Chapter 157

Hiccups POV:

It's been a day since I spoke with the other heirs about Lord Loch's plan and in that time not much has happened other than the continuation of the games. Other than that, earlier I'd used my Scouter to keep an eye on lord Loch while he was on his ship claiming he had some documents he had to go through. These documents however were all about their plans to take over the lands but the thing that caught my attention the most however was the contract signed by both him and Goliath the Grizzly. This single contract would be all I needed to show the Clan leaders what Lord Loch and Riptide were up to meaning I'd be able to bring them down with the help of the clans. Just to be on the safe side, earlier I had my ninja Metal steal the powder they were going to spike each of the clan's drinks barrels and replace it with sugar rocks instead since they looked identical. Also, since each clan got their own while the clan heads and heirs shared one I had him spike the barrel that was meant for Clan Loch so I wouldn't have any trouble from their clan.

Now night had fallen and Blanca was with Merida and Toothless while I was my way down to the docks in my grootslang coat that had formed into a tight body suit that wrapped around my armor. The reason I was making my way down to the docks is so I could get my hands on the documents but the problem was the ships were guarded. This was the reason my grootslang coat had taken on this form since it was better for stealth operations as it didn't make flapping sounds or stick out in the shadows. I was now looking down on the docks from behind a boulder on a cliff that was above the docks and smiled seeing the guards were mainly standing at the front of the gangplanks leading onto the ships. This made things a whole lot easier for me since it meant there were less people on the ships so sneaking around on them wouldn't be too difficult. I switched back to my normal eye from my eagle eye after examining the guards patrol patterns and smiled.

"Let's do this!"

I released my hook as I walked up to the side of the cliff before hooking it onto the cliffs edge and slowly began lowering myself down to a lower edge so I wouldn't attract any attention from above. When I was halfway down the cliff I planted my feet onto an edge that was sticking out before I pulled my hook back down to me and put it away while looking down at the ships. I smiled and jumped off the cliff while spreading my wings out allowing me to glide towards Clan Loch's ship, which fortunately was docked at the side of the docks facing the cliff, I was on. As I closed in on the ship I slowly folded my wings in to speed up and avoid drawing attention before I landed against the side of the ship and held onto the railing. I lifted myself up a bit just in time to see a guard walk past and quickly pulled myself up over the railing, silently lowering myself down to the floor. When I was on the deck I quickly and silently dashed across the deck and through the door leading to the lower decks where Lord Loch's room was while silently thanking my ninja for their stealth training.

I walked down the steps leading to the rooms and came into a long hall way with three guards against either wall and knew I could silently take all of them down without drawing attention. Fortunately, I knew exactly how to take them all down easily before any of them could do anything and reached into my coat pocket and pulled out my dragon pipe. I brought it up to my lips before I gently began puffing it and letting out clouds of my knockout gas into the room and smiled as the guards fell to the ground unconscious. I made my way down the hall past the unconscious forms of the men and walked up to the door at the end of the hall knowing this was Lord Loch's bedroom and study. I pushed the door open and found a bed against the back walls left corner and a desk with chair across from it and smiled knowing the documents I were after were in a secret compartment.

I walked up to the desk and felt beneath the top feeling for a switch that I saw Lord Loch use to open up the secret compartment that he used to open the hidden compartment. When I felt the switch, I pulled it and smiled as the side of the desk fell down to reveal the secret compartment holding the documents I was looking for. I pulled them all out and spread them all out on the desks before going through them but as I did I couldn't help but feel both happy and sickened by what I saw. On the desk was more than enough evidence to prove to the lords what the Loch's are up to but also their plans for the women of the clans and how they were going to do it. I knew this was all I needed to show the Lords what was going on and gathered it all before placing all my evidence into my spider pack.

