said giving chase.
He then jumped into the air and raised his spear and then unleashed traumatic blast struck both Ruby and Toothless. Ruby fell to the ground now normal sized much to her relief.
"I'm back!" she cried.
"The good and all, Ruby," said Hiccup as he and the others stared over her head. "But we got a big problem on our hands."
Ruby frowned of the meaning and turned around and saw what he meant. Toothless was about twenty times his own side.
"Uh-oh," said Daan looking at his spear. "I guess my hand must have slipped a little bit."
"You think, you've turned Toothless into a giant," said Hiccup.
"This whole size changing thing is starting to get ridiculous," said Toothless angrily.
"He's got a point," said Hiccup turning on Daan. "Perhaps you should take some lessons before you is that spear of yours."
"Someone turned me back to normal!" Toothless yelled as he began stumbling around.
Toothless was still getting used to his side and kept on bumping into the old buildings.
"I hope the others are having a much easier time than we are," Hiccup sighed.
Fishlegs and the others managed to debrief Eret the mission and now they were proceeding towards the clock piece. Sadly, the cockpit was located on the top of a very tall and steep mountain.
Sadly there was no easy way to get to the top so they had a free climate much to the dismay of Fishlegs, Helga and Ingrid.
"Are you sure there's not an easier way to get were going?" Fishlegs asked.
"Hate to break it to you, but according to the map were following this is the only way," said Eret.
"If we were travelling on flat ground, I could get there in no time, but all this climbing is a huge pain in the butt," Helga mumbled.
"Yeah, Skullcrusher give your teammates a favour and fly us up to the top of this stupid thing?" Ingrid asked looking at the Exceed floating next to them.
"If I do that we run the risk of missing any important clues we might find along the way," said Skullcrusher folding his paws. "We simply can't afford to take the easy way out."
"I don't like it any more than you guys, but this is the only way to go," said Eret.
"I just hope we don't have far to climb," said Fishlegs, who was finding it harder to climb than anyone else.
Meanwhile Astrid and her team soon reached start to take a look at the map the moment they reached a crossroads.
"Hmm, it would appear we taken a wrong turn somewhere," said Astrid.
"It feels as if we've been wondering around aimlessly all day if ask me," said Agatha.
"Don't you have the directions to get there?" Merrill asked.
I have a map, but the details are extremely vague," she admitted. She then looked at the signpost. "I'm afraid we're just going to have to rely upon these road signs to show us the way."
"That's all well and good, but can anyone tell me which direction this sign is actually pointing?" Stormfly asked.
Stormfly had a fair point because the sign they were looking at looked as if it was upside down pointing one way, but the image was upside down meaning that it could be pointing the other way.
"Now that you mention it, it is a bit confusing," Merrill agreed.
"Yes, to say the least. You don't suppose this is somebody's sick idea for a prank?"
"That would be a silly thing to do," said Agatha. "Besides, isn't it a crime to change directions of a sign? One wrong turn could put somebody in real danger."
"We should at least be getting closer," said Astrid folding her arms. "Let's proceed with caution while checking the map as well."
With that they turned right and made their way down the path, but Stormfly was still troubled by the sign.
"Is it really just a random prank? Or could it be that someone deliberately trying to steer us off course?" she frowned.
Unbeknownst to them in the bushes beneath the sign, someone was indeed hiding behind it.
Meanwhile Toothless was still trying to get used to his size, but that was a lot easier said than done. He kept on colliding with the ancient ruins and it was extremely hard to control his tail which was doing the same.
"What would you going, bud!" Hiccup yelled.
"That's easy for you to say, you're not thirty feet tall!" Toothless cried as his tail slammed into another room.
"I know these ruins, but that part of the order's history!" Valyya cried. "We can't afford to run them any further!"
"I'm more afraid of these ruins ruining us!" Gustav yelled hiding behind cover as rocks fell in all directions.
"All right you overgrown, fleabag," said Daan jumping into the air.
He then struck Toothless with his spear and a few seconds later he returned back to normal size much to the relief of everyone.
"What a relief," Toothless sighed.
"Finally everyone is back to regular size," said Sigrid.
"We've got to find that missing clock piece," said Ruby.
