The match between Hiccup and Phantom was now entering its vital stages and it was harder to who had the advantage now.
Hiccup: 100
Phantom: 2600
"Phantom, your Shadow is no match for power of my monster," said Hiccup gesturing to Celestial Toothless. "My Celestial Toothless has three special abilities and activate one of them I just send the card from my deck to my grave and then every card in your graveyard must return to your deck."
"Every card?" Phantom stared in shock. "Well, at least you're forced to give up something too."
Hiccup discarded the top card of his deck which was Groundsplitter. "That's right so I send my Groundsplitter to the grave."
Phantom looked down at her graveyard and saw every single card in it shooting out much to her annoyance.
"Was that a good move?" Yellow asked.
"With no card in the graveyard Phantom's Sharpshot can't resurrect. So yes, that was a good move she can't activate the spell card to bring it back to the field now which means Toothless is safe for now."
"That's fantastic," Yellow smiled.
"And I have a feeling that Hiccup isn't quite done yet," Astrid smiled.
Meanwhile several floors below them were both Gobber and Camicazi. Then Leo appeared right next to Camicazi.
"Hiccup has fused the Celestial King with Toothless once again," he said.
"Looks like my Celestial King helped him," Camicazi smiled.
"Let's hope it's enough," said Gobber.
Back in the duelling field Phantom was looking at Hiccup with complete sorrow.
"Hiccup, I can't believe after all this time, you still don't see what I've done for you," said Phantom as tears appeared in her eyes. "And with that I can't forgive you. Soon you will see the error of your ways!"
"And so will you," said Hiccup as he said a card from his hand to the graveyard. "I send one card to my graveyard to activate the Arm Hold spell card!" He then revealed his facedown card. "With this, I can now choose one equipped spell from my deck and add the card to my hand. In exchange I can't summon a monster this turn, but I can activate my Rainbow Veil and I equip the spell to my Celestial Toothless!"
Immediately a powerful aura of colours of the rainbow covered Toothless from head to toe. "And since I have this fancy spell protection I'm safe to attack! Go, Celestial Radiance!"
Immediately covering Toothless was a powerful surge of energy.
"Did you forget that damage to me becomes damage to you?" Phantom smirked.
"Not with my Rainbow Veil," Hiccup smirked. "You see with it's shield and security Toothless can engage your monster special abilities!"
Phantom gasped.
"All right," Fishlegs cheered.
"We might be going home after all," said Yellow smiling.
"And Ragnar and the others are saved," Astrid added.
"No they're not," Phantom chuckled. "Because I activate my facedown the trap, Fiend Rose!"
Immediately her facedown card revealed itself to be the same trap card Hiccup selected a few rounds ago.
"When equipped to my monster Fiend Rose also serves as a shield, it protects Shadow by negating all the Battle damage your precious Celestial Toothless can dish out," Phantom explained.
Hiccup grimaced and Toothless unleashed a blast of starlight directly upon Shadow.
Phantom smiled to herself. 'But should my Rose leave the field my Shadow has to go with it.'
Toothless' attack struck Shadow, but was ineffective thanks to Phantom's trap card.
"Oh well, better luck next time," Phantom smirked. "That's assuming of course there is a next time."
Hiccup merely growled her.
"Ah, that Phantom is one upping Hiccup this whole duel," said Yellow.
"Well hopefully he'll break her defences soon," said Fishlegs hopefully. "If not Hiccup's life points don't stand a chance."
"I end my turn," said Hiccup.
"As you must, I draw," said Phantom as he drew from her deck. "And since it's my turn again I can activate the power of my Spell Chronicle. With three cards left to choose from Hiccup, which one will it be?"
The three cards remaining soon appeared above Phantom.
"How about this Mystical Space Typhoon," said Hiccup.
The selected card then entered into Phantom's hand and the other two vanished. "A most excellent pick, I'll use it right away and with its power are under your Celestial Toothless' protection useless!"
She immediately held the card out and a powerful gust of wind blew across the field and destroyed Hiccup's Rainbow Veil card.
"Oh, no! My Rainbow Veil!" Hiccup cried.
"Now with that equip spell lifted I can use my special ability again," said Phantom and Hiccup groaned. Phantom then narrowed her eyes at him. "Do you think I want all of this to happen? Well, I didn't I just wanted the two of us to be together Hiccup. I wanted to protect you for eternity yet you wouldn't let me. I'm so sorry, but you brought this upon yourself and now Celestial Toothless let us finish this! Attack me with your Celestial Radiance and together we were sent Hiccup off to oblivion!"
