The journey had been long and hard. The Four Knights had scoured the four corners of the earth to save the princesses, traversing battlefield, forest, river, plain, cave, castle volcano, factory, ocean, desert, AN ALIEN SPACE SHIP!, cornfield, swamp, mountain and icy tundra. Never faltering, never stopping, a force that could deal with any challenge, and now they stood just outside the final castle ready to take on anything inside without fear. Or that’s what they would have told you if you had asked them.
Now if you had asked the fifth member of their little party he would have told you that they were a bunch of ego-inflated fools that wouldn't have survived a day without his help. Who cooked for them? Who looked out for traps? Who cleaned and fixed their armor? Who sharpened their legendary weapons? Who gave them encouraging pats on the back when they were scared? Who provided CPR when they fell in the heat of battle? And who lugged around all their stupid sandwiches, potions, gold and tools?! Yes the Grey Knight was truly an underappreciated soul but he just grinned, turned the other cheek and passed another sandwich to the ungrateful sods.
All in all, Grey was unhappy with his lot in life. But he must help them on their quest as was his sworn oath. While yes he was joyous about the grand adventure that he was allowed to be a part of, would it kill them to let him kiss the princess once or even get a mention when they stopped in towns to resupply and regale villagers of their quest? Maybe he was just being selfish and envious of them. They had been quite chummy with him thus far, sharing tales of family and friends back home. They also did pool their cash and buy him a chainsaw when they found out his birthday had been cancelled on the day their quest began, so he guessed they weren’t all bad.
Lost in thought Grey didn’t even notice that the 4 Ultimate Knights had stopped to watch the castle float into the sky. What he did notice was when Red grabbed his collar to stop him from falling into the massive crater left by the now floating castle. Turning towards at them with an embarrassed look, a drop of sweat appeared on the side of his head.
Red gave him a hard stare, reprimanding him for being so absent minded. Blue, after a quick glance up from his tome, went back to reading. Then there was Green handing a large sack of coins to Orange. Obviously they had bet about whether he would fall into the crater. Regaining his composure Red pointed to the castle and pumped his fist into the air simulating a rocket taking off.
The Knights quickly responded to this by summoning their magic and preparing for lift off. Grey who was still not in tune with the group's seemingly hive mind was the last to blast off ... and immediately get smacked back down by a falling boulder. Shaking his head Grey looked up to see the 4 blazing a trail through whatever fell their way, already halfway to the ever rising castle.
His second attempt was far more successful than the first, but it was still very disorientating. Spinning away from the earth at an alarming pace towards a castle full of unspeakable evil was not something he was used to. It made his gut lurch and caused him to almost lose his lunch, but he managed to keep it down. Shaking his head he looked up just in time to see a mirror fall out of the castle, straight towards him. Cringing at the thought of seven years bad luck that he really didn't need he screwed his eyes shut and prepared the shatter the fragile thing.
What he was not prepared for was to fly straight through the glass as though it wasn’t there and end up rocket punching a large white and very much alive something in the face. Falling to the floor and unscrewing his eyes he had just enough time to see what looked to be an armoured boot coming towards his face at an alarming rate.
The force managed to bash out a number of teeth and flatten his nose against his already flat helmet head. Blood trickling onto the floor his vision started to fail him and he felt the grasp of unconsciousness take him. Just before blacking out he heard the large something mutter a single word.
“Oops.”