(A/N: Now this is a chapter where things get gruesome and interesting because Maeve will be telling Mikekolt the truth about how she became the Matron of Dragons that she is today as well as giving him and Drayko a reason to her atrocious actions, but although she is evil as it was made clear to him before; that doesn't mean that her Buffalord is the same as the Titan Wing itself discovers the truth on it's own. This could be a longer chapter but then again they don't spent too much time here in the Unfathomable Marshlands, three areas and captured in that matter; but the rest is up to you to read what happens next in this chapter as there's not much of fighting Titan Wings here at all. This chapter has updated since it's initial posting as well. Enjoy)
Not too long ago Mikekolt had been brought to Draconia in order to heal from his injures to in which he did fast as darkblood now ran in his veins but this time it was multiple doses of it so that it would become dominant over his human redblood. In return for having his life be kept safe by the likes of his Dragons he had gathered some new abilities of his own featuring even greater than what his previous transfusion for when he had to save his half-brother. This gave him greater power, faster speed, have him take deadlier beatings, make fantastic leaps right in the air as well as giving his tracking skills a much better height at finding whoever it was he was looking for; he was still human though so at least there's that as Drayko's blood did have the same effect on him whenever he got angry like his half-brother once after he was taken out by that priest they fought together. Now it was time to return back to the mission at hand as they headed out to the Unfathomable Marshlands which was composed of multiple small islands covered in swamp vegetation and large rocks, a small amount of fog is floating at any time of the year over the islands as well
However when Mikekolt did not recover until much later in the day Tuskfang was restless and fearful about his fate as it was still unclear if he could survive after what happened back then, he knew he was alive and kicking on the riverbank but all of this was just making him nervous altogether; Toothless comforted him by taking him under his wing to soothe him about his as well as his fears of him not surviving, although he did get a feeling of falling in love with their Night Fury ally that he and his other comrades have come to bow before him. He knew what he was feeling and for the sake of his pettiness on just how afraid he was about Mikekolt going to die on them, he took him Drayko's bedroom where no one was watching before giving him just what his friend asked for; he may have mated for life but that's not what mattered to him the most at the moment as what he's doing is out of pitfulness and Aythro could understand a thing like that, the more the merrier for their future children so why not? Toothless could not be unfaithful to her since there was no other mate he cared for than her, and what he's doing is for soothing Tuskfang of his fear about his rider; Grimmel would never let any of the others do something like that and he's glade he doesn't have to deal with him anymore. As soon as it was finished and over with Tuskfang returned to his rider to see that he had awakened, not in the slightest aware that his Deathgripper had just mated with their Alpha; he'll find out when he sees him actually lay an egg but for now he had no idea what went on in the bedroom, but that doesn't make Tuskfang attracted to males
Their first destination in mind was the Wrecker's Bay which was waterlogged with points of higher elevation and the unsubmerged areas were very rocky, unusual dark rock spikes had jutted high above the waterline which was a stable in this region; flat areas atop and around the landmasses with grass and other vegetation growing above the waterline. Some trees as well as pink foliage along with liberal amounts of pink flowers copied those that were cherry trees, the waterways appear to be very shallow which may owe to the abundance of sunken longships in the area regardless of these vessels' shallow drafts. For this region there was just about enough to fight like Whispering Deaths, Boneknappers and Ghastly Zapplejacks; easy is this area's middle name right here as there's nothing to say about that new hybrid at all, just a Zippleback to Timberjack hybrid as soon as they landed on one of the small isles of the region
The one to join him this time around was no else than Drayko himself as they both landed on the same island as them, nothing to say but just to move onto fighting off the next general of this region was it was the last of the five generals in each of the five main regions; Fuld was a really disgruntled hunter for two reasons as for one Mikekolt made fun of him and two, he is a total absolute departure from all of the other Dragon Hunters they ever fought; he carried a spear this time around which is a good choice for someone of his stature. Men following what he says on his command are in short supply and every one of them think so little of him, that is the truth speaking right there. The following Dragon Root poisoned victims all mentioned before attacked the group but they knew better than to attack Drayko, as he showed his ally and student of the School of Dragons how he really deals in taking out these enraged victims
The Zippleback and Timberjack hybrid was the first to attack and what a grave mistake that is as he swiftly dodged their screen of gas one of the heads sprayed before igniting the cloud by using the other head's oil based firenova that blew up nothing in the sky. Drayko jumped and slammed both fists against their skulls which had burned with the use of plasma bolts that his brother helped ignite beforehand, landing an backflipping kick while he was still in the air to both of their jaws and injecting the antidote right to their necks as they fell out of the sky and into the waters below; he was caught by Toothless underneath as the rest of the battle fell like a line of dominoes
Mikekolt dealt with the Boneknapper easily by jumping onto it's back and hacking away at it's armor of bones to have it scatter about, forcing the Titan Wing into throwing him off in order to get it's bones back to use it's mating call; thus allowing him to fire the antidote into it's skin as it pierced through it's scales and injected the serum into it's veins. Having the Titan Wing fall from the air into the ocean below. Drayko preformed a flying kick to a Titan Wing Whispering Death that managed to uppercut the hundred fang serpent beast upwards, swinging from a quill adorned on it's scales before jumping off to fire the antidote into it's veins as the darkblood from within. The Husbogle did no better as the two of them finished it off within a few short seconds, as neither of them let this hybrid get off with a merciful ending to finish it off; throwing a ignited punch to break it's quill adorned jaw before injecting the antidote into it's blood before throwing the hybrid to a nearby seastack, getting back onto Toothless as they flew off to the next area. They are going to keep this trek through the Unfathomable Marshlands very brief right here this time
The second area called The Absent Ocean is primarily composed of marine water with a large southern island and an small northern isle as these landmasses were dry as well as desolate, having little vegetation in exchange for the Hushbogle hybrid; there weren't any Titan Wings here but there were Komodo Units awaiting to ambush them as soon as they landed, which was now as they both approached. Everyone got into their ambush positions where they soon landed and began their trap that the two of them had just sprung
