Hiccup and the others were still stunned about what they were witnessing, the occupation of Omnitakla. Snotlout in particular was taken this very hard and was quite understandable considering everything.
"I can't believe it," Snotlout stared and turned to the others. "I know the war has spread very far, but I always believed that Omnitakla was untouchable."
"Up until now it was," said Ragnar regretfully. "Now Meridian is the only great Earth Kingdom stronghold left."
Astrid approached Snotlout. "I can't even imagine what you're thinking right now, but we have to move on."
"No!" said Snotlout slamming his foot into the ground. "I'm going to find my father."
Fishlegs looked at him with a panicked look. "But Snotlout we don't even know if your dad is…"
Snotlout turned on him. "What Fishface? Go on say it!"
Fishlegs wiggled his fingers. "Around."
Hiccup then step forward. "Snotlout I know this is painful and I know you looked forward and seen your homeland again, but I need to find an Earthbender as quickly as we can."
"Then go and find one, because I'm staying," said Snotlout slamming his foot into the ground causing a bit of an earthquake.
Reluctantly Hiccup and the others followed Snotlout to the base of the stronghold on their dragons. They flew underneath so that they weren't detected and soon they landed next to an entrance that Snotlout new.
"A secret passage?" Fishlegs stared. "Why did we use this last time?"
Snotlout then opened the pipeline and sewage immediately rushed out.
Hiccup looked at Fishlegs. "Does that answer your question?"
They then declined the sewage pipe and the smell was almost unbearable, not to mention the flies flying around. Ragnar led the way using his Airbending to move the sewage, Hiccup did the same with his own Airbending and Heather with her Waterbending. Astrid and Fishlegs made sure they were between the three of them as they didn't want to get splashed with sewage. Unfortunately, Snotlout and the twins and for that far ahead and kept on getting hit by the sewage.
It was night when they finally managed to get out of the sewer. Ragnar popped his head out of the hub cap and looked around to see the close was clear. Thankfully it was and they began emerging from the sewer one by one.
"That wasn't as bad as I thought," said Heather.
Then Snotlout and the twins emerge from the sewer completely covered in sewage. They looked like three sewage monsters and Heather quickly used some nearby water to wash the sewage of them. Hiccup and Ragnar then use a combination of Firebending and Airbending to drive them and that's when Snotlout saw that he had some squidlike creatures attached to his cheeks.
He immediately tried to pull them off but they were stuck on tight on his cheeks, it felt as if he was trying to turn his own face-off.
"They won't let go!" he cried. "Help!"
Astrid then tackled him and quickly covered his mouth. "Are you trying to get us captured?"
"Besides it's just the purple pentapus," said Hiccup calmly.
Snotlout quivered slightly and Hiccup immediately rubbed the one of the Purple pentapus and it immediately released its suckers. Snotlout was relieved and did the same to the other two that were attached to him, of course they left their sucker marks on and his skin than they look like spots.
"Hey!" a voice yelled.
They turned around and saw several Fire Empire soldiers making their way towards them.
Ragnar quickly put his hood over his head to hide his arrow and a smile innocently to the soldiers.
"What are you kids doing out its way past curfew?" said the sergeant.
"Sorry, we were just far way home," said Heather.
They began to walk away, but then the sergeant noticed the sucker marks on the back of Snotlout's neck.
"Wait! What's the matter with him?" the sergeant asked.
They came to a stop and that's when Astrid noticed the sucker marks on Snotlout.
"Uh, he has Penta Pox sir," she said quickly.
The sergeant got closer to examine Snotlout, Hiccup then realise that he discovered that they were sucker marks their cover would be blown.
"It's highly contagious," he said stopping the sergeant.
The sergeant then pulled away his hand and looked at Snotlout. To make it look more convincing, Snotlout began to act like a zombie.
"Uh… it's so awful I'm dying," he groaned.
"And deadly," Ragnar added.
Immediately the sergeant and his men backed away from Snotlout, who began coughing and spluttering all over the place.
"Hey, I think I've heard of Penra Pox," said the sergeant looking at one of his men. "Didn't your Cousin Asmund die of it?"
Immediately the sergeant and his men ran off as if their life depended on it.
"We better wash our hands on but not cloths!" he said as he ran.
"That was too close," said Fishlegs placing a hand over his heart.
Meanwhile at the port, Devi was fuming that Eret and beyond managed to escape her.
