They key to the next of Blight's nemesis' begins and ends with death, but not without the courage to go down with

-Meatlug

(A/N: This really is not the best of the Chapters but I really want to take it slow and short with you guys, I just want to finish this story as much as the next author so that I can move on to completing the third story; you all need the best that I can offer to you and this trilogy is becoming like an branching franchise of the HTTYD Universe, but with some additions of expanded lands and references to the real world. The final few chapters that are upcoming will have the most references to the Devil May Cry series, especially the final battle as it may be familiar to those who have played the first game in 2001. For now, bear with me as it will all be over soon; Enjoy!)

The night in the sky was bleak as it's very clouds passed by quickly and the environment was nothing more but smoking and ruined buildings what was once left of the civilians who roamed the boisterous streets. Now they have become twisted and turned, disorienting the balance as everything seemed to be moving back and forth very slowly, from the eyesight of one would appear everything had been tilted to the sides; very little of the light to fend off the force of the sky's chaotic darkness that loomed over the site of it all, with signs of spiders due to the web organic constructs pumping with blood as it appeared to be the eventual rise of the False Dragon God

Everything seemed to be like an living creature as veiny and inhuman constructs sprouted everywhere one would go, attached and melded to the ruins as if this was the hellish realm of the demons; becoming a paradise from a familiar enemy. Blight had no one to stop him and now he has taken control of the land itself, the civilians were nowhere to be seen and those who offered resistance of any kind to the ruler of the Underworld would be consumed by the earth below them immediately; it seemed he has won against this war for their survival

The Knights arrived from the chaotic skies and touched down onto the unstable earth that pulsated like a beating heart, what hellish sorcery is this would have been spoken by any of the Knights if they could speak about what they were witnessing before their eyes. An waving heat haze had strained their eyes and rather than to waste time on how horrifying this place had changed, they continued forwards as they walked down the streets from the first time that they did on their way to Elder Custos' sanctuary; nothing more upsetting to the stomach of Fishlegs than this could make him hard to resist throwing up, but the more he did the more he felt the burning heat ready to take over and reject his organs

The roads were barren and deserted as for all signs of those who lived here were nowhere to be found, just the charred skeleton entangled by the veiny organic constructs seen and found every now and then; who would've guessed their focus on Drago Bludvist would lead to neglecting the other threat, who would take control of such an advanced land of tomorrow? None of that mattered to Drago at all, until he would become a Dragon God that is; he was not on the best of terms with Blight and truth be told, he was his enemy even more so as well due to him interfering with his plans to conquer the Archipelago. With those powers of his, he would exorcise him immediately for how much of a threat he could be to his Dragon enslaved nation

The ambiance of it all was nothing more than the sound of calm but twisted and reversed moaning wind blowing through the caverns at night during a windy day, as if it wasn't eerie enough; the sky and clouds above seemed to be running towards the sun as it was swirling around, almost as if it was being sucked into a vortex which was pretty terrifying to consider. For whatever reason around the dead end, some curved and rotting but sharp bones protruded from out of the floor towards the walls and back outwards; but this was at the dead end after all, so if there really was any real way to get into the source of all of this madness caused by Blight: then it would have to be that they must find the main entrance first beforehand, and that's exactly where they were going to do first before taking on the Black King and ultimately; the False Dragon God himself

But was anyone safe in the Demon Paradise like this...?

The Knights roamed through the barren and deserted town where now only the Demons resided, crossing over the bridge where below had led to nothing but an dry riverbed; with an drained sewer that was blocked off by the smaller constructs, being an warning to the humans to leave this place and turn back now as they should not return here. But everyone they loved and every Dragon in the Archipelago as well as those who once lived here were in danger from the rising tyranny of Drago Bludvist and the possessed demon Blight, they will not leave this place until the conflict has been solved; no one deserved to be under the fate of living among their rulership, the resistance they offer will be executed on sight without an plead of mercy from the cold hearted Dragon Hunters. As the many twists and turns kept the Knights disoriented at best and led them into nothing but dead ends at worst, they had finally taken the long and straight road ahead as by that time; nothing happened as any time passed on. For a place that was supposed to be abundant with demons, there were not too many of them to be found; had Blight simply given up now that the Knights had taken him down since Caldera Cay?

