Hey I'm back and I know some of you see spelling mistakes, weird grammar and other problems in my writing like I'm rushing ahead with no detail but the truth is that I'm just not good at grammar and I sometimes forget how to spell some words. I'm trying my best to make it easy to read and not make mistakes. Sorry. Here's the next chapter. Enjoy. I'm so excited for sunbreak to be released. I've decided that the httyd 3 sequel for this fanfic will be the threequel fanfic because I'm making a sunbreak sequel fanfic instead.
Chapter 7: tyrant of the desert
At the village, Hiccup was in the gathering hub with Jack, Rakuja, Astrid and Fugen waiting for Hojo to return. Fugen told the riders and the 2 hunters that dragons of the archipelago had been sighted in numerous environments. About a day after the riders first arrived at Kamura, Hojo told Utsushi to inform the guild of the riders and the archipelago and bring the book of dragons with him. After returning, he told hojo that the guild took the news quite well and read the book of dragons so they know of their existence and that they're not a threat or even being capable of becoming a threat to the cycle of balance but after being informed of a snow wraith being spotted in the frost islands yesterday really shocked them. After a while of waiting, hojo returns with a letter from the guild.
"What did they say?" Jack asked nervously. Hojo lets out a sigh before answering.
"The guild says that this migration is very unusual, considering that this region is very different from the archipelago. But they also say that the dragon migration must be somehow connected to the rampage, that's their theory at least." Hojo explained the situation to the group before hiccup thought about this. Could it be true that this is connected to the rampage somehow? He was brought back to reality when fishlegs ran into the room with a letter in hand and a terrible terror on his shoulder while his face was filled with concern.
"What is it, fishlegs?" Hiccup asked before fishlegs handed him the letter.
"It's Heather! She says she, dagur, mala and throk are in danger and they need our help." Fishlegs explained as hiccup read the letter.
"Alright, get the others, we're leaving. Sorry Fugen." Hiccup said to fishlegs and then apologised to Fugen but he shook his head.
"No, I understand. They need you like kamura needs a hunter." Fugen said but fishlegs wasn't done talking.
"Uh, but the letter says that they're not in the archipelago." He stated and everyone was confused.
"It says that they're in a large desert and they're being attacked by a dragon with big horns and a club tail that digs underground, like a whispering death and the screaming death." The ingermen explained before letting out a sigh.
"And what kind of digging dragon that has twin horns and a club tail that's in the monsterpedia?" He asked before rakuja stood up.
"A diablos." The long sword user answered and fishlegs nodded. Hiccup's eyes widened at this fact.
"That means they're…" Hiccup said in worry for his friends.
"In a region that's completely new to them, not knowing what incredible dangers that lurk here." Jack finishes as he stands up. He looks at hiccup and they both nod.
"Fishlegs, tell the others, we have dragon riders to save." Hiccup told fishlegs and the ingerman immediately went to tell others. Hiccup turns to Jack and Rakuja and begins to warn them.
"Before we leave, I have to warn you, mala and the others don't know about why you and rakuja hunt monsters. She is deadly serious about protecting dragons from dragon hunters and she mistook me and the other riders for our enemies when we first met and was willing to execute us. If she sees you before I explain about the situation-"
"She will probably have our heads." Jack guessed the last part with a smile and the haddock boy nodded.
"Yeah, that."
"Guys, the others are ready!" Called out fishlegs and hiccup, Jack and Rakuja ran outside to see the others on their dragons.
"Alright gang, mala, dagur, Heather and throk are in trouble in this region. Make sure they don't see our new allies when we arrive because you know what happened when we first met mala so I'll explain the situation." Hiccup explained to the team and they all muttered in agreement.
"Alright, let's ride!" Jack said with determination.
In the shrine ruins, the magnamalo was resting on top of the building in area 9. The wyvern of malice yawns before scraping its teeth with its arm blade. It suddenly picks up the smell of hiccup, immediately causing it to look up and see the dragon riders. The Magnamalo growls as the riders fly over it before it got up and jumped off the building and pursues the group.