Drayko and Mikekolt both landed on the larger desolate landmass where the Komodo Unit began shooting at them, forcing them into taking cover with the former firing his shield for his projectile weapon while his student dealt with taking them on with his second sword by slashing through their bulked power armor that pumped them full of darkblood to deal with them both. Mikekolt rapidly fired his crossbow to the soldiers as the swordsmen blocked the arrows but eventually went down, bringing out his second sword to slash their bodies with a force to send them flying off to the sides and into the air; killing them as he then fired off an Deathgripper Acid Flare Bomb towards a incoming group which exploded in a corrosive bath, even getting onto one who was attacking Drayko. Speaking of which the Knight took this time to use his projectile axes to throw directly towards them, chopping into their skulls deeply in great power; with a few of their necks being chopped through as well
Another round of soldiers came jumping off from above the cliffs before tackling Mikekolt to the floor, beating him to a pulp before he kicked them off and used his new strength to have their necks crushed under his grip as he threw a few of the dead bodies into a group on their right flank. Drayko's birthmark glowed before he landed a two punch combo and a jumping spin kick off to the left side where they were thrown off the edge, while Mikekolt grabbed large piles of rocks to carry into a sling he picked up from the ground and launched them all towards his opponents; discarding the weapon afterwards as he then picked up a sword on the corner for him to use since he didn't really get too much chances to use his family tactic he called Weapon Adaption. Slashing violently off from the sides before firing an arrow into the soldiers eyes, legs and even their throats until he threw it away by launching it towards another incoming soldier on the right. They didn't have time for this and so they made a run for it with the Komodo Unit hot on their trail, taking the fight to the next area
The Haunted Marshes being the third location was waterlogged with higher elevation points and their unsubmerged areas were rocky but flat surface spires, having a northern mountain that was small while a small one in the southern; coastline on the east and nothing too much to be see on the west. Being that the mountain in the north was large enough for them to keep running, they immediately flew there and landed; finding a clearing in the forest where it was here that they were once again ambushed for the second time. Now with even more soldiers coming after them as the previous group caught up, now it's a real fight that they're asking for
"Here we go now, do not let them take either of us out of the fight!" Drayko warned him
"You do not have to tell me twice about that, so let's do this!" Mikekolt nodded as his response
Drayko began the fight as he came in with Inferno drawn to his side, slashing violently to the sides across their chests before jumping up to the air and swinging downwards; splitting their skulls in half as well as their bodies, throwing a projectile axe towards them that pinned their corpses to the trees. Mikekolt swung his second sword in a rapid session of fast but powerful strikes against the few of their attacks, some of which used their tusked riot shields to charge in his direction; stabbing him through before he kicked him away and ripped it out right from his chest with a load of pain reigning over him, but calming down as he'll heal when the time passes. Many more soldiers of the Komodo Unit jumped to the corners of the clearing arena, coming at the both of them with their swords to cut through their armor; but Drayko had took two of them out at once with his skills in swordsmanship, bashing them with his shield and a elbow charge to their throats. Mikekolt came running over to one who was about to strike in the back before preforming a flying kick to the face, with a scissors choke to the next attacker being preformed by Drayko when he saw that his student was about to be attacked on his left by running and jumping into the air; sailing through with his legs splitting off before gripping his helmet, slamming the soldier down to the ground
Mikekolt rapidly fired his crossbow without stopping at the incoming Komodo Units who held their swords ready to dispose of him, blocking the arrows with a few swings of the blade but this distracted them from Drayko attacking from their other sides. He grabbed a nearby club and swiftly made his heavy swings towards their jaws and their cheekbones, with the sound of bones breaking altogether echoing out to the area; causing a shockwave when he threw it overhead into a pile of fallen injured soldiers for a low blow at them. Grabbing a spear for an limited number of throws as he did just that, throwing them at his opponents while some of them missed; most of them had pierced right through them at great force; although once a single one was left he threw it into the air and split into multiple spears all at once, raining a shower of spears down onto the incoming soldiers of the Komodo Unit. No one's safe when a fight like this was true chaos whenever they struck, bringing out his tusked shield for defense against their heavy firepower they're packing on them; he then began to run up to them all as he plowed right through the ever so increasing group of soldiers who blocked the arrows that were fired. With the tusks on his shield he pinned them all up against the walls, bleeding out onto the grass
Drayko jumped into the air and redirected the Deathgripper Acid Flare Bomb with a kick to it's real targets, exploding into combustible acid flares before Mikekolt jumped right through the fire to chop downward through the soldiers; chopping into their sides with a tomahawk in his hand before switching to the legs as they fell to the floor in pain, of course they did fire their cables towards him. Yanking the one who launched the restraining cable onto his arm before cutting their throat, the grass below them was becoming blood and the body count was even bigger than normal; because just how many are these Komodo Unit soldiers are coming from? Every now and then their Dragons aided them with a round of firepower from above, raining devastating flames as well as other types such as plasma to even screams that disoriented an round of their enemies; allowing both Drayko and Mikekolt to kill them both in a quicker and deadlier way. One of the Komodo Unit fired a restraining cable to the former but was thrown over to the other side when Drayko growled, taking the soldier's cable that also got onto his chest after preforming the previous action and spinning him all around himself like a rodeo that ended with the soldier flying off out of bounds of their arena they fought in. During that point however Mikekolt had been shoulder tackled to the ground before getting battered to the floor, blood splintering off from his mouth to his face and pouring out from the soldier's attempt to gouge both of his eyes; but Drayko came to his rescue and snapped the soldier's neck with a loud crack. Now there were fewer of them left but they're still just as deadlier as before as although he had darkblood running in his veins, this was giving him quite the toll of his exertion of relentless fighting to bath in the bloodshed of the ambush; Drayko took notice and he was bound to tell him before he was interrupted by another Komodo Unit soldier who sent a cheekbone breaking punch to the side of his face
Drayko turned to land a killing blow on the soldier when he coldly broke his spinal cord with a death guaranteed smash, he spoke to Mikekolt afterwards with no interruptions thankfully: "Go off without me, I and your Dragons out of their safety for what happens ahead will stay behind; there's not that many Komodo Unit soldiers left to begin with!" Drayko gave his order as Mikekolt nodded before running off, keeping the projectile axes he was given to him and his second sword that he took from him before giving him the command to go on; there's just something not right that's about to happen up ahead and he's keeping a few of his arsenal for Bladehead to buff along with Roachkolt as both of them are the best damn blacksmiths that a Archipelago like this can ever ask for
Finally he reached the Liar's Mire which happened to be a Dragonroot Company outpost as the last of the five generals for each of the main regions stood his ground holding a spear; Fuld the Field was his name and he's suffered enough of Mikekolt's riducle for the way he looks, but he will tolerate this no more. "You and your leader are not as wise as the Vikings among our Archipelago make out to be" Fuld disgruntledly told him