Shadow's eyes and began to glow and a second later so did Celestial Toothless'. He had no choice but to unleash his attack unleashing starlight upon Shadow.
"You should have saved the menacing victory speech Phantom," said Hiccup as he raised his duel disk. "Because I'm not going anywhere you see I remove from play my Dragon Gatekeeper trap card I can negate your attack."
Hiccup then held out a trap card which shot out of his graveyard with a picture of Dragon Knight Druid protecting a cave.
Phantom growled as Celestial Toothless' attack stopped inches away from her.
"Plus it allows me to add a Dragon-type monster from my graveyard back to my deck," said Hiccup as he pulled out Toothless and then began to shovel him back into his deck.
"This duel is over, just accept it!" Phantom roared.
"When the last life point expires that is when the door is over Phantom," said Hiccup. "So accept that. It's my move and I draw." Hiccup drew from his deck and immediately held the card out. "And I activate Pot of Greed which allows me to add two more cards to my hand."
Hiccup then drew his two new cards.
"Since you activated another spell card, Spell Chronicler gains one more unit of power," said Phantom as another one of the magic symbols glowed on the scroll. "So the story continues."
"Then let me add a plot twist by summoning Dragon Knight Meatlug!" Hiccup yelled.
Suddenly appearing on the field was the husky female Dragon Knight, who took on a defensive position. (ATK: 1300/ DEF: 2000)
"And now I activate Celestial Toothless second ability," Hiccup continued. "By sending Meatlug to the graveyard your monster is destroyed and removed from the field of play."
"What?" Phantom stared.
"It's not your lucky day Phantom," said Hiccup. "Because you're about to experience a world of hurt! Celestial Toothless, rid the field of that Shadow!
Meatlug soon vanished from the field and Celestial Toothless unleashed a dazzling glow of starlight upon the field. Phantom flew off into the air just in time as Shadow vanished from the field.
"Phantom, you got no monsters on your field, no facedown cards, even your graveyard is totally empty," said Hiccup. "Let's stop this before I hurt you again. Bring my friends back to this dimension right now!"
Phantom merely laughed. "Why would I do that when you just destroyed my Shadow? When that being is destroyed a stronger form descends, the ultimate Nightmare is upon you."
"So what?" Hiccup stared as Phantom began to glow.
"You haven't destroyed me, Hiccup," said Phantom as she vanished and appearing in front of him with a large version of her face. "You hardly made me stronger!"
Suddenly appearing right in front of him was Phantom, only now that she was the exact same size as Celestial Toothless, and now looked even more dragon–like. She now had four wings instead of two, her legs were arced, she now had razor sharp fangs and a completely dragon like face with two horns sticking out either side of the head and a single horn on her snout. (ATK: 0/ DEF: 0)
Hiccup just stared at her new form completely open mouthed.
"If you attack me," said Phantom's voice and then the horn on the snout began to transform into her. "All damage will be deflected. My wrap will consume your attacking monster and then your monster's attack points will be dealt straight to you as life point damage."
"That's bad, right?" Yellow asked.
"Yeah, that's really bad," Fishlegs agreed.
"Really, really bad," said Astrid.
"Phantom, I play a facedown," said Hiccup placing a card facedown on the field. "It's your move."
"The has begun," said Phantom as she drew. She looked at the card and chuckled to herself. "And soon Hiccup, you will find yourself in the darkest corner of the darkest dimension! And once there no one will hear your cries of agony, no one that is but me!"
Nightmare's eyes then began to glow as did Celestial Toothless' eyes. "And now Celestial Toothless, time to send your friend to oblivion!"
Celestial Toothless fought back as much as he could, but even he was unable to stop himself from moving towards her. He then raised his fist and swung it towards Nightmare.
"I don't think so, because I activate this trap, Alchemy Cycle!" Hiccup yelled revealing his facedown card. "And because of this card's effect for this turn Celestial Toothless' attack points becomes zero."
Phantom was completely frustrated now as he watched Celestial Toothless lose power. (ATK: 4500-0)
Toothless then struck Nightmare with his fist, but nothing happened thanks to Hiccup's trap card. However, a few seconds later he left the field without warning.
"What just happened? Why did he do that?" Yellow frowned.
"He had no choice," said Astrid plainly. "If he hadn't made that move he would have lost."
"Yeah, but there is no way you could say Celestial Toothless," said Fishlegs sadly.
Hiccup closed his eyes.
