The drill was getting closer and closer to Meridian and upon closer inspection on the very tip of the drill wormholes which contained grinders to help drill through the wall. Now the entire body of the drill began to extend forwards and spikes dug into the ground to prevent it from moving. Then rising into the air was the bridge of the drill allowing the occupants inside of it have a great view while they drilled into the wall.
These occupants were none other than Devi, May and Talia and the commander was none other than Krogan.
"This drill was a scientific accomplishment of ingenuity and more destructive power," said Krogan. "Wanted tunnels through the wall, our troops will storm their city and the Earth Kingdom shall finally fall." He then turned to face Devi. "Then you can claim Meridian in the name of your father, nothing can stop us."
"What about those musclely guys?" Talia asked looking through the periscope.
Looking through it Talia could see several Earthbenders taking up their positions at the base of the wall. No doubt they were trying one last desperate attempt to stop the drill before it penetrated the wall.
"Please, the drills metal shell is completely impervious to any Earthbending attack," said Krogan dismissively.
"Oh, I'm sure it is General Krogan, but just to be on the safe side," said Devi she immediately turned to her two friends. "May! Talia! Take the Earthbenders out!"
May was just sitting looking bored as she fiddled with her knives. "Finally something to do."
Meanwhile Astrid was leading everyone else to Meridian, but then they saw Hiccup returning a bit too quickly for their liking.
"Hiccup?" Astrid blinked. "What are you doing here? I thought you were looking for our dragons."
"I was, but something stopped me," said Hiccup gravely. "Something big."
Soon they made their way to the edge of the wall and Hiccup and Snotlout used Earthbending to raise a platform up the wall.
Snotlout then looked at Hiccup as they began moving their arms. "So what's so big that our dragons have to wait?"
"That…" said Hiccup gesturing to a drill approaching the wall.
They eventually reached the top of the battlements and immediately they all looked down at the drill.
"We made it to Meridian and we're still not safe," said Cajsa with a panicked look. "No one is."
"What are you people doing here?" said a voice.
They turned and saw several guards approaching them.
"Civilians are not allowed on the wall."
Hiccup immediately approached them. "I'm the Avatar, take me to whoever is in charge."
The guard immediately led Hiccup and his friends to the general while others escorted the refugees to the train station so that they could enter the city.
The general in charge was someone by the name of Pablo and he was middle-aged, with very carefully expression.
"It is an honour to welcome you to the outer wall Young Avatar," said Pablo graciously. "But your help is not needed."
"Not needed?" said Hiccup questionably.
"Not needed," Pablo repeated. "I have the situation under control, I assure you the Empire cannot penetrate this wall." He then led them outside to the wall. "Many have tried to break through it, but none have succeeded."
Ragnar raised an eyebrow. "What about the Dragon of the West? He got in."
"W-well, technically yes," Pablo admitted awkwardly. "But he was quickly expunged."
Astrid folding her arms. "Only because his son got killed in the siege, he lost this fighting spirit. Face it you only got lucky."
"Nevertheless, the city is completely impenetrable," said Pablo firmly.
"As much as we appreciate the tour, we still got the massive drill problem," Snotlout pointed out.
"Not for long," said Pablo as they made their way to the edge of the wall. "To stop at I have sent an elite platoon of Earthbenders called the Terror Team."
The drill moved closer towards them and the Terror Team immediately jumped into action. They started by sending powerful bursts of earth directly at the tanks escorting the drill and then rode on columns of earth towards the drill.
"Ready!" the commander yelled. "Attack!"
They immediately jumped and slammed onto the ground and rock pillars extended towards the drill. Unfortunately, the drill merely extended its reach smashing the pillars and before they could do anything else they saw May and Talia sliding down the drill towards them.
May immediately fired several daggers directly at them and they quickly blocked them by breaking barriers of earth. Talia then landed on the ground and one of the Earthbenders immediately liquefy the ground beneath her feet. Unfortunately she jumped into the air and somersaulted directly behind him and then quickly dealt a few powerful jabs rendering him helpless.
