Hiccup and Hadrian stand face to face. His drug has kicked in and now he stands like he usually does. Proud and ready, as if he already know how the battle is going to end. Toothless comes up behind Hiccup and hisses at Hadrian, but Hiccup gives him a pet on the head, and he backs up giving the two boys room.

Hadrian cracks his knuckles. "Let's finally end this."

"Ladies first." Hiccup mocks.

Both boys charge forward and Hiccup was the first to throw the punch. Hadrian ducks and windmill kicks Hiccup, flying him back and rolling across the dirt until he bumps into a wagon.

"I had expected better since you were gone, Hiccup. But I can see you wasted your time saving your pathetic little friends." Hadrian says.

Hiccup pushes to his feet and rushes Hadrian. He draws his sword and goes to slice at his head, but Hadrian blocks and the two push off. The moment they land, a blast of fire nearly scorches Hadrian. Both boys look up and see Stormfly, squawking and flapping good as new.

"What?" Hadrian questions.

"Hey Hiccup! Need a hand?" Astrid calls sounding genuinely delighted to have her dragon back.

Behind her, Stoick and everyone else including the twins have their dragons. But instead of happiness and confidence, Hiccup scowls. He looks over his shoulder and sees Gobber running with Heather who looks clearly dehydrated. He looks to Toothless, and he nods. He lets out a roar, and the dragons all flap higher into the air before gliding back and landing.

"Stormfly!" Astrid says. "Come on!"

"This isn't your fight!" Hiccup calls. "Stay out of it!"

"But son!" Stoick calls, but before he could finish, Hiccup rushes Hadrian and the two crash together with the metallic clang of their swords.

Hadrian head-buts Hiccup and he slams into the wall of a house. Hadrian chucks a dagger at him and Hiccup weaves out of the way, and looks behind him to see Hadrian attempt a sneak attack.

"Hiccup!" Stoick calls but Fishlegs stops him.

"It's like you said sir. Hadrian is Hiccup's fight. It's not ours. We can only hope for the best."

"Besides," Gobber adds. "Your boy can handle himself. After all, he's your son." Both men manage to smile before another crash calls their attention.

Hadrian shoots two arrows at Hiccup before attempting to whack at him with his bow. Hiccup dodges left then right and when Hadrian goes to kick his feet out, Hiccup flips over him to land behind him. Before he even could raise his sword, Hadrian spins and slashes Hiccup. Luckily only the ends of his hair. Hiccup leaps back to get some distance and runs around, circling Hadrian, chucking two daggers to his head. Hadrian blocks with his sword, but mixed in with the daggers was a small smoke bomb. The minute it meet impact with his sword a cloud of dust belches out. It only last a second, but when it clears, Hadrian sees Hiccup rush in and punch him hard enough to crash through the wooden wall of a three story abandoned food storage.

The place was already slated for demolition. Holes in the ceiling, the walls were weak; not even the floor was stable enough to withstand weight no bigger than a hundred pounds.

Hadrian rides his momentum and flips back landing on his feet. Hiccup rushes in, chucking two daggers aiming for his feet. The two run through the warehouse, Hiccup the one throwing daggers now and after the first two, Hadrian semi-turns and after blocking another one, chucks an explosive he stole from Gobber. It explodes and blasts Hiccup through the wall leading to another room stored with old tables and chairs; creating a good size hole in the wall. Hiccup bounces, but adjusts his form and slides on his feet before leaping and chucking two more daggers at Hadrian the minute he sees him in the hole. Then sending two giant handfuls of explosives at the hole, but Hiccup is mortified to find Hadrian still standing, his arms crossed over his face in an X.

The hole now big enough to let in a Monstrous Nightmare. Outside, everyone stays and watches as the battle continues.

He uncrosses his arms and cracks his neck. "It may be a challenge fighting against your family and friends, but against you. Ha, I'm invincible."

He then leaps high and crosses his arms again, and when he uncross, six explosives go off and Hiccup is blown back, slamming into a group of old wooden cabinets on the wall, and crashing into a table set for six. Hadrian grabs another wooden table and throws it at Hiccup. Hiccup leaps right, then left to avoid a chair, but as he jumps to strike Hadrian, he suddenly swings out his bow. It slams into Hiccup, breaking form the harsh impact and Hiccup is sent darting back, plowing through stacked chairs and tables. The splinters were now everywhere, and Hiccup was starting to think he was made of wood. Cuts and bruises started festering on his arms, and blood drips from the corner of his mouth. He pushes to his hands and knees, head lower so his hair covers his face.

