1000 years ago, the dragon called Acnologia had returned to the hidden village and he brought an army of dragons raining down destruction on top of it. Acnologia himself was covered in wounds indicating that he had been in a fierce battle.
"You ignoble disloyal mortals," he snarled. "You are a disease that needs to be eradicated."
There was only one survivor and that was the doctor that tended to Acnologia's wounds, he stayed alive by using his magic to heal himself. However, the rest of the village were not as fortunate in this sudden betrayal from Acnologia had devastated him.
"Why is Acnologia doing this," he groaned. "Mortals and dragons have coexisted here for years. Why must peace die?"
He then lost consciousness.
He regained consciousness and found that the dragons had left and he began walking through the rubble of the village. He was distraught to see so many bodies burnt so badly that it was impossible to identify them.
"Just burning rubble, littered with bodies," he said horrified. "What did we do to anger the dragons this much? Are we truly defenceless against their wrath? Do they have no sense of mercy?"
Everything that he had once believed in coexistence with dragons had now turned completely upside down. He was now filled with anger and a thirst for revenge that was unquenchable and now there was only one thing on his mind.
'I despise Acnologia,' he said to himself as he gritted his teeth. 'My blood boils with rage for him and every other dragon. I hate them all. I was useless in this battle; completely powerless is there nothing I can do but run and hide?'
'I must find a way to channel my anger… my fear… my humiliation. I used those feelings to put Acnologia and every dragon that infests this world through this hell tenfold. I have the ability to stop their bleeding, but now what I desire above all else is the power to make them bleed.'
With that, he left the burning village with his heart thirsting for revenge. He had remembered what Acnologia had mentioned about a new form of magic capable slaying dragons. He was going to learn it and with its power slaughter every single dragon that he could find.
"I will acquire it… Dragon Slaying Magic" he vowed.
He indeed found a way to acquire Dragon Slaying Magic, he wasted no time in saying every dragon he could find, and he did not discriminate from those fighting for coexistence or those that wanted dominance. Fearsome tales of his blood first covered the land and he did not care for collateral damage either as he killed many mortals are sympathised with dragons as well earning him the name of the Dragon of the Apocalypse.
During one of his travels, he approached a small fishing village just off the coast and approached a single angler who was pulling in his catch.
"This village is known for fishing," he said. "Yet the air is filled with the stench of dragons."
The angler looked up and looked at him confused.
"There's no mistaking that odour, so foul." He then looked directly at the angler narrowing his eyes. "You people and offering human sacrifices to the beasts, haven't you?"
"None of your business outsider!" said the angler carried on with his work. "You should be on your way. We do what we have to in order to survive; it's the only way we can coexist with them."
"How pathetic," Acnologia snarled. "It's not coexistence its servitude you scum! You would willingly feed them, fellow humans. I've never heard of something so vile!"
The angler then drew his fishing knife. "That's enough! I don't have to listen to you! Look were doing this because we have no other choice!"
He wasn't listening and instead raised his hand. "Silence…"
The dragon the nearby mountains then heard screams coming from the nearby village and saw smoke emerging from it. Then the mysterious assailant made his way to his cave just a few moments later.
"So you're the Viking that's been discriminatory destroying dragons likely," he said. "Before and your life tell me one thing… What is your name?"
The mysterious assailant just rushed in and tore a hole right through his body before he even had a chance to blink.
"I've forgotten," he said. "Filthy despicable creature, your blood shall flow just like the others of your kind that faced me. My name has faded from my memory, but the name of that wretched beast will stay with me forever. I will strike fear into the hearts of dragons and conquer them, they will hate me and I will exterminate them. If the name of that low some dragon needs to be burned into my brain I shall take it as my own. They will not forget it either; they will tremble in fear when it is spoken from this point forward my name will be their doom. I am a Dragon Slayer my name is Acnologia I have come to rid the planet of dragons scourge, you shall perish!"
Now carrying the name Acnologia, he went on a rampage across the continent slaughtering every single dragon that crossed his path. Many did try to stop him only to meet a grisly and others tried to run but he hunted them down and slaughtered them. Every single dragon he slaughtered the stronger he became until he took the form of a mighty dragon that was as black as night.
