Joachim managed to dodge the piece of wood that Atl flung at him, surprised that his ally would go to such an extent to have 'a fair fight' with someone that killed innocent villagers. This man was either an idiot or very much so focussed on fighting. Perhaps both. [b]Probably[/b] both. Joachim was about to stab the man in his back anyway before noticing that there were two footmen coming from the left side, both holding an arming sword above their head rushing towards Atl. They must've missed the fact that the knight killed the last footman that tried this. Several arrows flew past Joachim, the knight and Atl, and they were lucky that they couldn't aim very well. Joachim decided that Atl was very much so capable of defending himself, so he rushed forwards infront of the two footmen. 

Untrained peasants who had been given a weapon, this lot. One of them released his strike, sending the vertical strike towards Joachim's head who simply parried it quickly then brought the blade down towards the man's arm, giving it a fairly large but superficial cut. His friend rushed forwards now, not wanting the man to die. This 'attempt to save him' probably only prolonged their demises, but it worked for a short while none the less. He jumped in front of the other footman, pushed him back a bit then brought up his shield to Joachim to cover up his upwards aimed stab from below. Joachim noticed though, having been accustomed to the 'calls' of an attack so to say. He stepped back, sending the stab missing by a long shot, before stepping forwards again and smacking the mans face with the back of his left hand, grabbing his leather armor and shoving him back tumbling over the other man. This gave Joachim some time to look back at Atl, who seemed to have gained the upperhand by smashing the knights' hand. He may be stupid but he's a darn good warrior.

[b]„RAAAGH! DIE YOU IRON SCUM!”[/b] a man yelled out pulling Joachim back into the fight only to be tackled to the ground and losing grip of his sword, which landed somewhere a bit further away outside of Joachims grip. A wrestle for the sword ensued, Joachim's hand inching closer and closer to it before the man punched Joachim in the face. Was that.. blood? Joachim spat in the mans face, a gross and messy spat of blood flying out into his eyes. But it didn't seem to give him much trouble. Joachim looked at the background quickly and noticed that not only had the man gotten up and was getting closer to help his friend deal with Joachim, two more footmen had broken off from the main line, which was preoccupied with Astrid and the others, to help their friends. Joachim gave up on his sword and instead grabbed the mans throat and began choking him as the man did the same to him. It was obvious the man would win, and slowly Joachims hands slid down the mans neck to his side, losing power every moment that the mans hands lay upon his neck. But then he felt something.

[b]„Ggrlglll..”[/b] the man let out, a knife stuck in his throat. Joachim quickly threw him off and threw the knife onto him. He was lucky to have found that knife in the mans sheath on his side or else he'd have lost life this instance. He got up quickly, reorientated him to find Atl already having won and pulling the mace from the mans head. But now they faced 3 men, one of which had a sword and the other two held long spears. [b]„Atl, I need your help now, please!”[/b] Joachim yelled as he went down to grab his weapon again.