Hiccup: 2000
Olaf: 2100
The battle between Hiccup and Olaf was not going Hiccup's way. He had no monsters and Olaf had a monster that could take other monsters when attacked.
"When I'm through with you what energy you have left will go to Drago," said Olaf.
"Look, I know you don't like me, but why are you siding with a maniac like Drago?" Hiccup demanded.
"Drago changed my life, I owe him everything," said Olaf. "He woke me up to the truth."
After a long day of teaching, Olaf made his way to the staff room. His entire classroom had been empty and so was the one after that.
"Can't stand them, can you, Olaf," said Drago's voice. Olaf turned and saw Drago standing behind him. "The do nothings that pollute this Academy and tarnish your very name and after all the sacrifices you may. Duelling has been your passion since childhood, you dreamt a career as a professional duellists, but as for your parents they had other ideas as teachers themselves they saw you in an academic role.
"So as not to disappoint them you enrolled in a top university where you spend your days obsessively studying. By night, you attempted to duel professionally, but exhausted from your studies this proved to be impossible. You are set and overworked and that your duelling career met an untimely end. Therefore you decided to do the next best thing and here you are. A history professor with a love of duelling, if you can be duellist perhaps your students could, but that's never going to happen."
"Why not?" Olaf asked.
"It's simple, the pupils of this school have given up," said Drago turning to the window. "They rather daydream then expand their minuscule minds and you know as well as I do who's to blame for this certain student apathy and it's time he paid."
Olaf joined him at the window and saw that he was looking down at Hiccup and his friends who were busy laughing with one another.
Olaf returned the present and looked up at Hiccup.
"Before we continue I'd like to pose a question," he said.
"And what question would that be?" Hiccup asked.
"If you could have dinner with any pharaoh, who would it be?" Olaf asked.
"Now that's a question I'm not usually asked," Hiccup blinked. "The truth is I'm not really sure which one I would want after all it's hard to judge someone when they lived 50,000 years ago."
"Typical, dodging the question with clever comments," Olaf sighed. "You're a fool, a clod, you've got the brain of a Paleolithic Cro-Magnon."
"Seriously you're relating me to a caveman?" Hiccup stared.
"Hiccup, you mock everything I value, last year you missed half the semester after losing one duel," Olaf glared. "You're a disgrace to educational institution!"
"Hey, I take classes very seriously," said Hiccup strongly.
"You're wrong!" Olaf glared. "Even despite missing so many classes you're still the top duellist in the school. This has led others other students to follow your lead. Thanks to you everyone thinks they can miss classes and still succeed.
"Unfortunately, not everyone possessed natural abilities you possess, but there was one student who never betrayed me, Astrid Hofferson. How she became your girlfriend boggles the mind, unlike the rest of you she listened to what I had to say, but it was only a matter of time before she joined the crowd. If you were some second rate has been none of this would matter, but think you defeated the three Sacred Beasts, then you distinguished the Light of Destruction. Don't you see, students look at you and say, 'Hiccup, is the best there is. If he can succeed without going to class so can I.'"
"Look, I never meant to miss any class and I certainly didn't want become an example," said Hiccup strongly.
"If you actually paid attention you'd see how much power you had, but am afraid now it's too late," said Olaf. "Hiccup, you're a weak block of limestone in the great Pyramid of our institution."
"Can we just carry on duelling," said Hiccup.
"You're a problem and if you're not eliminated soon you'll bring down the entire school," said Olaf. "Luckily, Drago noticed that and hired me to fix it."
He then drew. "Now it's time, since your field is empty I win! Barf attack your former master directly!"
Barf jumped into the air and tossed his spear directly at Hiccup.
"Not this time," said Hiccup pressing a button on his duel disk. "I activate my trap, Negate Attack!"
He revealed his facedown, build itself and created a vortex that not Barf's sphere of course.
"Not only does this trap negate your attack, but also end your Battle Phase," said Hiccup.
"Perhaps, but every predicament has more than one viable solution," said Olaf and revealed a spell card in his hand. "Like this, I activate my Scab Blast spell card. Now every one of your monsters that join my side you lose 200 life points, since I have two that means you lose 400 life points."
Barf and Ventus jumped into the air and least a dark aura that struck Hiccup.
