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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Dark Character Speech"
'Dark Character Thoughts'
Chapter 1: Escape
They had finally done it they had won; the Black Dogs had taken the Black Keep. And with it they had ended the almost millennium long war.
It had been a long, hard, and arduous journey to get to this point for the largest group of mercenaries in Eostia. But it was worth it.
All the years of fighting, being the first and last ones on the front lines against hoards and hoards of almost never ending monsters. Not to mention when they didn't have Vault, Kin, or Hicks they had to deal with boarder line incompetent commanders from the Alliance, always with a chip on their shoulder trying to prove that they were worth the armor they wore.
But when the High Queen had called them about taking this castle, they jumped at the chance. To both end the war and further their own plan for the country.
They didn't care that it took a little over a week of riding and walking to get here. That they had to go through some of the worst terrain in all of Eostia, ranging from poisonous swamps, a cursed forest, and decrepit badlands abandoned by everyone smart enough to know when the land is hostile and worthless.
They didn't care that they had to fight off the occasional party of orcs or goblins, they had gotten used to killing green skins a long time ago.
When they had reached the castle they had used an old escape tunnel to make their way into the lower levels.
And to no one's surprise they were met with every monster the Dark Queen could throw at them orcs, goblins, ogres, werewolves, a vampire or two, even a damned troll. But with enough grit and manpower the Dogs pushed on and on until they had reached the thrown room of Olga herself.
Only to find it empty.
Though really it didn't matter to them if she hid from the inevitable, they would find her soon enough. After all she only had so much castle to hide in. And they could still progress with their plans regardless.
So they searched and searched top to bottom and all the while the mage of their group, Kin, had struck a bargain with the monsters of the keep.
A bargain that resulted in a coup against the now absent queen.
As for the bargain itself, it was a rather simple arrangement, but it worked well enough and helped get everyone involved what they wanted in this ultimate goal of the Black Dogs.
The monsters were to serve Vault and the other Black Dogs just like they had served Olga and in return they would be free to pillage, rape, and kill how they saw fit. Whenever they wanted, wherever they wanted, and the Dogs would make sure that no one stood in their way.
They were all too happy to agree since almost all of them thought with their lower head rather than the one on their shoulders.
The fact that Vault offered Olga herself as a bonus for the ones who found her was more than enough to kick the arrangement into high gear.
And thus a new army was born, one that would be spearheaded and lead by Vault and his Dogs with all the support an army of monsters could give.
It was here though that both Kin and Vault were informed by the monsters of the castle that there was apparently a second Dark Elf somewhere in the keep. Someone who was very close to Olga, someone they could use as leverage to lure her out of hiding and into a trap to disarm her of what magical power she had left.
So they quickly sealed the castle, no one in and no one out until they were found.
That had been sometime ago though and nothing had been found of the two. Many had thought they were already gone, but both the tracker and mage of the group could confirm that the two were still somewhere in the castle.
So they still had their chance to capture them. They knew if she were to escape that she could possibly warn the Alliance of this little pack that had been made. And if they lost the element of surprise, then this campaign would change from a blitzkrieg to a full fledge war of attrition once again.
And while Vault had plenty resources to pull from, more than a few hidden allies around the kingdom, and a fair share of devious tricks up his sleeve he would rather keep the original plan of a quick and easy war rather than one with any possibility of defeat.
It never hurt to have every advantage possible.
"Damn it where'd the bitch go?!" Vault shouts in anger as he sat in the throne of the former Dark Queen now runaway.
Vault was a tall, physically impressive and proud man with a tanned skin tone, scars all along his body including one across his left brow, dark red eyes, and light brown almost grayish hair. His attire consisted of a black plate armor that covered his entire torso and his left shoulder with dual layered armor with the left also adorning an additional red piece with the symbol of the Black Dogs proudly on display.
Next there was a small gap between the shoulder and forearm on the left arm leaving space for greater movement when fighting. Then at the elbow it became a black layered and studded gauntlets with spike tipped knuckles. While the right arm only had a metal bracelet sitting atop a grey leather glove, giving him much more control when handling his greatsword.
