Hiccup stuck Drago with all his strength creating a powerful explosion. When the smoke finally cleared Krogan and the other soldiers were completely speechless because it looked as if Hiccup had won.
Hiccup was utterly exhausted and now that had to his left arm was beginning to fade, indicating that the last of Ingeel's magic was about to disappear. Hiccup then fell to his knees panting for breath.
"Are you okay?" Toothless asked.
"I'm good," said Hiccup weakly as he raised to his feet. "Don't worry I have another one more attack."
When the smoke cleared in front of him Hiccup wasn't at all surprised to see that Drago was still standing, but it looked as if he had weakened him quite a bit.
"Ingeel, I need your strength," said Hiccup channelling the last of the magic into his arm. "One more shot is all that it's going to take."
"That was impressive," said Drago. "It would seem as if the prophecy of you stopping me was quite accurate. Can't say that I ever believed in destiny, but this does change things. Even though I am immortal your next right could very well end my life I oppose it really all depends on your strength. With that said I have something to share with you, something that might make you hesitant."
Hiccup looked at him confused.
"We're actually related," Drago smiled and Hiccup's eyes widened. "You see my sister fell in love with your ancestor, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the First. She was originally killed by dragons along with the rest of our family."
"I don't believe a single word of this," said Hiccup.
"But it's the truth, I spend a large amount of research trying to discover and how to bring her back from the dead. However your ancestor kept on stopping me, I had managed to revive her but then he took her away from me. During my attempts to revive I actually created new life you encountered them, the ones that are known as etherious from the Books of Drago. Among them was my most powerful demon, Dragrach.
"Then when I encountered you I realise that the prophecy could very well be true so I made arrangements to escape it. You remember the last time we met when I struck you?"
Hiccup did remember it was just right after he snatched the book from Ragnar, he had intended it to give it to Ingeel. He attempted to stop Drago, but only managed to get a fist in the dark for his troubles.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Hiccup asked.
Drago then summoned the Book of Dragrach to his hand. "At the same time, I struck you I cast a little spell, one that allowed me to implement Dragrach's soul in your body."
Hiccup's eyes widened. "You saying that I'm some kind of demon now?"
"Yes and no, that if you wish proof," he said and then fired a magic bullet.
Hiccup then suddenly felt immense pain rushing through his body and he fell to his knee.
"Hiccup!" Toothless cried.
"As you can very well see you're tied to the book, I could simply destroy it killing you, but I did use my own life force to create it so I would be killing myself," Drago smiled. "Tell me you ever wonder why Ingeel shows you specifically to teach you Dragon Slaying Magic? It was so that you would gain the skills to face me today, to do so he and some of the other dragons travelled to the future to teach you and the other orphaned children. Ultimately to both defeat me and Acnologia.
"No doubt you're wondering why they needed to travel to the future. The truth is the dragons were simply at their weakest at that moment, they needed more ethernano in the environment. In order cast, the Dragon Soul spell they need to go to a place rich with ethernano and then they choose five children to be their vessels for this mission… you, Eret, Merrill, Sting and Rogue. With the exception of you, each of them had no family, the reason they chose you was because they were certain that you were the one from the prophecy, the one that would kill me.
"My sister then created the Eclipse Gate in order to create a portal into the future, she would then observe the future and find the precise moment to send the dragons here. However, as the creator of the Gate, she was unable to use it so she trains the first Celestial Spirit Viking to do it for her, her name was Anna and it would be her family that would safeguard the secret. Eventually, the Gate was open to this current era and then the Celestial Spirit Viking by the name of Crystal opened the gate 12 years ago. At the same time, your ancestor kept me at bay, to wait for the precise time and it was utter agony.
"Eventually I learned how to splinter myself, be in two places at once. Of course, doing so weakened my powers immeasurably, but it was enough for me to create my Empire and realising that the chains around me was soon to break your ancestor decided to prepare for the future."
"Shut up!" Hiccup yelled and immediately charged at him. "I don't care what you're talking about, I will end you!"
"Since I knew they selected you to kill me, I took preparations to prevent that from happening," Drago smiled. "Since I managed to fuse Dragrach into your body, you are now linked to me. There was a safeguard by placing all my demons just in case they decided to turn on me. So to that end if you kill me you kill yourself."
Flames then immediately surrounded Hiccup's fist. "If that's what it takes then so be it!"
Drago eyes widened, he hadn't predicted this. "You would kill yourself?"
"To end you bring an end to this war I would do anything!" Hiccup yelled.
"Hiccup!" Toothless cried flying towards him.
"I already made up my mind, I came here for one reason only!" Hiccup yelled. "To take you down for good!"
Drago was too weak to defend himself and this one last attack would be enough to kill him. However, at the last possible second, Toothless flew down and grabbed Hiccup and pulled him away.
Hiccup turned on him. "What are you doing, Toothless? You need to let me go!"
The heat emanating from Hiccup's body was beginning to burn Toothless' paws, but he remained a tight grip on Hiccup's shirt.
"I can't let you do it," he said as he cried. "You'll die! If I let that happen I couldn't live with myself."
