Four helicopters were heading straight towards the Valley of the Void with the stone tablet of the Celestial King resided.
"Attention, we'll be arriving at the target zone within a few minutes," said the pilot.
"How exhilarating that soon we'll be face-to-face with the Celestial King stone tablet," said Pegasus. "And once we possess it we can use its power to rescue Hiccup and the others and return them back to our world."
"Pegasus, I'm surprised how excited you are," said Stoick. "I mean you have worked with so many monsters before and yet this tablet seems so special."
"Well, you see the Celestial King has been lost for hundreds of years, its whereabouts are mystery to the world. The stone tablet even managed to allude my archaeological team. But thanks to the Order of Knights we now know exactly where it is."
"You really should be thanking Ragnar, he was the one who sent us the information," said Mala. "And I suggest that we have a, because from what the reports say about that world it indicates that the students are all in trouble."
"Let's hope this plan worked out, because if it doesn't we may never be able to get the students back from an alternate dimension," said Stoick.
They soon landed at the coordinates and found themselves in some kind of ancient ruin.
"Ah, at last," said Pegasus as he stepped out.
"The head archaeologist then let them down some stairs. "The stone tablet is just down here Mr Pegasus."
Stoick looked at the archaeological equipment that was setup all around them. Then they found the stone tablet, it was very deep within the walls and only a portion of it was visible.
"This must be it," said Stoick. "It's remarkable, if only Val was here to see it." He then looked back at Pegasus and Mala. "I didn't realise that you already started excavating."
"We haven't," said Pegasus. He then noticed someone hiding behind the crack in the wall. "I thought you might pop up again Miss Echo. So, you and the Geckoson Financial Group somehow beat us to the discovery. It appears you've been quite busy bee."
Echo then soon emerge from the cracked and looked at them.
"I admit that I am impressed that you were able to bypass the security and find the location of the stone tablet," said Mala.
"We appreciate the help of getting things started, but if it's okay with you we'll take over from here," said Pegasus. "Now please move along."
"Not a chance," said Echo. "This tablet is now the property of the Geckoson Financial Group."
"That's a tough claim," said Mala.
"My dear sweet Echo why must we be so selfish?" Pegasus asked. "There is always room for negotiations especially when we can both benefit from a meeting of the minds. Now if we work together to excavate the tablet we can use its power to bring back our school and your friend. So you say it's a win-win situation."
"No," said Echo as he held out a device. "Nobody is claiming anything today."
Immediately Thork and two more Knights placed themselves between her and the others.
"Throk, stand down," said Mala. "It's just a remote switch of some kind."
Stoick looked around his eyes widened. "Look, it appears she is booby-trapped the perimeter with Short Circuit trap cards."
"What do you think you're doing?" Pegasus demanded.
"I'm destroying the stone tablet!" Echo announced.
Immediately everyone's eyes widened.
Meanwhile in the alternate dimension Agnar was facing Mason, who was standing right behind the container which held the Sacred Beast cards.
"Can you feel their power Agnar?" Mason asked.
Agnar looked at the container. "So it is true."
"That's right," Mason smiled. "Within this case lies the three Sacred Beasts."
Agnar then feel the presence of the three Sacred Beasts that emanated from the capsule clearly wanting to get out.
"And why do you want them? Just what are you after here?" Agnar asked.
"More power," he said holding out reptilian arm. "What do you think?"
"Powerful what?"
"So I can have my revenge," he said simply. 'Once I have the three Sacred Beasts I will finally have all the pieces I need to make Hiccup pay for the pain that he has caused me.'
"Question? What about the agreement we had?" said Agnar. "You owe me!"
"Of course, but what I could offer you more? If you duel me and you win the three Sacred Beast cards in this case will be all yours," Mason offered. "With them you could even rule this world."
Mason then started to back away from the case and Agnar was becoming very tempted with the idea.
"What's it going to be Agnar?" Mason asked.
"I hope you're ready to lose!" he yelled. "Those cards are going to be all mine! Let's do this!"
