A knight

Everything is not what it seems in the surface,

once you take your time, they are bound to reveal their faces.

274 AD

The next day.

In a small backyard, four kids were playing with a wooden sword as they sparred against each other.

"So when will your Uncle's present come?"

"It's still early in the morning, maybe it will come in the afternoon"

As Dean and Lark talked about what kind of gift will arrived, while they sparred against each other. thok~

"Ahh come on!!"

"Heh that's your third loss for the day"

"tsk"

Dean made an over hand strike but had his hand kicked in the sword's hilt, that made him loosened his grip, and had his sword fall off his hand, seeing this opportunity Lark lightly hit Dean's bald head.

"That's cheating"

"Ahh shut up loser"

"Huh!? why don't you spar with Lark then, Leric?!"

"Too bad, I'm not an idiot like you, who kept fighting a predicted fight"

"What do you mean predicted!? I had a chance with that overhand strike just now you know?!?"

Leric shrugged his shoulders, which made Dean mad.

"Alright, That's enough brother"

"Thank you Meric, Leric you should learn from your bro-"

"Can't you see Dean's head is turning red hehehe"

But before Dean could finish what he was suppose to say, he was betrayed by what Meric said next, making the bald headsd kid turned mors red.

""hehehe"

"These two!!"

"Ohh Meric you should stop, you're going to make Dean cry"

"Wait guys, do you smell that?"

While the three were fighting Lark smelled something burning, he turned his head over to the smell and saw a lot of smokes rising out from the houses.

"A fire?"

"Hey Lucas and Dean isn't your houses over there?"

As the smoke began to spread, the sound of hooves and a man in an armor mounted in a yellow armored horse came out of the smoke.

"Hey! isn't that a knight?"

"Yeah what are they doing here?"

The four kids began to stare at knight with awe and admiration.

Taking a closer look, they saw the sign of a jaguar on the breast plate of the knight.

"Isn't the Jaguar's job to Capture most wanted criminals?"

"Yeah"

"The question is, is there one?"

"Maybe there's a 5-star criminal here, who burned down the houses"

"Yeah we should go there right now!?

As the twins became excited, they began to happily run after the knight, who was charging right at them.

"Come on Lucas isn't knights your Ido-bleurgh"

Leric who turned back and was suppose to say somethin, had the back of his head pierced by a sword and the tip of the blade came out of his mouth, his eyes rolled back and his mouth hanging as the blood ran through the tip of his tongue. thud~ Leric's body fell.

"BROTHE-argh"

Meric who was a meter away from his brother tried to reach out for his brother, but his head was soon stepped on by the heavy armored horse's hooves, as it kept charging at the remaining two kids.

splat~

As Lark and Dean looked at the scene of carnage and the death of their two friends who was only five years old.

Lark looked at the man riding on top of his mount and there he saw the eyes of the knight within the helmet, and only one word came out of his mouth.

"Cold"

The knight was looking at them as if they were not humans.

Seeing such eyes, Lark's body froze as his mind began to turn blurry, am I going to die?

Remembered a familiar experience he once had two days ago.

As the knight kept getting closer to them, Lark was still there standing blankly.

He looked at his side only to see his remaining only friend running away, his so called friend who was always beside him when they picked a fight at the other group of kids in the nearby village, was now running away, the very same friend who told him that they would become knights together and fight the evil of the world... was gone like that.

"Once one is exposed to danger, only then will they show one's true face"

As the voice behind snapped him out, Lark looked at his back to see that the knight charging at him stopped.

Seeing this, Lark took a step back, his legs began to shake seeing the blood on the knights sword and mount.

"Aaaaaaah!!"

But as he began to recall at what the knight did to his friends, he gritted his teeth and charged at the man in the armor.

"So your his child huh? What tenacity"

The knight wielded his sword one handed and did an overhand strike as it came down fast to the charging child, the blade of his sword glimmered under the broad daylight.

"huut"

Neigh~

Lark ducked down managing to dodge the sword of the knight who was towering him with his mount, and like a frog Lark jumped up and stab the horse's expose eyes with his pointing finger.

Neigh~

The horse cried as it began to stand and kicked it's front legs, the knight that was holding the rein down fell after he was off balanced from his early strike and the sudden outburst of his horse.

"Argh!"

Seeing this oppurtinity, Lark began to run in the direction of his house to check up his parents.