Hiccup: 1600
Olaf: 2100
"And with that I end my turn."
"Then it's my move," said Hiccup as he drew. He looked at the card he drew and saw that he had drawn Polymerization. "I play my Dragon Knight Scaldy."
Then suddenly emerging on the field was Hiccup water-based knight. (ATK: 800/ DEF: 1000)
"And since there are no other cards on my field, Scaldy's special ability activates allowing me to draw two more cards." He drew his two cards are then placed one of them facedown. "One of them I'm playing facedown and next and activate my Polymerization in order to abuse Scaldy with Belch in order to form Dragon Knight Marine!"
Belch soon appeared on the field and entered into a vortex along with Scaldy. The two of them then fused together until a dragon arrived wearing the green dragon like armour appeared on the field holding a large anchor in his hand which was attached to a chain which wrapped around his arms. (ATK: 1400/ DEF: 700)
"I may not be able to attack your Scarknight, but I can go around it," said Hiccup. "You see Marine is able to attack your life points directly, but in exchange he is the only monster I can attack this turn. Now go!"
Mariner then tossed his anchor and it headed straight towards Olaf and struck him.
Hiccup: 1600
Olaf: 700
Astrid was still trapped and the water was coming in much fast. The water had reached her waist and was his rising.
"I should have known I was getting in over my head," said Astrid slightly panicking now.
Unbeknownst to her Drago was watching Oprah security camera.
"You don't know the half of it," he said with a smile.
He then turned his attention back to the duel between Hiccup and Olaf.
"Like Bandit King Bakura said to King Atem in the city of Kul Elna 'Your reign is over,'" said Olaf.
"Last time I checked he lost to King Atem and he was attempting to destroy the entire world," Hiccup reminded.
"Again you evade the topic," said Olaf slightly disappointed.
"What?" Hiccup stared.
"Your mind is like a pre-dynastic tomb."
"In Nose, please."
"Of course, there are some things in this world you'll never understand."
Hiccup narrowed his eyes. "I could say about you."
"How can you compare my intellect to yours?" said Olaf shaking his head. "Well, the answer is you can't because mine is in a different league."
"Did it ever occur to you that the reason no one showed up to your lectures is because they were boring?" Hiccup asked. "Here's a lesson for you, everyone's got different strengths."
"Wrong again, you can master anything in this world, Hiccup. It just takes practice and dedication," said Olaf.
Hiccup then raised an eyebrow. "If that's the case why did you fail the pros?"
"That was not my fault!" Olaf roared. "The reason I never affected my duelling skills was because I never had time to practice. I was too busy earning my degree so I could teach ungrateful brats like you."
"Now look is making excuses," Hiccup smirked. "You spat at me because I made excuses for not attending lessons and now you're doing the same? You're nothing more than a hypocrite!"
Olaf growled in anger at him.
Then they heard laughter and saw a holographic image of Drago looking down at them.
"Pardon the interruption," he said.
"Drago?" Hiccup stared.
"Yes, in the flesh. Well, actually the hologram to be technically accurate," said Drago. "Thought you could use a little inspiration."
Then suddenly he produced a holographic image of Astrid with water up to her neck.
"Astrid!" Hiccup cried. He glared knowing that Drago was watching. "Let her go!"
"That power lies with you, Hiccup," said Drago. "All you have to do is lose. You see every time Professor Olaf loses life points the water level rises accordingly. At zero, she goes under."
"Leave her out of this!" Hiccup demanded angrily. "Astrid has nothing to do with this."
"Hiccup is right, Drago," said Olaf. "I can't condone this game."
"Can't you?" Drago asked looking down at Olaf. "Think, Olaf. Haven't you forgotten how she betrayed you."
He then produced a hologram of Astrid making a way to the campus and they watched as the twins made their way towards her.
"Hey, Astrid! Want to cut class and go to the mall with us?" Ruffnut called.
"Please, Little Miss Perfect blow off a class?" said Tuffnut folding his arms.
"Yeah," Ruffnut nodded.
"Actually…" said Astrid and the twins and stared at her. "I'm glad you asked, it sounds like fun. Besides, Professor Olaf is kind of dull."
Olaf's eyes widened when he heard this. "How could you?" The image then turned back to Astrid with water up to her neck. "You are supposed to be different! Now my last hope to make a difference at this Academy is gone!"