"When tracking Captain Eret and his uncle, travelling with a royal procession may no longer be an option," Brenda pointed out.
"It may no longer be wise…" said Brenna.
"If you want to keep the element of surprise," they said in unison.
"You're right," Devi nodded. "The royal procession is dead weight, if I want to capture my tray I must be agile… nimble. I need a small elite team, it's time to visit some old friends."
Meanwhile Hiccup and the gang was still exploring Omnitakla, but so far they found nothing. They had to duck behind construction equipment in order to avoid being spotted by the fire Empire soldiers patrolling the area.
"Let's find your father and get out of here," said Astrid looking at Snotlout.
"But where will they be keeping?" Fishlegs asked.
"Somewhere where he can't Earthbend," said Hiccup as he looked around the landscape. "Somewhere made of metal."
They all nodded and started to move.
Not too far way was a middle-aged woman carrying a baby and next to her was a moody looking girl with black hair, all them wearing Empire clothing. The two of them will be escorted by several Fire Empire soldiers, meaning they were quite important.
The girls sighed. "There is no fathoming the depth of my hatred for this place."
The other woman, her mother sighed. "May, your father was appointed governor. We are like loyalty here, be happy and enjoy it."
They were making their way across a message delivery system and unbeknownst to them a group of Earth Kingdom soldiers were positioned right above them.
"The targets are approaching," said one of the men.
"Take them out," the commander ordered.
"I thought my life was boring in the Empire, but this place is unbearably bleak," May complained. "Nothing ever happens."
It was at that point that one of the men on top of the delivery system launched a boulder directly towards them.
At the exact same time Hiccup and the others arrived and they saw the boulder heading straight towards the family. Ragnar was the first to act and pulled out his staff and unleashed a powerful gust of air that turned the boulders as to dust.
That got the attention of the family below them and that's when they saw them.
"The resistance!" the woman cried.
Immediately May flustered her hand forward unleashing several daggers towards Ragnar. Ragnar quickly used his Airbending to jump out of the way and he soon joined the others as they dashed off with the soldiers following close behind them.
Heather came to a stop and began bending the water in her gourd and use it as a whip and not the soldiers off the platform. May quickly jumped onto the platform and fired more daggers directly at them and have a barely had time to create an ice shield to block them.
Heather then quickly ran after the others with May following close behind, eventually Hiccup to turn around and fired a fireball directly at some scaffolding causing to block the pursuer from chasing them. However she tossed a night which bounced around ricochet towards Hiccup, who quickly drew Inferno and blocked the attack.
They all stopped and looked at the girl as he fired more daggers directly at them and then suddenly the ground beneath them began to sink much to their surprise.
She just sighed and walked off looking slightly disappointed.
Hiccup and the others found themselves in an underground catacomb that's when they found themselves completely surrounded by Earth Kingdom citizens.
Meanwhile Devi was still searching for potential allies and she soon came across one of her old friends in a circus. Her name was Talia and she was a skill acrobat as well had full knowledge of the human body, allowing her to disrupt an individuals manna with just a few quick jabs.
Devi smiled at her friend who was upside down at the time only supported by two fingertips. "Talia, could that possibly be you?" she asked.
Talia's face lit up upon seeing her. "Devi?" She immediately sat up straight and approached her old friend and gave her big hug. "It's so good to see you."
"Please don't let me interrupt your… whatever it is you are doing," she said.
Talia then immediately continue with the stretches bending her body in the most impossible ways.
Devi looked at her curiously. "Tell me what is the daughter of a nobleman doing here? Certainly our parents didn't send this to the Royal Fire Academy for Girls to end up in places like this." She looked at the wild animals before turning back to Talia. "I have a proposition for you, I'm hunting a traitor. You remember Lord's Eret's older brother, Bjorn don't you?
"Oh yeah," said Talia cheerfully. "He was so funny."
"I would be honoured if you would join me on my mission," said Devi.
Talia's smile then quickly vanished. "Oh, I… uh, would love to." She then somersaulted back onto her feet. "But the truth is I'm really happy here. I mean my aura has never been pinker."
Devi held a hand up. "I'll take your word for it." She then folded her arms. "Well, I wouldn't want you to give up the life you love just to please me."
Talia blinked and then bowed respectfully. "Thank you, Devi."
