Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Elevator Fight

I threw Katarachin at the fighter with the mace, the nominal leader of trio of recruits as I leapt past them and onto the scout with the coin. The platform had begun to rise with a final shouted word from Justice.

I grabbed the collar of the scout’s outfit with both hands and headbutted him, before pulling out one of his many daggers from a scabbard. The fighter beside us already drew his longsword, but hadn’t gotten his buckler from where it had been resting on the ground. I dropped the ground and threw myself at his shins before he’d worked up the nerve to stab at his friend’s chest. He kicked, but I took the blow in stride as I stabbed his other leg in the vulnerable joint behind the knee, where none of his plated leather protected him. 

He made a small keening noise and began to fall. Moving to the other side of him down on one knee, I finally turned to see how Justice fared. The two remaining, Eyehollow and the fighter that nominally had seemed like the leader of the trio. 

Eyehollow had drawn his blade, a scimitar, while his other hand held Katarachin, watching Justice. The fighter with the mace was trying to beat his way through her Light Shield spell. 

I threw up my guidance screens behind me to confuse the two I’d engaged and slunk low to try to catch Eyehollow unawares on the side missing an eye. My bounding steps were silent on the levitating platform. 

The scout, no longer stunned by my headbutt, shouted, “Eyehollow!” while a blade deflected off my body armor. Eyehollow turned and as he did so, I summoned Katarachin back into my hands. Slightly confused, his attempt to knock me aside with the suddenly empty hand slowed. It gave me just enough time to grab the arm and travel with him, Katarachin already biting into the shoulder of his armored jacket while our momentum carried us both to the ground. 

A knife bit into my tail, and another slammed into Eyehollow’s armored chest before bouncing off the wall of the well and clattering down to the bottom. Eyehollow tried to haul me to the ground beside him. My strength surprised us both as my legs dug hard enough into his armored jacket to keep me tucked to his arm. I didn’t waste my time as he shifted to reangle his hand with the scimitar. Katarachin plunged twice, red spreading with each stab. As the scimitar raised, I used the tension of his flailing to launch away from him and back towards the scout throwing knives at me from the ground. 

My gaze managed to catch that Justice had somehow maneuvered herself such that her attacker was now against the well’s wall and was no longer using her spells to defend. 

I pulled up my Guidance screens again and weaved a few steps to avoid another blade. I approached quickly, but instead of leaping like I’d done a few times already, I sidestepped and stabbed as the scout seemed unable to keep up. My blade went through their armor at their side, while they protected their front. 

They turned to me now, but then a bolt of fire flashed over their face, causing them to scream. I shoved Katarachin into his chest, under the ribs. He fell. 

I turned back to Eyehollow nearly upon me, but his gaze on Justice, who was alternatively punching the stunned, off-balance mace user into the wall while we rose and firing bolts of fire at the other three. The mace user was leaving red behind on the wall in streaks every time he fell back. 

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Eyehollow, seeing that both Justice and I were free of distractions hesitated. I crept around to his bad eye’s side and Justice threw another stunbolt, intended to slow down his reaction time. He held his hands up and let the scimitar go limp on the strap around his wrist. 

“I’m a man with one good eye who can see when I’ve been beat.” He’d backed up to the edge of the platform, where there was the largest gap between wall and our elevator. “Well played, kiddos.” 

He hopped back a step and fell back down the well, a pair of dagger sparking as he dug in to slow his descent. The final insurrectionist, the one I’d made lame with the halberd shouted, “Wait!” 

Justice nodded to me and simply shoved his attacker into the gap between the wall and the glowing lift that brought us almost to ground level. It was not quite wide enough on his side. There was a lot of sound as the body scrapped and twisted along the stone wall before falling. The lift did not slow down. 

The final of the paid dead meat was where I left him, crippled and on one knee. 

“Please, don’t kill me, I didn’t mean to, I just- it wasn’t supposed-”  We didn’t have time to listen as we could already feel the sunlight. I went over and clubbed him over the back of the head and he collapsed. Whether or not he got off the platform before the spell ended was not my concern. 

We reached the top with a small audience, a few people who were looking down into the well, looking aghast at the bloodshed. They backed away as we became level. They saw the corpse and unconscious body, then screaming started.  

Justice began shouting, “Arm yourselves! Attackers! Mercenaries! They’re coming from the sewers!” 

Both of us oriented toward where the raised theater stage was, and leapt off the floating platform to grass, sprinting to reach the coronation proper to warn the crown princess and her hopefully loyal entourage of the false Drakengard delegation, and prevent a cold war from becoming very, very hot. 

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