'The more I hunt, the more my thirst grows. More… I need more… more destruction… more blood! I shall be drenched in the blood of dragons; I shall leave nothing but carnage in my wake. I will destroy all and this world will belong to me for I am the Dragon King… Acnologia!'
In the present Dragon Tail were engaging Acnologia hoping to buy Ruby and the others more time to arrive with the Dragon Shield spell. Granted their magic had no effect on him, but unleashing powerful bursts of magic in different locations certainly confused.
"Not sure we can keep this up for much longer," said Dogsbreath.
"We have to hold out!" Astrid yelled she coordinated the attack. "We need to give Rubin the others more time!"
"At this rate, we'll run out of magic power before they get here," said Garon.
"We can't give up, we have to put our trust in them," said Heather.
"She's right; Hiccup and the others are counting on us!" Ragnar yelled.
"Adelaide and I will continue to enjoy his attention away," said Astrid. "The rest of you need to get ready."
"You sure you can handle that thing on your own?" Garon asked.
"We should be able to buy you a few minutes while he chases us," said Adelaide. "We'll lead him towards the ocean at least that way he won't damage the city."
"You heard the ladies, grab a hand and start building up magic power," Agatha instructed. "That way when Ruby gets here we'll be ready to cast the spell." Agatha knew that all this would mean nothing if Ruby and the others didn't arrive in time. "Please hurry."
Ruby and the others were now coming into sight of the Shivering Shores and judging from the smoke coming from the town they knew that Acnologia was already there.
"Look something is happening in the Shivering Shores," said Toothless.
"I hope everyone is all right," said Ruby.
"We'll go on and create a giant magic enchantment," said Fenris.
"You've got the rest, okay!" Fishlegs yelled.
"Good luck, Toothless," said Skullcrusher.
"You've got this," said Stormfly as they flew down towards the town.
"Same to you!" Toothless yelled after them.
Ruby smiled. "I can't help but think back to when I first met you guys years ago."
Toothless nodded. "Yeah, who would have thought that we would go on so many crazy adventures with one another?"
"I know there were times when we were almost killed, but I wouldn't have traded it for anything," said Ruby.
The two of them were flying down towards the members of Dragon Tail close to the port.
"Here she comes, you guys!" Helga yelled.
"I see her!" Ingrid yelled.
"A sight for sore eyes," said Rubbella.
"I hope you've got that Dragon Shield figured out!" Snotlout yelled.
Ruby smiled as they flew down towards them and thought about Hiccup. "I know Hiccup will succeed, he's never failed as before and I know he's not going to start now!"
In the Time Rift, Hiccup and the Dragon Slayers were still battling against Acnologia, but it was clearly one-sided. All of them had just launched powerful attacks and Acnologia came out of it with not a single scratch.
"Is that the best you can do, feeble dragons?" Acnologia sneered.
Hiccup looked at him. "You say that magic doesn't work on you, even though that may be the case for now…"
"We'll see how long you take a pounding," said Sting.
"Hit you into it does hurt," said Rogue.
"Now I'm into that idea," said Eret.
"I'll fight with you!" Merrill yelled.
"Sounds good," said Alvin cracking his knuckles. "Let's take him down!"
"We won't give up, not until you fall," said Valka.
"I can hear it now, you're fighting spirit are roaring!" Cydor roared as he removed his jacket.
"Let's go!" Hiccup yelled at the top of his voice.
All of them then charged at once.
"Your struggle is futile, I slay all dragons," said Acnologia.
Hiccup came in first blazing fist, but Acnologia quickly kicked him out of the way and then sidestepped as Eret came in swaying with his iron sword and pushed him back. Merrill then attacked him with a powerful slash of water, but Acnologia avoided it and then blasted her. Sting and Rogue then tried to attack in while his back was turned with fists of light and shadow, but he grabbed Sting and spun around so that he slammed into Rogue knocking the two of them to the ground.
Cydor then jumped into the air swinging his fists, but before he could even land a single blow, he was not right back down to the ground and Valka charged in with the wind covered fist, but he blocked it and then performed axe kick. Alvin grassed both his hands together then slammed a massive fist of lightning, but he quickly spun around, blocked it, and then blasted him sending him crashing into the crystal towers. Acnologia then land on the ground and quickly turned around just as Hiccup and Eret were about unleashed their breath attacks.
"Fire Dragon's…"
"Iron Dragon's…"
"Roar!" they yelled.