Devi then walked off and Talia continue to stretches.
"Of course before I leave, I'm going to catch your show," Devi informed.
Talia face dropped. "Uh… yeah. Sure of course."
Meanwhile at Omnitakla, Hiccup and the others found themselves talking to the resistance.
"I must say Lord Snotlout, it's relieved to see you alive and well," said the commander.
"Where's my father?" Snotlout asked as they enter the encampment. "I assume he's leading the resistance."
"Of course not," the commander spat. "The day of the invasion we readied ourselves for battle. We were prepared to defend our city to fight for our lives and for our freedom. But before we even had a chance, Lord Spitelout surrendered."
Snotlout's eyes widened. "My father would never turn coward!"
"I would agree with you," the commander agreed. "However, I personally asked him what he wanted to do with the invasion. He looked me in the eye and said, 'I'm going to do nothing.'"
Snotlout looked immediately crestfallen. "I don't believe it."
"It doesn't matter now," said the commander. "Fighting the Empire is the only path to freedom and freedom is worth dying for."
"Actually you have a second option that will lead you to the path of freedom," said Ragnar stepping forward. "You could simply leave Omnitakla. You are directing all your energy to fight the Empire, but you are outnumbered. You can't win. Now is the time to retreat so that you can live to fight another day."
The commander shook his head. "You don't understand. They have taken our home and we have to fight them at any cost!"
Snotlout then took a step forward. "I'm not usually one to run from a fight, but surely it would be wiser to choose a more strategic position to retake the city. Plus you can easily get all the civilians to safety."
One of lieutenants looked at the commander. "Commander, they do have a point. Living to fight for another day is starting to sound pretty good to me."
A second lieutenant nodded. "I say we go for it."
The commander turned and looked at the refugees and saw that they were all starting to agree with the plan.
"Fine," he said looking back at them. "But there are thousands of civilians that need to leave. How are we going to get them all out?"
A small smile then appeared on Hiccup's face. "I may have an idea on how to accomplish that."
The next morning, everyone collected as many purple pentapus and stuck them on their skin. He then rubbed the purple pentapus forcing them to release leaving behind a sucker marks.
"Now everyone going to believe that were suffering from a pandemic of Penta Pox," Hiccup smiled. "Now the marks make you look sick, but you need to act sick too."
That's when an old man then came hobbling by coughing and spluttering.
"Just like that," said Hiccup.
"Years of practice," said the old man.
Hiccup then turned and looked back at everyone. "Okay spread yourselves out across the city, then approached any Empire soldier on patrol."
Heather noticed that Snotlout wasn't covered in sucker marks and then noticed that he was walking away. "Snotlout, where you going?" she asked.
"In case you forgot my father is trapped somewhere in the city," Snotlout reminded. "I'm not leaving until I find him."
Ragnar then left the group. "I'll follow him, make sure you can get into too much trouble."
With that Ragnar and Snotlout began to move across the alleyways.
A few moments late, the city people started to cough and splutter as the approached Empire soldiers on patrol. They immediately panicked upon seeing the sucker marks on their skins, believing that there was a plague.
"Plague! Plague!" the sergeant yelled.
Immediately they were starting to sound the alarm across the entire city.
At the governor building that was newly built, Governor Nadir was witnessing the entire thing with his family.
"What is going on?" he demanded.
The lieutenant from last night then approached him. "I saw some kids yesterday who are sick with Penta Poxs. It must have spread."
Governor rubbed his chin. "Penta Pox? I'm pretty sure I've heard of that."
"Oh, this is terrible," said his wife.
"What should we do?" the lieutenant asked.
"Drive them out of the city, but don't touch them," he ordered. "We have to rid this city of this disease."
Lieutenant nodded and left.
May then handed him a ball of fire flakes. "Fire flakes, Dad?" she asked.
The governor narrowed his eyes.
Then his wife hugged him, putting her baby boy on the floor. "How awful."
Unbeknownst to them the baby boy then wandered off into the house.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the city Ragnar and Snotlout was still searching around for any trace of Spitelout.
"Any idea where we start looking?" Ragnar asked.
"We should try some of the new construction areas," said Snotlout. "They would want to do keep him far away from earth as possible."
Ragnar then looked at Snotlout curiously. "So what you think of what the commander said? You know about how your dad surrendered, even before the invasion began?"