"Neither are you for a small fry, get out of my way Fuld" Mikekolt remained unthreatened
"I demand that you address me by my full title: Fuld the Field if it's the one thing that you may actually follow for once in your life, you reptile lover" The departure from all Dragon Hunters known for their robust looks was easily irritated by people not addressing him as what his title is. Even more so when Maeve isn't fully addressed as the Matron of Dragons
"Bite me you tiny shit because Drayko and I have left your shipment of Komodo Units in a very short supply, but oh well because they think so little of your after all" Mikekolt let himself laugh at his own two terrible jokes as Fuld got angry
"You cannot measure up to the glory of our Madame Maeve, the Matron of Dragons" Fuld pointed at him
"Your right about that but here's the thing: I'll let you do the real MEASURING when I go all out commando on you, how's that sound for Maeve then huh?" Mikekolt roasted and asked him as Fuld was seeing red
"Final warning: address her by her full title, NOW!" Fuld pointed his spear at his neck to which he took it from him, breaking it in half before throwing the remains off the cliffs; giving this response
"You are a very sad and irritating little toddler for such a fiend, in fact it makes me wish that Askari of Ashes had been the one to be my final challenge when taking all of your out of job for a second time. Pathetic as you'll ever be, darling..." Mikekolt insulted at the end as Fuld tackled into him as he didn't move a inch, pounding on his body as he ruthlessly tried to hit him as hard as he could. But he wouldn't have it and instead threw off to the ground, being more like a bully to him
Mikekolt then grabbed Fuld the Fiend by the throat before dragging him through the outpost, finding a locker for him as he opened the door; throwing him inside as he told him: "Now stay in there!" He closed and locked the door as his poundings were heard from inside, muffled in the locker were death threats to his father and half-brother. Mikekolt slammed a kick to the locker which had him hit right in the groinal area, of course some urine also began leaking when he left; he was ready to leave the wetlands region as the last of the generals didn't give him a reason to fight at all because he fought those Komodo Unit soldiers for nothing, what a load of bullshit in the membrane
No sooner than later the Komodo Unit had dropped down through using some cables similar to their restraining whip cables to do what the name says, with a soldier grabbing him by the back of the head before punching him in the gut and uppercutting him; the next one kept on the assault by throwing a double right hook which Mikekolt could block the first one before getting beaten by the left hook in his gut once again as it seemed to be his most vulnerable part, all while blood and slobber was shed. The third one landed a double punch to his left gut before getting ready in a combat stance with both arms up, a right and left hook with a uppercut to the jaw as the soldier's attack while Mikekolt was staggering backwards while standing; now his face was beginning to bleed with some blood streaming down, the fourth one held onto his right shoulder before landing a series of rythmatic punched directly to his face; he was losing his balance by kept standing. The fifth one turned him around and landed two more left and right hooks to his back, not done there he sent a gut punch before giving a elbow strike that had Mikekolt cough up to the air; lasso of liquid blood flew right out of his mouth as well as his nose as his forehead was really streaming all down with blood from the top, collapsing to the floor onto his knees. The sixth one pounded him back down when he tried to get back up to his feet, taking him up by the armpit before elbowing across his face; the seventh one caught him before headbutting him, slamming his helmet two more times before preforming a third one sideways this time. Mikekolt backed off out of dizziness and the eighth one spun his arm around, looking at him before delivering a full blown maximum hammer directly to his face; sending him flying backwards onto the floor where he believed to have taken care of him after stomping on his face, however that was not the case as he is still conscious enough to stand up
The Komodo Unit warned him not to move as they pointed their crossbows at him, getting up from his hard beating before turning to face them; suddenly he grabbed one of the weapons to throw one of the soldiers off to the side, giving a revolving kick to the other as he then had his knee restrained with him pointing his own crossbow at the third who tried to help. Looks like he has the upperhand over them now but his exertion has taken it's toll when he heard a sound, footsteps approaching as it was no other than Maeve the Matron of Dragons; having a sword in her hand that she once used to commit a very atrocious act of infanticide had it not been that one moment that would make her into the Matron that she was today. He released his leg off the soldier and did what Maeve asked him to do by throwing his Revenant's Talon over to her, however the Komodo Unit soldiers kicked it away before one of them broke it by dismantling it into pieces; now he had no other projectile weapon to defend himself with as his swords were also taken along with his arsenal. Maeve, the Matron of Dragons approached him silently. "Do you want to die now or after Draconia falls, which one is more suitable?" She asked him as he responded
"I'll die after I kill you, Maeve. Whatever you've done to your Buffalord ends now" Mikekolt gruffly declared as she chuckled
"You have spirit and that's something that I like, but you're misguided from what you've been given to by Savage; here is what happened and I expect that Drayko is also listening as well as this is how I came to be: Those wild Dragons shattered my dreams of a quiet family life as the devils took my child, I swore that I would either rid this Archipelago of them or die trying; all you've heard from stories like these before of course. I took up my sword and sought out the nearest one I can find to begin my campaign of retribution for what I've lost, from the center of a grassy knoll happened to be an abandoned Buffalord nest full of eggs; you know what I did next" Maeve felt uncomfortable when it came to keeping this story to herself but now she has a captive to hear her tale
"You son of a bitch..." Mikekolt growled upon thinking of the first thing that came to his mind
"I smashed them all one after another in the fury of my vengeance, before I could be able to kill them all to ensure that neither of the children survived like mine; one of them hatched at that moment. I would've raised my sword to finish my mission but I couldn't have it, the face of pure love from that shell had me take pity on the purple hatchling; if I can't have my child then neither can the parents who abandoned this nest. I took him as my own and recovered my dropped sword before leaving, what I did was justified as both me and it's parents were in the gray zone; they abandoned the nest when they loved their children and I killed them but took pity on one when I couldn't escape my lost child. Slowly but surely I worked my way up to the newly formed Dragonroot Company whose founder is better left unspoken, no one knew whoever it was that formed the business operation. On that day as I came to become a leader known as the Matron of Dragons, my Buffalord helped me climb the ranks up there as I can fill the void left by the death of Drago Bludvist as he is playing a very vital role in my plans to return the business of hunting back to the ones who have lost everything on that battle at Whiteburah Island; Mierveia Vde Rallie you call it if you prefer" Maeve finished her story as it was painful but it was worth telling him everything about what made her the way that she is
