Hiccup: 4000

Axel: 3500

Fishlegs was still hanging by a rope and he felt himself sinking a little bit lower as the rope slowly began to break.

"Hiccup, help!" he yelled.

"Fishlegs," Hiccup grimaced.

"Let him down Stoneson," Wartihog demanded.

Axel merely raised the control. "Let him down, huh? Care to reconsider?"

"Don't worry, I've got this, because this duel is as good as won," said Hiccup confidently as he drew. He then raised the card he just drew. "I now summon my Dragon Spirit Pyro!"

Then a burst of flames Pyro appeared on the field. (ATK: 600/ DEF: 500)

"And thanks to his special ability gains 400 attack points in each one of your Spell and Trap Cards," Hiccup added. (ATK: 600-1400)

Axel wasn't impressed. 'These are the same monsters he used against Camicazi,' he said to himself. 'And I wasn't impressed then either. The effects are lame and their attack points are even lamer. What good is a field full of weak monsters? There's no way he's dumb enough to attack me with those.'

"I attack," said Hiccup much to Axel's surprise. "Barf take him out!"

Barf then charged at Axel with his spear raised.

"I don't think so," said Axel activating a button on his duel disk and revealing his facedown card. "Because I play Firewall."

"And what is that?" Hiccup asked.

"First I removed one of my Pyro-type monster from my Graveyard like my Volcanic Shell," said Axel with a smile. He then removed his Volcanic Shell from his graveyard. Suddenly a huge burst of flames erupted around Axel stopping Barf in his tracks. "Then my trap cancels your attack."

"Fine, but I still have Pyro," Hiccup reminded.

Pyro then jumped into the air and formed a battle-axe made of flames and slammed it down towards Axel.

"Well, guess what? I still have another Volcanic Shell left," said Axel removing another one of his Volcanic Shells. The flames then reappeared again stopping Pyro in his tracks.

"Not a bad defence," Hiccup admitted.

"Show off," Wartihog grumbled.

"Thanks to his card combination is able to attack and defend at the same time," said Ragnar grimly. "It won't be easy for Hiccup to get past this combination."

Camicazi frowned. 'Axel is up to something. The question is what?'

"Is that the best you can do?" Axel asked looking disappointed. "Because I was hoping for a challenge."

"Maybe I'm just saving my best moves for last," Hiccup smiled.

"Uh, Hiccup, not to complain, but can you play your best moves first?" Fishlegs whimpered. "Because my life by a thread!"

'The Professor is going to be thrilled,' said Axel to himself. 'Thanks to my strategy, Hiccup is playing right into Drago's hands. I just have to make sure that he keeps attacking which means it's time for me to turn up the heat.'

Axel then reached for his deck. "All right, stand back," said Axel as he drew. "I pay 500 life points so my Firewall stays on the field."

Hiccup: 4000

Axel: 3000

"And next I play this," said Axel holding up a spell card. "My Fire Soul and as soon as it activates my opponent is allowed to draw one card from his deck."

"Now that's my kind of spell," said Hiccup as he drew.

"It gets better once I find a Pyro-type monster in my deck the real fun starts, because if I remove it from play half of it attack points come out of your score," said Axel as he began looking through his deck.

"Say what?" Hiccup stared.

"When you play with me you play with fire, literally," said Axel as he held out his Infernal Flame Emperor.

Suddenly appearing on the field was a creature completely made of fire and the moment it appeared it fired a fireball at Hiccup and then vanished.

Hiccup: 2650

Axel: 3000

"At this rate I'll be going down in flames," said Hiccup grimly.

'Hiccup's cards don't hold a candle to my Flame Deck. That boy is going to crash and burn,' he said with a smile on his face. He then realised what he was meant to do. 'Wait, I can't beat him yet. Drago wants me to drag this out.'

He then looked at Hiccup, who held a confident smile. "So, are you going to stare at me all day or are you going to play?"

Axel took a deep breath. 'What's wrong with this kid? He gets his butt whipped and then he smiled and asks for more? Deep down he's got be sweating this all he had going for him are a couple of weak monsters.'

