In the past
When Mara was younger, while her father worked in Whitestone as its archeologist, she would take lessons with Percy and cass with they're tutor professor Anders "Whitestone." The professor holds up a white piece of mineral in front of the three, one of them being bored while the other two sat smiling as the professor explained "Mined from our very mountains, its plain appearance belies an exceptional trait.
When refined it is known by another name."
"Residuum Glass, Professor Anders." Percy says raising his arm
"Correct as always, Percival." The professor muttered, while Percy was distracted writing in his book. Glanced over at her brother and smirked, aiming her spit shooter at him "Residuum is a potent arcane amplifier." While the the man and her brother were distracted, she short it at him, hitting him in the face and dropping his pencil he glared at his sister who looked away whistling, Mara on the other hand giggled in silence as cass laughs covering her mouth
" Take this delicate Lambent Crystal, for instance." Professor anders placed the blue crystal he picked up with a cloth and placed it on the holder, as he brought the Residuum closer to the crystal, it starts To glow, while attention was one the lesson, cass pushed Percy's books, which knocked over his inkwell and spilling some ink on his shirt, he stood up to avoid getting more on himself "Ugh. Cass!"
"Cassandra." Anders called making her flinch and look forward to see his unamused look "Are you volunteering to demonstrate?"
"Um, certainly, Professor." She stands up and walks over to his desk, picks up the Residuum bringing it close to the crystal, making it light up again "On its own, the light remains measured." Anders says as he takes cass's hand, with the cloth, covering the crystal and picking it up
"However, when even a tiny bit of Residuum touches it..." as he pushes her hands closer, the crystal charges up faster, until it explodes, making her gasp in surprise gasps
Just then then door opens and they hear "You're not endangering the heirs of Whitestone, or allies are you, Professor?" Percy and cass's father asked as he and his wife entered No, of course not, my lord." Andre says surprised by they're visit as he rushed over to greet them. "Merely relaying the import of its most valuable commodity."
"Do keep the children in one piece if you can?" Lady de rolo said smiling at the children who returned the gesture, Anders chuckles nervous "Childr...yes." As they began walking to the door he spoke "I-If I may, I still have not received word on my refinery proposal." He said
"Anders, we've been over this." Lord de rolo reminded
"Yes, but with enough funding, we could triple our Residuum production." Andre states
"Your ambitions cloud your duties!" Lord de rolo glared, he noticed the looks from the children and toned it down" More is not always better. Perhaps focus on your pupils instead of matters beyond your purview."
Anders bows his head "Oh, forgive my hubris." He chuckle sadly "Your advice is always illuminating...."
"See you at dinner, dears." Lady De Rolo smiled to the children before the two left, Anders growled in anger, grumbling as he moved back to his desk, pushing his glasses up "Ugh, why do I bother? No one appreciates me. No one at all."
"Professor, it's just an experiment." Cassandra stated
"Not to me!" Anders exclaimed fixing his hair "You'll never appreciate the potential here." He muttered at her level "How could you, when everything is given and nothing is earned?" He walks to the door, leaving the children confused
"Fanciful whelps." He spared once last bit of advice "Pray you never wake to find reality knocking at your door."
Then shuts the door behind him
The group and rebels, run down the street with Archie "Spread word of our escape. Rendezvous in the morning." He ordered the surviving rebels who nodded and left to inform the other free rebels, the group run past the sun tree, where the bodies still hanged, which kelyleth stopped and looked at the dead representative, she frowned and went after the others
"Time to start talking, Percival. The fuck happened back there," Vax yelled as the group were now back at the tavern, Mara hadn't said a single thing after what happened in the prison when Percy aimed the pepper box at her, sitting on a crate further away, still in disbelief
"I assure you, I'm in control," Percy calmly stated. "Oh, were you in control when you pointed that at her?," He pointed at Mara, who was still out of it "I saw your eyes. You could've killed her!" Percy felt guilty for his momentary lapse at the prison, especially since he'd aimed it and someone he cared about
"The pepperbox is a very potent tool," he explained glancing at Mara with sadness in his eyes now, "I-I may have gotten carried away, I'm sorry." Percy sat down, trying to gather more words to speak out " I-it's okay.... I'm fine" she muttered pulling her knees closer to her chest
Vax stood there still made. "Oh, I swear, if you turn that thing on any of us again," he pointed at Percy " I will not hesitate. I will kill you." He then walks away, Mara said she was fine, but it was clear she wasn't, She felt at a loss and confused.