Snotlout shook his head in disbelief. "I've got no clue. It doesn't sound like him, my dad loves a fight more than me. I just can't see him surrendering."
Ragnar frowned. "Maybe we'll get the chance to ask him what we find him."
"Believe me am going have a nice long chat with him."
With that they continue their search for without the entire city.
Meanwhile at the governor's building, the governor's baby son, Tabor was playing in his room. However, he stopped when he saw that the Terrible Terror was sitting on the windowsill. Mind filled with curiosity he immediately grabbed the dragon's tail and then he shot upright.
The Terrible Terror was able to break free from the child's grip flew out of the window and onto the balcony. It then turned its head and found that Tabor was following it and immediately flew off. The baby boy then stumbled and slid off the roof and thankfully landed in a container of bellies as it slid down the mail shoot.
The Terrible Terror flew over to investigate then immediately Tabor shot out of the bellies and grabbed its tail. Frightens the little dragon immediately took off into the air carrying the baby with him and then they landed on the ground just outside the main gate.
That's when the crowd of people began walking by heading towards the gate and the Terrible Terror flew off. Wanting to follow it Tabor began chasing after through the main gate following the crowds of people and found himself outside Omnitakla's great walls.
Meanwhile at the circus, Devi was given a suit of armour to watch the entire circus.
"We are deeply honoured to have the Emperor's daughter at our humble circus," said the ringmaster. "Tell us if there's anything we can do to make the show more enjoyable."
A small smile appeared on Devi's face. "I will."
Eventually the act featuring Talia then began, she was balancing on a tight rope on a small mechanism. She was moving from hand-to-hand with grace and finesse, which wowed the entire crowd.
"Incredible," said Devi. She then looked at the ringmaster. "Do you think she'll fall?"
"Of course not," he said with confidence.
"Then wouldn't it make more interesting if you remove the net?" she asked.
The ringmaster looked uneasy. "Uh, the thing is the performers…"
"You're right, that's been done," she said holding out her hand and the ringmaster look relieved, but that was short lived. "I know. Set the net on fire."
"Of course, Princess," he said.
He then immediately step forward and used his Firebenidng to set the net on fire. Sweat then began to form on Talia's brow, but despite this she kept on the act. The ringmaster was looking completely uneasy, but Devi wasn't quite done just yet.
"Brilliant… just brilliant," she said. She then looked at him with curiosity. "Oh, what kind of dangerous animals do you have?"
"Well, are circus hosts the most exotic assortment…"
"Release them all!" she ordered.
Immediately the wild animals were released and began to surround the entire ring, ultimately terrifying Talia to no end.
Meanwhile Hiccup and the others had successfully evacuated the civilians out of Omnitakla. They were currently sitting around a campfire when Ragnar and Snotlout appeared, but there was no sign of Lord Spitelout.
Hiccup and the others quickly approached them looking immensely relieved.
"We looked everywhere, but we were unable to find Lord Spitelout," said Ragnar regretfully.
Snotlout slammed his fist into the ground causing a small earthquake. "It's bad enough the Empire take my home, but now they've taken my father!"
"I'm sure he's fine," said Hiccup confidently. "Your father is too much of an asset to get rid of, though he's too dangerous to be a normal cell."
"I'm afraid we've got other problems," said the commander as he approached them. "We just did a headcount?"
Heather's eyes widened in horror. "Oh no, did someone get left behind?"
The commander shook his head. "No… we have an extra."
He then pointed to Tabor, who was currently playing with a Terrible Terror, who was fronted to get away from the baby boy.
"Well, this complicates things," Hiccup sighed.
By this time the governor was well aware that his baby boy was missing, his wife was in tears. Though his daughter May refuse to show any emotion and handed her mother a handkerchief.
"So, the resistance has kidnapped my son," said Governor Nadir furiously. "Everything is bold, so decisive, just like Lord Spitelout."
"What you want to do, sir?" the lieutenant asked.
The governor then turned his sights to the mountains.
Meanwhile at the circus, Devi had entered Talia's turned and handed her a bouquet of flowers.
"An exquisite performance," said Devi cheerfully. "I can't wait to see how you top yourself tomorrow."
"I'm sorry, Devi. But unfortunately there won't be a show tomorrow," said Talia apologetically.
"Really?" said Devi as a small smile appeared on her face.