Acnologia merely waved his hand and the two attacks shot right past him harmlessly.
"Holy Ray!" Sting yelled and unleashed a barrage of lasers.
Acnologia jumped between the lasers avoiding them completely and soon he jumped way out of range. However, Rogue and Cydor had positioned themselves to launch an attack when he was in mid-air.
"Shadow Dragon's…"
"Poison Dragon's…"
"Roar!" they yelled unleashing their breath attacks.
Acnologia quickly raised his palm and block the two attacks, but that didn't stop the momentum causing him to crash into a crystal tower. Before he had a chance to cover Merrill and Valka rushed in as quickly as they could.
"Sea Dragon's Tidal Wave!" Merrill yelled.
"Sky Dragon's Hurricane!" Valka yelled.
The two of them combined their ties creating a massive vortex of water and wind that slammed into Acnologia causing him to crash into more the crystal towers. Alvin then jump directly above him hoping to deal the final blow.
"Lightning Dragon's Thor's Hammer!" Alvin roared unleashing a giant bolt of lightning down upon him.
However, when the smoke cleared, Acnologia looks completely unscathed and then he unleashed his breath attack upon all of them which created a series of explosions. When the dust settled all the Dragon Slayers were flat on the ground, apart from Hiccup but he looked too exhausted to carry on the fight.
"It appears you've reached your limit, this is the end," said Acnologia. "I cannot allow a single dragon to be left alive, to contaminate this world. Because that is what it means to be a Dragon Slayer, it is my entire purpose in life."
Hiccup laughed and Acnologia stared at him.
"Pretty hypocritical coming from you, I mean you are one of us right?" said Hiccup as he picked himself up. "Face facts, this little crusade of yours is nothing more than the longest suicide note in history. I mean even if you take down all of us there would still be only one dragon, yourself."
Acnologia merely narrowed his eyes.
"The size in case you haven't noticed all of us are either humans or elves, we're just regular old people who were given the powers of dragons. So I'm not buying any of your crap, because in case you never realised real dragons are not just strong they're noble and they're kind-hearted too."
"Dragons… kind-hearted?" Acnologia snarled. "The dragons took everything from me! They had hearts devoid of kindness! They slaughtered my family, burnt my village… not even children were safe from their wraith! So how in the hell can you tell me that those creatures are kind-hearted and noble?" He then unleashed a massive surge of magic power. "They deserve to die!"
The explosion slammed right into Hiccup with incredible force and dust covered the entire area.
"Didn't you hear me?" said Hiccup's voice within the dust. "I said 'That real dragons are like that'! It's just the same with as people, there are all kinds of dragons in the world some are good, some are bad, some are strong, some are weak, some are cruel, some are kind and there are some who are going to take you down!"
Acnologia stared as Hiccup didn't appear to be injured in the slightest and now his entire body was covered in fire.
"My attack should have killed him instantly!" he stared.
Acnologia then saw that the other Dragon Slayers were unleashing powerful auras that were channelling into Hiccup. He soon realised that Merrill was using a powerful enchantment in order to give Hiccup all their strength.
"I'm enchanting all of our magic power into you Hiccup!" Merrill yelled.
"Hiccup, smoke him!" Alvin yelled.
"Go get him, son!" Valka smiled.
"You've got this, pal! Don't show him any mercy!" Eret yelled.
"Take him down! Do it!" Sting yelled.
"You've got all our power now!" Rogue yelled.
"Blow this jackass away!" Cydor yelled.
"Oh yeah, that's more like it," Hiccup smiled as he felt their power entering into his body. Then suddenly his flames turned it on multiple different colours. "This is the power of all my friends and with it, you're going down!"
Hiccup then channelled the flames into his left arm. "Raging Flame of the Eight Dragons!"
In the real world, everyone was just about ready to perform the Dragon Shield all that was required was to immobilise Acnologia.
Astrid looked down at Ruby. "Ruby?"
Ruby was wearing her Aquarius Star Dress and was using it to enhance the power of the Dragon Shield. At the same time, Fishlegs and Fenris were creating a magic circle needed for the spell.
"We're ready just waiting on you!" Ruby yelled.
"I'll distract him; you stick him with that sword!" said Adelaide as she circled around Acnologia's face.