Agnar then activated his duel disk and Mason's arm turned into a duel disk.
"Fine then," said Mason.
"Let's duel!" they yelled.
Mason: 4000
Agnar: 4000
"Get ready to lose, I draw," said Mason as he drew. "And summon Mad Reloader in defence mode."
He then played the card he drew which was a fiendish like creature who took a defensive position. (ATK: 0/ DEF: 0)
"And then I place one card facedown and end my turn," said Mason as he set a card.
Meanwhile Hiccup was still running down the passageway as quickly as he could, though he suspected that Mason had already reached the Sacred Beasts.
'I have to find Mason before he gets the Sacred Beast,' he said to himself.
He then heard moaning and groaning directly behind him and realise that the Duels Ghoul were making their way down the passageway. He was about to continue down the passageway when he saw that blocking his path was Fishlegs.
"Fishlegs," he gasped.
Fishlegs looked up at him. "Hey, Hiccup. Let's duel."
"Seriously the only thing you guys can think about?" Hiccup moaned. "I mean I likely duel as much as the next guy but this is getting tiresome."
Fishlegs wasn't listening. "Duel me."
Hiccup turned and saw that the Duel Ghouls had finally caught up to him.
"I hope the others are having better luck than I am," said Hiccup.
Meanwhile Astrid and the others had managed to breach the Academy. The other students now realising that there was a chance for them to go home had cause a distraction in the foyer for them to record see past.
"Now remember what Eisenstein said we need to get to the tennis courts," Speedfist reminded.
"You heard the man! Now let's triple time!" Wartihog yelled.
Camicazi on the other hand was extremely excited. "This is so exciting. I'm finally going to meet the Celestial King."
"Not if we don't pass the Duel Ghouls," said Speedfist.
Just as he spoke they saw two Duel Ghouls blocking their path.
"Must duel," they said.
"Blue Beret, 4 o'clock!" Axel yelled.
"On it," said the Blue Beret.
The Blue Beret broke ground and faced the Duel Ghouls allowing the others to pass. Unfortunately they didn't get much further when more Duel Ghouls appeared and this time they were dropping from the ceiling.
"More Duel Ghouls dead ahead!" Axel warned. He then looked at two more Blue Berets "Take them!"
The two Blue Berets activated their duel disks and faced the Duel Ghouls allowing the others to pass.
"We have to hurry," said Gobber. "We've got to reach the courts or we'll all be Duel Ghouls."
"Then keep running!" Ragnar yelled.
"I don't think I can run any faster!" said Astrid.
Then suddenly the came face-to-face with an entire squad of Duel Ghouls.
"Duel me now! Duel me now!" they repeated over and over again.
"There's too many," said Astrid.
"We're done for," said Mildew.
"We can't, give up," said Gobber.
"Indeed," said Spitelout as he took a step forward. "I'll stall theses Ghouls are usually the kids out of here." He then activated his duel disk and faced the Duel Ghouls. "All right, show me what you've got you bunch of mindless duelling brats."
Everyone stared at him in surprise.
"I'll hold off just get out of here," Spitelout ordered.
"Will you be okay?" Astrid asked slightly concerned.
"We will be fine," said Mildew.
"There's no way of letting you do this on your own," said Gobber looking at Spitelout.
"Chancellor they need you more than I do and the same goes for you Mildew," said Spitelout.
"You sure about this, Spitelout?" Mildew asked. "It could be dangerous."
"You don't have to worry about me, I'm going to school these Ghouls in the art of duelling," said Spitelout firmly. "It's time, so off with you."
"Good luck," said Gobber he then started running. "Okay kids follow me!"
"Be strong, Spitelout," said Mildew following Gobber.
Soon everyone was running past him.
"Thank you," said Blaze.
"Take them down," said Wartihog.
"See you soon," said Astrid.
"We won't fail you," said Ragnar.
"Take a few down for me," said Heather.
"Good luck, sir," said Thuggory.
"You sure about this?" Camicazi asked looking at him as the remaining Blue Berets ran past.
