DISCLAIMER: Both Rooster Teeth and Red Hook Studios have their own right to their property. This will be a 4 part chapter each one will be the perspectives of the four dungeon hunters and each chapter will be the order of how the four were flung off.
Chapter 3.0: The Gemini Crusader
-Emerald Forest (Tyrius' crash/landing spot)-
"ow...ow...ow...that hurt...that hurt a lot," I said to myself as I got up from the long trench upon my landing and noticing that my right shin bone was broken from the landing so I grabbed two strong branches that were stripped from leaves from the tree that was close to me and used durable fabric stripes that I still kept from the threshold making a splint and began limp/walk my way out of the trench that I've made.
"Great, just great. I forgot to bring my Long Crusade on the way here, but I did saw where the ruins were located so knowing where to pillage won't be so hard." I thought to myself while limping in the forest until I heard the rustling within the bushes where I saw a giant beast, thorns white as bone and are sharp enough to pierce the sky and a mask with red streaked about its' face with its' eyes drenched in a red bloodlust. So in a sudden move, I attempt to run around but within a heartbeat, it ran up and swung its' muscular arm that was lined with white spike striking my side where I was flung breaking multiple trees during my small flight making me .
"Damn it! Sharp reflexes for such a dull beast." I said to it while gripping my side to keep the blood from leaking out of my body and something clicked in my mind, remembering a book an old vestal friend gave me, so I got up with my back on the broken plant and took out the book out of my belt pouch and begin reciting the text that I needed. "Για αφήσει το θείο φως να ευλογηθεί επάνω μου !" and I saw two lights one above me and one above the beast but what I saw was something was that of nightmares. It's fur burning away, hunks of flesh melting into globs of red and black tar and it's striped mask becoming brittle with tufts of fur clinging to the broken pieces fell like the decayed leaves of a dying oak. Its' roars of agony bellowed out with the might of an old brass organ piano until it bellowed out no more leaving behind a corpse of necrotic flesh and bones that reeked of a pungent smell of death and the light that shined upon me made me feel better and with the blessing healed my wounds and of my broken leg.
"Now that I feel better I should grab the sharp bone to be used as a temporary replacement for my Long Crusade," Said my mind as I grabbed a long bone structure and ripped it out of the monster's skeletal remains and begin to venture towards to the ruins to recover the relics.
-Emerald Forest (Cinder's P.O.V)-
I've been following that crusader walking for quite a while but was slightly impressed for that nice party trick that he pulled off to slay that Alpha beowulf. But I believed that it was a form of his aura, though I do feel a strong presence inside but just like the Autumn maiden, I'll do the same thing to him but without the interruption. So I waited for him to lower his guard.
After he sat down to rest, I switched to the outfit that I used during the dance and drew out my bow and shot three black dust arrows. The first shot pinned his left arm to the tree he was resting upon, the second disarmed his "weapon" which shattered into dust due to it's frailness, and the last pierced his heart where I saw him coughing up blood.
"For a human to kill a beowulf with just a book, you are terrible at standing up to dust." I told him as he desperately claw out the arrows which is growing in his wounds, which is when I took out of the glove and grabbed his face covering his left eye where the insect begin grow out of the glove and beginning to burrow into the eye, both eating it and siphoning his aura. It was such a delight of him screaming in pain while he squirms in his futile thrashing while the black growth began to grow out of eaten socket. His skin became white and pale and his eyes fade into a dead stare for every ounce of aura is empty, so I let go of the lifeless head leaving both the growth and grim insect remain in his head so it can feast on the corpse.
I removed the glove and tossed it aside into some old debris so no Atlas personnel can find it, but when about to leave I heard a screech where i turned around to see something that will soon haunt me. The body was moving with the insect squirming in his socket screeching in fear.
"Did you think you can kill me with ease..." He groaned with a voice more deep and demonic as he jolted back into life which ripped off his arm out of it's socket, leaving it to become a bleeding stump which spurts of acidic black liquid. I stood there in slight fear thinking that it is a hidden and reserved aura to just see the stump grow back into a more sinewy and fleshy limb where blue bulbs grow through out of the new masculine yet sickly arm, and then proceeds to grabbed the black tar and began to ram his' corrupted hand into the blackened tar both ripping out the growth and grimm insect which had died which was corroded of it's blood leaving a misshapen and shriveled which began to combust into black flames and growth of flesh begin to grow on the wound and a black and blue eye emerged from the empty socket.I just stood there scared, petrified with horror of this new aura, it was cold, twisted, and some what corrupted. With no options I had to flee from him, leaving the almost twisted being behind.
"Did you saw it?" I asked my mentor still petrified about the thing and she chuckled in delight upon hearing the news.
"I did, and I say... it was a complete surprise for me, you, and the Ancestor. Such amounts of anger, malice, and wrath he had locked away." She responded, then I heard a roar, and I look behind of the corrupted crusader charging through the trees with brute force, demolishing and ripping apart anything that stood in his path. I used the last dust arrow that I conjured to create a smoke screen to get out of it's line of sight where I saw a high ledge which acted as my exit point. I saw in the distance of the devastation that the crusader created. "All this happened for just draining his aura for my own?" I thought as his feral roars spread through out the forest which echos in my head and I began to walk to the rendezvous point that me, Emerald, Mercury and Neo marked on our scrolls still thinking of a monster that I have made.
Sorry for the long time I hope it is worth the wait. Also I call Tyrius the Gemini knight for 2 reasons.
Reason 1: He is the host of the Heart of Darkness
Reason 2: Gemini is defined as twins and the word twin is defined as "something containing or consisting of two matching or corresponding parts, in particular."