Hiccup saw the tattoo was fading quickly. "I'm losing Ingeel's power so you've got to put me down! This is our last chance, if he gets away he's going to destroy the whole world."
"But you're my best friend, Hiccup!" Toothless cried. "You would stop me from dying wouldn't you?" He then turned and they soon disappeared into the distance. "I'm taking you back to Dragon Tail, no matter what."
Drago watched them disappeared, he hadn't anticipated Toothless coming to Hiccup's rescue but he was not complaining.
'An unexpected turn of events,' he said smiling. "Now there isn't a soul left to can stop me, now I have nothing left to fear. Have the troops resumed their advance at once, the target is the Dragon Tail Guildhall the unyielding power of the Dragon Heart shall be mine and mine alone and I think a new set of clothes are in order… a wardrobe befitting an Emperor."
Krogan could see the vicious smile on his face, it was now clear that he wouldn't no longer show any kind of mercy to his foes or any kind of compassion for his allies.
At the Shivering Shores, Griselda and her forces had already entered the port city. They had already taken out the soldiers stationed there without losing any of their own.
"This city is pretty nice, I suppose it was wise of you not to destroy it," said Griselda to Wall.
Wall was perched on top of a roof likely sinister gargoyle and was laughing. "I was aiming for Berk if you must know."
"Then we're quite fortunate that wasn't destroyed either. It's where Brandish is been held prisoner, the mere thought of the humiliation she must be feeling I can't wait to see it."
"You organics don't make a damn bit of sense to me," said Wall.
Griselda turned to one of the soldiers. "Do you know where Neinhart is?"
"Still on his ship, ma'am."
Indeed sitting in one of the ships was an Elven man with blonde hair and he looked quite contempt of sitting this fight out.
"Wonderful," Griselda grumbled. "I'm stuck babysitting a solemn loaner and a machine. But seeing Randy like that should cheer me up."
Outside the city, Thor's Hammer and Valkyrie Sword had arrived just off the outskirts and in front of them were three groups of enemy soldiers, they were outnumbered twenty to one.
"How many of these, Alvarez goons did they send our way?" Neria asked.
"From what I'm hearing nearly 2000 are in position outside of the Shivering Shores," said Camicazi.
"There's a ton more inside the city," said Babs.
"Supposedly there are boatloads full of troops that haven't landed yet," said Kelali.
"Probably more than 300,000."
"That's just crazy," said Neria.
"Between Thor's Hammer and Valkyrie Sword we have around 200 people," said Shanyla.
"We're at a disadvantage so we must fight with everything we've got," said Lyon.
"They have come on to our homeland of Septem, no matter the cost we will not be overrun!" Camicazi swore and then she drew her sword. "The forces of Valkyrie Sword and Thor's Hammer have come together! We will give our lives to the fight to liberate the Shivering Shores! Forward!"
All of them immediately cheered and began to advance towards the enemy.
Within the city, Griselda could sense their approach.
"Well now, it seems we must teach these arrogant fools a hard lesson," she said and Wall then jumped down to the ground. "They must learn what power is."
"Yes," Wall agreed.
Elsewhere Toothless had finally settled the two of them down next to a lake so that he could ease his burning paws.
"Toothless," said Hiccup looking a little concerned. "Are your paws okay?"
"Yeah, they're fine thanks," he said.
Hiccup then looked at his bare left arm, the tattoo was now completely gone and he was a little concerned about what Drago had told him. Has much as he did like to believe it, he could sense no lies coming from Drago.
"Hiccup?" said Toothless as he rose to his feet. "You and me are friends forever, aren't we?"
"Yeah, we are," Hiccup smiled.
Toothless then rushed over towards him gave him a big hug.
Hiccup looked down at him confused. "What's up?
"You've got to find some other way, okay?" he cried. "I won't let my best friend die, you hear me?"
Hiccup smiled rubbing his head. "Yeah."
"I mean it!" he yelled began crying into his shirt.
Meanwhile at the Guildhall, Ruby was sitting at the bar and she too was worried about Hiccup.
'I hope you're okay, Hiccup,' she said. 'I almost can't believe that you would run off to fight Drago all by yourself. Just listen to Hiccup, make sure he's safe. I do believe in you, you know?'
In the North, Sabretooth and Blue Pegasus were already confronting the Alvarez forces. They were currently battling the snow-covered forests and so far they were holding a line.
Vala had already taken down a few soldiers and she was already exhausted. "Man, I can't imagine how hard this would be without Blue Pegasus. There must be several thousands of these soldiers."
She then heard screaming and saw people running as if some sort of monster was chasing them down.
"Now what's happening?" she said.
"Run Vala! It's bad, we're getting slaughtered!" said one of them.
Then suddenly he coughed out blood and fell to the ground and it wasn't only him either. She looked up and saw a large muscular man had emerged from the forest, who was in fact Ragnar the Stone.
"It's the Grim Reaper!"
"Get out of here!"
Vala looked at Ragnar. "Who is that?"
At the East, the four Emperors were now standing face-to-face with three of the Twelve which included God Serena.