After a long journey, the riders come across a dry, desolate desert. The sun was beaming with heat, which is what the hunters were expecting but the riders weren't. Where they're from, the archipelago is at cold temperatures all year round and it's at its worst during the winter season but the riders were used to it and since they're in the desert, the heat was completely new to them and it was uncomfortable for them, especially Snotlout.
"By Thor's beard, why is it so hot!?" Snotlout complained as he waved his hand to keep him cool. Astrid groaned in annoyance at Snotlout's complaining.
"You must understand, Snotlout, the desert is a place of extreme heat and little water. The monsters here are a little… unpredictable because of it." Rakuja, who was on stormfly with Astrid, informed the jorgenson who ignored the hunter and kept complaining. Rakuja face palms himself.
"Why did I bother trying?" He muttered in annoyance.
"There!" Jack called out, pointing to a local that was called the sandy plains, the place where heather sent that terror mail from.
"C'mon, let's get over there before we're too late." Astrid said before she had stormfly to speed up to get to the locale faster, worried for heather, and the others followed suit. They land in the second sub camp because Jack left an item, in case they had to fight off the diablos. The riders and dragons are waiting for Jack and rakuja to come out of the tent while the dragons are perched on top of the ring. After a minute, Jack and Rakuja walk out, holding a bag of spheres. Snotlout jaw dropped and glared at the greatsword user.
"You had us waiting for those tiny things?!" He questioned and Jack rolled his eyes.
"Yes, because these spheres are called sonic bombs. Sonic bombs can create a high pitched sound frequency that can stun a digging monster while it's not enraged. It'll come in handy if we encounter the diablos." Rakuja explained to the cocky Viking but the said Viking stormed off to his dragon.
The team flew over the local for 10 minutes now and they couldn't find the D.O.T.W or the two berserkers anywhere, giving the group concern and worry.
"I can't find them." Astrid said, looking around.
"Keep searching, we can see them if we're up here." Hiccup replied, also looking around.
"Hiccup, look!" Jack shouts as he points to some wrecked cargo that has the berserker tribe symbol in area 9. Hiccup nodded before looking at toothless.
"Let's go, bud." He said and toothless and the others descended to the sand. Upon landing, Jack noticed some mini hills in the sand and the others noticed too. Hiccup walked towards the mini hills and noticed a boot sticking out, signalling him that these are graves. The others knew it too.
"Are they…?" Astrid asked in fear of who these graves belong to.
"No, these graves simply didn't bury themselves. It's possible that your allies are alive and if they are, we'll find them." Rakuja said. Suddenly a sharp metallic quill went straight towards rakuja but he quickly dodged it with his quick reflexes.
The others turned around to see wind shear with Heather on her back while Throk was next to them. Then Jack got pinned down by sleuther with dagur and mala on his back. Mala jumped down and pointed her sword at the hunter in a threatening manner.
Rakuja was about to go rescue the great sword user but wind shear wrapped her tail around him and lifted him up.
'Yep, that's exactly what I was afraid of.' He thought to himself in annoyance. Mala turns to hiccup with a smile.
"Don't worry hiccup, we've got these dragon hunters." Mala insured hiccup before turning back to the pinned down hunter with a glare.
"Who do you work for before I kill you right now." She demanded, lifting her blade to the hunter's chin.
"Mala, wait." Hiccup said, making the Mala, dagur, Heather and throk to turn their heads towards the chief of berk.
"You've got this all wrong: these guys are hunters, yes, but they're not like viggo or krogan." He explained. Mala looks at the hunter again before turning to hiccup.
"Explain." She said, still pointing at the green haired hunter. Hiccup then explained everything from the blue serpent they saw to when Jack and Rakuja saved him and toothless from the bazelguese and he also explained that the dragons here are very different and more aggressive than the ones they know of and the reason Jack and Rakuja hunt monsters is because some are a threat to the cycle of balance.
