Jackal was completely stunned that Hiccup managed to survive his explosion.

"This shouldn't be possible," he said stunned. "What did you do?"

Hiccup merely smiled. "I think I'll let you worry about that."

Jackal just stared at him. "I don't get it? Just who are you?"

Hiccup then immediately propelled himself forwards and charged towards Jackal. "My name is Hiccup," he said and slammed a burning fist right at Jackal's face.

Jackal was hit so hard that he crashed into the water, but he merely looked up at Hiccup with a large smile on his face.

"Idiot! You touched me again," he smirked as Hiccup's hand began to glow. "You know what that means. It's time for you to go nova!"

Hiccup then immediately fit into his hand and seconds later there was another explosion.

"Hiccup!" Ruby gasped.

"Hang in there," Merrill pleaded.

Jackal merely laughed assuming that Hiccup had been blown to bits. However, he couldn't have been more wrong, because when the smoke cleared Hiccup just stood there completely unharmed.

"I admit you caught me offguard the first time," said Hiccup with a small smile on his face. "But now I know what to expect and how to counter it."

Jackal was just completely speechless as Hiccup advance towards him. 'No matter what I try… this human just consumers my curse. He might even be stronger that he was when this fight started. I was wrong, there's no way he's human… he's a monster. But so were my.'

Then suddenly something began to happen to Jackal as they all watched as he began to grow until he was twice his normal height. As he grew yellow fur began to grow over his body and his face began to turn into a jackal.

"Get is not surrendering," said Ruby.

"Watch out! We don't know what you can do in this form!" Merrill cried.

Jackal was now so large that his shirt was torn to pieces and he began to roar like a wild animal. In fact his entire body seemed to have turned into a humanoid jackal

"At least we know how he got his name," said Hiccup.

Jackal then slammed his mighty fist right into Hiccup, who quickly blocked against it. However, this form proved to be stronger as Hiccup began to lose his ground across the lake. Then seconds later there was an explosion so powerful that the girls was flown right off their feet.

Hiccup took the full impact of the explosion was sent flying into a building, but Jackal wasn't finished just yet. He then immediately punched a building and pulled yet another explosion causing the rubble.

"Taking your anger on the wall is now a way?" Hiccup glared. "Leave the entire town out of this, your fighters with me!"

He then immediately charged towards Jackal, but Jackal slammed a powerful hammer fist towards him. Hiccup had to stop in order to block the attack with his arms in an X formation, but he was struck with so force that he created a new crater.

"I am a demon, the most powerful creature there is," Jackal snarled his voice much deeper than before. "Humans are only cockroaches to my kind, easy to kill."

"You're demon," Hiccup noted.

"I hope I didn't hear that right," said Ruby as she and Merrill recovered from the sudden explosion.

Hiccup looked at him directly into his eyes. "Are you the only one always your Guild full of demons?"

"I'm done talking," Jackal growled. He then immediately raised his call and it began to glow clearly ready to create an explosion. "I came to spill some blood!"

"If that's the only thing you're fighting for then you never stood a chance!" Hiccup yelled tapping into his inner strength. He immediately pushed Jackal's arm out of the way and then immediately slammed a powerful blazing kick right beneath his chin. "Because we're fighting for our friends! The one that your Guild mate tried to kill!"

Hiccup then immediately slammed his burning fist right into Jackal's face slamming him into one of the buildings.

"I don't care whether you're human, god or demon," said Hiccup grabbing his arm and then flipped over his shoulder. "You are my friends you pay the price!"

Jackal then crashed into the ground hard and then Hiccup began to form of blazing fist more powerful than the last and suddenly electricity began to flow through it.

"This one is for Alvin and the Thunder Legion!" Hiccup roared and he channelled all his power into his fist. 'Lightning Flame Dragon's Fiery Hammer!'

He then thrusted his fist forward unleashing a powerful burst of flames and lightning directly at Jackal at an immense speed. The attack struck Jackal into the chest and sent him flying across the entire city until he crashed into the nearby dam.

Ruby and Merrill smiled.

"No way that guy could get out from that," Ruby smiled. "I say that our job here is done."

Merrill sighed with relief. "What a relief."

However, a few seconds later Hiccup immediately exploded from all the time he touched Jackal. The blast was so strong that it created new crater, but Hiccup was still in one piece when the smoke cleared. However, the attack had taken its toll and he immediately collapsed to the ground completely exhausted.

Ruby and Merrill then immediately rushed towards him.

