Adelaide was still staring at the swordsman she immediately sent a powerful presence behind her. She turned around and saw standing right in front of her was Irene.
"So you've met my little ones," she said. "In fact, it seems as if you had quite the lively introduction."
Adelaide just stared at her. 'Her magic power, it's terrifying.'
Irene then raised her hand and ribbons emerge from the black sort and the immediately wrap themselves around Adelaide's arms, legs and neck. She was still too exhausted from her previous battle to put up a fight and the next thing she knew she was pinned against a boulder. Irene then turned towards the white sword and a slime began to ooze out of it and then started the trip over her body. The slime was acidic and Adelaide yelled in pain as it began to melt her clothes and sting her body.
"You will not go gently into death," said Irene. "Let me begin by taking that flawless beautiful skin and tearing it into ribbons. When I'm done you'll be no more than a rump of shredded meat unbearable to behold."
She merely smiled as the acid slowly began to eat away at Adelaide's flesh.
"Irene," said a voice behind her.
Irene turned around and saw August approaching her and standing next to him was Brandish.
"Can't control your extreme proclivities can you?" he said disapprovingly.
"It's been a while since we've crossed perhaps, nice to see you," said Irene politely. "And you have to brandish in tow, you've certainly grown."
"Yes," said Brandish quietly.
"Why did you cast Universe One without the approval of his Majesty?" August demanded.
"I had been confronted with Acnologia, that was a battle I could not risk being drawn into," Irene explained. "So I chose to expel the black dragon and send our Lord to Dragon Tail all at once. I don't believe this is the time for lectures."
"The Twelve are to assemble, confer with him about the way forward."
"Sorry, but I believe I'll do what I see fit, thank you."
"That so? Do you defy my order? As the appointed leader of the Drake Twelve?"
Brandish looked at the two of them and easily, in fact, she was afraid that they might clash.
Adelaide just watched this confrontation with absolute fear, she could sense the power coming from August and it rivalled that of Irene.
'They both have so much power,' she said to herself. 'Can this even be real?'
Irene continued to stare down August but then relented. "Very well, I suppose I have no choice but to honour your request." She then slowly turned towards Adelaide. "However, this girl hurt my little ones so I simply can't let her live."
August then pointed her finger directly at Adelaide and then fired a magic bullet from its tip. The bullet shot at incredible speed and went straight through Adelaide's stomach and shattered the boulder she was being pinned against.
"She won't be a bother any more," he said as he lowered his finger. "Are you satisfied?"
Irene watched as Adelaide fell onto the beach. "A rather unexpectedly compassionate move from the one known as the Calamity. As you wish then, let's go."
Brandish just continued to stare at Adelaide.
Meanwhile, Vala was staring in front of her older sister, Shiva while Snotlout and the Exceeds just stared.
"I've missed you, Big Sister," said Vala.
"Vala, I…" She then remained silent.
"Is anyone else confused here?" Snotlout asked.
"Nope, I'm lost as well," said Hookfang.
Shiva looked at Vala. "I'm sorry, but… I don't have a little sister."
"No, you do!" Vala yelled.
"You're mistaken. Must be someone else."
"Shiva… I'm not wrong I know in my heart that it is you, the one that I've been looking for. They took you and I have done everything I could think of to get you back. I've missed all that I had, I even went as far as trying to turn back time for you. Shiva, you were always there to protect me, you stood up for me and I never gave up hope that I would see you again."
Shiva then turned her back on her. "I told you I'm not her."
"How can you be so cruel now!" Vala cried.
"There's no way a sinner like me could be your sister!" Shiva yelled with tears in her eyes. "My little sister is working to make the world right, she deserves better than having someone who has done so much wrong. I pray that maybe someday all of my horrible sins can be forgiven and then I'll embrace my sister."
She then began walking off.
"You'll be forgiven! I know you will!" Vala cried out.
"That's what I'm fighting for right now! But I know that I haven't earned it yet."
"It means so much to me to know that you're alive," said Vala as she brushed the tears out of her eyes. "I'm happy."
"Ain't love a beautiful thing," said Skull as he cried.
"I just find this completely weird," said Hookfang.
Snotlout just stood there thinking about his own sister. 'Adelaide… I hope you're okay.'
Spitelout had returned to the beach, not wanting to leave his daughter.
