Cisco
January 10th, 2019
One moment Cisco was scouring buildings with Iris, the next Iris was unconscious on the ground and Cisco had a wand to his neck.
"Well, hello there fellow spellcaster," he said. "Any reason my friend is on the ground."
"There's something up with her, but you're fair game, play nice or you both die," she hissed. Cisco gulped and nodded. He stupidly assumed that that means he just had to follow her, he could figure out where they were going and then contact the team. Unfortunately, as the girl moved slowly behind him she heard her whisper something. He had just enough time to think "Oh shit" before he too fell to the ground. When he came to his hands were wrapped with chains, Iris was still unconscious next to him, she too was wrapped in chains, though hers seemed to have written all over it.
"It's milic ruins, keeps you two from getting out, magic or no," a man said, sitting in front of them. The woman from before was standing next to him. Wand in her hand, arms crossed.
"What did you do to her?" Cisco growled. "And what was the point of keeping me awake a few seconds longer?"
"Had to make sure whatever was keeping her immune wasn't working on you," she said. "The powers that be really don't want her involved with magic."
"You, on the other hand, are totally unprotected," the man said. "Once we realized that she got close enough to knock her out and keep you at bay. We really don't want to have to hurt you mortal. One day you will serve us." Cisco tried to come up with a smartass remark but the doors at the back of the room flew open.
"The rest of their entourage is here," a new woman said. "We should be able to take them but one of them is a castle guard, she's putting up a fight."
"Has she called in reinforcements?" the man asked. The new woman shook her head.
"It appears as though she has gone rogue," she said.
"You stay here," the first woman said to the man before standing up and following the other woman out the door.
"Looks like your friends will be joining you very soon," the man sneered to Cisco. In response, Cisco tried to pull on his chains but the man just smirked and raised his wand in warning. Cisco stopped moving. A moment later he heard a grunt from Iris who was beginning to wake up. "Ah. Speaking of friends." Iris pulled herself up and looked around confused, blinking, then winced.
"Why does my head hurt?" she rasped.
"Because my associate hit you over the head with a rock," the man said. "Pretty powerful protection spell you've got on you. Care to share how you got it?"
"Piss off," Iris glared.
"Feisty for a mortal aren't you?" he asked, leaning forward. Movement somewhere behind the man caught Cisco's eye. Then there was a grunt and the man collapsed. BArry stood behind him, shaking his hand out.
"Did you just knock him out from behind with one punch?!" Cisco asked.
"Yeah," Barry breathed before moving to remove the chains binding their arms.
"What is going on?" Iris asked, hugging her husband as he freed her.
"Bad guys got the jump on us," Cisco said.
"Austin and Caitlin are holding down the fort downstairs. I managed to slip through the battle but I didn't really plan much after this point," Barry added.
"How many are we up against," Cisco asked.
"Too many," Barry said. "Even if we used Iris to use our abilities I don't think we can take them down. Caitlin is holding a shield and Austin is throwing people into walls. Ralph is just kind of being a distraction."
"So what does that mean for us?" Iris asked.
"We need to bring in the rest of the guard," Barry admitted.
"Won't that end really bad for all of us?" Cisco asked.
"Can't be worse than all of us dying," Barry responded, his face pained.
"Well, how do we do that?" Iris asked.
"We don't. Austin does," Barry said. "I just wanted to make sure I got you guys out before I had her do it."
"Okay, we trust you man," Cisco said. Actually, he had no idea if Barry knew what he was talking about but he knew that he really believed it was the only way. Barry's hand flew to the earpiece to give Austin the go ahead. There was a beat.
"Are you crazy!?" came her response.
"I agree with Barry, we're dying out here," came Caitlin's voice. "It's the only way Austin."
"Fine, just get down here, that thing is almost charged and I can't get to it, if the guard doesn't get here on time we have to at least try to stop this thing alone," was her response, her voice sounding tired.
The team looked at each other and then ran down the stairs. That's when they ran into the women who had knocked Iris out. She raised her wand but Barry grabbed Iris's wrist and snatched it from her hand before she could use it. He threw it over the banister.
"You think that will stop me?" she asked, raising her hands.
"I don't think you want to do that," Barry growled. "You can't tell me you don't know that magic won't work on her. You don't have enough power." The girl looked at Barry, glanced down the stairs and then jumped the banister yelling a warning. They were met with another three spellcasters at the bottom. Cisco essentially pushed Iris in front of him as a human shield. Wands were raised. Then there was a sound, a flash and then a voice.
"In the name of the king! Back off!" a female voice called. Heads turned to see a teenage girl running into the building, wand raised, with at least ten castle guards running behind her.
"You're too late," a voice called as the sound of a machine coming to life could be heard. The rebel casters had shields up everywhere. Cisco was so busy looking everywhere that he didn't even notice Iris break away from his grasp until it was too late. Spells flew and Cisco lost sight of her in the puffs of magic.
"Iris!" Barry had already called out. Then there was a crackle, a wave of energy and an intense heat, all at once.