"Hiccup!" Hiccup cried.

"That explosion was huge," said Merrill feeling the worst. "Even for someone as tough as him."

It was that point that Toothless and Stormfly returned from evacuating the city.

"What happened?" Toothless asked as they flew down. "Are you okay?"

"We managed to evacuate the towns' people to a safe distance," Stormfly informed them.

That's when the two of them saw Hiccup lying down the ground, he wasn't in very good shape.

"Hiccup!" Toothless panicked.

"What did we miss?" Stormfly asked.

"Turns out Jackal was a demon," Ruby told them. "Hiccup managed to beat him, but just barely."

Hiccup turned his head towards them, it was all he could manage at the moment. "I don't want to go through that again."

"We were worried for moment," said Merrill.

"Just rest up," Toothless smiled.

Stormfly's gaze then turned over to Jackal. "He's got quite a bit to answer for."

Jackal was too worn to make a move and he knew that he was defeated. He then gave a small lab that caught the attention of Ruby and Merrill.

"Well, I'll be damned if I did not see this coming, having taken a beating like that since I was still a pup," said Jackal's began to glow brightly. "Guess it had to happen sometime. Kyôka forgive me."

That's when they saw that the entire town was beginning to glow much to their shock.

"You're going have a tough time bringing me back," Jackal continued. "But this is the only way to take these mortals with me."

"Guys," said Ruby nervously at the ground began to shake. "I don't like this."

"Me neither," said Merrill.

"He must be planning to do my small town," Stormfly panicked.

Ruby immediately looked at Jack with a pleading look. "Stop, please!"

"Even if I wanted to it's too late," said jackal unable to look at them. "I'm not the kind of bomb that you can defuse, this body is rigged to blow even if it dies."

Ruby and the others immediately dived into the created a joint Hiccup, but they knew there was nothing they could do to stop this.

Jackal laughed maniacally. "I'll see you in Hell so don't miss me too much!"

Ruby looked at Hiccup. "What do we do now? We're going to get caught up in the blast."

Hiccup had absolutely no idea, he very much doubt that he can saw the entire explosion even if he had the strength to stand.

Then suddenly Toothless transformed into his barrel form and grabbed Jackal. Then before anyone could stop in the immediately flew up towards the sky as quickly as he could.

"Not if I can help it!" he yelled.

Jackal was completely stunned about what just happened. "Hey!"

Hiccup was utterly horrified. "Toothless, no!"

Stormfly just stared up at him. "What are you—?"

Jackal looked angrily at Toothless. "Stupid cat!"

"Toothless! Get away from him now!" Merrill cried.

Toothless kept on flying as quickly as he could hoping to put as much distance from Jackal and the town as possible and he had no idea how powerful explosion was.

He then looked down at Jackal. "You can tell your friends to stay in Hell, because you're never going to win!"

"I'll be back!" Jackal roared.

Then suddenly they all saw a massive explosion in the sky and immediately feared the worst.

"Toothless!" Hiccup cried.

Everyone else was in complete shock and Stormfly crying heavily.

Hiccup picked himself up and just stared at the sky. "This can't be real. He can't be gone."

They just stood there in silence for a few seconds, but then they saw movement. Then flying down towards them, little scorched, but very much alive, was Toothless and relief covered their faces.

"Thank Gods that you're safe," Merrill sighed with relief.

Toothless was now back in his normal form and his firm were smouldering. "Don't wanna go through that again."


Meanwhile Ragnar and Heather were riding horses quickly as they could towards the location of their council member eventually they could see the town coming into view.

"We're getting close to town," said Ragnar.

Heather had her arms wrapped around Ragnar. "I hope we're in time."

Suddenly there horse immediately came to a stop, almost throwing them off her.

"Easy girl," said Ragnar trying to calm their mare. "Is something the matter?"

The mare looked very reluctant to enter into the town.

"I think she must be frightened of something," Heather concluded.

Ragnar immediately had a bad feeling. "Who knows what is waiting for us."


They soon entered the city, but it wasn't a pretty sight nearly half the town was completely destroyed. To make matters worse they found their respective council member dead and judging from the wounds it was a very brutal assault.

They didn't waste any time contacting Stoick via a communication lacrrima. "You found Borg the Bulky?"

"We did," Ragnar nodded regretfully. "But Helheim found him first."

"Just how late were we? Has the culprit left?" Stoick asked.

Heather shrugged. "Late enough and yes. The killer is gone, but unfortunately not without a trace."

