I don't own For Honor or RWBY or anything else you see here. I just own the OCs and the story.
Knight of Iron
(Chicago, Nighttime, Darren's house, Third P.O.V.)
Darren was sitting on his bed currently playing a one on one match in For Honor.
For the match, Darren chose a Centurion and right now he was facing a player that has chosen a Nobushi.
"Ok last round, hybrid verse hybrid… lets do this." Darren said.
When the match began, both Darren and his opponent charged at each other.
Darren performed a charge attack known as Eagle Fury. The attack landed on his opponent's Nobushi, taking away a good portion of it health. Darren then try to follow it up with a heavy downward swing, but the Nobushi quickly blocked the attack and retaliated with left side swing of its naginata, but Darren quickly move the Centurion back avoiding the blow.
Darren tried to attack, but the Nobushi did a thrust at him from the upward block stance. Doing that, Darren was pushed back taking a little bit of his health along the way.
Darren tried doing it again, but the Nobushi did the same thing push Darren back even further than before.
'Damn… this is the advantage of pole arm wielders, they have the advantage in range attacks while I just have a damn sword.' Darren thought as both he and his opponent started circling each other.
Both players circled each other for about a few seconds, the Nobushi made the first move.
Darren's opponent attacked by doing three consecutive thrust attacks at him, Darren recognize this move as 'Poke the Nest' a poison type move.
The first two thrust didn't hit him because Darren was keeping his distance by moving back step by step, but when the third thrust came Darren moved to the side to avoid the attack and then he quickly moved the Centurion closer to the Nobushi and perform array of heavy and light attacks.
The first hit was from a heavy attack from the right side, then another heavy attack creating the move known as 'Lion's Bite', Darren followed it up with three light attacks doing another move known as the 'Lion's Claws'.
When Darren did that, he quickly moved away from the Nobushi to not only avoid it's retaliating attacks, but to also regain the stamina he has wasted on those two moves and dashing away from the Nobushi didn't help in that matter as it only further decrease his stamina.
But the attacks that Darren did made the Nobushi lose a huge amount of its health that the Nobushi was now in the danger zone and Darren knew that with just one more heavy attack on it, but he had to be careful for he knew that his opponent would be more careful seeing that his opponent is about to die from him.
Seeing that Darren has backed away, the Nobushi took this chance to attack him.
First it tried a right heavy swing at him, but Darren mange to block it, but the Nobushi followed it with another heavy this time from the left, but Darren blocked that also.
For the next few seconds, Darren blocked attack after attack from the Nobushi, but during that time, Darren's stamina returned and when the Nobushi came with a downward heavy attack Darren countered it and then came down with his own heavy attack and when the attack landed it instantly showed the options for execution. Darren pressed the triangle and the Centurion performed the 'Kneel Before Me' execution.
Darren watched as his Centurion pulled his gladius out, then flipped it over into reverse grip then slashed the Nobushi's right knee, then the left knee then flipped the sword back over to normal grip then finally stab the sword right towards the Nobushi's chest and then pushed the Nobushi away ending the execution.
When that was done, the announcer declared Darren's victory in the match, and then the screen goes to the scoreboard. On the scoreboard it showed that Darren had three victories and his opponent had one, the reason for that is because when round two came Darren got pretty lazy in the match after he and his opponent traded a few hits, so in the end his opponent won that round.
After that the scoreboard went to the loading screen to load another match for Darren.
As Darren waited for the game to be done loading, his phone suddenly rang on his desk.
Darren picked it up and saw that there was a text message on it.
"Duty is a virtue that holds purpose for a warrior. But Duty has long since withered into dust." The text said as Darren read it, but the next part of the text is the one where Darren raised an eyebrow.
"Will you uphold its mantle?"
"Will I uphold its mantle…what is that suppose to mean?" Darren muttered.
Darren checked the I.D. of the text and only saw that it only said unknown.
After seeing that there was no way to identify the sender, Darren put the IPhone down and went back t his game, which for some odd reason was still loading.
'What…it should have finished by now.' Darren thought, but before he could continue further with his thoughts, his IPhone rang again.
When Darren picked it up, he saw the same text as before.
