Prision Break. Part 3
The plan was going smoothly. When the mapping team had come back Rukko had gone back to their camp to tell the people that had stayed put to accommodate new people coming, he was gonna tell them the number of all the prisoners in total. Even if some of them decided not to join them it would be safer like that and not risk leaving anyone behind.
He was also gonna tell the healer hut to accommodate and work on the forge. In what? Rukko hasn’t shared that part with his comrades.
After that, Sylas, Kara and Leilani were ready to start the assault. They storm in through the doors with a raging clash from Sylas. His horns making the doors fall open loudy on the guards that have tried to go look at what was happening.
The mages were shot down by rays of Kara. A lancer tried to take a piercing strike at the gargoyle but Leilani was there already, the Lance colliding with her shield recoil and sending an explosive wave to the attacker.
Sylas smiled at her nodding, extending one of his chains when automatons full of petrice were coming. The girl smirks and rolls her eyes, putting out of her pouch a crystal rune.
“Are you ever gonna bring runes yourself? Or will I forever be your squire?”
“You keep me from doing madness Leila, i just let them to you”
“Yeah sure, just don’t burn yourself to a crisp goatbreath”
The freckled girl smashes the crystal into his shackles, the dust from it entering the gaps like fuel. The lines of his chains start to glow, making them go up his tattoo as well, his fur gains and ash tint to it and he charges to the automatons, slamming both of his arm chains against the floor between the two with a roar, the area lights on fire and the automatons can’t respond correctly when they are concentrating in absorbing that magic wich Sylas takes advantage of and smashes one of them in the stomach with his hoof, breaking immediately the weakened stone.
When some bigger soldiers are coming towards Kara, he gives a fire chained fuel blow to the other armor. Lifts up the thing that has started glowing with a blinding light.
“Kara dodge!”
“What are you talking about lad-”
Kara dodges when the thing goes flying over her head, landing on the soldiers and exploding making the walls shake completely.
The old lady looks at him like she wants to kill him and the gargoyle just shrugs his shoulders with his claws in front of him in surrender.
“One more like that with me close and I’m making you a paperweight”
“Got it madam”
“Guys we have to get down the cells now!”
Leilani smashes her shield to another dagger user and Sylas flies another away with one of his chains to the wall.
Kara and him nod at her orders and their troops go down the stairs, opening cells of the prisoners and helping them go to the outside again.
Everything is according to plan so far. If Rukko was right, Lux´s partner should be right in the last cell of this hall. He starts going at a slower pace, he stands tall instead of running on all fours and combs his ponytail better with one claw. He has to make a good first impression before…well before she knows everything he did to her lover. With a sigh he finally reaches the cell, Kara and Leilane going to other cells, but keeping close to each other.
Sylas puts his best revolutionary smirk and puts his claws to his waist. He is going to use something heroic and shity just like Lux would have done but…the cell is vacant. Sylas crouches looking with a puzzled face at the lock. Picked. Uh. Sylas smirks again.
“Your girl is resourceful Lux”
“YOU!”
Sylas turns his head around to the other end of the hall, from the right a group of three has appeared.
“Aren’t you guys a colorful bunch?”
He laughs a little looking at the little soldier and the two girls who are looking at him with no fear, surprise yes. But not fear. That is interesting given the fact that they are not magic wielders. They're weapons on the other hand…they do have arcane remnants.
“What have you done with my sister?! Who are you!?”
“Your sister? Wow this organization really has a thing with sibling rivalry uh blue boy?”
“They are not with the vanguard Sylas, but that does matter little to you. Where is my sister-in-law?”
Sylas shakes his head, his demon-like tail whipping around the floor. He holds one of his horns and lets out a chuckle.
“Well I was gonna ask you the same”
“You…you are the king slayer aren’t you?”
The blue girl asks him and he can only do a little bow to that, it might be the most awful lie in the world. But the title has done good things for him so far, yeah and enemies, but they were pigs so perfect for him nonetheless.
“The one and only, the chained beast, the oracle of souls, the prestige of all the revolution. The hope of the veil! The son of revenge himself! Sylas of Drefbourne!”
He smirks loudly with his hands on his hips and his hoof doing taps. He can hear a loud facepalm and a giggle from behind him, but he is pretty proud of his presentation.
“I’m too old for you people”
“Oh come on grandma let him be dramatic, is the only thing he has left”
Sylas flicks his tail at that, a little irritated for the remarck. The looks were also still there.
The same officer from the question seems to want to facepalm just like Kara, and his hearing can catch some words.
“Great…another dramatic jokester criminal”
“Sylas stop the theatrics this instant, I already lost my sister once because of you, I will not have it twice”
Sylas laughs hard at that, slamming his chains to the floor with a loud sound.
“Oh no no pretty boy you did that yourself. You lost her three times, and they were all your fault, yours and all the system you slay for. I’ve spent so much time hearing her mourning you, hearing her cry because her own brother had been horrified of her. And the worst part? Oh the worst part is that when you saw her you almost killed her! My fault? No, you did that yourself. I have to make account for my own wrongs to her, yes but that part? is not on me”
“SILENCE YOU KNOW NOTHING OF ME, NOR ON MY SISTER!”
