Normal POV
The Warden come out from the carriage.
The guards immediately surrounded the carriage where the gemstone where at.
The smoke is so thick that they barely see anything.
When one of the bandits about to hit the Warden, the golden boy come out for the rescue.
Bang!
Another loud noise, the guards immediately look at the place where the noise came from.
"You okay, father?" The golden boy ask.
Melrick, one of the Warden's guard.
A boy with gold eyes and blond hair.
People often mistake him to a noble, after all the nobles have blond hair too.
He used to be a slave sold by his parents to Zack.
Zack raised him as a shield for Warden's.
He grew up with Cynthia.
As Warden's shield, he was the strongest in close combat.
The Warden sighs "This is gonna be a problem soon... Protect the other carriage, I can handle this." He orders.
"Got ya!" Melrick run through the smoke finding the other carriage.
The other guards are already on the ground.
As Melrick run, a joker card were tossed to him.
He stops in his tracks. "Huh? What the—"
Before he finished his sentence, the card blew up.
Boom!
Melrick's face were covered in red powder paint.
"Fucking hell!" He wipes the powder out of his eyes.
His grip on his bat tightens.
He look around to see who tossed the card on him.
But the only thing he can see is the smoke surrounding him.
"What's up Golden boy" the bandit said.
Immediately, Melrick recognize the voice.
He scoffs.
"Long time no see, Lucian" Melrick pull out a pebble in his back pocket that dangling in his belt.
He tossed the pebble in the mid air and he hit it with his bat, almost hitting his target.
Lucian easily dodge the pebble.
"Stop moving!" Melrick launch forward and hit Lucian with his bat.
His eye's widen as his bat only passed through.
Lucian becomes smoke.
He growled in frustration and Lucian is no longer in his sight again.
"Ugh, got tricked again by your cheap tricks" Melrick look around in the smoke.
Only Lucian's silhouette is the only thing he can see.
...
The Warden's guard are panicking as they get hit one by one.
The Warden look around and some mysterious person knocking his guards one by one.
His patience is it's limits.
He hit the ground making it shake.
The punch is loud and strong that the smoke immediately wipe away.
Warden look around and saw his guards is on the ground and bandits surrounding him.
"You sure about this?" He licks his lips and smirk.
...
Because of his punch, the smoke finally went away.
Melrick can finally see Lucian.
"You shouldn't make father mad, you know that" Melrick said as he turned his head to look to Lucian.
Smirking and his one eyebrow raised, Lucian know this look, Melrick is looking down to him.
He growled in frustration.
Lucian is about to take another card from his pocket but Melrick immediately launch forward and about to hit Lucian with his bat.
Lucian panicked and step backward to dodge the bat, but he was too late.
The bat hit his face making him fly away hitting the wall.
The cards fall down from his pocket.
The moment the cards hit the ground, it explodes.
Melrick immediately fly away from the scene.
One of the bandits use this opportunity to threw another smoke bomb, he succeeded.
Once again the place is covered in smoke bomb.
Warden gritted his teeth as he's sight is limited again.
He runs toward to the carriage to protect the gemstone, but he was late.
The stones are already nowhere to be found.
"Melrick! The stones!" He shouted, and Melrick immediately look for it.
The thick smoke make looking for the stones harder.
The Bandits signal each other to flee the scene.
One of the bandits take Lucian's knocked up body and flee away.
Frustrated, the Warden once again punch the ground making the smoke go away.
The Bandits are now nowhere to be found and Melrick is in panic still looking for the gemstones.
They're gone...
...
Yuu was laying in her bed.
Under the Beer House, she was playing with her stuffed toys.
Her right hand holding a worn-out bunny stuffed toy which she called it Momo and the other hand is holding the horse wooden toy from the Warden.
"You're still young and weak, you can't do anything" the wooden horse said.
"But I just want to make you proud!" Momo said and she hit it with the wooden horse toy.
"Huhu..." The bunny stuffed toy cries.
Suddenly her room door creak open.
It was Cynthia.
"Didn't I told you not to do anything stupid?" Cynthia put her sniper near her as she sits down on the couch.
"I didn't do anything" Yuu puts down the toys.
"Father..erm...the Warden's carriage were attacked" Cynthia glared at her.
Yuu groaned in frustration.
"Ugh, I didn't do that! Why would I attack father's carriage?" She throws the horse toy to Cynthia.
Cynthia catch it effortlessly.
"Tell the truth"
"I'm telling the truth!" Yuu stands up as she yells at Cynthia.
"I got knocked out by some kind of bandits before I even do anything" she pouts as she sits down again.
Cynthia stands up and take her sniper.
"Fine, I believe you...but in the future, refrain yourself to get involved by the bandits, especially with that friend of yours, the Warden is furious..." She opened the door and step outside.
"I'm warning you, Yuu... don't do anything stupid" she said before closing the door.
Yuu only throws Momo on the door and tossed everything from her table.
"Stupid!? Stupid!?" She kicks and hit things until they're broken.
Now her room is a mess, again.
"I'm not stupid!" She stomp on the wooden horse toy on the ground making it break in two.
She looked at the shattered mirror in front of her.
Her hair is a mess, she had a habit on pulling it when she's stress.
The bandages in her arm is almost worn out and need to be replace.
She look at her arm to see the tattoo of a Barrel and five petals flower.
"Father loves me, he wouldn't be angry at me, wouldn't he?" She asked herself in the shattered mirror.
"But Yuu, Cynthia already said that he was furious because he was attacked." The bunny stuffed toy in the ground said.
"But I didn't attacked him, I was knocked out" she turn her head and look at the bunny toy.
The bunny laughs. "Cynthia is already blaming you though."
"I didn't do anything wrong..." Yuu step forward to the door and picked up the stuffed toy.
"You did.." the stuffed toy replied.
"I didn't!" Yuu yells and throw the toy again in the shattered mirror.
"They always blame me for something I didn't do...even I said that didn't!" Yuu takes her tool belt and wears it.
She picked up the stuffed toy again and hang it in her belt.
"I'll show them! It's not my fault..." She slams the door, leaving her room in a mess.