(A/N: Another short chapter for you all, I just just can't wait any longer to move onto Curse of the Emperor's Sword so expect to see some less effort put into the next chapter where they face off against all Dragons of the Sinister Four. This is also the shortest of them all as I'm not really being very... "creative" so expect to see this kind of mediocre weakness in this chapter. I'm really not too sure it's good to say this, but you all like what I wrote in this Story so I'll say it out of tradition. Enjoy!)

In the rising dawn of the morning within the Archipelago, the Knights and Dragons were all well rested and prepared to head back to Draconia. Drayko on the other hand looked out into the distance and looked very sad as he found himself to be thinking how he really was chained to doing the unrewarding deeds of the Hooligans. No it was more than sad, it was all so frustrating since he's bound by them. It changes nothing for as much distance he puts between himself and the Hooligans of Berk, he will always be chained to them no matter what happens. But now he knows that he has had enough of this mistreatment and knows that he will break his bindings and sever the bloodlines in order to disconnect from any birthrights he held to Stoick. Even if that meant faking his death

Not only were they ever so ready to take off to the skies once more, but Serena and the Water Wyverns had reported that the Dragon Hunter Brigantines led by the ruthless and ever so greedy but brute strengthened Ryker Grimborn are getting closer and closer to their location. Neither of them wanted to rick the thoughts of them being sent by the Dragon Divers' actual leader as the late Brimald was not really considered to be their leader, just a temporary one for the real leader was busy for the moment. Serena and the Water Wyverns happened to be taking a hidden exit so that neither the Hunters nor Divers would see them, but not before approaching Drayko first who was still frowning about having to tell Toothless how he felt about being their shadow of a outcast on Berk

"I will miss you, Serena..." He spoke gravely to the Leader of the Water Wyverns, not wanting to have them be murdered just because they had kept him and the Knights safe from Red Death

::Do not be sad Young Rider, my drive and I shall move onto another cove further away. We'll be diving into the deepest shadows so the Divers will not see us in the seas:: Drayko felt like he was responsible for driving them away because he was Berk's so called "Champion" and does their bidding

"Drayko, you know you judge yourself too harsh. You see yourself more like an prisoner without hope to give himself a chance to rebuild himself, all I see is you regretting the past like I have when we first met each other" Cloudjumper told him before nudging his face

::Cloud's right, Young Rider. None of this is your responsibility that we're being driven away, we offered out home to you and your friends from the clutches of Red Death. We always chance coves every few months to be on the safe side, we were due to leave soon anyways; no one is really safe when the Bane of Queens controls the skies:: Serena soothed his feeling of regret

::What Kraelos has for you is a gift from our cove:: Lobeila told him with Kraelos placing down the large pouch, it was filled with loathesome amounts of peacock blue shimmering scales. Toothless saw this as rather uncommon for Water Wyverns to give out a gift such as that willingly

::Devouring a single scale shed from us will allow Underwater Respiration for nine hours, take care Drayko as for us to give our scales willingly is a rare time; but when the time calls for us to do such as these, know that we always have more than enough to shed:: Kraelos told him

(A/N: In Protection of the Nightfury by EmeraldNeko, the time of eating a scale from the Water Wyverns was 1 Hour. When I first read that story, that clearly wasn't enough time so I decided to extend it to 9 Hours; it's a good idea isn't it? That way, the users who have devoured something like that can pass the time while they wait for the effect to wear off. You really should read the story to see the differences between here and EmeraldNeko's since this was based off her story)

"Thanks, all of you..." Drayko took the large pouch and hid them well inside of his armor before scratching them all underneath their chins, making them all coo in pleasure before he stood up. "It'll be hard to know when Sol can speak, especially when you're all a rare sight to come by" He spoke to himself, still in pain of not having the chance to see them again

::Young Rider, if you are in where the seas surround us all and require the aid of the Water Wyverns, do not hesitate to call for us. We will meet again, I know that you will prevail in murdering Red Death, the Bane of Queens once and for all as we will be there when the time comes at long last:: Drayko nodded as Serena, Lobeila, Sol and Kraelos all dived into the water of the hidden exit