"Will you uphold its mantle?" The text said.
"What…again with the same message?" Darren said
Darren thought about this, but decided to ignore it again.
But when Darren tried to put his IPhone back down on his desk, the phone rang again. Darren looked at it and only saw the same message.
"Will you uphold its mantle?"
'What the heck is this' Darren thought as the text was repeated on his IPhone and again and again and again.
The same message was repeated a couple of times and Darren was starting to get annoyed by this, so he turned off his phone and put it back on the desk.
After he'd done that something happen that put him on edge, because the same message appeared on his TV.
"Will uphold its mantle?"
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"Ok…what the fuck is going on?" Darren said as he was starting to get a little freaked out by this.
Darren looked around his room to see if there anything suspicious or anything out, then he went to his window and slight lifted one of the blinds. He looked through the blinds and saw his neighborhood. It was dark outside; the street was completely empty, the lampposts shined in the darkness illuminating the street.
Darren then closed the blinds behind him and went back to his bed and looked at the message on the TV.
"Will you uphold its mantle?" The message kept on saying.
'What does it mean uphold its mantle? How can a person uphold the mantle of Duty, it said that it's a virtue not something that a person can carry.'
After thinking about the question for a bit, Darren figured that the only way to get rid of it was to answer the question.
"No" Darren said.
After Darren gave his answer the, but nothing happen until his IPhone rang. Darren picked it up from the desk and looked at it and saw that it gave him two options that said.
"YES/NO" the options said, seeing the options Darren pressed NO. When Darren pressed that another message appeared on the screen.
"Are you sure?"
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"What!" Darren yelled thinking that why would this thing started showing another question after he had given his answer.
"Yes." He replied by pushing the NO button again, but like before another message appeared.
"Are you positive?"
'Oh you have got to be shitting me.' Darren thought as this was starting to feel how his friend Jake would bug him about things and it was really starting to annoy him.
"Yes." Darren answered again pushing the same option button harder.
"Did you mean to say yes?" Another message appeared.
"Oh come! The answer is NO." Darren said pushing the NO option in a repeated rate
"Is that a NO I hear?"
'Oh is this thing finally starting to get the picture?'
"Yes" Darren said as he pressed on the option, but unknown to him he had accidently pressed the YES option and when that happen, nothing happen next few minutes.
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"You have answered YES, so now you will uphold the mantle of Duty." Another message appeared on screen saying that.
"Wait what…No I said NO!" Darren said but it was already to late as the screen on his TV started to shine brightly and by that I mean very brightly. And the next thing that happen was that Darren was gone from his room.
(Unknown Location)
Darren open his eyes after the little black out he received he looked at his surroundings. What he saw was that he was currently in a forest and it was nighttime if the dark skies and the stars were anything to go by.
"Where the hell am I?" Darren said as he looked down at himself and saw that he was still in his sleep ware, but also found that he still had his IPhone with him.
"Aahhh…great I'm still in my sleeping clothes, but I still have my IPhone, so that's good at least."
Darren tried to call someone on his IPhone, but he saw that he had no signal, so he walked around the forest to see if he can try to get a single bar of signal strength at least.
(A few hours later)
Darren had walked for what he thought were like hours in the night, but as Darren walked through the forest he something the sky.
'Is that…smoke?' Darren thought as he saw a black cloud of smoke going into the sky.
Seeing the smoke, Darren ran towards the source of the smoke, but the run there was pretty uncomfortable because he was barefooted the entire time.
When Darren reached a clearing, he saw the source of the smoke, but the source he saw was something he wasn't expecting.
"What…the…hell?" Darren said as he was currently looking at what looked like an entire town on fire.
The buildings were on fire as they began to collapse from the weakening of the infrastructure caused by the fire. Also if Darren squinted his eyes of bit, he could make out the body shapes of peoples bodies on the ground.
Now normally a person will run away from the fire, but for Darren he thought there could be survivors and maybe someone that can help him, so Darren ran towards the burning town despite his fear of the idea that he might die in his attempt to find someone possibly still alive.