He then got an idea what Hiccup was planning. 'Hold on, I bet he's going to sacrifice them to bring out Toothless just like he did against Camicazi. I've got to protect myself by playing Burial from a Different Dimension.' He then placed a spell card face down on the field. 'But if he tries to destroy my Firewall I need some backup support. That's where my Fire Trap comes in, this cancels out any car that tries to disarm one of my trap card.' He then places trap card face down on the field. 'Mission accomplished.'

He then looked at Hiccup. "That's all for now." He then smiled to himself. 'Attack all you want. You'll never get through to my troops and just like Drago ordered I'm going to wear you down, Hiccup.'

Camicazi looked at Ragnar and Wartihog. "Axel looks distracted so now's our chance," she whispered.

The two of them nodded.

"Then let's turn the tables," said Ragnar.

"Forward march," said Wartihog as he began to sneak around.

"It's about time you stop staring into space," said Hiccup as he drew. He then grabbed a card in his hand. "I summon Dragon Knight Toothless Jr!" The mini Toothless then appeared on the field. "However, he won't be here for long, because he trading places with the original Toothless."

Toothless Jr began spinning around in a vortex and when he stopped spinning he turned into the original Toothless. (ATK: 2500/ DEF: 2200)

Ragnar and Camicazi managed to reach the tree without Axel knowing and were leaning towards the rope that was slowly being cut away.

"Shazam!" Wartihog cheered upon seeing Toothless. "Hiccup just brought out the big guns. Hey, Cap, what are you waiting for? Open a can of Toothless on this guy!"

"Can you be even louder?" Ragnar asked. "We're trying to be stealthy here!"

"Oh, sorry," said Wartihog.

"Excuse me, still down here!" Fishlegs panicked.

"And I'm not done yet, because next I'm going to do this," said Hiccup. "Toothless, Pyro. Combined in order to create Dragon Knight Pyro Toothless!"

Pyro turn into flames and covered Toothless from head to toe. A few seconds later the flames disbursed in their standing there was Pyro Toothless.

"Now thanks to his special ability he'll gain 400 attack points but every spell and trap card on the field," said Hiccup.

Soon all the spell and trap cards on the people began to glow and Toothless felt their power entering into him. (ATK: 2000-4500)

Axel rolled his eyes. 'Is he predictable or what?'

'Axel graveyard is now completely empty his Firewall can't stop me,' said Hiccup to himself. "Pyro Toothless, direct attack!"

'I don't think so,' said Axel.

Toothless jumped into the air and forming in his hand was a fiery axe which is slammed towards Axel.

"I activate Burial from a Different Dimension," said Axel revealing one of his facedown cards. "It lets me take three monsters that are out of play and happened to my grave." He soon added his two Volcanic Shells and Infernal Flame Emperor into his graveyard. "Then just like before, I remove my Volcanic Shell from player activate Firewall."

He then retrieved his Volcanic Shell and his Firewall acted up again blocking Toothless' attack.

"And I'm setting in Barf again," said Hiccup.

Barf then charged towards him once again.

"Déjà vu," said Axel as he pulled out another Volcanic Shell. "If you're going to repeat the same moves and so will I."

Firewall acted up again and blocked Barf's attack.

"Then it's time to mix things up a little," said Hiccup with a smile. This caught Axel completely offguard. He then held up a spell card with the image of Toothless and the Dragon Spirits exiting out of his body. "I now activate my De-Spirit!"

"Say what?" Axel stared.

"I knew that he would do something like this so I came prepared," said Hiccup as he began looking for his deck. "Thanks to this card I can unfuse Pyro Toothless and since Toothless and Pyro are in my deck now I can summon them."

Axel eyes widened when he realised what Hiccup was planning. 'He outplayed me. I'm beginning to understand why Drago is so interested in this kid.'

"Pyro Toothless, separate!" Hiccup ordered.

Pyro Toothless soon jumped into the air and claims exited out of his body reverting back to the original Toothless and Pyro appeared next to him. (ATK: 2500/ DEF: 2200), (ATK: 600/ DEF: 500)

"Toothless attack! Plasma Blast!" Hiccup ordered.

Toothless placed his hands together and formed a plasma orb and then tossed directly at Axel.

