Adelaide have been taken completely by surprise by Seilah's transformed. She had managed to take her down in her Vengeance Form with very little effort and that was her most powerful Demon Soul.
Adelaide could barely stand and the twins had been ritually knocked off their feet along with Lamy.
"Ow, that hurt," said Lamy. "Why did she hit me too?"
"Has she lost control of herself?" Ruffnut winced.
"I don't know, but she certainly stronger than before," said Tuffnut.
Adelaide looked up and then got back onto her feet. The moment she did Seilah rushed towards what yet again and slammed right into her.
"She is way too powerful," Adelaide winced as he grasped hold of Seilah. "I don't think I can beat having a regular fight like this, I need to take her over. It has to work, I just need to keep trying."
"What a fool," said Seilah. "You will never take control of me."
Eventually they came to a stop and faced one another.
"I give myself a simple command, I must tear my enemy limb from limb," said Seilah as she raised her claws.
She then began to strike Adelaide with her claws in rapid succession and was clearly just too much for her.
"No, Adelaide!" Ruffnut cried.
"Stop it!" Tuffnut roared.
Then suddenly the two of them felt a hand clutching the backs of their heads. It was Lamy and she immediately slammed their heads into the ground.
"You've gotta watch this next part, this is where your friend gets completely wrecked," said Lamy fiendishly. She then leaned herself down towards their ears. "I forgot to ask, are there any other hot guys in your Guild?"
Eventually the barrage of slashes were just too much Adelaide and she fell to the ground.
'Snotlout… I'm sorry,' she said.
Then her memories turned back when they were just a bunch of kids, their mother had passed away recently making them orphans. To make matters worse the demon had recently attacked the village they lived and somehow Adelaide had stopped it.
Unfortunately, whatever magic she used resulted in her arm becoming demonic and the villagers believe that she was possessed. They stormed around their house tossing stones at the windows and Snotlout was doing everything he could to reassure his little sister.
"Get out!"
"You can't stay here!"
"Filthy Demon!"
"You don't belong here!"
A stone then was sent flying through the window and struck Adelaide.
"You're right, Adelaide?" Snotlout asked.
She nodded and looked at her brother apologetically. "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."
"None of this is your fault," said Snotlout shaking his head.
"I brought this on the moment I stepped into that temple," said Adelaide holding out her demonic hand. "This awful curse."
The angry mob outside was still shouting and throwing stones and walls more concerning was that they were holding sharp weapons.
"Get out of here you demon!"
"We are asking now, but we will make you leave."
"She is possessed by a demon! It's only a matter of time before she killed us all!"
Snotlout glared out of the window. "What a bunch of jerks, whatever you did that demon save their lives."
"And trust me," Adelaide cried. "And now mother's gone, what's left for us here?"
Snotlout looked at her and then to down. "Don't worry, I'll protect you. Maybe we should make our way to Berk, Mum said that Dad worked there. Maybe he can help us."
Adelaide looked at him. "What if he turns us out onto the street?"
Snotlout then pulled her into a hug. "If he does I will beat him black and blue."
They waited until night, when there were less people outside and then started to make their way to Berk. They stopped at the mountain that overlooks the village they lived in for so long.
"It looks so small up here," said Adelaide.
Snotlout looked at her. "We'll find someplace better to live."
With that they began their journey, but sadly it was hundreds of miles away so it was a long and tiring journey. They slept where they could creating a fire and keeping each other warm in the cold night.
The few people they did met gave them dirty looks the moment they saw Adelaide's demonic arm, but they kept on going. They sometimes slept in discarded houses to stay out of the rain and again what little sleep they could.
A few months later they finally managed to reach Berk and follow the address of their father's workplace. That address led them to a building next to the port and when they looked through the Windows they saw several other kids laughing and having fun.
Then they were met by a very large map with a thick beard. "Can I help you two at all?"
"We're looking for our father," said Adelaide. "His name is Spitelout Jorgenson."
The man is stroked his beard. "Spitelout, huh? He's out of a job at the moment, but you can stay inside and wait for him." He then looked at them. "My name is Stoick and I am the Master of the Dragon Tail Guild and your uncle at the same time."
The two of them looked at one another and then looked at their large uncle. "You are our uncle?"
Stoick nodded. "Indeed."
"So what is this place anyway?" Snotlout asked curiously.
"It's a Guild where we practice magic in order to help people who have job requests," Stoick explained. "Now how about I get you kids some juice?"
They immediately accepted the invitation and they sat there waiting for their father. Eventually Spitelout returned and was told the entire situation and that's when Adelaide showed them her demonic arm.
