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Epic Knightly Moments



~X~X~X~

It was 3:46 on a Tuesday morning. For most Ooo residents, this was a prime time to be socked out and asleep. This was even a dreary time for the vampires, since this time was like their '2:00' afternoon dragging feeling. Almost every creature was asleep, even if there were some awake, they were simply in a tired daze, not really thinking and instead dreaming and drifting.

Of course, dreaming and drifting was not the style for one Knight, and one Knight in particular.

Havok was not only awake, he was hyped up, he was alert, and he was currently invested in something that required lots of brain power. And yes, it was SCIENCE! Plus he was munching on some bread from the bread box in the kitchen. But eating bread doesn't require brain power or has anything to do with science!

No, the many vials and bottles of extracts and who-in-the-glob knows what sitting on his desk was the sciency part. These glass vials and bottles were filled with bright and glowing liquid, some were fizzing, some were corked up, and some made a low 'hmm' noise if one listened carefully. Havok stood at the end of his desk, scratching his red hair and munching on his bread as he studied these vials. The Knight had been going on twenty-eight hours of no sleep, and small bags were starting to form under his eyes, of course, someone wouldn't notice because of his goggles.

Twenty-eight hours seemed like a long time to stay away, but he didn't see the reason to sleep when he had such important things to do. Plus, they were called power naps! Where you sat at your desk, fell asleep, then woke up as soon as your head hit the desk! Yes, power naps were such a wonderful thing.

"Darn, I ate my bread," Havok hummed to himself. "Oh well, that bread was just a distraction. I need to figure this out." He stared at the vials and bottles in front of him. He reached forward, grabbed a light green vial and examined it underneath the light from his overhead lamp. "Yes... this looks perfect... plus green is a great color," he said. The green liquid was poured into a small black cauldron. Stinky, Havok's best friend, bought him the little black cauldron, laughing and saying that it was like what the witches used. Well, now was the time to use the witch-inspired cauldron.

The young Knight carefully picked out bottles and vials, some big some small. Every once in awhile, he would smash one against the wall shouting, "YOU ARE NOT WORTHY!" and laughing as it crashed into tiny little glass pieces. Breaking glass was always enjoyable.

Finally, he ran out of things to pour into the cauldron, and now his mixture was brewing to the brim. Havok smiled pleasingly as he took a huge wooden spoon and stirred his mixture. And yes, Stinky also bought him the huge wooden spoon, because if you're going to have a black cauldron like the witches, you need a big wooden spoon to stir it like the witches. Made sense. Plus the spoon was half-off with purchase of the cauldron.
And then, after exactly five stirs clockwise and eight stirs counter-clockwise, plus some stirs in zig-zags for fun, the mixture was complete. "IT IS DONE!" Havok cheered, lifting the cauldron over his head. He was feeling daring (plus his range of caution was dulled after sixteen hours) and he did a skip in happiness. Luckily for him, the mixture didn't spill.

Wham!

But he did fall over from exhaustion, asleep before he hit the floor.

Some time later n' stuff...

"Havok? Havok? Haaaavok? Oh my glob! Is that a three-headed fish named Nathaniel stealing your wallet?!"

"HUH? WHA?"

Stinky started laughing as Havok came back into consciousness. "I knew my random worry
would wake you," she grinned.

It took the Knight a moment to fully get back into consciousness. But when he did, he realized he was on his bedroom floor, Stinky sitting next to him, and there was a distinct smell of bacon. He deduced that the bacon must have been her breakfast, but that didn't explain why he was on the floor. "Did I... what happened?" he asked.

Stinky shrugged. "Dunno. I found you like this an hour ago."

"You've been sitting there an hour right next to me and you didn't wake me up?" he questioned.

"Yeah. I recorded what you sound like when you snore. Wanna hear?"

Actually, yes, he so very much wanted to hear. The Knight wasn't even aware he snored. But before he could get excited over finding out, his brain finally remembered what he was doing before he crashed from exhaustion. "My mixture!" he exclaimed. "Stinky, did you see my black cauldron? It had a liquid inside that I was mixing!"

"Oh yeah, it's on your desk," she replied, pointing to it with a spoon. "It's really pretty, the color marigold, I think. And it smells like honey-chicken."

"Honey-chicken," Havok repeated, simply because how many opportunities do you get to say honey-chicken? He got up to his feet and looked at the mixture. It luckily hadn't spilled by some miracle.

