5 Matchmaking and Assassins! (2/2)
Razorclaw:
A dangerous predator of the east. It lies in wait under the sand and attacks everything that moves, as soon as its close enough.
Its natural habitat …..
”Fireball!” - ”Windblade!”
I felt the spells a second before their casters could shout out their incantations. Just by reflex, I put up some defence.
”Area Shield!”
*BOOM!*
Ow! The world is spinning as I fly through the air! My shield couldn't completely stop both spells.
”Iron Skin!”
OUf! I hit the ground again. That was softer than expected! I sit up, hmmm that is sand between my hands?
I shudder, as something gives me a hot breath into the neck and I turn around.
Hmmm, those are really many teeth and sharp claws. The thing doesn't seem to consist out of anything else.
”Hi?”
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Roses point of view:
No! The prince saved us with his spell, but he was thrown into the closed off area of the razorclaws. I have to get him out immediately! I draw a knife from my thigh.
But we are being rushed by assassins and I am being pinned down by two of them.
The guards have their hands full too. There are more of them than us! They have at least seventeen people.
”Everyone who doesn't need to hold down the guards, go for the prince!”, one of them screams.
Bastards! One of my opponents turns around and jumps together with others over the fence into the pen of the razorclaws.
I use the opportunity to go on the offensive. I hack at his face and simultaneously kick his groin as he lets his guard down. No time for fairness!
As he goes down I slice his throat and throw my knife into the back of a second assassin. They are badly trained and pose no threat without their superior numbers.
Within the next seconds I and four guards are the only ones left standing. ”PRINCE!”, I run for the pen and take a look over the fence.
Down there is a scene of carnage! Bodyparts and blood everywhere! I want to sink to my knees, as I fear the worst.
But then I see the prince, who is sitting beside a razorclaw, which is gnawing on a dead assassin.
”Get me OUT! The things in here are fucking scary!”, he screams with tears in his eyes and blood all over him.
”D.. Don't move! They only attack moving things! We will get you out as soon as possible!”, I shout. Oh by the goddess thank you, he is alive!
Maybe the Queen will not rip off my head today!
”I know! I read the sign! That doesn't change the fact that I will have nightmares for weeks!” - Prince.
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Me again:
I am back at the embassy and alive! By the river of souls! I thought I was a goner when I looked down the throat of that thing!
But then all those brave assassins jumped over the fence and distracted the thing with their bodies. As they came at me, the thing mowed them down like grass.
I will be sure to give them a memorial for saving me. They are true heroes! When we came back, mother had already heard what happened and was furious.
I am sorry Rose, but looking like that... if I hadn't run off to clean myself and put on new clothes, she would have shredded you right then and there.
At least I was fast enough, so she couldn't see me in that state and father was there to hold her back. Rose and I are waiting for mother and father to come back. They rushed off to get the rulers of Stricc and a present?
”Do you know what they meant by present Rose?”, I ask.
”no.. hic, *sniff*”, Rose miserably answers.
I pat her back. Mother can be really scary sometimes. Rose didn't get beheaded physically, but mentally she sure was chopped to pieces.
”It will be okay. As soon, as I get the opportunity, I will tell her the heroic story of how you saved me from those things!”, I can't see Rose like that.
She is something like family to me by now. Rose smiles thankfully at me.
The doors open and my parents enter the room. They are followed by the rulers of Stricc, whom I already saw once. I was present, when they greeted each other a few days earlier.
A little girl is with them, led by the hand by the Queen of Stricc. Huh?
”Let me reintroduce you again. This is my son, the first Prince of Tirna. By the name Angrod of Tirna. And these are the rulers of Stricc. Arthur Stricc and Katrine Stricc.” Mother pulls me in front of the girl, so we have to confront each other.
That aura is so familiar? I know those eyes, but from where?
”And this is the first princess of Stricc. Celes of Stricc, your fiancee!”
A heavy silence falls on the room.
- ”Myrm!” -”Ascathon!”-
Silence again.
”Bwahahah. HAHA AHAHAHA!”, I can't hold it anymore. I start laughing as I point at a now female Myrm in a pink princess-doll-dress.
Seria really pulled a stunt here.
”AAARRRRRGGH!!!”, Myrm screams in pure rage, as he/she? Tackles me with her whole body.
We both go the ground, with her on top.
I see something shiny in her hand, as she raises it. H...HA...HAIRPIN!?
*STAB**STAB**STAB*
”OWWWW!”, I howl as both pairs of parents separate us. But not before I got a fist of her red hair ripped out.
I will get you back for that! Myrm did more damage in five seconds than twenty assassins which couldn't even scratch me!
Ow! It hurts! I am bloody all over again, but this time its my blood.
What a day!
”I think your torment has begun now.”, Rose whispers.