"Percy, holding that weapon, it's like you're a different person. What is it?" Vex asked to help ease the tension while getting to bottom of Percy's recent development. Percy just looked at his pepperbox in silence as everyone waited for his response. "When we came here, darling, you promised no more lies. You owe us the truth."
"You're right," Percy immediately responded.
"The creating of the pepperbox begins five years ago," Percy began to recall, in the past Percy was running through the woods, avoiding arrows being fired "With my family murdered, I had no way of striking back. So I did the only thing I could. I fled." He ju,ped into thr river where his attackers lost him
"Washed away to a new life." He was saved by fishermen "I feared the de Rolo named was a death sentence so I disappeared." He took a cloth from a crate and covered himself "Wandering aimlessly, my days spent struggling for survival." Sat in an alley only bread with mold growing, but ate anyway " until Mara found me..." he tried to find a place to sleep, but bumped into someone, who turned and gasped as she saw him " took me to the tavern her father owned..." after treating his wounds she gave him proper food, however he couldn't sleep once night came "My nights were filled with fear, blood...and cruel nightmares. These unrelenting visions of my family's end. I worried I would go mad from grief. The hatred inside me grew. Vengeance burning hotter than black powder. Nearly consuming me," gasped when he awoken, glanced at the paper on the desk, before drawing out a plan for the weapon "Until the new vision came," and began working on it
he held up his pepperbox, "A spawn of science that would bring me the revenge I so desperately sought. I dreamt of a machine that would tip the scales of fortune in my favor. I dreamt of this."
"Yikes, no wonder he's single," Scanlan commented. "Not the time, Scanlan," Vex sighed. "Do you normally build death machines you find your dreams?" Vax asked. "Not the first time I've been inspired," Percy replied honestly, "Does it matter where it came from?"
"At the moment? Yes, I'd say it does." Vax says as kelyleth felt a gentle breeze by her feet, gasping softly as she turned around "Sun Tree?" While the others spoke, she approached the roots in the wall again, hesitant about putting her hands on them. LWhat happened to you?" She placed her hands on them, glowing green along with her eyes, and began seeing the tree as it was before, slowly dying under the power the briar woods, its life dreaming and becoming weaker
She gasps softly as she returned to reality And falls to her knees, covering her mouth in sorrow "You're so weak." She makes a little light orb, that fades quickly, she does it again and sees a tiny root grow, however it doesn't last and crumples, kelyleth continues trying, bringing the orb closer
"Yeah, look, don't get me wrong, that thing's badass. But what are those scribbles for?" Grog asked crossing his arms. "The monsters I hunt." Percy turned the chamber of the gun with the flick of his thumb, a click for each turn. "Professor Anders, Anna Ripley, the Briarwoods, and until about an hour ago, Kerrion Stonefell," he said remembering what he did. "In my dreams, I swore to make a list of those who wronged me."
"Swore to who?" Vax questioned. "Hold up, that's five names," Scanlan counted out on his fingers, "Who's the six-barrel for?"
"Uh-no, no, no, no!" Keyleth gasped. The group looked over as flames danced over the roots of the Sun Tree. "Uh, fire," she beat down with a rag trying to extinguish the flames. Vax kicked open one of the barrels, grabbing it while ale poured out of it onto the fire. The flames went up in smoke as both he and Keyleth coughed from it.