Hiccup on the other hand could tell that the hologram was a fake, because Astrid would have gone anywhere without Heather.
"Olaf, wait…!" Hiccup yelled trying to knock some sense into him.
"Enough waiting, on with the duel," said Olaf.
'He doesn't realise that he's been used and I doubt I could convince him,' said Hiccup to himself. 'If I lose then Drago get all of my energy, but if I win I lose Astrid.' Hiccup was really stuck in a hard place he could see a way out of it.
Drago smiled upon seeing his expression and knew what Hiccup was thinking.
'That's right, Hiccup,' he said to himself. 'Give in to your anger, the more vindictive you become the more energy you expel.'
Olaf then reached for his deck, but then stopped. "It's time to expect the unexpected," he said. "To start with I'm not going to draw. When Scab Blast is in the graveyard I can add it to my hand in lieu of drawing from my deck of course."
Then retrieved his Scab Blast card from his graveyard and then looked up at Hiccup. "Have you forgotten what it does? Here's a reminder!"
Hiccup watched as Barf and Ventus flew up into the air and unleashed a powerful dark aura on top of him.
Hiccup: 1200
Olaf: 700
"All right, class lesson two," said Olaf as he held out a spell card. "My Gift of the Martyr spell. By sending one monster to the grave and in turn all of that monsters attack points transferred to the monster I'm choosing. So I sacrifice Dragon Spirit Ventus and give her power to Barf."
Ventus then shattered into pixels and the remains of Scarknight's armour attach themselves to Barf. (ATK: 1200-1900)
"And now he attacks, take down his Marine!" Olaf commanded.
Barf then charged at Marine and slammed his spear right into him destroying him instantly.
Hiccup: 700
Olaf: 700
Meanwhile Camicazi led the others back to the elevator, but there was no sign of Hiccup or Astrid's team.
"It's been over hour," said Fishlegs looking extremely worried. "Where is everyone?"
"I've got no clue," said Heather also looking concerned.
Camicazi made her way to the elevator and press down on the button, but it didn't work.
"Guys, we've got a problem," she said.
"Haven't we got enough?" Heather groaned.
"The power has been cut," said Camicazi.
"The power?" Fishlegs gasped. "As and our only ticket back home."
"Looks like we're on our own," said Camicazi. "So would you say we are like heroes and do something heroic?"
Fishlegs and Heather nodded.
Meanwhile Hiccup and activated his facedown card, the Dragon Knight Horn.
"Since you destroyed one of my monsters I can activate this facedown card," said Hiccup. "Now I'm able to summon a Dragon Knight up to level four to take its place. Say hello to Dragon Knight Neo Toothless!"
Suddenly appearing on the field was a teenager version of Toothless. (ATK: 1700/ DEF: 1400)
"But just wait, there's a whole lot more where that came from," said Hiccup as he drew. He then grabbed a card in his hand. "I activate Dragon of the Wind! Thanks to this card since I have a Wind Attribute Dragon on the field I can now switch your Scarknight from offence to defence." Neo Toothless then unleashed a powerful wind upon Scarknight. "Your Scab Scarknight maybe powerful, but he's only powerful so long as he's in attack mode."
Then Scarknight took on a defensive position and the dark aura around him vanished.
"Impressive, Mr Haddock," said Olaf looking impressed. "You discovered a way not only to destroy my monster, but also found a way to not destroy my life." He then looked up at Astrid. "Which means your girlfriend is safe."
"Neo Toothless attack Scarknight!" Hiccup commanded.
Neo Toothless places hands together and pull the plasma blast and then tossed it straight at Scarknight.
"Surprise, I've got a track," said Olaf revealing one of his facedown cards. "Victim Barrier."
Suddenly Scarknight suddenly vanished and was replaced with Barf.
"Oh no!" Hiccup gasped.
"When one of your monsters is attacking, this card changes the target," Olaf explained.
Barf then exploded and the impact struck Olaf.
Hiccup: 700
Olaf: 200
"Why would you do that?" Hiccup asked confused.
He then looked up and saw that the water was rushing in and now at was almost completely submerged.
"This isn't funny, Drago!" Astrid yelled trying to keep herself afloat. "Let me out of here!"
"Astrid!" Hiccup yelled.