"But how are we going to find this stupid thing is we don't know where to start looking?" Gustav asked.
Ruby pulled out the book of Key of the Starry Heavens. "Don't worry, I bought the book along with me to help us figure out some more clues. I have no doubt that it will point us in the right direction at least."
Unfortunately, above them were both Daan and Valyya and they had her the entire conversation.
"If we get our hands on that book we can find a piece in no time," said Valyya. Ruby and the others heard and watched as she rushed down the building towards them. "So, handed over!"
"Get back!" Gustav yelled and fired a burst of flames from his hand.
Valyya managed to dodge them. "Hey, now!"
Everyone, minus Hiccup, then started to make a run for it.
"This is our chance," said Ruby.
Daan then jumped down and landed on the ground. "You can't run from us!" he yelled.
"You sure about that," said Hiccup blocking his path. "If you want to get to them you have to go through me." He then looked back at Ruby and the others. "Go, I'll hold him off you guys go!"
"Thanks for holding him off, Hiccup!" Ruby yelled gratefully.
"You sure you don't need my help?" Toothless asked.
"No, you need to keep the others safe, I'm counting on you," said Hiccup.
"Get back here!" Valyya yelled running after them.
"If you stand in my way be prepared to pay the ultimate price!" Daan yelled pointing his spear at Hiccup.
"Sorry, but I'll have to give you an IOU," said Hiccup as he drew Inferno and set it ablaze.
Ruby and the others were running as quickly as they could as Ruby looked through the book. Valyya however was starting to catch up with them.
"I've got you now!" she yelled.
"No you can't!" Gustav yelled unleashed a burst of flames from his hand.
Valyya managed to dodge it by running on the walls of the building.
Toothless then stopped to face her and then entered into his battle form. "You guys go, leave her to need," he said.
"Good luck!" Ruby yelled.
Toothless then flew as quickly as he could towards Valyya and nearly struck a blow with his fist. Valyya then tried to counter with a powerful kick, but Toothless was too fast for her and dodged it.
"You're fast," she admitted and then charged towards him. "But I'm not going to let anyone stop me!"
"Same here!" Toothless yelled charging towards him with his fist raised.
His fist then collided with her kick causing a small explosion.
Ruby and the others were too busy running to worry about Toothless.
"So, where is the piece? Have you figured that out yet?" Sigrid asked.
"I'm still trying to figure that out," said Ruby looking at the book.
Then suddenly appearing ahead of them nowhere a Toothless and Valyya two of them still trading blows. The two of them were moving so fast that it was almost a blur, but then Valyya dealt a powerful kick to Toothless' chest and he slammed into one of the statue.
Then suddenly the statue's eyes began to glow and the ground began to shake. Suddenly the floor beneath Ruby and the others disappeared and they fell right in as did Valyya. At the bottom of the hall were large spikes, but fortunately they were able to grab the stony edge.
"Ah, man, I'm out of magic power," Valyya cried as he began to lose her grip.
Ruby then handed the book to Sigrid. "Hope this," she said. Sigrid took the book and Ruby eased her way towards Valyya and stretched out her hand. "Grab my hand."
Valyya looked at her. "I can't accept an enemy's mercy," she said.
"Would you quit being so stubborn," said Ruby.
Valyya still refuse to grab her hand so Ruby grabbed her instead. However, the ledge Ruby was standing on gave way and the two of them tumbled into the chasm and fell right through the floor.
"Oh no, Ruby! Are you okay?" Sigrid cried.
"I'm still alive at least," Ruby called.
"Hang on, we're coming down to help you!" Gustav called.
"No!" Ruby yelled. "Don't worry about me, you guys just hurry up and find that clock piece. We'll meet up eventually I'm sure."
Toothless had managed to pull Gustav and Sigrid to safety and now all three of them were looking down the hole.
"Oh, I'm so worried about her. I mean she's stuck down there with that horrible little girl," said Sigrid.
"She does have her Celestial Spirits with her too so she'll probably be fine," said Toothless confidently.
"Yeah," Gustav agreed. "Let's go, we can't help her from up here anyway."
"We'll fine it, Ruby, but please be careful!" Sigrid called.
"Yeah, you too!" Ruby yelled back.
