The Royal guard just stood there staring at Astrid and Ragnar.
"Isn't that Ragnar Wicket and Astrid Starlight?" said a soldier.
"No," said the soldier next to him. "Those two are Midgardain."
"You guys got some explaining to do," said Ragnar as he placed his hands together. "Where are our friends that your king turn into a lacrima?"
He then slammed his hand into the ground and spikes made of eyes rush straight towards the Royal Army sending them flying.
Edolas Hiccup managed to avoid the attack and swung a fiery fist straight towards Ragnar, but Astrid transformed into her Monstrous Nightmare Armour and block the attack with her sword. She then pushed him backwards and he had to dig his heels into the ground just so that he wouldn't topple over.
"If you lay one more hand on her head, you'll pay dearly!" Hiccup's voice yelled down the corridor.
"Hiccup?" Ruby gasped.
"Yeah, he must be nearby," said Ragnar.
"It came from up ahead," said Toothless.
"And I bet Merrill is with him," said Stormfly.
"Then let's go and rescue him," said Astrid. "Ragnar do you think you can stop these losers from following us."
"Do you have to ask," said Ragnar as he placed his hands together. "Ice-Make: Ice Wall!"
Suddenly a huge ice wall appeared between them and Edolas Hiccup.
"You think a big chunk of ice is going to stop me!" he yelled as flames covered his hands.
He then smashed the blazing fists right into the ice wall, but it didn't make a single dent. The ice didn't even melt.
"What?" he snarled.
"What do you do now your Highness?" said a soldier.
"Inform Captains Viggo and Ryker and tell them the situation, I'll continue trying to break through this ice," he said.
"At once my Lord," said a soldier and ran up the corridor.
"That will hold them for while," said Ragnar.
"Then let's go," said Astrid.
Ragnar then helped Ruby up. "Are you okay, can you stand?" he asked.
"Yeah," she nodded.
Ragnar then freeze the gooey substance around her hands and it shattered.
"Where the heck did you guys come from?" Ruby asked puzzled.
"We'll explain the details later, let's go," said Ragnar.
They then ran down the corridor.
As they ran down the corridor Astrid and Ragnar began to explain what had happened to them.
"Wait, you mean the lacrima in the Plaza," she gaped.
"Yeah, that's the one," said Ragnar.
"It turns out that me and Ragnar were trapped inside it," said Astrid.
"Wow, seriously?" Ruby said stunned.
"Then how are you guys able to turn back to normal?" Toothless asked.
"It's all thanks to Eret," said Ragnar.
Ruby, Toothless and Stormfly just stared at them.
Astrid Ragnar then began to explain what had happened about an hour ago.
Eret was in the Plaza and saw the lacrima shrinking and then laying on the ground were two figures that happen to be both Astrid and Ragnar.
"You've got to be kidding me," he said stunned. "It was just the two of them?"
He decided that now wasn't the time to complain and made his way over to the two Vikings.
"All right, you're free, so look alive!" Eret barked.
Astrid and Ragnar managed to stand on their own two feet and looked around puzzled.
"Nice to see you're alive," said Eret.
"Eret?" Astrid blinked.
Ragnar looked around and noticed they weren't in the Guildhall and surrounded by soldiers, wearing unknown armour.
"Hey, what's going on?" he said.
"We can talk later, right now we need to get out of here," said Eret.
The soldiers had recovered from their shock and charge straight towards them.
"Don't make a move!"
"You're not getting away with this, capture them!"
Ragnar glared at the soldiers and placed his hands together, but discovered that he had no magic power.
"My magic isn't working," said Ragnar in horror.
"What?" Astrid gasped.
Eret ate some iron that was lying around and looked at the two of them. "I said I would explain everything later." He then turned to the approaching soldiers and took a deep breath in. "Iron Dragon's Roar!"
The soldiers were sent flying by a typhoon of iron bits.
This gave them the opportunity to run down an alleyway and once they were sure they were safe Ragnar raised an eyebrow.
"How come, you're able to use magic?" he frowned.
Eret pulled out a bottle of small red balls. "I'll tell you want to take one of these," he said.
"What is it?" Ragnar asked.
"Another already," said Astrid furiously. "Just tell us what happened."
"The two of you had been turned into a giant lacrima," said a new voice.
They turned and saw a figure in the shadows and judging from his dressy look like some sort of r private detective.
"Told you would be easy," said Eret.
"Indeed, but I would expect no less from Midgard me." Then the stranger emerge out of the shadows revealing himself to be another Eret. "I knew you were the right man for the job."
"This is insane!" Ragnar yelled.