"There were less explicit ways of handing in finding retribution that you deserved, but what you did back there and then was NOT forgivable by my standards; now I have a reason to kill you before I die" Mikekolt's anger was beginning to leak from his gruff tone of voice
"I have left my story for you to tell to anyone else wanting to know the truth about me, but I will not forget this moment here; until I fight both you and Drayko, the Archipelago is all that remains in my mind. Farewell for now..." Maeve made his departure afterwards
A Komodo Unit soldier walked behind Mikekolt with a pyramid spike adorned kanabo club in hand before he heavily slammed it against the back of the starting point of his spinal cord in a attempt to knock him out, shooting out a thick layer of darkblood in the process but Mikekolt did not fall as he lowered his head and growled with the others walked around. He turned to look at the soldier who tried to knock him out but brought out his sword in alert when it looked like it didn't work out beyond angering him, he approached slowly at the soldier getting out a knife before stabbing him in the throat; at the same time he then fell like a pile of rocks with a grunt and his knife stabbing another one in the boot which ripped through the soldier's foot underneath. Taking his knife to add to the rest of his arsenal, a Komodo Unit soldier told the others in his heavily filtered gruff and similar evil shadow voice: "Take him away, Savage is going to show him what hell is really like back at Dragonroot Company headquarters"
But as the Komodo Unit left taking Mikekolt as their prisoner back to headquarters, Drayko had listened in to the entire story; leaving on Toothless as he knows he'll find a way out of their headquarters, for now he's got a family to rally up on his own. Mikekolt's Dragons as they looked down at the sight left with Drayko, as Frynir comforted Tuskfang and decided that he could use someone to love; although she better make sure no one's watching the action from behind closed doors as they can't risk letting anyone know what they've been doing, Toothless however knew what they were going to do and he couldn't blame them. Earlier on he did the same out of calming him down about his rider's fear of losing him as someone like him is not willing to back to Grimmel, he knows about how much torture the rest of the pack is facing by being drugged relentlessly without rest; poor Deathgrippers and even more so when Maeve's Buffalord listened in about what happened and how he came to be raised by her, now he was conflicted and his heart began to doubt
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Savage looked over the now dead victim he had been beating to interrogate some info out of him, but killed him out trying to increase the pressure in order to persuade him to cooperate; he shook his head: "I guess he's dead. Now then you're going to be more entertaining than he was, killed a Dragon Hunter for nothing in vain; but first let's have a look at your body and see the kind of man you are" Savage walked over to Mikekolt who had an black garbage back over his head, tightly wrapped around his throat with thick bandages for waterboarding; his hands constricted above to the ceiling while suspended from the floor underneath him, stripped of his upper clothing for the rest of everyone to look at as Savage inspected him. Giving out this response:
"Hmm... what a beautiful and envy inducing body you have, but you've been in more battles than one; so that makes you a tough fighter. Not for long because I am about to demonstrate to you about what hell is really like for the sinners of the Archipelago, now let's get started with this as I'm not just the best lieutenant of the Outcasts but also the greatest and ultimately the best interrogation specialist for the Berserkers" Savage placed on his rock knuckle blunt fighting gloves meant for torturing, glorifying himself when in actuality he was the worst when it came to getting information about what they wanted to know about
Savage landed a blow to his rib: "What are you really after?" He landed a second blow to his stomach: "Is it the Dragon Root mining operations?!" A third blow was aimed to his left side: "Or Maeve's Buffalord!?" He aimed another fourth blow to his upper ribs: "Or maybe it's our treasure, the Armor of Bludvist!?"
He continued to throw more punches to multiple parts of his bruising body: "Answer me, dammit! Who else is helping you out?" He slammed his fist against his gut: "Who let you discover our true plans to carry on the motives of the fallen Dragon God?" He smashed his arms towards his chest but had no luck in getting him to speak as Savage growled in frustration: "You're a strong and tough prisoner but men like you have limits, I am a very patient man when it comes to interrogation"
"That's bullshit!" Tyree Treewalker called him out
"You're supposed to GET information from him, not GIVE HIM information about us!" Askari scolded
"You are the worst interrogation specialist for a tribe I have ever seen" Bjarke growled
"Shut up the hell up back there, or he's not the only one who's going to feel what hell is like!" Savage threatened them, refusing to admit that he cannot interrogate someone as even basic like Mikekolt
It was here that Savage brought in a Titan Wing Skrill inside of the heavily dried bloodstained torture room, with him pulling down a chain to shower Mikekolt with very warm to slightly in the middle hot water from a bucket that sprinkled everywhere from above onto his skin; like that his prisoner was beginning to burn from the evaporating heat as beads of water dripped and streamed down, it never did go anywhere near his pants though. Savage had the water to continuously sprinkle down onto him as he sadistically smiled: "Here's where the fun begins this time, so let's see how much fun you'll love this!" With his weapon in hand he slammed his blunt and roughly double edged Outcast axe down onto the Titan Wing Skrill's leg, forcing it to fry Mikekolt as he let out a growlish yell that didn't last for long; smoke came out of his skin but the water kept pouring onto him
"Now tell me, how much does whoever is helping you out know?" Savage demanded but Mikekolt shook his covered head, telling him his answer that whoever was helping him knew nothing about what he's interrogating him about; but he took it for refusal to cooperate instead. He shocked him again with his yells in electrical pain becoming actual screams of a tortured victim being flogged half to death
"They're after the Armor, aren't they?!" Savage shocked him once again in his left side which provoked more of a scream than a yell, but still remained in the latter; Savage was getting very impatient now contradicting his earlier statement that he's a patient man
"Your real target is the Armor of Bludvist isn't!?" When he saw that he shook his head, once again he mistranslated as refusal to cooperate, this time he decided to shock him for even longer with better and greater power than before; stabbing his axe his the back of the Titan Wing Skrill. This greater force and power of lightning caused him to fully respond with a very slobbering scream and show his skeleton whenever the electrical surges ran everywhere on his body, this went on for a longer time as the smoke was becoming thicker and deadlier; Askari of Ashes looked disgusted at his actions and when this happened next
Savage smiled evilly as the brutal torture had broken control over his prisoner's bladder and caused a uncontrollable accident against his will as his pants got darker and the dampened piss stains had gotten bigger and more drenched than before as steam evaporated, causing him to taunt him about it along with the fact that mountainous streams of him throwing up poured out from the bag over his face; staining his upperchest and gut that he liked punching as he deduced was his weak point when it comes to breaking someone:
"YES! Let yourself go but not before excusing yourself for the moment so you can face humiliation, let me know when you're finished so we can get back to it at hand! That is what I want to see from a real man, not a little boy because real men wet their pants while little boys shit their pants!"