"I remove my Flame Emperor from my graveyard to activate Firewall!" said Axel removing his Flame Emperor from the graveyard.

"Pyro, trying to pick up where Toothless left off," Hiccup ordered.

Pyro then came in charging towards Axel, who was now out of Pyro-type monsters in his graveyard.

"No!" Axel cursed.

"I'm afraid it's true," Hiccup smiled. "And don't forget but every spell and trap card you have in play Pyro gets 400 nought attack points.

Pyro raised his axe as strength entered into his body. (ATK: 600-1800). He then slammed his fiery axe right on top of Axel dealing him is a massive amount of damage.

Hiccup: 2650

Axel: 1200

"It was about time you lost some points," said Hiccup. "It's your turn now."

"Awesome! Way to play!" Fishlegs cheered.

"Keep it down," Camicazi hissed.

"Unless you want Axel to drop you like a ton of bricks," said Ragnar.

"Hey, let Hiccup duel and stick to what you do best," said Wartihog.

"What? Being a helpless loser?" Fishlegs groaned. "You know for just one time, I'd like to be the hero. Come on, can't you guys picture it? Some bad guys shows up and brainwashes everyone then I'll beat them in a duel and save the world!"

"Like I said, you just work on being pathetic and leave all the world saving to Hiccup," said Wartihog.

Camicazi looked up. 'So it's true, Hiccup is always the target of some maniacal villain. I wanted this duel is somehow related.'

She then turned back to the rope and saw that rope was only inches away from being fully cut making Fishlegs panic.

"Now that the pathetic Fishlegs I know," said Wartihog.

"He's in trouble!" Camicazi yelled.

"We need to get them out of there and fast," said Ragnar. "Hiccup better win this duel fast or else."


Drago was watching the duel from his lab and was pleased with the progress.

"That's right, keep duelling my boy. Fight with all your might," he said with a smile. "Before long all your energy and that of your friends will belong to me and I'll finally have everything that I need."

He then laughed maniacally.


Meanwhile Camicazi attempted to stop the device with a stick, but it merely sliced through it and almost catching her fingers and Fishlegs panicked.

"Hush," said Wartihog. "If Axel hears you to drop you like a rabbit prairie dog."

"Don't worry," said Camicazi. Wartihog looked at her. "He's deep in thought, just look. He's in Lala Land."

They all turned and saw that she was right Axel hasn't even acknowledge their presence was more fixated upon the duel.

'Dad, if you're out there help me,' he said to himself. 'I need your advice more than ever.'

Axel then remembered during one of their training missions that he was staring at the fire his father had created.

"So Pap, remind me why we've been staring at this fire all night?" Axel asked. "I mean I thought we came here to train."

"We did, to train hit your mind," his father said. "You see fire can be very powerful, much like you. But if used carelessly it can result in a great deal of damage. So please beware."

Axel then found himself back in the present. "Right on, Pap," he said. He then closed his eyes. 'If I really want to tap the power of my Flame Deck, I need to be an honourable warrior like my Dad. I followed my orders and did what I had to to get Hiccup to fight. But now I need to finish this the way my Dad would have. By respecting my opponent and winning with dignity.'

He then pulled up the control and press down on the button stopping the device from cutting any more the rope.

"It stopped," said Ragnar.

Hiccup stared at Axel. "You've saved my friend, but why?" Axel refused to answer. "Of course, you're not big on the whole conversation thing. That's fine with me."


Drago meanwhile was utterly furious with what Axel had done.

"What's he doing?" he roared.


"Why speak when I can duel," said Axel as he drew. "First I'll give up 500 points so Firewall stays on the field."

Hiccup: 2650

Axel: 700

He then held out the card he drew. "Then I'll play my Blasting Vein spell card! So once I destroy a facedown card I get a draw two more from my deck." He then revealed his Fire Trap card and destroyed it. "Now let's see what we got."

He then drew his two cards. "Oh yeah, since I just destroyed my Fire Trap get this I'm allowed to add another card from my deck." He then grabbed the spell card from his deck and then lifted his hand.

"Not bad, you're done right?" Hiccup asked.

"You wish," said Axel as he discarded his Blaze Accelerator. "I swap my Blaze Accelerator for my Tri-Blaze Accelerator."