"Looks like you've inherited your father's gifts," said Stoick.
Spitelout smiled. "Of course she has, she's her father's daughter." He then proudly placed a hand on her back. "You're not possessed by a demon, Adelaide… in fact it's the entire opposite. You merely used to spell called Take-Over to give you the abilities of the demon."
Stoick nodded. "I imagine that you must have been frightened to death of that, but with proper training you build a harness the gifts that you took from that demon."
Adelaide looked at her arm. "So it's kinda good thing?" She then closed her eyes looking ashamed. 'I still don't want it.'
A month later, Snotlout and Adelaide had become official members of the Guild along with the other children. Though Adelaide was still having trouble adjusting to everything going on.
Astrid had just joined the Guild and had her artificial eye implanted. "I've heard about you. You're Adelaide, right? My friends say you got some cool powers."
Adelaide just sat there in silence.
"Well, what you think of our Guild so far?" Astrid asked.
Adelaide just got off her chair and walked out without saying a word.
"What's her deal?" Astrid frowned.
Hiccup approached. "I think she's having trouble adjusting. She hasn't talked or smiled since she joined our Guild, her brother on the other hand…" He then gestured to Snotlout, "let's say that I prefer him being quiet."
Adelaide just continued walking through the city still hiding her arm.
"Magic… demons… I don't want anything to do this," she said. She then remembered how the people of her village acted in front of her. "It's disgusting. I'm not even human, not anymore."
She then stopped and looked back at the Dragon Tail Guild. "Everyone is so nice there, I'm sure that Snotlout would be happy there. But I can't stay, I'm sorry."
She then continue to walk preparing to leave what was left of her family behind. "I will miss him and Dad has been good to me, but still… it's for the best."
However, before she could get any further Snotlout rushed over towards her as quickly as he could.
"Adelaide! Where are you going?" he called.
Adelaide turned and stared at him. "What are you doing here?"
"Stopping you from making a stupid mistake," said Snotlout folding his arms. "Anyway I have something to show you, just watch."
Suddenly his right arm began to transform into that of a bear. "I can use Take-Over Magic to, but only in one arm."
Adelaide stared at him.
"Dad taught me this spell, I figured that you would be more comfortable if I could do the same thing as you," Snotlout smiled. He then frowned as his arm. "Though I seem to be only able to do it in one arm."
Adelaide was in the verge of tears.
"Look I know it was difficult growing up being different," said Snotlout looking at her. "But everyone in the Guild is a freak in their own special way. We finally found our Dad after travelling for so long, don't just toss it all away because you feel different."
Adelaide then began to cry. "You always knew how to make me feel better."
Then suddenly Snotlout's arm transforms into the leg of a giraffe. "I really need a lot more practice," he said now feeling completely embarrassed.
Adelaide tears soon turn into laughter. "I guess we all have some work to do before we try to go on any jobs."
"You don't have to feel like the odd one out now and you don't have to feel alone," said Snotlout pulling her into a hug.
Back in the present, Adelaide was overpowered by Seilah.
'I was scared at first, I didn't want this power,' she said and then quickly recovered. 'But I will do whatever it takes to protect my family.' She then forced herself and grasp hold of Seilah's leg. 'Even if that means that I had to be a monster or a demon… then so be it.'
Seilah didn't look concerned in the slightest. "Try as you might, you will never take control over me."
Adelaide then put every vibrant of her being into her Take-Over Magic.
"Adelaide, you really get out of here right now!" Ruffnut yelled.
"Get out of here!" Tuffnut yelled.
However, Adelaide did not and concentrated everything into her Take-Over Magic added appear to start to have some sort effect.
'If I can just take one part,' she said.
Seilah was completely taken aback as she felt herself getting weaker. "What is this? Let go!"
She then unleashed a powerful burst of magic that sent Adelaide flying.
'That weakness I just felt,' Seilah said to herself stunned. 'Was her Take-Over spell working on me? Not possible, I'm an Etherious.' She then held her hands having began conjuring up a burst of bright blue energy and then several symbols appeared in front of her. 'I am done playing around with her, it's too dangerous to let her live.'
"Adelaide, no!" Ruffnut cried.
Adelaide looked up at Seilah. 'I still believe in my power, no matter the odds. I know that I can protect the ones I love.'
"Demonise!" Seilah roared as eyes began to appear in her palms. "Release!"
The twins could only watch in horror as Seilah was about to deal the final blow to Adelaide.
"This is the good part," said Lamy cheerfully.
"Now die!" Seilah roared as he thrusted her hand down onto Adelaide.
"This Marco Curse, once you controlled someone with you can make them do whatever you want anytime you want," said Adelaide. "That is what you told me."