An entire squad then tried to knock her back with flying boulders, but she gracefully and skilfully avoided them and landed behind. She then quickly once again dealt a few powerful jabs and instantly they found themselves completely powerless.
Pablo had seen everything from his spyglass.
"We're doom!" he cried.
Astrid then immediately slap him across the face. "Get a hold of yourself soldier!"
"You're right, I'm sorry," said Pablo calmly.
"Maybe you would like the Avatar's help now?" Ragnar suggested.
Pablo then immediately turned towards Hiccup. "Yes, please."
Immediately they turned and looked over the wall and saw the drill was still making its way towards the wall.
"So, the question is how we going to stop that thing?" Fishlegs asked.
Everyone then turned and looked at Hiccup.
Hiccup looked at them. "Why are you all looking at me?"
"You're our leader, and the ideas guy," Snotlout reminded.
Hiccup sighed. "To be perfectly honest I'm not entirely sure."
Meanwhile at the ferry pot, Eret and Bjorn were just getting their passports checked out.
"So, Mr Lea and Mr Olaf," said the clerk looking at the passports. She frowned looking at the passports. "These passports are unusual."
Bjorn then immediately step forward. "Might I say that you're like a flower bloom, your beauty is intoxicating?"
The clerk smiled at him. "Hmm… you're pretty easy on the eyes yourself handsome." She then winked at him and growled like a tiger. "Welcome to Meridian."
She then stamped their passports."
Bjorn took the passports and made his way back to Eret, who looked completely mortified.
"I'm going to forget that I saw that," he said as he took his passport.
In the same que, Jet was looking directly at Eret and Bjorn as they left the booth.
"I think that Lea would make a good freedom fighter," said Jet to the others. "He's trying to find his way in the world, like us."
"You don't know anything about him, Jet," Smellerbee pointed out.
Jet looked at her. "When we were sneaking around the ship I noticed the burn mark on his chest. It had an unusual pattern, it was that of a dragon skull with a saw sticking out of its skull."
Smellerbee stared at him. "Isn't that the mark of House Bludvist?"
Jet nodded. "And I know he didn't get that from a Waterbender."
Smellerbee sighed. "Besides, I thought we were going straight now?"
"We are and the new Freedom Fighters need someone like Lea," said Jet. He then looked at Longshot. "What do you think, Longshot?"
Longshot merely just looked at him.
Jet shrugged. "I can respect that."
Meanwhile great skill and cunning they were able to rescue the Terror Team and immediately proceeded to the injuries. Heather didn't waste any time healing the commander and they began to ask questions about what happened on the ground.
"What's wrong with him? He doesn't look injured," Pablo asked.
"His mana is blocked," Heather answered. She then looked at the commander. "Who did this to you?"
"Two girls ambushed us," he said. "One of them hit me with a few quick jabs and suddenly I couldn't Earthbend and I could barely move. Then she cartwheeled away."
Heather's eyes widened. "Talia. She does look dangerous, but she knows the human body added weak points. It's like she take you down from the inside."
"If she's here then that means that Devi must be inside the drill," Ragnar assumed.
Pablo eyes widened. "Drago's daughter is overseeing the siege?"
"That complicates things," said Astrid.
"Wait a minute, attacking from the inside?" said Hiccup with his eyes wide. "We can take down and drill the same way that Talia took down these Earthbenders."
"By hitting their pressure points," Ragnar smiled.
Hiccup then led the others towards the window where they saw the drill still approaching the walls.
"We're gonna take that thing down from the inside out," said Hiccup.
They didn't waste any time getting down to the base of the wall and immediately stood right in the path of the drill.
Snotlout looked at them. "Once I whip up some cover you're not going to be able to see so stay close to me."
