Drago's transformation sent ripples all across the entire continent and beyond, even those with no magic power felt it.
"The hell…" said Gildarts. "What was that?"
"I think it came from the Guildhall," said Agatha.
Gildarts looked directly at the Guildhall. "We need to check it out."
"Hang on, Gildarts," said a voice behind him.
Gildarts turned and saw Alvin approaching them and behind him were Valka, Snotlout, Adelaide and the Thunder Legion. Alvin was also pulling a cart behind him and his eyes widened when he saw that in it was the body of Stoick.
"You're here, thank Thor," said Agatha.
"I'm not sure why, but the First Master asked that we stay away," said Fenris. "Safe to assume that he has a strategy in mind."
Gildarts looked at Stoick's body.
"Even still I want to get him back there as soon as we can," said Alvin.
"Yeah, and you guys fought your heart out for that right," Gildarts nodded.
"You know that Viking August we were fighting said he was the last of the Twelve," said Agatha.
"I defeated the one called Grimmel earlier so he's out of commission," said Adelaide.
"That Sand Viking… Chaghatai, basically lost the will to fight and as grampa showed up and he took off somewhere," said Snotlout.
"And Ragnar took care of Krogan," Heather added.
"There was that one who controlled the dead, I believe he called them Historas?" said Skullcrusher. "Someone defeated him too, right?"
"Apparently Hiccup beat him," said Stormfly folding her paws. "And I believe that Astrid took down Irene. Also according to Ruby Brandish and Griselda left the battle earlier."
"We know that the list of the Twelve have been taken care of," said Fenris. "The ones left are Emperor Drake… I mean Drago Bludvist…"
"And Acnologia," Rubbella finished. "Once again were facing the black dragon."
"I was hoping we were done with him," said Snotlout.
"Does anyone know where he is now I'm not really sensing him nearby anymore?" Gildarts asked.
"He was going after Blue Pegasus' ship," said Valka.
"Some kind of decoy mission?" Rubbella asked.
"Sounds like a suicide mission," said Snotlout.
"We seem to be missing some folks," Gildarts noted.
"We are," Fenris agreed and his eyes turned to Speedfist, who was standing on top of the rubble. "But Speedfist is attempting to locate them."
'Merrill,' said Stormfly.
'Ragnar,' said Heather.
'Astrid,' said Adelaide.
'Ruby,' said Agatha.
'Hiccup,' said Gildarts.
'Toothless,' said Skullcrusher.
'Everyone, please be okay,' everyone said.
Meanwhile in the Plaza, Ruby, Ragnar and Toothless had been blown away the wave from Drago's transformation hit them.
"Oh man," Ragnar groaned. "That wave what was it?"
"Something just went down at the Guildhall," said Toothless.
"Hey, Ruby you okay?" Ragnar asked.
"Yeah," said Ruby picking herself up.
"Hang on, Ruby wears that writing flew out?" Toothless asked.
"It's all in here," said Ruby showing them the book. "It went back in the book."
"I don't understand what's going on," said Ragnar.
"I'm pretty sure that Hiccup and this book are connected somehow," Ruby theorised. "Probably by some highly advanced Body Link spell, we've seen her before but nothing this strong."
"No kidding," said Toothless.
"Maybe I can help him?" said Ruby as she looked at the book. "If I rewrite it."
"That sounds crazy," said Ragnar. "Are you serious? There was a massive amount of staff on a single page and that was only a fraction of the book. Who knows how much there is."
"I don't think I would need to rewrite the entire thing, I bet it's only one page," said Ruby. "Just much would be enough to help Hiccup."
Ruby remembered what Master Hiccup told them when he handed Ruby the book and he wouldn't have done that and that he was certain they could help.
"Find that page and rewrite it, that's all we can do for him now," said Ruby.
Ragnar didn't like it, there were too many unknowns, but neither did they have any choice. Toothless nodded in agreement, knowing that this was possibly the only way to save Hiccup.
"Let's get started," said Ruby.
Ruby then opens the book and the moment she did the same strange red writing shot up into the air. All of them stared at it, it was written in an ancient language that they could barely understand and of course they knew it was written by Drago's hand as well.
Hiccup meanwhile was staring down Drago, who had just transformed in front of him.
Hiccup then placed his ancestor down. "I'm sorry, but the only thing left to do is to get rid of him."
"That so?" said Drago confidently. "You talking about me?"
"Who the hell else would I be talking about?" Hiccup snapped and then immediately charge towards him.
