Sacrificial Pawn

Razz and I stay quiet looking terrified at the armored entity in front of us. Razz has a long sword, and I have dagger. I look around for any weapons that may prove much more useful than a dagger.

"Razz Matash" Razz answers

"Razz Matash, a fitting name of my victim. How about you?" we telepathically hear

"I'm Athelstan the Cheater" I answer

"Ah, the hero's child. Athelstan" we hear in our minds

Razz looks at me with visible confusion. I shrug letting him know that I have no idea what the entity was talking about, even though I do know.

"Well, what's your name?" I ask

"My identity, already revealed. Master of Cruelties from the Abyss" from telepathy

I put my hand inside my bag, and grab a smoke bomb. I throw it towards the master, and white smoke bursts out of the cartridge and cover the interior of the building with smoke. The first thing I thought of was an escape route. I ran towards where we entered, but hit some sort of barrier blocking my path. I look at the corpses of the knights and grabbed a war hammer from them.

"I'll borrow this hammer for a while" I mutter

I hear the sounds of weapons clanging deep in the smoke. I go around the them, trying to get the master by surprise using this war hammer. I smoke gets sucked into the ceiling. I look towards to where the smoke is going, and a hole appears with Naxel standing on top. I glance at the master, and he had a red aura that connected itself with Razz. Razz was enraged and kept attacking the master. The master kept blocking the attack with his spear. I rush in from behind him and raise my hammer going for a huge smack on the master's head. The hammer hits the head of the master, but he doesn't flinch. Razz continuing his flurry of attacks, connected to me as well. He slashes at the master, which is blocked then follows it up with his sword lunging directly at me. Barely dodging it, I get cut on my cheek. I leap backwards creating distance.

"What was that for?!" I shout out

No response. Razz still focused on carelessly attacking the master.

Naxel jumps down and lands on both feet. Unsheathes his long sword and takes on a stance.

"Razz, stop attacking carelessly!" I order

Razz completely ignoring me, still doing slashes only to get blocked and staggered back.

"It's no use Athelstan, he's under the influence of the Blood Lust Aura from that Master" Naxel says

"You know the master of cruelties?" I ask

"I only know common knowledge of it. Heard of it from the king" he answers

The master starts going on the offensive, lunging his spear at Razz. Razz blocking some attack takes the hit, but ignores his wounds.

"We gotta do something, he's just carelessly attacking" I say

"Get Razz out, I'll try something" Naxel says as the blade of his sword glows

I dash towards them slamming the hammer as hard as I can behind the master, and he gets pushed forwards tackling Razz. Razz avoids it, and I become his target instead. He raises his long sword and strikes it at down at me. I grab my dagger, and moved myself a bit like parrying his sword with my dagger. I dodge the attack, and sweep his legs causing him to fall. I grab the back of his cloak and dragged him away. Dropping the hammer, my only weapon now is the dagger. What a hassle this is becoming. The aura still connecting the both of them, slowly makes its way to me. I moved back away before the aura could get me.

Naxel's points his glowing sword towards the master, and lunges it. A burst of violent wind spirals out from the sword and directly aimed towards the master. The master gets back on it's feet and turns to us, then faces the force of the wind pushing him back bit by bit.

The Blood Lust aura slowly goes back to the master, and Razz is completely aura free. I quickly put my focus on the master then to the hammer I dropped.

"Athelstan! Try to cut the straps of the his armor" Naxel says

I examine the armor from afar, and saw that there were straps keeping his armor remained intact. I tried to get in close, but the violent nature of the wind kept knocking me back. If I had forced myself to get in, I'd be push towards the master.

"I have an idea" Razz says

Razz walks up to Naxel, and he takes out bracelet with a gemstone attached on it. It glowed, and he summons Icicle knives aimed at the master. With the force of the wind, the blew the ice towards the master, and as he tries oppose the wind. He meets the icicle knives which slowed him even more. Getting easier to push him back. The master tries to move sideways, but the icicle knives kept hitting him. The master lets out a roar, and his spear starts to have a visible aura. He throws it against the direction of the wind, which smoothly flies at Naxel and Razz. Naxel notices that the wind was being nullified by the spear. He kicks Razz out of the way, and the spear impales him. The sword stops glowing, and the wind disappears.

I rush towards Naxel, and catch him as he falls.

"Foolish mortals, did you think that was enough to stop me?" we hear telepathically

Razz casts magic that surrounded him with a shield of light, and he enters combat against the master. The shield was pushing the Blood Lust aura away from him.

"Athelstan.." Naxel faintly says

"Don't talk, I'll get you out of here" I say

I slowly pull out the spear from him, as he coughs out blood. I begin to carry him and walk to where we came from. I look back at Razz who looks like he's getting fatigued from fighting him, and the shield he had was slowly weakening.

"Razz, we're fleeing!" I shout

Razz dodges an attack or two before countering then making a run for it. I made it out to the exit and Razz had followed behind me. The master didn't follow and stayed inside. There were multiple gems of rider running out making a rush towards to the gates. Razz gets in front of me, and gets into defensive position. One of the gems approach us, and knelt before us. A knight of Hollow Arthas approaches us with his sword drawn. I was too shocked to react to the gem and Razz was feeling too fatigued. The gem summons out two swords of water from the sweat of his palms, and he used it to attack the knight. The knight blocked the swords, and kicked the gem to the ground. He then stabs the rebel in the chest killing him, then points his sword at us.

"What happened to the Captain?" the knight asks

"A monster was summoned inside" I say as I point at the building I came in from

"The group of knights were wiped out, and the remaining rebel sacrificed himself to summon that monster" I continue to say

The knight enters the building and the door to the entrance shuts and locks the knight inside. I entered inside a random house, and brought Naxel into the room, laid him down on the bed.

"Razz, go call for help from someone who specializes in healing" I say

Razz nods, and rushes out. I take out his armor, and check for a pulse. He is dead. I slam my fist on the table in frustration. Anger and grief overwhelm me.

"I've brought a cleric"

Razz enters the room with a girl holding a staff. She begins to chant to cast magic.

"Don't bother" I say

The girl stops her chant, and checks Naxel for a pulse. She lets her hand go, and tears form in her eyes. Razz looks down and closes his fists.

"We should continue the job.." Razz says

"I'll do what I can to Naxel.." the cleric girl says

"Right, the rebels are starting to escape, we have to get back" I say