Right where we left off

"Sir Blake, whatever is going on? Why is Sir Lutwig fighting...Sir Lutwig?" Risabeel looked at Blake for an answer if it weren't for the difference in clothing she would have lost track of the real one by now.

"Didn't think something like that could get that far," Blake muttered looking at Greenbit. "Got some weird choice of members there, Mr. White."

"Sadly, her Ladyship Angelica is the one who decides on such things," Wiess admitted, bowing in apologize to Blake. "And you are currently looking at a match with the first and favorite of her knights."

"Seriously, that thing's her favorite?" Blake looked at Wiess with a raised brow with the white knight showing no sign of joking around. "Heh! Those Ovis just get weirder and weirder every time I learn something about 'em." He turned to Risabeel, still waiting for him to answer her. "That thing fighting Lu has a pretty fitting name it's a Mimic."

Shapeshifting Monster, Mimic: Often the end of a young and unprepared adventurer's life, Mimics take on the appearance of various objects, mainly an inviting chest. However, some are able to be as big as caves or houses. They lay in wait for days on end for someone to be fooled by their disguise only to be met with a gaping maw.

Items forged with this monster's Ore often have some kind of transformation ability for either itself or its user.

"Ah, so he is able to copy the appearance and abilities of others and make them his own." Risabeel wondered out loud, seeing Greenbit firing at Lu.

"Huh? Sound like someone I know right, leader?" Mordecai joked, poking Blake in the arm.

"What? The mage's more like that thing me!" Blake yelled at the thief, pushing him out his face.

"What?!" Now it was Nathan's turn to do the yelling, jabbing a finger at Blake. "If I do not recall, but every time you hold one of your items, you gain a trait from them! Unlike my magic, which does nothing to myself! If you wanted a good example, you could've picked your sister's slimeball! Hmph!" He thoroughly corrected Blake before turning away. "Hmm? What are you smiling at idiotic knight?" He asked, seeing Gwyn with a small smirk on her face.

"Nothing..." Gwyn answered, turning away from the mage and back to the fight at hand but kept her smile.

"Hmph, surrounded by fools," Nathan muttered under his breath doing the same as the black knight.

"..." Unbeknownst to them, a certain redhead was watching the two trying to guess what was up with them but soon got his eyes back on the fight as well.

"Kukuku! Come on! Show me something new! Or are you afraid I might do better!?" Greenbit taunted Lu on trying to bait him into showing off more of his arsenal. "I'm Green With Gluttony at the moment!" He added, licking 'his' face with his twin tongues.

"Lu? Whatever that slurping noise is I don't wanna know about it." Rena whimpered with small puffs of Fairy Dust poofing out of Lu's quiver.

"I won't." Lu reached around to pull out an arrow with a large bud at the end. "Been a while since we said this one." He took aim at Greenbit and let his arrow fly.

"Ooooh! Finally! What's this one taste like?" Greenbit batted it up towards with his arm bow then watched Lu's pull on his bowstring. "Huh?" Looking back at the arrow, he watched the bud pop opened, and thorns rained down on him. "Ngh!" Dozens of needlelike thorns dotted his body from head to toes, 'his' face took the most of it, losing an eye and an ear. "Now look on you did to this pretty face!" He snapped his head back down, bleeding from the holes put in him.

"Looks like the Ambush Thorns didn't work then next up should be..." Lu went for another arrow when Greenbit shot at him. "Huh?" Vines grew out of the arrow and lashed out at him.

"Snare Vine Shot!" Greenbit hissed, copying Lu's arrow, pushing the thorns out of his face by regrowing it and ate some of them while he was at it. "Chewy!"

"Huh, feels like I'm back in training." Lu took out his dagger and slashed at the vine then quickly drew an arrow to fire. "Pollen Shot!" Once it got close to Greenbit with a pull of his bowstring, a cloud of pollen surrounded the green knight.

"It's hard to eat du-AGGGHHH!" Greenbit roared when an Iron Thorn Shot ripped through his arm bow taking most of it off then another put a hole through his side when he made a move to get out of the pollen cloud. "Wait!? That sound!?" Using the ears, he got from Lu he heard the Elf making a move on him. "There you are!" He whipped his arm at where Lu's footsteps were with his arm stretching out and gaining green skin and feathers.

"!" Lu backflipped over it with his smokescreen getting blown away by Greenbit's stretched bird arm.

"Kukuku! Here's one of yours!" Greenbit smirked as buds appeared along his arm that popped open the moment Lu landed.

"Rena! Wood Gaurd!" Lu took off his short cape and waved it in front of himself as the thorns shot at him.

"On it!" Rena popped of the quiver to blow Fairy Dust on Lu's cape turning it into a study wooden shield used to block the shower of thorns. "Hah! Try copying that!" She challenged Greenbit, waving a fist at him from behind the wooden shield.

"As long as it tastes good!" Green rushed at Lu, turning his stretched out arm back to normal while regrowing his arm bow. "But never had a Fairy before!" He struck the shield with his arm bow chipping pieces off it then stretched his head up to Rena. "Just a little nibble!"

"LUUUU!" Rena screamed in Greenbit's face and zipped into Lu's quiver.

"Back off!" Lu pushed the green knight back as his shield turned back to a cape but tore up. "HA!" Then he smacked Greenbit away with a swift strike of his bow to the knight's outstretched neck.