He also explained that kamura is in danger of the rampage, the magnamalo that's hunting him and that the dragons of the archipelago are migrating to this region. Mala and the others listened very carefully to this.
After the explanation, Mala looks at the buried bodies of her people in horror to learn about these dragons. She wants this to be a lie but hiccup is not the type to lie in situations like this one, he's telling the truth. Dagur had sleuther to get off of Jack and Heather had wind shear to let go of rakuja.
"Okay, now that we got that out of the way, mala, dagur, Heather and throk: meet Jack and Rakuja. Jack and Rakuja: meet mala, dagur, Heather and throk." Hiccup introduced one another to each other. While dagur, Heather and throk began greeting them, mala is still on guard of the 2 hunters even though she believes hiccup, she still doesn't trust them.
"So, uh, what are you guys doing here?" Hiccup asked in wonder of why they're here. Mala clears her throat and speaks.
"Well hiccup, about 2 weeks ago the dragons of our island started migrating to this region so we sent 5 of our warriors each and a week later, we received a distress message so we rode our dragons here but when we arrived…" Mala paused, looking at the buried bodies and the riders and the two hunters understood what she's referring to.
"Mala, I'm so sorry." Hiccup apologises but mala smiles at him.
"It's alright. When we found them, some were skewered and others were beaten to death by a dragon we haven't seen before. It attacked us and we almost didn't make it out alive." Mala said, giving Jack and Rakuja more reason to believe that this is a diablos' doing and also thinking about dragons coming here 2 weeks ago, the time when rampage began.
Dagur starts to add: "Yeah, you should've seen it. It was huge, it had a frill, big horns, a club tail and-"
"Can dig underground and unleash devastating attacks when it surfaces?" Rakuja finished and Dagur was surprised to hear that.
"Yeah, how do you know that?" Heather asked in wonder and Rakuja awneserd.
"Because I fought one of these creatures before. It's the monster known as diablos, a large flying wyvern that rules the desert thus giving it the title: 'tyrant of the desert'. It uses its horns to charge at enemies and the club tail to break your bones but its main focus of attack is to dig and burst out of the earth with great force. It's sand thick yellow hide blends in the desolate environment, making it harder to see if it stays still. It's aggressive, brutal and territorial." Rakuja explained to the berserkers and D.O.T.W. with wide eyes but Heather spoke up.
"Ok but this 'diablos' wasn't yellow like you said." Heather stated, causing rakuja to give her a confused look.
"What? What are you talking about?" Rakuja asked in confusion.
"Maybe it was a black diablos?" Jack assumed that because there's always a chance of a subspecies.
"It wasn't black either, it was more of a grey colour." Mala described the beast, making rakuja stroke his chin, trying to remember what kind of diablos has a grey colour instead of yellow or black.
"Is there anything else about this diablos?" Fishlegs asked and Heather nodded.
"Yes, we saw streaks of red on its wings and occasionally horn. We also saw crackling smoke emerge from its mouth." Heather said. Hearing these words caused rakuja to go wide in horror and realisation. This clearly didn't go unnoticed by the group.
"What's wrong?" Jack asked in worry.
"I know what kind of diablos we're dealing with." Rakuja awneserd grimly.
"What are you- oh God." Jack said with wide eyes but the others were still confused.
"Are you guys OK?" Hiccup asked with a bit of fear in his voice. Jack turns to the rider in question.
"Do you remember the fly boy back at the stronghold?" Jack asked, leaving hiccup slightly confused.
"Fly boy? You mean the rathalos? What about it?" Hiccup asked before realising what he's trying to tell hiccup.
"Another one?" He exclaimed and Jack nodded. The other riders were confused before they figured it out, even the twins understood and they never understood anything.
"No, no, no, no, no! there's no way I'm going through THAT again!" Snotlout snarled and the others agreed with snotlout but mala, dagur, Heather and throk had no idea what they're talking about.
"Another one? Going through what again? Brother, what are you guys talking about?" Dagur demanded to hiccup and Jack looked at hiccup in a puzzled look.
