Lily didn't do the normal practicing procedures most Spiral Knights did. Lily didn't even consider herself a Spiral Knight at all. She was known to herself, and some others, as a hunter. But not a normal hunter. The "Lumberjack".
Lily was practicing driving her Avenger through hard metal. She had been practicing this and exercises like it ever since the accident. Two years before, she had been on a rescue mission with her squad. They were to save several technicians trapped in cages by gremlins.
"C'mon Aaron!" Lily called. "You're slowing us all down!"
Aaron had his hands on his knees. He was breathing deeply. "I- I'm just a little tired... Can we just take a break for a few minutes?" he asked.
Lily turned to the two other squad members. They nodded their heads and walked with Lily over to Aaron. They all sat there for a few minutes, until they heard lumbers approaching. The faint moan and creaking as they moved their gears was unmistakeable. The group of knights got up and started jogging in the direction of the noises. Lily was the rear guard. She kept looking behind them to make sure no other enemies were coming to ambush them.
She turned backward once more and immediately saw a completely black lumber with a huge axe in place of one of its arms. It looked at her with a deathly scarlet eye, peering into her soul. Then while Lily stood in shock, it lifted its non-axe arm and smashed it right into the side of her head. She fell to the grassy ground, then went unconscious.
She woke up in a hospital bed, two weeks later. She didn't remember her family, her squad, or even that she was a Spiral Knight. All she remembered was the gleaming scarlet eye and the body it had belonged to. Ever since then, Lily had been determined to find the black lumber with the red eye. Once she did, she would destroy it, and finally achieve her revenge.
Now, two years later, Lily was still trying to find the lumber, which she no longer referred to as just a "lumber", but rather as the "Lumber". Today, Lily finally thought she would be able to destroy the "Lumber" once and for all. She had tracked it to Depth 21, Jigsaw Valley, Emerald Axis II. She grabbed her gear and went to the Arcade to go into the Clockworks. She took the elevator down to Depth 21 and stepped out into Jigsaw Valley.
She immediately saw the "Lumber". It was almost as if it had sensed her presence. The creature stepped forward. It moaned extremely loudly, shaking the ground itself. Lily ran towards it, Avenger in hand. She swung her sword, and it met the "Lumber's" axe arm. She pushed as hard as he could against the strength of the mechanized tree, but to no avail. She dropped the face off and dashed around the back of the robot to swing at it from behind. Her sword made contact with its abdomen, but did little damage. She would have to do the exercise she had been practicing all morning.
Lily narrowly jumped out of the way of the "Lumber's" arm coming down to smash her. She jumped on the arm and hopped onto the creature's shoulder. She drove her Avenger through the top of its head, drilling it down through its abdomen. She retrieved her sword from the robot's remains. It seemed her sword had cut tons of wires inside of the "Lumber", causing it to power down.
Lily had finally destroyed the demonic construct that had ruined her life, and she felt good about it. Even though her main goal was finished, she wasn't going to lose her "Lumberjack" title.
She went on to kill all the lumbers in the Emerald Axis II. But she had bigger thoughts in mind. Her new goal was to get rid of every lumber in the entire Clockworks. And the odds weren't very against her.
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