Toothless walked over to him and softly bit on his armor with his gums, tugging backwards as they needed to leave to escape undetected from the Hunters and Divers. Drayko turned sluggishly towards him and nodded, following his Night Fury friend and mounting him before taking off to the skies high above; being followed by the other Knights as they leave out of Ryker's line of sight and smell, which was one of the reasons how he captured Stormfly back then during his earlier years. While they flew together and the Knights engaged in their own conversations, Drayko shuffled his tassets that were made by Bladehead for his armor. Although he's worn them all the time with his armor, Bladehead strengthened them using the same material that he's used back on Berk when he decided to abandon that shithole of a Island. Speaking of which, Toothless could still feel his now less severe suffering of having to be reminded of doing the bidding of his father and the Berk Council; he was a prisoner of their unrewarding tasks 'n deeds, it was all bullshit to him

In order to take off the unbearable torture of having to be the Hooligans' errand and delivery boy, he brought out his spyglass and looked around the oceans; Fishlegs was talking to Raedwit when Drayko made an sound of interest, yet sounded like he was moaning to himself without opening his mouth once. "What is it, you see any Thunderdrums? An pod of Seashockers?"

"No, we have not seen this one before..." The Dragon spotted from his spyglass happened to be an gigantic Tidal Dragon that was mainly an dark blue with some earth green spots surrounded by black outlines. It had a large fin lining on it's back and sported some barnacles that covered certain parts of it's body like a whale, not to mention a expandable gullet of a throat that allowed it to become translucent like a glass bottom boat. Unfortunately, he is in no mood to discover more about this Tidal Dragon but it is essentially a peaceful one according to his ever fragmenting mind

"A deep dweller, wonder how big it is. Native to warmer seas? I need details right here!"

"Like I would want to learn about the Fathomfin over flying back to Draconia and prepare for anymore of the Sinister Four's attacks..." Drayko slouched forward on Toothless and remained in his sluggish state

"Someone didn't sleep too well last night I see, but you were talking to Serena and the others as Raedwit informed me" Valka took notice to Drayko's grumpiness

"You can not imagine what it feels to have the Chains of Hooligans chained to you at all times, bound by their Tribe that doesn't want you with them; forced to do their dirty work and in the end, release your anger all because you risked what you have for nothing. Only to get no rewards for your servitude and thrown out like a puppy in Chiliban's freezing hell courtesy of the one and only Hooligans of the Isle of Berk" He spoke silently in a disappointed tone, not angry but just wondering how much longer is it gonna be before they take down Red Death because he cannot take any more of these detours always getting in the way. During his time on Berk, Stoick always wanted him to look like this...

Stoick's vision of Hiccup was an tall, prideful, honorable, no nonsense and beefy looking Viking, he wielded the Frostheart Axe in his one hand while wearing very little armor has it showed some of his skin. His two shoulder guards were thick sturdy strips of leather with some Gronckle Iron thrown in there for reniforcement, they went across both of his upper body's muscles while his back was fully covered with yak fur to keep him warm from the cold; not to mention for someone his age, he had an grown beard already as if he was blessed by Odin and Thor while be kept out of reach of Loki. His dark auburn beard covered his cheeks completely and went across both the upper and lower part of his ears that were covered by his hair, it wasn't a patchy beard with some skin shown; no it was a full beard. It went over his lip smoothly with the edges going diagonally upward and then having an straight line after that. The hair of the beard was combed downward and straight with no exceptions, it's bottom edges had it's own sharp pointed bangs that went slightly curled outward on the sides while it remained down on the front; his Axe always rested on his back when not in use. Finally, the hook that held the Frostheart Axe rightside up was shaped like the Norse version of the Omega symbol that appeared when the weapon feasts on the blood of whoever it's foes were, be it Hunter or Dragon (A/N: I know I'm giving him the Kratos PS4 Norse look with the exception of the Beard and Frostheart Axe, but this is supposed to be Stoick's expectations of his son being a man like he in his childhood as a Hooligan Viking)

That's what Stoick would've wanted to see him, but when he grew up with him; this is all he has become: short, weak, lack of muscles, really fucking deep hatred against his Tribe, courage driven over honor driven as if the latter really did anything to benefit him other than to get treated like a prisoner who's forced to do their dirty work with no reward at the end, and always acting like a dick towards everyone as they all act do the same to him