Vax dropped the barrel as it rolled over to Grog. "Is that ale?" he asked picking up the now empty barrel, "You told me they were all empty!" "Guess there was one left." Vax shrugged
"Uh!" Grog dropped the barrel, scattering across the floor. "Must not kill Vax," he shook trying to control his anger
Vex strutted to Keyleth visibly angry at her actions. "I-I'm so sorry. The Sun Tree was...," Keyleth stuttered, raising her hands up in defense. "I-I thought maybe that sunlight could..." "Inside? Why not just announce where our hideout is while you're at it?" Vex pointed at her.
Vax grabbed her hand stopping her from furthering her questioning. "All right, you made your point. It was an accident." Vex glared at her brother, A moment ago he was ready to beat the shit out of Percy but now he was all pacified. "Hate to interrupt, but this is bigger than all your personal shite," Archie said.
The twins gave a final glare at each other, breaking apart to walk in opposite directions. "We have a real chance at reclaiming Whitestone here." "Are you sure you wanna?" Grog scoffed while picking his nose, "I mean, this town ain't even got any ale."
"Aye, we've seen our share of dark days. But Percival de Role is back from the dead," he said looking up at his old friend, then turned to his other red head friend "And what's even better he's got the wanderer with him, If that won't inspire the people, nothing will." She smiled slightly
"Sorry, Archibald. Right now, I'm only thinking about my sister." Percy said
"Ugh. Guess they're a close-knit family. Eh? You know what I'm saying?" Scanlan said while nudging Grog with his elbow. "Shut it!" both the twins yelled causing Scanlan to frown. "I know you're eager to rally the troops, but Cassandra's my only family. I have to find her."
"Percy, old friend, I reckon we can do both," Archie said with sincerity causing Percy to have a smile on his face, the group are back outside heading to they're next missing, following Archie "The noble de Rolo residences. Once symbols of the connection between your family and their people. Now the Briarwoods hand them out as prizes to their cronies. Stonefell got one. Their enforcer Duke Vedmire lives in the one we passed earlier."
Archie stealthily led them through town, careful of all the guards and giants roaming about. Rain began to pour down hard on them as they weaved through the alleys. He brought them to an underground hut that was sheltered from the rain with a small lookout. He pulled out a scope, looking through the lens towards the house. "And right there, Professor Anders. My scouts got word he's holding the Kestrel here."
"Cassandra," Percy whispered. He brought out his gun, clicking the pin back, "Then what are we waiting for?"
"Hate to burst your bubble, but we can't just stomp through the front door. There's a million guards and we'll die a thousand deaths," Vex stated. "Um, is that a lot?" Grog asked trying to count it on his fingers with no luck. "She's right. We've tried and failed before. Cassandra is the Briarwoods' prize hostage. Freeing her would be a massive blow. The whole city would take up arms," Archie explained.
"Ooh, ooh!" Scanlan excitedly jumped, "What if I lure the guards away from the house?" Grog loudly, laughed at Scanlan's suggestion, "Yeah! Good one."
"Come on. Real ideas only," Vex groaned. "I could shape that tree in the back into a sort of ladder?" Keyleth' suggested next as Vax jumped back into the hideout. "Nope. Just scouted it. Even more guards posted in the back." "Yeah, but there wouldn't be if I made them leave," Scanlan pointed out.
Grog laughed once again wiping a tear away, "Seriously. How do you come up with these jokes so fast?"
"Scanlan, please. Now is not the time to be cute," Vex pleaded. "I am not cute. I mean, I am. Extremely. But not like you mean it. Listen, I'm serious. I can create a distraction while you save Percy's sister." He stated
"That would have to be an enormous distraction," Percy said. "Yeah, and you're tiny," Grog fired back.
"Well, then I'll pick a big target. T-That bruiser. Venkman."
"Vedmire," Archie and Mara corrected. "Yes, I'll burn down his motherfucking house." He said excited "A fire that big would be seen across Whitestone," he opened out his arms to emphasize his plan. "The answer is no. It's far too dangerous. And you're far too... you," Vex stated making Scanlan pout, Vax got down and placed a hand on his shoulder, "Grog and I will go. I'm much better at this."