Outside, Goathi and Grandmamma rush over to the group.

"Grandmamma!" Heather exclaims.

"Oh, it's good to see you child." Hugging Heather. "But Stoick, where are the boys?" She asks.

"Hiccup's working on it." He says and points to Hiccup and Hadrian.

Hadrian is slowly walking up to Hiccup, who's still trying to push himself up on his splinter-filled arms. He draws a sharp breath.

"Did you really think you could beat me?" Hadrian mocks.

Hiccup snarls.

"Face it, Hiccup. No matter what you do, you'll always be a little runt."

Hiccup grits his teeth so hard they might crack. He fists his hands embedding more splinters and partial glass from abandoned vials left in the cabinets. He flicks his eyes to his right and sees an abandoned arrow buried under the wood.

When he speaks, his tone is dark and his eyes have deepened to a loathing gleam. "Then let me show you just what a little run, can do!"

In an instant, he spins and snatches the arrow, stabbing it in and through Hadrian's thigh. Hadrian screams in pain and Hiccup uppercuts him hard, arching him back and sliding across the wooden floor, leaving a small dent in the floor. Hadrian looks up and sees Hiccup crashing down on him, legs straight and slamming into his chest. The impact sends the boys crashing through the floor and into the basement of the warehouse. The two keep spinning in midair trying to get the other to crash into the ground first, a shower of splinters following them downward.

Hiccup pulls his dagger out from his belt as they crash to the floor, pinning Hadrian under him. Hadrian grips Hiccup's wrists, preventing him from impaling the dagger to his face. Then Hadrian head-buts Hiccup and kicks him back with his legs. Hiccup flips back, but tosses two daggers at him. Hadrian fakes left then right and running up the staircase leading back up to the first floor. Above, both boys can hear the encouraging cheers of Stoick and the teens.

Hadrian pries the arrow loose. Hiccup draws his sword and tries to pin down Hadrian by his clothes. The two spar, and break apart. Hiccup leaps on the railing and rolls forward, forcefully slamming his feet together at Hadrian's chest. Hadrian bumps into the wall, but then kicks up dirt and dust on the stairs. Hiccup squeezes his eyes shut and coughs to prevent the substance from invading his lungs. The minute he opens them, Hadrian tackles him and both boys flop off the stairwell and onto the floor; Hadrian pinning Hiccup this time. He grips Hiccup's wrist tightly while pinning down his shoulder with the other. Hadrian twists Hiccup's wrist, and hears the crack causing Hiccup to cry out in pain.

"You've definitely changed Hiccup. I'll give you that!" he shouts over Hiccup's cries.

Then he suddenly grabs both of Hiccup's wrists and swings Hiccup to the side into the wall, and then the other side; creating two huge craters before dragging the limp boy up the stairs and spinning and tossing him high in the air. Hadrian snatches his whip and wraps it around Hiccup and yanking down so he crashes into the wood, then he swings Hiccup across and out of the warehouse crashing through the wall again. Hiccup's back takes the first of the impact as he skips across the dirt, then he stop on his knees, mimicking a bowing position. He spits out a mouthful of spit and blood.

"That's right Hiccup! Bow before your superior!" Hadrian mocks as he approaches the boy. Both were breathing heavy, it was only a matter of time.

Hiccup flips his hair out of his face and glares at Hadrian. "You may rule over Berk, but you don't rule over me! And you're going back where you belong!"

"Never!" Hadrian shouts as he charges for Hiccup.

Hiccup jumps and his feet land on Hadrian's back, and he pushes off, leaping a good distance and forcing Hadrian to stumble to the ground. Hiccup rolls and come up on one knee. Hadrian immediately pushes up and glares. Hiccup readies his sword and stares him down. Hadrian charges and Hiccup waits until he's in range, that he quickly grabs the whip he hid in his belt and lashes it out at Hadrian. It wraps around his torso, binding his arms to his sides and Hiccup pulls and swings him into a pyramid of barrels, then he cracks the whip up so Hadrian is lifted, then yanks and as Hadrian closes in, he punches him.

Hadrian skips back and ends up on his stomach. He struggles to get to his feet, but when he does, Hiccup tackles him to the wall and continually punches him left and right, not even giving him time to react. Finally, Hiccup plow his fist into Hadrian's diaphragm and Hadrian let out a mixture of a scream and a hollow breath. Hiccup leaps back and watches as Hadrian hugs his middle to dull the pain, and he readies himself for what's to come next, but he doesn't need to. Hadrian gives him one last glare before he drops to his knees and collapses on the floor.

