๐๐/๐๐/๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ.
I was holding the bank employees captives, while the others entered the vault, it took a while before they returned carrying bags full of money, we had a total of eighteen bags, but they suddenly went back to the vault.
"Aren't we leaving now?" I asked Kathleen who was safeguarding the bags.
"Not yet, the boss changed a bit our plan"
"Changed?"
"Yes" she said while putting a mask on her face.
Levi and the others came again quickly this time carrying the rest of the money which couldn't be put on bags, they throw it behind the wooden desks and went to take more, and more, after some comings and goings, they started to bring works of art like pictures and wooden statues and throw it in the same place.
"Does anyone here smokes?" asked Levi but no one answered, just the wealthy smokes so he probably wasn't speaking at us.
"Everyone here will die, but if someone can borrow me a lighter I might spare this personโฆ"
"Waitโฆ" I said.
"Shut up" Levi shouted
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ!
"hhmmmmpf" hummed one of the clients gagged in the ground.
Levi went at him and took out the gag off his mouth.
"In the pocket of my suit!" said the man in despair
"thank you" Levi said took the lighter from his pocket and then gagged the man again.
He went to the pile of kales and pictures and set it on fire. the fire quickly grow
"Let's get going" Said Levi.
"Wait, we can't let them like this"
"We can, and we wil"
"You said that we weren't going to hurt anyone more than needed"
"The plans were changed, now let's leave"
Levi took two bags and carried them outside through the front door, the others quickly followed him, I was the last one to leave, I didn't know what to do
๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด
I cut the ropes of one of the men on the ground.
"Free the others" I said at his ears, I left my knife at his side and left. the man didn't realise he was free until I warned him.
I left the bank and it was already the end of the afternoon the sun was setting, and the others were freeing the horses from their carriages and climbing on them, the child had prior facilitated for us to free the horses by cutting some ropes, loosen them, or taking some screws from the carriages.
There were some people watching us now, so we didn't have time to waste. I don't know if the people who were watching us knew what was happening, they weren't getting any closer at us, just watching us by far.
I freed a horse and quickly jumped on him and we rode together for a few minutes before the bell rang.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ต, ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ
Levi looked at me with disgust on his face.
"Run" said Levi in his horse, and he ran away with Kathleen and Steel following at others horses behind.
We divided into groups I would be going with Werewolf and Altar, while Iron and Salim would go together.
Each group had a different route to go, Levi said that it would be too dangerous to leave everyone together at the slums the streets are too narrow for this many horses to walk by, and even before reaching there eight people riding horses would catch way more attention than three.
We would be reuniting at my house before going to a safehouse know only by the Child and Levi
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If I were asked that morning "what would happen today", I would never answer "There will be a robbery at the bank" I worked there for so many years and I never saw a robbery, the only thing i can remember that was similarly was one client who went aggressive and tried to attack one of the attendants.
It's funny to think about it, one of daughters always said that her mother is way scarier than me and she is the one who obliges everyone to do their jobs. but I was the one who would work as a guard. I would spend most part of my day just appearing intimidating at the bank and at home would do everything my family asked.
It was a good life, but it wasn't an easy job I would have to stand for many hours without doing anything o sitting, it was tiresome, but it would give me a lot of time to think.
But that day was different, that afternoon they came holding rifles and pistols which they pointed at us, Bartz one friend of mine tried went in their direction, I don't know what he was thinking but it clearly didn't work, he was knocked.
We were all tied and gagged, it was very terrifying, and I wouldn't stop praying for the Godking to save us, to let me see my daughters at least one more time.
I was sitten on my knees when that man came to me, he cut the ropes which were tied on my back, and gave me his knife "free the others" he said.
I was hesitant, I would look at the fire, at the exit and at mine co-workers, I could flee and leave them there to die. Please don't judge me, I was terrified, the fire was spreading fast, and I had three daughters who needed me, and when I thought about them I looked at one of the men at my side.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
This was enough to make me help them, I started to cut the ropes of everyone while the fire was spreading. and when everyone was freed I also fleed to the exit.
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When I woke up I was gagged and couldn't move, probably tied. I immediately realised what happened, the bank was being robbed, lady Karpov was using meโฆ
I kept like that for a while before one of the men starts to bring lots of money from the safe and throw it at the desks and soon after they brought paintings.
๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ?
My imagination went a bit ahead of me I started to think how they could reach the other side of the safe but nothing seemed plausible for me.
When they've brought everything the one in charge was asking for a lighter and when one client gives him one he just put all the money on fire and leaves.
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ช๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ท?
but one of the robbers didn't leave immediately, before leaving he freed one of the security agents. The man who was freed didn't free us in the beginning, he was looking at us like an idiot while we were all begging for our lives with our mouths gagged.
๐๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ท ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด!
he was cutting one at a time and when he finally unbound me I ran away, not like the others to the exit, I ran to the bell tower, but the fire was already spreading to the corridor, not soo much I couldn't pass but I had to be quick. The smoke irritated my eyes but I passed through the fire
I entered the bell tower and realised the rope was cut, I went up the tower stairs until the top there I grabbed remaining rope in the bell and jumped to make it rang, it was loud, but I didn't stop, I jumped again, and again, after the third time I went down, I could still save the more valuable assets in the vault, and maybe even gain a raise.
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ข๐ถ๐ญ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ?!
The fire was spreading to the entire building, so I had to be very fast, I was coughing because of all the smoke when I reached the vault door
"really?"
If the door is impregnable they just went through the wall.