"Adelaide! There's no way I'm leaving you behind!" he yelled.
He then looked at hollow when he saw Adelaide's body just lying there in the sand.
"Oh no," he said as he picked up. "Adelaide, please wake up!" Adelaide then coughed out a bit of blood and then sat up straight. "Thank Thor, you're alive."
Adelaide was still rather confused why she was alive, August's attack was powerful enough to kill her. She then looked down at her wound and found that it was shrinking until it was barely seeable. It soon dawned on her that Brandish must have shrunk the wound, but she had no idea why.
Adelaide then remembered where Irene and August were headed.
"Dad, we have to get going!" she said looking up at him. "They need is at the Guildhall now! The Twelve are heading there."
Thanks to the continent shifting many of the Twelve who captured were now free and Griselda was making her way over wooden bridge. However, her hands were still carved and she was still wearing magic seal stone she was about moment crawling over the bridge.
Then some members from Thor's Hammer started to chase after her.
"Stop right there!"
"That's as far as your going lady!"
The two of them then immediately grabbed her halfway across the bridge.
"Can't let a prisoner like you getaway."
"The old hag would skin us alive if we lost her."
Then suddenly the two of them came over funny and they started to glow with a soothing light.
"What's happening?"
"It feels so good."
The two of them then toppled over from pleasure, so much so that they were unable to move.
Griselda looked up and saw a man dressed as a priest on the other side of the bridge, he had emerald blue eyes and scruffy blonde hair which was braided at the back.
"May your spirits white, into Valhalla take flight," he chanted. He then started to approach Griselda. "I have come for you, Griselda."
"I'm humbled… Lacade Haddock," she said.
Meanwhile, at Dragon Tails Guildhall, Master Hiccup was still face-to-face with Drago.
"It's certainly been a long time Master, can't be more than 800 years ago," Drago smiled.
"Not long enough," he said.
"Regardless I was still able to hear your voice and send your presence."
Hiccup just looked at him. 'I'm the only one here who may still have the power to take him down. The first thing I needed was my real body, but I still have one more step that I need to take the not sure whether I can get my mind around it.'
Then suddenly a cold wind blew itself around him and then he became an ice statue.
Drago turned towards Krogan who was standing close by. "That was so unnecessary, Krogan."
"How can you question this method, don't you loathe him?" Krogan questioned. "Besides he is the Dragon Heart himself, he can easily weaponise it and use its power."
"Hiccup understands more than anyone that the Dragon Heart cannot be used, even if it did assure my death. Plaster you really think you can encase a Fire Dragon Slayer in ice?"
Krogan then watched as the ice around Hiccup started to melt until he was free once more.
"Impressive ice, it was hard to melt," said Hiccup looking directly at Krogan. Drago then immediately raised his hand and suddenly Hiccup discovered that he could move his body. "Now what?"
"Dragon Tame Magic, it took a long time to master than now unable to use it upon you. You're no doubt wondering why I didn't use this magic on your descendant and Acnologia, the truth is I couldn't. The antibodies that Ingeel and the other dragons used on the Dragon Slayers makes them immune and the Second Generation Dragon Slayers are too close to human to control. As for Acnologia, it didn't work on him for a time but now he's completely immune you and has grown far more powerful."
'I tried it on my body to do something, but it just won't comply,' said Hiccup trying to think of a way out of this.
"Now come with me," said Drago as he made his way to the front doors.
Hiccup had absolutely no control over his body as he began following Drago through the doors.
'My body is moving on its own,' he said shocked.
When they got outside, Drago turned towards him.
"Look down there," he said.
Now that he had much of a choice, Hiccup complied and to his shock, he discovered that the Guild was now sitting on top of a mountain and in the valley was Drago's entire army. He could see a few housing structures, though all of them were completely out of place.
'What's going on?' said Hiccup.
"Your friends are coming," said Drago. "I mean after all you are the heart of this Guild and this beloved home. However, will they be able to survive the harsh journey?"
Drago's army was in the only concerning thing, the rest of the Twelve had also gathered even those who had been captured or killed.
Chaghatai stood there with his arms folded. "I would love to see the Dragons try, I'll grind them into dust before they ever get close."
"And how did that work last time?" said Grimmel.