"Goathi now!" Hiccup orders, and the old woman rushes to Hadrian, tracing a circle of salt around him. Also, Snotlout and Gobber rush in and tie his wrists and ankles together.

Hadrian snickers. "What are you going to do? Cast a spell on me? It's a waste of your time."

"You would think she taught me spells, but I actually learned a curse." Hiccup says as Grandmamma hands him the royal blue book with gold trim.

As Hiccup spoke, his eyes suddenly glow that now familiar ice blue light, his hair starts to levitate and sway, and the book suddenly gets an eerie white luminescent glow.

"No!" Hadrian screams and he tries to wiggle out of the bindings.

The book's light became brighter, as if it was illuminating from the inside.

Hiccup starts to chant. "Alderon Enlenthronow, Vosoenliris nor!"

Hiccup's voice echoes and brings the book forward as it shoots out a thick and bright beam of light and it hits Hadrian direct hit. Hadrian screams as he continues to thrash. Then it's as if the book became alive, it lifted from Hiccup's hands and landed on the ground. Its covers flapping like a bird for a brief second before it started sliding to Hadrian, who's now standing and trying to free himself.

And he does.

He rips apart the rope cuffs and escapes the circle. But he doesn't go for Hiccup or anyone; he's not just trying to get away from the book as it hunts him down. It didn't matter if he was out of the circle; the book's light is like a magnet or tracker for him. It will find him.

And it does.

As soon as it got close enough, it shot out another white beam that seemed to stick to Hadrian. It gobbles his legs and festers up his legs as it drags him into the book. Everyone rushes to watch and Hiccup was going in to close the book once it's finished, but as Hadrian's torso was getting sucked in, suddenly Hadrian swings around and grabs Hiccup's ankle.

Hiccup gasps and claws the dirt as Hadrian pulls. "I'm not going back alone!" He screams.

The beam makes Hadrian's hair blow straight up and the glow of the light makes him look more menacing than ever.

"Let go of me!" Hiccup screams as he tries to kick him off.

Then after Hadrian's head sinks into the book, Hiccup is suddenly levitated into the air and sucked in as well like a demon into hell.

"HICCUP!" Astrid screams in horror.

The book was about to close then Grandmamma steps forward. "Ecranom, hezberack mortix!"

Then two white translucent balls close around her hands; looking like mist trapped and swirling around inside; and they shoot a beam at the book, and the book's covers flatten to the dirt. Her eyes glow the whiteness of the book.

She grunts as she pushes back the force of the book. "I can only hold the book open for a certain amount of time. If Hiccup's going to do something, he better do it quick!" she shouts.

"We have to help him!" Astrid cries as she moves forward.

"No!" Grandmamma shouts, stopping her. "It's Hiccup's problem, let him deal with it! Besides, if he loses you'll all be stuck in there forever!"

"He won't lose." Astrid says, her hands held tight together. "He won't."

They watch as the book's cylinder shaped portal flashes and mimics the sound of thunder. It shoots all the way up until it practically rips through the sky, clouds bordering and floating around it.

Inside, Hiccup struggles to break from Hadrian's grip. He manages to kick him in the face and slam the heel of his foot onto Hadrian's knuckles. The two break apart and they float midair as the portal leads them inside the book.

"You just made the biggest mistake of your life!" Hadrian shouts.

"I thought that was letting you out!" Hiccup counters.

Then suddenly, Hadrian's eyes glow that familiar deadly crimson red. He fists his hands and red energy bolts flicker before materializing. He brings his hands together and they combine to make a larger bolt and it strikes Hiccup. Hiccup clenches his hand and waves it in front of his face, creating a shield to Hadrian's power. There was a huge crash, like the sound of an avalanche of rocks crashed, then both the shield and beam faded away.

"Out there I may just be a normal person, but here, I'm more powerful than ever!" Hadrian says.

He then zooms for Hiccup and comes to a halting stop inches from him. Hiccup looks up eyes wide, then Hadrian smiles and bends his fingers to mimic claws, and another red bolt flickers. He then slams it into Hiccup and Hiccup is sent flipping back in the midair.

"I rule this world here Hiccup!"

Hiccup manages to stop flipping and rises up, eyes an icy blue. "Not anymore!"

