The Black Knight Always Triumphs! [PLOT | OPEN]

[Ryan Green]

If Ryan could facepalm at the moment, he would. Seriously, they had been acting like total amateurs right now. Rushing in blind like that and getting their asses handed to them. It was the only logical outcome, clearly they were dealing with a deadly threat that needed to be assessed and planned for, rather than just rushing in blindly.

Then the Kokiri rushed in blindly. Again. Fan-freaking-tastic.

If he was able, Ryan would have tried to help the Kokiri, but as he was nursing the injuries from Maverick's attack*, he didn't have much to go by way of mobility at the moment, let alone attack power. He would have to conserve his energy before making another attack on the Dark Knight, or just let him leave and hunt him down with maximum force, which ever worked best, really.

OOC
*Remembered how The Black Knight dodged the Windsheer shot, which would have hit Ryan, Retroactively added in the injuries

[Clow]

The chatter of the crowd nearby worried Clow not, he wouldn’t blame them later either, Clow himself would most likely have regrets after his rage had cooled. At this point It wasn’t a question of intelligences, odds of victory, morality, honor, or any such thing that on could logical. The Kokiri was angry, he was actually more than a bit psychotic at this point, and he wouldn’t let anyone stand in the way of his foe. At least not until he was rational once more.

“I want to…” he muttered in a loud tone, digging his fingers and toes into the dirt as he crouched on all fours. He caught the knight’s arm in the corner of his eye and let out a manic giggle. Without a signal thought he pressed off the ground rising above the arm. He latched onto it, almost to mock the knight in a certain way. Again, most likely not a wise choice, he my regret doing such later, but for now he was running off instinct and blood lust.

He then pushed off his arm, lunging for his head, claw bared. “To see the life drain from your eyes!” He yelled his eyes wide as he grinned. It was really unsure if the Kokiri could even do damage this way, it certainly wasn’t the target that his glowing arms were. But beyond the rage he felt, there was also an honest curiosity to see what this person looked like. Though in his altered state, he was also dead serious in the desire to watch the knight die, far fetch as that concept seemed. All the same, do or die time was upon him, he couldn’t keep this up much longer.

OOC: As I’ve told Night, I don’t expect to get far in this assault, simply staying in character, I’m really fine with any outcome, though I hopefully don’t get killed xD.

[Dark Link]

So it seemed that the Kokiri was on his own, well that would work just great for the shade. Honestly, he didn't want round 2 to start, that would've been annoying as all hell. But it seemed that had been averted, and the rest were just leaving the kokiri to suffer for the stupidity that he had enacted. At least they had something that could possibly be called common sense. And really, thinking about it, he supposed one casualty wouldn't hurt. It'd definitely get the hero to act.

Honestly, when he had heard the Kokiri's words, and saw him hop on his arm, Dark Link figured out what he was up to; aiming for a killing blow. He had to admit, Kokiri usually weren't so violent, though that had been changing over the years, but whatever. As the claw lunged for him, the Black Knight twisted his body to the right, allowing for the claw to miss him. Though the Kokiri remained perched on his arm, that was about to change. He would make this quick.

He pulled his arm out from under the kokiri. Gravity would no doubt work its magic and the kokiri would start to descend, but he would act faster. His left hand pulled together, his fingers folding in to form a shape akin to a spear, he was going to use the armor to its full advantage.

Thrusting his left arm and slightly upward, he aimed to catch the kokiri mid fall, impaling his hand through the forest child's chest, aiming for his heart in particular. With his monstrous strength, he was sure if the blow landed, he would get what he was aiming for.

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GREAT JOB.

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THE BLACK KNIGHT
DARK LINK

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PLAYERS
Human Champion Ryan Green
Fairy Queen Titania
Kokiri Clow
Human Maverick Decheil

KNOWN DATA FOR THE CHARACTERS
In terms of martial skills, recent development seems to show that the Black Knight is on a completely different level than everyone fighting him, being able to even hop on blades mid swing without harm. He possesses a vast amount of strength and agility. The strength however, does not seem to affect his legs like it does his arms. This might have something to do with the flashes of gold on his arms.

[Clow]

The Kokiri, for the time being, wasn’t really aware how futile he attempts were. But he was certainly frustrated that this creature seemingly could not bet hit. His hatred was starting to run deeper than simple blood lust and rage. Deep down, he wanted the knight to suffer, if for no other reason than making him look foolish. Seems Clow had a deeply vindictive side that he wasn’t really aware of until tonight.