"Says the Outcast Lieutenant who wet himself more than once at having to face Drayko and a man like him, that's a low blow coming from you!" Askari of Ashes insulted
"You're disgusting, where's your damn respect?" Tyree Treewalker asked
"I'm going to make you wet your pants for giving him information about us instead of getting it from our prisoner!" Bjarke the Bear threatened
"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" Savage screamed at them as Mikekolt continued hanging from the rope being showered by the sprinkler above him because of how much he stank from lurking in the wetlands. At that point is when Maeve walked in to tell Savage about why he's not answering his questions
"Your interrogation is a failure Savage, Castlekroftservkhall is not going to talk; trained not to break from his years by his father and learning from other prisoners at Darkheart Prison" She told him as Savage only got more furious than before
"Admit it Castle: You're after the location of the Armor of Bludvist!" He shocked him for a short time as Mikekolt was shivering after the surges of lightning, his hands were burning alive from the damn Raynaud's disease: "The same suit of armor that was believed to have been lost after the death of Drago Bludvist, that's what you're looking for isn't it?!" He angrily asked and shocked him further than before: "You're looking for where all that valuable pieces of armor is locked up, $50 Million worth of pennigars divided up into a fraction in hidden but loads of staches containing half of each that makes up the value!" Savage shocked him twice while adding in a punch and two to his guts and side bone
"You're looking for a record of where all of those pieces are hidden, right!?" Savage accused as he heavily punched him in the throat while shocking him, now it was becoming clear that he can't interrogate at all: "The Armor of Bludvist is kept safely in my possession, in my heap of chests acting as the staches containing the pieces at Bellowing Heights; you will NEVER lay a finger on it as that is what I can assure you!" Savage swung him backwards and at the time he swung forwards, he shocked him one last time before punching him; fully screaming out like before for a longer period of time, dropping a ornament that acted as a tracking device on him to alert others using a very powerful scent. He picked it up and asked who planted this on him, Maeve lied to him but also threatened by asking if he didn't trust her; he did since she's the boss and asked her about doing this to assure that she didn't tell him vital information
"Cut out his eyes with your sword, I don't like those brown independent color of his; I'm the only one who's supposed to have the eyes of a warrior who will not take orders from a boss. Especially one who's willing to take advantage of him for granted, he's all yours Madame so do it; ruin him just as he did to your generals!" Savage asked but as she saw Mikekolt survive through their torture, walking over to him as she removed the bag over his face; pouring out the rest how much he threw up onto the floor. The surges of lightning had caused thick columns of burnt bronze and grecian gold stripes to appear in his hair, but did not effect the rest of it; his voice was heavy but remained unchanged as a Komodo Unit soldier came in, just in case he tried anything to escape. However Maeve's Buffalord looked her in the eyes with a expression that made her stop her actions, just as Mikekolt's pupils were twitching at the thought of having them both be cut out: "What is taking so long for you to cut his eyes out, boss?" Savage asked as Maeve turned to him with her Buffalord sympathetically taking pity on their prisoner
"He's suffered enough you fool, take a look at the image of this man; he's defeated and we've won. Nothing is left for us to get out of him so let's move onto our next prisoner of war, I told you before that he's not going to talk; not even if you force him into talking" Maeve's Buffalord brought up Mikekolt's mostly bloodied and battered, beaten, bruised face for him to look at; Savage only crossed his arms as he tried this nasty trick next to make him talk
"You're going to talk one way or another, open fire on that Titan Wing Skrill; let's hear what he has to say about that!" Savage ordered as the Komodo Unit targeted the Skrill with his crossbow, ready to open fire on the beast
Mikekolt was through being fried half to dealt with surges of lightning from a Skrill, and so he went back and forth to gain momentum upwards and backwards; once he got high enough he swung down to send a cannonball kick to the soldier, knocking him away from the beast. Out of revenge however the Komodo Unit fired his crossbow near the both of his eyes as he was not knocked back too far, the dual shot arrows that blew off with a bang gave him a muzzle-burn that blinded him in both of his eyes; disrupting the ball and severely damaging the lens of both of his eyes. Making him painfully scream in agony out throughout the fortress as the giant blob of blood splashed onto the floor below him, Maeve angrily slapped Savage as she did not ask him to blind him; reprimanding him for his actions; now he was bleeding violently as Savage and the others left but the Komodo Unit soldier who shot his eyes came over, replanting the tracking device onto his back through a wound on the back of his shoulder before leaving. Maeve's Buffalord in the meantime stabbed an little object into his leg, looking at him in the face and telling him to run as he rejoined his master; still doubting his place to be with someone who killed siblings that he never got to know and neither did he know his parents either
Drayko who was under the disguise of a Komodo Unit soldier approached Mikekolt and began to tell him: "The escape route in the sewers has been prepared, head out to the north where you can get through the connecting passageway; the manhole's open for you and should any kind of thing change, Viggo will tell you where to go as he's waiting down there. I have your weapons and equipment given to your family and Bravo team, we'll meet up later on as I'm not supposed to get close to your cell; judging by the way he caused you to throw up I'd say try that on the guard assigned to your cell, you'll know who he is because his bowels are very easily irritable at times. I must return to where Maeve's Buffalord is and comfort his mind, do you understand?"