Hadrian snarls and claws his fingers both hands create a large semicircle, where thousands of other bolts shower down from it and pelt for Hiccup. Hiccup fists his hands and flies around each bolt, dodging every single one, and getting closer to Hadrian. Hadrian then starts shooting them off one by one, hand by hand. Hiccup smoothly flies out of the way and squints his eyes.

He claws his own hand and a blue bolt flickers. It felt weird, it was like, pure energy in his hand. He never noticed it before, but it felt great. The power it wielded.

Hiccup remembered Grandmamma telling him about the energy bolts drain you because they're stealing the power from your body. You had to be wise at how you use them. So when he told her how easily Hadrian used them, she warned to be careful. If he just shot them off randomly – like Hadrian's doing – he'd be out of breath in minutes. She told him to think of them as arrows for a bow. Use them wisely and at the right time, otherwise, you lose all your ammo, and your left defenseless at the hands of the enemy.

Hiccup remembers this as he nears Hadrian. He claws his fingers, and could feel the energy flowing into the bolt. He then whips out his arm, hand and fingers straight – just as Grandmamma taught him – and the bolt takes a clear shot to Hadrian's hand. As he was readying to shoot another bolt, it crashed into his hand and counters it. Hadrian looks and sees Hiccup floating in front of him, bolts ready on each hand.

Hadrian laughs, but it was cut short when he suddenly becomes aware. Hiccup looks behind him and they both can see a distant wasteland of grey. Cool air prickles the tiny hairs on Hiccup's arms. There were tombstones, dead trees and black birds. Ash rains down around them, heavy and thick enough to collect on the shoulders of the trees. Phantom figures and looming shadows darted back and forth, and gathered, as if they were expecting the boys. Like a flock of ravenous vultures, they encircled the opening of the portal.

Hiccup suddenly felt something belt around his waist and looks to see Hadrian had placed an energy belt around him. The physical confinement frightened Hiccup and he tries to wiggle free. Pain invites itself into his brain like a bad memory.

"They want a new friend to play with, so they'll get it!" he shouts as he pushes Hiccup further down.

The figures bark with raucous laughter. Panic pools into his stomach as he tries to free himself. The way Hadrian said the word friend made Hiccup's skin crawl with goose skin. "No!"

He twists at the waist, sending a fierce kick to Hadrian's side. To Hiccup's surprise, his aim lands true, and under the snug fabric of his tunic, Hiccup felt part of his torso cave in with an audible crunch. Hadrian roars at him, though more out of fury, it seems, than pain. The other phantoms, their laughter transforming into sympathetic hisses, writhed and withered away from the opening, cringing and clutching into themselves like snakes.

Wind pulls and jerks at his clothes, like it's dragging him down. Hiccup struggles against Hadrian and the pull of the wind as they near the opening. Hiccup looks up and sees the other end of the portal fighting against something to keep it open.

"You're going to pay for trapping me! I'll see to it you never see the light!" Hadrian shouts.

Suddenly a burst of adrenaline courses through his veins. His eyes snap open. "See to this!"

And instantly, Hiccup's eyes shoot out beams that match the blue of his energy bolts. They his Hadrian squarely in the face and Hiccup's free from the belt. He then flies upward and throws three energy bolts at him until he's above Hadrian. Smoke clouds and once it clears Hadrian looks down, then up; just in time to get hit by Hiccup's eyes beams once again. He flips backwards and down until he's near the opening. The shadow figures growing happy and their disturbing psychotic laughter echoes in the funnel.

"No!" he screams.

"It's over Hadrian!" Hiccup shouts before he gives him one final hit of his eye beams, then he falls through and Hiccup immediately turns away when he hears Hadrian crash, then fight off the phantoms.

Someone screams. Was it him? Shrieking like the voice of an owl. Hiccup looks around and sees white heat engulfing the tunnel, engulfing him. He was grateful not to feel the pain. A gift perhaps from the marking on his forehead from Goathi.

Hiccup zooms up the funnel as fast as he could. He can see it just about close to closing and he tries to fly faster. Beneath him, Hadrian zaps the shadows and they scurry away like cockroaches. He flies back up the funnel, in high pursue of Hiccup.

Back in the real world, Astrid and Stoick were the closest they could be to the book without disrupting the energy field. The white luminescent cylinder flickers and flashes. Astrid looks down and sees a silhouette of someone. She can't tell who it is, but her mind immediately traces to Hadrian from the outline. Her heart sinks.