"No," Scanlan shoved off his hand, "You're the stabby-kill-kill guys. I can do this alone. I've got these potions," he showed off. "Which do what again?" Vax asked. "No idea, but it doesn't matter. Look, I'm a master distractor. My songs, my jokes, my... me. Vex, you're always saying I'm annoying."
"Hmm," she thought he wasn't wrong. "Well, let me be annoying," he emphasized.
"If there's trouble, we can't help," vex stated. "Ah, don't worry about me The. I know exactly what I'm doing," he smiled at her.
Mara reached behind her and pulled out her boot dagger. "I know it's not much. I once heard though it's not about size, it's how you use it," she handed it to him, he reluctantly takes, He didn't really know what he was gonna do with it "Wow. I think that's the first time I heard you make a sex joke. Still a work in progress but I'll count it," he laughed as he put the dagger in his belt. "Well don't let it be your last time either," she smirked
With Scanlan
As thunder crashes, Scanlan is seen moving along the side of the wall, completely scared shitless "What the f*ck am I doing?" He questioned himself "Ooh, I'm a master distractor." He mocked himself at his own stupidity "Ooh, I'm gonna burn his house down. Ugh. Moron!": he churned himself in a whisper as he hid behind some hay in a cart near the entrance, which was being watched by two Guards "Whew. Okay, come on, come on, come on, you got this." He calms himself down as he pulled out a flute "No one ever suspects the Scan-man. Right? Right? Yeah, right." Starts playing upbeat melody, which echoed down the street, catching they're attention"What the hell was that noise?" One of them wondered
"Come on." The other said, both leave to see what the noise was, which the gnome smirked, he put the flute away and began climbing the hay, onto the wall "♪ Hoppin' walls like a cat ♪ Ugh! Oh!" And falls of onto the other side, groaning "♪ Totally meant to do that ♪" he rubbed his side, before collecting himself "Scanlan's hand!" He whispered gently to avoid the guard hearing as he used his purple hand to lift they Hay he saw towards the building, he hides on the side of it, pulling out a match box and lighting a match "♪ Gonna prove Vex wrong ♪"
thunder rumbles as it starts to rain, putting out the match to his dismay "♪ Unless f*cking rain comes along ♪"
"Hmm." He then looks up and notices an open window, he strains as he pulls himself up, reaching the window ledge and pulls himself up and rolling in, exhaling after finally getting a rest, pulling his hand against what he thought was a wall, he then sniffed the air after catching a disgusting scent, and looked up wide eyed when he saw he was touching vedmire's knee...while he was sitting on the toilet doing his business, letting out a fart and something splashes into it "Oh, shit."
The giant stands up while Scanlan looked terrified "Oh, shit..." he gasped, another piece of...I think you know what dropping into the toilet, he crawled back as the giant glared "Trespasser!" Vedmire yelled "It's one of them!" He called out to the guards, Scanlan burst out from the bathroom running "Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit!" He stopped as guards appeared at the other side of the hallway, and vedmire coming out of the bathroom, he takes off running, running into another hall and closing the doors
"He went that way!"
"Through that door!"
The guards were yelling while Scanlan tried to hide in a rim, but the doors wouldn't open "Locked. Locked." And moved on when he heard
"Move it, move it"
"f*cking lock... Ugh!" The next door he pushed open "Roll to see if he... Huh?" Inside were a couple of guards that looked like they were playing a game of dungeons and dragons "Uh... hi." Scanlan said awkwardly, going in his bag as they got defensive and pulled out one of the potions "Gentlemen, to your health." He toasted before gulping it down, didn't taste good, however nothing seemed to happen "No? Yeah, I really thought that would do something"
He cried our as one of the guards swung at him, only for the gnome to disappear in purple smoke, and finds himself in the hallway
He chuckles" Oh, hell yes."as more guards come in swinging, he ends up teleporting to different places in the hall, in fact right after he teleports he starts making the guards accidentally kill each other
He yelps as he finds himself between two guards, and as the guy in front throws his spear, and impays the other guard into a wall, Scanlan I'm then re appears and finds himself in front of vedmire "Uh, you know what, lemme just..." he tries to teleport but it seemed like the potion wore off "Uh-oh."