"Brghh..." He groaned as Drayko asked again
"Mikekolt?" He asked him as this was his response
"It hurts when I talk... tell me something that I'm not aware of"
"Tuskfang's got a hot crush on Toothless and Frynir it seems, so much that he actually mated with the two of them separately because of fear that you wouldn't survive from your wounds for the former regardless of the darkblood now running in your veins; and comforting sympathy for the latter. So be sure to say hello to a new member of your family, what the hybrid I would like to call the: Gripping Deathfury or simply Gripping Fury for short, I'm going with the former but the latter's not too bad at all for a good reason. They're coming to take you to your cell now, so be silent and escape when you awaken" Drayko revealed as he left the room while the rest of the Komodo Unit came in to take him away
Afterwards all he saw was fading darkness as he passed out, being taken off the rope from the ceiling as they brought him out the of the room; getting him in the cell before closing it, now it was time to be patient as the torture inside went on throughout the rest of the night. The moon went down and so were few of the stars
He laid in bed as he couldn't see a damn thing although it was only temporary thanks to the darkblood's healing effects setting in motion to keep him alive, all while the Dragon Hunter regularly threw some food in to feed him which was good but eating after being tortured is just going to make him throw up. Eventually though throughout all of the sneezing and the muttering about how neither of his leaders would release him from his torture of being an hunter, the guard's bowels began irritating and acting up; struggling to stand up before he starting to run away to the bathroom so that every prisoner could hear his anguished pain, letting them know against their will of just how much it hurts to make it quick as possible in the bathroom. He sat up on the bed and bumping into a few walls in his attempt to find the food, he found and ate it right away, though he started to get a irritable stomach. Against his pain as it hurt when Mikekolt tried to open his muzzle burned eyes, slowly but surely opened both of them with dried darkblood crust flaking off his eyelids as he had trout grey cataracts with snow white pupils that were temporary thanks to his healing abilities as it wouldn't take too long for them to return back to the way they were; for now he's got to use a few of his other senses if he's going to escape from this hellhole and he knows just which of a following five he's going to use. His tracking skills for they will serve him while he's blind as a bat in the sunlight: "Damn it, no paper when I need it the most" The guard's voice bitched as he was beginning to think that everyone was out for him
He witnessed just in time to see Mikekolt throw up on the ground on purpose: "You feeling alright, there something wrong?" He came to the door and grunted
"Oh man, did you throw up?" He asked his prisoner as he opened the door, coming over to check up on him when suddenly without warning; Mikekolt landed a double punch and an jumping revolver kick that sent him flying off to the wall, knocking him out cold but also causing him to grunt in pain. Nevertheless he escaped his cell and went outside
He was practically naked outside in this present state without a single weapon on him and he could never survive in a battle like this, so it looks like he'll have to procure a weapon from a Komodo Unit soldier by taking their rapid fire full auto crossbow out of their hands; but their armory is bound to have guards making sure no one enters inside. Thus he began to hide out of sight behind some tarped crates for shipping, going underneath some Catastropic Tanks all lined up in a straight line facing the left and right sides; crouching up against a Marauder War Buggy to peak to the sides in order to see if the coast is clear. So when the opportunity came thanks to hearing their footsteps walk away, he made his move to at least what he thought is north which was confirmed when one of the Komodo Unit soldiers reported that there wasn't any Titan Wing escaping in the northern section of the fortress; so at least he knew where he was now. He continued getting to the sewers of the northern section until he bumped into a building, assuming this to be the armory where he entered and took a wild guess that it was the Komodo Unit crossbow before leaving
He didn't know where he was at this point and practically used his instincts to guide him, with the path leading him to exactly where the entrance was; lifting open the round square edged manhole cover upwards before getting down the ladder. Though it took awhile for him to do so as he feels like he was going to trip himself the whole way down, so when he felt like he was close to the ground enough to not hurt he dropped down to the upper balcony; vaulting over the railing and falling the rest of the way down until he grabbed onto the second to last one, he had his mind read the environment for him before dropping down and coming over through the large sewer tunnels where Viggo's voice was heard: "Mikekolt, you've reached the sewers already?"