Of course it was difficult to see most of the armor aside from the shoulder since most of it was hidden beneath an overlaying set of brown and maroon colored cloth. Brown for the base layer ending at the shoulders and leading down into the legs, and maroon resting over the shoulders and on the collar bones before draping behind his back to become an almost ankle length cloak.
Going past his torso Vault wore atop his brown colored pants a layered set of black metal plate armor starting at the tops of his thighs and ending at the ends of his feet at a point.
And finally beside Vault to his right sat his own personal greatsword. The weapon was tall, almost as tall as the man himself and like his armor solid black in color at the center with it graying out towards the edges. Finally the handle of the weapon and the part closest to its owner was plain for the most only being wrapped in white cloth and bandages with a large rectangular end.
"I said I want them found damn it! To come all the way to this gods forsaken land, I don't expect to have our vision challenged before it can even begin." He says angrily as no one had even come close to finding them, yet.
Hearing his commander's question the mage of the group Kin pushed his glasses up a bit on his nose and sigh at his impatient tone.
"We have the monsters and our own men searching the entire keep, and we are tearing at some of the walls looking for hidden passageways as well. Rest assured they will be found." He says calmly to his enraged commander.
"Tell them whoever finds the two bitches gets an entire night with them for all the shit they've put us through! Couldn't even lose properly, they just have to run!" He says annoyed as Kin goes back to looking over an old tome for the castle and its layout.
Now Kin as opposed to Vault wasn't the most impressive of specimens when it came to physical prowess or form, but what he lacked in muscle he more than made up for in intelligence, cunning, and magical aptitude.
As for the man's appearance he was much paler than Vault being much more fair skinned while his hair a much lighter shade of brown and neatly combed to one side and his eyes were dark green rather than red.
His attire was a green and blue shirt with sleeves that ran down to the middle of his arms and had to be tied at the waist to keep it from being too loose on him. His pants with a simple brown in colored and ran down to the bottoms of his ankles. His feet had rather simple shoes and his wrists were both covered by black cloth bands as most members of the Black Dogs were. Finally he completed his look with a long purple hood and cloak over his person held together at the base of the neck with a pendent that had the symbol of the mercenary group, and glasses with wide round lenses.
They then both look up to see a patrol coming into the throne room and the lead man in charge bows his head to his commander, "Sir we think we found something below the castle." He says simply to the two before Vault stares him down.
"I told you to find someone not something. So this had better be good." He says irritated to the patrol.
"One of the patrols found a group of our men with their throats cut so we had a group of goblins pick up the trail there. It lead us to the lower part of the castle where we had one of the ogres knock out part of a wall in the cellar. From there the trail was picked up again and we followed it, but it lead to a large metal door. We think Olga and the other elf have locked themselves in there. Even the monsters couldn't tell us what it was, so we don't know if she's laying a trap for us in there. The men seem to think this is Olga's personal safe room or escape passage, but we cannot get it open since they placed a magic seal over the damned thing." The man says wanting to please Vault and hoping for the coveted reward of a night with the Dark Queen.
"Magic you say? Kin go with them see what this is all about. I'll be down there to meet you shortly." Vault says with a small smile on his face at the thought of finally nabbing the illusive queen.
The mage nods and grabs a spell tome from his pocket and nods to the man, "Take me to this seal."
Inside the Sealed Room
Chloe could hear them on the other side of the door, all those disgusting humans and those traitorous monsters. It made her skin crawl knowing what they wanted to do with her and her Lady. She then looked to the bloody dagger she held with a look of hatred and a smirk as she recalled just how she got them.
The last man who tried her had been too close with his weapon still on his belt, so she put it too much better use. After killing him his "friends" came to investigate and she made short work of them as well.
And she would do the same thing to anyone who dared to lay a hand on her queen.
As for how they got to this point Chloe quickly rushed to the throne room after dealing with some of the Dogs and met her queen who quickly told the younger elf to follow her. So with her being the loyal subject she was Chloe followed the queen without a second thought.
Though in the back of her mind she was confused as to why the queen had asked her follow her rather than staying to fight off the attackers. But she was still loyal, even if the order was strange to her.
So they made their way through the corridors of the castle and girl couldn't help but notice the that they were using tunnels that she's never seen or even heard of before. And as she looked around more observantly she noticed that her queen was tense the entire way, and only seemed to be growing more and more uneasy the closer they got to wherever it was that they were going.
