The Tale Of Varathia

The Second Knight

Arilo Climbs the red-carpeted staircase into what looks like a long and wide red and black stereotypical dojo. 

The knight who runs the dojo turns to face Arilo, his face covered by the silver of his blue-painted helmet, it looked like a sword design was imprinted on the cheeks of the helm. 

¨So you were able to defeat number 3?¨

Arilo nods, ¨you should heal his foot when we're done, kind of lost it.¨

The knight looks are Arilo as Arilo summons his boxing wraps around his hands and wrists. 

¨You have a swordsmanship bond do you not, may I ask why you aren't using that before we duel?¨

¨Well you don't know if I'm going to change tactics do you?¨

The knight thinks before responding, ¨Your right, I respect that about you Multibond.¨

The knight then holds his blade, which is also made out of some wooden material, not metal, and no hand guard either. Almost like a stick, you could find out in the woods.

Arilo holds his hands in front of himself and gets on the correct footing, his fists glow purple and red.

The knight does not wait as his wooden sword then becomes a bright white, like a holy light as the sword becomes a white beam of light with a bright blue hand guard.

¨I was gifted the power of divine light by our king, and I will use it to stop any threat.¨

The knight then yells as the beam of light comes spiraling out of the blade hitting Arilo directly sending him flying into a wooden and straw dummy. his shirt has a gigantic hole in the center of his stomach as he coughs up bright red blood. 

¨kills ya from the inside out, just can't get hit,¨ Arilo told himself as he wiped the blood off his lips and mouth and gets ready for the next attack by watching the knight's movements to predict his next attack.

¨Still alive, interesting...¨

The knight then sends out multiple beams yelling after each beam, Arilo narrowly dodges each one getting clipped in the arm by one he loses his footing and tumbles on the ground.

The knight then slowly walks up to Arilo, Arilo is now able to see the knight clearly, his entire right arm is charred due to the power of the divine light. 

The knight then holds the blade up to Arilos neck slowly charring and burning it. Arilo takes this opportunity of pain to kick the handle, which is still completely wood, out of the knight's hand leaving the blade across the room Arilo pounces on top of the knight and starts throwing punches at the knight's face, like the centaur. 

The knight pushes Arilo off himself which flips Arilo but he manages to land on his feet and instantly rushes back towards the knight, who is trying to get to the divine light blade. 

Arilo slid and kicks the knight off his feet who was only a couple of feet away from his weapon and holds his fist behind his back, like the centaur, his fist glowed a bright orange-red color as it started to get warm, and the knight tried kicking Arilo off, but what the knight didn't realize was he used his other hand to freeze the knight's arm in place on the ground. 

¨Distraction.¨ Arilo said with a smile as he punched the knight with his flaming fist, knocking the knight out cold while setting the surrounding area up in flames. 

Arilo gets up and looks around for the staircase but there is none. 

¨How the hell do you get up?¨

The knight chuckled as the knight stood behind Arilo and grabbed him by the neck.

¨Did you really think you could defeat me that easy?¨

Arilo struggles trying to kick and fight against the strangling but fails. 

¨Your nothing. You aren't winning.¨

The knight then throws Arilo across the dojo into a wall making it crack and almost break as Arilo lays there dazed and recovering the breath he lost.

¨S-shit.¨

"Say your last prayer, Multibond!"

The knight then starts to barbarically punch Arilos face making his death slow, blood covering the ground but, with every punch, Arilo endures, faces flow through his thoughts as his life flashes before his eyes. Araka smiling at a joke said, Jasko, giving sucker punches, Meladore tactically taking down a wild deer in the woods, The two kids, and where their parents might be. I can't die yet.

Arilo grabs the knight's blood-covered fist the next time he punched and slowly stood up with his eyes shut and face deformed looking like his entire body was dipped in red paint and sweat.

"I...will not...die..yet."

Arilo opens his eyes and there was an orange spark that wasn't there before.

The knight was too stunned to speak seeing Arilo, completely mutilated from head to toe in blood and bruises. he should be dead but his motivation is keeping him alive.

Arilo then knees the knight in the stomach easily breaking through his armor and uppercuts his face throwing off his helmet revealing long brown hair and thick brown eyebrows revealing charcoal eyes, then side kicks the knight throwing him down the stairs Arilo climbed up.

Arilo pants as he takes a knee for a second seeing the adrenaline die down a bit.

after the moment died down he felt an object in his right pocket, he achefully takes it out. There was a piece of paper with a letter and a name written in cursive covering a small loaf of beat-up bread.

"Thought you might run off to fight the king solo so I snuck some food with some healing attributes infused in it, use it wisely! -Araka"

Arilo shakes his head gratefully as he slowly eats the food, he can feel his body regain energy and the external wounds slowly heal as some internal wounds heal as well. though swallowing the food caused him to choke up some more blood.

"I'm one lucky son of a bitch." He chuckled to himself as he got up and looked for an exit up to the next floor.