The Boy named Lance
--Cat POV--

Quaia City Inn
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Midnight
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"Remember, Cat. Never go to the right most part of the city. That is where all the corrupted city guards are." Rhelms reminded me as he pointed to the right of the map with a ruler. I nodded and yawned as I felt my bushy cat tail slowly lay down on the soft and comfy bed. I was really getting sleepy, and it was already difficult just trying to keep my eyes opened.

"Do you understand?" Rhelms asked me seriously. I stared at him and slowly blinked my eyes.

"No." I said softly."I don't think so..."

"So you mean I wasted and hour and a half trying to explain our escape route?"

"You know, Rhelms, nothing has to be THAT planned."

"What?"

"Look everywhere! The place is massive!"

"I can't follow."

"In a place as big as this, do you really think some dumb crony will find us easily?"

"Hm... I guess you're right."

"Good. Now go to bed and take a good rest... I'm having the feeling we won't have this for a while...." I slowly spoke as my head and body slowly dropped to the bed. The soft bed cushion felt very relaxing and warm. The last thing I saw before drifting off was Rhelms putting his map items in his bag...

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"Cat, wake up!" Rhelms whispered at my ear, shaking my arm violently."Cat!"

"What? What time is it?"

"Five in the morning."

"Really?"

"Yes. Quickly now!"

"But why?"

"I heard a voice."

"Voice?"

"Guards. They're here."

"How?"

"I don't know, but we need to pack up."

I quickly ran to my bag and kept a diamond sword hidden in my inventory.

I carried my bag and wrapped a cloak around myself and covered my head.

Just as we were about to open the door and leave, I heard one of them shout.

"TELL ME, YOU LITTLE DIMWIT!"

"I won't because I don't know, and if I did, I won't be telling the lot of you!"

With my Ocelot speed, I quickly sprinted to the window to see what the commotion was all about.

As I saw the view, my eyes grew large as obsidian blocks. It was the boy Rhelms talked to, and five of those guards!

"Aren't you gonna obey the law, boy?"

"Over my dead body!"

"If that's how you want it then!" A Boar faced man shouted at the kneeling boy. With all his might, the boar kicked the little child exactly on the chin, with iron boots.

Blood gushed out of the child's nose and mouth, and even teeth. Gruesome, I know, but those are the greifers, merciless.

The little boy stumbled back, tears I'm his eyes, as well as droplets of blood. The men started laughing, and I began to suddenly have a tingling sensation inside me.

My shocked faced turned to anger, and my grip on the window panes became hard.

"They've gone too far." I slowly said as I slowly drew out my sword.

"Wait, Cat, you anger rent really gonna--!"

I didn't bother listening to him so I opened the windows and jumped out, landing on the roof of a smaller building.

I quickly aimed at the boar man smiling. The pig's gonna pay. Not only did they wipe out entire provinces, they also torture children?

I swung my sword round and round and round and hoped the sword would hit the boar.

After swinging countless of times, I let go of the sword.

The sword went flying through the air, and before I could even blinkk, it had already poofed out a greifer from existance.

I jumped in between the guards and the boy. The boy looked at me with surprise while the guards stared at me shocked.

"Didn't expect me to be here, eh?" I teased them. I looked at the ground where two swords and a sheild was spinning around.

I smiled widely as the boar was gone and the boy was safe behind my protection... at least... I hope.

The other greifers charged at me. Uh oh. I forgot there was five of them. I quickly got my sword from the ground and held it in front quickly, just in time to block an incoming sword.

The others charged forward and helped the guard to try and bring my sword down.

Just as I lost hope, three arrows flew out of nowhere and shot three of the guards I'm front of me. They suddenly poofed and the weight of my sword became lighter.

The man began to push me down harder when a sword suddenly stuck out from his back. The man gasped for air and dissapeared, leaving behind a small mace and iron sword.

I picked up the mace and smiled, followed by Rhelms, who took his sword from the ground.

"To should be more careful, Cat."

"And let a boy die? Not at chance."

"Fine. Do as you wish."

I gave him a disproving stare and went over turned around to see the boy up on his two legs. He was still bleeding though, and he was attempting to stand up by himself.

He was being supported by a man who wore a black cloak around him strapped to a golden shoulder pad on his shoulders.

The man had black hair, and he wore a black jacket and grey pants as well as black boots.

I looked at his hand to see a bow. He was the one who shot the three?

"You did well on protecting their cover, child." He patted the boy on the head."But now that they have appeared in public, I doubt that you can hide them longer." He looked at me with curiosity.

"Cat Girl 28." He called me... By my name!

"How do you know my..."

"Name? Simple. You're famous around here!"

I backed off a little, confused as I heard the word famous. Seriously?

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Rhelms stepped forward and asked.

"Hm... No." The man stared at him seriously."Well aren't you a betrayer to your own kin."

"Uh... who are you, excactly?" I asked him.

"The name's Akso." The man replied as he put back his bow from his inventory."This boy here is my student and only family, Lance."

The boy looked at me with glittering brown eyes... in the dark? He wore a white shirt that was torn to shreds and black pants scorched from markings of fire.

"What happened to him?" I asked Akso when the boy fell down suddenly, as if his legs died.

"Lance, you okay?" Akso asked worriedly as he picked the boy from his feet and carried him.

"Lance has been tormented for the past night after the greifers realized you entered the city."

"We were spotted?!"

"Apparently, you're lock of hair the swayed in the entrance gave it away, and Lance was the only witness." Akso said as he hurriedly walked walked to the stables behind the inn. "Be quick. They're coming."

We did as we were told and followed him to the stables. As we were walking, Rhelms threw my bag at me.

"You almost left it there." Rhelms said as he went over to his horse.

I hopped on buttercup and and followed Akso and Lance, who were ahead by a few blocks.

"Quickly! They're riding horses in this direction!"