When Darren got there, he became shock to see all of the dead bodies around, each and every one of them laid lifeless on the ground as he saw that everyone here was basically butcher what with limbs were cut of from the main body, decapitated head, and bits and pieces of body parts everywhere.
Darren treaded through the blood soaked street, carefully trying to avoid any of the dead corpses that lay on the ground and also avoiding the burning, crumpling buildings.
"HEY! Is anybody there?!" Darren called out to any one that was still alive.
Darren continued to walk in the burning town until he came across on what appeared to be the town square. Darren looked around still looking for any sign of life, when Darren saw nothing he was about to move to another area until heard coughing.
The coughing came from the right side; Darren turned and followed the sound of the coughing until he came across the first sigh of life that he'd found the moment he got here…just not the way he would expect it.
What Darren saw was a man if the shape of the armor was anything to go by with the person physique. The man was covered in armor that covered his entire body head-to-toe, with chest armor, gauntlets, shin guards, elbow guards, helmet, armor boots, chain mail, armor plating on the arms.
Seeing the man in this armor made him look like one thing in Darren's mind.
'He looks just like a Warden.' Darren thought as the man in front of him looked like a Warden from the game 'For Honor' but the armor look modernized as if it was design for the modern era instead of looking like the design in the game.
Darren rushed to the Warden, a name that Darren chose to identify the man in armor.
When Darren reached him, he saw that the man had a nasty wound on his side with blood pouring out of it.
Darren looked around him to see if there was anything he could use to stop the bleeding, but couldn't see anything usable until he saw the cloth material on the Warden thighs that were used to be a skirt like design to the Warden's armor set.
Darren ripped of a piece of the fabric and presses it against the wound, but in doing so the Warden grasp from the sudden pressure he was feeling at his side.
"Easy now, easy you're going to make it." Darren said trying to comfort the wounded Warden.
The Warden looked at Darren, as he was taking deep shallow breathes to ease the pain. Seeing him trying to save him despite the current situation they were in.
The Warden reached into his chest plate and pulled out a circular object. The object had rough edges on it and had a symbol carve in the middle of it. The symbol has a long sword in the middle of it that is stabbed in the ground and has roots coming from it, two castle towers on either side of the long sword with crosses in the middle of both of them, a white crown on the top right corner, a black sun on the top left corner of it.
When saw the object, he instantly recognized the symbol; it was the symbol of the Iron Legion.
The dying Warden weakly offered the object to Darren.
"Please…take it." The Warden weakly said to Darren. "The talisman will…protect…you." The Knight continued on.
Darren looked at the object, then back at the Warden, but Darren just shook his head.
"I don't need your payment, I need to get you help." Darren said as he kept putting pressure on the wound, but the piece of cloth was soaked in blood and the kept on dripping onto his knees and the ground.
Darren knew that the Warden wouldn't make it, but he still had to try.
Darren looked around, but all he saw was burning buildings and destroyed structure and dead bodies everywhere.
'Great, I'm stuck in the middle of a burning village with a dying man and there is absolutely no help anywhere.' Darren thought until he heard something.
Darren turned around thinking that it could be help, but what he saw threw that idea out the window.
What he saw were a bunch of sets of armor moving entirely on their own. The moving sets of armor showed to have no limbs through any pieces of the armor.
There was nothing attaching the gauntlets to the chest piece, there was no chainmail that was meant to cover the limbs, but instead there were black ghostly like skin that screamed of unnatural.
But what really got Darren's attention were the bone white masks on each and every one of the helmets. What were on the helmets were bone masks with one amber colored eye in the middle along with red marks on it.
Darren recognized these masks, for he has only every seen them once, but looking at them now…he couldn't believe his eyes.
"The Geist Grimm." Darren said 'But how is this possible? They're suppose to be fake, a…no…no Darren focus, there is no way in the world that these are the Geist Grimm just n-' Darren's thought were interrupted when he saw that one of the possessed armor had a missing arm and at the next moment it sprouted itself a new ghostly black arm. The arm then went to a nearby one bladed axe and went right into and the moment the axe started floating in the air and went right to the possessed armor acting as its new arm.
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'Oh shit…they are the Geist Grimm.' Darren thought as he now saw that he was in deeper trouble than before.