"There's two!" Astrid yelled horrified.
"Although we look alike, we're actually quite different," said Edolas Eret. "Edolas Eret at your service."
"I've got to say, this guy has been a big help," said Eret. "Crazy how much we look alike, we're like twins."
"Never mind that!" Astrid yelled furiously. "What you mean we were turned into a giant lacrima?"
The two Eret just stared at her.
"Guess she's not impressed," said Eret.
"I doubt many girls would be impressed by two of an ugly mug," Ragnar joked.
The two of them just glared at him.
"I know it sounds crazy, but all the Midgard Vikings were turned into a lacrima," Edolas Eret explained. "The King want to get his hands on your magic power, the one in the plaza was so big we fought everyone in your guild was inside it."
"But obviously we were wrong, because it turned out to be the two of you," said Eret crossing his arms. "The lacrima was the size of a temple makes you wonder how big the main one is."
"Now that you mention it, I did happen to notice that the lacrima in the plaza had a jagged surface as though it had been cut off much larger lacrima," Edolas Eret pondered.
"So many questions, I'm not sure where to start," said Ragnar. He then looked at their Eret. "First, what is that stuff your forcing on us?"
"These pills are called X-Balls, you will be able to use your magic here in Edolas unless you take one of them," said Eret as he handed to pills to Astrid and Ragnar. "I mean that's what I've heard at least."
"Oh, and who told you that?" Astrid asked as she examined her pill.
"It's what Mystogan told me when he gave them to me," said Eret.
"You saw Mystogan?" Astrid gasped.
Back in the present, Ruby and the others looked at Astrid and Ragnar.
"That's right, I almost forgot that Eret was a Dragon Slayer so it makes sense that the Anima didn't work on him either," said Toothless.
"So… I guess all the Dragon Slayers were left in Midgard," said Ruby.
"According to Eret it was Mystogan that told him to come here," said Ragnar crossing his arms.
"Really?" Ruby blinked. "But I don't get it why did you just come here himself?"
"Because apparently Dragon Slayer Magic, is capable of all sorts of things that no other magic can do in this world," Astrid explained. "They even have the power to change everyone who stuck in that lacrima back to normal."
"Seriously?" Stormfly gaped.
"Stormfly and I saw that lacrima earlier and I know exactly where it is," said Toothless.
"You thinking get close to it?" Ragnar asked.
Toothless nodded.
"Then we better call Eret off, he's busy rampaging in the city trying to find the thing," said Astrid.
Ragnar looked at Toothless with concern. "You think you can lead him straight to the lacrima?"
"I'll take on the as long as you're sure he can change everyone back," said Toothless.
"He's our only hope," said Astrid. "Hiccup and Merrill have the power to do it to, but I'm pretty sure neither one of them knows how."
"Don't worry, Eret and I will get our friends back right now," said Toothless and flew off.
"Wait, are you gonna be okay by yourself, Toothless!" Ruby yelled after him.
"He'll be fine," Stormfly assured. "Believe it or not he's got a great power inside of him or at least that's what we've heard."
Ruby looked at Astrid and Ragnar they both shrugged not sure what Stormfly was talking about.
"We better get going, we've got to find Hiccup and Merrill," said Astrid.
Ruby nodded and they followed her down the corridor.
They kept on running down it until they found the door.
"Hey, there's a door up ahead," said Ruby.
"That must be where they're holding them," said Ragnar.
Astrid then zoomed ahead and kicked the door off its hinges.
That's when they found both Hiccup and Merrill unconscious and each chained to a slab of rock.
"Hiccup!" Astrid cried.
"Merrill!" Stormfly cried.
Astrid summoned her axe and cut the chains and Ragnar and Ruby caught the two of them.
"Are you all right?" said Ragnar holding Merrill, but she didn't say a single word. "Come on, say something."
"Merrill," Stormfly cried.
"Come on, Hiccup," Astrid begged. "Say something."
"She's out cold, I can't wake her up," said Ragnar.
"Yeah, so is he," said Ruby fearfully.
Stormfly laid over her chest and began to cry. "I'm so sorry, Merrill. Forgive me."
"I guess we might as well fee them with X-Balls," said Ragnar as he pulled out a container of red pills and moved over towards Hiccup. "Here you go, buddy."
"What are those?" Ruby asked.
"There magic pills that Eret told us to take," said Ragnar. "Didn't Mystogan give you one when you ran into him?"
Ruby looked to the container and her eyes widened as she remembered Mystogan following one of the pills into her mouth. "That's what it was? I was wondering what he popped into my mouth."
"It's a good thing you took one, because you can't use your magic in this world without it," said Astrid.
