Alvin was coughing something fierce and spitting up blood with every single cough, it truly looked as if he was on his last legs.

"At your limit, huh?" said Wall. "All those baneparticles wreaking havoc and you have finally caught up. Leaving you completely incapacitated, no wonder you're having trouble breathing."

Alvin then fell to the ground barely able to move let alone fight.

"Even if you were at your prime your lightning wouldn't affect me, were at checkmate right now so you had better make your peace."

"Not yet," said Alvin gritting his teeth through the pain. "No, dammit!"

"I am going to end all for you," said Wall and extended his hand. "You should be grateful, this humiliation and agony you're going through will be over in an instant… as will your life. Commence charging through prohibited ethernano base armament… magic fusion generation at critical output… kill system online…"

Wall was starting to charges attack and Alvin knew he had to make his move now.

'Got a make a move,' he said.

"Activating: Etherion!" said Wall.

'I came back for one reason…' said Alvin as he raised his body.

"Say goodbye!" said Wall.

'…and that was to protect Dragon Tail! A guild that stood the test of time… for 100 years!' Alvin then immediately broke down in the Enchantment on the ground and a magic circle appeared around himself and Wall.

"Wait!" said Wall as he looked at the Enchantment. "What does he think he's doing? It's Enchantment, but why would he create something like this in the middle of our fight?"

'Fenris taught me this one himself,' said Alvin. 'All I've got to do is stay inside the circle.'

"What a pointless waste of energy!" Wall mocked. "Have you already forgotten that Enchantments are ineffective against me?"

He then raised his hand and immediately the Enchantment dispelled as if it was never there to begin with. "Baneparticle Canceler!"

However, Alvin knew that Enchantments were ineffective against him, in fact, he had been counting on it. Wall immediately realised his mistake, he had inadvertently dispelled all of the baneparticles within Alvin's body curing him of his inflexion.

"Thanks, Fenris," Alvin smiled as he rose to his feet. "I owe you big time. I know there aren't that many Vikings out there who can break through your Enchantments like that so I'm lucky that this bastard found me, because he's doing it by neutralising baneparticles which happens to be exactly what the doctor ordered."

"What the hell?" said Wall looking completely flummoxed. "NO!"

That one move had caused his entire body to go hardwire and Alvin took advantage of this and dashed towards him.

"I'm not usually the kind of guy who would wipe somebody out after they saved my life," he said. "But I've got to get payback for what you did to my friends!"

Wall laughed. "Your lightning won't hurt me at all! And that means you're completely powerless against indeed!"

"Because their lives were something!" Alvin continued as lightning covered his fist. "A hell of a lot more than mine!"

He then struck Wall with everything he had.

"It's useless!" Wall laughed, but then he stopped when he saw that his lightning started to turn crimson red. "Dark red lightning? What is this? Unable to analyse!"

Alvin had somehow increased the output of his lightning making it too strong for Wall to withstand.

He then started to think back during the Grand Magic Games last year, he was looking out from his bedroom window and Master Hiccup approached him.

"Tell me do you know anything about Grimbeard?" Hiccup asked.

"Yeah, he's Stoick great-grandfather, one of the founders of Dragon Tail," Alvin nodded.

"That's right and you do remind me of him quite a bit, to be honest."

"What was he like?" Alvin asked curiously.

"He was always smiling and an inspiration to everyone he met."

"That doesn't sound like me."

Hiccup smiled. "But above all… he cared his true friends were precious to him."

"That really doesn't sound like me. I practically tore the Guild apart a few years ago, turned everyone against each other. People got hurt, boggles the mind that they let me back in."

"But you don't let those mistakes hold you back forever." Alvin looked at him and saw him smiling. "In that way, you're exactly like him."

Back in the present Alvin was still battling against Wall with everything he had. "Mercury Fulminate Red Lightning!"

With that one punched he smashed right through Wall's body and then walked away as the remains of Wall's fell to the ground.

'Lightning that goes beyond lightning and as red as the blood in my veins,' he said.

Meanwhile, at the Dragon Tail Guildhall, Hiccup was still unconscious and Ruby and Toothless were standing over his body.

"Hiccup," said Toothless softly.

He remembered what Drago had said about how he transferred Dragrach into him, virtually creating a body link between himself and Hiccup. Now even if he did kill Drago you would end up killing himself.