"So what is that mixture formula thingy supposed to do?" Stinky asked. "A new potion to give invisibility to the Knights? Healing potion? Does it give us thicker hair? Louder voices? The ability to grow pineapples on demand?"

He shook his head. "All the things you listed sound fantastic," Havok answered, "but no, this mixture is much, much, MUCH, more important." He then stuck his fingers in the goop and put some on his head. "This stuff makes hair shiny."

Stinky stood up and looked at him with her big eyes. Her lips parted in shock and she gasped in utter surprise. Then, she released the breath she was holding slowly. "Makes... hair... shiny?" she mumbled softly.

"Yup."

She held her stare at him. Then, slowly, he mouth curled into a smile. "YAY! SHINY!"

"SHINY!" Havok cheered back. The two proceeded to dance in celebration, and that was how they spent their Wednesday morning.

~X~X~X~

It was pretty much common knowledge among the Knights that Joe was a bro. By that, they knew that if they needed help, Joe was the guy who could help them. Even if it wasn't something in his expertise, he'd lend a helping hand, and he wasn't the kind of guy to get frustrated easily either. He was Joe, bro.

He wasn't doing anything that particular Wednesday afternoon, because Wednesdays weren't in particularly busy days for him. He was relaxing at HQ, lying down on a hammock that happened to be one of many scattered around. There were a few books laying on his chest, some about Ooo and some that were comics. He was wearing some casual clothes, a green t-shirt and loose blue jeans. Lady Dettsu had Joe go on a mission yesterday, so because of that he wasn't called for a mission today.

The drop-out ninja was starting to doze off, the warm rays of sunshine acting like his comfy blanket. Then, before he could conk out, he heard a strange noise. Joe sat up, the books falling off of him, and rubbed his eyes. "Hello?" he asked.

Creeeeeaaaaak.

It sounded like someone was purposely stepping slowly across the wooden floorboards to seem creepy. Joe smirked. "Nice try, Heather, but you're not gonna scare me like the last time." A few weeks ago when he was asleep, Heather successfully jumped out screaming and woke him up, Joe screaming like a maniac. The young man smiled deviously. He would scare her before she scared him. Heh heh.

Carefully, he flipped out of his hammock, almost tripping on a book on the floor, but steadying himself quickly. He crouched low. Now, if I were Heather, where would I hide? He wondered to himself. The Lady of the Forest was a tricky one. Joe got on the floor and crawled under the rows of hammocks, making his way towards the exit. There! He saw a pair of shoes at the entrance of the room. Ha! You're gonna freak out so bad, Heather!

Now the question was, what should he shout out when he surprised her? Boo? Nah, too common. Surprise? No, too obvious. Gotcha? No, too creepy. Maybe something random, then? Umbrellas? Yeah, 'umbrellas' was random enough!

Joe leaped from the hammocks, throwing his arms in the air and shouting, "UMBRELLAS!"

Shunk!

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

"Blade?"

"Joe?"

"Bro?"

"Yo?"

Joe was beyond surprised to find himself against a wall with an ice sword tip an inch away from his chest. Of course, in his hand he had a silver kunai, ready to deflect said sword. But instead of looking at Heather, he was looking at her boyfriend, Blade Guy. Blade stared at him through the mask, both of them confused to see each other.

Immediately the ice sword tip went back in its sheath. "I'm sorry Joe, you surprised me and my automatic reaction is to pull out my sword, I thought I was under attack," Blade apologized.

"Nah man, no big deal," Joe replied, putting his own weapon away. "I can see how one would be freaked out when they randomly hear 'UMBRELLAS'."

Blade nodded, and even though Joe couldn't see because of his mask, he was smiling a little. He was generally a shy guy, but once he knew someone, his friendlier side would shine through. Blade and Joe were pretty good  bros, since they both spent time with Heather and other Knights. But it had been a good few days that they hadn't seen each other, Blade being busy with his swordsmanship skills, and Joe going on missions and helping Lady Dettsu fix a few broken furniture pieces.

"So... what's up?" Joe then asked.

The other young man shrugged. "Not all too much. I'm supposed to meet in HQ, I'm going on a mission with Neverthrive and Caleb."

"Awesome. When do you have to report for the mission?"

"Mhm, probably an hour from now."

Joe grinned. "Wanna grab some lunch?"

"Yeah, sounds good. A meal before a mission is always nice." The two Knights headed towards the door. Blade turned to Joe, "If you're looking for Heather, she's near the lake in her forest. You thinking what I'm thinking?"

Joe grinned. "We go sneak up on Heather and scare her together?"

