A Knight to Remember
Chapter 9
The group stepped back when the figure landed in front of them.
"Well... what do we have here?" the newcomer growled lowly and scanned them all, "Fresh meat..."
Fernando turned to face the figure, "Ah ha! A demon!" he pointed his lance at him, "You have haunted this gulch long enough!"
"BEWARE, MORTALS!" the demon rose up, "I AM ANDROXUS, THE ANGEL OF DEATH." he aimed his weapon at the knight.
"Watch out!" Fernando sidestepped and blocked the bullets with his shield, "A gun! That is a coward's weapon!" he taunted and exposed himself, "Face me like a real ma- GUH!" he was suddenly uppercutted in the stomach.
"WAHHHH!" he was sent flying into the gorge wall.
"Oh crap!" Sha Lin yelled and fire an arrow, but Androxus caught it and snapped it in half, "Uh oh..."
"DIE!" Androxus fired his weapon, but it was blocked by Makoa's shell.
"No, you!" Makoa turned and fired his cannon, striking Androxus and knocking him to the ground.
"I have you!" Ying appeared and used her magic to blast Androxus into the wall, then pinned him there with a terrific beam.
"DWAAHHHH!" the demon roared as he was assaulted, "RAH!" he sent out a dark energy field that canceled the beam, "YOU!" he glared at Ying, "DIE!" he pulled out his gun and blasted her.
"Ha!" Ying made a barrier of light, but it was broken and she was sent back by a bullet blast, "AHH!" she cried.
"Don't you dare hurt my allies!" Sha Lin popped out from a rock and fired two arrows, catching Androxus off guard.
"AGH!" the demon yelled as the arrows struck his left thigh, "GRAAH!" he aimed his gun at the archer, but was struck by the Illusionist once more.
"You little elf!" he blasted the Ying in front of him, only to have it explode and knock him back.
"Worry not! Fernando is here!" Fernando jumped back into the fray and blocked a barrage that was going to strike Makoa.
"Thanks!" Makoa popped to the side and shot his cannon, but missed.
"I'm tired of all of you!" Androxus charged forwards and landed in the midst of them, then pulled out two guns which gained a dragon like appearance, "DIE DIE DIE DIE!" he spun around and fired them.
Demonic bullets struck each one of them, knocking them away in a near perfect blast wave.
"AGH!" Makoa groaned, easily tanking the hit, then aimed his cannon, "Blast this-"
Androxus sped away from the attack and flanked the kappa, blasting him with a full onslaught to the back.
"WAH!" Makoa groaned as he was sent forwards.
"Makoa!" Ying appeared from behind the demon and struck him with a magic beam.
"GRAH!" Androxus roared and turned to grab the elf by the face, "Take this!" he threw her to the gorge wall.
"DYAH!" Ying screamed, revealing Sha Lin.
"Take this, you bone faced freak!" the archer shot a quick fury of arrows, overwhelming Androxus and pinning the fiend to the ground, "This one's a special delivery- To your face!" he aimed and fired.
"RAHHH!" Androxus yelled as the arrow became implanted between his eyes, then he pulled it out in rage.
"Well... I did not factor in that ability..." Sha Lin murmured and was then shot by the demon.
"I WILL KILL YOU ALL!" Androxus screeched as he used dark magic to create a vortex to drag everyone towards him, "I WILL FEAST ON YOUR SOULS!"
"You got the wrong girl!" Ying yelled and dropped in from the sky.
"Huh?" Androxus gave a quick glance at the Ying stuck in his vortex, which blew up once more, "RAH!" he was blasted away.
"Take this!" Ying aimed a powerful spell and launched it.
Androxus aimed through the beam and shot it, breaking it in half and causing the bullet to careen straight toward's Ying's head.
"Not today, Amigo!" Fernando appeared and saved the elf, he was donned with the power of the midday.
His power came from the sun, and he shone like it.
Androxus covered his face from Fernando's glowing aura.
"What, am I too sexy?" Fernando grinned, his shining teeth shooting out a ray of light that burned the demon's arm, "I am as sexy as Amaterasu." he flexed his bicep, whose fluctuation sent a shock wave that blasted Androxus back.
"Hah ha..." Androxus stood up and saw Fernando walk towards him, then started to shoot the knight.
Fernando shrugged off the demonic bullets and then aimed his lance, "I have a bone to pick with you." he chuckled and blasted his flames.
"RAHHHH!" Androxus screeched as he was engulfed in fire, "STOOOP!"
"You have hurt Fernando. And Ying!" Fernando increased his output, "You have made Fernando angry!"
The demon continued screeching and his body jerked until in moved no more.
"HA.. Ha..." Androxus groaned and saw Fernando reload his fire crystal, "I WILL- AH!" he was suddenly snagged.
"Har har har..." Makoa chortled as he held the demon in his anchor, "We're all animals..." he blasted the demon with his cannon.
Androxus collapsed and moved no longer.
"Fernando has saved the gulch." Fernando looked up to the sky, "And you helped." he turned to his allies, "Ying, are you ok?" he looked at the woman.
"Thank you." Ying smiled and grabbed his hand, "Look at you." she saw the extremely powerful knight, "Just a few hours ago you were as vulnerable as a baby... But now."
"Yeah yeah, thanks mate." Sha Lin interrupted the exchange, "I guess I owe you another favor." he laughed, then turned to Makoa, "I hate this place, let's keep moving."
"Yep." Makoa chortled and saw Ying kiss Fernando on the cheek, "I think they complement each other." he told Sha Lin as they walked behind the two.
"Huh? Did you get hit in the head?" Sha Lin rolled his eyes.
"Look at them. Opposites do attract." Makoa informed, "Fernando is strong and valiant, but he cannot connect with people. Ying on the other hand is loving and dependent, but a great unifier."
"Yeah, I think that swamp water got into your head." Sha Lin grumbled, "Don't say I didn't warn you when Fernando runs after another." he scoffed.
"Stop being a bitter root." Makoa growled and punched his shoulder.
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Ying sighed as she saw her once glorious knight return to a weakened state, "Are you ok?" she asked Fernando, who started to pant as the sun went down.
"We should be resting, for Fernando's sake." Makoa spoke to Ying, who nodded.
"Hey, Fernando." Ying floated to his side, "Let's rest."
"I will not rest until we reach the Lost Woods of Caracas." Fernando spoke as he saw the vast forest ahead of them.
Ying frowned, then turned to Makoa.
Fernando, however, kept marching onwards, dead set on finding a cure for his debilitating curse. "Fernando will once again shine." he murmured to himself and using his own ego as fuel, set forth alone.
"Fernando-" Ying was stopped by Sha Lin.
"Relax, don't you see that the Lost Woods are over there?" Sha Lin chuckled, "He'll be healed by the time the sun set-"
"Those are not the lost woods..." Ying growled, "We still have to pass the Hellfire Abyss and the Frostssinia Peaks.."
"Oh." Sha Lin said, "Well what woods are those then?"
"Those are the woods surrounding the Swamp of Despair." Ying informed.
"Ooooooh." Sha Lin said, "Well we should get him back then, no?" he asked.
"Yes we should." Ying responded, and the three ran to catch up to Fernando.
