The Empire was continuing its attacks, but the pressing issue was at the oasis as Eret had disappeared with Hiccup's body.
"I can't believe I lost him," said Heather falling to her knees.
Dagur placed a hand on her shoulder. "You did everything you could and now we have to do everything we can to get him back."
"He's right, Eret couldn't have gotten far," said Astrid as they began to mount their dragons. "We'll find him. Hiccup is going to be fine."
"Okay," Heather noted as she stood up.
Fishlegs then looked at Ragnar. "But what about Ragnar, we can't leave him behind."
Astrid nodded. "Snotlout, you and Fishlegs stay behind and will look after Ragnar's body.
"You mean I got a stay behind and look after this helpless lump?" said Snotlout gesturing to Ragnar.
"So you would prefer to go into the pristine called to look for Hiccup, who is currently in the hands of a very powerful Firebender," said Astrid raising an eyebrow.
"You know what I think of it as they can look after the helpless lump," said Snotlout.
"Good luck," said Fishlegs.
Astrid and the others then took off with Toothless line alongside them and Dagur riding on Skull with Luna behind him.
Eret meanwhile was dragging himself through the snow, through the snow storm that was raging in the wilderness. On his back was Hiccup, whose eyes were completely shut and his spirit in the spirit world.
Hiccup and Ragnar found themselves in the most unusual places. It was some kind of swamp and there is no sign of anyone, no humans at the very least.
"I think it's safe to say that were not in the North Pole any longer," said Ragnar.
Hiccup nodded. "But where we go from here?"
Ragnar rubbed the back of his head. "We really didn't think this through, did we?"
Hiccup sighed. "We need to find someone, maybe a spirit here can help us."
Ragnar bit his lip. "If memory serves me the spirits of the moon and ocean are some of the oldest in existence. Finding a spirit that might still remember them will not be easy, unless we have some sort of guide."
"We don't know anyone here," said Hiccup looking at his reflection in water.
"That's not entirely true," said a voice.
Hiccup's eyes widened because in the waters reflection he could see Maaike staring up at him.
"Maaike?" Hiccup gasped.
Ragnar looked around. "I don't see anyone."
Maaike looked at Hiccup. "You are the only one who can see me as you are me."
In the real world, Eret was still forcing his way through the snow and the snowstorm in the cold was about to seep in. He placed a foot forward and immediately the ice began to crack and he immediately ran as the ice beneath his feet began to cave in.
He jumped just before he fell into the crevice and both he and Hiccup landed in the snow. It was a miracle the two of them had been killed and that's when Eret realised that he needed to rest and safe shelter.
He looked around and saw a cave not too far way. "Shelter."
He then dragged Hiccup into the ice cave, it wasn't warm but it was far better than standing outside in the snow. He laid him down against the wall and then began to tie him with a metal chain around his shoulder. He didn't know when he would wake up and needed to restrain him just in case.
In the spirit world, Hiccup was still looking at his own reflection and Ragnar could only just sit and watch.
"Maaike, the Water Tribe is under attack, I need to find the ocean and the moon spirits," said Hiccup.
The water then began to take the form of Maaike, and judging from Ragnar's face he couldn't see her still.
"Just as Ragnar has told you, both the ocean and the moon spirits are ancient," said Maaike. "However what he doesn't know is that they crossed over from the spirit world to the mortal world very near the beginning. He is also right in saying that there are very few spirits that they know their location and there is only one spirit I know of, who is old enough to remember."
"Who is this spirit?" Hiccup asked.
Maaike gave him a grim look. "The spirits name is Facemore, but he is very dangerous. They call him the face stealer, when you speak with him you must be very careful to show no emotion at all. Not the slightest expression or he will steal your face."
Hiccup face grimaced.
"I take it the spirit were going to talk to is not a friendly one," Ragnar assumed.
"Ever hear of Facemore?" Hiccup asked.
Ragnar's eyes widened in horror. "Surely there is someone else?"
Hiccup shook his head.
In the real world, Astrid and the others were still searching for Hiccup and Eret. They then located the massive crevice that Eret created in front of them and of course the snow had covered their tracks.
They all looked at one another with grim expressions, knowing it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. They were completely unaware that they were actually quite close and Eret was doing everything in order to keep them warm.