"I had no idea," said Ruby.
Ragnar then dropped one of the pills into Hiccup's mouth and he swallowed it. Next second, he choked.
"Hiccup," Astrid panicked.
"Okay, let's give one to Merrill," said Ragnar.
Ragnar made his way over to Merrill and Astrid looked down at Hiccup looking quite worried.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
Hiccup rolled over and looked up at Astrid and stared at her. "Astrid?"
"It's me, the Midgard me," said Astrid with relief. She then punched him on the shoulder.
"Ow!" said Hiccup.
"That was for scaring me," said Astrid.
"Can you go easy on me, I've just had by magic extracted from me and it wasn't a pleasant experience," said Hiccup he then frowned at her. "How did you get here?"
"It's a long story, but the short answer is me Ragnar and Eret are here too," said Astrid.
"Well, I've got something to tell you, but first things first," he said looking down at his fist and it was set ablaze, "we need to stop them."
"Stop who?" Ruby blinked.
Before Hiccup could answer they heard Merrill coughing.
"Merrill," Stormfly gasped.
"What's wrong?" Ruby asked looking up.
"You're okay?" Ragnar asked.
Merrill rolled her head towards Stormfly. "Oh… hey, Stormfly," she said weakly.
"Are you hurt?" Stormfly panicked.
"No, I'm fine… but the others are in trouble," said Merrill.
Everyone gasped.
Meanwhile Byro met up with the Edolas Stoick with a please look on his face.
"I apologise for making you ways, my Lord," said Byro. "We've more or less completed the extraction, Sir."
"I'm happy to hear that, Byro," said Edolas Stoick.
"The Dragon Slayers magic power is spectacular indeed, now that we possess it I would imagine weaponised and it would be a simple task."
Edolas Stoick smiled evilly. "The moment I've been waiting for has finally arrived," he said. "Upon impact the magic of the Midgardains and the Exceeds will fused together and then everlasting magic power shall rain down upon our kingdom!"
He then laughed maniacally without conscience or mercy.
Meanwhile, Hiccup and Merrill were explaining the evil plans of Edolas Stoick.
"We have to hurry," said Hiccup as he slowly got to his feet. "The Royal Army is planning to destroy Extalia, by crashing the giant lacrima directly into it."
All of their eyes widened in horror.
"All of our friends in Dragon Tail are in danger, because the King of Edolas is going to use them as a boom," Merrill cried.
"How is that even possible?" Astrid gasped.
"I don't know if you've noticed, but Edolas has islands that float in the sky," said Ruby. "There's a bunch of them, apparently Extalia's magic power is what keeps them afloat. What's more the book I read said that it's what contains the magical balance of this entire world."
"And you think our guild mates might be stuck on one of those floating islands," said Ragnar crossing his arms.
"Yes, they are on one very close to Extalia," said Stormfly. "Both Extalia and the lacrima containing our friends are floating in the sky above the Royal City, which is where we are now."
"The Royal Army is planning to head that floating island with a bunch of Dragon Slaying Magic," Merrill explained. "They want a speeded up so that it crashes directly into Extalia."
"What will happen then?" Ragnar asked.
"They're saying that when their power collide it will cause a gigantic explosion in the sky and that there magic will fused together," Hiccup explained. "Then magic power will rain down in the kingdom forever."
Ruby stared at them in horror. "But if that happens all of our guild mates will—"
"Be lost forever," Ragnar finished.
"Hopefully Toothless will be able to get Eret to lacrima in time," said Ruby.
Merrill then looked down at Stormfly. "Thank you for saving me, Stormfly," she smiled and then hugged her. "You're the greatest."
Stormfly felt extremely uncomfortable and still quite guilty of getting her into this mess in the first place.
"Just in case Eret and Toothless don't say them in time we should try and stop my evil father from pulling the trigger," said Hiccup.
Astrid nodded in agreement.
When the exited the chamber they heard an explosion further down the corridor.
"There must be your evil twin breaking through my ice wall," said Ragnar looking at Hiccup.
"We don't have time to fight him, we should take a different route," said Hiccup pointing down another corridor.
"Agreed," Astrid nodded.
Hiccup then led them down the corridor, but Merrill remained behind with Stormfly.
"Stormfly, I think the Torah should head to Extalia," said Merrill.
Stormfly stared at her as if she was insane. "That's foolish!"
"We need to warn them about the Royal Army plan and help them to escape," said Merrill firmly.
Stormfly shook her head. "I don't understand, I thought we were going to stop the attack?"
