A Knight In Sunglasses

A knight in sunglasses

After the post with MB!Killer with flashlight eyes, and the addition of him possibly blinding his enemies in fight, an idea crossed my mind. terrible pun intended

No particular warnings, I think, just a note: don’t take this too seriously, it’s only for fun 👀😂 Enjoy!

Moon blossom AU by @somebodyalreadytookthis2

Right at the entrance of the castle, Cross sees Ink casually sitting in his stall. Blue smiles and waves at the merchant, while Cross suspiciously squints his eyesockets.

"Wasn't it you that we've seen literally 10 minutes ago over there?" he asks while making a vague gesture pointing behind him.

"Might've been me," Ink chuckles. "But maybe I forgot to recommend you buying something you might really need?" he smiles widely, but seeing it has no effect on Cross, lets out a fake sigh. "Why wouldn't you listen to me, I'm genuinely trying to help here!"

Cross rolls his eyes, and just when he's about to express his irritation aloud, Blue nudges him slightly. 

"Come on, Cross. This far, everything we bought from him might've been a little overpriced, but never useless." 

Cross has to admit that Blue is right. "Fine," he says and Ink giggles at the irritation in his voice. "What've you got this time?" 

"As I already said, there's one very useful item I forgot about when we've last seen each other. I rushed so much to get here before you do, because I have a feeling that it can save your life more than once. This is an uncommon ammunition to have for a knight, but-"

Cross slams the counter in exasperation and growls: "Cut out this nonsense and show me already what this is! We are right at the entrance of the castle where the prince is supposedly held, there's no time for chatting!" 

"Woah, easy there. No need to get angry. There you go," Ink shrugs and hands over to Cross a silk pouch. "50G each."

Blue waits excitedly for the pouch to be opened. Cross frowns, not sharing his friend's enthusiasm, but still turns the pouch upside down, and shakes out of it two pairs of... sunglasses? They make a slight smacking sound when falling on the counter, and Ink grumbles. 

"Careful please, you haven't paid yet, you know."

After staring at the glasses for a silent moment, Cross bursts with a series of unholy statements and questions, the most meaningful of which are "I'm not buying anything from you ever again" and "I don't see a single reason why we would need sunglasses in a dark castle in the night, except for hoping that if we wear them, the enemy will spare us for the only reason that we are too dumb to die". 

Blue's excitement changes into confusion. 

"But what do they do?" 

Ink frowns. 

"You don't know what sunglasses are for? They prevent bright light from damaging or discomforting your eyes."

"And once again, why would we need usual sunglasses in a seemingly dark castle in the nighttime?" Blue sounds more and more skeptical and tends to think that maybe this time the merchant is really just messing with them.

"Well, your vision is the sense you rely on the most during a battle. That's all I can say, sorry," Ink shrugs. "This is the last time I repeat this to y o u," he points somewhere over Cross's head. "He is going to need these."

"Who are you even talking to now?" Cross grunts. "That's enough, let's go, Blue."

***

"I can't believe you ended up buying them, Cross! Why?"

"Just get over it. I already told you. It suddenly felt like I have to."

***

Sunglasses. Info: usual sunglasses. Protect from light of any kind, including magic.

***

In order to open the massive door to the castle, the two heroes have to solve a weird puzzle, but unfortunately none of them is good at it. 

"I wish my brother was here. He adores puzzles, I feel like he would've dealt with this one in a minute," Blue sighs after a fruitless hour of turning the gears and pulling the levers.

Night has fallen by the time the door finally opens with a long creaking noise. The skeletons carefully walk into a huge hall. It is almost completely dark, the only reason to think the hall is huge is the echo of their footsteps. 

"Hello?" Cross asks uncertainly.

No answer. He slowly moves forward, and Blue follows him. After a solid hundred of steps, they hear the door closing behind them. 

Great. There's someone in here. And now it's pitch black.

"Well, well, well," a distant voice behind says in amusement. 

Blue drags Cross into a conveniently close niche in the wall. 

"There were no guests in this castle for a very long time," the voice continues, as Cross tries to come up with a plan. 

"We attack," he whispers, "there's two of us, and he's alone!" 

"Well, first off, maybe we don't even need to fight him. But even if we have to, Cross, we can't fight blindly!"

All of a sudden, the part of the hall that the two can see is filled with bright turquoise light, and even though the source cannot be seen from where they are, Blue and Cross squint and groan of the sharp pain in the eyes the light has caused.

"Come out," chants the voice, "I have seen you". Wicked laughter echoes from the walls and fills the hall. 

Cross smiles. 

"Do you still think we don't need to fight him, huh?”

Blue frowns, but does not answer. 

"Looks like his weapon is bright light in darkness. I think we are well-equipped for this situation," Cross says while taking the silk pouch out of his inventory. "Put the glasses on, Blue."

*insert epic badass Men In Black music*

Thanks for reading!

A couple of notes:

Yeah, Ink was talking to the player. 

And I have no idea why Blue’s brother is good at solving puzzles since they are swapped and he is supposed to be the one liking puzzles, my brain does not work properly. (Also, I don’t even know if in MB he has a brother, but let’s just say he does 😂)