He nodded.
"Good luck then," he said running past him.
Once they were gone Spitelout turned to the Duel Ghouls. "All right then, classes now in session!"
Meanwhile at the ruins, Stoick and the others were trying to talk Echo down, but she appeared to be beyond reason. Pegasus tried to distract him so that Thork could tackle her.
"Echo, whatever it is you're trying to accomplish I'm sure there's a…"
"Don't take another step pal!" Echo warned looking at Thork. She then looked at Pegasus. "I'm serious Mala, take your men and get out of here all this tablet is really going to be history."
"That is not going to happen," said Stoick strongly. "I've already lost my wife I'm not going to lose my son!"
"And I'm not gonna lose one of my best men either," Mala agreed.
"You can't destroy that tablet!" Pegasus yelled. "Hear me out if you ever want to see your friend again you must rethink this!"
"There's nothing to think about, the truth is I don't want him to come back," said Echo.
Everyone stared at her as if she was crazy, which she was probably was.
"But why?" Pegasus stared.
Back in the alternate dimension it was Agnar's turn.
"It's my turn, I draw," he said. "Now I activate a spell card, Summon Cloud!" Suddenly a cloud formed overhead and agreeable sunlight shone down onto the field. "Now with that I can summon a level 4 or below Cloudian monster from my hand. Looks like there's a storm brewing and speaking of storms this next move is going to blow you away. First I'm going to play Cloudian-Sheep Cloud!"
Suddenly appearing on the field was a small cloud. (ATK: 0/ DEF: 0)
He then activated a second spell card. "And then I'll activate the Exploding Cloud spell card. Now I can destroy one monster on the field in attack mode and then take damage equal to that card's attack points."
Then suddenly Sheep Cloud turned into pixels and vanished from the field.
"With my Sheep Cloud having zero attack points I'm safe, because my life points takes no damage. But with Sheep Cloud in my graveyard I can summon two Sheep Cloud Tokens."
Suddenly appearing on the field were a pair of clouds. (ATK: 0/ DEF: 0)
"And after that I'll sacrifice both Cloud Tokens to call for Cloudian-Eye of the Typhoon in attack mode."
Suddenly his two tokens vanished and replacing them was an enormous cloud with a giant eyeball. (ATK: 3000/ DEF: 1000)
"Now Eye of the Typhoon attack is Mad Reloader!" Agnar commanded.
Eye of the Typhoon started to make its way towards Mason's Mad Reloader and suddenly a powerful wind swept across the entire room. Then suddenly the card beneath Mad Reloader vanished and he was soon in an attack position.
"You see when Eye of the Typhoon centre storm onto the field it switches every monsters' battle position so now you're Reloader is in attack mode so I'll attack! Go, Perfect Storm!""
Reloader tried to hold his ground but eventually was swept into the wind and was destroyed with a large explosion. The shockwave struck Mason and his life points began to dwindle.
Mason: 1000
Agnar: 4000
"Nice move, but when Reloader gets destroyed in battle I'm allowed to take two cards from my hand send them to the graveyard and then draw two new cards" said Mason as he sent to card from the graveyard and through another two from his deck.
"And then I have to reduce my Eye of the Typhoon attack points all the way down to 2500," Agnar added. (ATK: 3000-2500)
Agnar then placed a card in his spell and trap card zone. "Finally, I play a facedown and end my turn."
"Well played just as I expected," said Mason. Agnar then gave me a suspicious look. "I knew this duel would be a great challenge. Your wish to acquire the Sacred Beasts has focused more than ever. But why do you need such power? What can you hope to gain? Perhaps it's not what the power can give you, but rather what the power can replace."
Agnar looked slightly uneasy, because he was right. Ever since his little brother had been born he presented him due to the fact that he was no longer his father's heir.
Mason smiled as if he could read his mind. "And yet you chose to stand by his side and do what older brother should do. You are bound never to hold it against you. It was so good of you to bottle it all up your true feelings and it's so clear now why you're fighting so hard for this power. You've been second best all your life and now you want to be number one. It's just too bad that it'll lead to your undoing."
