Castle Crashing

by Nordenfelt

Poor Unfortunate Tunes

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The four knights sat down around the camp fire, the timber head slowly burning. Each eating apples, after a while they ate most of the apples and they left the others for rations.

"Why not a song?" Orange suggested, throwing an apple core onto the fire.

"Fine, fine." The other three chanted back, doing the same.

"In the dark of the night I was tossing and turning!" Orange sang in a low but loud opera voice.

"And the nightmare I had was as bad as can be!" He stood up, raising his hands.

"It scared me out of my wits!" He chimed, with his hands flaming.

"A corpse falling to bits!" He chirped, raising his hands higher.

"Then I opened my eyes," he lent towards his three other knights.

"And the nightmare was...me!" He sang with a burning grin.

"I was once the most mystical man in all Russia!" He hummed with real hatred in his voice.

"When the royals betrayed me they mad a mistake!" The hatred whirred louder.

"My curse made each of them pay!" The fire in his eyes grew to blue.

"But a little bug got away!"

"Little Anya, beware, Orange's awake!"

The rest hummed nervously. "In the dark of the night evil will find her! In the dark of the night just before dawn! Aah..."

"Revenge will be sweet!" Orange sang louder.

"When the curse is complete!" They all sang, with the others still nervously singing along.

"In the dark of the night!" They sang again.

"She'll be gone!" Orange grinned evilly.

"I can feel that my powers are slowly returning!" His flames grew more.

"Tie my sash and a dash of cologne for that smell!" Making the flames of the fire spin around his neck.

"As the Pieces fall into place!" Throwing down circles of fire onto the ground.

"I'll see her crawl into place!" Making his fingers tip toe.

"Do run, Anya, Your Grace!"

"As I say farewell..."

"In the dark of the night terror will strike her!" Blue and Green sang as Red hummed.

"Terror's the least I can do!" Orange danced around the fire.

"In the dark of the night evil will brew. Ooh!" The others sang.

"Soon she will feel that her nightmares are real."

"In the dark of the night."

"She'll be through!"

"In the dark of the night," The others sang.

"Evil will find her," they hummed.

"Find her!" Blue hummed and the others sang.

"Ooh!" They all made the low sound.

"In the dark of the night terror comes true."

"Doom her!"

"My dear, here's a sign-"

"It's the end of the line!" The knights sang together, with Orange picking up the evilness of the song.

"In the dark of the night..." They all sang.

"In the dark of the night..."

"In the dark of the night..."

"Come my minions," pointing at the other knights.

"Rise for your master," making them rise from their seats.

"Let your evil shine!" As instructed, their eyes started to glow as of their name's sake.

"Find her now," he picked up his sword and pointed towards town.

"Yes, fly ever faster!" He said, spinning around and pointing the sword at them.

"In the dark of the night..." The others sang nervously.

"In the dark of the night..." Their sweat ran down the helmets.

"In the dark of the night.." They trembled as a naked man would in winter.

"She'll be mine!" He said, turning back to the town, dropping the sword and raising the fire from his hands. He then span back. "Another?"

"Okay," Blue said, shaking. "But not an evil one." Orange shot a fireball at him, knocking him down. The other's grasped.

"Don't worry gentlemen, it's a flare. Nothing special, just a little parlor trick from Russia." Orange hummed, as he, almost, danced to Blue; offering him a hand.

"Okay, fine; another song!" Blue said bitterly, taking the hand and rising back up.

"Okay; let's start this again." Orange grinned. "Shiver My Timbers, shiver My Soul! Yo Ho He Ho"

"There are men who's hearts as black as coal!" Blue sang, still bitter.

"And they sailed there ship across the ocean blue!" Red picked up on Orange's opera voice from the first song.

"A Blood thirsty captain and a cut throat crew!" Green sang, deep and low.

"Its a darker tale as was ever told!" Orange chirped.

"Of a lust for treasure and a love of gold..." Red hummed.

"Shiver My Timbers, Shiver my sides!" Green chanted.

"Yo ho he ho!" Blue sang bitterly.

"Out on the endless ocean!" Orange hummed.

"We tear along the gales!" Green chanted.

"With rum inside our bellies warm!" Blue sang, slightly merrier.

"And freedom in our sails!" Orange sang. He walked towards his fellow knights. "A wayward bunch of scoundrels," he nudged Blue. "Assassins," nudging Green. "thieves," tapping himself. "and slaves!" Poking Red. He danced back to where he had stood.

"The rich and blue bloods fear us when!" Blue sang, almost sounded like he was laughing.

"We hunt upon the waves!" Green chirped.

"And when you see it-" Orange was cut off by an ball of ice smashing him in the head.

"No need to worry gentlemen, it's just being knocked out cold just a little parlor trick from Scotland." He moved his shield to make a sort of bed. "Good night."

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