"Viggo? Yeah I am, just got down here and I'm taking the escape route now" Mikekolt's jaw ached as he spat out a bit of blood on the damp ground, looking around for him with no luck when he was actually just resting above the right corner of the archway with his tentacles
"We got ourselves a problem here unfortunately: Maeve found out you escaped and her headquarters are now on high alert" Viggo revealed
"Just what I expected but there's no stopping me once I'm out for good" Mikekolt held out his two arms forward and checked for a hole in the wall, finding one as he got down, but Viggo as he didn't want him to leave just yet had more to say
"You cannot get out: when the Dragonroot Company headquarters went on high alert they've sealed off the sewers and blocked off the escape route laid out for you, the Komodo Unit is out looking for you right now" He explained as Mikekolt felt his darkblood running cold at the thought of fighting them in this state as he is in no condition to fight them like this
"Down here?" Mikekolt asked as Viggo nodded
"Yes they'll be coming through here any moment now, get out by heading directly to where the escape route was blocked off to the north. Now book it Castle, if they find you: YOU'RE DEAD!" Viggo warned him to go as Mikekolt did just that, commando crawling through the hole and heading directly north dead ahead of him even in his blind state
Mikekolt swam through the deep water in his blindness before reaching the shallow end in a instant, running over to a wall and using his sense of touch to find his way through as there's a hole for him to commando crawl through; emerging from the other side without a hassle as he was starting to see through more clearly, though he had to give it time to heal his eyes just to fully see without a hassle as he bumped into a few of the walls in his attempt to find a exit in the northern direction. With the blurriness fading thanks to swimming in the water and in the instant of his strength returning after getting a good night's sleep in the cell hours ago, he began to run through the straight tunnel ahead of him; breaking down the iron fences in front of him, not stopping once throughout his marathon like run
He traversed through more of the sewer network directly dead ahead of him, breaking down a series of blocked off gates with his strength and running with his speed all the way through as he could feel his injuries healing already; making it easier for him to see more clearly but not until a few more hours passed as some rest will make him skip through the prcoess, but oh that's right he can't stop because he's being pursued by the Komodo Unit itself. Running with his speed all the way through as his darkblood pumped greatly in his legs, he began to feel the hot air from the rays of the sun outside which meant he was reaching daylight; now he was just a moment away from getting out alive
He could hear the group of Komodo Unit soldiers with Brooding Boltstampers held back by a studded collar around their necks with leash ropes attached to them running after him, their snarling voices and sounds of water splashing on the water underneath their boots; barging into places like a raid as they held their swords and crossbows, the next time he sees them they're going to be utilizing even more martial arts than before. He didn't stop running and when he reached the end of this drainage tunnel where a large waterfall poured down, he made an leap into the air with the Komodo Unit stopping in their tracks to fire their arrows laced with Deathgripper Venom to incapacitate him as one of the serums struck him; but didn't seem to have any effect as he easily removed it and fell to the river below, washing away as the soldiers moved out. He didn't get away and they're gathering the full group to head down into the area he's bound to wash ashore in, they've got a tracking device on him to make sure he's not leaving
The impact on the river's surface had knocked him out coldly as he got his forehead bleeding out from his skull, Mikekolt spun down to the bottom of the sea in a paralyzed like position; before he flipped over and hung his arms down into his gut like a dead body thrown into the water to be dumped in. Few bubbles came out every now and then but his status remained unclear as of now, the Komodo Unit will be arriving at wherever he washed up from the river anytime and until then; he was left in a dead man's float
He would eventually wake up a few hours later after morning as he was out of the water and found himself on top of the shore, big droplets of blood dripped on his back; with talons that were on both of his left and right flank as well, while there was a underbelly in between as it could only tell him that this was a Typhoomerang as he looked up to see her looking down on him when he reached out to grab onto her thigh in order to stand up but to no avail as he just plopped back down. She had a brick red and goldfish to apricot orange color to her scales while her underbelly happened to be a cream yellow color, having multiple tiger stripes on the wings with burnt colored edges as well that looked like she was becoming red hot right out of the forge. Finally, she was motherly as she took him out of the river before placing her wing claws on his shoulders; pressing him up against her underbelly as she craned her neck down to his face and licked the dried blood off, with both of her legs spread out to the sides. She formed a quick attachment to him and didn't want to let him go, that was until Mikekolt had tried to remove a tracking device that the Komodo Unit stuck on him; which she craned her head down and dug her fangs into the ornament jutting out which hurt him but not enough to scream, fully taking it out as she was wondering where that smell was coming from
This motherly Typhoomerang who looked over him like her son as soon as he washed ashore let out a yawn before passing out, he could not stay here with this maternal parent as there's many more important things at hand he has to do; so he slipped out of her soft grip, leaving a kiss on her underbelly because he's just that strange enough to have a habit of playing with a Dragon's underbelly altogether. But that doesn't mean it translates to human culture, this is a habit of his and nothing more than that; by the way the blood dripping from before came by a fact that he washed up in the middle of her finishing her morning hunt. Mikekolt left her with a present from him and walked off into the jungle he found himself in, he could now see his surroundings just like before but there was still a fragment of blurriness in his cataract eyes; still he could see more clearly in the meantime
However he has come to hate the Komodo Unit as they appeared to be patrolling for where he's hiding, snapping to cover right away behind a rock as he looked at where they're taking their positions at; this was going to be easy as long as he could keep his heat signature low, knowing that they're equipped with such a vision in their lenses. Relentlessly hunting him down with that tracking device to this jungle as he moved to the next hiding spot, where it was a tree this time around; going underneath the fallen log through but stopped when an close soldier looked at the log, smacking it with it's crossbow before attempting to look into the hollow branch. Mikekolt had commando crawled his way outside to the open air, where he was close to walking free
There was bound to come a point where one of the Komodo Unit soldiers spotted him with a split second shriek of the exclamation point: "I've found the prisoner of the Dragonroot Company and heading to the north, secure the area up there!"