Snotlout then immediately spread his hands out, concentrated and then jumped into the air. The moment he slammed down to the ground he created a massive dust cloud that spread it all away towards the drill.
"Run!" Snotlout yelled as they charged into the dust cloud.
On board the drill, Talia was looking through the periscope and saw the dust cloud.
"Hey, look at that dust cloud," she said. "It's so poofy." She then looked back at everyone and opened her wrist. "Poof."
Krogan immediately turned to Devi. "Don't worry Princess, I'm sure it's nothing."
Devi, however had her doubts.
Meanwhile Hiccup and the others were following Snotlout through the dust cloud, until they came face-to-face with the drill. He then immediately made a hole in the ground and then looked back at everyone.
"Everyone into the hole," he said.
They didn't waste any time jumping inside and Snotlout closed it behind them. They then began tumbling until they were right beneath the drill and then created an opening so they could get out. They then began looking for a hat and found one not too far way.
"There!" Hiccup pointed to the opening. He then immediately turned to Snotlout. "Snotlout, I want you to stay out here. You will be able to bend inside and you can do more good by trying to slow this drill down."
Snotlout nodded. "You got it."
Ragnar then skilfully managed to wrap his legs around a pole and hanged upside down. He then began giving everyone a boost up into the drill, but Snotlout had to help him with Fishlegs as he was far heavier than the rest of them.
"See you on we stop this drill," said Ragnar as he somersaulted into the drill himself.
Snotlout then immediately raised his knee and spreading his hands forward creating a column of Earth slammed against the drill. He then used all his strength to hold back the drill, though he wasn't sure how effective he was.
Hiccup and the others soon found themselves with in the corridors of the drill and they came across a room with some piping.
"I need a plan of this machine," said Hiccup. "Schematics, back then surely will be inside looks like. Then we can find it weak points."
"And how are we going to get that?" Astrid asked.
Hiccup immediately drew Inferno and sliced off one of the valves, instantly steam began to fill the entire room.
Ragnar stared at him. "What are you doing? Someone is going to hear us!"
"That's the point," Hiccup smiled. "A machine this big and needs a lot of engineers to run it. And when something breaks…"
Astrid smiled. "They come to fix it."
Then all they had to do was wait and it in take long for an engineer to appear. However before he had a chance to get to work, Heather immediately froze the steam around him freezing him right in his place.
Hiccup immediately made his way over to the engineer. "I'll just borrow this."
They then soon made their way to an isolated place within the drill and Hiccup immediately unfolded the schematics. It only took about 30 seconds to understand the markings.
"It would seem as if the drill is made out of two main structures… there's the inner mechanism where we are now… and outer shell," said Hiccup pointing at each respective components. "The inner part in outer part are connected by these braces. If we cut through them, the entire thing will collapse."
The all nodded and made their way to the braces.
Meanwhile in the train station, Eret and Bjorn were waiting for their train and Jet sat down next to Eret.
"So, you guys got plans once you're inside the city?" he asked.
"Get your hot tea here!" a tea vendor yelled. "Finest tea in Meridian!"
Bjorn immediately raised his hand. "Oh, Jasmine please!"
Tea vendor immediately handed out the car then poured some tea into it, before giving it to Bjorn. Bjorn immediately drank it, but spat it out at the tea was stone cold.
"Coldest tea in Meridian, is more like it," said Bjorn. He then narrowed his eye the tea vendor who was now far away. "What a disgrace."
Jet looked at Eret. "Hey, can I talk to you for a second?"
Eret sighed and followed Jet.
Jet looked at him. "You and I have a much better chance of making it in this city if we stick together. You want to join the Freedom Fighters?"
"Thanks, but I don't think you want me in your gang," said Eret appreciably.
"Come on, we made a great team losing that captain's food. Think of all the good we could do for these refugees?"
"I said no," said Eret as he walked away.
Jet shrugged as he turned to look at him. "Have it your way."
