Tales of Evil
Chapter 3: Dungeons and Darknuts
The Black Knight woke, chained in subrosian steel. Four hylian knights guarded the door to his cell, wearing silver armour with green surcoats – the mark of a palace knight. A tall, thin man in padded cloth paced into his cell, "eat this, the interrogators will arrive soon, not that you deserve them to," he hissed, "You dark knights aren't much without all that thick armour are you? Nothing more than big jackals with swirly tattoos, heh…" Stroking his platted beard, he turned to his cart, pulling something from beneath the sheet of cloth.
The man slammed a wooden bowl onto the table by the knight, holding up a pot of olive green liquid that stank of fish and eggs. "Reekfish bile, black chu jelly and miniblin ear stew, enjoy, dark knight."
"It's darknut…" groaned the Knight, having to pull the table towards him to reach the stew. The feeder froze for a second; letting out a squeak, then scurried out, leaving the door for the knights to handle.
An hour later, voices could be heard from the corridor. Someone in brown general's armour with a charcoal trim barged past the guards and into the Knight's cell, sitting down in one of the chairs, followed by another general in full blue armour, and a red symbol on his visor, indicating he was a Knight of Lake Hylia. The brown general thrust a white helmet adorned with three rows of curved blue spines onto an armour stand by the wall.
"Recognise that?" Grunted the general, "It's a good friend of mine's, we used to hunt deer in Labrynna, I believe you killed him." The Knight looked up, recognising the helm, and smiled. "Find it funny do you?! Ranton, throw the water on him!" yelled the general, Ranton gushed a bucket of icy water over the Knight, then a bucket of boiling water, the darknut screamed. "You see, the difference in temperature makes the heat extreme, beast. General Hrevas, shall I do more?" Ranton inquired, with an insane pleasure in his voice.
Before Hrevas could answer, a palace knight rushed in screaming "Monsters at the wall! Monsters at the wall!" A moblin spear flew from the door, impaling the knight.
"Your lot, I believe?" snarled Hrevas, getting up and arming himself with a labrys, forming up with the knights as four Mighty Darknuts charged at the six hylians. The palace knights were ripped apart, as they had been relaxing unarmoured for the last half hour. Hrevas crushed a helmet and the skull inside with his first blow, the three darknuts left deflected his axe and pinned him down, one unchaining the Black Knight and giving him his armour back.
The Black Knight brandished his greatsword, stepped over the bodies and bowed to the general. The darknuts released him and gave his axe back. Hrevas bowed also, then lunged at his foe, to be cut down in a few vertical slices, the Knight stood over him as he gasped for breath. "That's for taking my trophy," he gestured towards Aru's helmet on the stand, kneeled down and took off Hrevas' helmet.
The Knight walked around the jail, freeing prisoners and killing jailers. He then walked along the battlements, watching as the moblins were slain by palace knights.
Wizzrobes had summoned an elevator of sorts, allowing the 'important' soldiers – Darknuts and Knuckles – down. The Red Wizzard was among these mages, himself one of five elite soldiers, he, the Black Knight, the Emerald Moblin, the Gold Skull and the Amber Scale were given massive power by Ganon.
With one glance back at the castle, the Knight rode through the town, mowing down any in his way, and regrouped with Moblins and Bulblins on Bullbos. Heading into the fields, they encountered palace knights, hylian knights and indigo knights – an elite stationed normally in the Castle Town on ceremonial duty. The hyruleans were behind the dark group, with Knights from other towns and provinces doing a head on charge into the boars.
The Knight was in a rare situation – he was outnumbered with only fourteen units – himself, three mighty darknuts, four normal darknuts, three bullbos with a moblin and bulblin each on them, one bullbo with just bulblins on it, an armoured lynel and a chariot with the Red Wizzard, two high wizzrobes and a normal wizzrobe. The tactic was to split the force, with four darknuts and two bullbos per side, the side without the Knight had the lynel, with the chariot in the middle shooting spells.
The battle on Hyrule field went well – for the Hylians. Horse archers shot down the bullbos, and the remaining enemies were felled by knights, the black knight killed three, before retreating to the chariot and allowing the Wizzard onto his horse as bomb arrows shattered the magic chariot. The Knight went for three miles till he lost the horse archers, the only reason for that being that eight went after him and the Wizzard spent ten minutes concocting a ten-target fire spell, incinerating the ranchers and their steeds. The Gerudo Desert was not far, yet the pair of elites could not shake off their alertness, like something was watching them…