"Brother?"
"It's what dagur calls me sometimes."
"I'll tell them. The diablos the 4 of you encountered was an apex, a kind of monster with greatly increased strength, power and aggression. The apex we encountered was a rathalos and I'll explain what that is later, right now you, the riders and jack need to leave." Rakuja told the group, leaving the riders surprised.
"Us? What about you?" Jack questioned.
"I'll stay behind and fight the apex so it doesn't cause more harm."
"What? Rakuja, it'll kill you." Hiccup protested rakuja's decision.
"I appreciate your concern but this requires a very skilled hunter to hunt a beast such as this and besides, the only thing you and Jack did to the apex rathalos was making him angry." Rakuja argued, causing Jack to groan.
"Oh come on, we gave it everything we got to take that thing down." Jack told rakuja but he shook his head. Tuffnut noticed the sand was rising from a distance, coming closer and closer with rapid speed.
"Uh, guys?"
"Jack, you might be willing to fight with me but this is something out of your league!"
"Guys?" Tuffnut said again as the rising sand is getting closer.
"Rakuja, Jack just wants to help you." Hiccup butted into the conversation because it was getting intense.
"Guys." Tuffnut said the third time and it was slowly getting Heather and Astrid's attention so she turned to see the rising sand coming straight at them, making the two girls certain what's coming.
"It's the diablos." Heather exclaimed as she pulled out her double axe.
"Hiccup, I know what he wants but I'm not telling him to leave because he's not ready, it's because I don't want him to get himself killed!"
"BOYS!" Astrid yelled, finally gaining the attention of the males arguing. Astrid points to the diablos and they immediately knew what was coming their way.
"It's the diablos! Go!" Rakuja yelled but the others stayed where they were, except snotlout as he tried to get in hookfang to fly away but Astrid stopped him by grabbing his arm. Knowing that the others, apart from snotlout, are willing to stay, he sighs in defeat.
"Uugh, kids these days." Rakuja huffs but Jack smiles.
Enter "sandy plains theme from monster hunter rise" here.
"We've got this." Jack assured his friend with determination. Rakuja smiles behind his helmet. Then a loud, ear shattering roar was heard and the tremors became more powerful until the apex burst out of the sand. The group stands their ground, so did their dragons. The apex diablos shakes whatever sand is on it before it glares at the group before it.
Fishlegs, Heather, dagur and Snotlout got on their dragons for air support while the others stayed on the ground. The apex charges but they all dodged the attack before toothless fires a plasma blast at its face while Jack and Rakuja slashes their weapons at it. the air support attacked from above, using fire attacks. The apex growls before roaring to signal the humans and dragons that it is now enraged. The apex then digs for an attack, and upon seeing this, Snotlout jumped off his dragon and snatches the sonic bombs out of Jack's hands.
"Snotlout, wait!" He protested but snotlout yeets the sonic bombs and it did nothing. Snotlout had a shocked expression before glaring at the hunter with the great sword.
"You lied to us!"
"No, the reason why the only sonic bombs I had didn't work because its enraged!"
The apex bursts out of the ground but Jack uses the wire bug while hookfang snatched his rider out of the way, making the Viking yelp. Toothless continues to fire his plasma blasts repeatedly while Rakuja slashes at the monster until toothless picks up a familiar scent that's approaching fast. Toothless growled and the others noticed this.
"Is there something coming?" Heather asked while she and wind shear continued to attack and dodge.
"Seems like it, but what could it be?" Hiccup replied with wonder before hearing a loud roar in the distance. Hiccup, Astrid, Jack and Rakuja knew what this roar belonged to.
"The magnamalo." Rakuja hissed.
"What's it doing here?"
"We'll explain later, Heather, right now we have to continue fighting."
"Yeah, when that cat shows up, I want it to know the awesome might of me and hookfang!"
The apex roars loudly before leaping into the air and digs underground while spinning like a drill. Snotlout and hookfang were in the way when this happened but hookfang quickly got out of the way with snotlout screaming like a girl. The earth began shaking by the diablos and small clouds of sand were emerging from the sand.
