Prision riot. Part 2
Rukko was going into the facility with the spell of invisibility still cast on him,alongside Yops. The yordle didn't like the plan of going in sneakily but given that both of them were the shortest and fastest it was the best option if they had to make a run for it. But taking into account their personalities. Running away would be the last thing they would do, so the main objective was not getting caught in the first place.
Both of them had gone past the main entrance and down the stairs to the prison part of the structure. Rukko had been counting the number of guards on the upper floor, around thirteen were lurking there, five lancers, three petrice daggers, two heavy soldiers and three magic users. For their robes Rukko deduced they were ice mages, nothing his hammer couldn't take down easily, but they hadn't atack even if Rukko had to resist the urge to do it and hold the red yorldle by the scruff. Just a landing mission, just a mapping mission. In and out.
That was the mantra he was making to himself as he passed cells with prisoners chained or curled into themselves. The spell was wearing out and they needed to use their best abilities to go around the halls unnoticed. At one point they had encountered a young apprentice, Yops had jumped on his shoulders and knocked his headlights completely with a ring-sounding smash of her shield.
Rukko stripped the kid out of his clothes and put them on even if the mask on his face felt like a betrayal to all his comrades. Yops hiding inside of his new stolen robe.
“Youngling we need to hurry, these clothes smell. They're more dirty than a cragbeast on heat”
“Shhh, Yops shut up, clothes are not supposed to talk, remember? We need to have a low profile”
“Oh yes yes low profile. You should just let me at them! They will know the fury of Yops the warrior!”
Rukko clasps the robe against him more, making the red yorlde shut up with a choke along the lines of stinky shocks .
He needed to be quick. While going at a fast pace around the halls he took a sight of the blunette girl he had seen with the light gargoyle, rocking a child and trying not to have a murdering face on. She was not being great at it.
Two spotted, where were the other two?
Rukko lets out a grunt when he gets pushed by someone. He looks up at the figure recognizing the pink hair. Friend with the blunette, maybe she knew where the others were.
Doing a light turn he starts to follow her, doing a stare to all cells to look like he was making a patrol, stopping in front of them once in a while, just to do a coding with his hands to the people inside ‘The veil lady is looking for you’ just to assure them of their future freedom killing two razorbeaks with one blow.
Vi was raging she needed to find Cait and beat the shit out of Garen. She had seen him arriving on his horse to the building with sweat across his brow asking what had happened. The rat knew about his sister's condition, they had been used, he had a close eagle sorting the forest around when they had been left in the outskirts. He hadn't been able to look Vi in the eye, but now she would make sure he would look at her.
She was too in her head to take mind into the mask kid following her. She knew they were following her, but she was also aware of the weird signs they were doing to the prisoners. She could take care of that later on.
A part was being guarded by two soldiers with their spears blocking the door. Vi just made a snarl at them, showing the danm badge off. The two men look at each other and after a while let the pink haired girl pass.
Rukko arranged his tunic better and approached as well. The spears closed immediately.
“Halt, where are you going to sprout?”
He looked past them lightly taking into account the herbs around the place. He nodded to himself, straightening his back, Yops clutching more to him.
“I was going to ask the healers for a redone on one of the new prisoners bandages”
“The little kid?”
“Yes, she is being a pain with her whines and it’s making the rest of the prisoners affliction flair in discomfort”
“This mages always so sensitive, fine go for them, be quick about it”
“Yes sir”
And Rukko has to hide his smirk when she gets past the doorhold. Yops, almost biting him in celebration.
Vi reunites with cupcake and Lina. Her partner is just sitting by the girl's side giving rubs on her shoulder, telling her some kind of story, and even if all is heavy Vi smiles softly at that.
Cait looks at her and nods to her to go to the other chamber. The one were the soldier boy had entered. Vi leaves a lingering kiss on Alinas face and clenches Caitlyn hand on hers, they have to do this.
So they enter the other chamber, closing the door behind them.
Rukko approaches the girl shackled to the bed. Alina doesn't acknowledge him, until he gives the symbols to her. She looks at him puzzled , she knew from Isha, she knew who the Veil lady was from Lux and from the rumours. The protector of mages, many of them prayed to her. But why would a mageseeker say something like that to her, and in code nonetheless? Then the boy shuffles on his feet doing more hand gestures.
[Where is the gargoyle?]
Alina frowns and with numb fingers try her best to communicate with him
[I don’t know. Why would I tell you? Shouldn't you know? You work for them]
Rukko lets out a huff and Alina can see movement under his robes.
[I don’t work for them sunnyside. I’m here to bust you guys out]
[You are a spy?]
[I am now could you make this easier for me please? This robe is killing me]
Rukko pulls at the neck of it with a disgusted face, and that makes Alina laugh.