With the evidence I now had I made my way out of the room and made my way through the hall past the unconscious guards and up the steps leading to the deck. I stopped at the door however when I saw light coming from the other side with a shadow and using the eye of the dragon I could tell it was a guard. Fortunately, I was wearing my eagle skull pendant meaning I could easily take him down and bring him in since it didn't look like he was going anywhere at the moment. I took a breath and focused on the pendant as the eyes glowed red and allowed the black substance seep out onto my arms before I placed them against the door. The black substance oozed through the cracks of the door before making the substance wrap around the guards' head before he began to struggle and panic as he was pulled through the door. When he was through I pulled the substance back into the necklace freeing the guard who looked around in fear and confusion before he saw me as I held up my prosthetic and simply said.

"Hello!" I then let out a puff of my knockout gas into his face and he was out, falling down the stairs. "And good bye." I then turned to the door. "Time to get back to the Great Hall and warn the clan leaders."

I pushed the door open and smiled at the sight of no guards before I pulled out my bow and a rope arrow before I let it fly into the cliff side. The other end shot back and into the wall next to me making me smile as I grabbed onto the pole of the arrow and hopped up smiling as it pulled me across the zip-line towards the cliffside. When I hit it, I latched onto the edge while releasing my hook and launched it up towards the cliffs edge and got a good grip on it before I reeled it back pulling myself up to the top of the cliff. When I climbed back onto the edge of the cliff I looked down at the ships from above and smiled before I turned back to the castle and said.

"Time to reveal the Lochs for who they truly are." I then began running towards the castle as fast as I could to show the clan heads the evidence.

Ten minutes later

I'd just reached the entrance to the Great Hall and took a breath since I'd been running the entire time towards the castle wanting to see the members of Clan Loch fall. I pushed the door open and found my Uncle Fergus standing at the front of the hall with the other lords at his side smiling as he held up his goblet as he said.

"THE SECOND DAY OF THE GAMES HAS COME TO AN END AND I CONGRATULATE ALL THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED ON A JOB WELL DONE AND A TOAST TO THE FIVE CLANS." There were cheers as everyone lifted their mugs and then drank the entire contents in a few gulps before Lord Loch stepped forward with a cruel smile.

"AND I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND WISH YOU ALL A GOOD SLEEP YOU FOOLS!" Before anyone could ask what, he meant the members of Clan Loch dropped where they stood or if they were sitting their heads fell down to the table shocking anyone could ask what was happening I summoned my ninja and signaled them to get to the upper floors and be ready if something comes up before I said.

"Nice try Lord Loch but I had Metal here replace the bag that had the powder you were going to spike the drinks with, with a bag of sugar and then pour the contents of the bag you originally had into the barrel meant for your clan." Before he could reply Aunt, Elinor stepped forward and ordered.

"Hiccup explain!" I smiled and used my ox flame boots speed mode to reach her in two seconds making her jump back in fright but before she could say anything I pulled out the documents and held them out to her.

"A little something, I got off Lord Lochs ship that he kept in a secret compartment in his desk." She just raised an eyebrow as she took the documents from me as I turned to see Lord Loch and Riptide backing up nervously before Aunt Elinor gasped and pointed at the two Loch clan members and yelled.

"GUARDS, ARREST THOSE TWO IMMEDIATLEY!" The men didn't hesitate for even a second since when Aunt Elinor got like this it's best not to ask questions and just do what she ordered and within seconds the leaders of Clan Loch were restrained by the guards as Uncle Fergus asked.

"Could someone please explain what's going on?" I turned to him and answered.

"Lord Loch was planning on drugging all four of the great clans with a powerful knockout drug allowing him and them to easily finish you all off before then selling the men of the clans along with me and my dad to some guy named Goliath the Grizzly as slaves and keeping the women for themselves while also allowing his clan to take over all the land." Everyone stared at me before Uncle Fergus asked.

"What?"

