They watched, they waited, they prepared. After they had disposed of the body of the girl they had immediately began checking armor, and sharpening weapons. Lyn most of all armed himself to the teeth. It was as if he was going to take the entire Ishgardian army himself. As if his black scale armor with spikes and blades all over it wasn't enough for the hand to hand master, a long bladed spear, and a single dagger hung from his side on his left flank. The plan was simple, but would it work? There was only one way to know, and that was to put it into action. Soon night fell and they rested. While rest was had not a wink of sleep was had, Malgoth checked and rechecked his bow and the integrity of his arrows. Koeten went through his paces doing a strange battle ritual that involved heavy meditation. Lily cuddled up to Lyn as he laid in his small bed, silent as he went over every possible situation in his mind. This could be the last time he seen any of them, hence why he allowed the sun seeker female to basically lay on top of him basically naked. If anything the girl was kind hearted, sure she was forward but that didn't bother Lyn. He wasn't about to betray the trust of his mate.Â
As the next morning arrived they all stirred, going out to buy some last minute provisions they waited, and before they knew it, it was night fall. They waited until a few hours after dark and set off. Lyn and Koeten wearing black over robes with the same armor and black metal masks on. Lily wore light leather armor with a short sword and dagger on each respective hip. Malgoth faded into the shadows the second they hit the slums, his large thick bow on his back as he went to set up his over look point. Not thirty minutes later three of them stood in the dark alley adjacent to the shack, the front door facing them. Lyn gave a quiet animalistic whistle to single malgoth, sounded exactly like a baby choccobo. Lyn could not see the hyur but he knew he was there. With the signal Lily did a little hop skip up to the front door and knocked, immediately as if like clockwork she heard blades being drawn. The slat began to open and it was as if time slowed as she stepped to the side, as it fully opened all the man would see was a shadow in the air and something leaping out of his hand. He began to scream a warning but was cut short as Lyn's spear crashed through the wooden door with force impaling him like a tack through a piece of paper through his chest. As he finished his throw he landed on his feet and rolled to the side just as a ball of fire flew passed his head, thrown by Koeten. The ball of magic hit the door with a massive explosion blowing it off it's hinges. Using the smoke and hopeful shock lily drew her blades rushing in with a small giggle. Lyn and koeten running in from the alley just a few seconds behind her.
Those few seconds however were far too much, for as she got into the smoke two blades came careening out of it from either side, one low and one high. Fighters of this caliber are not so easily shocked, she had just enough time to duck the high blade but her left thigh was deeply cut open as she rolled into the hut, her movement cirppled. As she hit the ground another assassin attempted to leap on her with a shortsword, a hyur. She growled reacting quickly blocking his blow with her own shortblade then sliced upwards with her dagger catching him with a shallow gash to the side. Another Assassin came from behind her opposed to the other two at the door, he raised his blade but was shocked by the sound of a battle cry that was so loud and feverous is nearly struck fear into him. With the dust settling Lyn could see him, and he was pissed. As Lyn got to the door again the two blades came out of the sides, raising his iron armored leg he blocked the lower, and used the spikes on his right gauntlet to block the high one, catching it. Â As he stopped blocking both attacks a small lightning bolt careened past his head catching the one behind lily in the chest blowing him out through the thin back wall. Koeten smirked as he pushed on behind Lyn as his pupil kicked the lower blade away and used his adrenaline powered brute strength to go after the ambusher on his right.Â
The assassin that had been blown out the back wall immediately hopped up thanking his armor for saving him but as he began to run back in an arrow glanced off his blade. Looking to his left and then to his right he couldn't make out were it had come from. Malgoth stood up to make himself visible to the man, like bait to a wolf. The wolf took the bait as he ran skillfully going from right to left towards the man on top of the roof of the shack across the street. Malgoth drew and fired again just to the mans left, predictably the assassin dodged to the right. "Good boy.. keep coming..." In a matter of a little more than a second the assassin was at the base of the schack skillfully running up the short wall and bursting with speed went into the air. With a sound of confidence his blade was raised for a killer slash on the hyur archer, but the trap was sprung. As he reached the base of the structure Malgoth grabbed his bow with both hands sliding the bow string off the end, as his prey went into the air the other end came off, and finally as the blade came down he stepped to the side at the last second and spun throwing his arms around the neck of the hyur with his steel bow string in his hand. Less than a second later the assassin was missing something very important, his head. Using his bow string like a garote and all his force behind the pull human flesh was cut easily by the thin but materia enhanced wire. As the body fell malgoth kicked it onto the ground and re strung his bow, waiting for the next target.