Rukko stares for a moment with an easy smile, her laugh was pretty.
[So the Revolution of the King slayer is real]
[It is, and we are busting you out of here. He is friends with the gargoyle]
[With my dad?]
[Yeah, but like old friends, the thing is I need to know were she is]
[I’m not sure, our bond broke off with all the petrice, but the last time I sense her was going down]
[More down?]
“Yeah”
“Shit”
“You really are…doing this?”
“I am don’t worry sunnyside”
Their whispers are obscured by them smiling at each other.
“But…If I get too hot headed can you run?”
Rukko smirks, showing her one of his arms burnt, enlightening a little flame before pushing the sleeve down again.
Alina smirks at the flame and the wording but does a little shake with a sigh.
“My legs don’t respond, as much as I want them too they just don’t”
“Oh…”
Rukko puts Alinas glasses back to her nose and taps the broken crystal.
“I’m a good smith…I will bring you new glasses and something to move on, promise. I will not get caught. I’ll be a sneaky rat”
“What a compliment to yourself”
“Ey rats are pretty smart Sunny”
“Alina, I’m Alina”
“It's a pretty name…I’m Rukko”
“Pretty too”
Rukko decides not to ponder around the blushing on his face, turns around yanking watherever potion is on the desk and goes out of the nursing room. And out of the building running a little. Yops going up off his hood.
“Do I smell Puppy love?”
“Yops, what did we say about clothes not talking?”
[......]
Vi flips over the table once she is inside. Garen doesn't move from his seat, Wisteria at his side has a scold on her face, like she was staring at filth in front of them. Cait holds her head at one hand, with a calculating gaze.
“You lie to us, man! Why? To manipulate us into thinking you were familiar with the feeling of grief?”
“I apologize for that Violet, but no, my grief was not a lie, it has been with me for seven years…”
Caitlyn frowns at him and puts her hand on her deputy’s arm.
“We deserve the truth, Garen, all the truth. You’re sister is my friend and she is involved with Jinx, we are becoming family in an odd way no one of us expected when we contacted each other. So we deserve it”
Wisteria shuffles in her seat and scoffs at them.
“Like we would trade Demacia’s secrets to some outsiders like you. We are not a disgrace to our nation like Luxanna”
“Wisteria, could you please…excuse yourself for the time being?”
“But Captain-”
“Now”
The girl with a scoff goes out of the room.
“Jeez she has her staff up her ass”
“She is…too much at times yes”
“Garen….the truth please”
“I…when Lux was thirteen years old our mother got tired of her not taking care of her light powers. So she called the mage seekers and me to make the decision easier for her I guess. Eldred promised me that she would be okey, that they would help her and train her into being a wonderful soldier. Lux…was not happy with the chase, it was a bloodshed…she took down so many with her emotions being so untamable, but when I begged her she just looked at me with horror in her face. She was just scared of us.. so scared”
“What…happen then?”
“They took her…they told me they were gonna train her in the barricades, that she needed to be without figures that made her feelings be too close to her skin. But then…after some months. A year, two… they told me it have been too much for her…that she had killed herself. I didn’t lie to you about that…for me, for the next five years my sister was dead”
“What changed…?”
“The attack in the city and the murdering of our king three months ago…Two beasts fought in the city causing just destruction in their wake. One of them known as Sylas killed the King. I tried to fight one of them off, and I was able to pierce it skin with my sword but…”
“It was Lux….”
“Yes…my sword made her body use all of her magic to try and close the injury I think…enclosing itself in stone forever. Tianna came after that, took the statue of what it used to be my sister and hid it from me and everyone else. I guess It was her…apology in some way for her spouse's treatment…”
“Your uncle made Lux that…?”
“Not him, Hesbeth…but he allowed the experiment”
Garen grits his teeth together clenching his jaw.
“I’ve been a failure of older brother all of her life. I didn’t stop anything from happening, I saw her pain and I wasn’t able to do anything. I just hurt her time and time again…I always allow her to be in a cage…But not anymore, I’m helping her this time, I’m curing her pain”
Vi takes a deep breath and pulls a chair to be close to him, compassion filling her expressive grey eyes.
“I understand…wanting to amend your past self mistakes. Being able to take away the guilt. But…you can’t expect that people around you won’t change. Have you stopped to think that maybe…your helping is hurting Lux more than making her better?”
“I…I just don't know anymore. I have lived every day of my life hearing how magic breaks everything, but looking at all this…it seems like we are the ones breaking and maybe…maybe Lux was right. Was…my sister happy?”
“Your sister had the most goofy looking smile, looking at my sister. And playing with their kids”
Garen closes his eyes putting her hands to his head grunting. He stands up from his chair and looks at them, realising his sword from his back.
