Gisbourne was a man capable of many things, however the one thing he never thought he would be able to do was catch the Nightwatch man and get his revenge.

For all the times he had suffered because of the masked incompetent thief. He beat the man, so hard even his own fist hurt and with every punch he laid on the cloaked man's face his hatred and anger grew. Gisbourne was not a fool; he knew the Watchman was in an alliance with Hood. The only thing Gisbourne could think more satisfying than killing Hood was killing one of Hood's closest men, the moron felt for each and every one of them and would be pained by the loss, Gisbourne was sure of it. The masked man coughed and Gisbourne was glad to see blood on the scarf that hid the man's face.

Oh, how he was enjoying this, how he would laugh at Hood's face when he would discover the loss of his pathetic comrade. With those thoughts in mind Guy of Gisbourne kept hitting harder and harder.

Robin reached Knighton Hall first, and what he saw almost made him throw up, Marian being beaten by Gisbourne who kept hitting. From that moment all Robin saw was red. Getting of his horse Robin ran for Gisbourne and threw himself at the sheriff's most trusted man. Gisbourne was thrown of his captive and was taken by surprise. Robin could tell as they both tumbled to the ground.

"Hood!" Gisborne roared in rage as he tried to fight of the outlaw who was pinning him down trying to it seemed to kill him, with his bare hands.

At that moment Robin did not care that he didn't have his bow in his hands or that he hadn't bothered to pull out his sword all that mattered was hurting the man who had hurt Marian and himself in so many ways.

Marian who had finally been able to breathe properly when Guy was thrown of looked to the side to see her savior and she was not surprised to see the one she expected to see. Marian tried to rise but her body felt like it had been run over by a horse and every time she moved her head the wound in the back hurt even worse. Praying that Robin would not hurt himself she lay there helplessly watching her love fight for his life.

Meanwhile in Sherwood forest

"EVERYTHING LOOKS THE SAME!!!" Mari shouted at the top of her lungs as she and Sophie galloped through the forest at a slower pace since they were two on one horse.

"Mari if you keep going straight the exact same way Robin did we won't get lost "Sophie said annoyed

"Right straight I can do that" Mari but as soon as she said that she was hit by something in the head causing her to fall backwards onto Sophie causing them both to tumble to the ground.

"OWW The Pain!" Mari complained and held her hands to her forehead "We're under attack! Sophie get the smoke bombs"

Sophie however did not get out the smoke bombs instead she calmly stood up. Mari looked up at her friend

"What's wrong with you? The enemy's attacking " Sophie pointed behind Mari

"There's your enemy Mari" Mari looked where Sophie was pointing and there was a tree branch hanging out far enough so it would knock people off their horse if they were not paying attention to the road.

"Oh…..I knew that"

"Sure you did" Sophie muttered and got up on the horse and pulled Mari up behind her and continued to ride after Robin this time without crashing.

They reached Marian's house and found Robin's horse. Mari jumped of as soon as it was possible and ran before her friend to Marian who was lying unmoving in the grass.

"Marian?" Mari asked only loud enough so only they could hear, Sophie arrived and started checking Marian for any fatal injuries.

"Robin! He will be injured.. AH" Marian started but gasped as Sophie touched the bruise on her arm

"Robin will be fine" Sophie answered while Mari muttered something along the lines of "hopeless lovebirds"

"Marian can you stand?" Sophie asked

"I-I… think so" With the support of the Red Hawks Marian slowly was pulled to her feet luckily she managed to not throw up as she leaned on Sophie for support her arm hurt worse than before. Sophie sat up on their horse and pulled Marian by her unhurt arm up and behind her Mari aided her from the ground.

"Just hold on to Sophie okay?" Mari said to Marian who gave a small nod, too tired to speak. Mari gave a nod to Sophie who quickly urged their horse to go forward and had soon disappeared into the trees of Sherwood.

"NO!" Gisbourne roared in anger, The Nightwatchman was his to kill he would die by his hands. Hood laughed at his enemy's anger.

Guy landed a punch onto Hood so hard that it threw said man off him. Robin landed in the grass but was quickly on his feet. This time Gisbourne pulled sword out and so did Robin.

"What's this now Hood getting help from children?" he said mockingly

"You getting scared Guy?" Robin teased back "didn't take much from them to defeat you earlier" at this Guy roared in rage and attacked as the two of the begun battling again this time with swords.

Robin could still feel the rage soar in him as he kept fighting Gisbourne purely out of hate, it was like he could not control himself any longer and he kept striking harder and harder this time to kill Gisbourne for good he'd felt the same rage in the Holy Land and he promised himself he would not kill but it was like if Gisbourne had pushed him to the edge and he didn't seem able to stop himself as he defeated Gisbourne to the ground knocking his sword out of his hands and putting his sword at Guy's throat.

"Give me one good reason" Robin said a cold look in his eyes "why I shouldn't kill you right now"

"You wouldn't dare" Gisbourne spit back "You're weak" but as Robin raised his sword Guy suddenly knew that Hood was quite serious about his threat.

Just as Robin was about to plunge his sword into Guy a pair of arms wrapped around Robin's waist from behind and pulled him slightly backwards.

"Robin stop! This isn't you! You're not a killer!"

The voice pulled Robin out of his rage, he blinked and finally seemed to register what he was doing out of shock Robin dropped his sword. Gisbourne saw this as his opportunity and quickly got on his feet grabbed his sword and hurried to his horse.

"I'll be back Hood! And when I do you and your little friends will pay!" and with those words Guy of Gisbourne once again managed a swift escape.

Robin barely registered Gisbourne's words as he stood still frozen in place.

"You're not a killer.." the person behind him repeated now in a softer tone. Robin realized that the person that had stopped was James.

Robin finally noticing how exhausted he was and collapsed onto the ground James softening his fall and kneeling beside him a hand on his back.

"Robin? Are you alright? Answer me!" James asked while shaking Robin gently

"I'm fine," Robin let out a breath he did not realized he was holding he looked at James whose eyes showed worry

"Thank you" Robin said sincerely to the younger boy "I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't-"

He stopped his babbling and concentrated on a stone near his feet, he'd thought he would never be in that sort of killing rage again. Not since he'd gotten back from the Holy Land.

Mari noticed the change of tone in Robin's voice it was his usual confident tone and the way he acted as if he had committed a serious crime even his body language had grown out of the ordinary.

Mari put her hand on Robin's shoulder and gave it a squeeze. Robin looked at the young boy.

"It's alright" she said confidently "we'll keep it between us "

Robin gave a small smile of gratitude and James pulled him up on his feet and gave him a pat on the back, Robin looked to the spot where Marian had been and panic caught his heart

"Marian?" he asked and looked at James who quickly answered that David had taken her back to the camp

"Let's hurry back before Gisbourne comes back with more men" James said and the both of them sat up on Robin's horse with James behind him and the outlaws started riding back to the camp.

It was a quiet ride back as both of them thought of what had happened. Mari made a silent promise to herself that she would everything in her power keep Robin from become the angry man she had seen him become today.