It was strangely silently since they expected and were bound to encounter some of these hellish monsters, but it did not feel like the beautiful world they knew anymore; feeling all so far away and strayed so much that it really felt like massive departure from the adventures they all grew up and learned lessons from. But they were just walking through the nice bright sky with their favorite friends and fun Dragons to ride on as well as to study just as they were to learn from them, no it did not truly felt like that at all; this time it was really becoming scary and horrifying, an literal living nightmare that no civilian who lived here could awaken from

"This looked even worse than the day my face was brutally melted by that thief when he threw that acid at me in my young youth..." Dragur the Executioner had commented

"That still felt painful even to this day as I would think" Valka replied to him

"Even now I don't know if being left to burn in the sun or to have your flesh melt is worse" Frost spoke to no one but himself

"Both of your tortures is worse, I was branded for my first failure on my chest; I'm not gonna get burned by acid of all things" Eret added in as he looked at his branding wound, still there after all this time

When they finally reached the dead end as mentioned before, the only thing that had caught their interest was that there happened to be an light electric and turquoise blue sharp pointed star like crystal that went upwards like a watersprout; however it was sealed off in the wall and the barrier did not aid in their justice either, like always there was an description that warned them about the danger that was about to occur to them:

"These cockroach and jacal demons of the Underworld are despised even by Blight himself, whom considers unworth of such a name; both nasty and primal as the wild and untamed depths of hell, some horrifying creatures are not meant to witnessed with the eyes and mind: Slay these Nobodies for whom they are called and the power of the blue stone, Elixir is yours..." Upon reading the description, something had begun to happen, the nightmare was about to begin

The winds had begun to speed up from above and towards the ground came falling the demons who had confronted the Knights, landing with an hard impact as they slam down towards the ground; three of them slamming down one at an time and surrounding them as the first one sees Drayko, howling with the wicked laughter of an monkey. "Bwahaha!"

These horrific and disgusting humanoid demons were skinless and veiny, walking as if it was an animalistic feral creature with the legs being the hands; one of them having no flesh at all as it's meat and tendons were exposed, the muscle tissue being violently ripped open with toxic blood spraying into cascades that dripped to the ground. Bearing the face of an noseless skull with an extra, much bigger arm on their back that could grab and snap the necks of the ones who dared defied against Blight; having an eyeball on their side as they could rip them off and throw it as an exploding projectile, intending to harm their victims. Being that they were nameless as Blight even hated them, these creepy fuckers known to the Underworld as being the most disgusting and horrendous animals who ever lived in it's darkest depths; they were given an derogatory name, they were known as Nobodies

"Oh that's nice now we've gotta fight some mannequin spiders before we can get the damn Elixir they call it, how beautiful..." Raijah remarked

"Shut up and kill these damn filthy animals!" Drayko commanded as two of the Nobodies began to jump from up to down, making obnoxious yet terrifying sounds of monkeys and laughing wickedly while the first ran to begin smacking with the arm on it's back. They were even fast enough to dodge Raijah's flamethrower and the Phoenix Talons did not do good either, but they were definitely not fast enough to avoid being crushed underneath by Hookfang's talon; to which the Nightmare had proceeded to rip it's arm off and throw it against the others

One of the Nobodies had brought out an mask and placed it on their faces, growing bigger and bigger until they not only roared like a possessed animal; but also stood up and begun to preform an crackhead ritual dance, all while laughing as it then shot out the eyeball from it's side. Grabbing and flinging it towards Fishlegs, who swung his War Hammer to deflect the attack; being blown backwards by the exploding impact of such living toxin as Nobodies were known for being. Eret was dropped kick by the larger of the Nobodies who wore the mask, Skullcrusher had fired off an blazing missile towards the demon and shattered the mask it wore; shrinking back to normal size as Eret called out to the other Knights, informing them to destroy the masks they wore before killing them. Now with a newfound strategy for taking out these devilish and disfigured mutant like abominations, the Knights had begun doing just that as Heather ended one by piercing through it's chest