"There's no way we can let the king do whatever he wants, I know Hiccup and the others will stop him, but what if the king and his Royal Army have other weapons we don't know anything about? This is the only chance we have to warn them, they have the right to know that their citizens could be in danger!"
"No!" Stormfly yelled defiantly. "I am not going back! I could care less about what happens to those horrible creatures."
Merrill knelt down towards her. "You know this has nothing to do with being human, elf or Exceed. If there's something we can do as fellow living beings then we have to do it."
Stormfly then began to remember the Starfang, Brightstar and Cloudjumper who help them and they were Exceeds.
"I promise, I'll always be right by your side," said Merrill. "No need to be afraid, okay?"
Stormfly looked into her eyes and knew there was no way of dissuading her. "Fine, I'll go."
Meanwhile Toothless was flying around the Royal City trying to locate Eret.
Fortunately, he had to do was find the largest amount of magical soldiers in the city and sure enough he found Eret right in the middle of them.
"Eret!" Toothless yelled.
Eret had just knocked a soldier away and then noticed Toothless flying towards him. "Hey, Cat, good to see ya."
"I know whether keeping the lacrima that the others are trapped in. So, I'm going to take you there," said Toothless.
Next second both he and Eret were in the air flying towards the giant lacrima.
"Did you have to do anything special to turn Astrid and Ragnar back to normal?" Toothless asked.
"Just smash it with Dragon Slaying Magic," Eret said simply.
"Really, how would you know that would work?" Toothless asked.
"I just did what Mystogan told me," said Eret.
"So is Mystogan somewhere in Edolas right now?"
"I don't know."
They soon reached the lacrima and landed on the floating island and just stared at it, the giant lacrima had to be ten times bigger than the one in the Plaza.
"Man, it's huge," said Eret staring at it.
"It even bigger than I imagined," said Toothless.
"Of course it is, talk about a high maintenance guild," said Eret as he cracked his knuckles. "I expect all the iron I can eat whenever we get back."
"Hey, you can have as much you want," said Toothless.
However before Eret could land a single fist on the lacrima they were not aside by something huge. They turned and saw Skullcrusher floating behind them holding a massive greatsword that was twice as big as him.
"That cats got a humongous sword," said Eret.
Hiccup recognised him from the Palace is that Stormfly's cover. "Not you again," he muttered.
It was then the two of the notice the two large wings on his back. "The Royal Army's First Magic Warfare Unit Captain… known as Skullcrusher." He then glared down at the two of them. "My current operation is depended on this lacrima, make one more move and you're dead!"
"Those wings, does that mean he's an Exceed to?" Toothless stared.
"Stay out of the way," said Eret as his hand turn into a sword. "Iron Dragon's Sword!"
He extended the sword towards Skullcrusher, but he simply dodged it and raise his Greatsword in the air.
"Bustermark Greatsword!" he roared and his Greatsword grew twice as large.
He then slammed it down on top of them and sliced right through the island.
"Giving a blade that big is a bit overkill?" said Toothless as he and Eret dodged the blade.
"Man, he's strong," said Eret.
Skullcrusher looked down at them. "Valiant effort, but he will not defeat me."
Eret just narrowed his eyes.
Meanwhile, Hiccup and the others were still running through the castle trying to locate his Edolas father, but the layout of this castle was unlike anything they've ever seen.
"Any ideas on where we can find my dad's evil twin?" Hiccup asked.
"You would most likely be in the throne room," said Astrid.
"Yeah, but where is the throne room?" said Ragnar.
"I don't understand the layout of this place, the cells away up high and the courtyard is really complexed. I've heard about concentric castles, but this isn't quite like those," said Ruby. "It's just so different from anything in Midgard it's going to be tough to figure out."
"Actually not surprised this castle so complex," said Hiccup in everyone looked at him. "Think about it so far everything we've seen is been pretty much the opposite of everything we've known and that includes us."
"Then how are we supposed to find him?" said Astrid.
"Simple, if this castle is the opposite of anything in Midgard there where you think the throne might be?" Hiccup smiled.
Everyone just stared at him.
Seconds later they found themselves where the torture room should be, but instead was a massive throne room.
"I guess you call it," said Ruby.
"Unfortunately looks like the King's not here," said Ragnar.
"Unfortunately you," said a voice.
They turned and saw a merging of the shadows was Viggo with his hands behind his back.
"It looks like that this is the end for you," said Ryker as he emerged from the opposite side of the room.
Then they saw appearing behind the throne was Edolas Hiccup and he glared down at them.
"We're so close to achieve unlimited magical power," he said as he looked down at them. "And we can't allow you to mess up our plans."
Hiccup and the others stood their ground and prepared for a fight.