Hiccup looks down to see the fire course the length of his arms. It dances over his legs and Hiccup watches as the edges of his tunic curl and turn from green to orange to brown to black. Hiccup sneers as he near closer and finally clenches his fists and shoots all he has left behind him, rocketing him quicker to the opening.

He sees the silhouette of someone.

Astrid looks down and sees the figure come closer.

Hiccup sees the person is Astrid.

Astrid sees it's Hiccup.

The fire collapses, tumbling into ash around Hiccup. And then it snuffs into blackness as he plows and breaks through the energy field. It causes a huge explosion of combined power, sounding like a whole armada of cannons opened fire in unison, knocking back Grandmamma. Hiccup flies a few feet high before reality takes over and he's sent spiraling down. But he couldn't stop himself. The minute he re-entered the real world, the end result of his final power overdrive left him too weak to even attempt. The blue glow in his eyes faded away and the mark withered like a rooting flower and floated off like ash.

He started rapidly descending.

"Stormfly!" Astrid calls and the Deadly Nadder swoops up and catches Hiccup in time, and setting him down between Stoick and Astrid.

The book levitates a few feet and everyone watches as the cylinder end becomes rigid and bouncy like waves of the ocean. It glows bright and projects quickly down into the book. The books itself encased in a floating ball of energy, looking like lightning is trapped inside.

Once the beam sinks into the pages, the field of energy around it disappears. The book automatically closes with the sound of a wild and powerful thunderclap and it tentatively floats back down and onto the ground.

Astrid cradles Hiccup in her arms and gentle pats his head to try and wake him; afraid that a harsh slap - like she normally would do – will somehow injury him more. His body felt neither cold nor warm next to hers, solid, but somehow not alive. She listens, but he never breathes. Her gaze trailed up to his chin and nose where she can make out faint burns and cuts, faded, but scared on him so that may never forget.

Stars dot the sky around them, visible through the tangles of knotted limbs with their peaceful leaf-dotted boughs. The light before the sun rises bleeds across the sky.

Hiccup's mind is blank, and yet he can feel his thoughts wander and roam. He feels the soft and calm flow of energy in his blank slate. He's in a violet tinted world. He has smelt this smell before. It was that too sweet, deep scent of decay. Dead roses. It wasn't a bad smell, but it was too strong in such a concentrated dose. The stale, moldering odor that hung in the air didn't bother him as he thought it would. He almost felt comfortable. Safe.

He felt the press of something like fabric against his cheek. His hair tickles his brow in the wake of a breeze, and through his eyelids, he sensed light. By now, Hiccup has surfaced to consciousness enough that it was too late to fall back into the deathlike chasm of rest. To settle back into the cocoon sleep, that blank place between dreams and reality, where the word "nothing" found its true definition.

Against his will, he became more aware of himself, of the seemingly limitless aches in his body, and finally of that steady one-two rhythm of his heart. His thoughts broke through the muck of oblivion, and he stirs. He begins to feel the gentle patting on his cheek, and voices mumble above him. His eyes flutter open. Images and silhouettes floated around him, blurred n tints of fuzzy white and muted gray, as though his eyes had gone permanently unfocused.

Hiccup.

Hiccup.

"Hiccup. Hiccup?" Astrid says.

Astrid!

Hiccup's eyes widen, letting in the sunlight of dawn, but still it blinded him. he closes his eyes against the light. He blinks again, staring up into the huddle of people around him, the shapes of his friends and father becoming clearer and sharper. He felt his body hitch as he draws in an involuntary gasp of air. He didn't even realize he stopped breathing.

"Hiccup?" he hears Astrid repeat for the fifth time.

He looks up and sees her face, pale with worry and her sparkly blue eyes glisten against the light, giving them a faint halo around her iris.

"Astrid." He says. His voice was rusty and dry, but somehow she had heard him.

Her eyes immediately fill with tears that stream down her face. He laughs and giggles, something she never does. His father leans over and smiles. He felt his father's meaty hand cup the back of his head and stroke his hair.

Hiccup doesn't know what or why he does what he does next, but he doesn't care. He reaches up and caresses Astrid's face. His palm flat against her cheek, she giggles even more. She presses into his palm, feeling the streams of the tears smear on his skin. She holds his other hand with hers, and she strokes the skin of his knuckles with her thumb.

"I'm home?" he groggily asks, and the two laugh in unison.

"You're home."