Fiona was more than capable of handling her opponent by herself, as was made apparent to the unfortunate man when each of his attacks were easily turned aside by simple flicks of the wrist. The man stabbed at Fiona again but she easily stepped around his blade, landing a painful blow to his side with her fist. The man dropped his sword and Fiona kicked him hard in the ribs, knocking him off the dock into the water below. The Akalak was also having a relatively easy time with his opponents. Two were already down, one of them short an arm the other missing a head. It looked like the third would soon join them, and in truth, the Akalak seemed to be toying with the man. Bartrand was still having trouble with his foe, but had managed to survive up to that point and didn't seem like he would go down any time soon. That just left Ervis, Venidus, and the man with the crossbow. The bolt from Venidus crossbow hit the man in the shoulder, causing him to drop his weapon. Ervis, upon seeing the man wounded, turned to face Bartrand and his opponent. Behind them a spike of water rose out of the lake, quickly hardening into ice. The spike curved and shot toward the pair, impaling the man through his ribs. Bartrand's expression of surprise matched his now dead opponent's and in stunned silence he looked at the mage who simply shrugged and lowered his hands. As all this was happening the injured crossbowman was trying to reload his bow, which had fired into he ground when he dropped it. When it was reloaded he aimed at Venidus, hoping to fire off a shot before the Symenestra finished him. If Venidus did not attack, or even if he did but failed to kill the man, an icy bolt from Ervis would do the job instead. Meanwhile Fiona had turned her attentions to the wounded mage, Louis, who was still breathing though just barely. "Hold on Lou, don't you die on me. We'll get you to the safehouse and patch you up, I promise!" Behind the main group Harrol was finishing off the last of his opponents. The outclassed guard slashed at Harrol's midsection. The Akalak deflected the blow and punched the man in the face, sending him staggering back. Once he recovered the man tried again but Harrol side stepped, slashing the man across the arm adding another cut to the many he had received already. Harrol grabbed the man by the arm and pulled him towards him, raising a blue knee and connecting with the man's groin, the spun around and slashed him across the back. The man fell to his knees and Harrol smiled cruely, raising his blade. "Please.. I was only doing my job," the injured man whimpered. The Akalak smirked and started to swing down. "Harrol, stop!" The Akalak froze. "That's enough! Let's get out of here," Fiona shouted. Harrol hesitated, neither lowering his blade nor striking, and all waited in tense anticipation as the Akalak seemed to struggle with himself. Finally he relaxed and lowered his blade, the wounded man letting out a sigh of relief before collapsing at the Akalak's feet, and Harrol sheathed his sword. "Help me carry Louis to the boats, he might still survive." The Akalak nodded and silently moved to help Fiona while Ervis addressed Bartrand and Venidus. "Welcome to the resistance... You two get on the boats, I will clean up here." Bartrand nodded and went to one of the boats, leaving Venidus to decide for himself what to do. Ervis simply nodded to the Symenestra then turned away, walking over to the man Venidus had pinned to the wagon. Ervis held a hand to the man's mouth, holding it there for a moment before walking over to the one who had been left alive by Harrol and doing the same thing. When he was done he turned around and headed toward the boats. If Venidus was still watching he would say, "Come on, let's go." When they had all boarded and were out on the water, if Venidus were to look back at the docks he would see the two men writhing about gasping for air before eventually falling still. Ervis sat silently, his eyes facing straight ahead. OOCYou didn't mess anything up. DraSimon did by not showing up. He was supposed to be the spy and you guys were supposed to have a super secret meeting and he was supposed to try to get away with it an bring the info back to the Black Sun. But since we have two dropouts I had to change things up. Oh, and sorry but this is a kinda blah post.. |