Hiccup and Daan was still battling it out inside the ruins and Hiccup was slamming the now ignited Inferno down on top of him. However, at the last second, Daan jumped back and Hiccup's Blade slammed into the ground.
Daan then touched the statue of Thor behind him with his spear and it grew three times its size.
"I can't believe you fell for that," said Daan's voice.
The statue then began to shake as it seven change inside made unstable and then it fell down towards Hiccup. He tried to get away from the following statue, but he was too late and dust covered the area around where the statue fell.
However, Hiccup jumped out of the dust much to Daan's surprise. "Is that all you got?" Hiccup asked.
"Excellent," Daan smiled. "Now this is the kind of fight I've been missing."
Meanwhile Ruby and the others finally managed to locate the temple within the ruins.
"Is this really the place?" Toothless asked.
Ruby looked through Key of the Starry Heavens. "Yeah, I think so. There's a line within the Key of the Starry Heavens, 'Long and silent had the key rested, embraced by the sound of reverent prayer.'"
"By prayer?" said Sigrid. "That does suggest a temple of some kind."
"Yeah, but there aren't a lot of places to hide stuff here?" Gustav noted.
"I'll get an Exceed's eye view and see if I can spot anything," said Toothless and flew up into the air.
Meanwhile as Astrid was facing something back got her nerve standing on end. She was staring at the face of Tuffnut, but somehow he looked slightly older, through the bookshelves of the Library of Sorcery.
"Tuffnut?" Merrill blinked. "What are you doing here? And where is Ruffnut?"
"And why do you look so much older?" Stormfly asked.
"That's not Tuffnut," said Astrid looking annoyed.
"She's right," said the Tuffnut imposter as he stepped out from behind the shelves.
He certainly looked like Tuffnut, but he had a brown jacket instead of murky yellow. Also his voice sounded a bit deeper and there is a slightly more intelligent look in his eyes.
"I'm Gruffnut," he said with a small bow.
"Who's he?" Merrill frowned looking at Astrid and Agatha.
"That would be Ruff and Tuff's no good cousin," said Agatha.
"How come no one has mentioned him before?" Stormfly asked.
"Because you know good to bit liar and thief," Astrid growled. "He was sent by Alvin's mother Excellinor to steal Dragon Tail secrets ten years ago."
"It was just a misunderstanding," said Gruffnut calmly.
"Misunderstanding?" Agatha growled. "You pretended to be this awe-inspiring adventure which Tuffnut looked up to and then knocked him out, impersonated him and nearly killed Ruffnut."
"He did want?" Merrill stared.
"My word," said Stormfly.
"Fortunately, Ruffnut realised the deception and managed to expose avoided any real damage," said Astrid narrowing her eyes. "He was then sent to prison and appears he's just gotten out."
"Okay, maybe I was hired in order to steal some of your secrets, but that was ten years ago right?" said Gruffnut innocently.
"And let me guess you are here for the clock piece?" Astrid assumed.
"What gives you such a silly idea like that?" Gruffnut asked.
"Why else would you be here, you're not exactly a great reader," Astrid reminded.
"You got me," Gruffnut shrugged. "I got wind of your little scavenging hunt and figured that something Dragon Tail is interested is worth quite a lot of Gil."
"Well you won't be getting your hands on it, you creep," said Agatha strongly.
"We'll see about that," Gruffnut smiled and then suddenly he vanished.
"Where did he go?" Merrill asked looking around.
"It his Cloaking Magic," said Astrid as she summoned her battle-axe. "It allows him to vanish completely."
"Which gives me the other hand!" Gruffnut's yelled.
Astrid then raised her axe and it clearly collided with something hard. "You know you would actually be dangerous if you bothered to keep quiet," Astrid smirked.
"Then you won't hear me coming," said Gruffnut.
There was silence for a brief moment and Merrill sniffed and picked up Gruffnut's scent.
