"Noooooo!" Yirili started yelling at the sight of his brother's lifeless body falling into the ground.
The whole group now faced two threats.
The first one is the now enraged and rampaging younger brother that started to swing his axe around like a mad man.
The second problem is the whole group of low level thugs that work for [The Crossed] that has left the house and were odrered to fight the least important group.
"Graaah" blinded by rage, Yirili swung his axe with all his might.
"Tirino, help me fight the other ones! Let Kaida and Cole deal with him!" Yani wastes no time in begining her attack on the regular thugs.
Tirino hates that he got relegated, not once, not twice, but three times. However, this isn't the moment to care about those petty feelings.
While Yani'll keep her distance and kill anyone that gets too close, Tirino sould be able to defend her from the ones that get too close to her.
"Brotheeeer" he struck down his axe onto the heavy armored student.
*Bam*
The axe was stopped by the combined efforts of Cole's shield and Kaida's support on holding that shield.
The axe ended up getting stuck on the shield. But the big bandit is currently strong enough to lift both of the students.
They let go of the shield before the bandit threw his axe like a tomahawk against a house.
Both students, realizing that it was not the smartest of plans, used the loss of his weapon as aj advantage.
Cole ditched his lance to fight with his own fists. His plan wasn't to win a fist fight against this clearly superior opponent, his plan is to lock him on a grab and have his partner for this fight end the fight.
"W-wait Cole! I'll distract him for a second, cast rock infusion" the pink haired girl whispered her plan.
"Can you hold him long enough?"
"I'll try... no, I will"
Noticing the determined look of his classmate, he couldn't help but chuckle at her sudden bravery.
She ran towards the enraged big man.
She didn't plan to do the immpossible and defeat him, she actually started to dodge and avoid every punch and grab he attempted.
To keep him focused on her, she attacked sometimes.
And after a long thirty seconds of a cat and mouse fight...
"[Rock Infusion]"
Cole's fists got embued on a thick coating of sharp rocks.
He ran towards the big bandit and punched him in the stomach, causing him to contort his whole body before throwing a punch himself.
It landed on Cole's cheek and caused the heavy armored to end up taking some steps back. The damage was sizeable, but he endured it and launched a right hook.
He failed and the bandit kicked him to create distance.
But as soon as Cole got far away enough, a rapier attack from Kaida pierced his left arm.
That attack, coupled with Yani's arrow that hit him in the shoulder, caused his whole left arm to be rendered useless.
"Aaaagh, brotheeer!" He thrashed his whole body at all direction's possible, salivating like a rabbid dog "I'll avenge youuu!"
While he was screaming about his vengeance, Cole grabbed him on a lock that restricted the movement of his right arm.
"NOW! KAIDA!" Thr youn boy ordered his classmate to attack. And thanfully, his attempt was succesfull as Kaida slashed the back of the bandit's knee, causing him to both scream in pain and lose movement on both of his legs.
Now with three of his limbs being damaged to the point were he cannot move them, Cole let his grapple go and as the bandit was falling.
*Bam*
A strong right hook on the chin of the bandit by the rocky fist of the armored student was enough to knock him over.
"He probably... won't wake up fo a day... or two" Cole said in between his attempt at regained his lost air. He supported himself by holding his knees.
"Yani, Tirino!" She called out to his other classmates, thanks to the fall of both brothers, most thugs began to flee "Take care of Cole, I'm going to help Alen or the princess" she immidiately started running after yelling to her friends.
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Two bodies slid through the grass on the backyard of the house.
"So you're the rat that can challenge me!?" Yute, leader of [The Crossed], felt like he was gettimg humiliated by being pitted against a noble lady he thought was weak.
"I'd start using a more greatful tone if I was you" at this point, Fran hated him the most. To her this was the guy that injured her friend "But maybe I expected a lot from a no-name group"
"You'll regret calling us that, little rat" both of them were spewing poison against eachother with every word they said.
The tension between both of them is rising more and more with each passing second.
Tightening the grip on their weapons, preparing their muscles to begin an explosive movement that'll start the fight.
The first one to move was the princess, who quickly and elegantly made her way next to the leader.
While she tended to use heavier lances, small spear type weapons are easier to carry around.
She was patient, that's what she's been taught all her life. Wait for the precise moment to attack, not a second too early nor a second too late.
She looked like she danced around him, only attacking when she saw a complately safe and unpunishable spot.