"Eyes on me," said Olaf. "Since you destroyed Barf a Scab Counter is placed upon Neo Toothless meaning I gained control over him."
Suddenly more chance of Scarknight's armour landed themselves on Neo Toothless and seconds later a dark aura consumed him dragging him over to Olaf's side the field.
"Not again," Hiccup moaned. "Can't you use a different tactic just this once? I'll place this card facedown and end my turn."
Hiccup placed a card facedown on the field.
Meanwhile Ragnar and Wartihog had managed to meet up with Thuggory and explained in the situation. Now the three of them were searching for Astrid, but there was no sign of her.
"Astrid!" Wartihog called.
"Are you out there?" Thuggory yelled.
"Shout if you can hear us!" Ragnar yelled. There was no answer, but then Ragnar sense something close by. "Guys, I think I sense something this way."
Wartihog looked at Thuggory. "Do you think he's losing it?"
"It's not like we have any better ideas," said Thuggory.
They followed Ragnar through the bushes and found him bending over something.
"You found something?" Thuggory asked.
"I think there's something here," said Ragnar.
"Maybe there's something underground?" Wartihog suggested putting his ear to the ground. "All I hear is water."
"Must be underground rivers under this complex," said Thuggory. He then looked at Ragnar. "Perhaps that is what you sensed, but there are more important things to do."
"More important than rescuing me!" Astrid's voice yelled.
"That sounds like Astrid," Wartihog gasped.
The three of them gasped and looked down and saw some kind of trapdoor. They tried budging the doors, but they were stuck firm and fast.
"That water must have a source," said Thuggory.
"Like that one we saw," said Wartihog.
"We better hurry," said Ragnar as he places into the ground. "Because it sounded as if what is rushing in and something tells me Astrid doesn't have much time left."
Without a second thought they rushed towards the waterfall they saw earlier.
"Now what?" Warthihog asked.
"Hold this and sit tight," said Thuggory handing Ragnar his duel disk.
He then dived in to the lake and found a passageway. He quickly swam as quickly as he could down it and holding his breath the best he could.
Hiccup and Olaf were still clashing and Hiccup was becoming frantic as he saw Astrid nearly submerged.
"Someone help me! Please, help me!" she screamed.
"Sorry, but I'd rather rescue my Scab Blast spell card," said Olaf as he retrieved his spell card from his grave. "And then I switch my Scarknight to attack mode." Scarknight then stood up into an attack position. "And now my new Neo Toothless attack Hiccup directly!"
Neo Toothless jumped into the air and began to form a plasam blast.
"Not so fast, I activate Dragon Knight Reinforcements!" Hiccup yelled revealing his facedown card. "Now I draw the top card from my deck and if it's a monster I can summon it to the field, but if it's anything else I take 500 points of damage." Hiccup then drew from his deck and smiled at the card he drew. "And it turns out I did drew a monster, my Dragon Knight Toothless!"
Then the original Toothless appeared on the field placing himself between Hiccup and Neo Toothless.
"I suppose you think your life points are safe," said Olaf as Neo Toothless dispelled the plasma blast in his hands. "Unfortunately, you're wrong. I activate my Scab Blast."
Suddenly a dark aura launched itself from Neo Toothless and struck Hiccup.
Hiccup: 500
Olaf: 200
Hiccup then looked up at Astrid. 'I can still win, but that means I lose Astrid.'
Then Hiccup noticed bubbles were merging from the surface and wondered where they came from.
A few seconds later, Thuggory managed to break through the stone wall of Astrid cell. Astrid immediately sunk ahead beneath the water and saw Thuggory. He quickly swam up to the surface and took a deep breath.
"Let's go," he said.
Ragnar and Wartihog were still waiting at the waterfall looking around frantically for any sign of either Astrid or Thuggory. Then they saw the two of them breaking the surface taking deep breaths.
"What a relief," said Ragnar.
"You did it!" Wartihog cheered.
"And just in time," said Astrid looking at Thuggory. "Thanks, Thuggory."
Drago was less than pleased with the rescue. "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids," he grumbled.
"They saved her," said Hiccup feeling as if the weight of the world was off his shoulders. "Now I can go all out." He then drew from his deck. "Okay, bud, let's finish this. Attack Scab Scarknight."