"I was gonna say we go say hi."

"We can say 'hi' while sneaking up behind her and jumping out from the bushes."

Blade shrugged. "You know, that actually sounds awesome, bro."

"Yeah bro."

~X~X~X~

Miss Unknown jogged through the forest pathway, humming a tune she heard Daemon play on his violin once in order to calm herself. The young woman was on her way back from Vampire Town, and since it was in fact the day time, the vampire market wasn't very crowded.

If a stranger were to glance at this scene, they'd see a short young woman with small glasses, curled brown hair with dyed blue tips, holding a paper grocery bag. The stranger would probably shrug, and think that whatever this girl was carrying was probably groceries, and she was innocently going about her day. They'd also figure that the reason she was jogging was because she probably bought ice cream and it was melting.

But what Ana Unknown had in her paper bag was NOT groceries or ice cream. Although, there was a bag of pretzels in her purse, because she knew CantZ and Heather loved Vampire Town's pretzels. She wasn't running simply because it was good for her health, but because she had to hurry home! But what was in the bag?

Blood.

Yes, blood.

Yes, blood that Unknown had picked up from Vampire Town.

Yes, Vampire Town sells blood. Granted it's not cheap, but they sell it.

And why in the name of glob, would Unknown be walking home with a bag filled of tubs of blood? Well, get ready for flashback time.

Earlier that morning

Ana was innocently getting herself a bowl of cereal. She had been reading but finally decided to take a break and get something to eat. Honestly, sometimes she'd go all day without reading if the task she was doing was demanding enough. Fortunately, her book was getting a little slow, and she had the sense to eat before she got lightheaded.

She hummed a tune as she poured herself milk and sat down, starting to munch on her cereal. Unknown had only gotten three bites when company came into the kitchen. "Oh, hi Neverthrive," Ana greeted pleasantly. Her glasses were off and the image was a little blurry, but she recognized NT by his stature and walk. She figured she might as well put back on her glasses, so she did.

"Hey," Neverthive answered quickly. He seemed to be in some kind of hurry by the way he paced back and forth.

That was when Unknown noticed something red on his hands and forearms. "Oh, you must be painting," she laughed.

"Nope."

"Then what's that red stuff?"

"Blood."

Pfffftttt!!!

Unknown spit out her cereal when she heard her friend's casual reply. "WHAT?" she asked in shock. If that was blood, it was completely gushed over Neverthrive! She immediately got out of her seat! "Hey, are you alright, what happened?!"

Neverthrive wiped himself off with a paper towel. "Well, me, Blade, and Caleb just got done from a mission. On our way back we ran into some grass ogres. They tried to rob us, thought our weapons were cool, something like that. So they attacked us and we fought them. And we just got a little torn up, that's all." He threw the bloody paper towel away in the trash. "So yeah, that's all really."

Unknown couldn't understand how calm he was, but then again, we was Neverthrive. "Are Caleb and Blade bleeding as bad as you are?" she asked in concern.

"So-so."

"Well, this isn't good! You three have lost a lot of blood!" Ana shrieked. An idea popped into her head, because she was known to come up with ideas in desperate times. "I'll go to Vampire Town and get more blood! We should have a storage of blood anyway, because I'm sure there will be a time when a battle gets too brutal and we'll need a supply!"

Neverthrive was going to tell her that it wasn't necessary, at least not now, but the young and determined woman was already out the door. So, the Knight was left alone in the kitchen. He sighed and ran a hand through his long brunette hair. "Okay guys, she's gone," he then said.

Caleb and Blade walked into the kitchen. "Wow, if she freaked out seeing just you, she would've gone bonkers seeing all three," Caleb said. "My wounds are already starting to heal."

"Her intentions are good," Blade added. "But paper towels are all we need."

Neverthrive handed the two the whole roll of towels. They looked down and saw blood was all over the kitchen floor. "Maybe a mop as well," Caleb commented dryly.

~Present~

By now, Unknown was too tired to run and hum at the same time. All she could think was, 'I've gotta hurry!' as she paced through the forest. She felt silly because she didn't ask what blood types the three were. Plus, Caleb was a goblin. Did goblins have special blood? Ugh! So with Ana in panic-worry-freak-out mode, she bought all the blood types the vampires had. Which was why her bag was so heavy and her arms felt like noodles.

She started to hear a tune, and she was confused. "I've stopped humming," she said to herself. Unknown then saw the young man that was relaxing under a shady tree. Daemon. He was completely in the tree's shadow, playing his violin and keeping to himself, as always. But he must have noticed her when she noticed him, because red eyes stared straight at her.