And when they had finally made their way out of one secret passage they just as quickly entered another one in the cellar that had lead them to a room she never knew existed. And before she could ask her Lady about where they were she saw her queen tap her scepter on the center of the vault door and watched as an array of seals began to form on the metal in a bright and radiant red.
As the door opened for them she quickly followed her Lady through still confused as to what the place actually was. But before she could open her mouth she watched in just as much confusion as she resealed the door behind them.
And after a few agonizing minuets the two of them heard the tell tale sound of Dogs and monsters clawing at the door they had just come through. And now they were completely cornered.
"My Lady what are we going to do? Is there another escape tunnel in here?" Chloe asks to her queen somewhere between worry and panic as the sounds grew louder and louder, signaling that more and more enemies were piling up on the other side of the door.
Olga though said nothing and motioned for her to follow. Begrudgingly the younger elf does as she is ordered and follows her queen once again deeper into this mystery room.
As they walked the light had faded and now the two were relying on Olga's scepter to light the way for them with a simple illumination spell. And in the dark Chloe could see just how tense her master had become as they finally reached what they were looking for.
Another sealed door.
"My Lady forgive me for speaking out of turn, but what is this place and why are we here? We should be looking to escape and bring the castle down on top of these miserable cretins. So what are we doing here?" She says before looking behind them knowing it was only a matter of time before they had nowhere left to run.
The queen looked straight into the solid steel and sighed before tapping her scepter on this one much like the first and they both watched as runes spread and glowed an eerie red before the vault began to open.
They then hear the sounds of footsteps and see the glow of torches coming from behind them and Chloe draws her dagger and prepares to fight when Olga looks at her.
"Chloe in this room is the key to our survival. Quickly run inside and you will find chains hanging from the walls. Cut as many as you can, he will be awake shortly. And I assure you he will deal with these miserable curs." She says with a small tone of sinister nature in her voice.
Nodding reluctantly the younger elf goes in the pure black of the vault and spots the multitude of chains hanging from both the walls and ceiling. So obeying her master's orders the girl made her way over to them and quickly got to work cutting as many as she could with her dagger. And while she wished she could've done more the dagger could only take so much and after cutting through the sixth chain broke in half in her hand.
She then looks deeper into the dark and hears the sound of more chains being moved about by something deep within the room.
But before she could think on what lay in the dark she was grabbed from behind and wrestled to the ground.
"We got the little cunt!" She hears a disgusting voice sound off from behind her as she was dragged back to the entrance.
Once back in the light the girl was pushed down to her knees across from her queen who now pointed her scepter towards the men and like her had adorned a look of murderous intent. But she then looked to Chloe and then to the darkness behind them and smirked a devious grin.
Though the grin didn't stay on her face for long as the man in charge of this whole situation came strolling casually into view with an overly arrogant look on his face.
Earlier
Vault had made his way down to the hidden structure that he'd heard the men talking about and saw his two right hand men already down there.
"Kin, Hicks what the hell am I looking at?" He asks curious if the two elves were luring them into a trap.
Hicks the tracker of the group smiled and gestured one of his arms to the metal structure before them, "Well Vault it's….a vault."
Hicks like Kin was nowhere near as physically impressive as Vault in terms of stature and size, but like the other leader of the Dogs he made up for it with his own unique skills as both a tracker and a more speed and agility based fighter.
As for his appearance the man was thin and but had excellent tone in his muscles allowing for him to be quick on his feet. He had fair skin, slicked back light brown hair, and devious brown eyes.
As for his attire he wore a completely open and no sleeved green vest with the symbol for the Dogs on the back. Somewhat loose fitting dark green pants held up by a brown leather belt and brown mid calf length boots with light amounts of armor on the ankle and balls of the feet.
To top it off he used twin shortswords and had a small pouch on his left arm containing poison that he often coated his blades in.
The leader of the mercenaries though just looked at him with a deadpan expression, "I'm not dealing with your bullshit now smartass. I can see that it's a fucking vault, tell me what the hell might be inside."
Kin sighed as his hand began to glow and connect to the spell keeping it closed. "The runes are telling of a prison rather than a vault."