Scanlan runs through the halls with vedmire chasing him, yelping as he's swung at by his massive sword, pulling out the next potion. "Potion number two." He gulps it down, and in purple smoke appears, however instead of teleport like he hoped, the potion shrinked "How would this ever help?!" He exclaimed in a high-pitched voice
"Loathsome measle!" Vedmire smirked as he tried to stomp the shrunken gnome, he barely managed to dodge him, he takes off running towards the banister, yelping as he jumped through avoiding vedmires sword and latching into the chandelier, turning his attention to the growling giant
He laughs "Missed me, Dukey." But suddenly turned back to his regular size, quickly grabbed the chandelier for dear life, before his weight broke the top and fell to the floor with a loud crash, groaning in pain, vedmire smirked as the guards made they're way down to capture him
"Yeah, yeah.Vax is way better at this" Scanlan groaned ask eh pulled out the last potion "Okay. Last one.Please be something good" he gulped it down till the last drop, suddenly his stomach starts gurgling, making him clench it "f*ck." the guards pick him up as vedmire made his way down "So... what misguided ambitions delivered this miniature parcel to my abode?" He questioned
Scanlan chuckles nervously as he gets closer, putting the sword down and cracking his knuckles as Scanlan talked "Yeah, uh, funny story actually. I thought this was Whitestone Drive, But it must be Whitestone Aven... " the gnome shrieks as he gets punched below the belt
"More jokes. I strung children's corpses from a tree, but I promise you, you will suffer worse." He smirked, until Scanlan's stomach gurgled, and gags along with coughs as he hears his a certain gnomes flatulence go off, Scanlan's cheeks were bright orange red as the rumbling got worst, until he starts spouting fire from his mouth, making the guards drop him, and cry out as fire began surrounding as Scanlan moved
"Get away!"
"Everybody run!"
Scanlan looks wide eyed at what he caused "Wow, that was convenien... " before barfing up more fire lighting a guard on fire who cries out, still barring fire as he ran
Back with the others
Grog had fallen asleep snoring while everyone remained up, still waiting for scalan's go signal, Percy still in deep thought "Thinking about
Cass?" Mara asked finally talking after a while "Is it that obvious?" He muttered "She was thirteen when you last saw her, right? Such a sweet age." Vex says joining the conversation
"She was a nightmare.Always got me in trouble. Terminally irritating, pompous, utterly incapable of silence" he listed in annoyance, Mara snickers at what came to mind " now that I think about it, She sounds like Scanlan." She admits making the two chuckle "They're not entirely different, no." Percy chuckled, as the rain pattered, he gazed over to the building "I hope she's okay."
"Scanlan, too." Vex adds
Back with the gnome
Said gnome screamed as he ran into a room, shutting the door behind him, letting out a burp with a small fire that clearly stated he was finally out, the guards bang on the door:Makes him back up "Open!"
"Aah! Oh, f*ck, ah!" He yelped when he sees a creature, but turns out to be fake,
"Put your back into it!" He heard a guard yells the banging contimee
" Break it down!"
"Ugh. Ugh..." he walks around and sees more fake animals, along with some questionable furniture "This guy's weirder than me.
Huh?" He then notices something on the table, which turned out to be a map, with flaps on certain locations "Oh. Westruun, Fort Daxio, Emon. What are these psychos playing at?" He wondered before he heard vedmire voice "Help me with this door! And you, put out that f*re!"
"Oh, shit. Okay, uh," he starts emptying the bag "no, no, no" one of them being needs on a string "empting, but not the right time."banging continues as Scanlan pulls something out "It's almost there!' An axe hits the door as Scanlan pulled out the scroll "This scroll. I've read this stupid thing a hundred times" the axe was removed revealing a glaring vedmire snarling "But I've never sung it." He realised wide eyed "
Huh. Okay, f*ck it."
