In a moment's notice Lucas dashed to greet them with his blade out, sprinting at rapid speed. Uriel and I followed suit but nowhere close to his speed. At a closer distance I could make out four individuals amongst them, two with knifes, a sword wielder and a big, unarmed guy.

  "URIEL AND YOU" Lucas shouted at us. "Deal with the big guy! I'll handle these three." As he dove into the crowd with the pointy tips.

  While running, Uriel turned towards me "Hit him as hard as you can when you reach him, I'll stop him for a second." I nodded.

  We got into striking range of each other and threw our punches but right before we made contact-"STOP." The bandit's body froze for mere seconds as my punch landed in his gut and sent him a few feet back. It was Uriel's skill, some sort of speech manipulation, but it wasn't obsolete as the man stood up again and was really pissed, from there it was pure fist.

  Punches to the guts and face, blows were being received and given, I began to spit out blood and my face wasn't doing any better. Uriel had explosive strength in her punches despite her stature and was proficient in fighting, but the bandit was a beast on his own despite the teaming he was still having the upper hand, sooner or later this would end terribly.

  My body started to exhaust and then just for a second my leg faltered but that was enough for the bandit to grab me and hurl me away. I got up to look at the fight, Uriel was able to keep up with the bandit dodging and attacking staying out of reach for now.

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  Wait where's Lucas? I turned around to watch his fight. Lucas was dominating his fight he had disarmed the sword wielder, had knocked the other guy unconscious, gracefully he was wielding his blade. He, met my gaze "Here." He, said as he tossed me the bandit's sword "Go".

  I leaped back into the battle now armed to aid Uriel. In a blink of an eye, she was on top of him, she wrapped her legs around his neck as I slashed into his leg. "CEASE." Uriel used her skill again but this time it worked for less than fractions of a second but that was enough as she shifted her weight and brought him down.

  "ELAD!!! HELP!!" Someone shouted as we turned to see Lucas elbow the bandit who shouted and rendered him unconscious. "EUHH" the next second, I saw stars as I was punched down by an arm so massive it made the ground crack and cave in.

  The bandit who we had just been fighting had grown two massive arms almost wider than tree trunks. "AAAGH. Enough playing I'll end it now" The bandit yelled as he raised his arms again, but Uriel swooped in and pulled me away as his fist landed.

  "It's alright, we won" Uriel assured as Lucas stepped forward blade in hand. Melodies began to fill the air as a large patch of small red flowers began to sprout beneath our feet swaying in the breeze. "Scarlet Field" he ushered.

  The bandit started shuddering "how? a space?" Lucas went to work, precisely avoiding and slashing the bandits clumsy attempt of defending himself and eventually he was knocked out too.

  "Well, that was easy, good job on not dying" Lucas complimented while giving us a thump's up but Uriel just gave fed-up look and walked away. "Now then let's rob these bandits hehehe" He spoke with a sheepish nearly evil grin while rubbing his hands together....and robbing he did.

  "Awww man these guys have noth-NEIGHHHH"Both Lucas and I turned around so quick, to see Uriel walking back with " HORSIESS!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh, I love you guys sooo much" he thanked the unconscious bandits. "We're gonna be reaching the capital in no time now!"