"He's attacking you from behind!" Merrill cried.
Astrid quickly swung her axe and it collided with Gruffnut's invisible weapon. She swung a very powerful kick which hit him in the chest sending him crashing into one of the bookshelves.
"I have you now!" Astrid yelled charging towards him.
Merrill then leaned over towards Agatha and Stormfly. "Astrid is distracting him, this gives us the perfect opportunity to find a clock piece," she whispered.
"Good idea," said Agatha pulled out a card with her picture on it. "The moment I find a clock piece this will let you know."
"Right," Merrill nodded.
"You're staying?" Stormfly asked.
"I'm the only one that can smell him," Merrill pointed out. "I'll stay in support Astrid."
Agatha and Stormfly nodded and then made their leave.
Merrill then turned to Astrid and smelt the air. "Astrid, he is right above you!" she yelled.
Astrid then quickly jumped out of the way and a few moments later there was a massive bang and a mace shaped dent was created on the floor.
"Thanks, Merrill," Astrid smiled.
"No problem," Merrill cried happily.
"Hey, no fair!" Gruffnut yelled.
"You're the one invisible and you're saying that when a playing fair?" Astrid glared as she quickly blocked another one of his attacks.
Agatha and Stormfly were beginning their search for the clock piece.
"I'm starting to think that the Legion Platoon is the source of this leak," said Agatha as they ran.
"I've been thinking the same thing," said Stormfly.
Stormfly then quickly summoned her wings and grabbed Agatha and they began to fly down deeper into the library.
"It can't be a coincidence that Gruffnut knew about looking for the clock pieces and appearing in one of their locations," said Agatha. "Maybe it was their plan all along?"
"Perhaps this is the very chaos we been worried about," said Stormfly.
"Well, there's no point fretting about it," Agatha sighed. "Let's just focus on what we can do here and now."
They soon landed on one of the bridges that span across the library. In front of them was a shelf of artefacts.
"'Upon the knowledge age of sorcery, time does rest,'" said Agatha quoting a passage from the Key to the Starry Heavens. "Looks like this is the spa that Ruby told us about it matches the clue and I think this is where we should start looking."
"Are you sure we'll find it here?" Stormfly asked looking at the shelves.
"The Library of Sorcery, is the only place where you can find books full of old magic and techniques like these," said Agatha. "Printing technology didn't exist when most of them transcribed which means a lot of handwritten manuscripts and all these books in this section are about ancient magic so it seems like the best place to start."
"So the clock piece has to be somewhere among," Stormfly concluded.
"Talk about a needle in a haystack," said Agatha looking at all the books.
Meanwhile Hiccup and Daan was still doing battle within the ancient ruins of the city. The battle had caused several pillars to collapse which hide Hiccup from view.
Daan looked wildly for him and then Hiccup appeared from behind the dust jumping from pillar to pillar towards him until he was directly above them.
"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Hiccup yelled unleashing his breath attack.
Daan raised his shield expecting the attack to head towards him, but the attack appeared and struck one of the pillars next to him. Daan realised too late what Hiccup had planned and the pillow fell down towards him, he barely had enough time to raise his shield to protect himself.
"Now I can't believe I fell for that," Daan cursed.
This left him wide open for Hiccup, whose face went ablaze. "Fire Dragon's Blazing Claw!"
He then slammed his blazing fist right into Daan's stomach which sent him flying. However, Daan quickly recovered from the attack and landed on the ground on his two feet and then laughed.
"Am I missing the joke?" Hiccup asked.
"The joke is you," Daan smirked. "Your magic power is so weak."
"Huh?"
"I've been thinking about it since our last fight. Seems like offensive power is more the show than anything."
"Say what?"
"Viggo and Windshear mentioned something interesting. Is it true that you are frozen in time on an island for seven years?" Daan asked.
"Yes, what about it?" Hiccup asked.