Talia then placed a headpiece on her dressing table. "The universe has given me strong hints that it's time for a career change." She then turned and faced Devi I want to join you on your mission."
Devi smile would even scare the bravest of children as everything was falling perfectly into her plan.
Meanwhile Hiccup and the others were entertaining the governor's son, though admittedly they had no idea of his identity.
"Any idea what you're going to do with the squirt?" Snotlout asked.
The twins looked at one another and were about to open their mouths.
"That doesn't involve explosions," Ragnar sighed.
The twins then closed their mouths.
The baby then cried and Heather then wrapped him in her arms and began to hum a soothing lullaby.
The sky is dark
And the hills are white,
As the storm King
Sleeps from the North tonight.
And this is the song
The Storm King sings,
As over the world his cloak he flings.
Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;
He rests his wings
And gruffly sings.
Sleep. Little ones. Sleep.
The baby then started to sue from her singing and snuggled up towards her as if she was his mother.
"I did know you could sing," said Ragnar impressively.
"That was beautiful," said Fishlegs.
"It was one of my favourite lullabies my mother used to sing," Heather sighed.
"He's definitely a cute little guy," said Astrid tapping the baby on his nose gently.
The commander huffed. "Sure, he's cute now. But when he's older he'll join the Fire Empire Army, you won't think you'll be so cute then. He'll be a killer"
Astrid narrowed her eyes. "Not all of us join the army and some of us hate this was much as you do."
Hiccup sighed. "Either way we need to figure out what to do with him."
Then suddenly flying towards them was a Terrible Terra with a note strap to its leg.
"I have a feeling that answers going to appear quite soon," said Ragnar.
Hiccup immediately unwraps the message and began to read it. "It's from the governor, he things we kidnapped his son. So he wants to make a trade, his son for…" His eyes widened as he looked at Snotlout. "Lord Spitelout."
The next morning, Hiccup had baby Tabor in his arms and soon joined the others and they began to mount their dragons.
"You know this is probably a trap," said Astrid.
"I don't care, there's a slight chance I can free my father I'm going to take it," said Snotlout strongly.
"Besides I doubt this is a trap," said Hiccup. "I'm very positive the governor wants his son back as much as we want Lord Spitelout. Though just in case, let's prepare for the worst as experience tells me nothing is gonna go according to plan."
"Like it ever does," said Ragnar under his breath.
At Omnitakla, Devi had arrived at the city and there she and Talia met up with May, who was waiting for them.
"Please tell me you're here to kill me," she said looking at them.
They all immediately laughed and Devi and May had one another.
"It's good to see you, May," said Devi as he pulled away.
Talia and immediately rushed over to May and gave her big hug.
"I thought you ran off to join the circus," May frowned looking at her friend. "You said it was your calling."
Talia separated from her. "Well, Devi called a little louder."
"I have a mission," Devi explained looking at May. "And I need you both."
"Count me in," said May without hesitation. "Anything to get me out of this place."
They immediately went inside and Devi didn't waste any time sitting on the throne. The Governor Nadir and his wife immediately kneeled to Devi.
"I apologise," said Nadir apologetically. "You come to Omnitakla at a difficult time. At noon we are making a trade with the resistance to get Tabor back."
"Yes, I am so sorry to hear about your son," said Devi. She then looked at him coldly. "But really what did you expect by letting all the citizens leave?" She immediately got to her feet and glared at him. "My father has trusted you with this city and you're making a mess of things!"
"Forgive me Princess," said Nadir as he lowered his head.
"You stay here," she said as she walked past him. "May will handle the hostage trade so that you don't have a chance to mess it up. Oh, and they were is no more Omnitakla. I am renaming in honour of my father, the city of New Drago."
Hiccup and the others soon made their way to a construction site where they will build you a huge statue of the Emperor made completely of metal. Then they saw three young ladies about Eret's age approaching them.
Astrid's eyes widened as she immediately recognised one of them. "That's Princess Devi."
Hiccup looked at her. "Drago's daughter? Last time I saw her if she was very up to my knee."
Astrid nodded. "She's a very skilled Firebending, in fact some people say that she was more prodigy than you were."
Ragnar frowned. "This complicates matters."
Then they witnessed a crane lowering a container and they saw sticking out overhaul was Spitelout's head. He remained stern and silent as he was lowered directly behind May.
"Have you got my brother?" May asked.
"He's here," said Hiccup. "We're ready to trade."