Ragnar nodded. "They destroyed half the town on their way out."

"Such horrific destruction," said Stoick.

"How was your luck Eret?" Agatha asked.

"What is Ingrid the Firm's current stat is?" Phlegma asked.

Eret then appeared on the communication lacrima with a very grave look on his face. Eret was currently with Skullcrusher, Fishlegs' and his team

"They murdered her too," said Eret.

"The city is fine though, nothing like what Ragnar described," Fishlegs informed him.

"It would seem as if this killer was the stealthy type," Skullcrusher concluded.

"I've failed," said Eret clenching his fist in frustration. "I should have gotten here sooner."

"We did our best," said Fishlegs.

Valka looked at Stoick. "They've beaten us to Masters Barg and Ingrid, so that leaves with Sven the Moody, who we assign to Hiccup's team."

"And Gab the Elder, who Snotlout and the twins have been searching for," Stoick finished.


Gab the Elder was located in a small quaint village and Snotlout and his team were currently in his house. Unfortunately, they arrived too late to save his life.

"We did make it," said Snotlout regretfully. "I can't tell how they got him."

"Damn it," said Tuffnut.

"What do we do now?" Ruffnut asked.

Snotlout looked at them. "Get the communication Lacrima ready. We need to report this to the Guild."

"Right," said Ruffnut as she began to fumble the back she was carrying.

Snotlout then laid Gab down on the ground and looked at him confused. "I don't understand it, he's completely uninjured. It's almost as if he died naturally while sleeping."

Suddenly Gab's eyes opened immediately just as Ruffnut pulled out the communication Lacrima. Snotlout jumped back in surprise as Gab sat up straight.

"Master Gab you're alive?" Snotlout stared. "I check your pulse and—"

Gab then raised a finger pointed towards the communication Lacrima without saying a word. Then the tip of his finger began to glow and seconds later the communication Lacrima shattered into pieces.

"What do you think you're doing? That was our only way of reaching the Guild!" Snotlout yelled.

Gab did not answer however and then promptly fell over and once again he was dead.

"Did he just die all over again?" Snotlout blinked.

"I know he had the power to come back from the dead," said Tuffnut.

"Of course he doesn't know one can come back from the dead!" Ruffnut snapped.

"I did try to make it look convincing, but the corpses is a corpse," said a woman's voice with a dreamy sigh.

They turned and saw Seilah sitting at a table reading a book, but she wasn't there a second ago.

Snotlout narrowed his eyes. "Are you from Helheim?"

"Tell us what you did to Master Gab now!" Ruffnut demanded.

"Or else will blow you to pieces," Tuffnut threatened.

"The old man already one leg in the netherworld, I merely helped him along," she said without looking at them.

"And stay to play with his corpse?" Snotlout glared.

"These fairytales are quite dull, they end so happily," she said as he placed the book down. "As entertaining as watching blood dry. What York I need is a demontale."

Snotlout narrowed his eyes. "Guys, are you ready?"

The twins nodded. "Yeah," they said in unison.

Then for some unknown reason Snotlout grabbed him by the throat and lifted them into the air.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Ruffnut stared.

"Yeah, we're not the guys here!" Tuffnut yelled.

Snotluot looked at surprise they work found himself unable to control his body. "This isn't me, I'm sorry I can't control my arms!" he said as he tightened his wrists.

The twins were finding it extremely hard to breathe and could barely at all word.

Snotlout glared at Seilah. "Whatever you're doing to me stop! Stop it right now!"

"One thing I prefer about demontales, they don't contain irksome words such as mercy," said Seilah in a dreary voice.


Meanwhile at the Guild, Ruby had just made contact.

"It's working," said Ruby as she appeared on the communication Lacrima. "Master can you hear us?"

"Ruby what happened?" Stoick asked noting at her clothing was in tatters.

"We would have contacted you sooner if we could, but we ran into a little trouble on the mission," said Ruby.

"Have you located Sven?" Stoick asked frantically.

"Yeah, he's safe and sound," Ruby nodded.

Stoick and the Guild gave a sigh of relief.

"Though I can't quite say the same for Hiccup though," said Ruby regretfully.

"He defeated a member of Helheim by himself," Merrill smiled.

"It wasn't easy," said Hiccup as he forced his way to the communication Lacrima. "Dad, you should know that the guy I thought was a demon, therefore it's possible that the entire Guild is filled with them."

"A demon?" Stoick gasped.