"♪ Nevosh, nevonn ♪" as he sang the words, purple area filled the room, as he finishes he knee slides "♪ Klululululu, mehon ♪"
"I'll filet you and use your bones for... Huh?" Vedmire stops as Scanlan who is now a giant rhino bursts through the door, knocking him over and impaling every guard in his path. "Not bad." He comments in a gruff voice, then roses as spears on fire are thrown at him, making charge through the flames killing everything in his path, one guard being throwing into a wall near vedmire
"Normally I hunt beasts in their domain" he smirked as Scanlan rUn up the stairs, killing more guards "This should be interesting." He says picking up his sword, and following the transformed gnome down the path he went
Everywhere he went he brought the flames with him right as he got to the doors to make his escape, he transform,ed back to his regular self, smacking into the doors and landing on the ground "Doors are such bullshit." He turned back to the havoc he'd created "Heh, not bad. I should remember that spell." He said to himself he looked up as small bits of debris fell and saw a trap door in the ceiling which he used to climb out and onto the roof, running for the edge "Hmm. Now for my grand exit." As he looked back, he quickly came to a halt "W-W-Whoa..." and looked down to see the flames everywhere, blocking his exit, gasping as a tile of the roof fell into the flames "Oh...Or not."
"Going somewhere?" He looked and saw vedmire approaching past the flames, sword in hand "Had a busy evening, little man?" He smirked
"You're a tiny maggot. But your head will still mount nicely on my wall." He said while the gnome glared at him
Back with the group
Grog still snored in his sleep, Percy clicking the barrels of the pepperbox "Darling. Scanlan's probably three-deep at a brothel right now.vex muttered "Who let that sex-crazed gnome do this solo?" She questioned as vax answered looking at her for a second "Um, you?"
She scoffs "Never listen to me again."
"That's it, I'm calling it," Percy stood up, getting ready to leave. "You're just going in?" Vex asked. "The longer we wait, the more we risk being discovered. On my shot, we move." Vex quickly grabbed his arm, holding him back, "Let's not do anything rash, Percy," Vex urged him "Holy shit. He did it!" Vax announced as he saw the flames from vedmires home "And it looks like he went all out," he said, impressed Scanlan pulled it off. "Oh, yeah, he's into dat freaky stuff," Grog mentioned.
The group heard the footsteps of the outside guards running in the direction of Vedmire's estate. "Move it, men!" a commander yelled. Archie watched as they disappeared into the distance. "Excellent plan, Vox Machina," he complimented. "I mean... that is what we're known for," Vax sarcastically replied. "I'll rally the rebels. When you have her, send a sign. And, Percy, Mara, try not to get yourselves killed," Archie outstretch his hand which Percy immediately took. "I was dead yesterday, remember? Can only improve from here."
" it takes more than what we've experienced now to kill me" she smirked
The group ran straight for the front door with the rain pouring on them. There were no guards on the outside thanks to Scanlan. They each took a position at the entrance with Keyleth taking a quick peek through the window. "Looks clear inside," she remarked as she went for the door handle. "Hold on," Vax stopped her
"There could be a trap." He began inspecting the door carefully while Grog was huffing as we waited. "Not everything is a trap, you twit," he groaned walking up to the door. "Let's do this!" he yelled shoving Vax back as he burst through the door. "Uh-," Grog was immediately faced with a squadron of archers with their arrows pointed at him on the second floor. "It's a trap." All of the archers released their arrows,
With Scanlan
Scanlan coughs groans as he's thrown against the chimney, blood leaking from his head, vedmire punched the gnome through the chimney, breaking it and sending him flying across the roof, as he walks over, he kicks Scanlan again, he tries to crawl away, as vedmire was about swing down his sword, Scanlan rolls onto his side "Oh, wait. Please, please..." with his hand up, but them flips him off, making the giant growl
Scanlan chuckles, especially when he punches vedmire with his magic hand
Vedmire chuckles at the impact he felt, the two began going at each other, Scanlan nlp king his attackers while the giant kept swinging, however, vedmire cut through the hand, making it disappear and send Scanlan closer to the end the edge the roof, lying on the ground weakly, he tries to get up, but is stopped by vedmire putting his foot on him
With the group
The arrows stick out off Grog's torso. "You good, buddy?" Keyleth asked while Vax just chuckled knowing what was about to happen. "Oh, man. They are fucked now." Veins across Grog's body bulged out as let out a roar charging with his battleaxe towards them, throwing his axe,
hitting one of the guards directly in the face, He jumps to the second floor, grabbing onto the railing with one hand and with another one a guard's leg. He pulled the guard through the railing, breaking it as he used the momentum to climb up. "Come here!" he yelled pulling his axe out of the first guard.
