347 Corporal Ling (2/2)
As for the cost being his life… that was not really a consideration. Every soldier in the Legions knew. Honorable death in battle was far more beneficial to his bereaved family than him living in dishonor having betrayed his Empire and his duties as a soldier.
Ling Yun tightened his grip around his saber, the only weapon he had left. He no longer had the strength to roar a battle-cry, so that it came out merely as a whisper. ”By the blood of Dras, and for the Empire!”
Yet the whisper seemed to hold much more conviction and truth than any roar he could have sounded.
He raised his blade, and fire burst out in a wave that swept into his enemies!
No, it wasn't his doing. Ling Yun blinked, then gaped in shock as the boy and the girl he'd been trying to save suddenly leapt forward and threw fire at the Lich's band. A rain of fireballs swept out from the boy's hands, and a stream of flame spewed out from the girl's. The screams of scorched ghouls filled the air.
But the skeletons leapt ahead. Six bone warriors bearing swords, spears and maces closed in on the pair.
”Get back!” the boy warned, and light flickered into the form of twin blades on either of his hands.
Ling Yun stared. ”Is that… the Church of Light's Psi-blades?”
”We're not from the Church.” The girl said briefly, while stepping back and throwing fireballs at ghouls trying to flank them on the left side.
Then crackling energy formed a little dragon around the boy like a cape, and the boy lunged, Psi-blades tearing into skeletons one after the other in quick sucession. The skeletons tried to stab him, cut him, maul him… but he was too quick, too strong. He cut them down and flung them off and then he sped directly towards the lich.
The surviving skeletons ignored him and closed in on Ling Yun and the girl.
”Oh, no, you don't!” the girl suddenly made a motion as if she was drawing something out of thin air and a sword of fire appeared in her hands.
”What… that's not… from the Church…” Ling Yun had to admit.
”Told you.” The girl said, and then the sword of fire extended to five feet in length. She slammed the it into the head of one skeleton, then swung the blade into the skull of the one next to it. The last remaining skeleton tried to charge her, but she ducked and swept her flames into its torso, slicing it neatly into two, both halves spinning away afterward.
Meanwhile, the boy was ripping the Lich apart. The Lich was trying to cast something, probably, and the surviving ghouls were trying to do something… it didn't matter. The boy tore them all apart with his blades of light, flickering under his Silhouette like the claws of a little dragon.
”Who… who ARE you people…?” Corporal Ling Yun asked in a daze as the Lich collapsed and the ghouls began to fall apart under the assault of the boy's Psi-Blades.
”I'm Mindy.” The girl said, throwing out another fireball at the surviving ghouls. ”And that's Darian.”
”Hi.” Darian said, slicing a ghoul in two.
”Hi.” Ling Yun managed. ”I'm Ling Yun, Corporal of the First Royal Draconian Legion.”
”Nice to meet you.” Mindy said, and whacked another ghoul in the head with her extended fire sword.
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