Before I could answer I heard grunts before I turned to see both Lord Loch and Riptide charging at me with the spears the guards once held in their grips and pointed at me with rage in their eyes. I quickly dropped to the ground as the spears were stabbed at me before quickly standing back up between the spear poles and grabbing them both. I quickly yanked them forward making the two men stumble forward as I quickly thrust the ends of both poles at them striking Lord Loch in the stomach making him double forward in pain but Riptide dodged my blow. He then pulled out a dagger with his right hand and lunged at me in an attempt to stab me but I stepped to the right of his outstretched arm and grabbed his wrist with my real arm. I quickly twisted it making him pull away from me as he dropped the dagger into my hand before I threw it at the front of Lord Loch's hand that was reaching for one of the discarded spears. The dagger stabbed into the ground making him pull his hand back in shock before turning to me as I said.

"Don't even think about it."

Lord Loch growled and charged at me letting out a battle cry with his hook raised ready to bring it down on me but I swung his son around before I threw Riptide into his father. When their bodies collided, I charged at them and dropped to the ground sweeping my leg beneath them coming from behind Lord Loch. Lord Loch fell to the ground with Riptide following him. Their heads bumped together but before they could fully recover I lifted my left leg up high and brought it down on the back of Riptides head in a downwards kick slamming his head into his fathers. I could tell they were both down for the count this time before I turned to see everyone was staring at me with their mouths open in shock except Blanca who was looking at me with a raised eyebrow as she asked.

"Hiccup." I turned to her. "Why didn't you just use your knock out gas on them?" I just smiled.

"Now where's the fun in that?" She just smiled as she looked down shaking her head but we were brought out of our moment when aunt Elinor said.

"I hate to break up this moment but we have more important matters to focus on." The smile slipped from my face as I nodded.

"You're right," I turned to the unconscious members of the Loch clan before looking to a few of the guards. "You lot move all the members of Clan Loch to the dungeons and lock them up tight." They nodded and got to work as I turned back aunt Elinor.

"You and the lords look over the documents for any useful information such as when Goliath the Grizzly should get here, how many ships he's bringing with him, number of men and other such things." She nodded as I turned to Merida and Young MacGuffin.

"You two lead a group to help prepare the castle defenses since we're going to need every advantage we can get against the coming threat." They nodded and ran off as I turned to Young Macintosh and Wee Dingwall. "You two go to the armory and bring out the weapons and arm the men with whatever you can." They nodded as Uncle Fergus asked.

"And what will you be doing while we're doing this?" I turned to him.

"I'll be down at the dock finishing off the remaining Clan Loch members who are still on the ship while also informing the guards down there about what's going on and bringing them back to the castle since the last thing I want is for them to be left alone down there." They nodded and lead Toothless out but not before turning to Blanca. "Blanca, stay here and help where you can." She nodded.

"Hurry back my mighty warrior." I smiled.

"I'll do my best to hurry."

I signaled my ninja to keep an eye on things and then mounted Toothless before we took off out the doors and towards the docks. We arrived at the docks in a minute only to be greeted by the men of all clans who were no doubt wondering what I was doing at the docks so late. When we landed however I dismounted Toothless and scanned the group for members of Clan Loch and saw only three of them standing next to each other. I could tell they were on edge but considering that at this point their clan should've taken down the others I couldn't blame them. Before they could do anything however I held up my prosthetic as I activated my flat projectile launcher and fired three bola discs at them. Within seconds they dropped to the ground tied up in my bolas and immediately began struggling as I walked up while saying.

"Don't bother struggling, my threads are unbreakable and even if you did break free you wouldn't find any help at the castle as your clans plan failed which resulted in them all taken down and on their way to the dungeon." They stopped struggling as they stared at me in shock along with the men who were still free until I turned to them. "Help me get these idiots and their unconscious pals on the ship back up to the castle so they can be locked up with the rest of their clan." They nodded as I loaded one of the tied-up men onto Toothless and took off back the castle after Toothless picked up the other two.