"Not like you did any better, but they won't get by me again," Chaghatai glared.
"Of course not," said Grimmel.
Griselda looked at Brandish you were standing next to her. "Brandy…"
"Griselda," said Brandish.
"Heard they captured you, but it looks like you're all right now."
"Yeah," Brandish nodded.
Griselda then hugged her. "They'll pay for what they did, hear me? We'll slaughter them together."
"Friendship is lovely, the sight of it warns me," said Lacade looking at August. August just stood there in silence narrowing his eyes at him. "Not to be confused with the fire of contempt I feel from you."
"What else is he to do, follow his orders and that might change," said Krogan.
Hiccup looked at August. "That old man in August… the most powerful Viking of all. But the other…" He looked at Lacade. "His energy feels different from the rest, but I can't put my finger on how."
"So you've noticed Lacade, my secret weapon?" said Drago. "The potential to defeat Acnologia rests within him."
Neinhart had used his power in order to revive the members of the Twelve that had perished, though it took a lot out of him.
"I must say producing his Historias with the might of the Drake Twelve was no easy feat," he said.
"The Eight Dragon God Serena, has been resurrected," said God Serena as he posed.
"You free are still dead, but as long as I'm alive you're free to do as you please," said Neinhart. "So it would be wise for you to protect me."
Irene then stepped forward. "1 million soldiers plus the twelve of us, what a sight to behold."
"Irene," Drago nodded.
Hiccup looked at her. 'She's just as powerful as the Viking King.'
"I'll pardon your hasty use of Universe One, in fact, I frowned it work to my benefit," said Drago.
"Oh my, in all candour I came here prepared for a spanking from your Majesty."
"However, I must ask for more. A separation enchantment."
Irene nodded. "Of course, you need to remove the Dragon Heart from him. I mean that is why we're here."
Hiccup was utterly shocked. 'What? How was that possible?'
"Irene has a rare gift for both imbuing magic and taking it away," said Drago as if reading his mind.
'No!' Hiccup panicked.
"I imagine it will be quite the lengthy progress," Irene assumed.
"Yes," Drago nodded. "Then proceed."
'Is this it?' said Hiccup.
Drago then turned to face his army. "All of our forces are gathered and at the ready, how far can your grip drive you Dragon Tail? The truth is you will not live through tomorrow."
Hiccup and the others had finally stopped on a nearby hill just a little sour from the location of the Guildhall and Hiccup was looking down into the valley.
"Berk used to be a town full of life and our guild was at its heart," he said. "But those warm and joyous days are gone." He then looked down at everyone who was fast asleep and then turned his gaze at the rising sun. "Cherish those dreams and rest well, because this might be our last day together. We will need our strength and each other."
"Our last day?" said Astrid as she sat up. "I think have plenty more days ahead of us."
"She's right," said Ragnar as he and the others began to rise. "Because we're not backing down no matter what."
"We're still here and we're ready to fight," said Heather.
"It will be tough, but Dragon Tail is not going to give up that easily," said Toothless.
"Come on, let's go," said Ruby.
"So long as we stand together, we will get our guild back," said Astrid.
Hiccup nodded. "Then together we stand."
"Damn straight," said Ragnar.
"Indeed," Heather nodded.
Both Ruby and Toothless nodded in agreement.
The sun was now over the mountains and it showed the entire Alvarez army which was standing between them and the Guildhall.
"That's a whole lot of soldiers," said Ruby.
"Let's get back home," said Hiccup.
"We're going to have to fight our way through," said Ragnar.
"Sounds good to me," said Toothless.
"We're obviously heavily outnumbered so we can't charge in without a plan," said Astrid.
"Don't worry, we'll have back before you know it," said Hiccup confidently. "There's no way these guys can stop us."
Astrid nodded. "You're right, let's keep on pushing until we reach the Guild!"
"When we do Master Hiccup will be waiting for us," said Ruby.
"If we take off the head of the snake we can win this," said Ragnar.
Toothless remained quiet knowing what Drago had said yesterday about using a body link spell and implanting a demon inside of Hiccup. If Drago died Hiccup would die as well and they hadn't told anyone else yet.
'There has to be another way, no matter what I swear that I won't let Hiccup,' Toothless vowed.
Hiccup looked at everyone. "Let's go! Dragon Tail here we come!"