The other two looked to him and each raised a brow, "Now what the hell would someone like the Dark Queen lock up all the way down here?" Hicks asks to himself out loud.
But sadly none of them could answer that for the tracker.
So after Kin was able to get the first seal open Vault and all his men made their way down the dark corridor with monsters flanking them on both sides.
And when they reached the end they finally saw her, Olga Discordia.
She was slightly taller than most had thought, but that didn't detract of her almost otherworldly beauty. The queen had flawless and rich dark chocolate colored skin and hypnotizing golden colored eyes. Her hair was a silky pitch black that reached all the way down to the backs of her knees and covered almost the entire right side of her face.
She wore a regal, but also well fitting purple dress that began at the tops of her chest and ran down the length of her body and arms, but rather than ending like a dress should the fabric then tightens at her waist and turns into a long set of leggings.
She finished off her noble appearance with black high-heeled boots, a large silver crown, and four golden earrings in each of her long pointed ears.
And while she had a weapon in the form of a long solid black scepter with an enchanted ruby in the center, she could barley conjure enough strength to undo and reseal her own magic much less use it to defend herself and Chloe.
But what most were focusing on was the queen's impressive and youthful figure with large, full, and yet still perky breasts, slim waist, and like her front a rather generous backside to match.
Vault saw another form in the dark and sent in three of his men to grab the other elf.
"So we finally get to meet the great queen of the North. You don't look like much." Vault says cockily as he made his way over to the once great queen.
"Where'd all that power of yours go? Surely you're more than just a pretty face and a pair of tits, or am I making a mountain out of a molehill?" He says making the others behind him laugh.
He then turns his attention to the recently opened second vault and watched as two of his men dragged another dark elf into the light for all to see.
She was lighter skinned than Olga, but still a rich and healthy shade of caramel with light blonde hair that reached all the way down to the middle of her back and ruby red eyes. She wore a top that only covered her upper back, shoulders, and down to her collarbones, but there was only a small gap in-between the end of the fabric and the beginning of metal. Her armor began at her chest and covers the majority of her sides and her stomach but like the shirt she wore ended abruptly at the waist and left a gap exposing some skin. Though once again like with the shirt before it any skin was quickly covered by armored leggings that stretched all the way down and were held up by red leather straps connecting them to her chest plate.
And like her dear queen the other woman was quite something to look at when the men looked her body up and down.
She was put down on her knees across the dark queen as Vault made his over to the new face without a care in the world. They were his now whether they knew it yet or not.
He leans down and grabs a hold of Chloe by her chin and forces her to look up him, "So you're the bitch that killed my men? You're even less intimidating than your owner." He says in a tone to the younger elf, making said elf grit her teeth in anger.
"Hey where hell did Gull go?" Vault looks to the two men that were holding her down and paused as he noticed that there were in fact only two when he sent in three.
They then hear the sound of heavy footsteps emerging from the dark.
And then a corpse was thrown out for all to see.
Or really the corpse was thrown so hard that it impacted and left a dent in the stonewall at the entrance to the first vault.
The footsteps then drew closer as tall black figure made there way out of the dark, and when the light struck them most people there most people were not prepared as to what it was.
It was a knight, a knight taller and more muscular than even Vault or some of the orcs in the now somewhat cramp tunnel.
He was covered head to toe in bulky black armor with the legs having solid and grooved plate up to the knee where the metal doubled for extra protection of the joint. Past that it was much harder to tell as the knight had a ragged and torn waistcloth that covered the entirety of his thighs. Up past the cloth they could see double plated armor covering his hips to the sides, which were then connected by metal studs to his torso and bottom of the chest piece. As for the actual chest it looked to be three full layers of pure blackened and most likely hardened steel. It had a few decorations to though as after the triple layer the center of the chest protruded forward slightly almost to a point allowing for knight to have a bit more breathing room around the chest area, the side effect though was that it showed just how muscle the knight seemed to be hiding underneath the armor. Then again at the collarbone did the armor protrude almost to a square shape.
Then onto the knights arms, they looked to be completely encased in layers of plate from the shoulders all the way down to the elbow where the armor itself bulked out a bit and continued to the forearms and ended at the knuckles with a single barely reaching plate stretching over them, giving the knight a lethal punch if need be.