"Ow," said Valyya rubbing her rear end.
"Hey, are you hurt?" Ruby asked extending her hand towards her.
Valyya merely slapped the hand away and glared at her. "You get away from me! In case you didn't notice, your so-called help is how we got stuck down here in the first place!"
"You better watch your mouth little girl or else you want and up in the place so much worse!" Ruby snapped.
"I can't think of anywhere worse than being trapped down here with you!"
"What is with the attitude?" said Ruby. "You know, I met someone who looks and sounds a lot like you, except she was in such a brat."
"Whoa, such a great story," said Valyya rolling her eyes. "Obviously that wasn't me so get over it."
Ruby just growled at her.
The two of them then started to make their way down the passageway they were in.
"So what exactly is the Legion Platoon's goal here anyway?" Ruby asked. "Why are you trying to collect all the clock pieces? What's with all this Holy War and chaos that?"
Valyya then turned and narrowed her eyes at her. "Well, I've got a question for you? If you don't know what we're doing then why are you and your friends trying to stop us?"
"Were trying to figure everything out that all," said Ruby simply. "Why? Is there something else we should be doing?"
"Yeah, how about leaving us alone? You guys are nothing more than just a bunch of crappy Vikings," Valyya spat. "You might as well give up when you still can."
This was definitely not the same Valyya Ruby met in Edolas.
They continued walking down the passageway.
"We need to be careful," said Ruby. "There's probably a lot more those booby-traps everywhere."
"I know, genius," said Valyya rolling her eyes. "The builders put them here to stop thieves like you and your buddies."
"You're here for the exact same reason as we are?" Ruby snapped.
Ruby then triggered a mechanism and suddenly spike shot out of the ground all around Ruby.
"Watch out!" Valyya yelled tackling Ruby to the ground just as spikes appeared where she was standing a few seconds ago.
"Thanks, you save my life," said Ruby gratefully.
"There's no need to thank me," said Valyya getting to her feet. "You try to save me earlier, I'm returning the favour by actually saving you."
Ruby just blinked.
They kept on making their way down the passage and soon reached the point of stairs and started to climb them.
"Are you seriously this unfriendly all the time?" Ruby asked. Valyya said nothing. "It's weird because you're so much like the other Valyya I know except that she's a million times nicer."
"That so," said Valyya. She then looked at Ruby. "Then how am I like this other girl?"
"Beside your personality you two are practically identical," said Ruby as they reached the top of the stairs.
"What?" Valyya stared.
"Like I said earlier she looks and sounds exactly like you and we started out his enemies to, but by the end she became one of my closest friends."
"That sounds like nothing like me, because I would never be friends with a stupid wannabe Viking like you," Valyya spat.
"You don't have to get so personal where just worried about putting the clock together is gonna cause a major problem is," said Ruby continue to walk. "We're trying to stop a worldwide disaster from happening. You know the whole inevitable chaos thing?"
"Do you guys honestly think that we want to destroy the world?" Valyya stared.
"We really don't know what you want. Personally, I'm just trying to understand what the heck my dad was trying to tell me."
"Hey, you're Dad," said Valyya curiously. "You're the daughter of Magnus Heartfull, aren't you? He was one of the richest businessmen in the country."
"I may be his daughter, but I can't say that we ever saw eye to eye on much and this is no exception. I mean why would anyone go to all the trouble to hide pieces of a clock in all these weird hard to find places? I can't help but think that there has to be an easier way to go about it."
"That may be the one thing we agree on," said Valyya.
Ruby then smiled.
Valyya looked at her. "You want to tell me what's so funny?"
"Nothing," said Ruby still smiling. "Well, I was actually just thinking that you're kind of silly that all."
Valyya narrowed her eyes. "Hey, I don't appreciate you saying that about me."
"Sorry, I didn't mean it as an insult."
Then they reached a dead-end and saw statue of Thor in front of them.
"Hold on, it's a dead-end" said Ruby. "You think we should turn around and go back?"
Valyya rolled her eyes. "Geez, you don't know anything do ya? Place like this always have secret hidden exits."
Valyya then made her way to the statue.
"No, please don't!" Ruby cried.