Morning

Last night could only be described as one thing and one thing alone and that word is busy with all the preparations and planning that had been going on. The entire castle was on lockdown with every able-bodied warrior holding a weapon including my parents while the outside of the castle was being guarded by half the men from each clan ready to lead their men into battle. Alongside the Lords at the front were my Anubis warriors standing by them ready to take on the enemy forces who would no doubt be shocked by their opponents like the clans were when I first summoned them. They calmed down however when they saw that I had them under control and continued with their work preparing for the possible battle. I call it a possible battle because I left a message to Goliath the Grizzly nailed to one of the dock poles, informing him that clan Loch had failed, we were ready for him and it would be best if he either surrendered or left.

Now dawn had risen and I was mounted on Toothless on one of the towers looking out at the forces that stood ready to defend the castle and its inhabitants. As I looked down at the men ready to protect this castle I couldn't help but think back to a conversation I had with my Uncle Fergus about how Goliath the Grizzly and how he was no doubt going to try his hardest to fight against us to claim the castle. The reason for this is when Goliath the Grizzly first rose to power he was determined to take over every stronghold of the clans and succeeded but failed to take the castle. This castle was where my Uncle Fergus rallied the forces of the four Great Clans and brought down Goliath the Grizzly's forces but he escaped vowing to take the castle one day. I knew this meant no matter what he faced today he wouldn't stop till he claimed the castle for himself meaning he was going to be a challenge to deal with. It was because of this I decided it best to give him the chance to surrender peacefully with the letter I'd left him but I still had the feeling things weren't going to be that easy since they never were with these kinds of people.

I was brought out of my thoughts by the sight of something in the far-off distance and using my eagle eye mixed with the eye of the dragon I knew it was Goliath the Grizzly. The thing is he was on the lead ship of an armada of what looked to be twenty-five ships that were full of what looked to be armed warriors. I knew this was not going to be an easy fight for anyone but I hoped we'd be able to get through this with limited casualties at least. Using my Scouter that I'd left sitting on a tree branch overlooking the docks I was able to watch as the first ship docked and Goliath the Grizzly disembarked while looking around.

To describe him I'd say he was similar to my father in body mass but he had black hair and a very big messy black beard that covered his face. He was wearing metal armbands with Celtic ruins and markings carved into them along with a black shirt, brown pants and fur boots. He also had two large battle axes strapped to his back which were no doubt his weapons of choice and showing he was a tough opponent. His most notable features though were the scars on his cheek and above his left eyebrow above dark brown eyes, which looked to have come from a bear of some kind. It was then his eyes landed on the message and he walked up to it ripping it from its place against the docks pole and began reading it. When he finished it I could tell he was not happy if the way he roared while tearing up the letter was anything to go by. The thing that truly showed his anger was how he turned to one of the men and ordered him to signal the men to begin the calling the ships in and to prepare for a full out attack.

When he said this, I knew that all chances of peaceful negotiation had just gone up in flame and began readying some of my arrows to fire into the field where the battle would take place. After every shot I took notice of every location they landed and sunk in knowing that this would at least help thin the enemy forces a little. The arrows I was using were my digger arrows; void arrows and forest knowing these would be the most effective against dealing with the forces, as they'd take them down for the rest of the fight without killing them since that's not something I wanted no matter who they were.

Half an hour later

My prosthetic was switched to its dragon claw form and I was standing by my father who was on the left of my Uncle Fergus while the lords were on his right as we all stared out at the field that would serve as the stage where the battle would take place. Toothless and Skull-crusher were sitting on the walls of the castle looking down at the field on either side of Cloudjumper who was mounted by my mom. A tense silence filled the air as the men stood ready to take on the coming forces that'd been disembarking from their ships by either docking or using row boats to transport their forces. The ships that did dock however were unloaded of weaponry like catapults and other weapons that were given to the men. It was then the invading army that was far larger than the four great clans' forces, was led onto the field by none other than Goliath the Grizzly himself. For a few tense seconds there was silence until Goliath the Grizzly broke it yelling out.

