This is yet annother unfinished work. So it's a cross between Hollow Knight and Over The Garden Wall. here's my lore, lol Story is When the Little Ghost (We'll just refer to them as you, the player,) banishes the Grimm troupe, something goes wrong, and they end up in a mysterious woods. Eventually, you run into a child. (I have no name for him yet) They stick together on the walk out of the woods, (the child is poet, and likes to think of rymes and songs and poems, and has many curious thoughts) The knight starts protecting the child, partically from a dark shadowy beast who lurks in the woods... obsessed with a lantern far away, connected to him by a deal. Eventually, the child starts growing sick, and one day, the child is covered in branches, the knight is angry, and confronts the beast, who seems oddly obssesed with this child. But because you want to protect the child, you have grown a will, you have confronted the infection many times, and now, it can finally enter into you. At the end, you start having health poison, and the beast keeps dodging your strikes, eventually, you start to slow down, and you see the ghosts of all the other children lost to the woods, your brothers and sisters of the pale king, the child you have worked so hard to protect, and other lost children. At last, the knight collapses, and a ghost starts rising, but then... you look down back at the wood covered child, and you are filled with regret. The knight's ghost turns black, and desends down. You play as Shade, fighting the beast. There are ghost children watching the fight. You are quick enough now, and you use no nail, but your shadows. If you die in this state, the Shade starts to fade, but then looks back at the wood child, and has their HP restarted. Once you progress far enough, void tendrils pin the beast down, and you rapidly fade, the ghost children looking up, and the beast stuck. the screen fades to black, then it shows a lantern filled with black, with spikes piercing out. The lantern shatters, then shows the beast up close, fading away (in the style of infinity war) Then the Knight wakes up, the child is a ghost now, and gives the knight something, then hugs you tight, thanking you. Then two ghosts (His parents) join him hand in hand, and they ascend together. The infection in you was left behind in that woods that exist no more. Therefore, ridding you of the infection. That's it.