Eret was looking at the unconscious body of Hiccup. "I finally have you, but I can't get you home because this blizzard. There is always something, not that you would understand. Everything just seems to come easy to while high on the other hand had been banished from my homeland and my father has been killed for treason when all he tried to do was save our soldiers. But I don't need, I don't want it. I've always had to struggle to fight and that is always made me stronger, it is made me who I am."
The Empire was advancing through the city with the naval ships firing fireballs in all directions and their forces pushing close into the city. They had also launched a wide range of Singetails and they were currently battling the Scauldron and Thunderdrums.
Both dragons were Water Dragons, capable of swimming in the ocean and flying in the air. The Scauldron was very large and had a bloated stomach filled with boiling hot water which was shooting out from its mouth. The Thunderdrum was much smaller and stubby, but instead of firing what it unleashed a powerful soundwave staggered deafen someone if they got too close.
However the Empire also had several Rumblehorns that were beginning to blast the secretary wall that led into the city. Their title also advancing towards them and the Waterbenders unleashed a massive blasts of water from the drains around the secondary wall.
They struck the tanks with enough force that sent them flying, but then they began to fire grappling tables at the wall. Once they launched into the ice they began to pull hard on the chains causing the water and allowing the Empire to advance even further into the city.
Despite this they still had a massive disadvantage and that was time was not on their side something that Bjorn was quick to remind Viggo.
"I don't need to remind you that we have a time limit," said Bjorn. "If we don't defeat the Water Tribe before the full moon rises they will be undefeatable."
"I assure you I have everything under control," Viggo assured. "I intend to remove the moon as a factor."
"Remove the moon?" Bjorn frowned. "How?"
Then suddenly the door to the bridge opened and Han stepped outside removing his helmet.
"Admiral Viggy, prepare to meet your fate!" he yelled.
He then charged with his spear raised, but Viggo merely sidestepped and flipped him over the bowel causing him to land in the sea.
Bjorn merely shook his head.
"He was the last of the infiltrators," said Ryker, who hadn't moved from his spot.
Viggo nodded and turned to Bjorn. "As I was saying, years ago I stumbled upon a great, powerful secret. The identity of the moon spirits mortal form."
"What?" Bjorn stared.
"I was a young Lieutenant serving under General Zak in the Earth Kingdom," said Viggo. "I discovered a hidden library, underground in fact, I'd tore through scroll after scroll. One of them contained a detailed illustration and the words 'moon' and 'ocean' I knew then that the spirits could be found and that it was my destiny to conquer the Water Tribe."
Ryker scoffed. "I still say killing them would be a far better achievement."
Bjorn immediately narrowed his eyes at them. "The spirits are not to be trifled with!"
Viggo nodded. "I know that you fear the spirits, General Bjorn. I have even heard rumours about your journey into the spirit world. Rest assured that I will only apprehend the moon spirit and release it upon the conquering of the Water Tribe."
Ryker folded his arms. "The ocean and the moon gave up the immortality to become a part of our world. I think it would be far better if they face the consequences of their choices."
Hiccup and Ragnar were making their way to the location of Facemore that they had been given by Maaike. He apparently located within a hollow tree far away and it wasn't exactly homey, but despite this they made their way towards it and found a tunnel leading deeper inside of it.
Ragnar looked at Hiccup. "This is as far as I go, I'm afraid the rest will be up to you."
Hiccup nodded and then his eyes turn towards a monkey sitting on one of the roots. However when the monkey turned its face towards and he discovered that it was missing causing him to jump.
"Relax and remember what Maaike told you," said Ragnar. "Remember you use every trick in the book in order to get you to show emotion."
Hiccup nodded and took a deep breath and his face became emotionless. "Show no free," he said with Maaike's voice echoing inside of him. "Show no emotion at all."
Hiccup then began walking down into the hollow tree and soon all daylight vanished. He found himself in complete darkness with tree loops hanging from the ceiling like tentacles and there was a creepy feeling on the back of his neck.
"Hello, I'm looking for spirit named Facemore," said Hiccup.
Hiccup soon found himself in an underground chamber with beams of light shooting in every direction. He could also says there was something hiding in the darkness unaware that a pale human was looking behind him.
Immediately it appear directly in front of him and the head belonged to the neck of a dragon with long slippery arms. His body was extremely long and it had many legs attached to it was like he was a dragon version of a centipede.
"Welcome," he said.
Clearly he hoped that his sudden appearance would scare Hiccup, but he remained completely calm and showed no expression in the slightest.