"CHARGE!"

The sound of a war horn being blown echoed throughout the entire area followed by the sound of battle cries echoed through the area as Goliath and his men charged at the castle. Uncle Fergus was about to give the order to charge but I held up my hand stopping him from giving the order to charge as my Anubis warriors held their weapons in front of the men stopping them from advancing. It was then the charging forces reached the section where my arrows traps were and smiled as the men triggered them and watched as the men fell into voids, pits or were wrapped up in roots. This caused panic among the men who broke formations but were driven forward by Goliath ordering.

"STOP PANICKING YOU AND KEEP UP THE CHARGE!"

This seemed to get the men back under control and they continued their charge avoiding the pit traps only to fall into the others I'd set up. When the last of my traps were used less than half of the enemy forces had been dealt with which sadly didn't include Goliath who was still leading his men but I hoped that this was enough to tip the fight into our favor. I then released my Lightning Axe and charged towards the enemy with my Anubis warriors following close behind weapons raised. I'm guessing Goliath and his men didn't notice my Anubis warriors till now since they paused in their charge but quickly recovered since they continued their own charge and I knew the fight had finally begun.

Nobodies POV:

Hiccup charged out ahead of his Anubis warriors with his axe ready and jumped when he was a few feet from the enemy forces and slammed his axe down to the ground. This created a shockwave that sent fifteen of the charging men flying back with them either landing on their allies or into some of the pits that their allies were still trapped in. The men who went to attack him never got the chance to however since it was then the Anubis warriors met them and began attacking them slicing through the poles of their spears, throwing them away like ragdolls and so much more as the forces of the clans joined in the attack against the invaders.

Hiccup paid them no mind however as he preferred to focus on his own opponents rather than how his allies were fighting against them. He switched out his lightning axe for his African club and turned to four charging warriors who were all holding their weapons at the ready to strike him. Hiccup charged at them with his club raised before he activated his ox flame boots speed mode and sped at them and before they could react he swung it at them. When the head of the club came in contact with them they went flying back into the air, unconscious and down for the count as Hiccup turned around and repeated the process with the next opponents who came at him.

While Hiccup swatted his enemies away as if they were flies Valka was flying above the fight on Cloudjumper leading Toothless and Skull-crusher against the enemy artillery. She directed them towards the enemy catapults that were being reloaded and all three dragons let out their blasts destroying one catapult each. The men manning the catapults weren't happy about this in the least and signaled the archers to change their targets to the dragons and the one leading them. When the arrows were launched at them they dodged them by flying higher and Valka knew it was the perfect time to use the objects in the bag that was resting on her hip and contained Hiccups knockout gas bombs. Hiccup had given them to her to use it against the men who were in control of the artillery since they were sticking to the back so the clan members wouldn't be affected by the gas. She placed her staff under her arm as she pulled out two of the bombs and pulled the pins on bombs before she dropped them down to the ground. When the sphere-shaped bombs hit the ground, they went off releasing the familiar lime green gas that quickly spread out while Valka continued to drop more on the men. Soon the entire back area was covered in the lime green gas that was filled with coughing as the men breathed in the gas before they collapsed.

Back in the crowd Hiccup had switched out his African club for his lion gauntlets, which he was using to either punch out enemy troops or launch metal balls into them. Hiccup slammed his right fist into the stomach of another charging enemy making him let go of his sword as he was thrown back into one of his allies who was locked in battle with a MacGuffin clan member. As his sword fell Hiccup grabbed it with the mouth of his left arms gauntlet that immediately began chomping down on the sword as Hiccup dropped to the ground doing a leg sweep on a charging enemy who went flying as he fell. Hiccup quickly stood back up turned to Lord Dingwall who was locked in battle with two men before Hiccup pointed his left arm at one of the men and launched two metal balls at them. The balls impacted the heads of each of the men knocking them out cold. Lord Dingwall turned to Hiccup who just gave him a nod, which the lord returned before they, both turned back to the battle.