"The only undoing that's going to take place down here is me undoing the seal that contains the Sacred Beasts," said Agnar firmly.
Meanwhile at the ruins, Echo was still holding the detonator and it was clear to everyone that no one be able to talk her down.
"I'm warning you Mala," Echo warned. "If you or any of your henchmen take a step closer I'm going to turn this Celestial King tablet into a pile of rubble."
"Understood," said Mala looking at her men gesturing them to back off.
"Why are you risking your friend's safe return?" Pegasus asked.
"Because in this world poor Agnar will never truly be happy," she said simply. "I had been his closest friend all his life and I know he's better off as he never returns."
"Whatever do you mean? Why would anyone be better off?" said Pegasus in bewilderment. "Please, you must listen to reason."
"No!" Echo yelled stubbornly. "You see if Agnar comes back nothing changes. He goes on as normal.
"And what is so along with that?" Mala asked.
"He was not born to serve, Agnar was born to rule. Courage, intelligence and honour, nobody has more and nobody is more underappreciated. He has set value, Agnar can't see that he should leave the Geckoson Financial Group! And then one day you can rule the entire world!"
Everyone just stared at her in bewilderment.
"Okay, I was kinda with you until that last bit," said Pegasus.
"You just don't get it, do you? The world needs people like Agnar, he's a born leader and he knows it, but still he steps down. He swallows his pride, he does everything that his family tells him to and then in return he asks for nothing from them. As long as he's second in line in this world, Agnar will always be overlooked. He'll never be as good as it can be, he's got to learn to put himself first. It's for his own good which is why I can't let him return here."
"It's his choice," said Pegasus.
"He's confused, his choices are irrational. Once his brother was sick and none of the doctors could figure out what was wrong with him, but Agnar did because he's brilliant. He could have done nothing, with his brother sick he would once again become heir to the Geckoson Financial family, but instead…"
Upon hearing his brother's illness Agnar had immediately made his way to a pharmacist of ancient herbal remedies.
"I need to say my brother," he said looking at the pharmacist. "I know what's wrong with him, but they won't listen to me." He then went down on his knees and begged. "I beg you, the list of medicines I gave you let me have them please. My brother needs them, without them he'll only get worse. Please, you must help me."
Echo was watching the entire thing from the car and she wasn't too pleased with the way that Agnar was acting.
Nevertheless the pharmacist gave Agnar the ingredients they soon returned home. Agnar immediately mix the ingredients together and gave it to his brother, who was strapped to a life-support machine, and soon his eyes opened.
"You awake," he said relieved. "I'm so glad you're okay."
In the present Echo was still determined to destroy the stone tablet.
"He could have had it, the Geckoson Company, the whole world, but he did own worst enemy which is why he can never come back here," she said.
Meanwhile in the alternate dimension Mason and Agnar were still doing battle over control the Sacred Beast cards.
"Where were we," said Mason as he drew. "Ah, yes it was my turn and I place one card facedown and that's it." Mason then placed one card facedown on the field and looked up at Agnar. "Agnar, if you want power you have to earn it. In your world they deny you the glory you deserve for far too long, but we're not in your world any world, we're in my mine and I'm the only thing standing between you and through power. Hold nothing back! Beat me if you can!"
At the ruins, Echo was still threatening to blow up the tablet.
"I won't let you use this tablet!" she yelled. "Destroying it is the only guarantee I have of ensuring Agnar a better life so say goodbye to your precious Celestial King."
"If you do that then you will condemn the other students who have been trapped there against their will," said Mala. "I will not allow you to endanger the lives of others!"
"Don't come any closer! This is your last warning! I'm not playing around!" Echo yelled.
"Neither am I," said Mala.
She then pulled out the card from her sleeve and then tossed it straight at Echo. The card struck her hand causing her to drop the detonator.
"Now!" Mala ordered.
Thork and his men immediately jumped on Echo before she had a chance to retrieve the detonator.