The enforcers take a fighting stance looking at him seriously. The gauntlets in Vis 's hands let out a hiss alongside the clicking of Cait’s riffle.
But the man just gives them a broad smile.
“Shall we release our family?”
And then they heard shouting and fighting going on outside of their decision bubble. A guard barges in the chamber shouting.
“Captain, there has been a break out! And a group of rebels is coming through the upper floor!”
“Seems like…the riot has started without us…”
[......]
When Vi had gone away Jinx had put away the bridles that made Isha's little braids. She put the things straight and lowered herself putting her slender arms out of the bards, starting to play with the lock. Isha looking around for any guard.
“Like we are going to stay around and let the flop team do anything. We are the most wanted ex-criminals. We are busting our fam out of here”
“Mhm mhm!”
“Just look Ish, one to the right, click, one to the left, clack, and for the great finale up and wrist turn. Clock”
The cell door was open in seconds.
“Acting like a helpless mother of a ten year old sure has it perks, this dumshits really though I was broken”
Isha steps out of the cell with a smirk too.
“Oh yes my little bunny you did an awesome job as well, now let's go get our girls back”
A gloom look goes over Isha and Jinx kneels in front of her reading that honey gaze.
“Isha It wasn’t your fault you couldn’t have known this asswholes were after us…we are getting out of here and I’m sure Ali doesn’t blame you either, she couldn't”
She moves away from memories of the birth of her name, she needs to be here for Isha for her family.
Isha nods taking hold of her moms hand.
“Lets go get Sunrock first, Vi went for Lina, and I don’t want her to break the surprise plan. Did you saw were they took your dada?”
Isha nods pointing down a hall.
“Perfect kiddo”
And they go down the hall, the prisoners looking at them with some kind of hope. They thought the kid with the veil sign had given them freedom. They would soon get all out.
Purple trails and blue locks went down the stairs, not giving one of the lancers time to react as Jinx clutched her legs on their neck and turned, the guard dropping down to the floor. She snatched the lance from him and Isha got the dagger on their belt.
They kept going. Jinx using the lance as It was some kind of pole dance prompt. Putting It to the floor and kicking their attackers across their faces. Then coming down on them spinning It around slashing the chest of another dropping to the ground. Isha stabs one of the mages on their foot that was trying to cast a spell, stomping the concentration immediately and dropping their staff. The kid took hold of It and both of them continued their way down.
More bodies dropped to the ground as they passed. And finally they were in front of magic bars. Jinx ran to them gripping them, not caring one bit about the burning.
“LUX!”
“JINX!”
The gargoyle almost starts crying again, approaching her mate by the bars. One hand entering and cupping her mossy cheeks, taking a grimp on the muzzle in her face.
“Oh my darling Sunrock, look what have they done to you”
“I’m fine, my jewel, I'm okay. Are you alright? I'm so sorry for all of this”
“You don't have anything to apologize for blondie, nothing you hear me? Well maybe for letting these guys put a muzzle on you before I could. You kinda rock the look“
Lux lets out a laugh, her maw aching against the metal, her tail wagged slowly behind her. Isha wanted to touch her dadda’s too, but she instead put the staff she had stolen in the cell.
Lux smiled at her kid and stepped into the staff with her talon, made the staff go up, the thing started twirling around. The magic on the bars starts to fade as Lux uses the thing to decode the structure of flows. Jinx drops to the floor picking the lock.
Once the cell door is open Isha goes inside hugging her dadda hard. Lux picks her up smiling while Jinx works on her chains as well.
“O my little adventurer you have done so well. Such swift and smart fingers. Now we just have to go for Ali”
Jinx ends her work and Lux leans down kissing her lips with feelling, they linger for a moment. Isha hugging Lux still by the shoulders.
When they part, a somber look goes across Jinx.
“What's wrong princess?”
“Ali…Ali got badly hurt…her legs are not working…but is okey we are gonna love her nonetheless. Right?”
“Of course she is out little bear…but we are getting her back”
They all nod at each other and Lux lifts Isha to her shoulders. Extending her aching wings. A tropel of mages enter the chamber, Lux puts herself in front of Jinx, her wings outstretched and her chest puff out. The hexes fly to her body but they start getting absorbed by her. Leaving the mages dry.
Lux starts growing her wings breaking and becoming pure electrifying light. Her horns became a crown, and her chest opening Up with Magic. Isha lets an amazed gasp still on the beast's shoulders.
“O..my…god”
Lux turns lightly around her head, almost colliding with the tall ceiling. Her ears dropped a little scared of what she might see in her mates eyes. But she just sees amazement and Jinx biting her lip with a pink consuming blush.
“Now that's a Big girl”
And then the walls start to shake.