Garen charges at the creature, Sylas snarls and screams at him, chains and sword clash, hoofs kick of the soldier, he spins around cutting though the stone skin with his sword. Beast and man try to kill each other not getting that they are both in a way wanting to get to their sister.
Vi and Cait are about to go into the fight, when Leilani comes out from behind the two men fighting for their pride as brothers.
“Not a step outsiders”
“Move aside Crystals, there is no way we are letting you go for our family”
“If you really cared you would help us get them and everyone out”
“This is actually a misunderstanding, we were gonna release them!”
“Just your family or all of them?”
“We…”
“Yeah thought so, you outsiders are always batting an eye to our problems. But not when it involves one of your own”
Vi charges against the brunette she is not getting lectured by this stranger, or getting held from finding her sister. The shield and the gauntlet fight for arcane dominance and in the end both women are pulled back by the force.
Cait stills tries to talk when a crystal beam almost takes out her other eye, she dodges out of the way shooting one of her shots in the projectile direction, both shattering at contact.
An old woman stares at her pointing at a white eye, almost like hers under the eyepatch.
“Eye to Eye girl, your opponent is me”
[........]
Alina really didn’t know what was happening, the floor had started to shake the walls as well, some figures had entered the chamber, the guards at the door dropped to the floor and a young man had approached her, letting his ice staff on the floor. Giving her a wide smile. Even if it was cold, it was the kind of cold perfect to be covered in blankets and play with snowballs. Fun, safe.
“Let’s get these ugly bracelets off you. I’m sure the designer hasn’t won any awards with them”
Alina smiles at him and the man lets his palm near the shackles they start to be covered in frost until the petrice gives up and falls to the ground, Alina can feel dizzy once her veins start to flow again with their usual power force. The boy rubs lighty his fingers across hers pressing lightly to the purple parts, acting like an ice bag.
“What is your name, little lady?”
“Alina…”
“Great, you are doing an awesome job! My name is Sven, your useful icepack. Did a scruffy rat come by?”
“Oh..”
She giggles lightly nodding and Sven stops his treatment letting the girl move her hands better than before.
“Well I'm here as your personal carriage then for now.”
He carefully picks up the goldie and she hugs him by the shoulders so as not to fall down. She is trying to reach for her dad’s soul now that she is relished. She can feel it , and shining even brighter than ever, their flows interlacing with each other, she can feel a message of reassurance, that they are going for her.
Sven seems to feel the oddity of power because once he is out of the healing chamber with Alina in his arms, he looks down at her for answers.
“My family is free as well, they are coming to get me”
“Oh that is wonderful news! I would keep you in my arms. Can you tell me where they are coming from? Are they already outside?”
“They’re coming from below”
“Below? From where Sylas friend was kept?”
Alina has no time to answer Sven when some bricks from the floor and cave in front of them. Sven does a wall of icicles putting the child against his chest protectively. But the wall shatters as well when a giant bright claw slams it down with a roar. Sven has a lancer pointed at his forehead and a dagger at his chin.
“Could you hand us our little bear, please? If you not want to have the pole up your ass and be a real ice lolly”
The blunette smirks like a predator at him and Sven looks to all this group, feeling the thread from the girl connecting to the big creature. The man smiles even if he is sweating.
“Of course, I have treated her little fidgets already, but she needs to get carried for the time being. A smith in our group is working on something already, so I would scolt you guys out. Well at least just for directions, you seem like a pretty good team”
Isha huffs at him, but she lowers the bloody dagger. His soul feels like a marshmallow, she reaches for her sister's hand, putting her forehead to her knuckles, asking for forgiveness looking lightly at the blonde's legs.
Alina just brings the little kid hand to her lips smiling.
“Nothing is stopping me from chasing you around little goblin, not even this”
Jinx lowers the lance and offers her arms to the snow smelling guy in hope of his words. He with care deposits the girl in her arms and she comes down to allow Isha to hug them as well, crying. Relief, full of relief, she had been so close to lose this. To lose all of her happiness again, but they were all okay, Lux´s lowers lightly hugging them all to her chest, and Sven moves in his feet smiling lightly.
After their moment the family looked at him. Jinx scrunches up her nose, and her pink eyes go brighter.
“Who sent you?”
“We are the mage revolution, we are just freeing prisoners”
“So you are the mage hippies in the forest uh?”
“That we are jajajaja”
“Then I guess we will have to finally mingle with the neighbors, lead the way Rudolf”
“Sven, actually”
“Oh this keeps getting better”
Jinx smiles and holds Lina better,accommodating her body, Lux starts walking on fours, her light wings being held inside her body while Isha climbs on her to be riding on her back. Brushing her head against Jinxs in nuzzles and electrifying purrs. Jinx returns the brushing as they walk and Alina holds her dad’s head lightly by the crown putting their foreheads together.
Jinx was almost gonna believe her name was starting to mean lucky charm.
Then an explosion came down the aisle they were gonna turn into. Sven did a wall at the last second, but the blow was too strong. Lux dropped Isha down and hugged all her family, her light wings extending themselves to work as lightning rods, she gritted her maw, her talons clasping the bricks under her with force.
Jinx pulled both of her kids close with a painful buzzing behind her eyes, and everything was white for a moment.