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Bold is for attacks

Soleil's POV

"Nina how much farther?" I asked.

"The main chamber of the cave should be just around the next corner." She said keeping pace.

"So far we've experienced very little resistance." Ophelia pointed out.

"They may have all collected at the main chamber." Nina said "That's where most were before."

"I think we found them." I said as we rounded the corner and came face to face with a few dozen bandits.

"Well what do we have here." The woman with the scar said.

Wow…she's pretty sexy, got that mature aura about her. That must be the Georgina lady Nina talked about.

The rest of the crew of bandits was men of various shapes and sizes, large, small, buff, fat, skinny, short, and tall.

"Three little ladies wandering in to our hideout." The woman smiled "Are you lost?"

"Nope, we're right where we wanna be." I smiled "We're here to take you down, nobody is gonna be pillaging on my account."

"Now, how did you find this place?" The woman asked.

"Simple search by kingdom scouts." I smirked.

"No not the cave, but this room in the cave, it has a lot of curves and tunnels." She said "How's you find this room?"

"That would be me." Nina waved "You're security's not so great."

"Tsk." The woman clicked her tongue "Mitford next time you check for intruders…Actually check! You let some little brat sneak in and hear everything!"

"Sorry." The man with the axes said.

"So are we gonna do this the easy way or the hard way?" I asked leaning my sword over my shoulder.

"Sweetie…I love it the hard way." She laughed "Now get them!"

Most of the gang charged us in an instant, surrounding us with weapons of various degrees.

"HRA!" Nina pulled her taught string "Hexed Shot!"

A magic arrow zoomed through the air and dug into a man's shoulder.

"AHH!" he hissed and stumbled back.

"Knockback shot!" Nina yelled activating the arrow.

The arrow exploded and blasted the man back, he crashed into some of the other men, knocking them all to the ground.

I kept stepping back, turning my sword to block the slashes of incoming opponents.

Don't get too aggressive, find your moment…There!

On his next strike I raised my buckler up, took his strike and swung my arm up to break his guard. I saw an opening in his defenses and cut him with my sword before turning my body to take on the next foe.

I readied my sword and saw multiple men running towards me, I focused my mind and my sword was engulfed in a rainbow fire.

"Ignis Wave!"

I slashed the air, sending out a crescent of magical fire and burned some of the men.

"Gust of Galeforce!"

Ophelia waved her arms and blasted the room with a gust of hurricane like winds that blew most men off their feet and into the back wall of the cave.

"Well." Georgina stood up "Seems you're not as big of a push over as I thought."

There were only three people left standing, Georgina, that Mitford guy and some big fat dude.

"Her arm." The fat man said.

"What the hell are you talking about Bardot." The woman growled.

"The girl with the red hair, she has the Mark of the Exalt on her arm." He pointed out.

"Oh…that she does." The woman smirked "Well things just got easier, we'll be taking her hostage for ransom, she's a member of the royal family so she'll be worth lots…kill the other two we don't need them taking up space, that and it'll let them know we're serious."

They don't know that I have the mark to…this could be useful.

"Well quite standing there." Georgina said "Take care of this you two!"

"HRAA!" the man with the axes charged at us, swinging one of his axes at Nina.

"Whoa!" she flipped back "Someone's cranky…feisty just how I like it!"

"You made a fool out of me." He growled stalking closer to her.

"Make sure to take Red alive." The woman reminded.

"Ha…ha…ha…" I looked up and saw the big guy was standing over Ophelia, a creepy look on his face.

"Ugh." She rolled her eyes and blasted him back with magic "Don't look at me like that."

"Can you handle that guy?" I asked.

"I'll be fine." She smiled.

"Then I'll go for the boss." I said taking off running.

"You think you can take on me!" the woman laughed standing up "Alright just try me!"

She reached back and pulled out two rapiers.

"Just try to keep up with me." She smiled "I'll carve that cute little body of yours to pieces!"

AN

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