She screams in anger as she watches Ash fall to the ground. She suddenly has vines wrapping around her captor's throat, they tighten until his grip loosens enough for her to get to Ash. Her sword was glowing a bright green, practically blinding. Her eyes changed color with it once it reached its maximum glow, she sneered, watching Ash out of the corner of her eye as she holds the tip of her blade at one of the men's cheeks, touching it just enough to break the skin.

He swiftly kills one,

When one gremlin gets killed, twelve more take its place.

After her captor recovered, he went up to her and held her tightly, twisting her arms behind her back. Manacles were snapped around her wrists and he pulled her away from Ash. A guard also bound Linna. The other two knights kicked Ash onto his stomach and wrenched his arms behind him, binding him similarly. A gasp could be heard from him as the iron touched his skin. His doppelganger jerked him savagely to his feet. They shoved the three towards Ironhorse, who waited for them in the middle of the tracks, swishing his tail.

"GOOD," he snorted. "KING MACHINA WILL BE PLEASED." His red eyes fastened on Ash, who was barely able to stand, and pinned back his ears. "DISPOSE OF THEIR WEAPONS." Ash's face twisted in agony. Sweat trickled down his brow and he clenched his teeth as he watched the iron knight take his sword to the edge of the tracks and toss it into a ditch, along with Claire's weapons and his bow. There was a soft splash as their weapons hit the oily water and sank from view. And then they took the Witchwood arrow. And it was gone, just like that. Game over. They'd failed.

Ironhorse looked the ladies over and then the kitsune, and snorted steam. "NO FUNNY BUSINESS FROM ANY OF YOU," he warned, blowing smoke at them. "OR MY KNIGHTS WILL WRAP SO MUCH IRON AROUND THE WINTER PRINCE THAT HIS SKIN WILL PEEL OFF HIS BONES." He coughed flame and swung his head toward the waiting fortress. "LETS GO. KING MACHINA AWAITS."

He growls angrily, attacking another gremlin and completely ignoring the metal horse. Lin doesnt do or say anything.

The gremlins scream and attack Kerri right back, their razor-sharp teeth glinting

He sets the nearest ones ablaze.

They seem not to notice

He keeps attacking.

So do they

He kills ten more.