(there is a drawing connected to it which in its process as making it, inspired me to write this) (ao3)
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Fright Knight slowly neared his King, who seemingly was ignorant of the happenings around her — or at least not perceiving his presence immediately at this very moment.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" he asked in a low, carefully inquiring voice, already knowing how she would reply: telling again the exact words that she had done several times already when he had doubted the reasonability of her plans.
Finally, it looked like her focus drifted back to reality. Her shoulders moved with a soft breath. "I will not call off the invasion if that's what you are implying, knight." She turned to him a little, voice like a snap.
If ever there was a chance to alter the enfolding happenings and lead them in another direction, then it was this moment. He could sense it, too. But it shattered.
The sharp tension in the air echoed across the entire realm for a while, like a dark cloud could have fallen over their reality — even the weaker beings could feel it. Beyond Fright Knight, though, they mistook it for the current delicate state when everything appeared to be a snap away from sinking into total chaos. But, in fact, it was already over. The moment to pull back everything to a prior setting (before her) passed. War was set.
An odd aura vibrated from her — fear — seeping through her best attempt to hide it. Yet it was palpable for him (for someone especially tangible whose main element was to detect such 'weaknesses').
There was a brief second — best described as dead quietness within them — then she vaguely glanced at him. Fright Knight summoned back the otherwise unallowed groping in her aura. This time, she did not make any comment about his unwished digging. Instead, she fixed her armour, ending her short-timed spacing out or mental preparation for the battle.
She then left behind everything that must have bothered her. Within a flash of light, that visibly fragile form shaped into the one that no one dared to cross: his King, the cursed tyrant.
Fright Knight eyed her, the change in her features as revenge took over her thinking and as every remnant hope to save her dissolved. She would fall, today, despite the marching army that served their monarch no matter what, following her orders without minding the consequences.
Stubbornness defined her always, leading her to see nothing else in her ruling but victory and scheduled annihilation over lands that yet refused to yield. Her decay was unavoidable, set in the gears of time, in a countdown, and the glint of her fear must have told her, too — even when she couldn't grasp it yet. But it was there. Betray was cast. His betrayal was cast.
As much as he could, Fright Knight tried to make her think twice, to consider the total invasion at least, but it was a lost cause — from the beginning actually, he finally came to see it, too. So then, it set now: King Dark would fail by her choice.
For her rescue, to save what was (hopefully) still possible to preserve from her (her life, human soul beneath the skin of what was shown to everyone else beyond him and what must have been once in her before), as King, she had to fall.
"Shall we go then?" she asked him and swirled the crown around her gloved fingers that until now leisurely rested in her hand.
As Fright Knight moved in her order, fate sealed. From this point, it was only a matter of time for her to be defeated — in exchange for saving what remained despite her reign and ensuring the existence of any after-life.
͕͗A͕͕͗͗ʟ͕͕͗͗ʟ͕͗ ͕͗H͕͕͗͗ᴀ͕͕͗͗ɪ͕͕͗͗ʟ͕͗ ͕͗ᴛ͕͕͗͗ʜ͕͕͗͗ᴇ͕͗ ͕͗K͕͕͗͗ɪ͕͕͗͗ɴ͕͕͗͗ɢ͕͗ @markiplier Darkiplier edits that I've made :) Please give credit if you're gonna share!
So, um, for some reason the King Dark article of the Kamen Rider Wiki opens up with quotes from the illegaly-made thai movie Hanuman and the Five Riders (wich can be watched here).
Without getting into the convoluted history behind that movie and its director, and while it makes sense to point out its very existence between the article, let’s just say it completely misrepresents the villain that is King Dark. He certainly doesn’t talk like that.