That's when Jet noticed that Bjorn was drinking hot tea, which he knew was stone cold a few seconds ago. Eret looked back and noted the cold glare on Jet, who immediately turned his back on them. Eret then saw the hot tea in Bjorn's hand and immediately knocked it out of his hands.
"What are you doing Firebending your tea?" he said in an angry whisper. "For a wise old man, that was a pretty stupid move."
Bjorn then looked at his spilt tea and tears began to form in his eyes. "I know you're not supposed to cry over spilt tea, but it's just so sad."
Meanwhile following the schematics, Hiccup and the others soon found the braces and they were far thicker in person than on the diagram. Not to mention there had to be thousands of them running across the drill.
"Wow, they look a lot thicker in person than they do on the diagrams," said Fishlegs.
"Let's have a have to work really hard to cut through that," said Ruffnut.
Heather folded her arms. "What this we stuff? Hiccup and I are going to have to do all the work."
Ragnar placed a gentle hand on Heather's shoulder. "Heather I know it seems unfair, but you two are the only ones who can accomplish the task. The rest of us will stand guard to make sure you're not disturbed.
With that Hiccup and Heather began using the water from Heather's gourd to cut through the brace. It was very exhausting and when they were halfway through they had to take a break.
"Come on guys!" Ruffnut cheered.
"Don't quit now!" Tuffnut cheered.
Heather immediately narrowed her eyes at the two of them and gave them a very threatening look. Astrid and Ragnar then immediately pulled the two of them back for the own safety.
"Why don't you to be quiet," Astrid glared.
"I say they can take all the time they want, it's a big thing we are asking of them," Ragnar pointed out.
Hiccup and Heather then continued cutting through the brace and eventually they managed to slice through it. They just stood there waiting for a few seconds and saw the brace sliding slightly, but there was nothing more than that.
Heather was completely exhausted. "At this rate we won't do enough damage before the drill reaches the wall."
"I'm not sure how many more I have in me," Hiccup panted.
Then suddenly they heard the entire drill shake.
"Do you hear that?" Astrid asked looking at the others. "We took it down! We'd better get out of here fast!"
They then all began to rush towards the exit, but then stopped when they heard Krogan's voice over the speakers.
"Congratulations crew, the drill has made contact with the wall of Meridian," he said. Krogan then looked to all the men on the bridge. "Start the countdown to victory!"
Immediately the entire crew cheered, but Devi kept a solemn look.
Hiccup and the others weren't as cheery, as there was no way they could cut through all the braces in time before the drill penetrated the wall.
"This is bad, really bad," said Fishlegs.
"We're putting everything we have into busting these braces, but it's taking too long!" Hiccup complained.
Astrid's eyes widened. "Maybe we don't have to cut all the way through." She then got to her feet. "My mother taught me that you shouldn't give 100% of your energy into anyone strike. Tuffnut, take a fighting stance."
Tuffnut shrugged and took up a fighting stance, but before he could make a move Astrid immediately pulled his leg forward causing him to lose his balance lightly.
"You've got to be quick and accurate, hit a series of points and break your opponent stands," said Astrid as she did a few powerful jabs into Tuffnut's chest causing him to lose his balance even more. "And when he is wheeling back, you deal the final blow." Astrid then slammed her hand on top of Tuffnut's head and he immediately collapsed. "His own way becomes as doubtful, literally."
Ragnar looked up. "So we just need to weaken the braces, instead of cutting all the way through."
Hiccup smiled. "Then I can go to the top of this thing and deal the final blow."
"And then it'll all come crashing down," Astrid smiled boldly.
Hiccup then looked at each and every one of them. "Everyone inside that wall, the whole world is counting on us."
"Then let's not let them down," said Heather.
Snotlout was outside doing everything he could just to slow the drill down, but he was running out of strength.
"What's taking those guys so long," he groaned.
Pablo and his men were trying to slow the drill done by following rocks down onto it, but they merely just bounced off.