Back at the castle things were holding firm with the men on towers dropping stones on any of the enemy forces who were able to make it to the gates or walls while those on the lower floor were holding the doors shut. Merida was with her mother organizing the women inside to help maintain order within the castle while Blanca helped them in any way she could. It was then a guard ran through a door screaming catching everyone's attention. The women tried to calm him down but he wouldn't stop screaming long enough for them to find out what was happening that had him so scared. Elinor then punched him hard in the face as she yelled.

"GET A GRIP MAN AND TELL US WHAT'S WRONG!" He shook his head a bit before he answered.

"The members of Clan Loch have escaped." Before she could reply a voice from the door said.

"Correction, they're here!" All eyes turned to the entryway to find Lord Loch and Riptide along with a large group of their men with more coming through the door all armed as Riptide asked.

"So you want to surrender now or would you prefer to make things difficult on yourselves." Elinor, Merida and Blanca glared at them. "Just surrender now since you won't win with half your forces out fighting Goliath and his men while the ones in hear are too busy fighting off the men trying to get inside." Merida readied an arrow as she said.

"We'll gladly go down fighting than surrender to the likes of you."

"You have a fire in you Merida." He smirked. "I look forward to extinguishing it and turning you into my own personal slave alongside Hiccups wife." Blanca glared at him as Lord Loch pointed at them and ordered.

"Get them!" The men began marching forward as Merida pulled her arrow back and turned to Blanca.

"Get behind me Blanca, Hiccup will kill me if any of them touch you." Blanca frowned at her.

"I can help you fight them."

Merida opened her mouth to reply but before she could five of the men charged towards them bringing the two girls' attention to them. Before Merida could react however Blanca jumped in front of her and thrust her hands forward releasing white strands of her magic into them throwing them back into their comrades. Everyone stared at her in shock but she just smiled at the people before she turned back to the men who had snapped out of their shock and were now charging at her. Blanca glared at them as her white scales formed on her face, as her hair turned from black to bluish white, her eye's turned icy blue with her pupils turned to slits while her tail formed. She immediately swung her tail from the right side of the men swatting them all into the wall as everyone turned to Blanca in shock but none in more shock than Lord Loch and Riptide. Lord Loch shook out of his shock and yelled out.

"KILL THAT THING!" Blanca glared and said.

"I'm not a thing, I'm a snake guardian who won't let you hurt any of these people." She then charged at them with her tail at the ready and her magic on the edge of her fingers while the clan members including Merida and Elinor stared before Merida asked her mother.

"Do you think Hiccup knows his wife is some sort of snake creature?" Elinor just watched as Blanca swung her tail into three more men swatting them into the wall.

"I don't know Merida but if he does then when this battle is over he has some explaining to do." Merida just nodded as Blanca continued to fight against the men.

Back on the field, Stoick and Fergus were fighting enemies back to back against the enemy forces who were doing their best to overpower the two leaders who were also two of the most formidable warriors on the battlefield. Stoick grabbed the arm of one of the charging men and threw him to the right into another member of Goliath's men who was locked in combat with a member of Clan Macintosh. Stoick raised his fist back punching a man in the face knocking him out as he turned to Fergus who was holding a man above his head and before he threw him into two charging men. Stoick turned to Fergus and asked.

"How are things looking?"

"Those dog things your boy summoned are coming in handy."

A man ran and struck his leg with his sword but sadly it was Fergus's wooden leg so he took the opportunity to punch the attacking opponent back while knocking him out before one more man wielding a mace raised charged at them. Before he could reach them though a spiked whip wrapped around his wrist and pulled him to the side as it let go making him fly into another one of the enemy's men while Hiccup who held the whips handle rushed up to them as the whip returned into its handle. When he reached them he asked.

"How are things looking?" Fergus replied.