"Yo," said Serena smiling.
"I knew you were despicable, but attacking your own homeland," Wolfheim glared. "This is a new low."
"Hey now, it's not as if I came alone," Serena pointed out gesturing to his two companions. "August and Grimmel had a hand in it as well. Are you going to lecture them?"
August was standing by his right and by his left was a tall skinny man with silver-grey hair.
"What compelled you to dishonour your motherland, God Serena? Surely there is a reason?" Draculos asked glaring.
"That's some glare, you must be feeling fussy," said Serena.
"That's him? The former number one in the Viking Lords?" Jura asked. "What a disgrace."
"And behind him stands August the Wizard King, a man who has mastered all forms of magic from across every corner of our world," said Draculos.
"In black, is a member of the Drake Twelve, who is an expert in assassination magic… Grimmel Grisly," said Wolfheim looking at Grimmel.
"Never thought I would be standing in front of the Four Emperors," Grimmel smiled viciously. "I'll take joy in snapping out your lives."
Back at the Dragon Tail Guildhall, Brandish was still helplessly trapped within the cells.
"Brandish, my lady," said a voice. Brandish looked up and saw Atran standing in front of her. "So glad I was able to find you."
"Me too," said Brandish smiling as she sat up. "I knew you would come for me, that's what pets like you are for right? Now take off the shackles, I can hardly wait to screw around with this crappy Guildhall."
Atran then smiled viciously and next thing Brandish realised he had his hands around her throat and began to squeeze.
"Atran—what—are you doing?" Brandish choked struggling for breath.
"I've had enough of you treating me some kind of slave!" he roared. "You're a failing grade, your an F-!"
He began laughing maniacally as he continued to squeeze her throat and Brandish could do nothing but gasped for air. She was now starting to blackout and she was unable to scream for help, though she doubted would make any difference as she was sure no one would come to her rescue and then everything went black.
At the Shivering Shores, Thor's Hammer and Valkyrie Sword had now engaged with the enemy.
"Let's take them down!" Lyon yelled.
All of them were fighting with everything they had on the dispelling the soldiers very quickly which unnerved them.
"These Vikings…"
"They can really fight."
Kelali charged towards them. "You should never underestimate…" She then used her magic to slim down and kicked the soldiers as hard as she could. "…chubby power!"
Babs jumped into the air. "Vegetable Magic!" she yelled and then unleashed a barrage of flying carrots that struck them like missiles. "You all hungry for carrots missiles?"
Neria had unleashed her binding magic and a group of soldiers. "Kitten Blast!"
"Now Ice-Make: Titan Foot!" Lyon yelled putting his hands together and seconds later a giant foot slammed down on top of the soldiers.
"Sea God Njord!" Shanyla unleashing a massive wave of black water.
Most of the soldiers were starting to get a little scared now by the power they were all wielding.
"Don't back down! Charge!"
Wall was observing the battle from the city sitting on top of the tallest building. She was also scanning some of the enemies Vikings, which included Babs.
"Targets locked," he said and then appearing in front of him out of nowhere were several missiles. "Missiles ready! Now! Show them what hell is like!"
He then unleashed the missiles down on top of them completely by surprise.
"Huh, what's happening?" said Babs moment before a missile landed beside her and she was sent flying because of the shockwave.
"Babs, no!" Kelali cried.
Then she and another Viking were struck by a missile, they kept on raining down on top of them.
"Camicazi, there's a magic attack coming from the sky!" Neria yelled noticing the missiles flying around them.
Wall was enjoying the carnage. "Oh, yes! That's it!"
Camicazi then approached them and drew her sword. "I'll take care of these things. Archenemy: Flying Form!"
She then swung her sword at the missiles and then when she sheathed her blade they immediately shattered and exploded.
"That was awesome," said Shanyla.
Camicazi then send someone behind and quickly spun around and seconds later blocked a blade which belonged to Griselda.
"I must say your reaction speed is impressive," Griselda admitted.
The two of them then immediately pulled back. "However, as quick as you are you'll be able to stop my next attack."
Camicazi could sense incredible magic coming from her, but she wasn't sure what it was. 'No. Where is all this magic power coming from.'
"Can you feel it too, Lyon?" Shanyla asked.
"There's intense pressure in the air," Lyon nodded.
"My goodness, Babs," said Kelali approaching her fallen comrade. "You okay?"
"Yeah, but something scary is going down," she said.
"Please be careful!" Neria yelled at Camicazi.
'Her power is so intense, the entire battlefield is frozen in terror,' said Camicazi. 'She has to be a member of the Drake Twelve.'
"You're bangs kind of remind me of Randy's, now this will be fun," said Griselda.
Camicazi's eyes widened because seconds later her shirt was sliced pieces much to her surprise. "I didn't see her."
At the same time Toothless was carrying Hiccup back to the Guildhall and the could see it within the distance.
"That's good, I can see Berk write up ahead," said Toothless. He then noticed that Hiccup didn't reply and when he looked down he saw that he was unconscious. "Hiccup? Oh no, what's wrong with you? Please say something!"