Ok, first of all, I am soooo sorry I haven't updated in awhile. And second, I know at the end of the previous chapter I said there were 5 harpies but in this one I only mentions four. I got lazy and I just wanted to finish this chapter. Dedicated to Ivy Starr.
The harpies would have almost been beautiful, except they had bloody red eyes and fangs that peeked out of their mouths. Not to mention the Enormous bat wings folded against their backs.
"Iyseth! How nice of you to join us." A black-haired harpy said. Her sisters chuckled behind her back.
"Just give us the knight and we will leave you in peace," Iyseth growled, her fingers twitching, trying to restrain the urge to let her arrow fly.
The black-haired harpy gave a mirthless laugh, "Now, I don't believe that any more than you. And besides, it has been so long since we've had a knight, especially such a handsome one." (author gags)
Falspar stared up at the harpies with longing but remained in the nest.
"I do believe we have had the pleasure of meeting your mate Iyseth?" asked a blonde harpy, stroking the top of Falspar's Mohawk, "Constantine, was it not?"
At this, Iyseth sent her arrow at the harpy, who caught it and snapped it in half, a smirk twisted her features.
Iyseth was about to let another arrow fly when Onyx held a hand across her path. "Stop! We aren't going to win this way!"
The Diadian lowered her bow, nodding.
Meta Knight watched in awe, not noticing a harpy with waist-length hair and an asian complexion approaching him from behind. It grabbed him, covering his mouth to keep him from crying out. Cease child. The harpy sang in his ear. It was the single most beautiful sound he had ever heard. It was indescribable, impossible to place. Meta Knight tried to fight it, but the harpy kept singing to him, drawing him deeper under her control.
Falspar, be a dear and finish off those pesky soldiers for me? sang the black-haired harpy. Falspar unsheathed his sword and ran at Iyseth and Onyx who had to leap out of his way. Falspar's sword sliced through the air where the two women had been moments before.
The harpies laughed mirthlessly at each attempt the two warriors made to approach them, only to be cut off by Falspar.
Meta Knight, help Falspar rid those us of those soldiers. The Asian harpy ordered. Meta Knight reluctantly obeyed.
The harpy handed him a sword that lay in a pile of bones next to their nest. The sword was heavy in Meta Knight's hands as he charged at Onyx and Iyseth.
"Meta Knight?!" Onyx cried, jumping out of the way of another attack from Falspar.
However, Meta Knight didn't reply. He only swung wildly at her and Iyseth.
Finish them! The blonde harpy shrieked. Falspar sent his sword at Iyseth in a way that would have made her head roll… literally.
As the harpies watched excitedly as Meta Knight battled Onyx, Iyseth managed to sneak around to the back of them in a way that would have made James Bond proud.
As silently as an owl through the night sky, Iyseth knocked an arrow and let fly strait at the blonde harpy's back.
The harpy screeched in pain as the arrow ran straight through her, a bit poking out of her stomach.
Ewww…
The harpy fell, lifeless, onto the floor of the ledge.
A brunette harpy, who had remained silent until now, "You will pay for the death of our sister with your own!" she took flight, catching air underneath her bat like wings and soared upwards.
Onyx managed to disarm Meta Knight with a small knife that she had kept in her shoe and the child kicked and thrashed wildly as Onyx again jumped out of the way of Falspar, who ran strait past them, to the edge of the cliff.
He pin wheeled, trying to keep himself from falling. Onyx grabbed him by his mohawk and pulled him back onto the ledge.
Iyseth had knocked another arrow to her bow and was aimed at the harpy in the air. It hurtled towards her, clawed hands outstretched to grab her. Just as the harpy was about 3 feet from her, she let go and the arrow plummeted straight into it's heart.
The harpy dropped to the ground, it's eyes wide with shock.
"Two down, two to go," Iyseth muttered under her breath as she nudged to dead harpy with her toe.
Meanwhile, Onyx was having her work cut out for her being chased by two bewitched star warriors and an Asian looking harpy. Any time she tried to send an arrow at her, it either missed or the harpy snapped it in half.
Eventually, she managed to put the nest between her and her three pursuers. Wondering frantically what to do, she pulled her tiny knife out again. While holding the knife between her teeth, she sent and arrow straight at the harpy's heart then, almost immediately after that, she threw the knife right behind it. The harpy caught the arrow but even before she had time to snap it in half, the knife plunged into her chest, sinking up to its handle.
The harpy fell forwards into the nest, a pool of blood gathering around her.
Meta Knight blinked. It was as if he had just woken up from a very realistic dream. "Onyx, where are we?"
"You are in a lot of trouble!" she managed to get out while diving out of the way of Falspar tackling her.