"Hiccup, the sand clouds show where the diablos is while it's digging!" Jack called out to hiccup and the rider nodded in response and he told the others to pay attention to the sand clouds. They all did what hiccup said and watched the sand clouds very carefully. The sand clouds were heading dagur's and mala's way and sluether fly out of the way before the apex bursts out of the sand and went back under. The apex then digs to the twins but they and barf and belch flew out of the way but not before barf spraying at the ground the diablos is digging to.
The diablos bursts out of the ground and belch immediately ignited the gas cloud, causing the said cloud to explode. The apex jerks back with a roar and the twins cheered. But it was short lived when the diablos glared at the twins and the two headed dragon before roaring and stabbed a boulder nearby and tossed it with its savage might. The twins and the dragon didn't had time to react but toothless quickly blew it up with a plasma blast.
The apex turns to a wall of rock and stone before charging at it, causing the rock wall to collapse into smaller rocks. it then threw more rocks and boulders at them to knock the riders and their dragons out of the sky. This clearly caught them all off guard.
Hiccup and Toothless dodged a rock and flew next to fishlegs and meatlug.
Hiccup turned to his fellow dragon nerd and spoke, "Whoa! Did not expect this. It threw a boulder at the twins, now it's throwing every rock it could find to take us down. It-"
"Learned, I know! Fascinating." fishlegs finished with a smile. The diablos threw a rock at him and meatlug but the gronkle at the rock.
"Yeah, you know what else is fascinating? Not getting killed!" rakuja shouts as he dodges a tail swing attack.
All the riders began dodging the rocks and boulders but the diablos got a lucky shot when a rock hit toothless, bringing him and hiccup to the ground.
"Hiccup!" Astrid called out and tried to get to him with stormfly but she was too busy dodging the rocks being thrown at her. The night fury and his rider crashed on the sand and the two hunters ran towards the two. Upon seeing this, the apex stops throwing rocks and boulders and charges at great speed. But suddenly, just as the diablos was about to reach them, a large purple fireball came out of nowhere and hit the apex, making it accidentally trip over and roll on the sand.
The two hunters, the night fury and the viking dodged the beast as it rolled over before coming to a stop. The whole group wondered what happened before hearing a loud roar, making them turn to see the one-horned magnamalo on a rock pillar.
Enter "barbarous beast" from monster hunter rise here
The apex gets up and glares at the magnamalo with hatred before roaring. The magnamalo roared back and began jumping from rock pillar to rock pillar. It jumps from another rock pillar down to the valley behind the group of four before the magnamalo leaps from the valley and over them. hiccup never got a good look at its size when he first met the magnamalo but now he has a chance, he could see it was slightly bigger than an average quacken and hiccup could see the barely visible scars and marks from previous battles.
The monsterpedia says that the way to tell the difference between a male and a female magnamalo is their size and if a magnamalo is the size of a quacken or bigger it means it's a male. The apex gets up after recovering and faces the magnamalo. While the two were facing each other, snotlout and hookfang flew into hiccup's view.
"You didn't tell us it was that big, what were you thinking!?" snotlout demanded, gesturing to the magnamalo.
"Uhh didn't you say you wanted it to know the 'awesome' might of you and your dragon?" Jack replied with a clever tone.
"Yeah, I did, before I saw it!"
The two powerful monsters circled each other for a good while before the apex suddenly charges at the magnamalo but the wyvern of malice swiftly dodges the attack.
"Riders, go! Now!" rakuja shouted
"You don't have to tell me twice!" snotlout said before hookfang zoomed into the air. Soon the other riders followed except hiccup.
"Hiccup, why aren't you-"
"Because I'm not leaving you guys!"
Hiccup's answer caught Jack and Rakuja off guard. He turns to the apex diablos and the magnamalo fighting each other. He knew hiccup wouldn't leave a friend behind so He huffed and nodded.
