She sits in the corner of the stone cell... Her clothes ripped apart, her dignity stolen, her pride stripped... She was nothing more than the living embodiment of the living dead now. Her wrists are bleeding from hdr struggling to get free of the shackles that connect to a metal hoop on the wall... She can hear loud footsteps getting closer to the door of her cell, she hears the metal sliding of the locks. What now? She thought.... More torture?.... More rape?.... The door opens and a Knight stands at the door.
The Knight is slim, her armor is smoke black. In her right hand is a Longsword. She gestures to someone thats around the corner with her left hand, the person gives her a smaller sword, she throws the sword to the girl's knees.
???: "your choice"
She leaves the door... Its still open... She takes the sword with her right hand, she tries to hack at her chains, but they dont even scratch, she curls up with the sword in her hand and starts to cry.
???: "is that all you got?"
She looks up, the knight came back.
???: "is that all you have to offer?"
The girl just puts her face back in her lap.
???: "so that's it then... Your done?... You give up?... Your gonna just sit here and let the people that did this to you go unpunished?!"
The girl tightens her grip on the sword.
???: "Are you going to sit here while they spread more of this same despair on others?! Or will you FIGHT?!"
Girl: "I'll Fight Damnit!"
She breaks the chains with a single swing of the sword, but she begins to break down, the knight approaches and embraces her in a hug.
???: "You did good... You did good..."
The girl sobs in agony, about an hour later they leave the prison, and the girl follows the fem knight as she leads an army out of the prison. A large knight in full armor, his shoulder pads resemble lion heads, he notices the girl's leech like presence around the fem knight.
Holden Cross: "hey, what's with the squirt?"
The fem knight looks at the girl and back to Holden.
Knight: "she's with me"
???: "My lord"
a Bronze colored Warden (Knight who wields a Longsword) approaches the fem knight.
Knight: "What is it?"
B.Warden: "The iron legion requests the presence of apollyon."
Apollyon? The girl recognizes that name, she looks at the fem knight and realizes who she is... The Demon of the abyss... The one who started this war. The blackstone leader.
Apollyon: "tell them we are busy dealing with the viking threats on the frontlines."
The knight nods before jogging away. Apollyon looks to the girl.
Apollyon: "Tell me, if you were faced with a pack of wolves and you could only choose one of many weapons, which would you choose?"
The girl thought for a second. This sounds like a trick question, what would apollyon expect the answer to be?
Girl: "None"
Apollyon tilts her head "Oh? And why so?"
Girl: "you would be dead by the time you get the weapon."
Apollyon laughs.
Apollyon: "Very good... Holden"
Apollyon gains the Halberd user's attention.
Apollyon: "We leave for the Shard"
Holden nods and goes rally the troops. They ride till the next dawn, when they arrive at a huge Fortress, the gate to the citadel was Humongous, when they approached it they opened slowly, but only needed to open a quarter of the way for the whole army to get through, inside was a city of warriors, hey trianed, traded laughs and trained more, despite the harsh tension, they seemed to be happy.
They traveled further into the fortress, until they met the larger buildings, in the middle was the capital building. There they stopped and entered, immediately you are met with the throne room, which has a carpet from the entrance to the throne, there are two doors behind the throne. Apollyon takes the girl to the right door, behind it is a spiral of stairs leading straight downward. They enter and go downwars until they reached a large door, on the door was three key holes. But apollyon simply opened the door. Beyond that door, was what seemed to be a musuem of artifacts. From ancient swords, shields to full armor sets.
At the very end of the hallway was a light, once they got close, its reveaed to be sword on a pedestal, they stop in front of it.
Apollyon: "the question i asked you was one thats been asked to the leaders before me, and besides them..."
She takes the blade in her hands.
Apollyon: "only you and me have answered it correctly, to understand what is to come next, is a leader's prime attribute. So tell me, will you one day, lead this army?"
She presents the blade to her. The handle is grey, with engravings, the blade is midnight black, and sharpened to where it could cut bedrock. She takes the Sword, and holds it with her right hand.
Apollyon: "Now your final question."
Apollyon takes her sword and swings it at the girl, she blocks the attack with her sword. The girl panics and falls down, Apollyon takes the opportunity to Kick the girl in the stomach, making her puke blood. The guards that heard the commotiin enter the room. "Do NOT interfere!" She orders them, they stand ready about twenty feet away. Meanwhile the girl struggles to stand, still weakend from captivity. Apollyon says nothing but swings her sword wildly once again, the girl tried to block but she's pushed back in the process.
Apollyon goes for a jab with her left fist but the girl ducks and rolls away, she looks for anything she can defend herself with. On one of the pedestals is a large towet shield, thats almost as big as herself. She lures Apollyon in that direction by retreating and dodging, but eventually she catches her and throws the girl into the pedestal, she's now on the ground. The shield is on her left sideon the ground, Apollyon prepares to slam her sword into the girl's chest but right before the blade reaches, something stops her, the girl was able to pull the shield up and in the way. She takes her sword by the blade and uses the hilt of her sword to trip apollyon behind her heel. And in the blink of an eye, the tables are turned. With the blade at Apollyon's throat.
