Elizabeth struggles to stand up, her legs wobbly and body shaking.

"Turn them both back to normal...And let Lady Y/N go!" The Holy knight huffs before taking the pole out from Y/N's chest, causing her to hack up blood, before smacking Elizabeth in the face, causing her to be pushed away from the two and collapsing onto the ground.

"Oh no, please, Elizabeth!" Hawk cries, staring at the motionless girl. He looks to Y/N "Do something, you lazy lady! Help her!" Y/N can only groan.

"Wait a minute, Ruin," The spider Holy Knight says, stepping towards them "Isn't killing the princess a bad idea?"

"Of course," Ruin says, straightening up "I am well aware of that. Princess Elizabeth, out of respect for your bravery I will tell you something. The source of the hypnotic suggestion that I placed them under, resides here on my staff" Ruin brings up his staff to show his Bell, only to see there is no bell "It's gone!" Elizabeth smiles before spitting out the bell that was attached to Ruin's staff.

"Y-You little bitch!" Ruin says, angrily "That's what you were after the whole time! How dare you!" Ruin begins to run forwards towards Elizabeth "Now you must pay for your insolence" He brings his fist down to Elizabeth, centimetres away from her face before his fist is stopped. He looks at the hand holding him to see Meliodas, not free from the hypnotic state he was placed under.

"Not a chance," Meliodas says, lifting Ruin's arm back up and causing finger dents in his armour "You're the one who's gonna pay now"

"The spell's been broken?" Ruin asks, pulling out of Meliodas's grasp. He stands back as he watched Meliodas place his hand on Elizabeth's cheek.

"Elizabeth," Meliodas says, holding Elizabeth's hand in his other as he strokes her cheek "You were so brave, not I see how far you go"

"Ignoring me?" Ruin asks before jumping forwards "He who strikes first, wins!" He swings his staff at Meliodas, knocking him back before Meliodas could touch the ground, Ruin appears above him and hits Meliodas into the ground with his staff, causing a large creator. 

"Meliodas!" Hawk shouts. Ruin grabs Meliodas by his face, laughing menacingly.

"Pathetic. The kingdom has been paranoid about a little whelp like this?" Ruin asks. Meliodas snaps his eyes open, before punching Ruin away leaving a large dust trail, just barely missing Elizabeth's body. Meliodas jumps forward after the Holy Knight.

"No! Ruin!" The spider Holy Knight says before hearing large footsteps behind her. She gasps as she turns around to see Diane, staring down at her in anger and cracking her knuckles. Y/N slowly opens her eyes, breathing unevenly as she sits up, groaning in pain. She rubs the back of her head before the stretch causing the pain in her chest to spread. She looks down at the bloodied shirt and hole, moaning.

"Seriously? This is gonna take ages to heal up now. Stupid Holy Knight" She stands up and takes off her jacket and lifts it to her face and looks through the bloody hole. She then sticks her finger through it and wiggles it "Man, Elizabeth just fixed this for me too" She gasps as she lowers the coat and looks to see Elizabeth, bruises, scraped and cut "P-Princess?" Y/N rushes forward and drops to her knees, looking Elizabeth up and down at her injuries "Damn Holy Knight, when I get my hands on him"

"So not your awake huh?" Hawk says, walking over to the two.

"Where's Meliodas and Diane?" Y/N asks, not bothering with what Hawk said.

"Diane is taking care of the weird spider Holy Knight while Meliodas deals with the bell guy" Hawk answers before shaking his head "Don't change the subject, why didn't you help Huh? I knew you were lazy but I didn't know you were that lazy that you couldn't help the people you love"

"You don't understand, porkchop. I tried to get up, I did. And with this" Y/N gestures down to her wound "I couldn't do much. Since I don't have my normal abilities, I go into a shock of some kind. A safety precaution my body has when reacting to danger and I can't heal fast enough" Y/N looks down at Elizabeth frowning "Believe me, If I had by damn abilities, then I would have stepped up and protected her"

"What do you mean you don't have your normal abilities?" Hawk ask "Where did they go?"

"My powers are locked away. I have no idea why but all I know is that they are in my sacred treasure, which I don't have so I can't get them back" Y/N looks at Hawk who's about to speak "And before you ask, no I don't know where it is. But you see my sacred weapon is a funny one. Shows up when I least expect it. Like it has a mind of its own.

"But that's impossible! How can a sacred weapon have a mind of its own?" Y/N shrugs.

"Don't ask me, ask the person who made it?" Y/N says. She looks down at the princess and frowns again, gently stroking her face.

All the while, Meliodas chases after the flying Ruin as he crashes into the wall at Baste Prison. The guards surrounding it look surprised.

"What was that?" A guard asks.

"I think that was a man flying in" Another answer. Ruin gets to his feet before Meliodas lands in front of him and punches him in the chin, sending Ruin back into the wall and causing more of a crack. The guards around the prison whisper among themselves as they watch the scene unfold.

"All right..."Ruin says, looking up at Meliodas. Rubble falls from above him ad dust flies everywhere "This is more like it. Wouldn't you agree, Dragon Sin Meliodas?" He asks, getting out of the crater he's created. Meliodas begins walking towards him as two of the guards watch him.

"What? Is that guy Captain of the Eight Deadly Sins?" The guard asks himself.

"If so, then where the hell is his second in command? She's gotta be around here somewhere" Another guard says, swiping his head around scared. Meliodas then punches Ruin in the stomach, breaking his armour and showing his built body.