Darren quickly looked around him to see if there was anything he could use to defend himself, but the only thing that Darren found the could've been a potential weapon was either broken or to far away to reach in time.
That was until Darren remembered something. He looked back to the Warden, but more specifically his weapon the long sword.
Darren reached for the blade, but when his hand touched it, the Warden suddenly grabbed his hand. Surprised by this, Darren looked to the Warden but even though he couldn't see the Warden's eyes due to the helmet covering him, Darren could tell that he was looking at him with serious eyes.
After a moment of the Warden looking at him, the Warden took the hand that was holding the 'talisman' as he called it and put it in my hand and made me grasp it tight.
"I…have done…all I…can." The Warden said. "I can…no longer…uphold my mantle…but you can." He said as he looked at Darren one more time. "You…must show the world…that Duty still exist…you must be strong…in this world…for it has gotten…weak." The Warden said as he grasp for air. "Go…now…and uphold…this mantle…'Knight of Iron'. And with that, the Warden's body slumped against the wagon signaling the Warden has pass away.
Darren looked that the now dead Warden with shocked eyes, as the Warden just lay there dead right in front of him.
Seeing that the Warden was gone from this world, Darren put the talisman into his sleeping shorts pocket and then picked up the Warden's long sword.
Darren turned towards the group of Geist Grimm; he counted about five of them in total each of them armed with a weapon.
Two of them were armed with a short sword, one with a mace, another one with two big one-foot daggers, and the last one with its own broad sword and that was the one with an axe for a right arm.
'Okay I'm outnumbered and I'm fight a bunch of Geist Grimm in my pajama's…well this is just keeps getting better and better.' Darren thought as he took a battle stance.
Darren wasn't trained in swordsmanship, so the current battle stance he took was the one he had seen in For Honor. The stance Darren chose to do was the 'What's Your Problem?' stance and to add more to it Darren said this.
"Come on you sons of bitches." Darren said trying to act brave in the current situation, but in reality he was wondering why the hell did he say that, as he was terrified right now and add to the fact that the long sword was heavy from when he picked it up and it was currently weighing him down.
But when he did that, the Geist Grimm wielding daggers charged at him first before its comrades. The Grimm took a right swing at Darren as he barely manages to dodge it.
"Whoa." Darren dodge to the right to avoid the hit.
The Geist Grimm tried hitting him again with a left swing, but Darren jumped back a bit to avoid it.
Darren decided to finally retaliate by moving his right shoulder down to help him swing the long sword down onto the Geist.
But he ended up missing as the Geist moved away to avoid it. And then it shoved Darren back a few steps.
When Darren regained his footing, he turned to see another Geist coming at him; this time it was one that wielded a short sword came at him and swung its blade down at Darren. Darren dodge to the left and swung the sword at it, but the weight of the blade ended up carrying him in the direction of the swing.
The swing ended up hitting the Geist's leg, but even with the hit, the Grimm showed no sighs of it being hurt.
'What…why isn't it hurt?' Darren thought, but he end coming to the conclusion. 'Oh yeah…that's right Geist Grimm are basically ghost, the only weak point they have are their masks.'
Darren's thought were interrupted when he felt something punch him in the face and had sent him flying back a bit and ended up landing on his back.
Darren manages to hold on to the long sword, but his face hurt a lot. Darren looked up to see his surroundings only find that he has been surrounded by the Geist.
Darren was in trouble, he couldn't land a single hit on any of these monsters and he could barely swing the long sword properly to land a decent hit.
Darren sat himself up on the ground when one of the Geist Grimm the one with a mace walked right towards Darren with its mace rise up in the air to finish him.
But when the Geist swung down its mace and just inches before it made contact with Darren, something happened to him.
Out from his pocket, a bunch of small bits of metal came floating out and started materializing around his hands and arms creating armor around them.
Darren looked in surprised by this, but he became more surprised as his arms started to move on their own.
The arms moved holding the Long sword in a tight grip as they blocked the incoming attack.
"What in the world?" Darren question as he saw that his own arms are now covered in armor and are moving on their own.