And then they came to the head of the knight, for the most part the helm looked like a metal box almost if it weren't for the slight rounding across the face and the four cut eyeholes.
And with a closer look they could see a rather pissed off set of eyes glaring back at them from beneath the helm.
"And just who the fuck are you?" Hicks asks drawing his twin blades.
The knight doesn't a say a word to him and just starts walking towards them dragging something behind him.
And not really wanting to get too close of a look at whatever he held Vault nodded his head and three men and three orcs charged him with bloodthirsty grins and weapons drawn.
The knight seeing the six challengers running at him just cracked his neck. He then swung his left arm forward bring forth a large rectangular tower shield that was black in color with a strange symbol across the face of it.
The shield served its purpose though as the impact of it meeting the first orc's weapon caused him to stagger from the unexpected strength behind the shield. Then with a small charge the knight bashed the orc back and sent him flying into two of the men, knocking them all to the ground.
They quickly try to recover, but were met with a nasty surprise when they tried to get up as the knight's right hand came around and cleaved the three unfortunate souls in two with a weapon that shattered stone when it struck the floor past the third body.
When the dust settled the full form of the weapon was shown to the other members of the Black Dogs and remaining monsters.
The weapon was a greatsword even larger than the one that Vault used and also pure black in color, but unlike Vault's where his was smooth and a finished blade this one looked as if it was a raw hunk of iron left to heat and then used after it cooled without any further tempering. The edges were all jagged and uneven leaving some parts to act more like hooks than a cutting edge. The sheer amount of jagged edges meant that the cut would be very messy with some parts slicing open flesh while others hooked into any muscle or organ that it could find and drag anything out with it.
The end of the weapon was a curious part to some though, as instead of ending in the traditional fine point this weapon continued to be weird as the end was curved towards the sides and were completely smooth and sharpened to perfection. Finally the handle of the weapon was finely crafted like the other end as the jagged and almost deranged nature of the blade ended abruptly and became a handle easily large enough for a man with four hands to hold.
Kin and Hicks widened their eyes at the sight of the weapon as they saw the ripped open and mutilated bodies of the men and orc before him.
The others while more hesitant charged again and the man now on the aggressive side shield bashes the man and a loud crunch could be heard as both the man's nose and jaw were broken upon impact.
He drops to the floor screaming in pain only to be silenced with the bottom of the shield slamming into his ribs.
The knight then looks to the second one and brings his wicked sword around once more lets the end perfectly slice one of the orc's legs off. Though the other one didn't escape as the sword was then abruptly whipped back and brought down like a guillotine on his shoulder splitting the pig-like monster down the center and spilling everything onto the cold stone floor.
The knight then looks down at the without a leg as it crawled away from him and stabs his weapon into pure stone and hoists the orc up by its barley sew together shirt.
And for a moment they just stared for a moment, monster glaring at man. But the knight quickly ended the orc's snarl and glare with a solid punch to its snout easily breaking it.
The orc didn't have time to whine in pain though as the knight's hand was then placed on its neck cutting off any circulation, and he began to pull upwards.
The monster screamed in agony for a short time until all the sudden the cry was cutoff by a bloody gurgle, and before the eyes of everyone in the hall a single man with a single hand tore an orc's head clean off and dropped it to the ground without so much as a second glance.
Dropping the last body to join its head the knight looks to all the monsters left in the hall and rolls his shoulders, "So who's next then?"
Kin steps forward trying to reason with the knight, "We have no quarrel with you knight. All we're here to do is capture Olga and end this war."
The knight looks to the still free Olga as she glared at the men who still held Chloe by the throat, to Chloe who was stuck between shock and anger, and finally to the monsters that piled into the hall behind the men.
"Don't sugar coat it Kin, I'm sure the man is reasonable." Vault said as he walked up to the knight and looked at him with a casual smirk on his face.
"So why'd the bitch lock you up down here?" He asks with that confident and dark look shadowing his face and he glances at the gore-covered greatsword now resting on the knight's shoulder.
The knight looked at him and shrugged, "We had a disagreement. And she didn't see things my way, but she didn't want to kill me." He answered simply.
So Vault then pressed on, "Did you fight for her?"