"Thank you," said Hiccup perfectly calm and bowed respectfully.
"My old friend the Avatar, it's been a long time," said Facemore as he twisted his neck making it impossible to tell in which direction he was going to face Hiccup.
"You know me?"
"How could I forget you?" said Facemore turning his back on Hiccup and immediately his face replaced that of the middle-aged man. He then immediately turned to face him. "One of your previous reincarnations try to slay me, 500 or 600 years ago."
"I didn't know that," said Hiccup calmly as Facemore backed away slowly. "Why did he… or I… try to kill you?"
Facemore's face then changed into the form of a beautiful young girl with long hair. "Oh, it was something about stealing the face of someone you loved."
Hiccup looked at him and then suddenly his face changed to that of a baboon immediately laughed at him. Hiccup once again just stood there completely calm and kept a straight face.
"Of course that's all in the past," said Facemore as he slid his body around him. "Why should I hold a grudge against you for something in a past life? After all you are different person now…" He then leaned in towards his ear, "you've come to me with a new face."
Hiccup took a deep breath realising that this was not going to be easy.
In the real world, Eret saw Hiccup inhaling and then grieved out once again. He then turned his sights upon the blizzard that was raging outside their shelter.
"I guess we'll be here for a while," said Eret.
Outside Astrid and the others were still looking for any trace of Eret or Hiccup, but finding anything in this snowstorm was almost impossible.
"Don't worry, Eret couldn't have gotten too far in this weather," Luna assured.
Heather wasn't so certain. "I'm not worried that they will get away in the blizzard, I'm worried that they won't."
"They're not going to die in this blizzard," Astrid assured them. "If we know anything is that Eret never gives up. They'll survive and we'll find them."
In the spirit world, Hiccup was still trying to extract the information he needed from Facemore, who was now delivering around him observing him with the face of an owl.
"It's been a long time since I've added a child's face to my collection," he said. "So, how may I help you?"
"I need to find the moon and the ocean," said Hiccup.
"They're spirit names are Moonshine and Darkocean," said Facemore. "They are also known as Push and Pull and that has been their nature of their relationship for all time."
"Please, help me find them," said Hiccup. "An entire culture could be destroyed if I don't get their help."
Facemore's face then turned into an old man as he looked away from him. "Oh, you think that you need their help? Actually it's quite the other way around." Facemore then quickly turned on his face became that of a dragon and soon he was face-to-face to Hiccup. "Someone is going to kill them!"
"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked. "How can I find them in order to protect them?"
"You've already met them, actually," said Facemore as his face turned back into his original face and leaned back and turned his back on him. "Moonshine and Darkocean. Your moon and ocean have always circled each other in an internal dance. They balance each other, Push and Pull, Life and Death, Good and Evil, Light and Darkness."
Hiccup eyes widened as his men returned to the fish in the pond with in the oasis. He remembered that one fish was white and the other was black, the common colours for good and evil.
"The fish in the oasis," he gasped.
Facemore quickly turned back to face him, but Hiccup's expression quickly returned back to a stone.
"I must be going now," said Hiccup respectfully.
Facemore's face then turned that into a young man with a goatee. "We'll meet again."
Facemore then retreated back into the darkness.
Hiccup soon met up with Ragnar outside the tree.
"I was getting worried about you," said Ragnar getting up. "Do you know where they are?"
"You won't believe this, but there in the oasis that the fish in the pond," said Hiccup.
Ragnar stared at him. "You're joking?"
Hiccup shook his head. "And apparently someone is going to kill them if we don't get soon."
"But how do we get back?"
Hiccup then looked at the reflection in the water and saw Maaike. "The spirits are in trouble we need to get back into the physical world."
"A friend is here to guide you back," said Maaike.
The reflection then quickly vanished and was soon replaced with the image of Arrowsong.
"Arrowsong?" Hiccup gasped turning around and saw his old friend.
Ragnar looked at him. "He's not going to trap us in some kind of prison, is he?"
Hiccup shook his head. "No he's going to guide us home."
Hiccup then jumped onto Arrowsong's back and Ragnar joined him.
Arrowsong then began to take them away from the hollow tree back to where they started.
It was now night in the real world and the Empire only managed to control half of the city. With the full moon now in the sky the Waterbenders were completely energising were pushing back the Empire.
