Stoick had agreed to allow Brandish to negotiate with August and since she had the best relationship with her will be accompanied her. Hiccup also accompanied them, just in case the negotiations deemed go according to plan, as did Toothless.

"I have to say am curious about what kind of guy this August is," said Hiccup.

"I just hope that we don't have to fight him," said Ruby.

"You would be obliterated before you even knew what hit you so keep that in mind," said Brandish.

"Sounds frightening," said Toothless.

"The August I know is warmhearted and I believe he's the most reasonable member of the Twelve," she continued. "However, he is also quite loyal. His support for the Emperor will be hard to sway."

"So how are you going to get past that major sticking point?" Ruby asked.

"No idea."

Hiccup then came to a stop and his eyes turned towards the tree. "You know very well you can't hide from me Garon. I know you're there!"

Garon then walked out from behind the tree. "What do you expect? I can't believe you would put all your trust in this girl."

Hiccup sighed. "A chance to talk down one of the Twelve, especially a powerful one, is too good to pass up."

"But did you have to take off her magic seal stone? She's still had a prisoner you know!"

"And how do you think August would react if he saw her shackled?" Hiccup questioned.

"Need I point how my father approved of the plan," Hiccup reminded him. "And I am your Guild Master so what I say goes!"

"Are we really going to walk all the way there?" Brandish asked.

Hiccup looked at her. "Your little attack on the city destroyed all the wagons we had and public transport has been shut down due to the war."

"And I can only carry one person at a time," Toothless added.

"I know what we can do," said Brandish.

She then snapped her fingers into their utter astonishment they watched as Toothless grew in size until he was the size of a small mountain.

"Your huge!" Ruby cried.

"Guess that one way to travel," said Hiccup.

"Seems like we can ride him now," Brandish smiled as she hugged his leg and then put on the most adorable face one could imagine. "Such a giant big ball of fluff."

"Is she making a cutesy face?" Ruby blinked.

"Looks like," Hiccup smiled.

Garon just remained absolutely silent.

Meanwhile, at the basement, Agatha was still pounding Master Hiccup's projection with the Dragon Sword spell. Though she was limiting the power of the attacks so not to harm him which did defeat the purpose and she was now getting exhausted.

"Agatha, come on get serious and hit me with all you've got," said Master Hiccup.

"But you're my friend, I can't just attack you," she said. "I get that you're only a projection, but still."

Master Hiccup looked at her. "Over a thousand years ago it was ourselves that hold these lands and humans were treated like second-class citizens."

"What's that got to do with anything?" Agatha asked.

"I believe that those laws were unfair and unjust and I did everything I could to reverse them. I saw this talented young human who had a great attitude for magic, I managed to pull a few strings and got him involved in the Academy. I had hoped that this would be the first step for human rights, but because of my hesitation, I knew the doomed us all.

"That young human was Drago, back in those days dragons were great friends, but we are elves we were invincible and lived in closed-off cities. This left a good number of human villages to feel the full brunt of the dragons hunger, Drago's family was killed by a dragon. When I enrolled him into the Academy, he then cited research methods of reviving the dead.

"There was no denying that he was brilliant, but his research was terrifying. I did my best to shield him from the Board of Directors, but he kept on pushing on him is research no matter how many times we pleaded to stop. In the end, we were left with no choice but to expel him from the Academy and that when his curse took hold, everyone apart from myself killed and Drago continued with his inhuman experiments.

"He constructed the Tower Valhalla to revive his sister and in the end, we were left with no choice but to attack him and I was the one who led the assault. It was a hard-fought battle but eventually, we reached the top, but we were too late for him to revive his sister. That left us in a very dubious position, on one hand can lead information like this spread across the land and on the other, the girl did not ask to be revived.

"In the end, I took the girl in, took a lot of persuading, but I was able to shield her. In time we fell in love and the rest I imagine you can guess. The point of this story is that if I had not hesitated in stopping Drago I might have prevented all of this. Agatha, I need your help, you are the only one who can free me from this Crystal Coffin. So please, you aren't attacking anybody you're using your power to save a friend."