Daan then pointed his spear at him. "I'm willing to bet the farm that is the reason you'll never be able to beat me."
"You want to test that theory?"
"You don't get it, do you?" Daan said with a large smirk. "While you are frozen I had seven years to improve my skill. I'm a completely different calibre of Viking. A seven year old fossil ain't got not been on me especially since Windshear told me how to counter every single one of your moves."
"I wouldn't get so cocky," Hiccup advised. "You aren't the first to told me that and everyone who did fell by my hand." Hiccup then places hands together. "Fire Dragon's Plasma Blast!"
Hiccup then fired a plasma blast directly at Daan, who immediately raised his shield and the blast was redirected in all different directions.
"Nice try," said Daan.
The redirected fire then started to shatter rocks, struck the ancient houses and slammed into Hiccup. He was hit so hard that Hiccup was sent him flying over the staircase behind him and Valyya saw him flying past.
"What the?" she stared.
Meanwhile Ruby and the others were still looking around the temple and suddenly they heard something crash through the ceiling. They quickly turned and saw that Hiccup went straight through the ceiling and landed hard on the ground.
"Hiccup!" Gustav yelled running towards him.
"What happened?" Toothless asked.
"You okay?" Ruby asked.
"So that's where you were hiding, my little gem," said a voice.
They looked up and saw Daan looking through the hole in the ceiling that Hiccup created.
"Not him again?" Ruby cried.
"And I thought we lost him," said Toothless.
Then landed on the ground and looked directly at Ruby with a large goofy smile on his face. "Give me some sugar."
"Hold on, you and me weren't quite done," said Hiccup pulling himself up.
"Please, you don't stand a chance against me," said Daan without even looking at him. He then turned his attention onto Ruby. "Now then, where were we?"
"No way!" Ruby cried hiding behind Sigrid.
Hiccup then appeared in front of him with Infernal ablaze. "If you want to get her you have to go through me."
"This will be quick," said Daan drawing his spear.
Meanwhile Astrid was still battling against the invisible Gruffnut with the aid of Merrill.
"I surrender now if you know what's good for you," said Astrid.
"No way I'm going to pass this opportunity up!" said Gruffnut's voice.
Astrid quickly turned and blocked Gruffnut's mace with the blade in her battleaxe. "When will you learn that you can't beat us?"
Gruffnut tried to deal her an invisible kick, but she predicted this and caught his leg and tossed him into the bookshelves and he reappeared.
"You're not going to stop me," said Gruffnut picking himself up.
"I seem to be able to do just that," said Astrid.
Gruffnut growled and then began flailing his arms in all directions. At first Astrid was confused by this gesture until a few seconds later she something slammed into her constantly.
Merrill just stared as Astrid skidded across the terrace. "What happened?"
"I'm don't just make myself disappear you know," Gruffnut smirked.
Merrill soon realised what happened. "He made the books invisible and then tossed them at Astrid."
The said invisible books then reappeared all over Astrid and she brushed them off her. "And you accuse us of using dirty tricks."
Meanwhile Hiccup was still blocking Daan's access to Ruby much to his annoyance and anger.
"You're just making this even hard on yourself," Daan spat at Hiccup.
"I was gonna say the same thing to you," said Hiccup.
"Where are you going to land encounter every single one of your moves?" Daan glared.
"The move you know about?" Hiccup smiled. He then held out his palm. "Heatwave!"
Suddenly a magic circle appeared in front of Hiccup and Daan felt a massive wave of heat heading straight at him.
"What's going on?" Daan cried.
"I guess Windshear forgot that I wasn't always a Dragon Slayer," said Hiccup with a smile. "I use an entirely different brand of magic before I learned Dragon's Slaying Magic."
"No matter, I can deflect this attack with ease," said Daan raising his shield. However, nothing happened. "Wh-what's going on? How come my shield isn't working?"