But as they laid back roaring in their own demise, they froze and began to explode into pieces; burning anyone near them as it was not from the explosion itself, but rather from their acid exploding flesh. As Nobodies are living toxins, everyone must stay way from them even as they die; only then when they are no more is it safe for them without the risk of getting hurt. With the Knights slaying the last of the Nobodies as they watched them die with their flesh exploding and burning, one of them had fired out an eyeball towards Drayko as it rolled towards him on it's own; exploding as he simply jumped back to avoid the explosion

The barrier that held the Elixir had faded away as the description changed itself as a result of the Nobodies being slain: "Such great strength has been shown and thus, you have been truly granted and blessed with courage from within the heart. Go forth into the Underworld and emerge from the realm, the power of the blue spirit stone is yours now as your destiny awaits!" Raedwit walked over to the pedestal and took the stone, examining it up close for himself as he became very interested in the Elixir stone

"Looks like I've got myself an Alchemy Ingredient to use, unseal the spells from Bright's Lair and enter inside; simple as that" He placed the Elixir within his robes as Drayko led the way out of the dead end as they returned to the barren streets

Like before nothing had showed up to stop them in their path towards the main center of the Old Timely District, or at least what was left of the remains that is; as Blight now has control over Mierveia Vde Rallie. The Dragons didn't have to be involved with the battle against the Nobodies just to get the Elixir, just Hookfang and Skullcrusher as most of the Dragons did not enter inside with their Riders; after all there were clear signs of demons nearby in this little paradise of theirs, none of it mattered anyways as the Nobodies were slain and they got what they needed to enter inside. There was no reason to keep and continue to stay in the past, it was time to move onto the future events up ahead; nothing more to do here, but there just might be something happening as of yet now

They entered through the doors and passed the Harbor District once more, it was at this time that things had gotten deadly; as they entered within the same room where they first saw Heather and Windshear, stepping inside as the Knights stopped at their tracks and hearing their Dragons growl as they knew what was about to happen next. Drayko even had Inferno ready at his side and his Shield transformed into an crossbow at his other arm, everything had fallen silent by that point

HTTYD

The sound of glass cracking with pieces falling to the ground and the sound of someone walking on pieces of glass had broken the silence as it appeared to be coming from above, just then some glass had shattered as bloodied and crushed bodies of Hunters, Trappers and Fliers fell to the floor; this was never a good sign at all when this happened, especially at this time as it was not one of their own who was doing this but neither was it an Dragon nor a living being itself. Drayko looked up towards the glass ceiling, it was an massive shadow that had shrunk from above and expanded as it crashed down onto the middle of the room; crushing the ground with it's heavy weight and strong beefy arms that all Vikings had, letting out a roar before giving an louder one towards the sky as it was ready to fight

This demon that now stood before them was an giant orangutan that was bred for the very meaning of war itself with the mane of an lion, snout of an wildcat; talons of an hawk that were hairier, the strong and aggressive arms of an gorilla and the mind of an mindless manipulated pawn whose humanity was robbed. Having the skin color of an muddy yellowish tan as it's mane was covered in dandruff, eyes were pupiless as they glowed an lifeless yellow color. This war gorilla demon was Simiaguerra and it was quite the powerful one, even having agility that tanks like this demon shouldn't be having since they're more focused on power than speed

Drayko began firing away with his crossbow as the crescent blades flew through the air, piercing it's thick flesh and succeeding in angering the beast; as it jumped towards Drayko to smash him with it's powerful and meaty arms, but he had the advantage of speed on his side as he dodged backwards and threw Inferno to stab it in it's forehead. He then ran over and kicked his flaming sword deeper within towards it's brain, jumping off to avoid being grabbed as the others took their swing at the demon who blocked their path

Maria was caught by the demon's arms and started to shake her as if it was intending to throw her against the Knights, however she had dealt with beasts like this one plenty of times during her adventures as she simply stabbed her axe into the demon's arm; having it drop her to the ground as it screamed out in pain. Stormfly fired off her spikes towards the demon to blind it in it's eyes. Simiaguerra roared and jumped to the glass ceiling, hanging and pushing it's legs down to gain momentum to stomp it's attackers; not anticipating the fact that Raijah had swung and stabbed his talons into it's body, zipping towards the demon and spinning all around in a cyclone of blades while Hookfang fired off an kerosene stream against it. Both of them had inflicted quite the burning pain to the Simiaguerra as it only gotten angrier and started to flung both it's legs down even faster than before, bringing down some pieces of broken glass down to the floor while it was at it