The knight then looked to Olga and for a brief moment her cold façade broke looking into his helm.
"I did. I fought for her without a second thought."
Vault then goes on, "And so your loyal service was rewarded with what? Life in chains underneath a castle you fought for. Doesn't sound like much of a reward to me. Spilling blood for her, willing to die for her, and in the end she threw you away when you disagreed with her? Just what were you disagreeing about?"
The knight said nothing.
So Vault shrugged his shoulders, "Fine don't tell if you don't want. Fine by me. But let me ask you this, how does the idea of revenge sound to you."
The knight looked to Vault and he knew that he now had his attention. "You see we're in the same situation as you were. Forced to fight this war for someone else and for what, a little money and fame? I say we're owed more than just riches and fame. I'd say the bitches who put us up to this owe us personally." He says dragging out the word in a way that made Olga's skin crawl.
"I say we take everything we can. Why should we bust our asses for ungrateful bitches who are better off serving us as obedient whores? Why should we fight and only have a little gold to show for it at the end of the day? I say we turn this whole country into our personal paradise." He breathes in deeply as if enjoying the scent of his own breath in the air.
"I say we turn this miserable land into an empire. An empire where every man can live like a king, an empire where all those stupid princess knights are the prize whores for anyone worthy enough to claim them. We will create the Sex Empire!" He finishes with a shout getting a roar of cheers from everyone behind him in the hall.
He then gestures to the Olga and Chloe, "So I'll ask again do you want revenge on the one who put you in here? Why not start off your new allegiance with a gift. "
The knight looked to Olga who seemed to look a lot more nervous after Vault posed the question of revenge after his speech.
"Do I want revenge on her? Absolutely…" Vault smiles to the knight as he turns around.
But a large hand on his shoulder stopped him and he felt his sixth sense kicking in, "….but am I going to stoop to your level to do it? And if you think I will side with mindless monsters to get it? Then allow me to properly give you an answer to your proposal."
Vault then tried to duck but the knight landed a monstrous punch to the man's side sending him flying backwards with what was most definitely broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, and knocking over two of his own men when they tried to catch him.
Vault spit blood and looked to the knight with fury in his eyes, "You just made the worst mistake of your miserable life. Skin this fucker alive and use him as a rug to fuck those two on!" He says before the men charge at the knight once again.
"Big talk coming from a man who looks like one of Farron's rejects." He says calmly in the face of an army.
The knight brings his sword around in a wide swing and cleaves an orc in two before turning and blocking an axe from another and smashing the shield onto its foot and pushing back with ease.
The orc could barley think on what was happening as the pig-man was thrown onto a crowd of other monsters who all stumbled to catch their comrade from both the weight and strength behind the throw.
And in these compact corridors grouping together was almost always a death sentence.
At least if the knight standing over them had anything to say about it. He then puts his shield on his back and began two handing his sword get a much stronger swing. Putting that extra strength to good use he brings it down with colossal force chopping one in half on the first stroke, before pushing against the floor and deeper into the small pit of pigs, ripping and tearing apart anything it touched. He then lifted it with ease and brought it back down onto another orc like a mighty guillotine.
And it quickly became a pattern for the downed orcs.
The sword goes down gifting anyone it hit with a swift end as they were most likely cut entirely in half or decapitated.
Then came the drag where not just the edges but also the flat side of the sword could hook into their skin and tear them apart like butchers shredding meat.
And finally the rise that filled any surviving orc with fear as they played a small game of roulette, who survives the next swing?
And after reducing the orcs into mushy red mulch he turned his attention to the two men that were trying to drag Chloe off and much to their surprise he was on them with a single and surprisingly fast leap.
He lands on one, crushing the man beneath the weight of his armor, turning his organs into paste and his bones into splinters. The second one tried to hold the girl hostage, but the knight was quick to grab one of the Dog's arms with one hand and jerk him away from the elf before burying his head into the stone floor.
He looks to Chloe and motions his head to Olga who was beginning to be surrounded by a few of the monsters.
The girl nods and picks up two discarded daggers before rushing to her Lady. Upon getting close she dug one of her newly acquired weapons deep into the skull of one orc and stood protectively in front of Olga.
"Get back." The younger elf says with as much confidence as she could muster with one dagger skill clutched in her hand.