"Hiccup, at it again are we?" Phantom smirked. "Just as you send me away, you go and do the same to your Celestial Toothless. Is no ones say that Des protect you?"
"Phantom, the only thing not safe are your precious life points," said Hiccup. "I sent you away hoping to help you, but that was then!"
Phantom was completely taken aback by this comment.
"Now due to my Alchemy Cycle effect I get to draw one card from my deck," said Hiccup as he drew.
"I place one card facedown and end my turn," said Phantom placing a card facedown on the field.
"I'm up then," said Hiccup as he drew. "Using Groundsplitter's ability from my graveyard I can summon out a Dragon Knight without a sacrifice." He then held the card he drew. "So here comes Dragon Knight Toothless!"
Toothless then appeared on the field once again ready to do battle. (ATK: 2500/ DEF: 2200)
"Next I placed two cards facedown and end my turn," said Hiccup play the final two cards from his hand. "It's your move."
"This is it," said Fishlegs gravely.
"The final turn," said Astrid, who had placed a hand over her heart.
"I can't watch," said Fishlegs.
"Come on, Hiccup needs you guys," said Yellow.
"But it won't be enough," said Phantom as he drew. "Try all you want, but in the end you failed your friends just as you failed me! And soon the 12 dimensions will finally become one and at that time you will finally feel my pain! The flames are calling your name, basking on the fires of revenge!"
Nightmare then unleashed fire from her mouth and send it straight towards Toothless.
"Uh-oh," said Yellow.
"If Hiccup can't stop this Toothless will attack and Hiccup will lose," said Fishlegs.
"Then not only will we lose him, but any chance of rescuing the others," said Astrid.
The flames then struck Toothless with an immense rage.
"Hiccup, giving up could save you immeasurable pain," Phantom pointed out.
"Maybe you should listen to your own advice!" Hiccup yelled revealing his facedown card to be a spell card. "I play Mirage Tube! And now this spell absorbs your monsters blast and leave you wide open for a counter-attack from the monster you just attacked. Go, Toothless, she can't stop us this time!"
Toothless was now covered in the fire that nightmare they had just hit him with and then flew towards Phantom and slammed her with a plasma blast directly at her and caused a massive explosion.
Hiccup: 100
Phantom: 100
Hiccup narrowed his eyes. "Did you seriously think I'd give up? I've played all of your silly games, I bought the pain to your duel ghouls, I travel to this dimension, I've learned to control the Supreme King's power and now all that is left is to finish you off!"
"But should you win who will protect you?" Phantom asked.
Hiccup frowned. "Protect me?"
"Haven't you realised it yet Hiccup," said Phantom. "I have always strived to shelter you from harm, even if it meant hurting those closest to you and I won't stop not until you are safe from every evil and to ensure that isoprene a world just you and me. One where you will be protected until the time comes where you must use the power of the Supreme King to fight the great evil! You see there's more to this story than you realise!"
Suddenly the dark clouds around the duelling field began to swirl around until completely covered them.
"Hiccup!" Astrid cried, but soon she disappeared within the cloud along with Fishlegs and Yellow.
"What is this all about?" Hiccup yelled covering his eyes.
When Hiccup opened his eyes he found himself overlooking some sort of castle overlooking a village in the valley.
"Where am I?" he stared.
He then found himself gliding towards the terrace where he saw someone dressed in royal robes, who he assumed to be the king and a young woman and young man both with black hair. He immediately recognised the two of them his eyes widened.
"Is that…?" he gasped.
"Toothless, Phantom," said the King. "Now listen I must explain why you are here."
"Yes, sir," said the two of them.
"At the dawn of time the universe was born of light and dark energy. At first chaos and evil rule the world under the power of light. After countless moons had passed the light energy restored order and banish this evil, but light waves of chaos and evil now flow through the dimensions looking to return one day. Only one person can stop it, the one born with the power of the Supreme King in his heart. The one is here it is my son the Prince, but he is a temporary vessel for that power, it shall pass through time as it does someone must follow and protect the vessels and lead his army."
"Please my King, let that person be me," said Phantom.
"And I shall fight at her side," said Toothless.
"So this was the Supreme King to," said Hiccup. "Who was he?"
Soon the scene changed and Hiccup found himself in some sort of laboratory. He saw several cloaked figures surrounding Phantom, who was strapped to the table.
"You have chosen to protect the vessel of the Supreme King, to ensure you're might you must receive the dragons heart," said one of the cloaked figures. "I must warn you though that this is the first time this experimentation has ever taken place, you may never be the same person as you once were."