Agatha was still rather hesitant, but she rose to her feet and stood strong.

Meanwhile up in the North Dragon Tail had engaged with the northern army and managed to free members of Sabretooth and Blue Pegasus.

"Man, there's a lot of these jokers, but I've got something for all of them!" said Eret as he places hands together. His hands then transformed into a giant iron greatsword. "Pride Demon: Iron Greatsword!"

He then slammed his blade right down on top of the enemy army causing them to scatter.

String was still traumatised after the capture was busy crying rather than leading the rest of the Guild.

"Come on, Sting… you have to snap out of it" said Rogue.

"It's all my fault, I'm nothing but a screwup," he said. "I'm supposed to be the master of our Guild."

Vala then approached him and lifted him to his feet and then to everyone's shock slapped him across the face.

"You are our Master String and that means when things get his dark as they are now you leaders out of it," she said.

Sting just stared at her. "Vala?"

"You can do it, I know you have what it takes."

Sting then grasped her hand. "I'm sorry, that must have been painful."

"No, I mean I slapped you so wouldn't that hurt you more?" Vala smiled.

"Having to do something like that, because your master is pathetic is the painful part of it."

He then turned towards the battlefield and brushed the tears out of his eyes.

"You're not pathetic," said Vala. "I'm sorry, I just didn't know what to do."

"Someone needed to knock some sense into me, we've got to learn from this experience and grow stronger." He then looked at everyone. "If you can still walk, follow me! We're tigers and we're hungry for fight! And right now it's feeding time!"

"Yeah!" everyone yelled.

Blue Pegasus also felt we energise as they jumped in the battle.

"Let's do this," said Cavin.

He and the rest of the Trimens then attacked the enemy forces with all their strength. Ase was also proving to be quite aggressive attacking one of the soldiers that had looked up her skirt when she was captured.

"We'll fight for Mr Olatrand! Our hero!" Cavin yelled with tears in his eyes. "A man who was way too young to die!"

"He's still alive," said Fishlegs.

Minerva was also letting loose as now several soldiers were hovering in midair.

"Wow, what's happening?"

"We're floating!"

"Rigora!" she yelled in a series of explosions struck the soldiers she had captured. "Though savages made our master weep, no mercy."

Rogue had sank into the shadows and then struck several soldiers before they knew what happened.

"Feel better Master Crybaby?" Rogue smirked.

"Call me whatever you want, who cares," said Sting.

Rogue then looked at Vala, who was crying her eyes out. "Don't you start!"

Overlooking from the hill was Irene and the two girls with her and Juliet was observing the battle.

"Hmm, the ones that were taking prisoner seem like the doing better now," she said.

Helen then looked at Irene. "Should we attack them? Would you think my lady?"

"Ragnar and Larcade are drawing near," said Irene. "They'll handle it."

The battle continued to rage on, but then Allied forces began to collapse close to the woods for an unknown reason.

"Everyone is dying! What is this?"

"The Grim Reaper!"

"Run!"

"The Grim Reaper is coming back!"

"He's going to crucify us again!"

"I don't think I will survive him this time!"

Emerging from the woods was a man wearing demonic armour and wearing a black cape. His name was Ragnar the Stone and he was one of the Drake Twelve and anyone who got near him just died.

Then suddenly, appearing out of nowhere, was an iron club striking him against his right shoulder. Everyone stopped running and watched as more iron clubs struck Ragnar sending him crashing into a tree and then an iron sword pierced his chest.

"No way."

The attacks had come from Eret who looked at Ragnar darkly. "How do you like being crucified? For me, this is just bringing back some bad memories."

"Better than what your future holds," said Ragnar.

His body then turned into a dark mist and he slipped out of Eret's hold, in fact, it didn't look as if it faced him in the slightest.

"You have touched death," said Ragnar as he grasped his throat. "There will be no reprieve and no escape."