Seilah was completely stunned by this. 'Was this why I felt the weakness before? Was she able to take control of just my Curse power?'
Adelaide smiled. "I gave in order, let's see if it works."
"It's pointless you fool! I'm the only one who can give myself orders!" Seilah yelled.
"I never said I gave it to you. Snotlout, come here I need your help!"
Then falling down towards them from the ceiling was Snotlout in his Beast Soul, Seilah only had time to witness him striking her as hard as he could. The attack had been so devastating that it took her out instantly.
"Perfect timing," Tuffnnut smiled.
"He's never let us down," Ruffnut cheered.
Lamy was too shocked and fainted. "It can't be."
Snotlout then returned back to normal and glared down at Seilah. "That was for using me to destroying our Guild Hall and hurting my sister!"
Kyôka had made her way into the central chambers and was kneeling before the handsome black haired man from earlier. In truth this man was the Guild Master of the Guild also known as the Underworld King.
"Lord Zogrin, I come bearing bad news," she said regretfully. "It seems we have underestimated our enemy. The Face plan has failed and Ezel and Fannmalth have been wiped out."
"Add Seilah and Hell's Core to that list," said Zogrin.
Kyôka's eyes widened. "Really?" She then regained her composure. "We must summon our Master now."
"I'm afraid we cannot," said Zogrin regretfully. "There is a considerable obstruction to that goal currently existing in this world. I'm talking about magic power, in order to revive him he must be eradicated."
"That is what we try to achieve with our plan to detonate Face, but it failed," Kyôka reminded.
"Oh, how I pity you, Kyôka," Zogrin sighed with disappointment. "You have never been able to see the big picture have you? Face was just a speck."
"Was what?" Kyôka stared in confusion.
"A minuscule point in a much larger tapestry, the range of a strategy such as I can see clearly. In the grand scheme of things Face's failure is another small point among many. It's nothing worthwhile worry, I'm confident that in time the world's magic power will cease to exist."
"But how can you be so sure?" Kyôka asked.
"Kyôka, tell me what we are."
"We are Drago's demons, Etherious."
"What is our goal?"
"Our primary goals are to revive Master Dragrach and returned to Drago."
"And what are mortals?"
"Vile and disgusting creatures."
Zogrin just looked at her with an emotionless expression and then suddenly buying shot out of the walls. Next thing Kyôka realise with the vital wrapping around her and she roared in pain.
"Lord Zogrin… why are you…?" she then gagged in pain.
"You brought humans to our fortress and made them your plaything," Zogrin reminded.
"I tortured them, to extract information about Face," said Kyôka barely able to breathe.
"This fondness you have for mortals will be your undoing."
"No! That's not true!"
The vines then tightened and her helmet was beginning to crack.
"This behaviour displeases me, I simply cannot abide my subordinate playing with such lonely creatures and that you must be punished for your crime. Which is not playing with humans, but displeasing me Lord of the Underworld."
"I understand, Lord, thank you for the lesson," said Kyôka.
"Those detestable mortals, they're ineffective actions do not concern me in the slightest, but the thought of them in my home disgusts me. Perhaps this calls for Alegria."
Meanwhile Hiccup and Ruby were still trying to locate Adelaide, but they had to stop so that Ruby can adjust her shirt. The battle with Fannmalth had ripped it to pieces and she had to cover her chest with what remained.
"Hold on a sec, I think Ragnar is getting into it with one of the enemies that there," said Ruby looking down the corridor.
"And I'm certain I can smell Adelaide somewhere nearby," said Hiccup.
"Hey, guys can you hear me?" said Speedfist's voice.
Ragnar stopped his confrontation with Keyes the moment he heard his voice.
"Speedfist?" he said.
Toothless was still flying around to locate Stoick.
"You startled me," he said.
Astrid was outside battling against Minerva and quickly jumped back to avoid her clawlike hands.
"I hear you, has something happened?" she asked.
Speedfist, Helga and Ingrid were currently in the wrecked lab with Adelaide, Snotlout and the twins.
"We found Adelaide, she's safe and sound," Speedfsit informed them.
"I'm sorry to worry you, I'm fine now," Adelaide assured.
Hiccup and Ruby were immensely relieved.
"Snotlout and the twins are with us too," Speedfist added.
"That's a relief," said Ruby. "Hey, Speedfist. Can you make it so that everybody can hear us through your telepathy?"
"Yeah, sure just hang on a second," said Speedfist as he began to concentrate. "Okay."
Ruby immediately placed two of her fingers on her forehead. "Merrill and Stormfly have pulled it off. I don't know how they did it, but they stopped Face."
