Part 1 can be seen here
Part 2 of my choose your own style story. You are a legendary magical knight in the kingdom of Noir. The rules are simple, read, through the story, at the end there will be three choices. Vote on which choice you would like to see. The choice that gets the most votes is the one the main character will do. This is meant to be an interactive story. With a POV as you are the main character. One vote per person. The story will change depending on your choices. I'm also open to any ideas, thoughts or suggestions.
3: Try to negotiate
Time was short and you knew that there were few good choices. Thinking about it, you realized that negotiation was probably the best option. Maybe you could rescue these people without a fight. If they refused fighting would be a last resort. Drawing in a deep breath, you closed your eyes for a moment. Mentally collecting yourself should the worst happen here. Opening your eyes you exhaled while stepping away from the trees at a steady pace.
Half a dozen eyes turned to you clearly surprised by your sudden appearance. Elves weren't used to someone being able to seemingly sneak up on them so easily. A moment later, half a dozen bows and arrows were drawn and all trained on you. The closer you got, the more you could tell that these were not bandits. All of them wore silver combat armor over clothes made of fine cloth. Their boots were leather along with their belts and wrist cuffs. The lead elf a taller, slightly older looking man stared directly at you. His eyes grew bigger for a moment and you could see his jaw tense slightly.
He recognizes me, good.
You thought to yourself. It seemed like your reputation preceded you. Outwardly he did appear calm. But the sudden stiffness in his body. the way his jaw clenched, eyes narrowed at you, it was clear that he was concerned.
“You,” the leader spoke directly to you in a firm voice, “you're the one. The nameless knight of Noir.”
You weren't sure if it was a question or a statement. Perhaps a bit of both. You stopped a good twenty feet away from them taking a moment to glance at each of them. Their eyes were trained on you trying to see through your mask. which obscured your identity completely. Your night black armor was meant to strike fear in the toughest of enemies even elves.
You simply nodded, not even bothering to respond to him. Each elf looked like they wanted to say something one of the younger ones in the group moved to step back slightly, almost in fear. He almost did before the female next to him nudged him to stop him from doing so. After a long moment, you decided to speak.
“I am the nameless knight of Noir and you are trespassing. I know not why you are here and neither do I care. Something like this is considered an act of war.”
“Our reasons for removing these people is none of your bu-” the elf commander began to say.
“I just said,” you cut him off while stepping forward all of them elves going tense while pointing their arrows at you. “That I don't care. Leave the politics to the royalty. All I ask is you leave in peace.”
Your hands had been at your sides this entire time, but finally, you moved your right-hand closer to the sword near your hip.
“If I must, I will remove you myself.”
The leader didn't say anything and neither did any of his men. There was a clear sheen of sweat forming his forehead as he breathed a bit heavily clearly debating with himself on what to do. After a moment he nodded.
“All right, everyone, lower your weapons.”
At first, no one complied instead all of the elves kept their arrows pointed at you.
“Lower your weapons!” he repeated.
A moment later each of them slowly lowered their weapons one by one. After a long moment of silence, he motioned them to step away.
“We will be back Knight.”
Watching them in silence they began to walk away from the villagers. Not bothering to look at them you walked toward the villagers who were already working on freeing themselves. The younger adults were trying to help the old ones up already. Reaching the nearest peasant a young woman who was covered in dirt you moved to remove your knife from your belt. She was struggling to remove the thick rope they had bound her wrists with.
“Hold still,”
Grabbing her wrists you began to cut away at the rope carefully. She was young, probably no older than seventeen or so.
“Thank you,” she said while looking at you.
Cutting away at the rope she studied you closely as if trying to glean something about you. You suddenly saw her eyes widen as she tried to say something to warn you. However, she didn't have to. Spinning around, your body crouched down, moving at incredible speed as an arrow flew past your left shoulders just missing you by a few inches. Your assailant was shocked, the young elf from before it seemed he had a change of mind. Or maybe it was fear.
Quickly with a swift, deft motion, he drew another arrow from the quiver on his back. Attempting to put it into his bow so he could make another shot at you. The chance never came. Moving faster than anyone could expect you were upon him in what seemed like an instant. Your left hand pushed the bow to the side while your right hand gripped his neck. Lifting him into the air the wind was taken out of the young male. A moment later his entire body was slammed onto the ground the force of the hit nearly causing him to pass out as he gasped loudly. Looking down at him you glanced up to see that the others weren't with him.
He decided to sneak back alone to handle me himself.
His head rolled to the side as his eyes closed for the moment. He had passed out. Letting him go you stood up while glancing back at the villagers. None of them appeared to be seriously injured. Most were helping the older ones back to their homes. You felt unsure of what to do.
His comrades will be coming back for him. And I'm sure they will think that I attacked him. I need to make sure they are safe.
You saw a few possible options.
1: Follow the invading elves and capture them.
2: Wait at the village and set a trap
3: Attempt to evacuate the village
That does it for part 2. Please reply with your choice of which option you would like. Any feedback, thoughts and such are welcome.
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