That was proven a few moments ago when a few unlucky soldiers made their way on a bridge. A Waterbender had landed directly in front of them and practically disintegrated the bridge and forcing it back to the opposite and causing the soldiers to pull into the canal below them.
At was making its way towards the secondary wall when a Waterbender cause it to sink into the snow leaving only the top of it exposed. The Firebender inside try to blast him with a fireball, but he quickly blocked it with a barrier of water and struck the exposed talk with a stream of water crushing it.
On the palace wall the Waterbenders unleashing barrages of ice shards directly at the soldiers below them. The ice shards penetrated the shield forcing them and they started to lose their momentum.
Back and on the very front lines was Strider, who sunk several soldiers into the ground and froze them completely. A Firebender fired a fireball hoping to catch him off guard, but he ducked in time to avoid the blast. He then saw several tanks and Firebenders approaching him and he immediately began to move his hand in a windmill like fashion.
He then unleashed several slices of water cutting straight through the mechanisms of the tanks leaving them virtually useless. Then several soldiers advanced onto his position and he quickly created an ice barrier catching them in the process leaving the upper torso was the only bit exposed.
He then spun around and a great tornado of water covered his midsection and rose into the air. Firebenders try to blast him with fireballs, but he was moving so fast that they couldn't get a hit and he was pushing them back with his slices of water.
Near the Palace three Waterbenders used their bending in order to send a tank flying back over the secondary wall. It landed directly in front of Viggo and Ryker's entourage and snow-covered one of their soldiers.
Viggo blushed a bit of snow of his armour as his soldier noted the snow with heat. "We'll be following this map to a very special location," said Viggo. "And when we get there we're going fishing."
In the spirit world Hiccup and Ragnar were riding on top of Arrowsong and he led them to the sanctuary where they first appeared.
"This is where we came in," said Hiccup as they jumped off their guide.
"Yeah, but how do we get back?" Ragnar asked.
Arrowsong then blew a blast of spirit energy directly at them and they immediately vanished.
Hiccup and Ragnar found themselves at the oasis which was being guarded by Snotlout and Fishlegs. Ragnar had entered into his own body, but Hiccup found that he was still a ghost.
"What happened to my body?" Hiccup stared.
Snotlout and Fishlegs immediately saw Ragnar getting to his feet.
"Ragnar your back," said Fishlegs relieved.
"Yeah, but where's Hiccup's body?" Ragnar asked noticing the absence of his best friend's body.
"That jerk Eret took it and we got no idea where he is," said Snotlout folding his arms.
Ragnar couldn't see Hiccup, but he knew he was still around. "Hiccup, you find your body the rest of us will protect the fish."
Hiccup nodded and immediately turned into a beam of light something that all of them saw.
"That was him?" Fishlegs asked.
Ragnar nodded.
Snotlout then frowned at him. "What do you mean will protect the fish?"
Ragnar looked at the two of them. "I've got a lot of explaining."
Hiccup was flying around towards the location of his body and the light was bright enough for Astrid and the others to notice.
"Look that's got to be Hiccup," said Astrid.
"Then let's follow that light," said Dagur as he began to follow it.
Hiccup soon found himself in the shelter tied in chains and saw Eret sitting on the opposite end of the shelter.
"Welcome back," said Eret.
"Good to be back," said Hiccup.
He then immediately took a deep breath and fired a burst of air from his mouth. Eret slammed into the wall of the cave hard and Hiccup was propelled outside. He began to crawl his way to safety but it was immediately stopped by Eret.
"That won't be enough to escape," he said.
"No, but they might," said Hiccup looking up.
Eret looked up and saw Astrid and the others flying down towards them. Heather immediately jumped off of Windshear and took up a fighting position.
Eret tossed Hiccup aside and took up his own fighting position. "Here for a rematch?"
Heather narrowed her eyes. "Trust me, Eret, it's not going to be much of a match."
Eret then immediately fired a fireball directly at her, which immediately distinguishes by raising some water out of the snow. She then set a massive pulse of snow directly at Eret just as he fired a fireball. The fireball was distinguished and the pulse struck Eret and encased in ice grazing him into the air. She then slammed her hand downwards and he slammed into the snow hard, so hard to knock him out cold.
Astrid then rushed over towards Hiccup and slice the chains of with her axe. "Have to hand it to Eret, he certainly knows good quality chain when he sees it."