The rest of them took the opportunity to join the fight. Keyleth summoned a stone piler for Vex to use while Vax and Mara went on opposite sides to ascend the stairs.
Percy spotted Professor Anders walking back to his study, seemed unbothered by the intrusion. "Anders,"
Back with Scanlan
Scanlan grunted as vedmire put pressure on him with his foot "Did you honestly think you could best me by yourself?" Vedmire asked, scanlan lifts his hand to strike the giant with lightning, only for him to stomp on the gnomes hand, crying out in pain as the lighting misssed "I'm afraid this performance is over. You're weak. You're small. And in this world, that means you lose." Vedmire raised his sword about to make the stab
"Wait, wait, wait. It's true!" Scanlan exclaimed as the giant held the sword up "I'm all talk. Everyone thinks I'm a joke. But the brothels have
taught me one thing:, just like a sexy red head I met said, size doesn't matter. It's how you use it." Scanlan glared before direction the lighting to a certain place, and thrusting up crying out
Vedmire screams as the lighting coursed through his whole body, as this happens, Scanlan used the dagger a certain lady gave and stabbed her giants leg, sliding down the roof falling against a gargoyle
Scanlan grunts weakly as he began walking away, Vedmire grunts as he lifts himself up, but the stab wound in his leg made it slight difficult, especially in his condition "f*cking little c**t. You been an annoying piece o' shite!" Scanlan smirked as his magic hand raised up giving him the finger. "And you've been a lovely audience." He said climbing on and floating away "And don't forget to tip your server." Leaving vedmire stuck on the roof, Scanlan floated high in the air, gazing down at the work he created, explosions blowing up part of the roof "Good show, Scanlan." He praised himself "Aah" he yells as the hand disappears and he falls onto a roof
Back with the others
Percy ran down the hall as Anders closed the door to the study. "Anders! Open the door, coward!" he banged on the glass as he looked in seeing him.
He hit the door using his shoulder a few times before it blew open. He pointed his gun to find his sister and Anders in the struggle. "Cass?" he breathed out, seeing his sister for the first time in so many years. Her hair was now shorter and also had a section of white. Hearing her name, she turned to find her brother standing there in shock. "Percy?" Her momentary pause gave Anders enough time to wrap his arm around her, pinning her against him. "Always early to class, Percival." Percy pulled the pin, reading his pepperbox with a click, "Release her, Anders. That's an order!"
"An order?" Anders scoffed, "You de Rolos were always so entitled. My new employer encourages me to make my own decisions." He pulled out a dagger, pressing it against Cassandra's throat earning a gasp from her. "If you harm her, I will end you!" Percy glared "Let her go and we can discuss a future where you're still breathing."
"Oh... you seem to think this is a negotiation," he smirked. "Don't!" It was too late though as he brought the dagger across her throat, blood immediately pouring out of the line. She gurgled as blood filled her throat, trying to regain her breathing. Percy could only watch as his sister struggled for life as she collapsed onto the floor. She reached out for her brother as he stood horrified. "Cass."