"Let me rephrase that. Either take a life as a slave, my slave, or leave. Now," Alex said again, as he pet Neko's head. As he looked at Sarah, he looked at Lillia and saw, or rather felt, her rage, and was honestly surprised. Lillia. Are you okay? I can feel your rage....Stay calm, breathe gently, he gently ordered, his tone concern for her.
I...Im sorry master...my thoughts are insolent...I will try to calm down. Lillia responded, though Alex had just scored another blow to her. She wasnt even free in her thoughts, though she held no resentment for Alex for that, it made her even more jealous of the elf she was pinning down.
"B-But...my things..." Sarah said softly, but she was no fool, or at least not one that couldnt get a point. "I...I will lea-Levitatis!" she yelled. Suddenly Lillia, Alex and Neko were all airborne, levitating above the ground. Sarah was also lifted up into the air and screamed "Look out!" Alex would only have the few floating black arrow heads that now drifted in the air with them for warning as one of the three
assassins in the room began to reload and am another arrow for the back of his head.
"Shildara!" Sarah yelled, but her magic was untrained and the spell which should have shielded them, blew up in her face, sending Lillia into the wall hard, Sarah into the pillar and Neko and Alex into the pool. Although she had not shielded them, she had knocked them out of the levitation zone and normal gravity was restored for all of them. She had also pushed them all out of the way of another swarm of poisoned arrow heads.
The three assassins drew blades and one went after each of them, one for Alex, one for Sarah and one for Lillia. Sarah was groaning and obviously knocked out of focus, Lillia was only wearing a light robe and was otherwise unarmed, but Alex was the master of magic, and although he had landed in the water, His small angel had skimmed out of his arms and hit her head and back against the stairs. She now lay in the shallow water unmoving and silent. IF all that had happened already wasnt enough to bring out Alex's wrath, then this would probably due it.
Alex gulped as the arrows nearly hit him, and looked at Lillia and Sarah. Before he could say anything, he and Neko were flung into the pool, and the girl had her head injured. "NEKO!" He cried, and turned to see his Lillia being flung into the wall. He then looked at Sarah, who had hit a player.
He grit his teeth, and looked at the assassins. He moved his hands, and suddenly the water began to take form, and color. Suddenly, the water was all gone in the pool, and there were now a dozen armored warriors around Alex. One of them had Neko in his arms, and he gave her to Alex, who gently pet her cheek. "Break both the arms and legs of one of them. Kill the other two."
The dozen warriors nodded, and turned to the assassins.
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Suddenly icy blue colored swords appeared in each of the warriors hands. They each were dual wielding katanas. They charged forward with amazing speed, and any attempt to hurt them was met with weird affects.
When swords or arrows hit them, it was like hitting solid ice. The swords would get stuck in their bodies, and they would feel nothing, their bodies would heal back at an alarming rate, and even if they were reduced to crushed ice, their bodies would heal back at an amazing rate. They were focused on killing atleast two of the assassins, and break the limbs of the last one.
Alex also cast another spell, making forcefields appear around Lillia and Sarah, protecting them from arrows and swords, and most other attacks.
The assassins lacked no skills or strategy, but they lacked magic, and soon the one near Alex and near Sarah were slaughtered. Even as they died they fought, there was something tragically graceful about them as they died, Alex may have even found some shame in such fine warriors dying so effortlessly, if not for Neko that is. Neko herself was out cold, and her head had a large bruise and lump on it. The full extent of the damage would be discovered later. Even though it didnt look like much now, Neko was young, and she was a muse.
The last assassin took a different tactic then his two comrades had and grabbed hold of Lillia, spun her around to face the approaching ice warriors and held a dagger to her neck. Lillia tried to use her previous skill to work her way out of her position, but what she had learned and all the skill she had was a product of her heritage and sex slave training that made her intimate with how a body worked. Whatever she knew, this man knew five times more, she was helpless in his arms. "Another step and cut her voice box." He said coldly with an emotionless tone.
The ice warriors probably did not heed him, and he sliced Lillia's neck, not deep enough to kill, but her voice box had been cut open. She gasped and tried to cover the wound with her hands but he held her still and put the blade back, actually holding it painfully within the wound. "The next slice ends her life." He warned. Poor Lillia's mind was abuzz with mortal fear and sadness. She was going to die, and her master would grieve for her, she knew he would. She suddenly wished he was more like Arkurus, then she could die knowing he wouldnt feel anything over her death at all. If the Ice warriors took another step, he would kill her.