"We need to get to the oasis," said Hiccup getting to his feet. "The spirits are in trouble. Ragnar the others are already there protecting them, but I don't think they can last long by themselves."
He immediately mounted Toothless and Heather did the same with Stormfly. Hiccup was about to take off stopped when he looked at Eret's unconscious body.
"Wait, we can't just leave him here," said Hiccup.
"Sure we can," said Dagur. "Let's go."
"No," said Hiccup as he hopped off Toothless. "If we leave him, he'll die."
Hiccup then pulled him out of the snow much to the bewilderment of everyone.
"So we're rescuing the guy that's been trying to kill us?" said Ruffnut as Hiccup placed him on Skull's back.
"That's crazy even for us," said Tuffnut.
Once Hiccup mounted Toothless they took off flying back towards the oasis hoping they weren't too late.
Ragnar had just finished explaining to Snotlout and Fishlegs of the situation.
"So you're saying that these fish are in fact spirits of the moon and ocean," said Fishlegs looking at the fish in awe.
"Yep and someone is out to kill them," Ragnar nodded.
"What a bunch of baloney," Snotlout huffed. "You can't honestly say that someone is coming from all this way to kill a couple of fish."
"I wouldn't be so quick to rule out that possibility, Snotlout," said a voice.
They immediately turned and saw Viggo, Ryker and several of them men entering the oasis.
Ragnar quickly ready his staff. "Viggo, I should have known that you and your brother would be behind this."
Viggo smiled. "It would seem as if I'm not the only one who has deduced the moon and ocean spirits true identity."
"Made a journey into the spirit world to find out that piece of information," said Ragnar narrowing his eyes. "No I'm interested to know how you found out, not exactly the spiritual kind."
Viggo nodded. "Yes, very true. I learned that little secret from an ancient library, the location of which I am not going to."
Fishlegs looked at them. "You got no idea what you're messing with. You your people just as much as you the Water Tribe if you kill the moon spirit."
"Oh, I'm not looking to kill the moon spirit," Viggo assured. "I'm merely planning to contain it long enough to conquer the Water Tribe."
Ragnar narrowed his eyes. "I won't allow that to happen."
He then immediately launched into the air and swung his staff sending a massive burst of air. It was so powerful that it sent Viggo flying over the wall and back towards the Palace. He then immediately jumped into the air and activated his glider no doubt following him.
This left Ryker behind and he smiled. "Finally, my brother will no longer get in my way."
Fishlegs looked up. "Get in your way?"
Ryker turned on him. "Do you really think that I enjoyed working with my younger brother? Now that he's out of the way I can take my rightful place in history as the Conqueror of the Moon!"
Then before either Snotlout or Fishlegs could do anything immediately blasted back by a powerful fire burst from Ryker. Snotlout was able to create a barrier in just in time to block the attack but it was so strong that they were sent backwards and knocked out cold.
With that Ryker made his way towards the pond grabbing the back and then immediately grabbed the white fish and started in the bag. The moment he did there was a lunar eclipse that shone over the Water Tribe.
Now under the raise of the lunar eclipse every single Waterbender found availabilities had vanished leaving them vulnerable to the Empire. With this sudden change the Empire started to advance through the city virtually unopposed.
Viggo was launching fireball directly at Ragnar he noticed the lunar eclipse.
"Ryker," he glared.
Hiccup and the others were making their way back to the oasis when they saw the lunar eclipse. Immediately both Hiccup and Luna experience very nasty headaches.
Dagur looked at Luna. "Are you okay?"
"I feel faint," she said.
"I feel it too," said Hiccup. He then looked up towards the moon. "The moon spirit is in trouble."
"I owe the moon spirit my life," said Luna.
Dagur looked at her. "What do you mean?"
"When I was born, I was very sick and very weak. Most babies cry when they're born, but I was born as if I was asleep, my eyes closed. Our healers did everything they could, they told my mother and father I was going to die. My father pleaded with the spirits to save me, that night, beneath the full moon, he brought me to the oasis and placed me in the pond. My dark hair turned white, I opened my eyes and began to cry and they knew I would live. That's why my mother named me Luna, for the moon."
Ryker was at the oasis holding the bag containing the moon spirit with glee. "I am a legend now. The Empire for generations shall tell stories of the great Ryker, who darkened the moon. They will call me Ryker the Conqueror! Ryker the Moon Slayer! Ryker the Invincible!"