Immediately everybody cheered upon the news.
"There something else we need to tell you about," Ruby added.
"Master can you hear me?" Toothless asked. "I have a message."
"Sure Toothless, I'll put you right through," said Speedfist and then he concentrated on Stoick.
"I talked to the soul of Master Hel," he said.
"What?" Stoick gasped.
"Her soul?" Valka stared. "What did she tell you?"
"She said that even though we stopped Face, it's not over. He gave us a message for Master, I don't understand what it all means but he told us that Master must unleashed the light," Toothless informed them.
"To do what?" Stoick frowned. His eyes widened. "She's talking about the Lumen Histoire. She can't be serious!"
"She seems pretty serious to me," said Toothless.
Speedfist then roared in pain.
"What's the matter?" Ingrid asked.
Speedfist then clutched his head and winced in pain.
"What's wrong?" Helga asked.
"Yeah, what's happening to you?" Snotlout asked.
"Come back, and losing the signal," said Ragnar.
"Speedfist!" Astrid yelled.
"Please pardon the interruption, I wish to talk to the Viking Guild Dragon Tail," said Zogrin's voice.
Everyone gasped.
"Someone is hijacking into Speedfist's telepathy," Helga gasped.
"Who are you?" Snotlout demanded.
"The Underworld King, Zogrin," he said. "But knowing who I am will not save you. For none of you shall live to see tomorrow." Everyone just stared at one another in confusion as Zogrin waved his hand. "Alegria!"
Suddenly the entire Cube began to shake and began to enter into a transformation. Also gravity seemed to have been dispelled meaning that most of the members at the bottom of the Cube began to fall.
The inside also began to enter into some sort of transformation as flesh-like substance began to sprout out everywhere.
"What in the Helheim is this?" Ragnar stared.
Then suddenly the strange substance began to attach itself to him and appear to be pulling him into the wall.
"It's got me, it's not letting go!"
"The Underworld King's will made flesh," said Keyes, who appear to be unaffected by any of this. "He has unleashed the Demon of Gluttony."
Hiccup and Ruby stared as everything began to change.
"The walls," Ruby stared.
"Whatever this is it's not good," said Hiccup.
Suddenly they felt themselves floating in the air.
"Hiccup help I'm being pulled in!" Ruby cried as she grabbed hold of the ground.
Hiccup extended his hand towards her. "Grab my hand!"
"I'm trying!"
Hiccup did everything he could to reach, but the local being pulled further and further apart.
The same thing was happening to Ragnar was happening to everyone else, even Astrid found herself entrapped by the strange flesh that was appearing around the Cube.
"What is all this," she said as he tried to free herself.
"Perfect," Minerva smiled as she jumped towards her. "Now I've got you!"
"No! Never!" Astrid yelled.
Toothless and Snotlout and the others found themselves being pulled in as well and nothing they could do can stop it.
"Lord Zogrin… stop Alegria… it will kill are own soldiers," said Kyôka.
"Consume everything," Zogrin commanded as if he hadn't heard a single word that Kyôka had said. "Sacrifice."
Indeed the soldiers of Helheim were finding themselves being consumed by the flesh as well. Eventually every single member of Dragon Tail being consumed and Minerva in particular was looking frustrated as she failed to strike Astrid in time.
"Stop this! She's mine!" she roared. "Damn you, Helheim! You promised me that I could kill her!"
Zogrin then began to exit his chambers leaving Kyôka suspended in the air. "We are bearing witness to the endless cycle of death and rebirth. Those foolish mortals were doomed when they set foot in here, this Cube is a prison from which escape is impossible. They are forever sealed with in the Plutogrim."
The Cube has completed his transformation and now it was a demonic beast with stone like tentacles running down its sides and a large demonic mouth in front of it. Every Dragon Tail member had infused into its flesh along with some soldiers of Helheim.
Freida just looked around. "Alegria. The word may mean happiness to some people, but to me it's something else entirely. It just means that our pats will never cross." He then sensed something unusual. "Magic power?"
Everyone could feel that small amount of magic power, even Zogrin as he wandered through the corridors.
"The Alegria swallowed many lives just now, but one seems to avoided its grasp," he noted.
That somebody was Ruby, how she avoided getting sucked in with the others was unknown. However, she fell to the ground painfully and was still a bit confused about what was going on.
"Ow," she groaned began to take in her surroundings. "What is all this? It looks like some kind of tissue."
Zogrin smiled. "The chance of surviving that curses less than 1: 1,000,000,000. What fortune… tragic. One solitary human soul left to suffer in the underworld."