Toothless then launched into the air positioning themselves above Scarknight.
"I play trap," said Olaf revealing his last facedown card. "Go, Scab Scream! Since Toothless has over 2000 attack points instantly destroyed and I don't take any damage. However, then I must send my Scarknight to the graveyard."
Scarknight then showed his armour and there was a bright light. The broken armour and the dark aura that surrounded him then collided into Toothless destroying him. Through the smoke Hiccup saw that the remains of Scarknight were changing.
"What's that?" he stared.
Replacing Scarknight with a one-out looking warrior with cracks in his armour and covered in scars. (ATK: 0/ DEF: 0)
"Hang on, where did that guy come from?" Hiccup asked.
"Are we confused again, Hiccup?" Olaf asked in a mocking tone. "A little history lesson should clear things up. In the not so distant past Scar-Knight was an impenetrable hero. Much like legendary Hercules from Greek mythology. This powerful warrior brought me countless victories, but like me Scar-Knight was pushed too hard.
"Soon I lost everything my fans, my confidence and as you probably could tell my enthusiasm. It was then that Scar-Knight transformed into a bitter hardened version of his former self and neither of us were the same again. We both gave up so much for our love of duelling, but in the end I'm afraid it just wasn't enough."
"So you gave up," said Hiccup shaking his head. "And you accuse me of not reaching my full potential when you yourself fail to achieve just that. Drago saw this and lied to you so that you could stop me, he doesn't care about the Academy."
"That's a lie!" Olaf roared.
"Then you leave me no choice," said Hiccup. "I summon Dragon Spirit Dawn in defence mode."
Suddenly appearing on the field was Hiccup's light spirit dragon spirit, who took on a defensive position. (ATK: 500/ DEF: 900)
"Then I'll place this card facedown and end my turn," said Hiccup placing a card facedown on the field.
"Time for your final less," said Olaf as he drew. "Self-sacrifice! And it's all about giving up a part of yourself in order to survive. Something I know all too well and so does my Scar-Knight which is why he's going to self-destruct and when he does take out every monster on the field and inflict both players with 500 point of damage each one."
Hiccup grimaced.
Scar-Knight then exploded and his dark aura covered the entire field taking out both Neo Toothless and Demand Man. Hiccup then saw the dark aura beginning to cover Dawn.
"Activate trap," said Hiccup quickly.
Then there was a huge explosion so powerful that all the cards in Olaf's deck scattered. The explosion also alerted Camicazi and the others.
"What's that?" Fishlegs asked.
"A huge explosion," said Heather.
"Let's see what caused it," said Camicazi and they ran towards it.
Olaf looked up as the smoke around Hiccup's appeal dispelled. However, he saw that somehow Dawn had shielded Hiccup with her body and then he noticed that Hiccup facedown card revealed itself to be a trap card. It showed a picture of Dragon Spirit Aqua shielding a duellist with her body.
"So you predicted my moves," said Olaf. "You played Spirit Veil so you win. But as Aknamkanon once said to King Atem, he who sits on high has the furthest of fall."
Hiccup: 500 (Winner!)
Olaf: 0
He then looked down and saw Scar-Knight's card laying down on the bridge. "Scar-Knight," he said reaching out towards it.
However, the Bio Bands then activated just as he picked the card up.
"Professor!" Hiccup yelled.
He then watched as Olaf from exhaustion and fell into the ravine.
"No!" Hiccup yelled and then felt his energy beam drained out of his Bio Band. "What's the deal."
He then collapsed from exhaustion.
'Hiccup, I've missed you so much, but soon you will be all mine again,' said a voice.
Dragon Knight Marine
ATK: 1400/ DEF: 1000
Level 5
WATER
Warrior/ Fusion/ Effect
Dragon Knight Scauly + any Dragon Knight
This card cannot be Special Summoned, except by Fusion card is treated as a Dragon-type while faceup on the field or in the Graveyard. During your Main Phase 1, you can activate this card's effect. If you do, it can attack your opponent directly this turn. Other monsters cannot attack during the turn you activate this effect.
Spirit Shield
Trap Card
Activate only if you have a Dragon Spirit monster on your side of the field. Until the end of this turn you take no effect damage.
Card image: Dragon Spirit Aqua shielding a duellist with her body