Snotlout and Fishlegs had been completely tied up and listen to his monologue.
Snotlout snorted. "That's a stupid name, what happens if you lose?"
Ryker glared at him. "Kill these two."
Fishlegs looked at Snotlout. "You have to open your big fat mouth."
"Stop!" a voice yelled.
They all turned and saw that Hiccup and the others had landed new oasis and all of them had fixed glares upon Ryker. Immediately Ryker and his Firebenders took a fighting positions as did Hiccup and the others.
"Don't bother," said Ryker holding the bag.
He then held his fist close towards the back showing that he had every intention of killing the spirit inside.
Hiccup looked at him horrified. "Ryker, don't."
"It's my destiny to destroy the moon and the Water Tribe," said Ryker.
"Destroying the moon won't just hurt the Water Tribe, it will hurt everyone including you," said Hiccup. "Without the moon everything will be out of balance, you have no idea what kind of chaos that will be unleashed upon the world."
"He is right, Ryker," said a new voice.
Everyone turned into their bewilderment they saw Bjorn standing there with his fist raised towards Ryker.
"General Bjorn," said Ryker narrowing his eyes. "Why am I not surprised to discover your treachery?"
"I'm no traitor, Ryker," said Bjorn lowering his hood. "The Empire needs the moon too, we all depend upon the balance. Whatever you do to that spirit, I shall unleash on you tenfold. Let it go now!"
Ryker looked at him and closed his eyes. He then released the fish back into the pond and immediately the eclipse faded. However, he was not going to let them off that easy, because seconds later he unleashed a fireball straight at the fish.
Everyone stared at him in horror as the moon began to vanish from existence leaving everything completely dark.
Bjorn, true to his word, unleashed several blows of fireball directly at Ryker. Ryker quickly backed away from him and immediately his four Firebenders engaged Bjorn, but as quick as lightning he took them down one by one.
Ryker's eyes widened in horror as he chose that opportunity to get away. No one paid attention as they were more preoccupied with the dead spirit in the water and they too were unaware that Eret had managed to free himself from the chains.
At the back of the Palace both Ragnar and Viggo were still doing battle, but they stopped briefly when they saw the moon had vanished.
"No," Ragnar stared horrified.
Then suddenly shooting at him from out of nowhere was a burst of flames, he quickly raised his staff in time to block the direct attack. However, the impact was strong enough to send him flying and knocked him out cold.
Viggo turned and saw his brother emerging from the door. "What have you done?"
"Secured our victory," said Ryker. "Now unless you don't want the Avatar and General Bjorn on our tail I suggest we get going."
Viggo glared at him, but nodded and they quickly ran off. However unbeknownst to them Ragnar was not as out cold as they thought and his eyes was following them.
Bjorn lifted the fish out of the water and saw the massive burn I across its body.
"There's no hope now," Luna cried. "It's over."
Hiccup's eyes then began to glow. "No! It's not over," he said with his voice sounding as if several people were speaking at once through him.
Hiccup then started to make his way towards the pond and Astrid tried to stop them, only to have Bjorn to stop her. He then stood in the middle of the circle where the spirit of the ocean was swimming and then it stopped swimming to stir up at him.
Its eyes then began to glow and everyone stared at the entire planet lit up and Hiccup sank into the water. Then there was a bright blue light across the entire oasis and it began to cover the entire city.
All of them stared at a large wave began to move its way away from the oasis and began to rise into the air. It then took the form of a massive Water Dragon and they could see Hiccup in its chest controlling it.
Every single soldier stop fighting to stare at the monstrosity that was now making its way through the Palace. It first started the alleyway within the city where Strider and his Waterbenders immediately bowed towards him. His gaze then turn towards the soldiers, who immediately raised their spears.
With one wave of his he unleashed a massive burst of water that washed them away. He then began to do the same to soldiers on the bridges. The tanks and Singetails were firing everything they had directly at him, but the fireball were merely distinguished upon impact. He then watched the tanks away with a single way with his arm and cause water to rise into the air striking the Singetails.
As Hiccup made his way through the city the Waterbenders merely bowed their heads as he walked by. The soldiers realising that they were completely outmatched retreated back towards the first wall and Hiccup sank into the canals and began to follow them.
Viggo and Ryker were running as quickly as they could away from the Palace. However then out of nowhere a fireball launched directly at them destroying a pillar in front of them.