The demon had then swung forwards and fired out an sonic blasting sphere towards them, and although Eret was sent backwards thanks to the impact; he blocked the full blast due to him crossing both of his dual swords, which he then threw both of them towards the demon for a little retaliation

While Eret was busy, Valka took the time to jump onto the demon's face and proceeded to bash it's face hard with the spikes on her staff used for bludgeoning; with Cloudjumper flying above to rain down an torus of blazing flames upon the demon, who grabbed Valka off it's face and smashed her to the ground. Raedwit rushed forwards and stabbed the demon's leg with his spear, ripping it out and stabbed it's foot afterwards as Barf and Belch unleashed an cloud of Zippleback Gas before igniting an explosion that blinded it temporarily

Dragur jumped into the air and spun his scythe like an spinning blade, strking the demon's shoulder while Heather stabbed it's other one from behind; Rose melted away it's flesh for Dragur while Windshear blasted the other one for her respective rider. Simiaguerra let out an roar and smacked them both away, now going on a serious rampage within the arena they fought in. Arson had to distract the now rampaging war gorilla demon by firing off syringes filled with venomous toxic substances that are not lethal towards Dragons, but definitely lethal towards demons like the Simiaguerra; Tidalwing was filled with enough to spray scalding water in up close to it's face as well as Arson also pumping some hot oil into it's nose, torturing the demon right into the nose on it's snout. Simiaguerra threw them both away to the side and grasped it's face, screaming in true agony

Drayko removed his flaming sword Inferno out from it's brain and along with both Raedwit and Bladehead, had jumped all at once to sever the beast of it's left arm; while Heather took care of the right all on her own, showing just how capable she has become over the many months that passed. Now without it's meaty and beefy arms, blood had begun to spray out as now the only thing it could do now was roar out to Blight; begging for him to save it as his pleads for being saved had all fallen on deaf ears. Storm fired off an lightning stream towards the demon as Raedwit rushed forwards once again, jumping and as Drayko threw Inferno into it's chest; the Master of Illusions ended the fight with an exploding end as he pumped an Zippleback Grenade into it's body, letting off one hell off an explosion that had it's massive organs splattering all over the walls. With no ill will to continue living on, the Simiaguerra was finished as it fell backwards and melted away as an bloody corpse; leaving behind only the bones that soon rotted and blew away in the wind

Drayko reclaimed Inferno once again and looked towards the very same door that they entered to reach the Harbor District, he knew somebody was waiting behind that door and it was not going to be easy picking; but if they're going to let an demon get away with making this land of tomorrow his own place for his own kind, then no he's not alright with that at all. There was bound to be more than an hoard of demons on the other side, no it was one that he was too familiar with; he can feel it in his own guts and instincts as they told him that it was an demon that Blight favored, his beast that he called his beloved hunter and it was one that they all fought before the last time Blight was encountered

"A familiar uninvited demon is behind the door, let's go ahead inside and see what kind of shit Blight has for us beyond this point of no return..." Drayko turned to his fellow Knights before heading beyond the doors, with them following closely from behind

The image of Mierveia Vde Rallie served as not only as an testament to Blight's supremacy over the very humans that he now ruled over and forced them into fear, but also to the very madness of the ill prince of Empress Jacqueline who had been struck down with an even deadlier disease for each time he would win his battles and emerge with victory; an symbol of an supernatural demon who had never left from the day he was born

The Knights had conquered the demons that were sent to stop them from claiming the Elixir and gathered what they needed to enter the Underworld, but what lied before them may challenge even the most greatest and powerful of warriors who have come to challenge the might of Blight himself. A haunting memory of the prince who could only beg for his parents to save him, but his father would not come and his mother could not reach him; thus he must master the strength within him, to finally ascend from his growing madness and the years of torture of being under his very control...

