Chrono ran forward and put his fist through the head of a humanoid lizard - a lizard warrior, dressed in chest and shoulder plates and equipped with a shield and sword. There were two others in the entrance of the castle that saw this, and were almost too stunned to move. Chrono ripped his fist back out of the monster's head and it's body fell to the ground. Chrono quickly flashed over to one of the other lizards, gripped it's jaw and it's snout and ripped the bottom of his jaw out, swung his leg around and stomped on the back of the lizard's neck and ripped it's head off, and then whipped the bottom jaw at the other lizard, penetrating both the armor and his chest, killing him instantly. Chrono stepped into the middle of the room and looked at the bodies of the three warriors he disassembled so quickly. 'I hope this doesn't say anything about the King,' he thought.Chrono stepped through another door, leading into an empty room. It was very, very tall, probably a magic-induced tower. Chrono took a few steps into the room while looking up at the blackness above. The room was so high that he couldn't see the end above. What he did see was a huge dragon plummeting down the tower. Chrono jumped back and the beast crashed onto the ground on it's feet and roared mightily at Chrono. It was brown with a plate on it's head that had many protruding horns. It stood on four legs, fairly low to the ground, but was still incredibly large compared to Chrono, who was probably the size of one of it's teeth. The dragon snarled at him, lowering it's huge wings. It took up almost the entirety of the diameter of the room, forcing it to curl it around next to it.
Chrono leaped at the dragon, who snapped at Chrono, but Chrono was far too quick. He jumped off it's nose and onto the back of it's neck behind it's plate. He grabbed onto some of the horns and broke them off, causing the dragon to roar in pain. Chrono jumped over the plate and stabbed the horns into it's eyes, and as quickly as the beast could react to the pain, Chrono stomped down on the broken end of one of the horns pushing it into it's skull, killing it mid-roar. Chrono looked around for another door, but there was only the one. He walked over to a wall, tapped it with his fist a few times, and he began running up the wall. The walls themselves were not very smooth, so he was able to make good footing while running straight up. Eventually, he found the top, which had a trap door that he smashed through without bothering to look for how to open it.
In the next room, there were four more lizard warriors, all with swords drawn. The room was perfectly round, so Chrono darted to one of the walls and started running around the perimeter of the room. The four lizard warriors turned around and stood back to back with each other to avoid being attacked from behind, and Chrono started running up the wall while still circling the perimeter. Quickly, he leaped off the wall and stopped in midair above the four warriors and immediately darted straight down in between the four forcing them apart slightly. There was a flash of light and a long, black sword appeared in Chrono's right hand which had pulled back across his chest, and he spun around while swinging the blade, cutting all four monsters in half below their rib cages. He had killed three of them, but one of them was struggling to survive. Chrono looked around the room and saw two doors, and he picked one instinctively and walked through it, leaving the barely alive warrior to bleed to death.
There was nothing in the next room, and it wasn't very tall. Chrono expected a trap to be in the floors or the walls, so he stomped hard on the floor and listened to the room shake, but he didn't hear anything in the walls. There were two more doors at the end of the rectangular room that were right next to each other. He opened the right room, and all he saw was a dead man hanging from a rope tied around his ankles, his hands about a foot from the floor. All of his flesh was torn away from his head to the center of his rib cage, and most of the flesh above that was rotting. The exposed bones looked like they were scratched up somewhat, but not broken. Chrono did not flinch at the sight of this, but only thought of the failures before him who came to the castle unprepared and unaware of what they were getting into. Chrono was different. Chrono had nothing to fear.
He closed the door, and opened the other one. This was the room he was looking for. He stepped into a very large, perfectly square room with ancient looking designs on the walls and on the floor, mostly made up of green and yellowish brown colours. At the other side of the room was a man who Chrono could barely take seriously at all. Sitting in a somewhat tall throne the same colours of the room was a very wide and short man which an incredibly large, white beard that managed to spread nearly as wide as his entire body, but still come to a point near his feet. He had a massive mutache to match, which spanned to almost twice the width of his body and was probably as thick as his head was tall. But he couldn't tell for sure, because his face was almost completely covered by his beard, mustache and hat. His had was massive, and was almost spherical sitting on his head. That and his robes, or at least what you could see of them, had a colour pattern of purple and gold - the colours of royalty. He had a gold staff as well that he held upright at the throne that had a purple orb on the top that was held in place by gold bars that wrapped around it. It didn't seem like it was detachable or anything. Chrono stepped into the room and pointed his sword at him.
"You the King?" Chrono demanded.
"You are quite the fighter, sir," said the King, "I am the King, but I am not looking for a fight that will leave another dead."
"That isn't up to you," Chrono said, "It's up to me: the next King of Gyronia!"
The King chuckled behind his beard, "What is your name, sonny? Why are you here to fight me? Have I not ruled well?"
"My name is Chrono Blackfire, and I don't give a damn about how you rule. I don't live in the society you rule in, but I'm taking over from here, old man!" The King didn't respond to that, "I know that you'll be a tough opponent," Chrono continued, "I didn't come here willy nilly, ready to fight any fight for any reason. If you won't draw your weapon, then I can put mine away and kill you with my bare hands right now."
"If that's how you want to do it, then," the King sighed. He lurched forward and stood up and gripped is staff tightly in both hands, "I'll let you make the first move, then."
"It's all the same to me," Chrono growled. He swung his sword over his head and and prepared himself for the hardest battle he's faced yet.
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