All the while when that was going on outside, Lyn had managed to push his targets back to the wall after grabbing his wrist when he had attempted to slash at him as he entered. Koeten had leveled with a rather burly male assassin and last but not least Lily still on the ground bleeding profusely out of her leg fended off her would be attacker with her two blades. Then as if a switch clicked all parties clashed again after standing apart. Koeten's hands erupted in flames as he moved forward his burly male assassin swung his blade as a feint, but his right leg came up attempting to take the advancing man off his balance. Koeten leapt up into the air avoiding it and rolled to the side. Lily's attacker seized an opportunity of the old man coming so close to him that he kicked koeten in the back sending him face first towards his own opponent. All the while in the corner Lyn struggled to keep his man pinned to the wall. This is where the operation began to get hairy, koeten was still very much injured from two nights before. The kick sent him off balance and kareening towards his opponent who seized this team work to move forward. The assassin sliced while he moved passed in the blink of an eye, leaving the open mentor with a long gash from shoulder to lower back that was almost two inches deep in some places. He fell after a second of struggling to stay upright face in the ground, appearing to be unconscious or dead. Lilinette screamed in horror and shock.Â
Lyn looked back at the scream his eyes full of fear only to see his master and mentor fall. That second was all that was needed as his opponent got a leg up and kicked Lyn backwards forcing him to stumble back. The man whom had hurt his mentor moved towards his exposed neck but was stopped as something grabbed his leg. He looked down to see koeten's hand, the old man crawling with a defiant smirk on his face as his entire body seemed to glow orange for a second. "Not today dirtbag..." With that he screamed and his entire body burst into flames, in a white flash the entire shack exploded. Everyone in the shack flew in different directions from the force alone. The Assassin Koeten had a hold of. The black mage and mentor to Lyn's body lay in the center of the busted and burning foundation of the shack charred to a crisp. Lyn was thrown into the far shack, lily thrown the opposite way, their opponents about twenty yards from either of them. Lyn's ear rang as he struggled upright and screamed in angery, wiping some blood from his mouth. A concussive wave from an explosion such as that was nothing to trifle with. AS the smoke cleared he spotted Lily and ran over to her, noting an assassin was doing the same thing. He met the assassin mid way not knowing where the other was. Leaping into the air and twisting he tackled the assassin throwing his shoulder pad into him crashing them through another thin wall.
As they rolled Lyn felt a sharp pain in his stomach, as they stopped rolling his back hit the opposite wall. and he spit up more blood, his vision shaking he looked down and noticed it. The assassins short sword was sticking out of his stomach. Apparently the bastard had managed to maneuver it as they rolled. He drew is dagger from his waist as the assassin he had tackled stood up and chuckled walking towards him. Lyn in a flash, as fast as he could threw the dagger at the mans head, just barely he ducked getting a small cut on the side of his left cheek. He made an angry face and started to move forward to draw the blade out of Lyn's stomach to finish him only to stop mid reach. Lyn wore a sick grin as his hand covered his wound, knowing better than to remove the blade. The mans face began to smoke and suddenly he screamed in pain rearing back. "Burn you son of a bitch.." After just a few seconds Lyn began to stand up half the skin on the mans face was gone, that poison his mother had given him, he had coated his blade with it for an emergency. Lyn weakly stumbled out of the hole in the shack leaving the screaming man behind. Clutching the blades hilt was was all the way to his skin he chuckled sickly. He slowly made his way towards a very bleak looking Lily, who was leaning against a short stone wall, sitting down. She barely managed to smile as her vision was blurry but from the black armor she knew it was Lyn. "Hey... handsome. Finally *cough* came to sweep me off my feet huh?" Lyn meagerly chuckled and bent down, cringing and groaning in pain, his body going into shock as he began to pick her up. As he got her off the ground and into his arms his legs gave out and they both fell to the ground. His back now against the wall she fell just on the other side of the hilt of his blade now sitting on his legs that were straight out.
"Bastard cut me deep, all the way to the bone. I-I lost too much blood hon, don't think Ima make it..." Lyn felt tears began to well up in his golden eyes. Her voice began to fade. "At least I'm dying in the arms of the man I love.." He would nuzzle the side of her head as her eyes began to close. He wanted to say something... anything to her, but his mind couldn't put the words together, not goodbye, not some smart ass remark... just sobbing as she faded, his own vision began to blurr as he hugged her limp body to his chest, her head on his shoulder. He cried in agony, the blade still in him they were both dead. He looked to his left only to notice the body of the last assassin, laying with an arrow in his neck and one in his chest. Malgoth was nowhere to be found, by the plan he should be grabbing the evidence and supplies. Damn  it all... as his vision began to blurr more Lyn remembered something reaching into his armor pulled out a pearl. Activating it he spoke what may be his last sentences.
"K-kiht... my vekker.. I_I don't think I'm going to make it back.*long pause* I want you t-t-to know that I l-love you and... *bated breaths* I don't have much time... s-so I love you. Keep the c-c-clan safe okay? Ever since I met y-you... Menphina guide you moon sister, I'll always... be with you..." With that the only sounds heard from the pearl would be him dropping it as his vision darkened. He had about an fifteen minutes until he bled out, would anyone get there in time? They would have to have a very strong potion and have general knowledge of first aid. If not Lyn konge would die, as malgoth and them had no potions that could heal such a large wound.Â
