Chapter 47: The Headless Knights
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" shouted Scumfever. "I WILL KILL YOU IF IT'S THE LAST FUCKING THING I DO!"
Joel's lips curled into a smile, but he remained silent. Scumfever retrieved his sword from the ground, and was about to rush to his death, but Luigitoilet put his hand on Scum's shoulder and whispered, "It's not worth it. We need you, Scum."
Scumfever stabbed his sword down into the earth, and stood back up. He was breathing heavily, and he stared at Joel with murder in his eyes.
Amorasaki walked forward and said, "Now, you will all be taken to the Queen, and the banhammer will be the end of you." Every man and woman in all of Smashboards knew of the banhamer. It was a gruesome method of execution that held the victim's head in place and swung a giant hammer down upon them, crushing their skull. Rumor had it that the Queen had used this banhammer to eliminate the past king of Smashboards and gain power for herself.
Luigitoilet was thinking furiously about a possible way to get out of the situation. After a few seconds, he said, "Amorasaki, I challenge you to single combat!"
Amorasaki scoffed at that, and said, "You fool, you cannot hope to defeat me, even if it was you and all of your rebels against me."
"Well if I truly do not stand a chance, then fight me," Luigitoilet replied levelly.
"I would much rather witness your skull smashed in with the banhammer than spitted on the end of my lance."
"You should kill me now while you have a chance. You never know what could happen between now and the Queen's palace," said Luigitoilet.
"Idiot. Fine, I will kill you quickly. Right here. If anyone interferes, they will be killed as well."
Joel said, "Sir, do you think this is a good idea? What f he wins?"
Amorasaki whirled around angrily and threw his cape at him. "Shut up Joel. You are merely a spy. You don't even serve a purpose anymore. You are not my adviser. I will not die, and even if I did, the Queen will reign supreme in the end. I, you, everyone here is just her pawn. This is a game to her. A game at which she cannot lose."
A few minutes later, a ring of men stood around the area where Amorasaki and Luigitoilet would do battle. The rebels stood on one side, gripping their weapons in anticipation. The Black Guard stood on the other side, grinning at what they were sure would be a bloodbath.
Smooooooom was worried for Luigitoilet, and he crept away from the battlefield so he did not have to watch. Then he thought of something, and ran into a nearby house.
Moments later, the fight was about to begin. Luigitoilet stood on the side near the rebels, and Amorasaki stood by his Black Guard, smiling.
A Black Guard member gave a signal, and the fight was on. Amorasaki gripped his lance with two hands, with his knees bent, lance tip pointed towards his opponent's throat. Luigitoilet got into a similar stance, and he took a step or two forward. At this point, the two warriors had about five yards between them.
Smoooooooom peered over the edge of the roof he was perched on. He started his incantation, and it took him quite a while to finish it. Luckily, neither warrior had made a move to attack yet. Smoooooooom had conjured a large, glaring replica of Queen Killjoy's face. He put the face in the air, behind the rebels, so that only the Black Guard and Amorasaki could see it. He knew how the Queen looked because he had been placed in her dungeons once before. He had also seen the Queen use this same principle as a method of communication between her and her subjects.
The Black Guard looked up in horror at the face. Amorasaki saw it, too, and was startled when he realized what it was. Luigitoilet saw Amorasaki's eyes look up into the sky behind him, and took the opportunity to attack. He had spotted a weak point, a literal chink in Amorasaki's armor. It was located by the base of his abdomen, and Amorasaki's lance had been in the way of Luigitoilet's sword and the weak point.
Luigitoilet ran forward a few steps, and stabbed up into the weak point. Amorasaki was fixated on the face, and could not regain his composure in time to block the blow. Instead, he made a gargling noise as blood gushed from his side. Luigitoilet then ripped the general's helmet off, and his him in the jaw twice. He then decapitated him with one slice, and raised his sword in victory.
The Black Guard finally realized what had happened, and they began to run from the rebels, and the Queen's face. The rebels, led by Scum and Toilet, charged with a new kind of ferocity. They cut down the men quickly and easily, and soon they outnumbered the Black Guard.
The last few of the Queen's men turned towards their pursuers and stood in a tight semicircle. A few rebels could not stop in time, and ended up skewering themselves on the weapons of the men they had been chasing. Scumfever plowed through the men, because behind them stood Joel. When the spy spotted Scumfever, he sprinted away.
He was fast, but Scum wanted blood and was filled with adrenaline. He soon overtook the traitor, and ripped the spear from his hands. He then stabbed up into Joel's neck, and bashed his face, while still anchored to the end of the spear, against his knee. He then pushed the limp body off of the end of the spear with his boot, and then chopped Joel's head off as well. By the time he arrived back where the rest of the fighting had taken place, all of the remaining Black Guard that had been with Amorasaki were dead.
Scumfever put the bodies of Joel and Amorasaki onto Amorasaki's horse and slapped its butt so it would run away, carrying the bodies of the general and the traitor away as a message to the rest of the Black Guard occupying the city.
Smoooooooom slipped back silently to where the rebels were, and he slept well, knowing that he had saved numerous lives that day.
Although he thought about sometimes, he never did tell anyone what he had done.