That entirely aside, Clow was still amped up, going for another attack, he was already positioning himself for another assault. Of course that would not be, as the knight finally struck. It was a good thing Clow was fully intending on killing the knight. It seemed he would treat him no differently. As he started to fall, the knight’s hand caught the boy, in the worst kind of way. The Kokiri grabbed hold of the hand stabbing into him, blood already starting to pour from his chest. It was taking all Clow had to keep it from going deeper, impaling him completely, or worse, hitting something vital. But things were not looking well, Clow’s blood was cooling, reason was returning, and his strength was starting to waver.

Backed against “the wall” his blood already beginning to pool on the ground bellow, he was left with one tactic left he could employ. Though it was one he had already shown, it was the only thing to have worked tonight. Letting out a spiteful howl, vines starter to grapple the knight. How this would affect the knight was uncertain, after all every other attempt at anything against him had failed. But it was the only thing he could do at this point,

Perhaps the way he was focusing his strength would allow the knight to be snared, or at least let up on Clow himself. He was also aware, that like this, he too would be wrapped in thorns, but at this point that sounded far better than dealing with further assault from the knight. Worrying about his own safety wasn’t something he could afford right now; he was doing whatever he could to both stay alive, and if possible do as much harm to the enigma before him.

[titania]

This battle had gotten to the point where it was no longer a battle, it was a massacre. As blood began to spill into the dirt, Titania had to turn away.

"Someone tell me when it's over." She always got uncomfortable around excessive blood, and that was certainly excessive. With her back turned, however, she knew she made herself a target. But this battle was over, for her at least, and hopefully for everyone else very soon.

[Maverick Decheil]

Really? Was that what the leader of the fairies amounted to as a person? Someone who would turn their back on someone that was in need of help? He wasn't a hero by any means, but watching people die was not on his list of things to do. If Ryan wasn't going to do anything either, that was fine with him, he would do what he always did either way. Reaching into his pouch, he pulled out one of the Deku's spinning it in his hand before grabbing it firmly and hurling it towards the armored knight's head as he tried to pierce the Kokiri's chest.

Of course, it seemed that the little guy was holding off a bit, Maverick would at least offer some support. He was fine with a person getting a few bruises, but letting him die was extreme. It didn't matter to him if he could be brought back, letting him die in the first place was just a low thing to do. Hopefully the armored bastard would be distracted, he didn't know what the Deku would turn out to be, but even if all it did was blind the prick that was fine.

Grabbing the sword on his back, dropping it to the ground, he decided to try a bit of melee himself this time, and began to reconfigure his body. Increasing in size by a foot, his body grew in mass, growing fur over the skin. Razor sharp claws and teeth being added to his arsenal, and his leg joins reversing to accommodate the form. Launching forward, he aimed to strike at the weak points on the armor of the knight.

Summary:
Threw a Deku Bomb at Dark Knight's head
Shifted to wolf form and launched attack at softer parts of the armor

[Ryan Green]

Ryan gave another sigh of frustration at the whole situation. They really needed to back out of this, come up with a plan and try again, preferably with overwhelming force at their backs. Whoever this Black Knight was, he was more than they could handle at the moment. The only logical thing to do was preform a strategic retreat and try again later after they had prepared for the fight. Instead people were blindly charging in and getting murdered. Thankfully however, he knew how to separate the two of them in a mostly unharmful manner.

"FUS" With a simple word, a second shockwave rolled towards both the Black Knight and the Kokiri. Neither would be damaged by the rolling energy wave, but both would be pushed back a fair amount of distance from each other. Hopefully the sudden jerk would shock the Kokiri out of his blind rage and in to a more rational state of mind, and would give the Back Knight another opening to just leave. That is, if it hit, verbalized magic tended to give itself away.

[Dark Link]

Oh. So the HEROIC RESOLVE TO DEFEND THE WEAK AND HELPLESS did exist after all. It just needed to be brought out somehow, or Dark Link just had to wait a few seconds. Either way, it didn't matter, as now the newcomer decided to turn into a werewolf and charge him. Only that he was sorely forgetting a few things that would just make the whole thing worse. Ah well, he'd just give him a reason to feel some guilt over what happened.

Thanks to his iron grip on Clow, and the fact the little guy was so small, added on with his monstrous strength, the shade had no problem moving him around. So when the deku nut thing had been tossed at him, all he did was simply move Clow into the path and used him as a shield. The nut slammed against the Kokiri, and had apparently been a bomb, with a large explosion occuring on impact, though the Kokiri seemed to keep the Black Knight unharmed for the most part. Right now, he didn't even care about the vines that had been creeping up his body.