"Good work, Thork," said Mala approvingly.
"My pleasure my Queen," Thork nodded.
Echo try to free herself, but Thork's hold was too strong. "Mala, I'm going to make you pay!" Then a tear trickled down her eyes. "I'm sorry Agnar!"
Meanwhile in the alternate dimension it was now Agnar's turn and he had the pure advantage.
"My turn," he said as he drew. "With this being the Standby Phase, I must take a card from my hand and send it to my graveyard or else Summon Cloud is destroyed, but you know I think it served its purpose so I allow this card to dissipate and keep all my cards."
Summon Cloud then vanished from the field.
"Now that I cleared the air I think it's only fair for you to do so as well," said Agnar looking at Mason. "So fuss up who are you after? Has everything you've done bit about getting revenge? Tell me!"
Mason merely chuckled.
"Fine, don't talk. Let's see if Eye of the Typhoon can get some answers. Go, Perfect Storm!"
Eye of the Typhoon floated up into the air and unleashed a powerful storm on top of Mason.
"Thanks for the pleasant breeze, but my next move will blow you away," said Mason.
Agnar was taken aback by this statement.
"I'll start by revealing my two facedown cards which both happen to be Break the Seals trap cards," said Mason revealing his facedown cards which were identical trap cards. "Now by sending them both to my graveyard I can add a card to my hand as long as it has the 'Forbidden One' in its name. Blown away yet?"
Agnar's eyes widened as Mason looked through his deck. "Forbidden One? No way, you're going to summon Exodia?"
Mason was about to grab a card from his deck when a dark aura filled the room. Then suddenly the shadows of the three Sacred Beasts appeared above them.
"What?" Agnar stared. "What is that?"
Then suddenly Eye of the Typhoon vanished into thin air much to Agnar's surprise.
"What's happening?" he demanded.
"The Sacred Beasts have escaped," said Mason simply.
"What? We've got trouble," said Agnar.
"The Sacred Beasts are creatures," said Mason as a bright orange aura covered his body. "Especially around their new master."
The Sacred Beasts were advancing towards them, but upon witnessing Mason they quickly retreated and vanished.
"But don't worry the seal has been broken yet so they can't stay around for too long," Mason smiled looking at Agnar. "Just long enough to give you a whip of their awesome power."
Agnar just stared down at Mason. 'What I smell is a rat, but it's so hard to resist.'
"Now then back into your cages until I say so my pets," said Mason.
The Sacred Beasts then retreated and vanished back into the capsule.
Mason then looked at Agnar. "I think you're safe now," he said making his way towards the capsule.
"Wait, hold up!" Agnar yelled grabbing his arm making him drop his cards. "We're not done let's finish this!"
Agnar then saw the cards that Mason had been holding and his eyes widened in horror. Directly in front of him were the Left Arm, Right Arm, Left Leg and Right Leg of the Forbidden One. He was one short of completing Exodia which he would have successfully had done if the duel has continued and he would have lost.
"If you had received that card by using Break the Seal you would have completed Exodia and you would have won the duel," he stared.
He then released Mason, who merely smiled.
"That's correct," said Mason rubbing his reptilian hand. "But this duel wasn't about winning or losing, it was to see what you were made of. Now I can still give you what I promised, but you must work with me and not against me."
Mason then extended his hand. "Three Sacred Beasts, break your seal!"
Suddenly the capsule began to glow and it opened up revealing the three Sacred Beast cards. The three cards then launch into the air and headed straight to Mason and entered into his arm.
Hiccup meanwhile was on a rock and a hard place as he was surrounded by Duel Ghouls.
"My turn," said Fishlegs as he drew.
Then suddenly appearing around Hiccup were Drillroid, Newdoria, Panther Warrior, Leghul and Gagagigo.
"Everyone attack Hiccup at the same time!" Fishlegs ordered.
Suddenly all the monsters pounced at Hiccup.
"Not so fast," said Hiccup as he drew from his deck. "I summon Dragon Knight Sharpshot to stop your attacks!"