Suddenly appearing on the field replacing his Blaze Accelerator was another turret, but this one had three cannons.

"I don't like the looks of this," said Hiccup.

"You're really going to hate it when you see it in action," said Axel as he discarded a monster into his graveyard. "Discarding Volcanic Scattershot." Suddenly his Tri-Blaze Accelerator activated aiming towards Hiccup's monsters. "Three casualties coming up. Fire Accelerator!"

At once the Tri-Blaze Accelerator fired three shots from its cannons, despite the fact that Axel only loaded one. Hiccup watched as three blazing lizard with three heads headed straight towards him and then they fired a total of nine shots at his monsters destroying them.


Drago was even more furious now.

"No you fool!" he roared. "This was another part of our agreement! You're supposed to drag this duel as long as possible and push Hiccup to his limits! I didn't tell you to strive for victory! You hear me! Believe me I have ways of making you pay!"


Hiccup was coughing furiously at the smoke that the explosions had created completely confused how Axel destroyed all his monsters.

"Axel, how did you do that?" he asked looking at him.

"I'm glad you asked. When my Tri-Blaze Accelerator fired a shot and your monster is destroyed as a side effect you take 500 points of damage," Axel explained.

"Something tells me there's more," Hiccup guessed.

"Good call, a lot more, since I used Scattershot I was able to blast you with three times the firepower after the first one was fired two more Volcanic Scattershot are automatically loaded up destroying all three of your monsters. And then all three of my Scattershots are sent to the graveyard, but they don't leave empty-handed. That's right, they each take 500 of your life points for a grand total of 2000."

Hiccup's eyes widened as his points went down.

Hiccup: 650

Axel: 700

"Well, I guess things can't get any worse." said Camicazi.

"Wrong," said Wartihog. "Because now Axel's graveyard is full of Pyro-type monsters."

"Which he can use to activate his Firewall," Ragnar finished.

"Meaning that Hiccup can't attack," Camicazi concluded.

"He's not the only one in danger!" Fishlegs yelled as he began swinging. "Does anyone remember me? I know I'm not the number one student in Duel Academy, but give me a break. A little respect people."

"Be careful, you're hanging by a thread," Wartihog reminded. "So will you quit squirming around?"

'This is getting crazy,' said Camicazi to herself. 'The duels back home are nothing like this. I guess this is what happens when you hang out with Hiccup.'

She was then pull out of her thoughts by the cries of Fishlegs. She quickly turned and saw that the rope was beginning to snap.

"It's breaking!" Fishlegs panicked. "Someone help me!"

Suddenly the rope snapped, but at the last second Camicazi grabbed the rope. Fishlegs looked up and saw that she was hanging off the edge of the tree with Ragnar and Wartihog holding onto her.

"I've got you, big Legs," she said.

"And we've got you," said Ragnar.

Wartihog looked at Hiccup. "Hey, Captain, Private Fishlegs is A okay."

"What a relief," said Hiccup. "I knew you could do it. Thanks guys."

Axel then turned his head towards them. "Hey, now I can duel without the background noise."

"Wait a sec, those guys are my friends," said Hiccup strongly. "Anyway, let's move on. I've got a duel to win."

'I've got to hand it to him, his kids got guts. He's got no monsters and barely any life points and he is talking about winning,' said Axel impressively to himself. 'Most duellists would have called it quits three rounds ago, but .not Hiccup. Every time I knocking down he comes back even stronger, but this time I'm going be ready for him. All I have to do is reinforce my playing field.'

He then grabbed the last two cards in his hand and placed them facedown. "I'll toss to facedown cards and end my turn."

"I was hoping you would say that," said Hiccup as he drew. He looked at the card he drew and then played it. "I summon Dragon Knight Fanghook."

Suddenly appearing on the field was a young Dragon Knight. (ATK: 1400/ DEF: 800)

"And he's immune to traps which means you can't stop him with your Firewall."

Axel merely smiled. "You think so? Then bring him on."

"You want him, you got him," said Hiccup.

Fanghook then charged at Axel with his mace in his hand.

'Now's my chance,' said Axel to himself as he picture the scenario in his head.