A short chapter that ends like a short chapter is worth it in the end, Foedissimae lies next as it's short again but the 31st Chapter is sure as hell not short; it involves something that is not suitable for those who have very weak stomachs, it's organic and fleshy as it's supposed to be something very creepy. It's a place you've been before when you were born, but haven't remembered when you were; you could hear the sounds of your parents within, but don't know what they look like until you were at the hospital where you first got to see their faces. Let that hint be something for you to think about for now, in the meantime I look forward to writing down the next chapter. Remember this suggestion: Don't like it, don't read it; otherwise, Feel free to Review and Until we meet again for I will return...

TheLegendaryBlackDragonKnight

P.S: At long last to make an short chapter feel like a normal length chapter, I present to you the Dragon Hunter Elites as you'll now know what they look like; enjoy!

Dragon Hunter Elites looked no different from the others in terms of matching their robust statures but were stronger, faster and deadlier versions of the normal ones as they're very adept in fighting against those who were aligned with the Dragons and the very beasts that they bonded with. Their helmets consisted of a studded skull cap around with three tanned spikes as opposed to white which is diagonally slanted forward, straight and backwards like the rest; but have metal skirts around the sides of their helmets with flowing leather skirts to droop and blow in the wind like a keffiyeh headdress for hot desert environments. Helmets come in three different versions: a opened face, a nose pointed cowl or a vertically ribbed grill on the front of their cowls. Wearing diamond patterned tunics that are either a dark crimson red, a dark crocodile olive green or a dark prussian blue color; which they all wore Zippleback skinned vests that were studded like the Berserkers. Underneath them were black armored hestplates that carried their gauntlet's ornage designs so that they can take greater beatings. Like their leader they wore spiked belts that featuring the Dragon Hunters rising bloody fist proudly on the front, armored and flexible pants horizontally ribbed upwards that also come with black skirts on top that were dual studded on the upper edges around their waists; the bottom had a wave of blood with some drops flickered for added effect of fear which split at both the front and black for better movement

Their black shoulder guards were silver edged with silver spikes like their leader, shinguards matched their leader's bracers while also having metal toed boots spiked with the rounded protuberances of the Zippleback facing backwards on either side. Their arms were wrapped in black horizontal ribbed bandages, bracket shells that closed on top of them and armored with oriental looking gauntlets that had a distinctive medium sized diamond pattern on them consisting of six of each when aligned on the top view; made up of a solid scalene triangular corner bordered pattern that featured the Dragon Hunters crest within the black diamond slanted borders on either side, and the same was true to the rectangular handplate that fit the entire knuckles. The top view also had backward slanted scallop blades for catching any bladed weapons by their enemies, also made of metal as well so they can swing and slash if they're unarmed. Their biceps were adorned the same kind of thick band around, for that it is appropriate that their black armored gloved hands and bracers are painted to look like bloody fists for their allegiance to the Dragon Hunters; all of them carried a trio of forward pyramid facing knuckle spikes

Their weapons like their helmets to armor were made of Gronckle Iron and dipped in Dragon Root as these included arrows, doubled edged broadswords, double bladed axes, maces with sharpened flanges for bludgeoning, heavy spiked ball morning star flails for heavy hitting, an double pronged spear from the Berserkers, shields adorning their crest, war hammers, staves consisting of halberds and chains that wrap around their arms and swing with having rings on the end that connect with long free dangling hooked barbs resembling claws to coil around their enemies and restrain as well as constrict to inflict pain like a snake. All of them have a red and yellow painted stripe with oxidized copper like texture and spiked square pommels. Their crossbows were designed to be one-handed projectile weapons with the same kind of design based on both Harkon's arm cannon and Jhuruako's three in one crossbow rifle, which are secured in their hands for steady aim when needing to take down a capture a dragon that is becoming a hassle to do so normally. All of them had the usual red and yellow striped paint with oxidized armored spike barbs on the sides to ends. Finally, their voices sounded less growlishly scratchy and harsh; if the design of it all wasn't obvious before then it was clear now that they followed Viggo with loyalty due to how they looked up to him