Devi was watching their progress, but then they got certain reports from the crew.
"General, an engineer with ambushed, his schematics were stolen."
"General, a brace on the starboard side has been cut clear through. Its sabotage, sir!"
Devi narrowed her eyes at Krogan and was clearly disappointed. She then turned to May and Talia. "Let's go ladies."
Hiccup and Heather had been cutting through the braces partway through, this allow them to do twice the work at half the time. In the past half an hour loan they were able to cut through 30 braces.
Astrid then saw something on the braces above them. "Get down!"
They all immediately ducked just in time to avoid a fire blast of blue flames heading towards them. They looked up and saw Devi, accompanied by her two friends.
"Wow, Devi, you are right," said Talia. "It is the Avatar."
Immediately they all began to move and Devi and May quickly made their way back into the entrance to cut them off. Talia, however somersaulted into the air and headed down towards the brace they were standing on.
However, Ragnar quickly blasted her way with a powerful air palm and then quickly joined the others. Sooner running down the corridors until they reach a crossroad and they knew they have to take their separate ways.
"Guys get out of here, I know what I need to do," said Hiccup as he ran down the right corridor.
"I'm coming with you," said Ragnar following him.
"Wait," said Heather as she reached for her gourd and then tossed it over to Hiccup. "You need this water more than I do."
They then started to run down their separate corridors just as Devi and her friends are merged. Devi then turned to May and Talia, followed them, the Avatar and the monk are mine."
Astrid and the others soon reached a dead end which contained some piping. Heather then saw the notice as Fishlegs began to open the valve and it read 'Slurry Pipeline'.
"'Slurry Pipeline'? What does that mean?" Heather asked.
Fishlegs open the valve and they saw some sort of slime running down the pipeline.
"It's rock and water are mixed together," Fishlegs explained.
"Looks like this is our way out," said Astrid.
"Do we have to go in there?" Ruffnut asked.
"Yeah, it's so slimy?" Tuffnut complained.
Sadly they had no time to argue as May and Talia were running down the corridor. In then immediately jumped inside just as May fired a few arrows at them, but Mr as they began to flow down the slurry.
May and Talia approached the drain and upon looking down, May backed away in disgust.
"Argh, disgusting," she said.
Talia looked at her. "Come on, you heard Devi. We have to follow them."
"She then showed all the lightning she wants at me, I am not going in that wall sludge juice," said May and shuddered at the prospect.
Talia shrugged then jumped into the slurry pipeline and May close the valve behind her.
Meanwhile Hiccup and Ragnar were running through the drill as quickly as they could, they're Airbending made it all the more easier and leaving behind a few confused engineers.
Astrid and the others soon exited out of the pipeline and found themselves outside of the drill, completely covered in slurry. Unfortunately they did had time to relax as Talia had emerged from the pipeline as well and was from the current down towards them.
Heather quickly got to her feet and began to bend the slurry back into the drill trapping Talia in place.
"Why don't you try taking blocking my mana now circus freak!" Heather snapped.
Fishlegs beamed Heather. "Heather, keep that up! The pressure will build up in the drill and when Hiccup deals the final blow it will be ready to pop!"
Hiccup and Ragnar had managed finally to reach the top of the drill and were now starting to run across the drill's surface to find the perfect spot.
"This looks like a good spot, Ragnar," said Hiccup.
Unfortunately, Pablo and his men were still dropping rock onto the surface and they nearly crashed Hiccup and Ragnar.
"General Pablo! Tell your soldiers to start shooting rocks down here!" Hiccup yelled at the top of his voice.
Sadly Pablo was unable to hear him.
"Soldiers, whatever you do, don't start shooting rocks down there," he ordered.
The soldier did what they were told and kept on tossing rocks down onto the drill.
Hiccup soon found the perfect spot and began slicing his way to create an opening and while he did that Ragnar kept on blowing the rocks away to make sure they didn't crush him.