"You think so?" said Eret grasping his throat and then his skin turned to iron. "This must be my lucky day." He then head-butted Ragnar in the face free him from his grasp and then his skin reverted back to normal. "Because I was getting pretty sick looking for a place to die."

Upon the hillside, Irene sensed something troubling.

"Now Juliet… Helen… go and join them on the front line," she ordered.

"Yes ma'am," Helen nodded.

Juliet just looked confused. "What? How come? You just said that Ragnar and Larcade would handle everything."

"Show some respect," Helen snapped. "When our Lady gives an order, we follow it. Idiot."

"Our third guest will be arriving shortly," said Irene.

"Our third guest?" said Heather looking at her confused.

"Yes, the horses and tigers those were our first guests… the dragons were today second guests… soon we'll be meeting a third group and this one could be a bit of trouble."

Approaching the battlefield was the Olympia, which was under the command of Shiva and with her was the rest of Crime Sorcière. They had attached the cannon to the very top of the temple and were aiming directly at the enemy army.

"Here we are," said Shiva. "The Mobile Temple Olympia has joined the party. Our lawless days are done and now we're a force for justice for Crime Sorcière."

She then noticed that all the snow was gone.

"What the hell? I thought that this was a snowy mountain?" she frowned.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, Vala sensed something close by which felt rather familiar.

Minerva looked at her. "Something wrong Vala?"

"Nothing, don't worry about me," she assured.

Irene still sensed something troubling approaching them.

"But the most troublesome of all will be our fourth guest," she said to the girls.

"Another one?" Helen stared.

"Seems like too many to me," said Juliet.

"This guest is neither friend nor foe, I shall have to deal with them personally," said Irene.

"I don't know who they are, but they're already been stupid," said Helen.

"Yeah, Lady Irene is a high enchanter after all so they're in for it. Sucks for them," Juliet agreed.

Meanwhile, Hiccup and the rest of his party was still heading east towards August and now they were riding on the back of Toothless.

While they were flying Brandish was entertaining herself by decreasing and increasing the size of Ruby's breasts, much to her annoyance.

"Stop playing around with people's bodies would ya!" Ruby snapped when her breasts returned to normal size.

"Not sure why, but your definitely the most fun to mess with, Ruby," said Brandish.

Garon looked at them. "We don't have time to be playing these foolish games."

Then suddenly they felt a massive surge of magic power close by, it was the largest that they had ever sensed.

"Wow, you feel that?" said Ruby.

Hiccup was the only one to maintain his call. "That magic power…"

"There's no mistaking him," said Brandish.

"Wait, you can't be serious," said Garon looking utterly terrified. "He's this strong?"

They were now coming into view of an old man holding a staff in his hand, who was just standing there as if waiting for them.

"That's why he's called the Viking King," said Brandish.

"We'll have to tread carefully," said Hiccup.

"I've got a bad feeling about this guy," said Garon.

Meanwhile, up at the North, Crime Sorcière was about to engage the enemy army.

"I see it's time we start flexing the Olympia's muscles," said Shiva as she began to operate the temple. "Mobile Temple Olympia, main cannon engaged!"

They then immediately fired a shot directly at the enemy army, but first, the Allied forces believe that it was another enemy attacking them.

"Be careful! They're firing cannons!"

"Hang on! Looks like they're targeting the invaders!"

"Does that mean it on our side? Awesome!"

The Olympia fired another volley at the enemy now the Allied forces were ecstatic about the additional firepower.

"We've got some serious backup now guys!"

"Yeah, but who is it?"

Vala looked at the Olympia as she could still sense the familiar presence she sensed earlier.

Rogue then appeared next to her and saw the strange look on her face. "Is something the matter? You're not injured are you?"

"Vala, you can leave the front line if need be," Minerva offered.

"No, it's nothing. I'm sorry, I'll be okay," she assured them and then looked back at the Olympia. 'For some reason, I've got this strange sensation.'

Irene was standing on the hillside which was now blooming with different coloured flowers. She tapped her staff on the ground in a bright golden light spread across the landscape.