HTTYD

As they were getting closer to Draconia, an cry was heard from a nearby Island that forced the Knights to head over to the direction of where the Dragon was heard; turned out to be an Speed Stinger but not as one would normally look like. Without warning, an fog of smoke had clouded their surroundings and forced the Knights to band together against this attack by the final member of the Sinister Four; to which Fishlegs knew that their foe also possessed an welding torch fire to try and attack them, Hookfang growled when the foe revealed itself to them. The ever so pride filled Nightmare could never forget the day from what it had done at the Rookery where he was born

Hookfang was an hatchling at the time of when this happened, he was old enough to fly and fight; but too young to counter this assault by his own. A arrogant and lone Smoldering Smokebreath thought it would be funny to try and attack him, he did fight him off but unfortunately he was unable to stop him from attacking the others; not even others of his own species were safe from this annoying arrogant pest sent by Red Death, the Bane of Queens is always snatching away Dragons from their homes and forcing them under her rule. She told him of letting a incident involving defiance to be a lesson to him, telling him of how she has destroyed all rebellions made against her as no Dragon must betray their own powerful queen like her and every Human must be destroyed by her unlimited power. Like the Gods of Olympus especially the bitch known as Athena, she too overestimates herself

(A/N: The hatred for Athena is to be explained later on in another Trilogy, which will be explained at the end of this Chapter...)

Now was the time to take the fight to his own claws, especially now that Raijah was with him by his side; the fight quickly began as the Scorching Vigilante shot it's claws towards the Smoldering Smokebreath before pulling it towards him, allowing Hookfang to conjure a wing blast to stun it to the ground. Dragur threw his scythe towards the stabbed Smokebreath due to Raijah's claws being really sharp and set on fire, before taking it out of it's scales and allowing Maria to pump this evil servant of Red Death with her deadly Nadder Spike arrows

Being the stubborn and arrogantly smug Smokebreath that it is, it began to fire off it's torch like fire towards the Knights and instead had their Dragons fight him; to which he was no match for thanks to their combined power. Toothless and Barf 'n Belch's combined attack had caused an deadly combo of both Plasma and Gas 'n Spark a serious threat to anyone who tries to go against them. Hookfang and Skullcrusher's were even worse, especially when the fact that Cloudjumper and Storm's relentless brutal assault was further proving that this Smokebreath should really have many of it's own kind by now. Nonetheless this arrogant Smokebreath believed that it doesn't need his own kind, but it's going to eat those words when it's fated time comes

Eventually it boiled down to Hookfang beating down on the Smokebreath and forcing it to retreat, not accepting his defeat but retreating to heal from the wounds for now. At least until Raedwit created an Illusion of Muspelheim's fires taking it down and finally exposing the Smokebreath for the cowardly fighter that it is; either way, it did not learn it's lesson at all once during this brief encounter of a battle. It was not interesting and it only showed when Drayko was walking away alone by himself towards the source of the cry, he was getting impatient, just wanting to put a end to Red Death already and move on with other things in his life

"Drayko, what's with you today?" Maria asked

"I feel bored, I just want to kill Red Death already but..." He trailed off at the end, his Sparrow like attention span kicking in once again. Yawning and stretching out before Bladehead threw a kick towards his face

"Snap the hell out of it laddie, don't ya' go nappin' on me because you got none of tha' beauty sleep! We got ourselves an threat out there!" He screamed at him

"Let's go and find the source of the cry and return back to Draconia immediately" He replied calmly before leaving on his own again, Storm walked up to his Blacksmith Rider and growled to him. For a Dragon of such agressive, prideful and stubborn species; Storm is no exception and no different, but has seen this fatigue before from the time that he had spent with him on the icy shipwrecked Island where neither of the two wanted to interact with each other. Drayko had told him how he wanted to free and liberate all Dragons away from Red Death, but at that time it was only because he was missing his Night Fury. Here, this fatique was present more so due to his inner conflict with his shrouded past, very little pieces of information had slipped through the cracks and entered his mind; and a Skrill like him knows the kind of fatique he's having, and he doesn't blame him one bit