Devi then immediately looked at May. "I'm sorry, but I thought just occurred to me. Do you mind?"
May looked at her. "Of course not Princess Devi."
"We are trading at two-year-old for an Earth Kingdom Lord, a powerful Earthbending Lord. It just doesn't seem like a fair trade does it?"
May looked at her and then back to Hiccup and the others. "You're right," she nodded. "The deal is off!"
She then immediately raised her hand and Spitelout's container immediately rose into the air.
"Dad!" Snotlout yelled rushing towards the container.
Devi then immediately stepped forward and unleashed a powerful burst of flames from her fist. It would have roasted Snotlout alive if Hiccup hadn't intervened and used his Firebending to dispel the flames.
Devi was caught off guard by this, but quickly regained her composure. "The Avatar. I'm surprised I didn't recognise you sooner."
"It's only been a long time, Devi," said Hiccup.
"Well isn't today my lucky day," Devi smiled.
"Sorry we can't chat, but we got some urgent business to attend to," said Hiccup and grabbed Snotlout.
He then used his Airbending to lift himself and Snotlout into the air where they landed on the container containing Spitelout. Devi immediately made her way to early rope and pulley and immediately but the rope, then grabbing hold of it she immediately were sent upwards by the counterweight.
"Son, is that you? Where did you come from?" said Spitelout.
"Don't worry dad will get you out of here," Snotlout assured.
Hiccup then immediately began to glow frozen breath onto the chain.
On the ground, Talia and May immediately charged at Astrid and the others. May immediately pulled out several daggers and charged towards them.
"We've got to get the baby out of here," said Heather.
Ragnar immediately handed Tabor to Ruffnut and then looked directly at her and her brother. "You to get the dragons, we'll handle them."
Ruffnut didn't look particularly happy with handling the baby as it kept on pulling her hair. Despite this she and her brother immediately ran off, but then a fist emerged from the floorboards striking Ruffnut's foot. She then collided into Tuffnut and the two of them slid across the floorboards until they finally reached the edge.
Talia then suddenly emerged from beneath the floorboards and began charging towards the twins and Ragnar quickly rushed over towards her. May then fired several daggers towards Astrid and Heather and Astrid quickly deflected them with her battleaxe. Heather then formed awards with and aimed directly at May pushing her back.
Ragnar managed to somersault his way over Talia and unleashed a powerful pair last knocking her backwards. Soon Astrid, Ragnar and Heather were doing battle with May and Talia allowing the twins to slide down the ladder to safety.
Meanwhile directly above them Hiccup was still trying to sever the chain connecting the container to the crane.
"Son! Hiccup! Stop what you're doing for a minute," he said.
"Not now, Dad!" Snotlout yelled.
Then suddenly there was an explosion across the scaffolding next to them and that's when they saw Devi jumping towards them. She then thrusted her leg forward unleashing a burst of flames, but Hiccup was able to block the flames by thrusting his hand forward.
"Just hold on a minute!" Spitelout yelled.
Unfortunately at that precise moment the heat from the two attacks managed to sever the chain and they found themselves falling. Hiccup and Snotlout managed to cling onto the front of the container and Hiccup quickly cushion their landing by unleashing a burst of air bubble right beneath them and they soon found themselves sliding across the mail shoot.
However, Devi was in allowing them to get away that easily as she immediately jumped into a container and skidded down the mail shoot herself.
"You think we lost her?" Snotlout asked.
Hiccup looked at him. "Of course not."
"Boys I need to talk to you," said Spitelout.
"Not now, Dad!" Snotlout yelled.
Then they saw Devi's container on the opposite side of the mail shoot. She then immediately fired fireballs directly down at them and Hiccup quickly blocked them. They were separated for a brief time, but then their mail shoots and soon Devi was directly behind them.
Hiccup attempted to blow her away with an Airbending blast, but she held her ground and nearly dispel the attack by placing her fingertips in front of her. She then began unleashing bursts of flames directly at them.
"She's good," said Snotlout.
"Get this thing moving?" Hiccup ordered.
Snotlout began using his Earthbending to make them go even faster, but Devi kept on giving chase and firing fireballs at them. Hiccup had to block the attacks as Snotlout try to get them to move faster. They then flew underneath some wooden beams and Hiccup got an idea unleashing a burst of air destroying them in attempt to block Devi's path.