"Good, quickly get on toothless while those 2 are preoccupied." hiccup said with determination. The two hunters got on toothless and the night fury in question flew after the others immediately after. Toothless flew to the others that were waiting for hiccup and toothless. Hiccup smiled and nodded
"Great, now that we're together, let's-"
"Hiccup, look!" astrid called out, pointing to the fighting monsters.
The magnamalo slams his tail but the diablos dodges it and picks up the hellfire wyvern with its horns and throws the magnamalo overhead. The magnamalo quickly gets up but gets a club tail to the face. The beast's jaws, back, forearms and tail began to release purple flames which the guild confirms the purple flames to be a special kind of gas dubbed "hellfire".
The magnamalo suddenly jumps to the apex's underbelly and throws it into the air before jumping and biting down hard on the tyrant's neck. The apex roars in pain and tries to break free but the magnamalo's grip is too strong. The diablos stills struggles while the magnamalo sinks his teeth deeper into the neck. The apex roars once more before the magnamalo snaps its neck, killing it.
The magnamalo let go and roared in triumph before it grabbed the apex diablos corpse and threw it into the valley. The magnamalo turns to the riders to see them in a long distance before it roars in anger.
The group was shocked to see the wyvern of malice kill the apex in a short amount of time.
"Well at least we don't have to worry about the apex any more." Jack said, trying to start a conversation.
"That. was. COOL!" tuffnut exclaimed and ruffnut laughed maniacally.
"By Odin's beard." snotlout exclaimed.
"Yeah, we barely did anything yet that magnamalo killed it with ease." rakuja added
"Did you see how it was engulfed in the purple flames which I think is dubbed hellfire?" fishlegs asked, both scared of the monster's already intimidating appearance combining with the purple flames and excited of learning more about the monster's abilities.
"Hellfire." Jack suddenly said. The others were confused.
"Jack?" Rakuja started.
"I think that's what we should name him: hellfire." Jack said. The other riders liked the name except tuffnut.
"Oh you're not naming him that because I already named him dinflog." tuffnut stated with his arms crossed.
"Ok, let's put it to a vote: those who want to name him dinflog say 'I'." rakuja said with his arms crossed.
"I!" tuffnut said with his hand up.
"Ok, those who pick hellfire say 'I'."
"I!" all the other riders said with their hands up, even ruffnut. Tuffnut was repulsed by this.
"Sister, you traitor!"
"What, hellfire sounds cooler if you think about it."
"Hellfire it is then." rakuja declares and the group flies to kamura village. Jack looks back at the sandy plains as it got further and further away and thinks about what happened. The Magnamalo, now named hellfire, appearing in the sandy plains is unnatural. He read that magnamalos live in either lush environments like the shrine ruins, volcanic regions like the lava caverns or cold climates like the frost islands.
True, the magnamalo is hunting hiccup but it would never go to other locals to find its target. He needs to tell Fugen and Hojo when he and the others get back to kamura. They might be dealing with a magnamalo that's a threat to the cycle of balance.
At the swamps of the flooded forest, a group of jagras were eating a slagtoth they hunted without the help of a great jagras. Then a pack of wroggi led by a great wroggi came charging in at the jagras to claim the slagtoth carcass. The jagras stop eating and form a line to face the wroggi pack. Just as the pack of wroggi were in striking range, a loud roar was heard.
Both the jagras and the wroggi and great wroggi looked around for the owner before the area became shrouded in darkness. Suddenly a black mass drops down on the slagtoth. The mass was a monster but it had no eyes. It had claws on its wing arms and was surrounded by a black mist. The jagras and wroggi packs were hissing at the black creature that appeared out of nowhere.
The great wroggi jumped in front of the eyeless creature, hissing and growling threateningly before the blind beast raised its body and slammed its wing arm down on the unfortunate wroggi, killing it. Both the jagras and wroggi began to run away while the blind beast roared in triumph before it began feeding on the slagtoth carcass.
The chapter is finally out. I Hope you enjoyed it, it took a while to write because of school and stuff but the chapter is finally out.