The ice warriors suddenly fell apart, and were reduced to normal water. Axel walked over to Sarah and asked her to hold Neko for him. He gave her the symbol, and warned her not to try and escape with Neko. He then looked at the assassin, and he clenched his fists as he saw Lillia's blood. "What...do you want? Who are you? Why are you attacking me?" he asked. "And more importantly, what will it take to make you release Lillia?" he asked, his voice calm, as was his face, but his insides were screaming. He had already lost Tiff. To lose Lillia, would drive him insane.
"Ma..st..er.." Lillia gasped, hardly a whispered gargle as she tried to speak with her sliced voice box. "You dont need to know any of that right now, none of that will help you aside from your last question." The assassin said. "You will teleport the both of us a hundred yards outside this mansion, we have already disabled the mansions anti magic shield so it should be easy enough for you. You will not follow us, you will not come with us. You may come to the place you teleported us to an hour after you do so to collect your slave. That or she can run back to you. But be warned, if I see even the slightest hint of a trick, she will die, and dont think just because I step away from her doesnt mean I cant still plant an arrow between her eyes from a mile away. Do we have a deal?"
Lillia shook her head no, she didnt want to be used as a tool for escape, as a hindrance to her master. But the assassin was leaving them very little choice.
Alex was just about to bargain with the man, before closing his eyes and nodding. He then moved his hand, and suddenly three of them weren't in the bathhouse anymore. They were now standing outside, exactly one hundred yards away from the mansion. "There. Now go, and in one hour I'll return to this place to collect my slave," he said. "Alive," he added, glaring at the assassin. If the man acknowledge this, he would wait for them to begin leaving, until he could no longer see them, before teleporting back to the bathhouse.
When he stood in the bathhouse, he felt to his knees and looked at his hands. I can't lose another one....I can't....
The assassin growled and nodded and the deal was done. Sarah watched as Alex reappeared before her. She held Neko close, and stayed leaning against the pillar. "Did...is everything OK?" She asked as he fell to his knees. "Did he kill her?" She asked in a hushed voice. If he told Sarah that he didnt know or that he hadnt the last time he had seen her then she would smirk. "Well thats OK then...you know I have a trick or two up my sleeve two." She said. She laid Neko down on the floor for a moment and began to go through an assortment of clumsy hand signs.
"I panicked when your slave grabbed me..." She said as she did. "And I tagged her with a porting spell...but I have only read enough to port things to me...so it was kinda useless. But right now I can port her back...and then some..." She bit her tongue as she tried to concentrate, this was the first time she was trying this. "OK...alpha, delta, omega..." She said as she made the last three symbols.
Suddenly the room was full of wind and space time warped into a clumsily put together porting spell. Teleporting and porting were different since teleporting involved moving objects from place to place and could be done by simply looking at the object. Porting involved shifting time and space to drop a magically tagged object into a desired position, but porting was much more dangerous then teleporting, though technically it was easier to preform.
Suddenly Lillia emerged from the space time tear and dropped to the floor. She grasped her cut neck and gasped as she tried to figure out what had happened. At the same time, there was a splash as the assassin also dropped in, bit at the deep end of the pool. He had been running backwards, facing Lillia with his crossbow, but since he had just ported and fallen, the bolt that he shot collided harmlessly with the wall. He also began to sink and had to take off most of his gear in order to float back up, where a very angry wizard would await him.
Sarah gasped, covered in sweat and naked, since she hadnt had the time to recover her towel from the floor. Still she picked Neko back up and slumped down against the pillar, completely worn out from the controlled porting. "I...I hope this...makes...us...us even..." She groaned as she closed her eyes and passed out.
Alex explained to Sarah what happened, and then when he saw her begin the porting spell, his mouth was slightly left agape as he saw his Lillia reappear, and the assassin fall into the deep side of the pool. He quickly cast a spell, and suddenly large metal cuffs would appear on his arms and feet, and he suddenly floated up and was suddenly stuck against the wall, unable to move thanks to the powerful cuffs on his legs and arms.
As for Lillia, Alex quickly ran to her. "It's okay, Lillia, Master is here," he whispered and placed a hand over her throat and tried to heal her wound, and fix her voice box, or atleast help the wound heal and stop bleeding. "I'm sorry, Lillia, I'm so sorry!" he whispered.
Lillia relaxed as she felt her skin mending and the blood stopped leaving her neck. She shook her head and held her Master's hand gently, thinking he was the one that brought her back and saved her, and even if he wasnt, he was saving her now. She couldnt ask for a better master. The assassin was less then pleased. Struggling to get loss he scowled and realized he was trapped, and he couldnt even reach his poison capsules. So he relaxed, took some deep breaths and prepared for whatever the wizard had in mind for him, expecting it to painful beyond imagining, and even though his mind was full of fear, he remained composed. He was a drow assassin, he would not be broken.