'There's got to be another way and I swear I'm not giving up until we find it,' said Toothless.

Meanwhile, in the Guildhall itself, everyone was still busy coordinating the outcome of the previous battles.

"Speedfist, I need a situation report for me, please," said Hiccup.

Speedfist looked at the screen in his hand. "No movement from Drago's division out of the West seems to be a stalemate up north, but I'm optimistic that the tables will start to turn once Valka and her crew finally get there."

"What about the East?" Wartihog asked. "Any word from the four Emperors of Septem?"

"We haven't gotten any kind of status report from them, but I can see here that one of the Twelve vanished and the other two are currently headed this way."

"They got past those guys," said Helga.

"Do we know if Jura is okay?" Ingrid asked.

"How about Astrid? Any news from her group?" Stoick asked.

"One of the Twelve there vanished too," said Speedfist. "Maybe that means someone took them down."

"If that's the case, we might actually pull this off," said Gobber.

"Yeah, and don't forget we've already taken one of them, prisoner," Spitelout added.

"That would mean is only eight of them to go," said Wartihog. "We got this!"

"No," said Stoick and everyone turned to face him. "There are still forces coming from the East where we have no defence in place and Drago won't hold his position in the West forever."

Everyone immediately began talking amongst themselves realising the danger they were now in.

Stoick then turned towards Master Hiccup. "We could really use your tactical prowess right now, Master Hiccup." However, he then noticed the grim look on his face. "What's wrong?"

"I just need some more time," he said. 'What can I do to beat Drago? Think, Hiccup…'

Meanwhile the Battle the Shivering Shores was still going on.

"Come on!" Lyon yelled placing his hands together.

"Right," Ragnar nodded doing the same thing.

The immediately froze a good number of enemy soldiers in place.

"Water Slicer!" Heather yelled unleashing a slash of water.

However, she failed to notice that two soldiers had got the jump on her and were directly behind her.

"Heather they're behind you!" Ragnar yelled.

However then suddenly a burst of purple lightning and a massive gust of wind blew the two enemies away from Heather. They quickly turned and discovered that Heather's rescuers were none other than Orara and Dagur.

"It's good to see you again," said Orara.

"You doing all right, sis?" Dagur smiled.

"Orara? Dagur?" Heather stared.

Ragnar looked at Heather. "Wait, Dagur is your brother?"

"We parted ways when he killed our father," said Heather darkly.

"Actually I never killed him, he just vanished I only said that I did to make myself look tough," said Dagur.

"Then how would you explain why you're here?" Ragnar asked.

"Crime Sorcière is joining the battle," said Orara smiling.

"Wow, she's adorable," said Lyon.

Meanwhile, Astrid and Camicazi had managed to enter the town and were making their way towards the docks.

"Looks like the port is up ahead," said Astrid.

"Wait, I see somebody," said Camicazi.

Sure enough, directly ahead of them were two armed figures in very thick armour one holding a lantern the other a ball and chain.

"We're the Four Crest Knights of the Neinhart Division," said the man with the ball and chain.

"You have no chance of getting past us," said the one with the lance.

"Don't stop," said Camicazi. "I got it," said Astrid and transformed into her armourless armour. "Just push through!"

Then both she and Camicazi drew their weapons and cut right past the two of them.

Camicazi then turned to Astrid. "I thought you were supposed to be injured."

"A little pain wouldn't stop you, would it?" Astrid smiled.

Then suddenly two figures jumped from the rooftops directly above them.

"We're the Four Crest Knights because there's four of us!"

"Big mistake!"

Then suddenly appearing completely out of nowhere was Jellal taking the two of them down in an instant. Astrid was completely shocked with seeing him as was Camicazi, knowing that he was the reason why her brother was killed.

"It's you," said Astrid looking at Jellal.

"Sorry I wasn't here sooner," he said looking at the two of them.

"You should hide your face," Astrid advised.

"No. I'm done running and hiding, I made the decision that it was time for me to defeat Drago once and for all."

Astrid looked at Camicazi, who just stared at Jellal in shock. She knew very well that she wanted vengeance for the death of her brother.

Meanwhile, Merrill, Shanyla and Stormfly were facing Griselda and they took up a fighting stance. However, Griselda somehow stopped time around her freezing the three of them in place.