The other orcs snarled but when they weren't paying attention to the real threat in the room they were quickly disposed of from behind due to a long neck level swipe of a gore covered greatsword.
The two elves then stood before the knight and for he first time since he had emerged Chloe felt the true difference in size between them.
But she didn't have long to dwell on it as another shout from behind him made her instincts kick in as she expertly threw her remaining dagger into a man's throat and watched with satisfaction as he suffocated on his own blood.
The knight looked to the man and then to her and nodded in respect, a nice kill.
They then all turned to Vault who was being helped to his feet by Hicks, "I'll give you the younger elf as your personal plaything if someone kills this motherfucker!" He shouts motivating more of his men to charge the knight.
The three looked out among the multitude of monsters that now filled the hall and knew that it was only a matter of time.
Chloe was fully prepared to die fighting if need be. But when she sees the knight walking backward until he was right next to Olga, her curiosity was peaked as the queen watched his every move.
"You built this place atop the ravine correct?" He asks her seriously and in tone that Chloe did not like.
The older elf nods to him, "Yes, yes I did." She said already somewhat knowing what he was to do next.
The knight twists his back and grips his greatsword a bit tighter, "Good."
He then thrusts the end of the blade into the floor of the vault and watched in satisfaction as part fell away to reveal a large drop into the river that the castle drew water from.
Vault seeing what was going on quickly began to move back as the knight did another wind up and slammed his weapon into floor once more causing more to break away and the support to shake under the destruction.
Vault and the other Dogs along with the monsters quickly made their way back to the more stable parts of the vault and the man could do nothing but snarl at the armored nuisance that allowed his dark-skinned prizes to slip through his fingers.
So with a hateful glare the two mighty sword users got a good look at each other one last time before the knight slammed his sword into the ground for the final time and sent an entire section of the vault descending into the river below.
Vault looks to their quickly disappearing forms and clenches his fists in rage. Not only had that knight spit in his face by denying his offer, he had injured him, and took what he was determined to make his.
"Give out the word, if anyone finds the elves I'll pay them their weight in gold and give them a whole night with one of them. And if they bring me that bastard's head I'll pay you his weight in gold and let them fuck both at the same time." He says wanting to get any and every member of his company motivated to find the party of three.
He just added a new target to his list of conquests.
With Said Party
Chloe knew something bad was going to happen.
From the moment that knight, she just knew it in her gut that something bad was going to happen.
And now here she was falling to her death.
Better than what awaited them with Vault though.
So with her ready to accept her fate the young elf closed her eyes as she waits for the end. But before that could happen she sees a black figure in the corner of her vision, and already knowing who it was the girl looks over to glare at the knight, as she thought he was only there to assure that she died by his hands. But to her surprise instead of death's cold hands she felt a rather solid and somewhat warm armored chest as the knight cradled her close to him as the two fell to the bottom.
She then braces for impact and with a thunderous boom the knight lands on his back first into the water with Chloe somehow, for the most part, unharmed.
They then surface with both of them letting out gasps of relief as they were fighting the current of the river. But after enough struggle the two were able make it the shallows and walk onto the shore.
She looks at him in shock as the thought of the knight actually saving her came to her mind. Doesn't mean she trusted him, but saving her twice left him standing better than most.
But her surprise turned to worry when she saw to trace of her queen. She quickly became frantic as she searched the rocky bottom and in the river. But there was no sight of her.
The was about to cry when a low laugh rang against her ears, so turning to the only other person down there with her she looks to the knight who was shacking some of the water out of his helm.
"She'll be fine, a little fall like this wouldn't be enough to kill Olga. She's much too stubborn." He says before standing up and checking to see if the straps holding his shield and greatsword were still in place and that his weapons wouldn't fall of him while walking.
Chloe goes to retort and berate him about respect for the queen when she catches a glimpse of purple above them.
She looks up to get a better look and the knight follows her line of sight as they both look up to see Olga floating down towards them with a levitation spell.
Or at least she was when they first looked. As soon after the spell quickly faded and the once infamous Olga Discordia, master of the dark arts….fell straight onto her ass, hard enough for something to brake.
She let out a loud shout of pain when she landed and both Chloe and the knight could hear a loud crack in the air upon her impact, sounded like she broke something on her landing.