As the first princess of the Montanev kingdom, a kingdom that sees the birth of warriors on it's snowy plains and cold mountains. She couldn't be the exeption to the rule, she was trained ever since she was young.
It truly looked like a fight between a seasoned veteran and an amateur.
But in this case, the seasoned veteran that held the upperhand in battle is the teenage girl and not the mature man, leader of his own group of bandits.
She stepped back, contemplating all the little cuts she caused on him.
On the other hand, outside of the sleeves of her shirt, she remained unharmed.
"Iceborn soldiers, attack from below"
He ran towards her.
"[Ice salagmite]"
A small radius formed around the white haired princess. But Yute was already inside of that radius.
The peaks began forming around her, piercing the boss on his feet, making him retreat.
"Agh, you bitch! I'll make you pay for that"
"I'll make you pay for hurting my friend" she coldly looked at him behind the ice peaks she casted.
At that moment, Yute saw something similar in her eyes.
He felt that stare, a stare so focused on protecting those close to her. Even if the other one could fend off for themselves.
Yute's confident smile vanished for a second.
"I see he's very important to you" his sudden calm tone surprised the princess that was planning her next move.
"He is my friend, and I won't let scum like you that injured him to not be punished"
"I'm also similar, your guy is fighting against my girl. And if he's the one that comes out of that house..." he confidently smiled, no fear in his face and no doubts on his heart "Your whole group is as good as death"
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She's definetely faster than those other two.
And compared to current, start of the game, Cecil... I'd say she stacks up pretty well.
But I have something she doesn't.
"Northern winds, attack"
[Wind Scythe]
A single wind edge came out of my hand and started flying towards that woman.
She destroyed it with her sword, begining a run that had me as her finish line.
However, before she began her sprint, while she still was on her swing that destroyed my spell, I quickly had made my way next to her.
*slash*
I managed to cause a shallow cut on the side of her stomach as I ended up goimg past her.
"You're really strong" that cut didn't seem to make a lot of damage on her "Why are you stuck with this pathetic group?"
She simply pulled back her long black hair "Because of love. There's no reason other than the fact that both Yute and I love eachother"
While I would like to say that love alone doesn't make you go through these specific circumstances. I'm trying to save my loved ones from a fate that's even worse, so I'm not one to talk.
"I don't understand what relationship you have with him. But I'm guessing that you don't fully agree with him"
For a second, for a split second, she looks to the side "He's just... a little missguided recently" I could feel her pushing her emotions to the back of her mind.
I make my way over to her, launching a horizontal slash.
She stopped it with her sword "What did he do to have you like this?" I'm honestly surprised by her devotion to him.
"He's my childhood friend..." she strongly swung her sword, making me fly away "He saved me when no one else would"
She ran towards me as I was still in the air. I try to feel my mana... I cannot cast any spells.
I roll around, using the force of my spining to power up my parry, stopping her completely.
"And you're not going to stop him!? He's doing really bad and illegal stuff and you're just letting him run around doing what he wants!?" I fall to the ground, my landing turned into a crouch as I prepared for my attack.
With all my strength, I felt my muscles burst out as I began running at her.
"If he's your childhood friend, your boyfriend or whatever he may be..." I punch her on her face, as a small revenge for her previous attack "You have to help him and guide him to a better path..." she looks at me with a surprised face as I tighten the grip on my daggers "Because that's what you're supposed to do for the people you care for!"
"One of my friends is really mean to this one person. I confronted her about it because bullying other people is bad, and she is a really good girl" I run at her, this time she manages to block my attack.
"Because she was missguided, I tried to help her!" We were so inmersed in our clashes that we failed to notice that we exited the house.
We're now on the backyard, and I see how Fran and Yute keep fighting.
We all separate ourselves, standing next to our partners.
"And what are you doing here?" Fran began to poke my chest "Look at your face! I would've liked if you left and got to a safe place" she started to squeeze my cheeks.
"But I can't leave you guys alone!" I quickly replied as she got her face red while rubbing and squeezing my cheeks.
"Don't care, your safety should be first" she pouted before letting go of my face.
"Bu-"
"No buts!"
"Hey rats! This isn't the time to act like a couple" Yute yelled at us.
"W-w-we're just friends" she even redder, pointing at the boss angrily and stomping her foot on the ground.
I saw Gissy's face, she's looking at yute with her cheeks flushed as she hides her mouth behind her hand.
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