Acnologia began following her and Astrid waited for an opening to strike in with Inferno. Astrid then transformed into her Night Fury Armour, it was the swiftest armour she had when it came to our battles.
"Astrid!" Adelaide yelled.
"It's over monster!" Astrid yelled and flew straight towards Acnologia with all the speech she could muster.
Before Acnologia had a chance to react, Astrid plunged Inferno right into his chest and thankfully was able to pierce his hard dragon scales. Toothless had been right about the sword been enchanted with Dragon Slaying Magic as a massive surge of it began flowing into Acnologia's body.
Acnologia howled in pain as his body became numb; everyone watched as he fell from the sky and landed on the flagship belonging to the Alvarez army, which was large enough to hold him.
"Now Ruby… do it!" Adelaide yelled.
"Everyone release your magic power!" Ruby yelled.
All the members of Dragon Tail then unleash their magic all in one go and golden flames began to surround them.
'Aquarius… First Master… Master Stoick… Dad… Mum… please, lend me your strength,' Ruby pleaded. 'I need enough to protect everybody.'
Shanyla just watched helplessly, feeling useless and then she felt someone tapping her shoulder. She looked around and saw Stormfly standing next to him her human form and extended a hand out towards her. She smiled with tears in her eyes as she took her hand.
Ruby then clapped her hands together. "Dragons Shield… Activate!" A massive burst of power than erupted through her body and columns of golden flames shot up towards the sky. 'Connect… feel it… send it out…'
The Dragon Shield and began to form around Acnologia, who was still too weakened to move. The shield took the form of a massive sphere of pure golden flames encasing not only Acnologia, but the ship as well.
"Acnologia is inside the shield," said Adelaide.
"Did it work?" Astrid asked.
However, at that precise moment, Acnologia recovered from his paralysis and began to smash his way through the shield.
Everyone was completely horrified, the Dragon Shield was their last hope and it was now diminishing.
"Oh no," said Ruby.
"The shield is cracking, but how?" Skullcrusher asked.
"Now what?" Fishlegs asked.
"Did I make a mistake somewhere?" said Fenris going through his work. "Is that it?"
"Our power… it wasn't enough," said Ruby as she fell to her hands and knees in despair.
Then suddenly a light appeared around her wrist, she looked up and saw Orara standing over her and noticed that she had performed the link between the two of them.
"Well then, let's use all the magic in Septem," she said.
"It's Orara," Heather stared.
"Not just her," said Dagur as he took Heather's hand. "There was no way we're going to let you do this on your own."
"Yeah, we were a little busy," Orara smiled. "I linked everyone's magic power so let us bring it all here."
Ruby then suddenly felt an immense power from all corners of the continent flowing into her. Everyone they had ever met old friends and enemies alike were now sharing their power with her and the rest of Dragon Tail from all corners of the continent.
"We still have some of our own to share!" Adelaide yelled.
"Let's go!" Astrid yelled.
"We're going to give this everything we've got!" Ragnar yelled.
"It's all the magic power of Septem in one place!" Toothless yelled.
"Dragon Shield… Activate!" Ruby yelled.
The golden flames then entered into the shield consuming Acnologia, who was now trapped inside.
"It's amazing," said Ruby. "There's so much magic. It's coming from all of our friends."
The Dragon Shield soon became stronger and Acnologia wasn't thrashing about anymore.
In the Time Rift, Hiccup was channelling all the power he had received from the other Dragon Slayers.
"I feel it now!" Hiccup yelled.
"Dragons, your time is over," said Acnologia and began channelling a massive amount of power through into his palm. "For I possess the ultimate destructive fury of a god. Even with all your powers combined into one, you still can't compare to the Dragon King."
Acnologia then suddenly looked a bit crazed, more than normal. "I'll kill you! I'll destroy everything in this world, nothing will be left standing when I'm done!"
"What the?" Cydor stared.
"He's nuts," said Alvin.
"Just out of his mind," said Eret.
"Your friends have successfully trapped his body, that's sudden separation has caused a massive trauma," the Chronicler explained.
Merrill's eyes widened. "They did?"
"Then all that's left to do is to take him down," said Valka.
A massive surge of power was now consuming around Acnologia. "I need more blood! I want to bury the seven oceans in dragon's blood!"
Despite this rage of power, Hiccup still stood there firmly. "You can't stop it, not on your own."
