//------------------------------// // The Lord and The Guard // Story: The Scholar Mare and the Stories of Souls // by Mr BHunt //------------------------------// Twilight yelped when she awoke next to another bonfire, but this time she was on a large tower. She glanced over and gasped when she saw a large white dragon on another tower. But Twilight's attention was drawn to what sounded like yelling and barking, so she trotted sown the nearby stairs and saw a pair of creatures, the exact same kind as the wanderer. But both were in suits of metal armor, with torn red capes. But one was smacking the other over the head, his face covered by a metal mask. The other had a visor over his face, intricate designs ran down its sides. "What the hell were you thinking, running at a fucking knight?" The masked male demanded, Twilight cringed at the vulgar word. "How was I supposed to know it was that strong?" The other knight argued, his voice sounding younger than the first. "Well it's got a massive bloody shield and walks like a fucking bada- what the hell is that?" The masked creature states when he spots Twilight, the second knight turned and tilted his helmeted head. "Looks like one of those dogs, except it's purple and not ugly." The young male says, the first just snorts and pulls a massive greatsword from his back. "Well I've never seen something like that, let's kill it and see what it drops." The metal mask knight states and raises his sword to smash Twilight, but she quickly grabs it with her magic and tears it from the male's hands. The knight looks at his sword hovering above Twilight and nods to himself. "That there's a fucking magical dog thing that can take weapons, we're screwed." The masked knight says as looks at his friend. "What if we talk to it? It could be frie-" "I swear to god, I will kick your ass if you finish that sentence." "But you attacked me?" Twilight says slowly and the pair spin around to look at her, then they hundle and turn away from her. "It talked, holy shit." The masked knight said, trying to whisper but failing quite badly. "I-I've never encountered something like this, it's game over man! Game over!" The masked male yelled and the second knight sighs and looks over to Twilight. "Hey! You gonna kill us?" He asks as the first knight slowly rocks back and forwards on the ground. "Uh.. no?" Twilight says, extremely confused. The first knight suddenly stood up and smacked the younger knight with the back of his hand. "What the hell, Surge?!" The masked male yells at the younger one. "I'm so fucking tired of killing everything we come across, we were human once! I'm still a man and I want to talk to someone other than you, becuase all you do is kick my arse towards a direction!" The young man hurled back, meanwhile the little unicorn stood at the side with a frown. "Why do you follow him then?" She asked the man known as Surge, the masked man looks over at her. "Because I'm his personal guard, I know everything to surviving." The masked man stated and the unicorn looks at Surge. "Why would you need a personal guard? I mean you look like you've.. killed before." Twilight said, but the young knight shook his head. "Because I'm a lord, well a lord to be." The young man said, Twilight noticed his shoulders slump slightly. "It's for the greater good." "No it ain't, the cycle will just start again." The bodyguard sneered and the Lord Surge shoved him out of his way as he made his way to Twilight. "You know it as well as I that woman you talked to, about turning into a Lord of Hollows or something is bullshit." "Shut up." "No, we've killed a hell ton of hollows. If you want to be a lord then I'll do what I've done, kill hollows. "Shut up, Thorn!" Lord Surge demanded and put a hand around his sword, the bodyguard Thorn just laughed. "Do it, unsheath you sword. I'm up for another duel!" Thorn snarled and pulled a shield and spear from his back, Lord Surge quickly got into a stance; turned slightly with his hand on the hilt of his sword. "WAIT!" Twilight screamed and the pair stopped to stare at her. "Why don't you two go your separate ways? If you are so against one another." Twilight offered and the pair think over it. Suddenly Thorn jumps forward and impales Surge on his spear, then as Twilight screams the bodyguard grunts and launches the young Surge through the air. He slams into a wall and dissolves into ash before he hits the floor. "There... no more of that." Thorn mutters and looks at the purple unicorn. "Now to deal with you..." The bodyguard stated as he takes a step towards her, but a large man in similar armor to the bodyguard runs through the doorway behind Thron and slashes at the bodyguard. The Lothric Knight quickly takes a stance and swungs his sword in a large arc and slices Thorn's head off, the knight looks at the unicorn and charges. But flames erupt around Twilight and she is dragged to another place, the knight stops and looks around before returning to his patrol. A man in a suit of armor, burnt from the large Wyvern outside, ran into the tower and sighed. Then groaned as he looked up to see a pair of knights slightly swaying, they lumbered towards the knight as he quickly tried to run. But he wasn't fast enough for the hollowed knights. One still had the thought of becoming a lord, while the other had the thought of a little, purple dog. But these can't be thoughts, for a hollow has no purpose and no room for thinking. So why do they both keep snarling and shoving each other?