She disappeared briefly from the dust, but when the container emerged from it she was gone. Hiccup and Snotlout gave a sigh of relief, but that was short lived when they saw Devi emerging from the container. She had herself in in order to avoid being knocked off and she carried on her pursuit. She then unleashed a burst of flames directly at them and they have to duck to avoid getting burnt.
Meanwhile Astrid was doing battle with May as Ragnar and Heather were battling against Talia. May was tossing her daggers around as Astrid kept on blocking them, but eventually she was disarmed. She was about to fire several small arrows from her wrist when Heather immediately wrapped her hand with water and froze it.
Unfortunately Talia then rushed over towards Heather and jabbed her fingers into her arms and then quickly did the same with Ragnar before he had a chance to counter. Immediately the water containing May's arm collapsed and no matter what Heather did she was unable to bend. Ragnar attempted to fire an air blast with his arms, but like ever he found himself unable to bend with them.
"How you going to fight without you're bending?" May asked as he drew out a dagger.
"Oh, I can still bend," Ragnar smiled.
He then immediately took a deep breath and then unleashed a powerful gust of wind that sent them flying backwards.
At the same time the twins arrived the dragons and they didn't waste any time getting on them and started to make their way towards Hiccup and Snotlout.
"They're they are," said Astrid pointing.
"We can catch them," said Ragnar.
The immediately flew down towards them as quickly as they could. Devi was still firing flames at Hiccup who was doing his best to block them.
"Hang on guys, our ride is here," said Hiccup.
Unfortunately Astrid and the others could get nowhere near with Devi firing fireballs between them. Hiccup attempted to get them airborne as to land on top of Skull, but they overshot and found themselves falling and then landed on another mail shoot before crashing down on the one they were on previously.
Devi was still on their tail began to form a massive fireball which he fired directly at them. Then suddenly Spitelout craned his neck upwards and a pillar of rock appear directly behind blocking the fireball and forcing Devi to jump out of the container before it was smashed to smithereens. She then skidded to a halt on the mail shoot and could only watch as Hiccup, Snotlout and Spitelout got away.
Hiccup and Snotlout were completely shocked as they looked down at Spitelout.
"You can Earthbend all along?" Hiccup stared.
Spitelout smiled. "Well, they didn't cover my face."
He then craned his neck upwards and pillar of stone appeared directly at the end of the mail shoot. Hiccup and Snotlout jumped off and turned to find Spitelout's container facing them on the rock pillar.
Snotlout looked immensely furious. "I don't understand! Why did you free yourself? Why did you surrender when Omnitakla was invaded? What's the matter with you, Dad?"
"Son, there are many ways of fighting a battle rather than just going in headstrong or retreating," said Spitelout. His eyes then turned to Hiccup. "Your father taught me that during one of his visits. His advice was also the key to Earthbending. The key involves listening and waiting for the right moment to strike."
Hiccup nodded. "That's why you surrendered. You didn't want your people to suffer so you wanted to find another way to take back your city."
"Precisely and it is why I can't leave now," said Spitelout regretfully.
Hiccup sighed. "Which means I'm going to need to find another Earthbending teacher."
Spitelout looked at his son. "Your teacher might be closer than you think."
Snotlout frowned. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"You'll figure it out," he said before looking back at Hiccup. "Your teacher is going to be someone who has mastered how to listen and wait for the right moment to strike. Fear not we will meet again when the time is right."
He then leaned back onto the mail shoot and then used his Earthbending to scale up the mail shoot.
Hiccup and Snotlout just watch as their dragons appeared and then they began to mount.
Later that evening, Devi, May and Talia were exiting Omnitakla.
"So where tracking down Captain Eret and his uncle," said May.
"It will be interesting to see Eret again… won't it May?" Talia smiled looking at May.
A small smile appeared on May's face.
"It's not just them will be tracking down," said Devi. "We now have a third target."
Later that night, Hiccup returned to Omnitakla and managed to sneak his way to the governors building. Governor Nadir and his wife were very depressed as they had lost their son.
Hiccup land on the balcony without them noticing and put baby Tabor on the ground, who then hobbled his way over towards his parents. The moment they heard his cries they immediately turned around and smiles appeared on their faces.
Tabor's mother immediately rushed over to her son and hugged him. "Tabor?" she cried.
Hiccup just smiled at the family reunion, before he left.