"Have you forgotten you can't destroy me?" Drago asked. "That's how we got to this point."
Hiccup began channelling everything he had into his fist. "Fire Dragon King's Destruction Fist!"
He then slammed it right into Drago's face then unleashed a powerful surge of flames that was so powerful it destroyed the back of the Guildhall. When the smoke finally cleared there was no sign of Drago, given the fact that he was in the centre the blast radius he would have been turned to ash the moment the attack hit.
Hiccup had used up so much power that he almost toppled over, and his Dragon Force transformation began to fade away.
"How many times do we have to rebuild the Guildhall?" Hiccup groaned. "There again I had to use my full power to take Drago down."
His eyes then turned back towards Master Hiccup, who was still unconscious on the floor. Then suddenly he felt a strange presence and then the pieces of the rubble would lift off into the air and as hard as it was to believe, the Guildhall began preparing itself, in fact, there was no indication that it had been destroyed at all.
However, that wasn't what shock Hiccup the most as the forming in front of him was none other than Drago.
"What the? He's back?" Hiccup stared.
"Of course I am, this is the power of the Dragon Heart. Space and time on my dominions, I have total control of them." His hands then began glowing with dark magic as he approached him. "My magic powers limitless and everlasting, it is the pinnacle of any form of magic which this world has never seen. It is the reckoning that will bring this world to attend."
He then plunged his hand right through Hiccup's chest and he spat some blood. Drago then removed his hand and walked past him as Hiccup began to topple.
"Dad… I failed you…" Hiccup groaned as he fell.
Drago looked back at him. "Do give my regards to your father when you see him in Valhalla." He then walked away. "Farewell, Hiccup."
Hiccup then struck the floor and blood began pouring out from his wound.
On the Christina, was still being chased by Acnologia and will try to put as much distance between him and them as possible as they came up with a new plan. Jellal had made his way outside to distract Acnologia in order to give Sapphire time to reopen the Time Rift.
"Wait, hang on," said Olatrand who went outside to meet him. "You needn't do this, it's far too dangerous of a mission. Let me handle it instead."
"Your kind, but this is something I must do I need you to protect them," said Jellal.
Olatrand nodded. "I understand."
"What I stirred," said Ase. "That's how it's done, boys."
"He would fit right in with Blue Pegasus," said Arvin.
"Well, it's like I see him in a new light," said Feralan.
"He is on par with Mr Olatrand," said Cavin.
"Oh yeah, he's the man!" Olatrand agreed.
Jellal then took off using his magic to fly around. "Meteor!"
He then charged at Acnologia and began flying around him with incredible speed, before slamming him into the side of his neck.
"Looks like he got him!" Ase cheered.
"Hold on, not yet," said Olatrand.
He was right as Acnologia was beginning to absorb his magic. "I told you before I have no magic type!"
"This isn't good," said Arvin.
"He's swallowing the attack," said Feralan.
"I think he's going to strike back!" Cavin yelled.
Acnologia as he fired his breath attack with the power he absorbed from Jellal and aimed directly at him.
"Jellal!" Astrid cried.
Acnologia then spread his attack towards them down across the ocean and seconds later there was a huge explosion. Apart from being a little jostled inside the Christina, they were able to escape unscathed, although the ocean cannot say the same.
"Hey, guys see that?" Cavin stared.
As unbelievable as it was, Acnologia had created a new chasm within the ocean and water was thundering down it.
"Wow, you've got to be kidding me," said Feralan.
"That attack split the ocean," said Ase looking utterly terrified.
"His power is off the charts," said Arvin.
"Man, he's a force of nature," said Olatrand.
"Where's Jellal?" Astrid asked.
Jellal was able to avoid the attack and was now hovering directly in front of Acnologia. Though he was rather overwhelmed by the power his opponent had, he knew he was powerful but not to this extreme.
"I was naïve, I thought if I kept dodging his attacks I will be able to buy us a little more time," said Jellal as he looked down at the massive chasm which was now been flooded with seawater. "But if he keeps this up he'll destroy the land itself."
"No, not just the land," said Acnologia. "I won't stop until I destroy everything in this world."
"Neither Jellal or this ship can keep this up for much longer," said Astrid as she and Sapphire looked at the window. "You have to open the Time Rift right away."
Sapphire had been attempting to do just that for quite some time, but she was having some difficulties. "I keep on reaching out to it, why won't it respond? Has someone purposely closed it?"