"Our fourth guest will be arriving any moment," she said. "We need to be prepared for them. It seems his Majesty's little strategy game has ended, a more straightforward attack would have already resulted in victory I'm sure. But now the gameboard has been broken, by someone who doesn't play by the rules. Acnologia… and his wings of darkness, a black dragon coming to the spot where the White Maiden prevailed as if seeking revenge. But I know the last laugh will belong to me, the Golden Maiden. After all, I am known in some places as the Golden Despair, there must be a more charming name than that."

She then shackled.

Meanwhile, Eret was holding his own against Ragnar, the two of them clash their fists against one another.

"My baneparticles spilt doom for any Viking that inhales them," said Ragnar sneering at Eret. "Soon you will feel the sensation of your organs liquefying."

"Yeah, I don't think so, because my lungs are made of iron!" Eret roared.

"Excellent news, it's been too long since I faced a truly challenging opponent!"

Ragnar's face then suddenly extended and Eret realise that the black mist around him was in fact baneparticles. Eret quickly recovered and then his foot turned into an iron spear.

"Iron Dragon's Spear!" he yelled extending his club towards him.

However, Ragnar's body merely transformed into baneparticles and the spear passed right through his body.

"My body is made of baneparticles, so touchingly will seal your doom!" Ragnar mocked. Skulls and immediately erupted around the ground and began to cover the entire area. "I am a god of death, dragging all that I face into the underworld!"

Eret was not up into the air and that when he saw many of his allies close by collapsing one by one.

"You may be able to survive this, but what about those without your gifts?" Ragnar smirked.

"Everyone getaway right now! Don't come near him!" Eret ordered.

He then fell to the ground where there was a massive ocean of skulls.

"My legion of the dead will consume your soul," said Ragnar.

"All these bones," said Eret as he got pounded by all the skeletons. "Dammit!"

"Solid Script: Shine!" Fishlegs yelled creating the word Shine in front of him.

All of the skeletons surrounding then started to disintegrate as they were being purified. By Fishlegs' spell.

"Some type of Holy Magic?" Ragnar growled.

Eret stared at Fishlegs in horror. "What that?"

"I'm not gonna lose any of my friends!" Fishlegs yelled determinedly.

"Fishlegs, you've got a go!" Eret yelled.

Fishlegs turned and that when he saw the word mask covering his face. Eret realise that before jumping in he cast a spell in order to protect himself.

"Good thinking," said Eret.

"Those that oppose me cannot escape death," said Ragnar. "I'll drag your souls through the gates of hell for I am death and this promise of life you cling to will be broken without any mercy."

Meanwhile to the West, Drago stopped the army as he sensed something beneath their feet. He placed his hand on the ground and sensed a massive amount of magic running through it which had a familiar feel.

"Now what is this?" he said. "The magic energy of the very land has changed. Irene… just what are you planning to do?"

To the east, Toothless had landed on everyone jumped off his back as they were now standing in front of August. It was very hard to get a good read on the man, he showed no indication of emotion and there was no telling what he was thinking.

"Tell me what is the meaning of this?" he said looking at them.

"I've come here to negotiate with you," said Brandish.

"I assume the enemy has killed Grimmel?"

Brandish shook her head. "He has been defeated. However, instead of killing him they have taken him prisoner. God Serena… where has he gone?"

August then placed a hand over his heart. "He is confined to our memory."

"I for that Brandish's magic power was crazy, but August is on a whole other level," Ruby whispered to Hiccup.

"It's like night and day," said Hiccup.

'I think they're putting that extremely likely,' said Garon. 'I mean the power coming from him is not even of this world.'

"So then would you mean by negotiating?" August asked looking at Brandish.

"I would like you to walk away," she said.

"Hmm, it doesn't appear to me that you've been tortured," he noted. "Which leads me to wonder… What has brought about this betrayal of our homeland?"

"I'm not betraying anyone, I'm still devoted to Alvarez. However, I feel like there is no meaning to this war."

"So you dare act in direct opposition to his Majesty's wishes? We've pledged our lives in service to the Emperor, if you cannot comprehend why his Majesty wages this war then you are among the enemy."