"We're beating them back but it seems like no matter how many we take down they seem to just keep coming." Hiccup looked down at his whip as he remembered something he learnt in Greece and turned to see Goliath throw one of the Dunbroch clan members aside.

"To kill a snake, you cut off the head."

They both looked at him confused before he pulled his whip back into his prosthetic and rushed off towards Goliath using his ox flame boots speed mode. He slammed into Goliath with his real shoulder slamming him back a few feet as the air was knocked out of him but he recovered just as Hiccup kicked him in the chest. When he pulled his foot back a flaming ox burst from Goliaths back with its hooves swinging before it dropped to the ground and began to drag Goliath away. Men dived out of the way as Goliath screamed as he was dragged away by the ox that was made of flames trying to avoid the beast and the man it was dragging. Hiccup gave chase to them both wanting to take Goliath down so the battle might finally be ended since without their leader the men might surrender. Goliath finally came to a stop when the ox slammed into the side of the valley wall and slamming Goliath right into the wall. Goliath dropped to his knees growling as he rubbed his chin in pain before he looked up at Hiccup who was walking up to him and he smiled before chuckling and said.

"So, this is how you want to do it lad?" He stood up.

"I want this to end and like they say in Greece 'to kill a snake, you cut off the head'." He raised an eyebrow. "In other words take out an armies leader and the men will fall easily without their leader." He smirked.

"You honestly think you can beat me so easily?" His smirk grew. "If I were you I'd be pretty nervous."

"Be up against the beasts I've faced and you'd find there to be very little that would scare you." He took both of his axes out in both hands smiling.

"Shall we stop talking and start having some fun?" Hiccup reached back as the hilts of Pirus and Ventus were pushed out and took hold of the hilts before pulling them out.

"Let's do this!"

With that said they charged at each otherwithGoliath swinging his axes down together on Hiccup who brought Pirus and Ventus up in X formation blocking the strike. Goliath pushed down on him trying to get the blades into his opponent but Hiccup stood strong against him and pushed his swords back against Goliaths axes. Hiccup gave a hard shove pushing Goliath back making him stumble back a few feet before he was able to steady himself. Hiccup took this opportunity to swing Ventus at him releasing a slicing wind at Goliath who seeing the coming threat held the heads of his axes sideways blocking it. Hiccup expected the winds to cut through the metal like they did with other metals but was surprised when the wind didn't leave a scratch on the blades but when they struck something glowed below the blades. Goliath smirked as he held his axes to his sides with them facing away from his body as he said.

"Ancient Celtic inscriptions were carved into these axes generations ago before my ancestor killed the original owner and since then many an enemy of my family has fallen by their blades." He spun his axes in his hands. "Those fancy little magic tricks of yours won't help you out against me." Hiccup just smiled.

"This just makes things more interesting."

With that said Hiccup lunged at Goliath swinging his swords at the invading slaver while Goliath met nearly each swing with a swing from one of his own axes before he'd try to strike back at Hiccup only for his blows to either be blocked or dodged. They kept at each other for what seemed like hours when in truth it had only been one hour of both Hiccup and Goliath doing their best to get the upper hand in this fight with Hiccup using every form of sword combat he knew but Goliath countered every form with his own. From this it was clear that Goliath had seen his fair share of battles with different kinds of people since not that many people would be able to last against Hiccup for so long. Hiccup pushed Goliath back once more as he breathed heavily as Goliath breathed heavily but chuckled and said.

"Nice work lad, nobodies lasted this long against me." Hiccup smiled.

"I can say the same to you since no human warrior has ever been able to go against my weapons." Goliaths smile then turned into a smirk.

"I've been up against more than a few warriors from different lands lad." He then smirked. "And one of the things I do know is trickery can be the key to victory." Hiccup raised an eyebrow. "Look at where we are lad." It was then Hiccup realized they were standing three feet from the cliffside leading down to the ocean. "I have to admit lad when I first took you on I figured you'd be an easy take down but you proved me wrong so I lead you here to drive you off the cliff but seeing how the battles going I knew taking you out won't change things." He raised his axes and slammed them both into the ground making the ground shake as a crack formed in the ground ten feet away from them while the ground shook.