As the werewolf moved closer and began slashing at the soft spots of the armor, Dark Link just continually moved Clow into the path again and again, the claws slashing across Clow's back, which was likely already damaged from the bomb. Really, the shade would be surprised if the Kokiri even survived what was going on.

With that done, he simply loosened his grip, preparing to toss the kokiri at the werewolf when he felt himself get pushed again. Clow fell from his grip, and thanks to Ryan's Fus, Dark Link and Clow by extension, had been pushed out of the thorny grip of the vines, effectively making Clow's sacrifice worthless.

The fog dispelled itself for but a moment thanks to the shout, however, due to Dark Link being in plain sight, the golden glint became clear. From that one instant, though Titania wouldn't see it due to having turned away, what remained of the team would be able to see bright, golden gauntlets resting on Dark Link's arms for that one moment before the fog reinstated itself. Though they had discovered what the golden glint was, they made pretty much no progress in taking the Black Knight down.

In response, Dark Link gave a casual shrug and waited for Maverick to attack him again.

Nice going, guys.

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GREAT JOB.

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THE BLACK KNIGHT
DARK LINK

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PLAYERS
Human Champion Ryan Green
Fairy Queen Titania
Kokiri Clow
Human Maverick Decheil

KNOWN DATA FOR THE CHARACTERS
In terms of martial skills, recent development seems to show that the Black Knight is on a completely different level than everyone fighting him, being able to even hop on blades mid swing without harm. He possesses a vast amount of strength and agility. The strength however, does not seem to affect his legs like it does his arms. This might have something to do with the Golden Gauntlets on his arms.

[Maverick Decheil]

Unfortunately, for the Dark Knight, he would find the Kokiri without a mark on him. Maverick had the control of his body to stop his claws before they hit, and change their course. The most it would do, would be cut clothes, and even then, there would be no marks on the skin. Holding a human shield did no good if the attacker could control their body. The Kokiri would remain unharmed from his claws, and as the blast of energy came through, he took the chance.

Grabbing the little Kokiri like a wolf grabbed a cub, he leapt back away from the knight. Then turned his back on it and took the little one to get healed, dropping it down by the fairy. Reverting to his human form as he made a mocking gesture towards the Dark Knight.

Summary:
Altered swing to not harm Clow
Dragged Clow to Titania when the Kokiri was released from the grip.

[titania]

When she had conjured enough fortitude to do so, the queen was able to turn around and see that a wolf had entered their midst, dragging Clow to her for healing. He was bloodied, bruised, and it pretty bad shape, and it would be a while before he would be at full strength, but it was nothing beyond her abilities to at least stabilize.

"Thank you. Now sit still young one, you're in bad shape." She held her hands over the body of Clow, but nothing was coming. Damn, she still needed more time before she could call upon her healing magic.

"I still need more time before I can heal him. Just let him go, this is more important than any other battle." She needed more time to take a look at everyone's injuries. Ryan was a little banged up from earlier in the fight, and now Maverick was gone, or the wolf, she wasn't entirely sure. But Clow needed her aid. She did what she could to help stabilize his body, trying to seal some of the wounds by ripping off parts of her clothing and wrapping them around, not really caring about blood anymore, her quesiness giving way to a strong desire to help the poor kid.

[OOC: Dressing Clow's Wounds, telling everyone t back off.]

[Clow]

As his grip weakened, he was starting to worry, of course is worry turned to actual anger, not rage, when the two were pushed, by the great force, he glanced back at the human leader with a snarl. “You Idiot! I had him! You couldn’t have waited another signal moment to help?!” Clow lashed and pushed harder; maintaining his resolve, though his power was already fading, the knights hand going in deeper into his chest. He would have kept pushing, and berating, but then he took a bomb to the back. Taking everything into account it was a better place to take an explosive, he had a bit more padding with his cloak, his vital organs were farther away, and it didn’t make his chest wound much worse. But it still took everything out of him.

Clow went quiet after that, just glaring up at the knight, showing so much hatred. Not because he was doing a decent job of robbing the boy of his life, but because he knew nothing about him. For some reason, to be killed by a mystery just seemed so ever much worse. As he let out a slightly labored sigh, he was wrenched from his grasp. He wasn’t sure why a wolf of all things was helping him, but he was grateful all the same. “Thank you..” He muttered a bit, trying his best to cover his wound as he was dropped off, away from the line of fire.