On the other side of the drill Heather was doing all she could hold back the slurry and Talia, the twins were being quite annoying.
"Good technique, girlfriend," said Ruffnut.
"Don't forget to breathe," said Tuffnut.
Astrid immediately pulled the twins back and narrowed her eyes at them. "Let the woman bend the stupid slurry, you muttonheads!"
The twins immediately fell silent.
"You guys need some help," said Snotlout as he approached them.
Heather for once was relieved to see him. "Snotlout, help me plug up this drain."
Snotlout slammed his foot into the slurry and then stretched his arms and began pushing the Slurry even further back. This resulted the pipes in the drill to expand and Slurry began leaking out of corners within the drill.
Hiccup was still cutting his way through the drill then the slurry began pouring out the wall, no doubt due because of the overflow. Eventually Hiccup was worn out, but he managed to cut in deep enough to deal the final blow.
Hiccup was completely exhausted. "That has to be deep enough."
Ragnar then sensed something behind them and immediately jumped behind Hiccup and created a barrier wind. It was lucky that he did, because of you been a second later Hiccup would have been burnt by powerful blue flames.
Hiccup turned and saw approaching them was Devi, who didn't waste any time taking up a fighting stance. She then thrusted two fingers in front of her sending to bursts of flames directly at them, but Ragnar quickly counted with a barrier of wind. Hiccup then jumped from behind him and performed a leg sweep, unleashing a burst of flames directly at her.
However she quickly jumped into the air to avoid the attack and slammed her foot forward, unleashing her own burst of flames. Ragnar tried to block them, but they were to powerful and he was sent flying into the wall and fell unconscious. Hiccup then tried to counter Devi's flames with the water whip.
He was able to deflect a few of the flames, but Devi jumped into the air and least several powerful burst of flames from her feet. Hiccup tried to block the attack with a barrier of water, but the flames are back rated the water and he was sent backwards. Devi then rushed towards him ready to deal the final blow, but boulders rained down above them stopping her movements.
Hiccup then caught a boulder with some Airbending and then sent it straight back to Devi. Unfortunately, she avoided by doing the splits and the boulder flew over her and then she began to fire burst of flames. Hiccup then quickly created an earth barrier with the scattered rocks and protected himself.
He then began to fire chance of his barrier directly at her, but she merely not them aside. She then dealt a powerful spinning flame kick, but Hiccup ducked in time. He then tried to strike her with another flying boulder, but she jumped into the air and performed a spinning framing front kick that was so powerful that it penetrated his earth barrier. He then slammed into the wall right next to Ragnar and then fell unconscious.
Suddenly the drill began to shake as it began to extend once again and Devi began to make a way over towards Hiccup and Ragnar. Now that the drill was fully extended it was able to penetrate the wall from the other side.
Devi ignored Ragnar and picked up Hiccup by the helm of his shirt and was about to deal the final blow. Fortunately, Hiccup was able to regain consciousness at that precise moment and saw Devi with flames and her palm. He then quickly clinched his wrist and use a lot from the wall to cover his left hand, he then quickly raised it just in time to block Devi's attack. Then while her guard was broken Hiccup slammed the palm of his hand into her chest sending her backwards.
She was able to maintain her ground however and then immediately charged towards Hiccup. However that precise moment, slurry penetrated the hull of the drill and struck Hiccup and Devi. It was worse for Devi, because now she was skidding across the slurry uncontrollably and she slammed directly into Hiccup.
They both crashed into the wall and began to skid off the drill each on opposite sides. Devi dug her feet into the hull and managed to stop a descent, but Hiccup wasn't as lucky. He tried to use his rocky fist to slow him down, but it merely crumbled. Fortunately, Ragnar had regained consciousness and immediately flew down towards him on his glider.
Hiccup nodded and jumped onto his back and Ragnar immediately flew them back onto the top of the drill.
