[WP] "You fool!" cackled the Dark One, "No man can kill me!" "But I am no man!" bellowed the hero, as he unhinged his jaw. A grotesque sound filled the hall as they hacked up impossibly large balls of cloth. Unfurling, they stand and announce "For we are actually three trench coats in a halfling!"

The two cloaked figures, one slight and the other enormous, closed in on the other, squaring off in the middle of the battlefield. The larger creature, Ren the Unclean, reared up, throwing back its cape, holding its axe and mace up high and roared, “For the last time! No! Man! Can! Kill! Me!”

A smirk crossed the lips of his opponent. Arms, seemingly from nowhere, flung open its cloak to reveal three hobbits, standing on each other’s shoulders. “We are no men!”

The demonic beast growled. “What infernal deception is this?” He lunged at the three little demi-humans, who scattered, forming a triangle about him. With a mighty swing of his right arm, the beast brought down the axe on the adversary to his front.

Bibbity Hobbit leapt into the air to avoid it. The small creature drew his full-sized dagger in mid-air, and brought it down through the demon’s hand.

The beast howled and dropped its axe. Unable to shake the hobbit off, Ren took a backhanded swing of his mace toward the hobbit to his left flank.

Bobbity Hobbit dropped beneath the massive forearm coming his way, allowing it to harmlessly pass over him. He then reached up and took hold of the massive Unclean hand, and bit down hard. Tears came to his eyes, but neither the stench or the taste forced him to loosen his jaws.

The demon swung about furiously like a weather vane caught in disputed winds. He thrust both arms forward, unable to shake either demihuman off. In the middle of the frenzy, he realized he’d lost track of the last one. Where had it gone?

The Unclean one no sooner had had the thought when he felt the trampling of tiny footsteps up his back. Little hands grabbed hold of either ear, and a miniature face appeared upside down in front of his.

“BOO!” it screamed!

With a great ferocity, the demon fighter clapped his massive hands together. Pain shot through his body, but the hobbits hung on. Then the beast threw his head back to loosen the last attacker.

Boo yelled, “bye-ee!” and jump free, but not before pulling out his own dagger, which he jabbed through the beast’s cloak and an inch into its bull-sized back. Boo then rode the dagger to the ground like his with slitting a royal banner, an inglorious feat that he hoped to someday be pardoned for.

“Enough!” the demon yelled. “I cannot be defeated!”

Bibbity and Bobbity drew in close, under the demon’s defenses. “Can you be de-kneed?” they shouted in unison as they each stabbed down on one of the giant’s knees from just above the tops of his metal boots.

The mighty Ren the Unclean screamed sat a pitch so high only demons could hear it. All of his minions ceased their individual battles to take note of the call. The humans fighting them took advantage of the moment to slice their opponent’s individual heads off. Then the fighters close around the hobbit three.

Bleeding on the ground, the creature cried out, “I was in the Abyss! How did I end up like this? I was in the Abyss!”

The bastard lord Whatsisname stepped forward with a raised bastard sword, but the wizened Whosiswhatz steadied his hand.

“No man,” the bearded Whosiswhatz uttered sagely, “may defeat the demon.”

“And we’re not men!” shouted Bibbity, Bobbity and Boo, and they stabbed the demon repeated, and Unclean blood spilled out from a death of a thousand cuts.

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