Firstly thought it was either Hiccup or Bjorn, but when they turn out they saw that it was neither. Instead looking down at them was none other than Eret and seeing him alive was a shock to them.
"You're alive?" Viggo stared.
"You try to have me killed!" Eret roared as he fired a few more fire blast.
Viggo and Ryker quickly moved out of the way to avoid getting hit and now they were on opposite end of the ledge. Eret soon landed in between and the two of them narrow their eyes at him.
"Yes we did," said Viggo. "You're the Dragon Spirit, an enemy of the Empire. You freed the Avatar."
"I had no choice," Eret glared at him.
"You should have chosen to accept your failure," Ryker roared. "At least then you could have lived."
"As skilled as you are Eret, there's no way you can defeat the two of us," said Viggo he quickly thrusted his hand forward unleashing a blast of flames.
However before the flames touched Eret, Ragnar appeared out of nowhere and blew the flames away with a spin of his staff.
"Then it's a good thing he is not alone," said Ragnar.
Eret looked at him. "You're helping me?"
"I think we can both agree that these two are enemies," said Ragnar looking at him in the corner of his eye. "Truce?"
Eret nodded. "Truce."
Then immediately the two of them charged that their opponents, Ragnar against Viggo and Eret against Ryker.
Eret got up close towards Ryker who then performed a leg sweep unleashing bursts of flames from them. Eret quickly jumped into the air and swung his blazing fast that him, but it was quickly blocked.
Viggo was unleashing barrages of fireballs at Ragnar, who kept on deflecting them by spinning his staff around. Viggo then slammed his foot into the ground sending bursts of flames across the ledge, but Ragnar merely jumped and spun over him landing directly behind him. He then slammed a powerful gust of wind straight into his chest sending him flying towards Eret and Ryker.
Eret, sensing this, immediately jumped directly over Ryker, who are so fixated on him he failed to see Viggo speeding towards him. He immediately turned back to face Eret, but before he could attack Viggo slammed right into his back and Eret dealt a powerful kick of fire hitting him in the side.
Ragnar then swung his staff sending a powerful gust of wind sending the two of them over the ledge and they soon landed in different areas of the city. Ragnar and Eret soon jumped down after them and based their opponents once more.
At the oasis, Bjorn placed the dead fish back into the pond where it sat there motionless.
"It's too late," said Heather. "It's dead."
Bjorn then noticed Luna could sense something inside of her. "You have been touched by the moon spirit. Some of its life is in you."
Luna looked up an idea appeared in her head. "Yes, you're right. It gave me life, maybe I give it back."
She got up and made her way towards the pond, but Dagur grabbed her hand.
"No!" he said firmly. "You don't have to do that."
"It's my duty, Dagur."
"I won't let you! Your father told me to protect you."
"I have to do this," she said removing her hand from his.
All of them looked at her as she approached Bjorn, who was holding the dead fish. She then placed a hand upon it and immediately the fish began to glow bright white light. When the light faded Luna fell backwards and landed in Dagur's arms.
"No!" Dagur cried and immediately checked her pulse, but felt nothing. She looked at everyone else. "She's gone. She's gone."
The Empire soldiers have now returned their vessels and were retreating far away from the city as quickly as they could. However it was not fast enough as Hiccup rose from the water and immediately blew for Navy vessels backwards so fast that they were gone within seconds.
He then advanced to Viggo's flagship and the Firebenders on board tried one last desperate attempt to stop him firing fireballs at him. Sadly there attempts failed and with one wave of his hand he sliced the bridge of the ship as if it was just a slice of bread and then destroy the catapults.
There was nothing the ship could do as Hiccup began to write a massive wave into the air and then slammed it right in front of the Navy vessels. Immediately they were blown away by the way, some of them had capsised while others ripped apart and the lucky ones managed to get away.
Only about a third of the Navy vessel had managed to survive and were now retreating as far away as they could from Hiccup as he started to enter into the open sea.
The others were still in the oasis looking at Luna's body, but then vanished into thin air. Then the fish in Bjorn's hands began to glow and when he placed a water it swam into the pond. Then suddenly the entire planet began to glow in a beautiful silver light and then appearing in front of them in a silver gown with a silver hair blowing in the wind was the ghost of Luna.
"Goodbye, Dagur. I will always be with you," she said.
She then leaned towards him and pulled him into a kiss and then she vanished just as he placed a hand on her cheek. They looked up and saw the moon reappearing in the sky bringing light upon the city and the world.