Smiling she began to approach them casually. "It's like I'm the only person in the world right now. All of it laid out before me, everyone's had the thought at least once in their lives. I wish there was some way I could stop time, but I can actually make that happen." She then leaned down towards Merrill and then placed her hand under her chin. "With my Âge Seal, understand? I wouldn't trade this power for anything in the world, I can do whatever I please right now believe me it's a rush."

She then placed her hand over her dress. "Should I rip your clothes to shreds and embarrass you too? Nah, I think I've done enough playing around. I can easily kill you all and be done with it, but that just sounds so boring to me.

"Okay, when time starts moving again one of you will be lying dead on the ground. Yep, that definitely works for me so now I've got to figure out which one." She then looked at Merrill. "Oh, whom I kidding? It has to be this little face kicker here." She then raised her sword. "Sweet dreams child."

She then swung her blade towards Merrill, but then to her utter astonishment, Merrill jumped over her blade.

"Are you ready?" Merrill asked looking down at Shanyla.

"Yeah, you bet," she nodded.

"How?" Griselda stared. She was in so much shock purchased stood stationed there as the two girls rushed in to attack. 'This is my world? How can they move?'

The two of them then struck her with powerful kicks unleashing a powerful spray of water that pushed her back.

"Brilliant Sea Arrow!" they yelled.

"I swear that I just heard somebody's voice," said Merrill as they land on the ground.

"So did I," said Shanyla.

"The universe has been distorted," said a voice and they all turned and saw Ultear approaching them. "This world we're in now is a rift in time itself, you think you're the only one who inhabits it? You're sorely mistaken, unfortunately for you, this is my domain as well."

"Who is that?" said Stormfly.

"It serves as a temporal prison of sorts and I have come on the half of Crime Sorcière to punish you for your transgressions," said Ultear.

"I know you, you're Ultear," said Merrill.

Griselda looked at her furiously. "Are you the one who unlocked my flow of time?"

"Well, how could I be when time is still stopped?" she asked.

"It's stopped?" Merrill blinked.

They then noticed for the first time that everything around them was completely frozen.

"This space between is my home now, in fact, I can only truly exist inside this femoral territorial. By interrupting the normal flow of the cosmos you are unwittingly placed yourself within this peculiar domain in which I dwell. Consider this your welcome."

Griselda was absolutely furious. "This is supposed to be my world! How dare you defy it!"

"If she was the only one who could move freely while time was standing still for all of us, we would have been killed in the blink of an eye as she said," said Stormfly completely shaken to the core.

"Hold on, so when that happened before time was stopped?" said Shanyla remembering when her clothes were shredded to pieces.

"I don't understand, what's going on here?" said Merrill confused.

"Her magic has the power to stop time completely, however since I removed myself from the normal order of things I can exist where life ceased following that order and luckily for you I realised I was able to move you in here with us."

"I see, there were rumours that you vanished soon after the Eclipse Gate was closed," said Stormfly.

When the dragons invaded Ultear used all her power in order to reverse time, she had initially hoped to reverse time just before the Eclipse Gate was opened. Unfortunately, all she could manage was a single minute, but luckily that single minute was a vital is a change in the outcome of many battles and saved many lives.

"Being in the rift of time like this is not so bad," said Ultear.

"Get out now!" Griselda roared charging towards her.

"But I have no true compile form, which means I'm not able to fight alongside you," said Ultear and a small crack appeared along her face.

"Get out of the way!" Merrill yelled as Griselda jumped into the air with sword in hand.

She swung her blade at Ultear, but it passed right through her much to her shock. "A projection?"

"Hurry! You can only move while whole time in place and I can't do it much longer!" Ultear warned.

"Got it!" said Merrill as she and Shanyla rush towards Griselda.

"Here we go," said Shanyla.

Griselda turned to face them and began swinging her sword unleashing powerful slashing attacks. "This world belongs to me and me alone and I will let anyone interfere with it!"

The two girls managed to avoid the attacks and then they began channelling their magic through the wrists.

"Sea Dragon's Tsunami Claw!" Merrill yelled.

"Sea God Njord!" Shanyla yelled.

Griselda blocked their attacks with her sword. "Guess I have to show you why I can control time as well as the true power the Drake Twelve can wield."

Her right gauntlet then shattered and she slammed her palm into the ground creating a massive burst of magic. It was so powerful that it sent the two girls flying backwards.