"Yeah he was responsible for the destruction of the Viking Council," Hiccup continued. "And they don't seem to care about collateral damage or any members of any other race. He would destroy the entire town with a massive explosion if Toothless hadn't saved the day."

"The town still looks like a hurricane though," said Stormfly.

"Could have been much worse though," Toothless added.

"We need to know everything you are able to find out from Sven," said Stoick leaning in close towards the Lacrima.

"About that," said Ruby as she turned to the communication Lacrima to Sven.

Sven was just sitting there in complete shock and mumbled to himself. "They seek the White Legacy. They will use Face, believe me I know nothing I swear. I don't know anything, I'm telling you."

"What is this Face?" Stoick asked.

"It's a weapon," Sven answered. "The most powerful one that Council has, probably the strongest one ever made."

Everyone just stared, including the other teams will listen to the conversation.

Hiccup looked at Sven. "What was this weapon for? It sounds as if this weapon was too strong to use."

"I'm sure they needed one last ace in hole, power breeds paranoia from what I've seen," said Stormfly. "Now I for one would love to hear more."

"The Council possesses many such weapons, each subject for its own rules based upon its potential of misuse," Sven explained. "One example is the Etherion Cannon. Etherion is a hyper- magical artillery piece capable of dropping its ordnance on any target on the continent. It has power and not to turn the entire nation to a smoking crater with a single blast. Thus it cannot be fired without the approval of the nine council members and the input of 10 security codes, each possessed by a different senior official."

Helga's eyes widened. "Wait a sec, all those council members are dead now."

"Then the Council can't activate Etherion until they get new leaders," said Ingrid.

"They may have killed current members to shut it down and retirees to keep it down," Skullcrusher concluded.

"What exactly does this Face of yours do?" Stoick asked. Sven was clearly reluctant to give out that information. "I understand that this is a secret, but no one is left to make use of your knowledge but us!"

Sven was still in complete shock, but eventually he gave in. "Face is Anti-Magic Pulse Bomb. This device can clear our continent of any trace of magic."

Everyone's eyes widened in horror.

"A weapon that can erase all magic?" Eret stared.

"That horrible!" Helga and Ingrid said in unison.

"That would give magic deficiency syndrome to every Viking alive," said Agatha.

"It gets even worse," said Ruby. "The demon that Hiccup fought told us that Helheim members use curses instead of magic."

"So Face's activation would wipe out every Guild but theirs," said Skullcrusher. "Every Viking that stands against them would find themselves completely helpless and in agony."

Stoick clenched his fist and narrowed his eyes towards Sven. "What a deplorable weapon that you're Council has made. Helheim has revealed their true colours, only cowards would use methods of intimidation to get what they want."

Hiccup then immediately looked at Sven. "Tell us where this weapon is right now. That weapon should never have existed in the first place!"

Sven was now utterly terrified. "I—I really don't know. Please forgive me. From what I heard it was sealed away by three former Council members, they did this by the means of Body-Link Magic. I have no idea who those members are only the former chairman can tell you that."

"Body-Link Magic?" Toothless blinked.

"The same kind that Brain used to keep Zero sealed away," said Merrill.

Ragnar looked at Heather. "If us beating the Seis broke the seals that bound Zero and then killing those Council members—"

Heather nodded. "Yes, if Helheim kills all the councilman who sealed Face spell will be broken. We have seen no signs of interrogation which makes me think that they might already know where Face is."

"So all they have to do is bump off a few more Council members and then they can eliminate all magic," Eret concluded.

The image changed on the Lacrima and Stoick was facing Sven once again. "We need to get those three protected as fast as we can. You said that the former chairman can tell us who they are yes?"

"Yes, I'm all but certain," Sven nodded.


The Guild didn't waste any time collecting anything that could help them track down the remaining Council members and the former chairman.

"Drop everything else, find out where that chairman lives," Stoick commanded. "We can assume that Helheim is looking for him as well. Beat them!"

"We're on it, sir," said Speedfist. "We have located the addresses of 16 former Council members. We got people from our Guild and a couple of others on their way to protect them."

"It turns out one of those addresses was the former chairman's," Valka informed her husband.

"Send someone to him as quickly as possible," Stoick ordered.

Valka smiled. "One step ahead of Stoick. We've already sent the two best Vikings we could send and they should be en route as we speak."


Making their way to the former chairman as quickly as possible were Astrid and Adelaide, both riding on a stag which bore the Dragon Tail emblem on its antlers.