Close to death

Aurora's pov

I felt sick, dizzy,tired and sleepy, problems which i could've once solved with a nice meal,hot bath some meds and a good sound sleep but no.

The smell of piss stung my nostrils strongly clouding my concentration. I couldn't sleep in the cell with her making knife gestures at me from across his cell. She had short spiky black hair,rotten teeth ,tattoes peeped from her forearms and a face covered in scars.

She slided her thumb across her neck.

'you are dead'i read her lips. I had great company.

I shifted my gaze to the door at the end of the room and i could hear the guard snores from my cell.

The room was wide with just two cells facing each other.

She looked at me and scoffed.

"So what is it,milady" her teeth gleamed with a golden hue in the dim light of the quarter moon through the bared window at the top.

It was as if I could smell her bad breath from where I was.

"Pretty hair,fair skin and sparkling white teeth,huh", she spoke with a raspy voice as if her voice box had been scarred from the inside with razors.

"You see pretty face to be in the executioner's list you have to have done nasty things..." she looked at me "...for me you can know that I am lost but for you..."

She clicked her tongue as if to insunuate,'don't think so'

I rolled my eyes,''none of your business''.

She got up and I immeadiatedly regretted my response. She was tall and muscular for a female. She worked herself to the end of the cell and grabed the bars with her hands.

"Oh it is my business doe eyes, you see i used to serve noble pricks like yourself and you know what i learned..."her gaze became murderous as she unsheathed a knife.

"You are never the same,you die for them but they won't do the same.And when your usefulness is drained they eliminate you .''

"Not all of us are like that."

"No , you treat people beneath you like animals devoid of voice and ambition.Someday they take matters into their own hands."

Her words reminded me of sophie,my servant since i was little and the way she sold me out to rise in the ranks.

'Had i been oblivios to her needs,her desires and ambitions.'

"I know that look, it happened to you right? You are the worst kind of them, you pretend and look different but at the slightest chance you would save your skin. "

"I would never..."

It was then we heard a cry outside following grunts and clungs of swords.A trail of blood flowed beneath the door wwhich was then set ajar and a man walked in.

His golden locks shone in the darkness together with the sword in his hand.

"Aurora"he rushed to the end of the room.

"Do I know you?" I felt as if i had seen those brown eyes somewhere.

" Am Arthur ,You saved my father from death, am here to repay the favour.''

' the injured man in wanda 'I remembered .

Arthur opened the cell witth the keys i assumed he took from the guard ,"let's go''

"What about her" i asked about the punk lady.

A lock clugged and the cell opened and she stepped out.

"Don't worry about me doe , be worried more about yourself."

The now ex convict had a dagger with a murderous gleam in her eyes.She moved foward faster than i expected and flashed her knife and i did the logical thing, screamed and closed my eyes.

I heard a clung and opened my eyes then i was glad that wasn't my head.

Arthur had lunged in front of me and countered the dagger with a sword i recalled not seeing .They were now enganged in staring competion trting to size each other but it was clear she was stronger as the dagger inched closer to his neck.

The killer bitch stepped aside and grinned wickedly.

"Didn't know they would send the black assassin ,it's going to be interesting the name is Zoe ,tell me how would you like to die?" Her eyes glowed green as she licked her dagger .

Dark clouds enveloped the sword and when they disappeared a double bladed battle axe. Zoe moved again this time faster than before and Arthur just managed to block with the axe but he was pushed behind.

Arthur sidestepped and slashed aiming for her head but she was too fast and ducked and slammed her shoulder against his body. The blow was deadly as Arthur was pushed away coughing blood. Zoe rushed in and launched a flurry of attacks a bit too fast for him as he struggled to block the ones aimed for his vitals.

Zoe smirked at the bruised Arthur ,''it's over".

Arthur spat blood from his mouth and answered "you think" and ducked sideways as if knowing i would come through.

Let me just rewind to when i was watching the guy who came to rescue me from prison getting beaten to a pulp by pyscho bitch. I decided that i just wouldn't let him die.

What i did not expect was 1] that i would miss and 2] hat he would use me as a human shield when she slashed at him.

He tugged tightly keeping me intact when the blade slashed and i closed my eyes accepting my fate.

Like the last time i opened my eyes later only to see Zoe spewing blood from her mouth her eyes clearly showing she was dying. A sword had stabbed her heart through my body but i was fine instead.

Arthur used me as cover to sneak in and phase through the sword through my body, there is no way she could have seen that.

Arthur stumbled and collapsed to the ground and i knelt beside him to see his wounds.

"I am going to heal you" i said,

" I know '' he said weakly," that's how you healed my father that's why they also sent her to kill you."

"WHo are they?"

"The Triumvirate."

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