Long Lost Betrothed

Professor Anders

"Cass!" Percy and I yelled as we ran forward kneeling next to the young girl.

"Stay with us." Percy said bringing her head into his lap as I held her hand tightly.

"I wanted to do that for longer than you can imagine." Anders said as I saw Keyleth and Vax running towards us.

"Keyleth, hurry!" I called out to the young druid girl as she ran over and pushed Percy and I out of the way.

"Vax, I need wanderer's moss, flicksilver and uh...the bag that says 'dirt'. Need pressure on the wound before the spell can hold." Keyleth said as Vax sat across from her searching through the bag.

"Tick-tock, tick-tock." Anders said grabbing a glass bottle from the shelf as I turned to him throwing a dagger at the bottle shattering it, a murderous look in my eyes. The man would die tonight.

"You can do this." I heard Vax tell Keyleth, as I slowly stood up from my spot, Percy was having a minor panic attack next to me as I slowly walked by him grabbing my rapier from the floor my eyes never leaving Anders.

"Oh, the joy in watching a de Rolo child meet a painful end. Cheers." Anders said as he held up a glass of liquor toward me after pulling another bottle from the shelf.

"You son of  a bitch!" I screamed striking with my rapier at Anders as he took a step back avoiding multiple attacks easily

"We're all sons and daughters of bitches, Alastair." He said amusement in his voice, "You and de Rolo in particular from those bitches, who bore you." Percy was now standing next to me taking shots at Anders who slipped into another room slamming the doors shut, as Percy and I headed over to them and it took me three kicks to get the door to bust open. "Aw. Did I poke a sore spot? You didn't know your parents like I did. They all took every opportunity to keep an intellect like mine nose-down in the dirt, tutoring their...misbegotten spawn" Anders said and I turned when I heard a grunt from behind us shoving Percy out of the way as I blocked Anders attack with a sword, with my rapier but he used all his weight in the next swing and knocked my rapier out of my hand getting ready to swing at me again as I was defenseless.

"Ophelia!" Percy yelled and grabbed Anders arm flipping him across the room. Making me raise an eyebrow for a second impressed.

"Unlike the de Rolos, the Briarwoods see me for a greater purpose." Anders said as I picked up my rapier again. "And for my efforts they have given me a great many rewards." Anders licked his lips revealing, a silver tongue? Before yelling out, "Rise, armor of old and greet our guests." Four armored statues around the room started moving coming towards Percy and I as we stood back-to-back.

"Well shit." I said as Percy shot his gun at Anders only for the bullets to be blocked by one of the armor statues, as the others were coming up on us.

"No." Percy said as we both dodged out of the way from other armored statues. "My turn." I heard Percy say as he shot at one of them only causing the bullets to bounce off causing the candle chandelier above to fall on it. "Damn."

I dodged another one only to be cornered by two cursing under my breath I tried to look for a way out when I heard Vax's voice, "Oi! Heads up!" as a dagger was thrown into one of the armored soldiers head's distracting it long enough that I was able to  dodge out between the two them.

"This revenge is mine." I heard Percy say as Vax jumped in front of him when he was also getting cornered.

"Not if your dead." I called out to him rolling my eyes slightly. "We're in this shit together de Rolo."

"If you're not dead down there, we could use some help!" Vax yelled down to the others who were still fighting guards. They ran up to the room to see us fighting the armored statues as we jumped and rolled out of the way while still trying to take them down somehow.