"Ugh!" Greenbit choked, bringing his head back in. "You hit harder than I thought." He smirked back at the Elf.

"..." Lu stared at Greenbit's smirking face so far the knight was able to copy his body, moves, and even his sense of hearing on top of having his own strange transformations. "Hey, Rena? What were you going to do to punish me before?"

"Huh?" A puff of Fairy Dust in the shape of a question mark appeared when Lu asked that. "Ugh? I was just going to hit you with the old...!" Rena trailed off with an exclamation mark coming up now. "...Let's do it!"

"Just tell me when it's ready." Lu nodded, pulling out a few regular arrows before jumping up to a rooftop. "Come and get me!" He teased, firing down at Greenbit.

"Here, I come!" Greenbit dodged the arrows fired at him as he made his way up to Lu.

"Time to move!" Lu flipped over the green knight, tagging him with two arrows on his down one to the right leg and another went to the left shoulder.

"Ngh! Get back here!" Greenbit whipped his right arm at Lu, catching him by his feet and held him upside down. "I got youuUUUUU!" He screamed when Lu stabbed his arm with that damn dagger, forcing him to let go and brought his arm back in. "Grrr! Let's see how you like it from down there!" He ripped off a mass of arrows from his back and rained them down on Lu.

"Rena, I running out of ideas here." Lu was either dodging and deflecting the arrows, getting denied any way of getting out of Greenbit's range.

"Well, I'm done!" Rena popped out to smack Lu on his cheek with a tiny fist. "Eep!" Only for an arrow to zoom by her face. "Hey! We're trying to plan your defeat over here!"

"Oh? I was doing the same thing!" Greenbit shot her a toothy grin as he pulled on his bowstring, causing all of his missed arrows to sprout vines that went after Lu from all directions suddenly.

"Dammit!" Before Lu could even think about trying to get away, he was already tangled up then held off the ground by his arms and legs.

"Now for the spice!" Greenbit leaped off the rooftop, flipping, and spinning in the air until he came down on Lu with his knees digging to the Elf and drove him into the ground with a sickly crunch sound. "Now come here!" The green knight reached to pull at Lu's hair.

"Ugka!" Lu groaned, getting his stomach and back crushed between Greenbit and the hard ground under him.

"Oh? Come now!" Greenbit forced Lu to look him in the face as spit dipped down on the Elf's face from his tongues after they did a lap tasting him. "Where's that big plan you had for me, huh? Kukuk!" He laughed in Lu's face, inching it closer and closer to his jaws. "Just gonna have a little nibble here."

"Then try this!" Rena tossed a small pearly white star-shaped berry into the knight's mouth. "Enjoy!"

"!" The moment Greenbit snapped his mouth shut, he froze up and reached his hands to his neck. "KaUGh!" And started trying to either throw something up or stop it from going down. "Wha! What was th-!?!" He rolled away from Lu with his eyes going bloodshot.

"It's called a night-sun, it grows from the Great Tree in Naworth..." Lu started to explain now freed from the vines as Greenbit couldn't keep them under his control. "...it usually ripens once a year at night filling the dark with lights as bright as the sun...ugh...because of how rare they are it's a custom to give one as a gift to your lover..." He took a glance at Rena, sitting on his shoulder with her head in her hands.

"Why the he-oghh! Would you give anyone this thing?!" Greenbit was now curled into a ball banging a fist against the ground trying to fight the pain off.

"Oh? I wouldn't know...I'm deathly allergic to them even troching one is bad...but I heard they taste good..." Lu answered, picking his bow up as he made his way to his look alike. "...I guess looking like me and having all of my good points also gave you my bad ones." He held his bow up high, ready to put the poor knight out his pain.

"But I've got good points tooooo!" Greenbit rose up into Lu's face, but the face that snarled at the Elf wasn't his but that of a green cobra. "URKA!" Which spit in his face covering it in a sappy clear liquid. "Enjoy!"

"LU!" Rena screamed, watching Lu back up with eyes watering and snatching at his face. "Quick you ha-! Hey, let go!" She tried reaching out to him, but Greenbit caught her.

"Kuku! Now for that nibble!" Greenbit chuckled about to lick her. "Aggggh!" But an arrow shot off one of his tongues. "YYYYYOOOOUUU!" Whipping his head around Greenbit found Lu panting uncontrollably and bearly hanging on as he feels to his knees. "You almost had me, but sorry! All I had to do was switch things up." His face morphed from a snake to a wrinkled face with those sunken eyes he usually has. "And then use what I eat to help me!"

"Wait, the night-star!" Rena gasped, watching Lu's face break out into hives.

"But I'll show you something even better!" Greenbit pulled his right arm back and threw a punch as he swung his arm; it started growing and growing until his fist was bigger than Lu was. "The Gaint's Arm!"

"!" Lu tried bracing himself for the impact with his bow, but it got snapped like a twig under the force of the massive fist which rammed into him. "AAAAH!" Immediately taking him off his feet and like a boulder flung from a catapult, he was sent flying through the air until he was embedded into the side of a building. "Ugh!" Then fell forward to the ground unmoving.

"KUKUKUKU! ONE! ZERO!" Greenbit cackled up to the air as he brought his arm back to normal in a thumbs down, claiming the first match and win for the Rainbow Knights.

Chapter end