As much as she wanted to talk to him, she couldn't. Neverthrive, Caleb, and Blade Guy were hurt!

Daemon obviously wanted to talk to her, however. Using his cunning speed, he was beside her, but still blocked from the sun rays because of the forest's shade. The demon slayer wasn't known to talk all too much, but he made the exception for the young woman.
Actually, he probably talked to her most. "And what, exactly, are you doing?" he asked in a suspicious tone.

"Can't-- talk-- gotta-- run!" He was a little amused by how determined she was to keep running. Without a word, the demon slayer reached over and took her bag from her. "Hey!" Unknown yelled. She would be telling the truth if she said her arms felt a hundred times better.

He reached into the bag. "Blood?" Daemon asked. He wasn't expecting to pull a tub of B+ blood out of the bag. "Just what exactly are you up to?"

Ana couldn't help it, she had to catch her breath. The young woman hunched over and panted for a moment. "I'm- huh-huh- trying to- huh-huh- save Neverthrive!"

Daemon was pretty good at deducing, especially with Unknown's antics. "Are you talking about the fight NT, Caleb, and Blade Guy got into?" he asked.

"Yes!" she exclaimed. "They were severely wounded!"

"No. They're fine. See? They're in the front yard drinking cherry limeade." Daemon then pointed to the front yard, where low-and-behold Neverthrive, Caleb, and Blade Guy were
drinking cherry limeade.

Unknown released a heavy sigh. "I don't get it! NT was bleeding badly!"

The demon slayer watched as the short young woman kept huffing and puffing. She really lost her breath, didn't she? "Go re-hydrate and drink some limeade," he ordered.

"But--"

"Nope. Go."

"The blood?"

"I'll take care of it. This should be in the basement storage. And kept away from Havok." Daemon gave Unknown a little push. "Go on."

"Don't push me," she huffed. "And I don't want cherry limeade." He narrowed his red eyes at her. "Fine," Unknown growled. "This is what I get for trying to help out." She continued her little rant (of course, who could blame her, she nearly had heat exhaustion) and Daemon followed her as she walked home. He didn't have to follow her, but the demon slayer wanted to make sure she wouldn't do anything funny.

Across way, in the front yard...

"Unknown is on her way back," Blade said. "We had just enough time to get ourselves patched up." He took a sip of limeade. "We should thank her for her heroic act, even if it wasn't needed."

"Yup," Neverthrive agreed. "Well gents, I'm gonna relax and play some video games.  He got up to leave.

But before he was through the door, Caleb remarked, "We need to replace the mop before someone notices it's gone."

The two nodded. "Agreed."

~X~X~X~

CantZ was known to walk. Well, that wasn't the best term for what he did. CantZ was known to wander. He was like the shadows, he'd move in and out, silent as night. He kept to himself. He was the loner. But slowly, with the help of the other Knights, he was coming out of his shell. There was no doubt he had skeletons in his closet, but that didn't stop the others from becoming his friend.

He walked around Ooo, a good few miles from the Knight's headquarters. CantZ's footsteps were silent, not even the grass crunched. The wild birds and squirrels didn't run away from him, they accepted him into their nature-kingdom. He was like an observer, always watching. He didn't know where he would go and what he would do next, but he was content in the moment to watch the birds make nests by gathering twigs from the ground.

Everything was peaceful.

And then...

"HEY CANTZ! LOOK UP! SEE? I'M FLYYYYYYYING!" shrieked a high-pitched happy voice. He turned his head up and saw Luna flying around above him, quite a ways above his head. The young ninja had a huge grin on her face and she waved excitedly.

"Hello, Luna," CantZ called up. "Having fun flying?"

"You bet your tuna!" she laughed. "I'm practicing air-combat-battle! Which is basically fighting- IN THE AIR! Ah yeah! What are you doing down there?"

"Staying on the ground," he answered simply.

Luna laughed. "Well duh! Hey, check it out, I've been practicing this trick!"

"Are you sure you want to be flipping and turning in the air with a katana sword in your hands, unsheathed? There's a lot that can go wrong," CantZ pointed out. He didn't want his little friend accidentally slashing herself. Although Luna claims she'd have 'an awesome battle scar', the older Knight didn't want to see her hurt herself.

Luckily the little kid listened to him and sheathed her katana blade. "Catch?" she asked.