"I accept the risks," said Phantom.
Hiccup couldn't watch and then suddenly the door opened and to his astonishment he saw younger version of himself wearing royal clothing. Toothless was there with him was apparently trying to stop him.
"Don't do this," he cried.
"He looks just like me," Hiccup gasped.
"Stop it!" the Prince cried as he rushed into the room as Toothless tried desperately to stop him.
He then ran through Hiccup. "It's like me and Phantom in the past or something," he stared. "I remember."
The scene changed and Phantom had now completely transformed into the creature she was now. The Prince was with her along with Toothless both of whom had sorrow looks on their faces.
"Why did you do this?" the Prince asked. "Tell me, I don't understand."
"Of course not," said Phantom. "But just know that I did this in order to protect you. I will always protect you as will the other Dragon Knights."
The Prince looked at her. "Okay, but… this doesn't seem fair you were my friend, I will make it up to you. I promise never to forget you, to always keep you by my side."
Astrid and the others were still staring as the clouds were spiralling around making it impossible to either see Hiccup or Phantom.
"Astrid, Fishlegs," said Hiccup's voice which sounded normal.
"We're right here," said Astrid.
"Good, now listen," said Hiccup and suddenly they saw him through the clouds with his normal emerald eyes. "I've got to go, there is something I need to take care of."
"What?" Astrid and Fishlegs gasped.
"When you see everyone tell them that I'm sorry, I'm sorry for everything," he said.
"You can tell them yourself!" Astrid yelled.
"Yeah, if were going back your coming with us!" Fishlegs nodded.
"You can't stay behind you to return back to our world together!" Astrid cried.
"Stay behind?" Yellow blinked. "But why?"
"You've gotta trust me, I understand your concerns, but I can't go with you not now," said Hiccup looking at them. "I have to help an old friend, I've got to help Phantom."
Astrid and Fishlegs stared at him as if he was crazy.
"Don't worry, I'll be back," Hiccup promised.
Then suddenly he disappeared in a blinding light.
"Hiccup, no!" Fishlegs cried.
"Don't leave me!" Astrid pleaded with tears forming in her eyes.
Suddenly the cloud dispelled revealing a bright light and Astrid fell to her knees crying uncontrollably.
"Hiccup, come back!" Astrid begged. "I can't leave here without you! I won't!"
Inside the light everything had completely changed, Phantom's field spell was no longer showing and all they could see was light. Hiccup looked up at Phantom and saw that Nightmare was now on her knees and Phantom looked a bit worn out as well.
"Phantom, you okay?" Hiccup asked.
"Okay," said Phantom looking up. "Why of course I feel great, I've never felt stronger. Now let's finish off our duel once and for all!"
Nightmare then rose back onto her feet and growled angrily.
"Since you activated Mirage Tube, that spell fully charges my Spell Chronicler and now you must choose again," said Phantom as her two remaining cards appeared above her. "Only two left which will you pick? I assume that you will pick Drake Knight Toothless thinking that might leave you with one final chance, am I right?"
"I select, Super Polymerization!" Hiccup yelled.
Phantom narrowed her eyes as the card Hiccup and selected entered her hand. "What was that? Are you mocking me, I'll teach you. I activate Chain Material!" She then revealed her facedown card to be a trap card. "From my deck, my grave, my field and my hand I can gather every single monster levels one through 12 to use this fusion material!"
Immediately her hand lit up a card at the time, then her deck, then her graveyard and finally her field. Hiccup watched as 12 monsters launched out of her deck, hand and field through 1 to 12. They then soared up into the air and formed a circle.
Phantom laughed. "Now I activate Super Polymerization," she said as he held at the spell card. "And with its power I will break the boundaries of time and space and unite the 12 dimensions. When the 12 dimensions become one of the ensuing explosion will create a new world, one where only you and I shall exist."
Immediately there was a massive vortex appearing overhead and all 12 cards entered into it. Then 12 beams of light shot out of the vortex and began spreading in all different directions. Astrid and the others were the first ones to witness this phenomenon.
"Wow, fireworks?" Yellow smiled. "Did Hiccup when?"
"I hope so," said Fishlegs.
"Because if he didn't were all dead," said Astrid.
Camicazi and the others then witnessed this.
"What in the name of Thor?" Gobber stared.
"I do not like the looks of this," said Valka.
"Hiccup," Camicazi gasped.