Of course when the Knights had come to find the source of the cry, it just so happened to be a Speed Stinger of all Dragons; but there was something rather different about this one. This Speed Stinger had fins on the back of it's legs with a thicker tail than the others with two spikes on it's tail, this one also sported two backward curved spikes on the back of it's head with it's fin in the middle and two others in the back. It's red eye also had an thick windswept eyebrow that went atop of both eyes while it's fangs were bigger and sharper, the claws and webbed talons were even more so; not to mention another two spikes curved backwards in the front. There was an smaller and thinner fin on it's forehead and this one also sported some Velociraptor like tiger stripes on it's back outlined by an silver color. Finally, it's stinger was thicker and deadlier. Fishlegs identified it as a Titan Wing while Raedwit found the source of the issue right before him

The Illusionist walked over to the source of the disturbance and picked it up. The long rectangular shaped black Quiver was grouped together in two, both of them having two belt straps tightened to keep them close to each other at all times; with another long belt going across to hold it on the user's back. It's edges were gold with the traditional Nordic designs engraved onto them, the designs this time around happened to be more associated with Muspelheim due to the volcanic lava markings on them. The arrows were long as they had Raven Feathers for the fletches and the nocks were steady, able to be clipped on and fired away without hindrance; while the tip was thinned out and slightly curved upward, two pronged like the spear of the Berserkers and the hellish pitchfork belonging to that of Hades himself. The Speed Stinger growled at the sight of that Quiver, backing away from it

"It's just a Quiver you numbnut, there's no sign of a human settlement on this Island" Raijah told the Speed Stinger, who in response shook it's head and pointed elsewhere to them; snarling in fear at the sight of whoever was stalking it, coming from an little cliff with a short cave inside. Clearly sombody didn't like being watched, so what better way than having Drayko climb up to investigate; which he did just that and returned with no evidence that someone was there

"There's nothing inside, they're trying to stall us while they're attacking Draconia; let's go and put a end to this right now" Without another word, he mounted onto Toothless and took off. All of it was not clearly true at all in fact, the truth is was that he had encountered signs of the Unknown Fugitive being present and scaring the Speed Stinger outside; but not the actual person himself, but he does know that he was here thanks to the unusual gifts that the Unknown Fugitive left behind such as the Quiver that Raedwit picked up for example

"Sorry but it's time for us to leave, we'll come back later alright?" Fishlegs stroked the Titan Wing Speed Stinger before following Drayko back to Draconia, the others doing not long after as they all mounted their Dragons and took off to the skies. The Speed Stinger of course followed them back to Draconia as it wanted to make up for stalling them from their main mission

But as they returned to Draconia in order to fight off this assault by the Sinister Four, Koletentras, the chimera pet belonging to the Unknown Fugitive/Enigmatic Cloaked Figure as Ryker would call him if he'd ever meet someone like him, appeared from out of nowhere and looked on. Standing bipedally and letting the wind blow through his fur, until an Terror landed next to him and ran off with him; taking a ride in his little pouch before returning to his Master, who disappeared in the wind and left nothing behind. Not even the tracks to indicate that he was ever here

Once again, his identity remains exactly like his name suggests: Unknown...


If you're wondering why Drayko was not acting like himself is because... I feel the same here, now you know why this Chapter was weak. This attack by Red Death is really putting a nail in my mind and the Next Chapter is no better than the last, but it finally does get Drayko's desire to have the Dragons freed from Red Death at a closing end so at least there's that. Now the Bonus Chapter I've mentioned before awhile back did add in some relief since I mentioned that Mildew is about to meet his fate, and it also marks the debut of a Nadder from Outcast Island to which I changed the name since the former is lazy and uncreative. It should also be mentioned that it's focused around the mysterious Frostheart Axe as it will be given the Bladehead treatment when the backstory about it is revealed

The Next Trilogy I mentioned is more about Drayko and his three sons from youngest, next oldest to eldest going on adventures with Toothless and other such allies. The 5th one is heavily involved with Greek Mythology and the hatred for Athena will be revealed in the next "A/N" I have for you. Anyways if you hate this story then don't fuckin' read it, otherwise Feel Free to Review and Until we meet again...

TheLegendaryBlackDragonKnight

P.S: I've gotten myself a name for a Desert City for a little future Story, I have the name written as "Rathalonius, Dellrosen" which the latter refers to the part of the Desert Region. There was also another name called the "Desert of the Decayed Kings" which is known for their heavy, deadly and thick sandstorms with the shadow of the molten sun looming over the travelers. The future story is based on HTTYD 3: The Hidden World with Drayko having to counter the lonesome feeling with the courage of letting go, none of this matters to Snotbitch...