I passed through the hole and went to the cabinets room, they didn't take anything from here, I had the keys with me so I grabbed the maximum of jewellery before leaving, but it was too late, the fire spread too much and I was trapped downstairs. I died that day.
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I was working at my office alone when suddenly I could hear a sound, one bell rang, but not any bell, by that sound, that many times it rang, and before the schedule, it could only be the Saint's bank bell.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ฃ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐จ๐ถ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฐ.
"We've got a job to do, summon the others, we meet at the headquarters" I said.
"understood" answered one voice
๐๐ต'๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ
I ran towards our headquarters and dressed my outfit while people would enter the room and start to dress as well.
I waited for ten minutes and there was five-man ready, and another three who were still dressing their outfits.
๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ!
"let's leave now!" I ordered at the moment they were properly dressed.
"Yes, sir" they answered.
After we left our headquarters we went directly to the bank the fastest we could, some went flying others jumping from roof to roof.
When we arrived at the top of a building in front of the bank it was too late the robbery already happened and the bank was on fire.
"shit!"
"there" appointed Ruslam at some carriages that weren't bound to any horse.
"Those who have water blessings stay here and help to fight the fire, the rest shall make pairs and seek the robbers"
Three-man stepped out and went to help to extinguish the fire, the others made pairs.
"Ruslam" I said and he came with me.
We went from roof to roof going towards the slums.
"there" appointed Ruslam at three people running in their horsesโฆ
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We separated from each other as planned to avoid everyone getting caught so with me there was Kathleen and Steel. We were running in our horses the fastest we could towards the slums.
Then it happened a wall of fire appeared in front of me, the horse avoided going to the fire by rearing I looked behind and saw it
"No wayโฆ" Said Katheleen
"Angels..." said Steel not believing their eyes
๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด, ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด
"Oh shit... I was so wrong" I said
There were two masked men using dark clothes floating behind us and one of them was holding fire with his hands. they were a bit further but if they could fly they could easily catch us.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ? ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ! ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ
"surrender now, if you do we won't treat you harshly!" One of them has said.
"follow me" Kathleen said and I quickly followed her and so did steel after me.
She entered an alley with her horse and the two masked man followed us flying above us while shooting fireballs at us, she was turning right and left in the small alleys then we finally got to the main street again.
๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ช๐ง ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด
I tried to shoot one of them with my pistol but couldn't aim properly backwards, they were far and were flying so I obviously missed, but my shot made them flinch for a second before resuming their pursuit
๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ... ๐ข๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ต... ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ต... ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข.
"Follow me"
I entered another alley this time I was in front of Steel and Kathleen.
I aligned my horse with theirs
"prepare your guns we gonna turn around and breakthrough then" I said and they complied with their heads.
I prepared my two six bullets pistol, Kathleen had one, and Steel had one rifle with two shots.
The two men were getting closer and closer for this they descend and were just a bit higher than us when they were close enough I turned left in another alley and stopped my horse while turning back
"now" Katheleed and steel did the same.
But the men kept flying toward us, they didn't see that we stopped after the curve and when one of them came into us we fired all our guns at him. The first one had fallen into the ground spinning because of the inertia, the other one came just after and could attack us but he went to help the other holding him avoiding him to spin even more on the ground.
The man who had fallen was crawling so he was still alive, no man could survive that many shots and that fall.
"Run" Kathleen said and left with her horse and steel quickly but I had to see something.
I looked at the man who was shot he was still alive I could see him weakly moving his arm pointing at me, and now his clothes were stained with a wine red. I left before they could follow me.
They didn't follow us anymore and at the point where we were at the slums at night it would be too difficult to spot us, so we were more or less safe for now. we were the last ones to reach Rotciv's house, everyone reach there with no problems, except us, who encountered those flying men.
"Finally, we were starting to think you were caught!" said a happy Werewolf
My group wasn't exactly happy.
"Why the long face? we did it, we robbed the saint's bank"
"It was better if we didn't" said Steel.
"What do you mean by that? asked Rotciv"
"When we were fleeing we were found by Angels I've always thought they were legends!" said Steel sterically.
"Calm down, we shot down that angel!" I said to him
"Exactly, we shot that angel with all of our guns and it didn't kill him! anyone would die from that many shots and that fall"
"Yes, he didn't die, but he was bleeding, and if it bleeds it can die!
"Don't you get it if they are real so are the Godking, and heaven and hell, WE ARE DOOMED!"
"No, we aren't, I refuse to believe in such things, it must have another answer for what we saw"
"There is no other answer! We must surrender and ask for forgiveness from the Godking!" He looked at the other hoping that other people would follow him
"You fool, he would kill all of us!" said Altar
"better than burning in hell, if you won't come with me I will be going by myself!"
Then Katheleen shoot steel from his side in his head, People were surprised by the development but didn't say anything until Rotciv broke that silence.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT!" shouted Rotciv who had blood on all of his face.
"He was planning to give up, he would tell everything he knew about us, we had no other choice" answered Katheleen.
I went to Rotciv and pressed him against the wall
"She is right, but this wouldn't happen if you didn't resolve to save the bank personnel you little shit, I should kill you right now, you disobeyed me, act on your own and almost got me and Kathleen killed. If you didn't kill Steel I would have you killed, considered yourself lucky, but if you screw up again you are dead!"
"I didn't kill...
"Don't you dare to say you didn't kill him, YOU caused the death of steel, not me not Kathleen, YOU, he wouldn't be dead if it weren't for what you did, if you didn't save those people, the bell wouldn't ring, and those angels wouldn't reignite his faith causing his death."
Rotciv turned his head down and spoke no more.
"Now, follow me, we are going to the first hideout"