Hiccup then like where this was going, out of everyone in the group he was the only one who even stood a chance against August, though he knew there was a slim chance of him winning. Their only hope was that Brandish was able to convince August to stand down in the din look very likely.

Meanwhile, at the North, the Allied forces were still doing battle against the invading army and at the moment they were holding their own. However, there was only because Eret and Fishlegs were holding Ragnar at bay.

Eret looked at Fishlegs. "Hey, that mask you made for yourself you positive it's going to work?"

"It's Solid Script Magic so of course, I'm positive," said Fishlegs positively.

Ragnar then raised a single finger. "When the First Seal is broken, baneparticles drain your magic power…" He then raised a second finger. "…the Second opens the gate to the underworld beneath this field of corpses…" He then raised a third finger. "…upon breaking the Third Seal the God of death renders judgement upon you."

His entire body then started to transform into baneparticles now he was a monstrous creature with a sinister glow.

"And when that happens you are condemned down to the land of the dead," he continued.

"Try to act scary won't change anything," said Eret. "Your magic power is nothing but a joke, you've got nothing on the rest of the Twelve do you?"

"That's because I wield the power of curses."

Eret and Fishleges stared at him in shock.

"So does that mean what I think it does?"

"I control what rises within the depths of Helheim!" Ragnar yelled. "Cursed Power! Explosion Spiral!"

He then unleashed a massive explosion that formed in the shape of a spiral sending both ERet and Fishlegs into the air.

"Tenga Goken: Onimaru!" Ragnar roared as he swung his arms at Eret.

A powerful slashing attack in the form of an axe then slammed into Eret, slicing the trees behind him. He would have been sliced pieces if he hadn't covered his arms in iron to shield the attack.

Ragnar then spread his arms upwards. "Dark Deluge!"

A massive surge of black water then slammed into them.

"Are you kidding me?" Eret yelled.

"This again?" Fishlegs winced.

Became apparent that Ragnar was indeed able to use all the cursed powers of Helheim. He had already demonstrated using Jackal, Ezel and Torafuzar's curses powers.

"Ah, man! Can he use all of Helheim's curses?" Eret growled.

"Maybe…" said Fishlegs and he swam towards the ground. "But I'm not falling for the same trick twice! Solid Script: Hole!"

The word Hole than appeared on the ground and immediately all the water began to enter through the O in the word.

"Nice one, Legs," Eret smiled and then took in a deep breath.

Ragnar also began taking in a deep breath.

"Iron Dragon's Roar!"

"Ice Demon's Rage!"

The two breath attacks collided with one another and cancelled each other out.

Eret was about to launch another attack when tentacles wrap themselves around his ankles. It was clear that Ragnar was now using Mard Geer's power now and they were just wrapping around his legs but Fishlegs' as well.

"Behold a curse beyond the Nine Demons," said Ragnar. "To the underworld… the dead begin to scurry."

A vortex of skulls began to form around them and Eret realise a powerful attack was about to come their way.

"Dammit!" he cursed.

"The Third Seal brings judgement when rendered! Over Skelter!"

The skulls then shot towards Eret at incredible speed and struck them with immense force. Fishlegs felt himself being carried away by the vortex and they were about to be consumed. Eret, however, managed to power on through and broke free of the vortex and grabbed Fishlegs pulling him to safety.

Ragnar was taken completely aback by this. "My death vortex? How could they have escaped it?"

The two of them fell onto the ground and Eret noticed that Fishlegs' masthead faded leaving him completely exposed to the baneparticles, he was already coughing out some blood.

"Oh no, your mask!" Eret panicked. "You've got a get it back on now!"

"I'm sorry, I was bluffing," he said looking at him weakly. "The truth is it never worked. Baneparticles don't just get inhaled they are absorbed through the skin too. I guess I never had a chance, huh?"

"Then why the hell did you even come here?" Eret yelled.

"I told you, I won't let any of my friends die," he said before he collapsed.

"Fishlegs!"