"Acknowledged and Understood: block and cut him off at the river, do not let him get away!" The voice of one of the other Komodo Unit soldiers commanded, with them all pursuing him to the river where they've set up a roadblock
Mikekolt ran through the jungle during this time as the Komodo Unit shot their crossbows at him, some of which jumped out of the bushes and slashed him; but the worst part of it all is when this happened: a few of the Komodo Unit soldiers jumped high from out of the hiding places to send flying kicks to his body, adding up the scale by preforming some lethal moves seen from fighting techniques such as bicycle kicks and fast flying hammer kicks to his face all while mixing in their MMA martial art skills to the maximum degree; this was not something he could avoid and got his ass whooped by them but he couldn't let them win like this so he instead ran away with the group continuing to pursue him. He preformed his own bicycle kick to the middle and dived into the water to escape them, getting as low as possible to keep his heat signature out of their sights; which worked as they returned to patrolling the location in order to look for him
Swimming away with his life on the line he got out and was just a mile away from where the waterfall was, breaking into a run without another second as he jumped through the border; relieved to find his family and Dragons waiting for him: "Mikekolt/My Son/Brother!" They all called him as he jogged over to embrace them all, they have never been this happy to finally rendezvous with him here. With his dark walnut brown eyes regaining their sight after being healed from the muzzle-burns there was a short moment of time where he took his time in getting his Bravo resistance armor back on, clipping his belt on the front with the battlekilt revealed to have narrowed x-cross vertically ribbed straps on the front that laid against the front; with some matching tassets of his armor also being added on the sides and back of his battlekilt. His bombs hung from the back of his belt on top in a pair of five, his venom serums on the front diagonally lined up on his bandoliers; his projectile axes hanging on his left flank which were redesigned and his swords back to where they belonged on his back, as he placed his knife back into his left vambrace underneath for him to easily take out
Mikekolt's second sword had been buffed greatly by Bladehead who was experimenting with high frequency tempering through the use of using the heavy soundwaves of a Thunderdrum and in the greatest case possible, the Screaming Death as these were the changes made: there were two axe blades on the sides to act like the crossguard for extra help in parrying for it's the one thing it lacked due to being rushed. The handle was given a tighter grip with an seamless and a raised diamond pattern, horizontal ribbing squeezed in between along with his gloves while having an strong chainmail texture to them; adding in a new Italian kaleidoscope pattern for mixing in with the Aztecan pattern on both of his parent's side. The blade was slightly longer and on the right edge were very thin and less noticeable strips of holes for swift strikes, with an stronger double edge in power and striking; having it's thick fang pommel add vents with the ability to spew out combustible acid flares. Finally on top of it's dark metallic and crayola gold shining edge, this blade had been buffed to the point of having the power to cut through anything and everything at will; with the crest of the new Castlekroftserkvhall family having a newly bred Gripping Deathfury symbol running along the edges
Mikekolt's Axes also had their handles altered as they were not only larger and resembled his father's axe blades which were thick crescent curves on both sides, but the handles used for a tighter grip had horizontal ribbing with x-crosses in between; the color of the blades were all the same as previously though but were now able to be thrown in multiple pairs and not just one at a time. Finally, they could be launched either by hand or by his crossbow that speaking of which:
Mikekolt also happened to have received a new gift from Bladehead which happened to be a newly constructed and deadlier: "Revenant's Talon II" which had tusks in the front along with the blades for stabbing, interchangeable attachments such as an new stock for shifting into an crossbow rifle based off a TROY M7A1 Tomahawk/M4A1 Carbine/Franchi SPAS-12 stock hybrid all in one that was hollow; as well as a eight shot revolver barrel that allowed him to fire his Deathgripper Acid Flare/Volcanripper Napalm Bombs, mostly the latter as he's more used to throwing the former. The dual parallel stock itself was connected with two thick horizontal columns that easily fits into the rapid fire full auto crossbow that was still break-action whenever having to reload an new set of arrows inside. Not to mention having a round medium sized cylinder disc acting as the magazine on the front carrying more than enough arrows to fire on the front, which gave him the ability to also change it into a Chopper Submachine all thanks to the barrel; which in truth was mostly there for decoration but still held arrows nevertheless. His new crossbow acted like an grappling gun as well with an eight pronged claw that shot out to stab into wherever he aimed at, planning of also creating a new type that allowed him to fire out one to create an tightrope cable to traverse and also zipline across as well. Finally, the paint that represented the light ivory to revere pewter tan sun and dark ebony to charcoal black moon had them both an stained paper texture and painted metal holes in the opposite colors on both of them as well. Now that is what he calls overpowered and overkill beyond, he's a walking arsenal tank now with these weapons since he didn't start out with much but now he's completed; with the heraldry sun and crescent moon from Drayko's birthmark also seen along with their new family crest, having some finger straps to make sure he's not disarmed easily and to hang on when ascending or crossing new heights
Thus, from this point forward he shall be known under the new title of: "Mikekolt the Locked and Loaded" as he was ready to begin his Titan Uprising by starting it off with a bang in the earth's surface!
Now for a little description for the new hybrid's look whenever it's egg hatches since it'll take some time before one is laid:
The new Gripping Deathfury was a hybrid between a Deathgripper and Night Fury but it was one that was worth the breeding as it possessed an larger to bulkier as well as sharper build but they were still nimble and faster like their parents, with segmented armor plates on it's back along with both of it's claws and talons; getting it's reflective tattoo markings from it's mother Frynir that were mostly bronze and darkblood red like colors it had. It's underbelly had a pattern of medium sized darkblood red stripes that went all the way down to it's tail, which of course featured black and red tailfins and inherited the venom stinger; closed all together by coiling around and wrapping on all four sides to ensure that it remains hidden very well; it's earplates had dipped crimson red colors and it's eye markings featured this pattern, looking like an falcon's eye whenever it curved downwards to the front and flared backwards with spikes. Another trait from it's mother Frynir was a deadly crown of quills flaring backwards from it's skull, having dual razor blade shaped going all the way down to it's tailfins as it's wingtips also featured mantis like pincers along with tips that were long; going a little bit diagonally upwards like the razor blades as seen on other parts of his body like it's arms and legs, where the serrated pincers laid up against the back just like that. It's mix of Night Fury to Deathgripper sized and combined length black wings faded to a crimson red color while possessing retractable tusks that were as long as the former who mated with the latter, able to pierce and stab with great power along with force to kill someone who was heavily armored; the back of it's talons curving upwards towards it's thighs and having bronze colored claws that it mauled with. It's eyes were a clear olive to solid wall of kelly and shamrock green with a forked tongue it kept unlike the former, while the back of it's claws had downwards curved spikes that went against it's mantis like pincers. Finally was it's firepower as it was very deadly considering the fusion between the plasma bolts, and the acid flares that became a destructive stream of firepower that destroyed anything in it's path; not to mention having the personality of all parents involved as well, mostly playful like their King of Dragons but cold blooded when the time calls for it like it's father who raised him
In the meantime Mikekolt will be working on a new gadget consisting of a slightly large eight spider-leg pronged claw on both sides that shoot out a dual parallel cable to the other wall in the process whenever the first one grabbed onto the wall it latches itself onto. It's handlebar is straight with it's edges on the ends going diagonally upwards and a dual pair of reels next to each other, allowing use in zip-lining and traversing across a tightrope with the threat of balance eliminated; with finger straps to prevent losing grip and releasing prematurely as it's a long way to fall down into death's territory, and there's no coming back there. However by that point is when the Komodo Unit find out about his lair's location and it's not safe there anymore, a shame really since I didn't plan for his hideout to be discovered by his enemies but I thought of a new places based on the first Arrowcave from the Arrowverse. Now that this chapter has been posted there will be a hiatus until then as Mikekolt's got a new title for himself, I hoped you have been enjoying his evolution into a great character that he's become!