"Thanks, Rag," said Hiccup graciously.
"No problem," Ragnar smiled.
Then they started to make their way back along the drill, because they still had at Astrid accomplish.
Hiccup then looked directly at Ragnar. "Now all we need is a—" he was interrupted when a boulder slammed right onto the drill next to them, "actually that is what we needed for once."
Hiccup then began to move the boulder into the position directly over the X, he had created earlier. He then began to slice the boulder until it resembled a peg, once he was done Hiccup ran down the surface of the drill and then took a running start. As he ran he quickly created an air scooter and then began to scale the wall as quickly as he could.
Eventually the air scooter failed, but he kept on running until gravity stopped him. He then quickly turned around and ran down the wall as quickly as he could down towards the nail he had created. Devi at that moment managed to get back onto the drill and realised what Hiccup was planning, she then run desperately towards him in order to stop him.
However, Ragnar then appeared directly in front of her blocking her path. "Not so fast," he said. Devi then immediately unleashed a powerful burst of flames towards him, but he quickly counted with a powerful burst of air and soon the two elements collided.
Hiccup at that point jumped off the wall and raised his hands, he then slammed down onto the nail with all his strength. This created a massive shock wave that sored across the entire drill, Ragnar immediately sensed this and jumped into the air to avoid it. Devi, on the other hand, wasn't as lucky and was sent flying all across the drill.
Hiccup's manoeuvre was so powerful that the braces inside the drill was sliced apart like butter and the pressure within the pipes burst unleashing slurry all across the drill. A massive explosion of slurry then erupted through all of the drill joints covering it from head to toe as well as the surface of the wall.
"They did it!" Astrid cheered.
"Here it comes!" Snotlout yelled and immediately raised a column of earth to avoid the massive wave of slurry heading towards them.
Talia shot out of the drill like she was strapped to a catapult and immediately slammed right into the rock column with the pressure of the slurry slamming into her. The drill then began to fall to pieces, literally and steam began to exit out of the joints. The drill now broken the drill point began to stop.
On the drill's hull were Hiccup and Ragnar covered head to toe in slurry, that they had smiles on their faces as they knew they succeeded in their mission. Krogan was on the bridge, which was now crooked and saw that his drill was completely covered in slurry. Pablo, unfortunately, looking down at the drill at the point of the explosion as a result he got a face for slurry.
Astrid and the others made a quick getaway, before Talia regained consciousness. The moment she awoke she spat out the slurry in her mouth and saw Devi skidding down the drill lo, also covered in slurry. The moment she landed in front of Talia, May opened the hatch and looked at the two of them with a dull expression.
"We lost," she said.
Unaware of the events that happened just outside the wall, Eret and Bjorn began to board their train.
"Last call from Meridian!" the inductor yelled.
Jet now had an angry look on his face as the made their way towards the train, Smellerbee was doing everything she could to calm him down.
"Jet, relax," she said calmly. "So the guy drank some hot tea, big deal."
Jet narrowed his eyes with hatred. "He heated it himself. Those guys are Firebenders."
He watched as Bjorn and Eret boarded the train and immediately covered himself up as not to get noticed.
Bjorn and Eret then sat down, ironically they sat next to Cajsa and her husband. Bjorn immediately looked down at Hope, who was smiling in her mother's arms.
"What a beautiful baby," he said wiggling his finger at Hope.
Cajsa smiled at him. "Thank you."
Earthbenders at the back of the train then immediately pushed off the train started to make its way towards the centre of Meridian.
Meanwhile Hiccup and the others were on the battlements looking at the sunset.
"The Empire came so close of penetration the wall, if we hadn't been here…" said Astrid looking at the others.
Ragnar nodded gravely. "This is the second time they nearly penetrated the wall. First time the commando losses fighting spirit, this time it was us. I have a strong feeling that the third time, Meridian will fall."
"And that is help the Earth King listens to us about the eclipse," said Hiccup.