Zaia activated the hidden blades in her gauntlets as she pushed back, kicking the man in the chest. When he staggered back, she stepped forward in his place and slit his throat, watching as he folded onto the ground to make sure he was dead. Once she was sure, Zaia looked up to find the last man standing of the five guards. He wasn’t ready to give up yet, and he had on him two of the staffs. He threw one at her with full force, and as it passed her head she twisted her arm to redirect it back at him. The man looked down, his eyes wide open in surprise as he saw his own blade through his chest.
Then she heard a yell. And it hadn’t come from the guard.
Zaia whirled around to see what had happened, and her body froze when she saw what had happened to Etr. The boy was slumped on the ground bleeding and unconscious, one of his arms missing. Anvil was dealing with the monster that had committed the act, and Zaia could do nothing but stare in horror until she heard the voice in her head.
What are you doing standing there? GO!
Without thinking, Zaia pushed past all the bodies in the doorway and rushed back inside, ripping a curtain from a window. After dropping to her knees in front of Etr, she went to work bandaging the wound, stopping the bleeding as much as she could. The curtain quickly turned red, but there wasn’t much more she could do in the moment. She had to get him back to his ship.
She slung Etr’s remaining arm around her shoulder as she hoisted the boy up over her back. She didn’t even glance at Adenn as she made her way out the door and ran in the direction of the landing platform, her only thought being getting the boy to safety. That was when she saw another group of guards heading her way.
“For kriff’s sake!” she yelled, lowering Etr to the ground as gently as she could before turning on her flamethrower, blasting the men in the face with fire. The group fell to the ground, pleading for mercy as they heard the click of her blaster. But they would get none. Zaia shot each of them twice in the head with no thought of what she was doing. All she felt and saw was red. Red hot anger.
Once they were dead, she went back for Etr and picked him up, once more on her way back to the Spooky Mistress. She would tear that ship upside down to find the medical equipment, even if it wasn’t hers. Hopefully she wouldn’t be too late.
@Timmen @Die Shize