He held his arms out. "Drop it." The sword fell into his arms and he caught it with ease.
"Alright, now show me," CantZ said, satisfied with the safety.

In the air, Luna started to fly around in circles. It almost looked like she was chasing her tail, you know, if she had one. She flew faster and faster, and then, she flipped backwards, successfully back-flipping. CantZ wasn't sure what her full trick was, but he saw an error coming. Luna was going to fly into a tree! She accidentally propelled herself with too much speed, and she was off! He ran through the forest, keeping pace with her! "WAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Luna cried, whether it was in terror or in excitement.

Crash!

The young ninja then crash landed... on CantZ. However, because her body was unusually tiny and thin, her crash landing into someone as well-built and tall like CantZ wasn't that big of a deal. He didn't even fall over. He simply held the girl upside down by her ankle. "Are you alright?"

"Wow, I've gotta work on my landing. This is the fifth time I've crashed this week," Luna said. "Wanna see the bruise I got last time?"

"Maybe later."

"Cool. Oh yeah, where are my manners? Thanks for saving me!" she laughed. "That's uber-awesome of you! You're not hurt or anything?"

"Nope," CantZ answered calmly. "You?"

"Nope!" Luna laughed. "Ha-ha! That was awesome! I'll have that trick down in no time!"

He nodded. "Don't push yourself, Luna. You have plenty of time to work on it."

"Yeah, you're right," she hummed. "A lot of time. I haven't aged. Did you know that? Ever since I came to Ooo, I've stayed frozen at ten. You know what that means?"

"You're going to go on a journey and find out the mystery of how you came to Ooo, your past, and why?" CantZ guessed.

Luna laughed. "Ha, no. That means I don't have to buy new clothes, the ones I've got will always fit."

CantZ couldn't help but smile, just a little. This little girl was turning out to be one of his good friends. "Would you like me to put you down?"

"Nah, being upside down is awesome. Let's see how long until my face turns red!" she exclaimed. "Oh, but wanna go back to HQ and make some banana-nut muffins?"

"You're banned from the kitchen, remember? The cake monster incident."

"Oh yeah. Well hey, you're an adult! Adult supervision! Pleeeeaaaassseee?"

CantZ nodded. "Okay."

"Yay!"

With that determined, the two Knights headed home, CantZ still holding Luna upside down. She was thinking about what would happen if owls got battle armor and dueled lizards in battle armor. CantZ was thinking that the kitchen could still be jeopardy.
IT IS DONE. HAHAHAHAHA! *does crazy dance* :boogie:

Okay, get ready for a loooonnnggg A/N.

1st story part- starring :iconhvk: and :iconthestinkyfoot:. I had to put those two together. They have such amazingly awesome chemistry. I hope I got Havok's character down right. I know he's random, and he's a whole lot of fun to read about, so it was a blast writing him! Plus, throw Stinky in the mix, and it's a party :D

2nd story part- starring :iconthe0ne1: and :icondeadeye95:, with mention of :iconhnrat:. Joe and Blade have to be bros. There's no way they can't be. Joe is Heather's best friend, and Blade is Heather's boyfriend! I can see the working mechanics ;p I hope I got the characters of them down! And, as I'm sure you can tell, I love rhyming 'Joe' with 'bro'. :dummy:

3rd story part- starring :iconana-the-unknown:, :iconsubjectsixteen:, :iconcaercutta:, :icondeadeye95:, and :iconchaos-neverthrive:. I will not lie. I had the most difficulty with this part. I had to do *drum roll* RESEARCH! And ask about the characters XD But I think I got it down pretty alright :dummy: Caleb was a little hard, but I hope I did alright with his interactions. As far as Daemon, I know he's not the type to talk all too much, but I figured he'd be concerned over Unknown's well-being, while still keeping his stoic demon slayer disposition. I hope it this one was okay!

4th story-- Was surprisingly easy. Lol I was happy to do a CantZ and Luna adventure. CantZ is awesome how calm he stays :D I hope to do more later on!

And if the first one turns out alright, I'll do a part two of more Knightly Moments! And continuations, too. Like, when Joe and Blade try to scare Heather, when Neverthrive plays his video game, when the Knights discover we have no mop, when Luna makes banana nut muffins! GASP!

Anyway, thanks everyone! :dummy:
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Wow. I am VERY happy with my guy. The social chameleon does not make waves, he simply remains available. You've motivated me Luna. Time to get off my do-nothin stool and contribute! Also I hope someone draws some shiny-haired soon :)