"What are you doing?" Hiccup tried to regain his balance.

"If I go down lad I'm taking you with me."

He slammed his axes into the ground once more before Hiccup could react and severed the land they were standing on sending them both falling down the cliffs side. Hiccup quickly shot his prosthetic hand back up towards the cliffs side using it as a grappling hook to stop his fall and grabbed onto Goliaths hand. When his prosthetic grabbed onto the cliffs edge their fall came to a sudden stop while Goliaths axes when falling onto the rocks below. Hiccup looked down at Goliath and said.

"Don't let go." He began reeling them back up. "We'll be back up soon." Goliath glared.

"Why are you saving me?"

"I don't need a reason to save a person's life." He smiled at him.

"You've got a good heart lad but should I be saved then I'll thrown into a cell the rest of my and if there's one thing my line of work has taught me it's that it's better to die a free man then spend your life in a cage." He then let go and said. "Never lose your innocence lad." Hiccup watched as Goliath who was smiling up at him fell before shutting his eyes and looking away as a thud seemed to echo for miles when Goliath hit the rocks below.

4 hours later

Hiccups POV:

It's been four hours since Goliath's death and in that time the battle had been won and all the enemy soldiers and ships had been captured while the slaves on the ships were free which is good since they were all members of the clans that went missing. When we got back to the castle things were a little tense when the men saw Blanca who was restraining Lord Loch and Riptide by wrapping her tail around them. Since me and my parents hadn't told them Blanca wasn't human I had a whole lot of explaining to do after warning the lords that if they harmed a single scale on her tale then I'd personally blood-eagle them. After that I promised to explain everything to them once the troops were locked up and the wounded were taken care of. We then proceeded to lock up the captives and tend to the wounded but everyone kept giving Blanca uneasy looks and I could tell she wasn't comfortable with it but there was nothing I could do about it until everything was taken care of. Now the members of clan Loch were back in their cells along with most of Goliaths men since some of them were in cages outside under guard. My dad used Skull-crusher to retrieve Goliaths body and the axes so the man could be laid down to rest properly and the axes taken care of. All of this brings us to now, which is me standing out in front of the four great clans with Blanca at my side with me ready to show them how me and Blanca got together. I looked out at the crowd and let out a breath before I said.

"Alright everyone, what's about to happen is I'm going to show you all the adventure that lead me to Blanca but I ask that you remember the adventure is real but the images aren't so you have nothing to worry about and please keep all questions till the end." There were murmurs until Aunt Elinor yelled.

"SHUT IT!" Everyone quieted down at this making me smile as she turned to me. "Please continue Hiccup." I nodded and held up my prosthetic and began the illusion from when I first arrived in China.

Twelve hours later

It's been twelve hours since I began showing all the clans what happened in China and after that things got out of control with the lords demanding I show them my other adventures. I was only able to get away from them all ten minutes ago and was finally able to go to bed where Blanca was waiting for me with open arms. As I stared up at the ceiling of the room I couldn't help but think about the challenge's tomorrow would bring since on the ships we found multiple documents on Goliaths camps and customers and we aimed to take them all down one by one to save the slaves and bring the men to justice. Sadly, my parents had to head back to Berk tomorrow to handle some problems so I'd be handling these camps with the help of only the clans but I was alright with that. I let out one final breath and let the sweet embrace of sleep take hold of me knowing the next few days were going to be very busy.

AN: And that brings an end to this chapter and the adventure in Scotland but the chapter shall only be fully closed in the next chapter but until then please be patient. Also I'd appreciate a few more reviews to read since I do enjoy going through them from time to time as they relax me. Anyway till next time stay safe and have a nice day.