Hiccup immediately held out Sharpshot's card, who immediately was summoned to the field. Then the little Dragon Knight spun around creating a vortex that caused all the enemy monsters to be blown away.
The vortex had also created some dust to flow into the air which blinded Fishlegs and the Duel Ghouls. Hiccup then took this as his opportunity to escape and ran down the passageway.
"Sorry, Fishlegs, I've got to save the world," said Hiccup running past Fishlegs.
"I can't see! Hiccup is escaping!" Fishlegs yelled trying to brush the dust out of his eyes.
Eventually Astrid and the others managed to reach the tennis courts, but the last of the members of the Blue Berets had to remain behind to hold off the Duel Ghouls. Axel and Thuggory were the first ones to entered to check to see it was clear.
"We've made it to the tennis courts," said Axel.
"It's all clear," said Thuggory.
"Perfect," said Axel and looked towards the others. "Let's get a move on guys. There's no time to waste here."
Upon entering Speedfist's eyes widened, because the tennis courts had some advanced machinery inside.
"This is the interdimensional duel system," he gasped. "We shouldn't have this thing. What's it doing here?"
"We… um, sort of borrowed it from Kaiba Corp for experimental purposes that I can't go into," said Mildew looking uneasy. He then pointed far side of the room. "Now the control console is over there."
"No wonder Eisenstein chose this place," said Speedfist as he rushed over to the control console. "Now let's say we can make contact. All right people, let me get this thing up and running."
"What should we do?" Thuggory asked.
"Speedfist?"
"You need help?" Camicazi asked.
"Let's get this into position," said Axel.
They then quickly started to show the equipment into position.
"Let's get this thing the old heave ho," said Gobber.
Speedfist access the control console. "Professor Eisenstein, come in. We made it safely to the tennis courts."
"Good," said Eisenstein over the comm. "Remember these machines will enable us to transform and harness duel energy into a viable power source. We must synchronise our systems in order to connect our dimensions."
As he tore the dome opened and everyone managed to get the equipment into position.
"You really think this will work?" Blaze asked.
"It better," said Astrid.
"It does seem like a long shot," said Heather.
"It will," said Speedfist strongly.
Eventually the dome fully opened and everyone managed to get the equipment into position.
"She's good to go," said Thuggory.
"All right. Camicazi, get ready to duel," said Speedfist as he fiddled with the power generator.
Camicazi nodded. With the absence of Hiccup she was the only person in the group that was capable of producing the energy they needed.
"Astrid, engage duel synchronisation!" Speedfist ordered.
"Engaged," said Astrid pressing down on the button.
They watched as hollow projectors appeared from the side of the dome and thence generated some sort of field. Then they saw an image of Berk and Eisenstein team setting up the equipment.
"Professor, we have visual contact," said Speedfist. "We are prepared to move forward."
"Good, to make sure your duellist is in position," said Eisenstein. "Let's be quick, time dimension portals are quite fickle."
Speedfist looked at Camicazi. "Ready?"
Camicazi nodded and took a step forward.
"We're in position. Camicazi is duelling on our end and who is her opponent going to be? Eret will it be you?"
Eisenstein moved out of the way and Eret stepped up.
"We chose someone else," said Eret. "We needed a duellist who could generate enough energy to make this portal big enough. The decision here was unanimous. We realised that we have to find someone with a competitive fire unlike any other, we needed someone that duels to win and only win. Someone who duels with passion, ferocity and further and only one man the bill. He's ready and waiting for you Camicazi."
Suddenly the image changed and they saw standing on the platform was none other than Wolflegs.
"It's Wolflegs," Astrid gasped.
Speedfist smiled. "Good show."
"All right, initialise the synchronisation," Eisenstein ordered his assistant.
"Yes, sir."
Wolflegs just stood on the platform and watched as an image of Camicazi appeared in front of him.
"Camicazi, we can't hold anything back," he said. "The only way to generate enough energy is to duel like where mortal enemies and that's just what I plan on doing."
