Mini chapter! I felt the next scenes would work better separate from these scenes ^^
Hawk slowed down, panting heavily and looking back at the commotion. "I think we're far enough away now… we better be, I don't know if I can go any further," he huffed, collapsing under Elizabeth. Elizabeth slid off his back, rubbing his side soothingly as she too looked back at where they came.
"Guila… that's not a Holy Knight name I recognize," she mumbled. "And we didn't stick around long enough to see what her powers were, but that speed is definitely that of a Holy Knight…"
"Well you said they were recruiting people, maybe she was- crap!"
Hawk and Elizabeth jolted as something - no, someone flew above them, crashing into a tall rock. The smoke cleared as Elizabeth shoved herself to her feet, Hawk almost under her already, and revealed Meliodas. A moment later, Zeldris appeared as though he'd intentionally retreated in their direction, pausing only when he caught sight of Elizabeth and Hawk.
Meliodas groaned lowly before squinting his eyes open.
"What are you two still doing here?!" Zeldris demanded.
"What-?" Meliodas glanced down at his brother's voice, almost panicked, and his eyes widened. "Hawk, I said to take her and run! You need to keep going!"
"I see that!" Hawk squealed, shoving himself under Elizabeth and forcing her to hastily grab onto him for support as he bolted, jumping over debris and small rock hurdles.
A shadow overtook the area and Elizabeth glanced back just in time to see Diane crash to the ground where they had just been. Elizabeth gripped Hawk tighter, a grimace plastered on her face. She leaned closer to Hawk to speak over the air whipping past them.
"Turn up here, we need to find Sir Ban and Sir King!"
King had turned to leave the clearing, content to drift away until his time in the Necropolis was up. Maybe he'd try to find Elaine, but he wasn't so sure she would appear. She was likely so very angry with him still, and he understood those feelings.
There was a gentle tinkling behind him, and King tensed, spinning around. There were the balls of light Ban had chased again, settling in front of his stone figure. King's breath hitched as the lights seemed to lean toward Ban, two cupping his jaw and one continuing to lead forward until it touched Ban's face.
King choked on the breath he didn't realize he was holding as the stone encasing Ban cracked, slowly at first and starting where the light touched him, but quickly spreading out and fracturing. It exploded after too many cracks appeared, the stone shards clattering to the ground and disappearing like fragments of a smashed mirror.
Ban was still smiling, and now standing before King very much not petrified. He couldn't tell if it was rage or disbelief gripping his heart more.
"H-How did…" There's no way he could have broken the petrification! King thought. He doesn't have powers like that!
King could feel his own heart turning to stone at the words Ban finally uttered.
"Hey, Elaine."