The Geist moved back as it saw that its attack failed and tried to attack Darren again, but Darren's arms moved again and this time they blocked the attack but also countered attack the Geist with a downward swing of the long sword cutting the Grimm mask in halve, killing the Geist.
When that happens the set of armor fell and scattered on the ground no longer being possessed by the Grimm.
Darren looked at his hands in disbelief that he had manage to kill one of the Geist.
Seeing that one of its comrades was dead, the Geist with the daggers came rushing forward ready to stab him, but Darren's arms reacted again as they deflected the attack and Darren's left arm let go of the sword and grabbed the Geist's Grimm mask and then started to crush it.
In just a few short moments, the mask started having cracks all over it and then it was destroyed as Darren's left hand closed up crushing the mask.
Darren couldn't believe at what had just happen, he has crushed a Grimm's mask with his own left hand.
With two of the Geist now dead, the two Geist with shorts swords charged at him thinking that Darren won't be able to handle both of them at once.
But Darren arms reacted again by first blocking a right swing from the left side of Darren then, blocking a swing from the right side.
Both Geist were on either side of Darren as they kept on attacking him.
Darren's arms blocked each and every strike preventing them from hitting their mark. Then when they block an attack from the Geist on the left, the one on the right tried to attack Darren but Darren reacted by raising his right leg and kicking the Geist back. Once Darren regained his footing, his arms moved forward and broke the Geist Grimm focus by hitting the mask with the long swords hilt stunning it, then the arms shove the now stunned creature into its short sword buddy and then raised the long sword and use it to pierce through the bone mask of both Grimm as the sword went through the helmets killing them both.
As the armor both Grimm possessed fell to the ground, Darren looked at the last Geist, the one with axe for an arm as it looked at him too.
After a moment of staring at each other, the last Geist charge at him.
First the Grimm swung its axe arm at Darren, but Darren's arms reacted by raising the long sword to block it.
The attack was stopped, but then the Geist swung its broad sword at Darren, his arms reacted again by sliding the long sword down against the axe to block the attack.
The second attack from the Geist was stopped, but the force the attack carried pushed Darren a few steps back.
The Geist came charging at him again, but Darren's arms made Darren spin in a circle while holding the sword out and after one rotation, Darren's arms brought the sword down cutting the left arm the one that was holding the long sword off the Geist. Then the arms came back up again and did some fast light attacks on the Geist.
It tried to retaliate by swinging its axe arm at Darren but due to it being a small axe, it didn't really reach Darren, so the Geist kept on advancing towards him while swing its axe at him.
Darren started walking back step by step to avoid the hit, but when the Geist came with a downward strike of the axe, Darren arms swung at the axe, knocking it away from the Geist and before the Geist had time to register on what happen.
Darren's arms did an overhead strike on the Geist going deep into the armor, then made Darren turn around and swing the sword right out of the possessed armor, then spin around swinging the sword right at the left side of the Grimm mask, slicing it and the helmet off the body.
And with that, the Grimm disperses into nothingness as the possessed armor fell to the ground and scattered when it made impact with the dirt floor.
When Darren finished the Grimm, he fell to his knees, as he was exhausted from the whole endeavor.
"Now…that…was something." Darren said as he kept breathing to catch his breath and was sweating from the heat of the burning town.
Unknown to Darren was that there was a mysterious figure walking right towards him. The mysterious figure has watched the entire thing unfold and was now walking towards Darren as he fell to his knees in victory over the Grimm. Darren heard the footsteps coming, but before he could turn around he was immediately hit in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.
The mysterious figure then picked up Darren and walked out of the burning town.
A/N
So here is the next installment of For Honor: We Stand United.
I hope you all enjoyed it, as we now see how Darren was chosen to be what the Warden has called him the 'Knight of Iron'
And if you're wondering about the Talisman doing its thing to Darren, then I will explain that in later chapters.
But anyway that was the debut of the first member of the future wolf of Remnant.
I wonder how the girls will handle their first experience in Remnant.
Also if you want, then please leave in the review on what girl you want to see next be transported to Remnant and see what warrior from the remaining two factions of For Honor you want them to meet.
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This is Nicdragon8 signing off.