Iyseth looked up at the sky in search of the last harpy, her feathers bristled and she turned around just in time to see the black haired harpy scratch her across the face.
She put a hand to her cheek in time to feel blood oozing sluggishly from her face.
In return, she threw her fist at the harpy. It managed to get her in the face and she stumbled backward, over her sisters. She opened her wings and soared into the air, intricately dodging all of the arrows the Diadian fired at her.
Iyseth reached back into her quiver to knock another arrow but found that there was nothing there.
Onyx and Meta Knight ran from Falspar, hopping over the corpses of the harpies.
Onyx looked behind her to see where Falspar was and ran into Iyseth.
"I need an arrow!" she said hurriedly, glancing up at the sky.
"You take Meta Knight and Falspar and I'll take the harpy!" Onyx offered , seeing the last harpy hurtle towards them with alarming speed.
As Iyseth ran off to save Meta Knight from being chopped in half by Falspar, Onyx drew back her bow string, waiting for the perfect chance to fire. However, she waited a moment too long and the harpy grabbed her around the neck and lifted her so that her feet barley touched the ground.
Onyx dropped her bow, and turned a light shade of blue as the hands tightened on her neck.
"Goodbye warrior," was all the black haired harpy said as a twisted smile curled her lips
"Goodbye," Onyx gasped and drove the arrow that she had been clutching into the harpy's neck.
Blackened blood spurted from the wound, showering Onyx.
The harpy dropped her and she fell to the ground, gasping for air. The Harpy lay still in a pool of its own black blood.
Once Onyx regained the ability to stand and walked over to Iyseth, Meta Knight, and a very dazed Sir Falspar. "Ugh," he moaned, rubbing his temples, "Where am I?"
"Well," started Onyx, "A harpy sang to you and you basically fell in love with her and were captured and Iyseth and I had to save your sorry ass and here we are."
Sir Falspar's face reddened as he reattached his mask to his face, "You're never going to let me forget this are you?"
"Never,"
The four of them returned to the Diadian camp, Onyx and Iyseth covered in harpy blood and their own.
When the guards saw them coming, they ran inside the wall of spiked and yelled to everyone, "Hey! Our queen and the star warrior have returned! They have slain the harpies!"
Almost the entire village roared out of the gateway to admire the four. Dragato, Vlad, and Arthur rushed up to them. Looking incredibly relieved well, it was hard to tell with Dragato and Arthur as they were still wearing their masks but you could see it in their eyes.
"We wondered when you were going to be back," Dragato said, examining Onyx, "Is that blood?!"
"Yup," Onyx said as if it was absolutely normal to be covered head to toe in tarlike blood, "What happened with you?"
"Dragato practically lost his head worrying about you," Vlad chuckled, "Pacing inside his tent and murmuring something about 'you guys being okay'."
Onyx and Iyseth laughed, even Meta Knight let out a small chuckle. Vlad turned his gaze to him. "You had us worried there boy," he said sternly, "Where were you? Wanting to get a slice of the action?"
"Yes." Meta Knight said, looking down at his feet, "I'm sorry sir."
"At least you're alive." Arthur said, "However, I'm not sure how long that will last when Onyx gets a hold of you."
They all laughed for awhile, Falspar having to hide his face so that nobody would realize that he had come back with them, however, this strategy didn't escape Arthurs notice, "And where were you, Sir Falspar?" As all eyes turned towards the uncomfortable warrior, shifting from foot to foot, Onyx burst in. "He was outside the gates and he decided to come along with us. Thank god he did, killed a harpy that would have had my head otherwise,"
Everyone looked impressively at Falspar as he just stared in amazement at Onyx. Who just smirked back.
…
After they had gotten cleaned up, Arthur announced to everyone that they would be taking there leave. Iyseth pulled Onyx aside as the others made there way towards the ship. "Thank you." Iyseth said, smiling at the star warrior. "For saving my people." Onyx nodded and waved goodbye as she ran to catch up with Sir Falspar and Meta Knight, who had been waiting at the gate for her. As they walked, Falsper asked, "Ok, how much do I owe you for saving me from endless mocking?"
"Your bagel for the next week." Onyx said smiling at the idea.
"Fine. I don't know why you like that army food anyways." Falspar said, but you could tell that he was really disappointed.
They walked up to the ship and entered. Meta Knight taking one last look at the few Diadians who had come to see them off. The gate of the ship shut and it rose into the air. It rose higher and higher until the planet was about the size of a green marble.
Well, Next chapter I'm showing Meta Knight older like, 15. Just so you know. And also, I'm going to try to mention Yamikage some more.