"I activate my trap Volcanic Force," said Axel revealing his facedown card. "Now by sacrificing my Tri-Blaze Accelerator I can summon Volcanic Doomfire!"

Suddenly appearing on the field was a large volcano which then erupted an emerging from the lava was a dragon-like creature made of rock and fire erupting from its head. (ATK: 3000/ DEF: 1800)

Doomfire then fired a meteorite straight at Fanghook destroying him and wiping out the remainder of Hiccup's life points.

Axel then remembered what Drago had told him. "Wait, I can't." He then looked towards the surveillance camera knowing that Drago was watching the duel. 'I gave my word to Drago that I wouldn't focus on winning.'

He then looked at the second facedown card and activated that instead which was a spell card. "I activate Wild Fire. So I give up 500 life points and Tri-Blaze Accelerator in order to destroy all monsters on the field and that includes your Dragon Knight Fanghook."

Hiccup: 650

Axel: 200

Suddenly Axel's Tri-Blaze Accelerator was destroyed and so was Fanghook.

"But unlike you, Hiccup. I'm not alone, because I get to summon a Wild Fire Token," said Axel. Then suddenly emerging out of the card he just played was a lizard-like dragon made of flames. (ATK: 1000/ DEF: 1000)

'Sorry, Drago, I have no choice but to win. His defences are down and I have another monster ready to attack,' said Axel to himself. 'I dragged this out as long as I could now it's time to finish you off.'

"Look guys," said Camicazi as and the others attempted to untie Fishlegs.

"It's over," said the others.

Axel then remembered something very important. 'Hang on, he's still got that facedown card from round one. He may still have a shot. Knowing Hiccup that a trap card that kicks in when his monster is destroyed.'

"Axel, it's been fun, but your toast. Thanks to Dragon Mirage!" Hiccup yelled revealing his facedown card.

"I was right," said Axel.

"Now I can bring back all Dragon Knights that would destroy this turn," said Hiccup. Then suddenly reappearing on the field was Fanghook. "Now show them what you've got Fanghook!"

Fanghook then slammed his mace on top of Axel's token destroying it and wiping out the remainder of Axel's life points.

Hiccup: 650 (Winner!)

Axel: 0

'You've got what you wanted, Drago. Hiccup has used up all his power,' said Axel looking towards the surveillance camera. "My mission is complete."

Then suddenly his Bio Band began to glow and suddenly he felt utterly exhausted. 'Something is… not right.' He then fell to one knee. "What have you done, Drago?"

He had never felt this exhausted in his entire life and a split second later Hiccup collapsed. Everyone gasped and rushed over towards Hiccup.

"Hiccup!" Camicazi yelled.

"We're coming!" Ragnar cried.

"Say something!" Fishlegs pleaded.

"Get up, Cap," Wartihog begged.


A few moments later they brought Hiccup to the campus and Gothi immediately treated him.

"So what exactly happened out there?" Gothi asked.

"He was duelling and then he just collapsed," said Camicazi simply.

"That's impossible," said Gothi. "I just looked at his stats. No one falls into a state of complete unconsciousness just from duelling."

"Well, things did get pretty intense," said Wartihog.

"Yes, but still," Gothi frowned. "It just doesn't add up. He must have a pre-existing condition."

Hiccup then opened his eyes. "Hey, what happened?" he said weakly. "Uh, why is everyone staring at me like that?"

"You're awake!" Fishlegs announced.

"So are you," Hiccup pointed out. "What's the big deal?"

"Hiccup, I'll never leave your side!" Fishlegs cried.

"I think in light of these developments it's probably best if Fishlegs and Ibelieve the Obelisk Blue dorm and join you guys," said Ragnar. "At least that way we can look out for one another until this mess is sorted out."

"Good to know," said Hiccup and then he passed out.

"Hiccup!" Fishlegs panicked.

"He's fine, just sleeping," Gothi assured.

"I knew that," said Fishlegs.


De-Spirit

Quick Play Spell Card

Return 1 "Toothless" Fusion Monster you control to the Extra Deck. If all the Fusion Material Monsters listed on that Fusion Monster are in your Deck, you can Special Summon them

Card image: Toothless and the Dragon Spirits exiting out of his body