Not So Sweet Candyland

LXXVIII: Knighty Night

Berry aggressively knocked on Chase's door.

Chase sprung up out of bed and put his hood up.

That's when he opened the door and saw Berry.

"Thank goodness." She sighed. "I was about to break my wrists because of you."

"Now's not the time." He slightly pushed Berry back and walked out of the door.

"You know the plan?"

"Not even an inch."

Berry tsked.

"We Don't have much time, but I will try and explain things as much as I can to you."

They started to speed walk down the halls before going down a few sets of stairs and then going down a long and dark hall with grey stones.

"The second the knights hear any kind of noise, then they will be alert and then listen to our footsteps. Unless we stomp first and then stomp away. That will get some put of the way. You know what? Fuck a plan, we don't do that here. You know how we roll. We go in for the kill, and to them and to us, they are unexpected. What do you expect? You just want us to go on them like a predictable villain? No. Here, we do things a lot different."

She grabbed Chase by his shirt.

"Are you ready, human boy?"

"Ready for you, princess."

"Fuck you." She pulled his shirt away and then kept on walking.

That's when she stopped and then examined the sound of armor on the hard concrete.

"Is that the knights?"

"Shhhhh."

Berry pulled Chase into a dark hallway and they moved.

A few knights walked past them.

Berry looked over her shoulder and then looked back again.

"Coast is clear, let's go."

She took Chase's hand and they went down the doorway.

That's when the halls started to become more populous with knights and the sound of their armor against the hard ground.

"Stay by me, I got this."

"But, what about me?"

Berry just looked back.

"What is there that I can't do?"

"You'll overwork yourself if you act kind of like that."

"I never overwork myself."

That's when she stood in front of a knight and then took out a gun. Chase read the label on the side.

"A Metal buster."

"A metal buster is the gun that gets rid of the metal part of their armor. Under their armor, they're useless. I know these kinds of things, it's like common knowledge."

"Common knowledge, huh."

"Like this, watch."

Berry walked in front of a knight and then held the gun, she pulled the trigger at him and it pierced his armor with no sound, and he fell to the ground.

"He should be stunned at the best. If not, then what does it matter?"

"At this rate, the sight of being near a murderer is absolutely nothing."

"Be quiet, you. We have a locket or two to take. Don't distract me now."

When the knight was down for another minute, that's when Berry and Chase stepped over his body and ran over him.

That's when they found more knights, Berry used her gun, and Chase used a peaceful sleeping spell.

"Let them be sleep."

Berry nodded in approval.

"I see you know what you're doing now."

"It take time you know. You can't read a book without starting the first page."

"Guess somebody has been doing their reading, haven't they?"

"What can I say? I learn more than you think."

Berry and Chase got close for a moment before they pushed each other away.

"Now's not the time, maybe later for this."

Berry and Chase started to run through the halls and they found more knights. This time, Chase helped by throwing knives into a few skulls of some knights head.

"Are you sure that I'm doing this right?"

"You're doing amazing, don't worry. If you were doing bad, we would get caught."

Chase nodded.

The east wing might have been just hallway, but there was more. A lot more. Some broken staircases, empty rooms, and the same torch lit halls.

Berry grabbed a torch from one of the hallways and held it.

"Sometimes, to burn steal, you need to play with fire. Literally."

She swayed her torch from side to side.

A knight could be heard from behind her and with her quick reflexes, she felt the knight grab her and she held the flame so that it would touch his metal armor. He screamed in pain and let go of Berry.

"How do you know how to do that?"

"Even I play with fire."

"You are a smart figure."

"Why wouldn't I be?" She then found a shredded curtain with a distorted staircase and then went up that way.

The stairs were mostly nonexistent and what was left of the stair was next to nothing. Berry jumped from piece to piece while Chase struggled.

On the next floor, the halls seemed the same while Chase was struggling.

"What are you doing? You should keep up the pace."

"I think I hurt my knee. I don't know. It just Don't feel right."

"First off, it's doesn't. And second off, you did not scream at all."

"You won't believe me?"

"Now now, we have lockets to take."

Berry jumped from a window at the end to a tower that seemed to go upwards.

"Maybe I twisted it, I don't know."

"Just leave it be for now."

"But, it hurts!"

"Shut up!"

They went up the tower to where there was a set of knights at the top. She found a long line of knights, with her, she got all but one down in a sleeping spell. There was just one that just stood there like a statue, but was alive as could be.

Berry then fired the last bullet in her gun at the knight and just like the others, he fell down to the ground.

That's when she found a locket with a Pearl and a locket with a peridot, and she grabbed the two of them and then jumped out of the tower.