"You really should know how your brand of magic works," Hiccup smiled. "Your shield is able to deflect projectiles and physical attacks, but it uses against attacks with no form of themselves say heat."
"Then let's see how you defend yourself against this!" Daan yelled raising his spear.
Hiccup then performs hand signs. "Fire Trap!"
Suddenly a magic circle appeared beneath Daan and then tentacles of fire erupted from it encircling around Daan's arms and legs trapping him in place.
"Uh-oh," he said realising what was coming next.
Hiccup then started to make his way over towards Daan. "Let this be a lesson to you to never underestimate your opponent, especially when this opponent has something to fight for. Unlike you I have friends supporting me giving me strength when I stumble!" Hiccup then raised his fist which then covered in flames he turned to Gustav. "Gustav!"
Gustav was standing behind Hiccup holding purple flames in his palm. "Here!" he yelled tossing the flames towards him.
The flames wrap themselves around Hiccup's fiery fist. "Fire Dragon's Blazing Claw!" Hiccup yelled.
He then slammed his blazing fist right into Daan's face sending him flying across the room and he slammed right into the wall. The impact knocked him out cold and he fell to the floor.
"Now that's how it's done!" Gustav cheered.
"Got that right," Hiccup smiled.
"I certainly like him much better when he passed out," said Ruby slightly relieved.
Then suddenly the Temple of Thor emblem above them began to glow and then the entire wall began to glow.
"What the—?" Ruby stared.
"The wall is shining," said Sigrid hypnotised by its radiance.
Suddenly the glow began to vanish and suddenly appearing in front of them was a large pair of rings with another ring circling around the horizontal chained up by metal chains.
"Whoa," Ruby breathed.
"That thing a gigantic," Hiccup stared.
"What is it?" Gustav asked.
"It's the clock piece!" Ruby cried.
"So that's where was hiding," said Hiccup.
"Hiccup's last attack must have caused it to be revealed," Sigrid guessed.
"You got two birds with one stone!" Gustav smiled up at Hiccup.
"Guess we were very lucky," said Hiccup.
Ruby just smiled at the clock piece. "We finally found it one. We're still in the game!"
Hiding behind the hole Hiccup had made earlier was Valyya.
"At last, I found it," she said.
Meanwhile Gruffnut was getting back onto his feet as Astrid did the same and Merrill just stood there watching as the two of them side one another.
"You know you can't beat me in combat," said Astrid.
"You don't know what I'm capable of, it's been seven years remember," Gruffnut smirked.
"I very much doubt that you can prove that much."
"Oh yeah, but I certainly learn how to be sneaky," said Gruffnut and then tossed something straight at Astrid.
Realise that he uses magic yet again, but he had no idea what he had thrown. Instinctively she raised her axe in order deflect it, but the moment it made contact smoke surrounded her and she began coughing.
"A smoke bomb," she coughed.
"Astrid, he's coming right at you!" Merrill yelled.
Astrid prepared herself for whatever trick Gruffnut was going to use on her. She then saw the smoke passing and then instantly swung her axe, but it is nothing and then something hard hit her in the face and then exploded.
It turned out that Gruffnut and jumped into the smoke and then turned several bonds invisible before tossing them. One of them actually hit Astrid in the face, but the others fell over the edge of the terrace and right where Agatha and Stormfly was standing.
The moment the bombs hit the ground they exploded much to the distress of both Agatha and Stormfly.
"What's going on?" Agatha yelled as explosions erupted all around them.
"No idea!" Stormfly panicked.
Agatha then placed a hand against one of the bookshelves which gave way and she found herself in some sort of secret chamber.
"Agatha!" Stormfly tried flying over towards her. "Are you okay?
Agatha pulled herself up and nodded.
Stormfly then saw something in the chamber. "Hey, look what that?" she pointed.
Agatha turned and saw a secret passageway. "A secret passageway," she gasped.
Instantly the two of them made their way down it.
"Guess we have those explosions to thank for that," said Agatha as she ran.