"Merrill! Shanyla! Hang on!" Stormfly yelled but then she was struck with the blast as well.

"What is she doing?" said Ultear staring at the immense power. "Her power is incredible."

Soon the power dispelled leaving nothing but a massive crater in the ground and then when the dust settled they saw Griselda floating inches off the ground. She was now wearing a black bodysuit with golden streaks across it and her face was completely pale and her eyes were now golden.

"My ultimate spell, Take-Over: God Soul!" she said and it sounds if two voices were speaking at once.

All of them were completely stunned by her transformation.

"The strength of a God," said Ultear as more of her face began to crack.

"This can't be happening," Stormfly winced.

She then unleashed her attack once more Terry at the ground beneath her feet.

Back at the Guildhall, Ruby woke up suddenly as if she sensed something.

"What's the matter, Ruby? Did you have a nightmare?" Toothless asked.

"More like a bad feeling," she said. "I don't think I can rest while everyone else is fighting."

"Well, what was it? Something about Hiccup?" Toothless asked.

"I don't really know exactly, I just got worried all of a sudden," Ruby explained.

"Hiccup is going to be fine," Toothless assured her.

Ruby wish you could be so certain, but it had been over 24 hours.

At the same time, Merrill and the others had just witnessed Griselda incredible power.

"Hearken to my voice, a god is among you now… Kronos God of time" said Griselda.

"Is everybody still okay?" Shanyla winced.

"Huh," Stormfly groaned.

'I could never have anticipated this,' said Ultear looking deeply shocked. 'The power of the God of time, how did she obtain something so terrifying?'

"I am a guard of the ancient Mildians… Griselda was born from their lineage," said Griselda. "Together we have become one singular force."

"So you say that you're a god huh?" said Shanyla she rose to her feet. "Well, I think you're going to be sorry that you decided to start a fight with a God Slayer."

Stormfly saw Griselda raising her finger towards Merrill and immediately got a vision and her Clairvoyance. She witnessed a magical attack piercing through Merrill's chest and saw her dying in her arms.

"Merrill!" Stormfly cried rushing towards her.

She then shoved Merrill out of the way and when she hit the ground she looked at Stormfly and saw Griselda piercing through her chest.

"I could see the future," said Stormfly clutching her side where the attack struck and blood began pouring out. "But it was too late, it wasn't fast enough."

She then fell to the ground and everyone just stared in shock.

"Stormfly!" Merrill screamed and immediately rushed towards her. "Please say something! You hear me? Please wake up, just open your eyes!"

"She killed her," said Shanyla with tears in her eyes.

"Stormfly!" Merrill yelled shaking her body. "Stormfly! No…" She began to remember all those happy times she had with Stormfly. "Stormfly, please don't leave me!"

"You have desecrated my realm, for your trespass death is the only atonement," said Griselda.

Merrill's tears fell on top of Stormfly's face. "Stormfly… no!"

"She still alive… for now," said Ultear and her face began cracking a faster rate now.

Merrill stopped crying and looked at her. "She's injured, but I ejected her from this place we're in. In other words, she's back to where time has stopped."

"She was only trying to help me," said Merrill softly. "And now she's stuck."

"I was almost too late, once time started moving again she will be in real danger," Ultear warned as her body began cracking. "That means you have to win this fight and at the moment time moves forward to cast a full-powered healing spell to save her."

"Ultear, you're cracking," said Shanyla. "What's happening?"

"My hold on this rift is beginning to wane, I can only keep you hear a little longer. You must defeat your foe quickly."

"And that'll save her?" Merrill asked brushing the tears out of her eyes.

"Come on, let's do it," said Shanyla.

"Yeah!" Merrill nodded getting to her feet.

Ultear looked at the two of them. 'These girls, they don't have a chance in this battle. She has God's power behind her in this battle.' She then saw the determined look on their faces. 'That look in their eyes, they have no fear.'

She knew there was only one way they could succeed, but it would not be without a price. 'Whatever happens, they will fight until the end.'

She then turned to the two girls. "To win you'll need to use the power of the future."

"What you mean?" Merrill asked.

"Your potential," said Ultear holding out her crystal ball. "Meaning the power you will gain in the future, you'll need to use it all now. That is the only hope you have of winning here. However, once you use this spell that's it… you'll lose your magical ability forever. Tell me where you pay that price?"