Outside Speedfist and Tania saw one of these light passing over their heads. Stoick was witnessing the same thing as the windows in his office began to crack.
In his mobile lab, Eisenstein and his assistant saw something appearing on the monitor in front of them.
"Something is happening?" said Eisenstein.
On the scanner there were 12 beams of light shooting in all directions and Eisenstein knew what this meant immediately.
Everything was shaking uncontrollably as if the entire fabric of the world were being ripped apart and Phantom was laughing at her triumph.
"I've done it! By destroying your reality, I've won!" she smiled. "Your world is no more, you and I will finally be together forever!"
"Not quite," said Hiccup.
"What?" she gasped and noticed that everything had stopped around.
"Super Polymerization isn't fusing any dimensions," said Hiccup. "Not today anyway, I can't let that happen. Instead it's going to fuse us."
"Fuse us?" Phantom stared.
"That's right, you see I already activated my Spiritual Fusion trap card," said Hiccup and Toothless stepped out of the way to reveal Hiccup's facedown card which turned out to be a trap.
"A counter trap?" Phantom stared in confusion. "Those don't work on Super Polymerization."
"That's why I'm using it against Chain Material," said Hiccup. "Thanks to this trap card I get to pick which monsters will use with Super Polymerization." He then smiled up at Phantom. "Hey, Phantom. I get it, you started off with good intentions, but you lost your way now I'm going to help you find, you've been alone…"
Phantom's eyes widened as he saw the spirit of the Prince exiting from Hiccup's body.
"So alone," she said.
"But you're not going to be alone any more, Phantom," the Prince smiled. "I know what you sacrificed and why you did it, I'll help you find the right path again and together we will fight as one." The Prince then grasped her hands. "You work hard to protect me and I thank you for that…"
"For now on, the Supreme King and the Guardian shall share the same spirit, I don't know what that means for me, but let's find out," said Hiccup and Phantom began to cry. "I activate Super Polymerization."
Hiccup paused for moment as he began to look back on all his friends, those that was still with him, those that were trapped and those that remained behind. He then stood up firm and his body began to flow with confidence.
"I fuse my spirit with Phantom's!" Hiccup yelled.
The Super Polymerization floated up into the air and then created a new vortex. Both Toothless and Nightmare then entered into the vortex followed and Phantom watched as she and Hiccup bent into the vortex also.
Phantom then found herself in a beautiful void and saw Hiccup in front of her and flew down towards him.
"Hiccup," she said. Hiccup then collapsed and she caught him in her arms. "Hiccup." She then hugged. "The Sacred will the Supreme King and my spirit are now united as one." She then began to glow. "The Guardian shall stand by the King site for all of eternity and when our names are called we shall fight the ways of chaos and save the world."
The two of them turned into a single beam of light and headed up towards the sky and straight into the sun. Immediately a powerful bright light illuminated and began to consume everything in its path.
Astrid and the others were the first to experience this and Valka and the others were close to follow. The light was so bright that it even touched into the dark dimension that Phantom had created as Ragnar the others found themselves consumed by the light.
At Duel Academy a large stone began to form and a single beam of light shot down into the ancient ruins. This was seen by everyone who immediately rushed out of the Academy campus and towards the ruins as quickly as they could.
"What was that?" a student asked.
"Quickly, go!"
"I hope everybody is okay!"
"Oh no, this could be bad!"
Stoick along with the teachers and students soon found themselves in the ruins and found everyone were just standing there. However, there were few people missing Hiccup, Wolflegs, Speedfist, Agnar and Echo were nowhere to be seen.
"No," said Astrid she fell to her knees and began to cry. "Why Hiccup? Why?"
Ragnar picked himself up and looked at Astrid and Fishlegs. "Where's Hiccup?"
"Gone," said Fishlegs.
Heather immediately rushed to Astrid and comfort her as she cried harder than she had ever done in her life.
Dragon Knight Nightmare
ATK: 0/ DEF: 0
12 Level
DARK
Warrior/ Effect
This card is treated as a Dragon-type while face up on the field or in the Graveyard. This card cannot be destroyed by battle. You take no Battle Damage from battles involving this card. If this face-up Attack Position card battles with an opponent's monster, inflict damage equal to its ATK to your opponent and destroy that monster at the end of the Damage Step.
Dragon Gatekeeper
Normal Trap Card
Remove this card from your graveyard when your opponent wages a direct attack. Then add one Dragon-type monster from your graveyard to your deck.
Card image: Dragon Knight Druid protecting a cave.