"We'll see," said Stormfly fly next to her. "This passage could lead to a trap."
They soon entered through a giant set of doors and found themselves in a chamber of sorts and then saw a large pair of legs standing there completely chained the floor.
"I think we just struck gold," Agatha stared.
"What do you know, I suppose we do have thank those explosions," Stormfly gasped.
Astrid was recovering from the explosions that Gruffnut tossed at her.
"Astrid? Are you all right?" Merrill asked fearfully.
"I'm fine," Astrid assured she then glared at Gruffnut. "You really are despicable?"
"I'm a Thorston, we're always despicable," Gruffnut smirked folding his arms. "Are you done underestimating me now?"
Then Merrill heard the sound of a bell and then picked up the car that Agatha gave her informing her that they had found the clock piece. "Looks like Agatha and Stormfly have found the clock piece."
"The treasure, huh?" said Gruffnut. "In that case…"
He then turn invisible and jumped into the air and raised his invisible mace. He instantly took advantage of Astrid's lacks of security and then slammed his mace as hard as he could into her. Astrid realised this a bit too late, but raised her axe in order to block the attack. However, the impact was still strong enough to knock her out cold.
"Astrid, no!" Merrill cried.
Agatha and Stormfly was still staring at the clock piece wondering how they were going to move it.
"So, how are we going to carry it?" Stormfly asked.
"Well…" Agatha frowned.
Then suddenly they heard footsteps and saw Gruffnut standing in front of him.
"You can't have that treasure, but you may even have this!" Gruffnut yelled tossing something invisible towards them.
They were confused briefly and then suddenly there was a huge explosion and a foul odour that smelled like rotten eggs. This left the two of them completely stunned and gave Gruffnut the chance to steal the clock piece.
In order to lift the mechanism he placed a device that made it as light as a feather. He then grabbed it and ran out of the chamber as quickly as he could with the clock piece on his back.
"Pay dirt here I can't!" he yelled excitedly.
Unfortunately, for him he didn't get very far, because blocking his path was Astrid in her Night Fury armour. Upon seeing the murderers look on her face he starred and quivering with fear.
"I should have underestimated you, but rest assured I will be making that mistake again," she said as her raised his sword. "Now I'm going to attack you with full force."
Then suddenly she charged at him in a blink of an eye and struck him with his sword with so much force that he was sent flying upwards.
"You haven't heard the last of me!" Gruffnut cried as he disappeared from view.
Soon the others approached Astrid.
"Well, he's gone now," said Merrill.
"Hopefully for good," said Stormfly folding her paws.
"You all right? You seem out of it?" Agatha asked.
"I'm still suffering from his attack," said Astrid rubbing her head.
"Well, we have this," said Agatha pointing to the clock piece. "And Gruffnut made carrying it far easier for us with this Lightweight Spell he placed on it."
Meanwhile Eret and his team was starting to dig at the very top of the mountain in the hopes to find the clock piece.
"Why haven't we found it yet?" Fishlegs asked.
Eret had converted his hands into a pickaxe and shovel and was digging ferociously. "We don't know how far deep the thing is and a lot of mountain to cover."
"Who put him in charge?" Helga asked as she and Ingrid started moving large rocks.
"We need his help to find a clock piece," Ingrid pointed out.
Fishlegs just shook his head and then saw that Eret had stopped digging. "Is something wrong?"
Eret converted his hands back to normal and looked at him. "I've got the feeling that we aren't alone."
"Uh-oh," said Helga.
"Where are they? Can you tell?" Ingrid asked.
Eret began looking around and then looked up into the air and there they spotted Windshear looking down at them.
"Well, it appears I've been spotted," she said.
"He's with the Legion Platoon!" Fishlegs panicked.
"Why are you here?" Eret demanded.
"That should be obvious, we're after the same thing aren't way?" she smiled. "I've come to claim it."