Chloe being the faithful servant that she was rushed to her Lady's aid and helped her stand only to see that she had landed on a rock and had broken her leg.
The knight hearing Chloe's calls of distress over Olga slowly stood up and made there way over to the two elves.
"Olga." He says simply to them.
The two turn towards him as he shakes his head and sighs, "Normally this would be an opportunity to say I told you so, but now it seems as if more important things are afoot. We need to move quickly before the monsters catch up, and then we need to find you a healer."
Chloe was still defensive and got in his way as he walked closer to her queen. He sighed seeing that the girl was only going to make things more difficult.
"You said you wanted revenge against her. What makes you think that I will let you take another step let alone touch her?" She asks with a snappy tone.
The knight sighs again, "You have no weapon to defend her or yourself, and if I wanted I could tear you in half. So do us both a favor and let me get her to a healer, she's no use to anyone as she is now."
Olga having had enough of simply listening looked to Chloe, "Just let him through Chloe, if Tsorig wanted to kill me then he would have when he was first released."
She looks back in horror at what the queen had just said and felt herself torn between orders and reason, but in her indecisiveness the knight pushed past her and scooped up Olga bridal style and just started walking.
"You always were the romantic." She jokes to the knight.
"Don't make me drop you." He says to her in a voice that was both dry and annoyed.
Chloe catches quickly walks beside them and studies the two as Olga found herself smiling rather than the usual monotone expression, or her recent tension.
"My Lady who is he?" Chloe finally asks the question that been on her mind from the beginning.
"My name is Tsorig, last Black Iron Knight of Berenike." He says with pride in his voice.
"I always thought Knight Slayer was the more impressive of your titles." Olga chips from in his grip as the knight shakes his head.
"That is a title that others gave me, not a title I earned. Or even appreciated for that matter." He says much lower at the last part, getting a raised brow from the younger elf.
They then walked in total silence all the way to the mouth of the ravine, and when they looked out upon the miles and miles of land that the Black Dogs now controlled. They knew that their journey was not going to be easy.
"So then, Tsorig, what is your plan exactly?" Chloe asks the giant in armor as he looked on in thought.
"First we need to get some distance between us and the castle. After that we find a healer, because I'm not carrying you all the way to Ken." He says making both of them look to the knight in shock.
"Don't look so surprised, Ken is the best place for you to go right now. It's far away from Vault and his Dogs and Celestine always has been the forgiving type of person. So perhaps there is a chance that if you offer her some information on the movements of the monsters and how they fight then perhaps she will be lenient towards you?" He says to before marching onward.
At least until Chloe ran in front of him and stopped his progress, "You are asking me to deliver my queen to our enemies. While you yourself are our enemy, I have no reason to trust you nor listen as you will only lead us to ruin!"
"Yes and that's the plan to lead her to her enemies and ruin her. And there isn't a damned thing you can do to stop me. Make no mistake girl, I'm not your friend. I saved you and her because I want to see you two properly dealt with, she has a lot to answer for." He then leans forward and even under the armor Chloe could see his muscles tighten as he was ready to spring at the drop of a pin.
"But don't you think for a second that I am you ally or friend. I have history with Olga, history that demands I see her at least reach Ken. I don't on the other hand give a damn about you, nor do I need you for this. So if you get in my way again, I will kill you. Understand?" He says in a deadly tone to the younger elf.
"Then why did you save us at all!?" She shouts in pure anger.
"Someone once told me that even the broken deserve dignity. And Olga is far from broken, therefore I'm not going to leave either of you in the hands of monsters who solely live to strip the dignity of any woman they can get there hands on. Even if it's only to see you tried at Ken." And with his piece said Tsorig just keeps walking.
And as he walked past her Chloe could do nothing but try to keep up.
She knew these were going to be troubling times ahead, especially with someone who held the name of Knight Slayer.
But for now he was all they had, and that was saying more than she cared to admit.
And Done!
So that ran a bit longer than I thought it would, but hey more is more.
Well that's another in the books and yeah I know some might say why Tsorig and not the OG Tarkus. totally honest I just like Fume better than the standard greatsword and I can mold Tsorig as I see fit for the plot.
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