Hollow Knight: A Ritual of Flame

Chapter 3: The Beginning of a Strange Journey.

As the Knight walked over to the bench and sat on it, it equipped it's Grimmchild Charm, and looks at it's map. It seems the closes Grimmkin is at the Crystal Peaks. Isn't that where Myla was mining at? Eh, it doesn't matter; the closest Kin is at Crystal Peaks after all... Maybe they'll stop by. Or not, they don't care.

They descend down into the Infected Crossroads. They pogo off of the infected bugs, before eventually running into an infected Vengefly. It's a bit scared of it, so it runs away. Considering last time it exploded on them and made it lose it's precious 2 geo... the Vengefly has the little Ghost in a corner... but..! Here comes the Grimmchild! It shoots the Vengefly with it's acid spit and!...

...

It did nothing. ... Well nice try. I guess. The Vessel dies. And turns into a shade. Well then.

(About 10 minutes later.)

It seems that was a waste of time... Stupid Grimmchild charm with it's stupid weakness... Is what it would say if it had a mind!
Moving on... The Knight ventures with the Grimmchild further into the Infected Crossroads. They enter one of the rooms in the ginormous cave, and it gets dark. They take out their Lumifly Lantern which lights their way.

They climb the crystal peaks, getting to the bench. They find a "crystal man" sleeping on the bench, and Grimmchild spits on the bug. The bug wakes up, seemingly pissed off, as someone would. The "Crystal Guardian" fires a beam of this strange purple laser. The Knight jumps out of the way, and the guardian let's out a muffled roar, due to it's head being forced in a crystal, as it they slept there for so long, a crystal grew. The Knight gets hit for standing still for too long, they stagger for a moment before the bug shoots another laser at them. They use their monarch wings and quickly dodge out of the way.

Grimmchild spits out another acid of fire, barely doing anything. The Crystal Guardian slowly looked over to where it got hit, and shoots a beam at the Grimmchild.

The Knight snatches Grimmchild in It's hands, before shooting a Vengeful Spirit at the guardian. The Crystal Guardian shoots another laser at them, and Grimmchild flies at the guardian as it tries to swat them away. This gives little Ghost a chance to strike them. They use the Great Slash that Nailmaster Sheo taught them. The Crystal shatters, and the bug's head gets covered in blood. (Since the Crystal is like glass)

The bug leaps away, in defeat.

Grimmchild the cuddles up to the Knight, wrapping it's four tentacle-like thingamajigs around them, the Knight has no reaction.

Progressing forward, the Knight is healed up again and continues to climb the crystal cavern. They get to where the torch finally is, and looks ahead, then looks down into the tons of sharps crystals below them. Grimmchild offers to carry Ghost (if it's even strong enough) but the Vessel ignores their gesture and crystals start to surround them, and they shoot up.

As soon as they get to the torch, the Knight reaches out to touch it, but then, the torch disappears. They look around themselves, trying to see where it went. They notice that the Grimmchild is staring at something; before they have the chance to look, they hear cackling behind them; very young cackling. They turn around to see they're trying to be hit with the torch's flame.

They dodge the flame, charging at them and tries to hit them; the Grimmkin teleports back behind them, and dash at the Vessel, knocking them into the crystals, impalibg them several times. Before the Grimmkin finishes them off, they use a Howling Wraiths, knocking them away, the Grimmchild pulls them off with their weak tentacle thingies, and tries to pull them out of the pit, the Knight uses it's wings to fly up doesn't appreciate that the Grimmchild tried to save them. They get out of the pit, and the fight continues.

The Knight leaps out of the way of the flames, and impales the Grimmkin. The Grimmchild absorbs the flame, consuming it. The Vessel takes not a second to acknowledge it, and continues on. They go back to Dirtmouth and sit on their favorite bench. They check the map, and decide to go to Greenpath for the second flame. They take a look at the giant tent and the tinier tent before looking away and heading to the Stag Station.

They point to where they need to go on the map and the stag takes them there, during the ride, the Grimmchild curls up in a ball on it's lap and takes a nap.

Once the old stag drops them off at the Greenpath Stag Station, The Knight rests on the bench for a minute before getting up, and descending further down into Greenpath.

(A/N: So... I decided to write chapter three. By the way, I KNOW that Grimmchild doesn't do anything in their first phase, which is why the acid-fire thingy does nothing. I will probably officially rewrite all three chapters, but that can wait. Since I'm starting to settle back into Wattpad, I'll try to get a Oneshot out by Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. If not, probably after Christmas. It's good to be back and I forgot how much I loved to write. Chapter four either next week. Or month. It depends if I feel motivated.)