Clow glanced up at the fairy, as she did her best to stabilize him. Seemed she had used up a good bit of her healing power on others. “It’s okay… save the magic just in case… just keep me from dying if ya please.” He snickered a bit, reaching at his side, putting his hands on a bottle of red liquid. Clow happened to be quite the alchemist, and while this health potion was still weak, it should help things along all the same. It was laboring, and a decent bit painful to gulp down the liquid, but he was already starting to feel a bit better.

Granted he wasn’t going to be great, he was tore up to a degree most Kokiri were not accustom too, but it didn’t look like he’d be dying today. As the fairy treated his wounds he couldn’t help but make conversation, as now doing do didn’t seem to endanger his life. “I’m sorry about all that… I couldn’t help myself… I almost had him pinned down too…. But now I don’t think we’ll ever know the reason for all this…” He sighed looking rather melancholy, feeling far more defeated by the futility of all he had strived to do, than by any wounds he had obtained.

[Ryan Green]

Ryan pinched the bridge of his nose as Clow raved about "almost having him". As far as Ryan was concerned, this was bullshit on every level. The enemy was far superior to them, and would and could likely take them out if it felt so inclined. Thus far they had been lucky, very very lucky, that it hadn't really gone out of it's way to hurt them. If it was capable of manhandling the lot of them without even really trying, what did it say about their chances if it decided to cut loose?

"That's it, I'm done. You all can get yourselves killed for all I care. But I am not about to commit suicide trying to win." As much as he didn't want to, Ryan was being forced to revert back to his ultra-pragmatic side, the part of himself that dealt in cold logic, facts and self-interest above all else. He didn't like to admit these things, but facts were facts and there was little point in arguing with how things were.

[Dark Link]

Well, it seemed that things were starting to shift back into... no, no, the scales had always been in the shade's favor. He had to admit though, he was finding it interesting that there were people who were in fact, trying to convince the others to call off the fight. The battle that they had started by attempting to assassinate him from the dark was coming to an end. And they were practically begging for it to stop at this point. Well, he would, but right now, he wanted everyone there to admit that they had been beaten. Honestly, it seemed proper compensation for being attacked from behind as he was leaving, right?

So he just stood there and crossed his arms. From the Champion's words and actions, he was out. Entirely. He had realized he couldn't win this fight and that was it, not to mention he was still wounded. The kokiri was in no condition to be fighting anyway, what with the beating he received just a few moments ago. And the fairy hated fighting from the looks of it. So that only left the newcomer. He was actually curious if the new guy would be stupid enough to continuously assault a foe that seemed to be superior, even without any form of assistance. He figured he'd just stand there a few more seconds and see what he did.

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BACK TO OPTIONS
1) Let him go.
2) Attack him again.

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THE BLACK KNIGHT
DARK LINK

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PLAYERS
Human Champion Ryan Green
Fairy Queen Titania
Kokiri Clow
Human Maverick Decheil

KNOWN DATA FOR THE CHARACTERS
In terms of martial skills, recent development seems to show that the Black Knight is on a completely different level than everyone fighting him, being able to even hop on blades mid swing without harm. He possesses a vast amount of strength and agility. The strength however, does not seem to affect his legs like it does his arms. This might have something to do with the Golden Gauntlets on his arms.

[Maverick Decheil]

He had gone to scratching his ear with his foot, when Ryan began to go on a rant about not committing suicide. "What are you on about? I achieved my goal, I already won what I needed to," he shrugged, not really getting what his friend was getting all panty twisted about really. When Titania thanked him, he nodded, "No problem." He figured it was better for her to get to the healing for the kid.

Man, he enjoyed these dog legs, let him scratch behind his ears with so much more ease. Looking at the Kokiri as he was getting treated by the Fairy, he moved one of his claws and flicked him in the forehead. It was a simple enough gesture to get him to stop talking and lay still.

And just for good measure flicked Ryan in the back of the head as well, just cause of the whole getting uppity. Also a clearly unamused expression on the werewolf's feature's should the champion decide he didn't like it.

Summary:
Flicked Clow
Flicked Ryan

[titania]

Titania rolled her eyes as Clow was flicked by Mav. Unnecessary, as Clow wasn't going anywhere. However, she could feel her power returning, as soothing magic made its way over Clow.

"Don't make any sudden moves. Nice and easy now. You might to head back to the Sacred Grove, little one. The shamans there can help you more than I can." She then turned her attention to Ryan Green, as he was also hurt.

"You hold up there, I'm not finished with you yet. You have a couple of bruises I want to take a look at." It was times like these Titania wished she had her nurse's outfit, for more than the reason that she looked amazing in it.

[OOC: Minor healing on Clow. Not attacking the Black Knight]