Somewhere deep in a cave system located at the center of the beast forest: A giant pantheon, like the one in Rome, stood tall, it's walls made of a strange powdery material, making the building seem fragile, even though it was anything but.
In the interior, a giant circular chamber was built, it had a dome-like roof with in the middle of the room, lied a far more detailed version of Hugo Raylei, the founder of Anaemo City than the one in the city square, it's only change that it was made from the same powdery stone as the pantheon.
Next to him was a stone stele, with the solemn words carved upon it's surface: "Lukas, beat me in my own game and take my inheritance, You will need it..."
How, the stele new of Lukas's name, nobody would know but it. That wasn't all there was to see in the room however, north of the stele, a giant depression was made on the ground, about 8 x 8 meters in length and width. The floor was checkered, in spots of red and blue. It was a strange sight, in this cold and silent mausoleum lacking any color, a checkered board-like floor was present.
------above the cave-----
"ROAR!!!"
A giant wild beast, the size of an elephant roared at a few people. It's giant canines bulging out of it's mouth, ready to tear anything apart, human or not. The warriors confronting the beast, though shedding a few cold sweats from it's ferocious roar, weren't afraid, as they all had sub-mortal cards, a few even had a mortal card, and just like that mayor said, all animals here were only mortal level, so at best, the giant beast was slightly stronger than their card.
-WOOSH!!-
Suddenly, before both sides could engage each other, a giant pair of scissors flew over from a nearby covering, it's speed so fast both the wild beast and the warriors weren't able to see it before it stopped. The problem was it's end point, which it promptly reached in a split second...
-Thud!-
The giant beast crashed down on the ground with a dull thud, it's head lopped right off of it's body. where it's head would be, everyone could see the pair of scissors that had permanently borrowed it's head from it's neck. Seeing this, all the warriors staggered, as their jaws almost dropped down to the floor.
-Swish!-
More sounds came from the trees, as 2 people were crashed on the ground, light wounds littering their bodies. One of them stood up, everyone could tell she was a woman, her dirty blonde hair matted and haphazardly covering her face from the force of the fall.
Slowly, the other person got up as well, this time, it was a boy, about 13, his short stature and baby like face felt out of place in this cutthroat forest. The only reason anyone took him a little bit seriously was because of the iron dagger he held with both hands.
Slowly, rustling was heard from the jungle, quietly at first, but it slowly got louder, and after a few tense moments, 2 women walked out, one held a giant metal warhammer, it's 2 faces filled with spikes that had dry blood on it, while the other woman had her left hand outstretched, likely meaning her weapon was those scary pair of scissors over there...
The boy and girl were naturally Lukas and Anne, and the 2 women were naturally the woman and the bandit, but in place of her armor, she had a similarly long dress like her counterpart, though instead of a deep blue color, it was a beautiful emerald green, like the color of a certain gem from a certain blocky game...
Then the bandit spoke:
"Hoo, well, if that wasn't a workout, let me tell you, your spells sure are troublesome, after all, only a few inheritances have have spells in them, and even fewer have such versatile spell cards! If it weren't for my card, I would have been dead! Too bad you guys had to just encounter us right at the start, Heheh..."
As she was speaking, the other women waved her hand, and the giant iron scissors suddenly flew towards her, smoothly gripping the scissors, she began to do something to it, making it shine a bluish-white color, the whole time she just looked apathetically at the siblings, mute...
When they saw her preparing her scissors again, both Lukas and Anne paled and they prepared to jump away, only to be stopped by a the bandit who knocked them to the ground with a swing of her hammer. She frowned at the other woman and began pouting as she said:
"Hey, Mirca! give your sis a chance, I wanna beat them down myself!"
"...No, you've had your fun, we capture them, or we kill them"
Saying this, her scissors started glowing brightly, a blue hue started forming on the tip of her weapon. While they talked, Lukas and Anne weren't just sitting there like fish on the chopping block. Anne had prepared her own spell, and Lukas, who couldn't do anything hide due to having no luck with the beasts, hid behind his sister.
Suddenly, Mirca flew up, her scissor flickering from blue to white, then red before a beam of light shot out of it's tip. Not to be outdone, Anne, shouted out her spell:
"Clypeus!(Shield!)"
A shield of light covered the two, just before the beam hit them, redirecting the beam towards the ground instead, destroying it in a heartbeat. naturally, as the ground exploded, a giant dust cloud formed from the particles of dirt and gravel, but when it finally settled down both parties were shocked at what was revealed from the broken dirt and stone...
"Whoa"
"...What in god's name?"