She had no way to know that it was Drago who was taking control over the Time Rift nor did she realise that he absorbed the power of the Dragon Heart allowing him control over space and time itself.
Drago at this moment was making his way out of the Guildhall leaving behind Hiccup dead body and Master Hiccup's unconscious body.
"This world has finally reached its end, we are now at the dawning of a new world," he said as he came to a stop. "I will enter into it through the doorway of the Dragon Tail Guildhall. I shall create a link between it and the Rift in Time."
He then raised his hand in front of the doors that led to the outside world and then suddenly began to glow bright light. Within a moment a new doorway appeared in front of him, one that would lead him to the beginning of time.
"The moment I pass through this doorway this world will crumble into dust and my world one born anew will come into being," he said. "This doorway has served as the portal for countless adventures, people setting out full of hope and returning with tales to tell. Differing this is where the old and new will meet with Dragon Tail as the Nexus. Could there be a more perfect irony?"
He then started to make his way to the door feeling certain that his victory was assured and that no one could stop him.
"I'm going to plot my course with memories of this world as I walk through my former life again. I will not make the same mistakes, now I know how to save the world."
Back at the Plaza, Rubin the others watched as the red writing suddenly came to a stop.
"It's stopped?" said Toothless.
"Yeah, but why?" Ragnar frowned.
Ruby then saw one of the words vanished in front of her and then slowly more words began to disappear.
"The letters are blowing up," said Toothless.
"You think it's because something bad happened to Hiccup?" said Ragnar.
Ruby didn't like where this was going, because it was very likely that Ragnar was right. She then looked down at the book.
"I think it's his body," she said. Both Ragnar and Toothless looked at her. "Something is not right, I think he seriously hurt."
"Then we have to help him," said Toothless.
"But what can we do?" Ragnar asked. Ruby then pulled out a pen and Ragnar realised what she intended to do. "Ruby, did you figure out what you need to do to rewrite?"
"No, not yet," she said as she hovered her pen over one of the gaps between two words. "But I'm going to start by rewriting the parts that just vanished."
"Can you really do that?" Toothless asked. "I mean it happened so fast, plus there's no telling what they said before."
"It's okay, I memorised it all," Ruby assured him.
She then began writing a new word within the gap.
While this was happening Sapphire sensed something terrible was about to happen.
"The rift has over the opening," she said.
"Seriously?" said Astrid.
"Unfortunately I'm afraid that it wasn't my doing," she said regretfully. "It was somebody else."
"What does that mean?"
Sapphire then looked out of the window. "All I know is that the gate has now been opened, there's no turning back."
Olatrand then noticed something even more troubling. "Miss Sapphire look over there!"
Sapphire turned in her eyes widened. "This can't be?"
Astrid followed her gaze and realised the problem. "No way."
"I can't believe it," said Jellal as he hovered in the sky.
The rift was opening becoming much larger, but was it was now visible to everyone including Acnologia.
"The Time Rift… it's become visible," said Sapphire horrified.
Acnologia noticed the rift. "What is that?"
"Oh no," said Ase. "Acnologia sees it too!"
"If he can see it that pretty much froze our plan to trap out the window," said Cavin.
"What the hell are we going to do?" said Feralan.
Jellal then shot directly towards Acnologia. "Don't worry, I'll push him through myself!"
"No, stay away!" Sapphire yelled. "It's far too dangerous! If you touch it you'll disappear too!"
"There's no other way!"
"Jellal!" Astrid screamed.
At the Guildhall, Drago was still making his way to the doorway that would lead him to the beginning of time.
"It is time to remake this world in my image," he said.
Then suddenly he felt a presence directly behind him and came to a sudden stop, as Hiccup rose to his feet with flames covering his body.
"In Dragon Tail, we have a rule when we walk through that door," said Hiccup. "That you have to make a vow, a vow that you'll return no matter what. That you make a promise that you're going to survive."
Hiccup's recovery was thanks to no small part to Ruby, who had successfully rewritten the words that had been removed from the text.
"Holy crap," Ragnar stared bewildered.
"You did it, Ruby! It's back whether it was!" Toothless cheered.
However, Ruby didn't seem to be celebrating, in fact, she was looking rather stiff.
"Ruby?" Toothless blinked.
Then suddenly the veins in her arms began to expand crawling all the way over her arm, wrist, across the right side of her chest and the right side of her face.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Ragnar asked.
"What's happening to you?" said Toothless.
"Ruby can you hear me! Answer me!"
"Please hang in there!"