They charged directly at the enemy force at full speed.
Hiccup then raised his fist and flames began to cover it. "Fire Dragon King's Destruction Fist!"
He then slammed his blazing fist directly at the enemy unleashing a massive burst of flames that sent the enemy flying.
Ruby then grabbed Taurus' key and used to summon him and her Star Dress. "Ready, Taurus?"
Taurus nodded and put a firm grip on his battleaxe and together both he and Ruby engage the enemy.
"Water Slicer!" Heather yelled unleashing a slash of water.
"Freeze Lance!" Ragnar yelled unleashing a burst of ice.
"Requip! Deadly Nadder!" she yelled as she summoned her Deadly Nadder Armour and then immediately fired a barrage of spikes at the enemy. "Spine Shot!"
She then quickly took off into the air and then transformed into her Night Fury Armour and then slammed her sword down upon the enemy.
Toothless was in his battle form punching and kicking any soldiers that got anywhere near him.
"Are they really attacking us with a handful of people?"
"They must be insane."
"Get it together, men! There's way more vast than them, do not let them scare you!"
"Charge!"
The soldiers kept on charging at Hiccup and the others and they were getting ready to attack again, but then Merrill showed up flying on Stormfly.
"Sorry we're late," said Merrill.
"Merrill!" Hiccup smiled.
"Stormfly!" Toothless cried.
"Sea Dragon's Roar!" Merrill yelled unleashing her breath attack.
Merrill wasn't the only one that had appeared, Ragnar saw Snotlout in one of his beast forms is, which resembled a giant ape, attacking the troops.
"Beast Soul! Ape!"
"You're not alone, Dragon Tail! I'm here to help!" said Vala.
"I suppose I can lend a hand or two," said Shiva.
"Hey, it's Snotlout," said Ragnar.
"And it looks like he's brought some company," Ruby added.
"Friendship sure is a beautiful thing, isn't it Skull?" said Hookfang.
"And it's what's going to help us win," said Skull.
Then they saw Stoick leading the charge with the rest of Dragon Tail.
"And there's our backup," said Hiccup.
"Oh yeah!" Ruby cried.
Then suddenly they saw eight different dragons emerging from the battlefield in a rainbow of colours.
"Look up at the sky!" Astrid yelled.
"They're dragons!" Snotlout yelled.
Suddenly they saw God Serena somersaulting completely out of nowhere and landed directly in front of them.
"This is as far as you buffoons will go because the undead version of God Serena has made his godly dissent!" he said.
Hiccup and others were completely lost.
God Serena didn't wait for them to respond and extended his hand unleashing a massive burst of flames. "Purgatorial Dragon's Blazing Inferno!"
"Is that Fire Dragon Slaying Magic?" Ragnar asked.
"I've got this," said Hiccup and immediately began to absorb all the flames.
God Serena was taken aback by this but quickly regained his composure. "If that's the case… Sea King Dragon's Water Vortex!"
He extended his left hand and immediately unleashed a powerful burst of water directly at Hiccup. To make things even more shocking he was also combining the flames and water as if it was one single attack.
"He can use Fire and Water Magic at the same time?" Ruby stared.
"So much power, how can we fight him with all these elements?" Vala asked.
"Tempest Dragon's…" God Serena said as he took a deep breath.
"Don't tell me he's doing another one?" said Snotlout.
"Can't you do something?" Ragnar asked looking at Hiccup.
"I can't absorb everything he's growing at us," said Hiccup.
"That must be him… Septem's most powerful Viking," said Astrid.
"…Sound of Moon and Wind!" God Serena roared unleashing a powerful breath attack.
The attack combined with his previous attack was rather much for everyone, but then suddenly everything disappeared.
"What that?" Hiccup stared.
"Wow?"
"Did we just get saved?"
When the dust cleared they saw the entire ground had been shattered.
God Serena looked completely shocked. "What happened? Who did that? My spell has disappeared… or more like it was shattered."
Then they heard footsteps coming from the dust and everyone turned to watch as Gildarts emerge from the dust.
"Yo," he said.
"It's Gildarts!" Hiccup cheered.
Both Gildarts and God Serena stared each other down and you could sense the tension in the air.
"I'm feeling hungry, I want to get back to the Guildhall and have a snack," said Gildarts.
