RUDEV MARY

The Heist

A lesion of lodestar-bright light illuminated the benighted sky. Sofia was well prepared for them after she heard the news. She ordered that the Jaguar be taken into the acropolis. The acropolis was an impenetrable house where valuables were kept. Knights surrounded the entire kingdom while the people were wide awake. "Today we fight as our life depends on it," she said with a stern look.

Talia, Dan, Ephraim, and the other knights were on a warship gazing at Persia."I'll wait for the boss to give us the signal," Talia said.

Rudev and Joza arranged for the knights to attack. They spotted the ship from a short distance. "Look," rudev said to Joza.

"We're finally having a visit from our friends," Joza muttered. Rudev turned to him and said, "Joza, I know we haven't always worked together, but I'm imploring us to take a stance and put all our differences aside for now"

Joza scoffed and replied"Rudev, I've changed for real now"

Rudev shook her head and said"Make me believe that"

They turned back to the ship.
"Any time now"Talia muttered, she seemed impatient.

***

Amira lying on her bed gradually opened her eyes, she had recovered but there was no one there to help her."Hello" she muttered.

Suddenly a silhouette figure of what looked like a man approached her from the dark, she tried to scream but was too weak.

"Now!"Talia said.

They lighted the canons and shot into the sky towards the kingdom but it didn't reach, almost as if it was on purpose.

"Take cover!"Joza screamed.

They dodged while some knights launched their canons and shot towards their ship... A windstorm of fire arrows was skirling andsizzling through the sky, some knights managed to penetrate the kingdom, they began fighting immediately

***

While some knights were on the battlefield, some went towards the acropolis to perform the heist, They conducted detailed surveillance of the Acropolis. The ceiling lights were on, would observe guards opening the door and record the combination he used. The knights had hidden inside an ordinary-looking red fire extinguisher in a nearby storage room in the centre. This means they had an inside man already.

Some Knights remained in a nearby getaway chariot during the heist and prepared to leave as soon as they were done.

 To avoid a large number of security guards in the area around the acropolis, the King of Keys picked the lock to an abandoned office building that adjoined the Acropolis, as it shared a private garden with it that wasn't under watch by the knights.

The garden allowed access to a small balcony in the centre, which the knights accessed via a ladder. As they approached one of the guards they disarmed in with an uppercut. 

 The door had a lock on it that consisted of two plates. They were pivoted out of the way and taped to the antechamber wall.

The inside man had successfully duplicated the almost impossible to duplicate, foot-long key. However, during the heist, they knew that guards often visited the utility room just before opening the door and decided to investigate. Inside the unlocked room, they found the door key. They decided to steal the original key, as it would ensure the doors' manufacturers did not realise the key could be duplicated and indeed. The knights turned off the antechamber lights before opening the door.

 After the King of Keys picked the lock to the internal gate, the second in command, working in darkness, moved to the middle of the room (having practised the number of steps in the replica), reached up to the ceiling and flipped over to the next hall trying to avoid the fleet of guards walking around. 

They would occasionally flick on their lights for a brief moment to position their drill over the lockboxes.

The King of Keys used a hand-cranked dagger to break the locks on each of the security boxes looking for the right one that contained the jaguar.

In one hour, they finished and left, returning to the office building a process that needed caution. They then put the jaguar in the chariot which then drove to the palace. The great impenetrable acropolis was the scene of a well pulled off heist.

 All around was nothing but a whirlwind ofdisorder and violence, a blur of colour and vicious motion. The parched, pantingtongue collected the dust-choked air which intermixed with the bitterness ofiron. Deafening, the blood pounded in the ears, drumming to a ferocious beat insidethe helmet. The sound was barely enough to obscure the cries of men, thescreams of and the thunder of steel striking steel. Pain from adozen wounds barely registered, being drowned out by the heightened, throbbingache from the shattered hand which hung trembling on the right side. 

"Just give up already," Talia said walking towards rudev and Joza."We still have a lot to fight for"rudev muttered.

"Really?"Talia replied with a smirk on her face, the knights immediately arrived with the jaguar and placed it in her palms. Rudev and Joza were stunned, they gawked and wondered how it was possible.

They cuffed them from behind and took them to the palace to meet the real deal-Sofia.