Knight Lautrec of Carim hated Patches.

Knight Patches the Hyena of whereever-he-lived hated Lautrec.

Notice the past tense.

They were forced to work together and gained an original bond. Lautrec liked Patches' sense of humor and psychopathic tendencies, and Patches was amused by Lautrec's sour mood and, here is what made them bond, psychopathic tendencies! (1)

A weird friendship, but they didn't like the others, they were either too positive about life, or too quiet for their liking, so they even sometimes outright ignored their friends pleas and went on their merry way, making their friends worry for them, and their sanity.

Everyone knows that the further you get from people, the bigger the chances of losing your sanity and going hollow.

But misery loves company.

They both knew that if they didn't take a liking to each other they would go hollow.

They learned lately that they would go insane and hollow if they wouldn't have met that damn pony.

And boy, did that pony not want to leave their side!

They were busy looting the Catacombs, all this loot! They just found a weapon made COMPLETELY out of gold! Sure, it was weak, but some undead were still buying gold for souls, just to keep being classy.

Patches once met a merchant who traded gold for humanity, he proceeded to stab the merchant steal his TWENTY twin humanities! Who carries that many nowadays when Patches and Lautrec are running around, murdering everything rich and/or hollow.

They acquired the Dark Hand from a stray Darkwraith, who they killed and made hollow with just a little bit too much pleasure. They then just took his ten humanity which he probably got from invasions, and the mentioned Dark Hand.

The Dark Hand worked as a shield made out of dark magic, and a weapon that sucked out humanity. It was very effective at sucking out humanity.

They learned that out from a stray firekeeper, from who they got out about fifty humanity each, and the more humanity you have the more resistant to damage you become.

Patches was hit by a giant skeleton and didn't even break a rib! Lautrec "fell" into the hole in the Catacombs, and he survived without even a single bruise.

He then murdered Patches and took his humanity.

Everyone knew it was Patches who pushed him off.

Granted, Patches came back at the bonfire, but he had no humanity left except for one sprite. It was funny for Lautrec and Patches, but no one else laughed, not Logan, not Tarkus, not Siegmeier, not Crest, and not even Solaire who was known to laugh at weird things.

Then they met the damn pony in the Catacombs.

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"Whining? You want to hear my whining? I am simply complaining about the state of this place! What is this? This is worse than the Diamond Dogs' tunnels, everything smells of decay and death! And don't even start with me on the skeletons! Why aren't they dead?! I MUST get out of this place! Please take me with you!" 'complained' the pony.

Rarity, was her name, Patches could recall.

It was a completely white pony, with a beatiful, purple mane and tail.

They've seen a lot, but they did NOT see a talking unicorn yet. So it was bit of a surprise.

And, above all, why is a unicorn in the DAMN Catacombs?!

Those and more questions were flying through Patches' head.

Meanwhile Lautrec was busy talking to the pony.

"There is NO way out of here! You broke the only ladder and we only have one homeward bone! We either find two more homeward bones or we're boned!" shouted Lautrec, frustrated at the pony, at Patches and at himself.

"Hey, I got an idea!" shouted Patches, gaining Lautrec's and Rarity's attention.

"Oh Gods above, Patches, what crazy idea have you got now?" asked Lautrec, grabbing his head.

Patches was known for good and crazy ideas. That was the thing that made Patches useful, the was thinking outside the box, his ideas sounded crazy, and bad, but in reality they were good and... still crazy, but that's what Patches was.

Crazy.

No, Gods forbid, not insane, insane means hollow.

"Pony, Rarity, this here is a homeward bone. Use this to go back to the surface and contact out friends, tell them that Patches and Lautrec need their help. If they hesitate, you say 'tons of humanity'" he said, holding out a bone. A very white bone that had a nice aura of... home around it.

"What? A bone? How am I supposed to get to the surface? I want to get to the surface, not play games!" she said, and as she said 'get to the surface' she stopped talking and the homeward bone started glowing.

"Remember! Tons of humanity, talk to a dude in a hat!" she heard the both of them shout.

"Great, what now?" said Lautrec, as Rarity disappeared.

"Now we play the waiting game. Want to throw someone down the pit? I heard there's a cleric party coming down right about now." said Patches, as they both grinned.

"After all, we hate clerics!" they both said, going towards the hole.