"Impossible..." Ruin says, his body shaking "How could you of crushed my armour with just one blow?!" Ruin places his hands on his stomach, withering in pain "Well done indeed..." He suddenly lifts his arms into the air "Is that what you expected me to say you fool! This is nothing more than a thin outer shell!" Does ruin begin popping? his abs out, his arms flexed "My flesh is my true armour! Many times harder than steel! Now! What will-" Ruin is cut off by Meliodas elbowing his in this stomach, crushing his organs and such. Blood squirts out from the holes on his suit.

"I had no choice, cause you to hurt someone who means everything to me," Meliodas says, his brows furrowed and he pulls away from Ruin, who collapses onto the ground in a bloody mess "And that. Well that Sin was yours"

"A holy knight with one blow!" A guard says, staring at the crushed form of Ruin "Woah, it's true. He must be one of the Eight Deadly Sins!"

"Run!" Other shouts and all the guards do so.

Inside Baste Prison, Ban leans against the wall with the spike still sticking out of his chest. His hands are in his pockets as he stared at the Holy Knight in front of him with boredom.

"Would you like to know why it is you people were able to catch me, five years ago?" Ban asks, his voice strained "Way back in those days, I was in the market for some pain" He grins up at the Holy Knight "I wanted to wallow in suffering because I thought that might have made me feel I was alive" He explains, grabbing the spike that's lodged in his chest "But...I'm over that now" He says, pulling the pole out "Pain has become boring" The Holy knight gasps, stumbling back "If the Captain and Lieutenant's alive, that means all sorts of fun things are about to start happening. So there's no more reason for me to continue to rot in the boring dump of yours" He says, stabbing the sharp spike into the Holy Knight's chest. Deep enough to bleed, but not enough to kill.

"W-Wait, are you going to try to overthrow the kingdom as you did 10 years ago?" Jude asks, his voice straining with pain.

"Overthrow the kingdom?" Ban questions "I remember something about that"

"Try again, I dare you" Jude threatens, his red eye flickering "Every Holy Knight in the land will leap at the opportunity to engage in a war against you Sins," He says before blood squirts out of his mouth. Ban deeply chuckles.

"Sounds pretty nice~"

Back with the others, Diane stomps on the ground and leaves a crater.  She lifts her foot to reveal the Spider Holy Knight, whimpering in pain and her armour broken. Diane dusts her hands clean before looking over at Hawk, Elizabeth and Y/N. Elizabeth now has Y/N's coat over her, giving her a sense of warmth and comfort.

"I'm so sorry Elizabeth," Hawk says, tears in his eyes "If only I was strong like my mom," He says, sniffing. Elizabeth's eyes open slightly.

"Do not blame yourself, Hawk?" Y/N says, placing her hand on his head "If anything I am the one to blame, I should have tried harder" Diane begins walking over to the three.

"She's pretty messed up, we've gotta get her back to town," She says, kneeling to them.

"H-Hold on, would you please," Elizabeth says quietly "I want you to take me along with you...I wanna be there with you two, Sir Meliodas and Sir Ban"

"You can't do that" Hawk says "Not as this" Elizabeth smiles softly.

"The porkchop's right, princess," Y/N says, looking down at Elizabeth "Your far too injured to carry on with us right now"

"You know, I made a promise" She pauses shorty "That I would never stop fighting to protect the kingdom and its people"

"That's can't happen now, sorry to say," Diane says.

"Why not, lady Diane?" Elizabeth asks.

"It's  Baste Prison and the enemy is lined up there waiting for us now. You won't be able to do anything in the shape you are in" Elizabeth ponders for a moment before giving up.

"I suppose not. I admit, I don't have any great power" She says "I can't go sword to sword with a Holy Knight or handle myself in a battle, I know...But even so, I've made up my mind. To at least be there for Sir Meliodas and you all because I must keep my promise"

"You're not gonna cry?" Y/N says, looking down at Elizabeth with confusion.

"No" Elizabeth replies, reaching a hand to grab Y/N's.

"Then I think my backpack is the best idea," Diane says, taking the said backpack off of her back and opening it " But it'll be bumpy and it might affect your injuries in a bad way" She looks over at Elizabeth "You sure about this?"

"I am, Lady Diane" She replies, closing her eyes and nodding "Yes!" Behind, them the other shepherded try's to sneak away from them until Hawk turns around and sees him.

"Hey! You!" He shouts, causing the shepherded to widen his eyes at being cared-handed. He turns around only for Hawk to run over and skid in front of You're "Your a solider from Baste Prison right!?"

"No! That Holy Knight forced me to come here"

"But you know where they're holding the Sin and the doctor's daughter," Y/N says, stepping forward and cracking her knuckles "Now I don't wanna have to do this the hard way" She threatens making the shepherded bounce back in fear.

"Now wait! Those Holy Knight's mean business, if I tell you what I want then you have no idea what they could d-" cutofff by the fear from the sound of heavy footsteps behind him. Shaking in fear, he turns around and looks up at Diane who's holding the squashed spider, Holy Knight.

"Here's a question for you, would you rather have this done to you by the Holy Knights, or by us?" Diane asks a cheerful smile on her face as the Holy Knight in her grasp whimpers in pain. The shepherded eye twitches and he looks up at her in fear.

"Looks to me you only have one option. And I think you'll pick the right one" Y/N says, smirking.

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01/11/2020