Andrea had been sent back to Veda and he knew Kalvrie had most likely been captured by the Aramante who were probably sent by Lumian.
He could not go back and rescue Kalvrie alone. Lumian would only gloat and laugh at him before forcefully sending him back where he came from.
'I need a plan.' Andrea thought as he stood in front of the tree he had just transported out of. 'I need something!' He began pacing around, trying to think of what he should do and how he could get Kalvrie back. 'Sky!'
Andrea had been away from Veda longer than he had initially anticipated but he did not plan to find his daughter on Vaxoryn and that had kept him busy for a while.
Andrea quickly rushed to where he had hid his glist, got in, and drove home. He expected to find Sky watching TV or up in his room or something but he never thought he would come back to see Sky unconscious on his bed.
Andrea had gone into the house and he did not see Sky in the living room so he went upstairs to Sky's room and saw him lying on the bed, unconscious. Beside the bed was a lady with long blue hair seated on a chair.
"Sky!" he exclaimed and rushed to the bed then held Sky's hand. "Aren't you the teacher he's been learning from?" he asked the lady seated on the chair beside the bed. "What are you doing here? And what happened to Sky?"
"Mr Dipson." Anna said as she got up from the chair. "I am Anna. I'm very sorry about what happened to Sky. Perhaps we should head back downstairs to talk about what happened to Sky."
Andrea looked skeptical.
"Trust me," Anna said, "I have Sky's well-being in mind. I was the one who brought him back. Let's go downstairs and talk."
Andrea did not want to leave Sky alone in the room and he still did not entirely trust the lady but he decided to go downstairs with her anyway.
***
Kyle, Kevin and Smith had been completely surrounded by the convicts and one of them had just attacked with a sword.
Kyle quickly moved forward and hit the elbow of the convict as the convict raised his hand to swing the sword. He did not hold back at all and he broke the person's bone in a weird way which made the person yell in pain and step a couple feet back but before he did, Kyle grabbed the sword from his hand.
"Nice work Kyle." Smith said.
"Thanks. But we're not out of the woods yet." Kyle replied.
"Literally." Kevin said. "I told you guys this was a bad idea."
The yell that the convict made was heard by Jake, Rheya and Sasha and they immediately began hurrying towards it from their respective directions.
Seeing what Kyle did to the first convict, all of the convicts yelled and attacked Kyle, Kevin and Smith all at once.
Kyle had succeeded in cutting down a few of them, literally, Smith was taking the health from a convict and healing himself as he received hits from everywhere while Kevin was just trying not to die.
Sasha had used her magic to super speed to where the shouts were coming from and she squeezed her way through all the convicts while Jake had used the vanishing magic he still had and appeared right in the middle of everything.
"Sasha?" Jake said when he saw Sasha and used his hand which still had the gauntlet on to shift his jet black hair behind his ear and away from his eyes.
The convicts had stopped attacking and were looking at the people who had just gotten in their way. A new lady in a cloak with a staff in her hand had also just appeared beside the people who had just shown up out of nowhere and most of the convicts whistled raucously.
"Jake?" Sasha, Smith and Kyle said in unison, their surprise and shock very obvious in their voice but if that wasn't enough, their expression said it all.
"Where did this beauty come from?" Kevin asked, looking directly at Rheya as he wiped the blood from his face and spat some out onto the ground. "Damn." he said. "Seriously, who is this and where has she been all my life?"
"Good to see you too Kevin." Jake said sarcastically.
"Yeah whatever." Kevin replied and moved closer to Rheya. It was like the convicts that surrounded them were no longer his problem and the only thing he could see was Rheya. "Girl you are beautiful."
"Kevin." Jake called out and slapped him across the face but made sure to hold back a lot of his strength. He wanted Kevin to focus. He wasn't trying to kill him. "More important things right now."
"We only want those three." a convict said and pointed his mace at Kevin, Smith and Kyle. "But for interrupting us we will take the girl with staff too. We'll take turns with her. Each person gets to taste her for an hour." the convict said and turned to the others while they all laughed.
Jake looked at the convict that had just spoken. He felt anger and disgust for the convict. He ran past the convict which looked like a blur to most people that were there. No one being fast enough to react with their magic or do anything.
Jake was now standing behind the convict that had just spoken, his right hand by his side, a thick viscous red liquid – blood, dripping from the tips of the gauntlet.
The convict was holding the front part of his neck as blood spurted out of it into the air. He wheezed as he tried to breathe but couldn't and eventually fell to the ground. Dead.
The convicts looked at Jake with shock at what just happened then that shock turned into anger and they all scattered, attacking whichever one of them they could get their hands on.
"KILL THEM ALL!" one of the convicts shouted and charged with nothing but a wench in his hand.