Closed A knight to the rescue! (Garland)

[Morgan]

The place where Garland was still fighting those brutes was fast approaching and the Kelvic could just about make out various sounds coming from the direction. Morgan dreaded what she might find there. The Squire was always so nice to her. Nobody was like that. Well, almost, if she counted her past adventures, mainly this season. She had to think about those people too.

When she came out of the trees, she once again emerged just on the endge of the path that they had been ambushed. She skidded to a halt and looked around. With horror, she saw the bandits beating up Garland several feet further on the path. They didn’t seem to notice the small figure, because both bandits had her back turned to her and they seemed quite busy, so Morgan stepped back slowly and crouched down, so that her body was obscured by a strong tree trunk and shadows. Garland’s bruised face looked terrible, but the Squire was alive and that was what mattered.

Soon after, the woman caught up to her. She didn’t waste any time, ran past Morgan and immediately rushed to attack one of the bandits. Morgan was amazed how quick she was, but she managed to only scratch the bandit on his arm or more precisely his clothes. Then one of the men took hold of Garland and put his dagger under the Squire’s neck.

Morgan felt helpless. She watched as the woman stopped too. ‘What do they want?’ She thought desperately. If this was any other person, she would be long gone, but she felt that she owed Garland something. He was nice to her, her friend and he never hesitated to help her.

With this thought in mind, she hastily began taking off her clothes, still hidden behind the tree.

When she was done, she shifted and hopped up on the tree that she had been hiding behind and started carefully climbing through the tree to reach a branch of the neighbouring tree, hopping on it and like that she continued, almost falling a few times, until she was perched on a branch directly above the head of the bandit who was holding Garland. Nobody seemed to notice anything. Hopefully. Maybe they thought a bird was in the treetop, rustling the leaves. Morgan was feeling a little wobbly, because the branch was swaying slightly, but she held on.

She stopped a moment to think, her heart beating fast. Was this a good idea? Well, it was the best she had at the moment. The woman was helpless against those two. If she moved, the bandits would kill the Squire.

Morgan waited several more moments, willing the branch to be a little steadier and then she jumped.

[Garland]

The bandit let go of Garland, and shook violently, trying to remove the furry creature on his head. The man took Morgan by the scruff of her neck and threw her off to the side and hit a large tree.

Garland stumbled forward, and used his sword to keep himself from falling over. He pushed himself up and with the last bit of his strength, Garland pushed himself forward, headbutting the bandit, making him recoil back into a tree.

But with that last ditch effort to hurt his assailants, he had used up all the strength he had left and he dropped down to the ground, unconscious for a few hours.

Catherine saw this and pushed the other bandit off and then she bolted to the one that was Garland knocked into a tree. She quickly impaled the man with her sword, and embedded her sword deep into the trunk of the tree. She didn't have time to pull it out.

The man gurgled and reached out, in a desperate attempt to push the knight and sword off of him. Blood dripped down from his mouth and the wound from his stomach, it was a slow, painful death, he was just unlucky that was where was stabbed.

The other bandit recovered and threw a quick slash with his own short sword against Catherine.

Catherine didn't have time to pull out her sword to block the attack, instead she dropped down to the ground next to Garland and grabbed his sword he dropped to the ground. It was much heavier than what she was use to but she had to manage.

With that she pushed herself up and attacked the assassin with a quick thrust of Garland's blade, the man dodged the attack and went in for a killing blow, Catherine gave a small smirk and with speed that would surprise even a hardened fighter, she got out of the way of the blade which was aimed at her face.

With a swift kick to the man's gut, she raised up Garland's sword, and plunged it in the back of the man's neck. The man slumped down on the ground in a pool of his own blood, the other one was barely hanging on, but he was pretty much dead now as well.

Catherine went beside Garland and placed the sword into the boy's sheath. She then went to the dead man that was stuck to the tree and pulled out her own sword and sheathed it as well.

She dragged Garland to a tree and propped him up. She looked around for the strange girl, it seemed that she vanished. Catherine didn't see where she had gone and she also didn't see the red panda that helped in Garland's escape.