Hiccup was still outside the main gates of the city and probably would have destroyed the remainder of the Navy vessels if he had not noticed the moon now shining down upon him. Then the water avatar sank back down into the waves and headed straight back to the city.
Before he did it placed Hiccup on what remained on the outer wall, he was tired and woozy but he was back to normal.
Ragnar was chasing down Viggo as he was running as quickly as he could, no doubt he knew that he had lost the battle and was trying to escape now. He watched as Viggo propelled himself up the steep glacial surrounding the city with flames shooting out of his hands and feet.
"You're not getting away that easy," said Ragnar summon his glider.
He then propelled himself forward with his Airbendering and soon met him on top of the glacial on the edge of the cliff. He just stood there watching as his ship departed leaving him behind.
"It would seem as if Bjorn was right about history," said Viggo with his back towards Ragnar. "My brothers stupidly enraged the Avatar causing him to force our men back and leaving the entire siege in utter failure."
"Not to mention destroying the moon and all civilisation as we know it," Ragnar added.
"But at least get the satisfaction of destroying the last of the Airbenders," said Viggo quickly spinning around and unleashed a burst of flames from his best.
Ragnar quickly drew his staff and deflected the shot causing it to shoot at the edge of the cliff where Viggo was standing. Then before they knew it the ledge crumble and Viggo fell of it heading straight towards the icy waters below screaming.
Ragnar looked over the edge and saw something striking the icy water. "It didn't have to end this way."
Ryker was currently having problems with beating Eret as they fought over a bridge that overlooked a canal. Eret dealt several quick shots of flames from his beat and Ryker try to catch them offguard by spreading the entire surface with flames.
However, Eret jumped over the flames and then thrusted a powerful fist directly towards Ryker sending a powerful burst of flames towards him. It was so strong that Ryker lost his balance and Eret fired a few more fireballs take advantage of this.
Ryker soon found himself with his back against the bridge and that was the first time that he noticed the moon was back up into the sky.
"It can't be!" he yelled.
Then suddenly emerging from the canal was a large handmade of water. It was the spirit of the ocean looking for vengeance for Ryker killing the moon spirit. Eret managed to get out of the way just as the watery hand grabbed Ryker and then began to pull him into the water.
He may have been Eret's enemy, but there was no way that he would allow him to suffer a fate worse than death from the spirits.
He immediately rushed towards the edge of the bridge and extended his hand to Ryker. "Take my hand!"
Ryker looked at him for a few seconds and retracted his hand, clearly he would rather die than accept help from Eret. He then watched as he was dragged into the ocean and vanished into thin air, most likely taken to the spirit world.
When the sun rose overlooked the destruction caused by the siege and Heather was standing next to Strider.
"I decided to go to the South Pole," said Strider. "Some other Benders and healers want to join me." He then looked at her. "It's time we help rebuild our sister tribe."
"What about Hiccup? He's still needs to learn Waterbending," Heather frowned looking towards Hiccup.
Strider smiled at her. "Well, then he had better get used to call the new Master Heather."
Dagur was with Olaf as they looked up towards the moon that was still shining in the sky. Dagur and the others had informed him of what had happened at the oasis.
"The spirits gave me a vision when Luna was born," said Dagur. "I saw a beautiful brave young woman become the moon spirit." He closes eyes and lowered his head. "I knew this day would come."
"You must be proud," said Dagur.
Olaf nodded. "So proud and sad."
Sailing away from the North Pole on a makeshift raft was Eret and Bjorn.
"I'm surprised, Eret," said Bjorn as he lifted the sail. "Surprise that you at this moment aren't trying to capture the Avatar."
"I'm tired," he said.
Bjorn then placed a gentle hand on his shoulder. "Then you should rest. A man needs his rest."
With that Eret leaned back and fell asleep.
At the North Pole Hiccup was looking down at the city and one by one the others soon joined him. They knew that this portion of the journey was finished, but they still had a lot to do and that they would do it together.
Unbeknownst to anyone, Drago was sitting on his throne covered in flames as he looked down at a young girl about Eret's age.
"Bjorn is a traitor and Eret is a disgrace, I have a task to you my daughter," said Drago.
The young girl looked up revealing her long black hair and her sinister eyes. It was clear from the smile upon her face that she was going to enjoy a new task.