Too late, Valyya touched the statue and suddenly the ceiling caved in and Ruby heard Valyya's screams.
"Valyya!" Ruby cried.
When the dust settled Ruby saw that Valyya was very much alive, but several rocks trapped her legs. Murray quickly rushed towards her and bent down.
"Oh may Thor, are you okay?" Ruby cried.
"Ruby!" Toothless' yelled above her.
Ruby looked up and saw Toothless and the others looking down at her from the hole in the ceiling.
"Thank Thor you're alive I was so worried," said Sigrid in relief.
"Hey, come over here and we can pull you up," said Gustav.
Ruby looked down at the unconscious Valyya.
A few moments later, Valyya was all alone, but Ruby and the others managed to pull her out rubble of her legs and tended to her wounds. When she finally woke up she saw that Ruby was gone and that there was a bandage around her leg.
Ruby and the others were long gone running through the passageway.
"I would have left her if I were you," said Toothless.
"Yeah, but that just didn't feel right to me," Ruby admitted.
Meanwhile Eret and his team finally reached the top of the mountain. However there was no sign of any ruins, in fact there were no signs that anyone had ever been on top of the mountain.
"According to the information Ruby gave you we should be sitting on top of one of the clock pieces right about now," said Eret looking at the map.
Skullcrusher folding his paws. "If that's the case why has nobody seen it yet?"
Eventually Fishlegs and the rest of his team managed to pull themselves onto the edge of the mountain completely exhausted.
"Nice of you to finally join us," Eret smiled.
"I was afraid that we would never get up that cliff," Fishlegs panted.
"The air is so thin up here," said Helga.
"Not to mention super cold," said Ingrid hugging herself.
"Don't forget that we got work to do," said Eret getting to his feet.
"Can we just catch our breath for a minute," said Fishlegs, who was practically on his hands and knees.
"I don't even think I can move right now," Helga complained.
"I know how you feel," said Ingrid.
"Fine, you guys rest and I'll have a look around," said Eret. However there wasn't much to look at. "Still don't see any of the clock pieces which means it's probably buried underground."
"So what do we do now?" Skullcrusher asked.
"Easy," said Eret.
Eret then slammed his fist into the ground and began to pummel it furiously.
Meanwhile Astrid and her team and managed to reach their location which was at the base of a very large tower that disappeared into the clouds.
"We're here," said Astrid staring up at the tower. "We finally found it."
"The Library of Sorcery holds countless texts on almost every type of magic that ever been practised," said Stormfly. "It's quite impressive."
"Yeah, no joke," said Agatha. "The place is huge."
"Doesn't look like that anyone has been here in a long time," Merrill noted.
"That's the real tragedy," said Stormfly. "All that knowledge just waiting to be learned."
Astrid then extended her hand onto what she believed to be the door and it opened automatically.
Once they stepped inside they just stared in awe, because the tower was completely covered with shelves killing thousands upon thousands of books.
"You're telling me that all these books are about magic?" Agatha stared.
"What a wonderful sight to behold don't you think?" Stormfly breathed.
Merrill nodded. "Yeah, we should come back here sometime and bring Fishlegs."
"I've never seen so many books in my life," said Astrid as she approached the bookcase.
She then grabbed the book and accidentally knocked a few on the floor and then she saw someone staring at her from behind the bookcase.
Meanwhile Hiccup was still fighting against Daan and it was hard to tell who was winning.
Hiccup then jumped up into the air. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" he yelled unleashing his dragon breath attack.
Daan quickly raised his shield to block the attack. "Take this!" Daan roared firing several battle blasts from the tip of his spear.
Hiccup unleashed a small burst of flame so you can dodge the attack while in mid-air and landed back onto the ground.
Daan was now starting to get annoyed. "I'm sick and tired of messing around with you!"
"I could say the same," said Hiccup.
"Then let's end this. Prepare to die." Daan then charged at Hiccup with his spear raised. "The time has come to put your fire out once and for all!"
Daan the unleashed more magical blasts from his spear directing them at Hiccup. Hiccup however just ran straight towards him, dodging the blast.
"You'll never beat me!" Hiccup yelled raising Inferno.
He then jumped into the air and swung his blade at Daan, who did the same with his spear.