A lot had happened to Lucina tonight and what annoyed her the most was that she didn’t know what the hell most of it was. Only that it hurt.

She’d somehow been dragged to the other side of the depot and was now near the sea. Whatever had just hit her had somehow disappeared because she was now seemingly alone. Suddenly there was a screech and Cali descended from the night beside her. Well at least there were some good things about her situation Cali was still here and she still had her sword and whip. There was a crunch up ahead of her in the darkness like someone was stepping on the gravel. Lucina readied herself and four figures emerged, Venli, Mor and two people she didn’t recognise, the ones she assumed sent her flying.

“Who are your friends” she asked.

“Voc” Venli gestured to the man with long blonde hair “Nei” she said pointing at the women beside her with braided black hair.

“I’m assuming they also don’t like my brother?” Lucina questioned.

“Who is your brother?” Nei asked.

“Lewis Athra” Venli answered.

“Then yes” Voc responded. Instantly she sensed an increase mana flow in his body, and he charged towards them.

“Cali” Lucina commanded. Her summon became a blur of black and violet as it charged into Voc sending him flying back. Venli quickly produced a dozen crimson knives and then launched them towards Lucina. Lucina lashed out her whip and the knives exploding against its chains. Smoke filled the air however, abruptly cleared when the wind grew wild and Mor and Nei came charging through. Mor ignited his arms with flames and the wind seemed to almost converge around Nei before quickly pushing her forward. Nei dashed towards Lucina and air around them grew fierce, if it wasn’t for her augments she’d be struggling to stand. Nei kicked out at Lucina catching her in her side. Lucina staggered back and Nei thrusted her hand forward, in an instant the wind in front of her condensed and rushed towards Lucina. The air hit Lucina like a rock sending her flying off her feet and skating across the ground. She dug her hands into the stones around her bringing herself to a stop just before the depot ended and met with the sea. Looking up Lucina could see Nei sprinting towards her speed seemingly increased by the wind behind her back. Lucina’s whip cracked against the air and wrapped around Nei’s legs tripping her to the ground. With enhanced strength Lucina ragged on the whip dragging Nei across the ground towards her, were Lucina delivered a sharp kick to her head.

“Fuck you” she growled. Lucina wasted no time watching the women’s head bounce off the stones instead turning towards an advancing Mor with Venli behind preparing Jade and crimson projectiles. Mor suddenly stuck his arm out behind him and launched an explosion from his palm sending him flying towards Lucina. He threw an ablaze fist that Lucina quickly ducked under before delivering a left hook to his kidney. Annoyingly she couldn’t follow up her attack instead quickly having to destroy a group of jade orbs on her flank. Giving her no chance to recover Mor grabbed her arm and yanked her off balance before punching across her jaw, luckily with a normal fist. However, unluckily the punch still sent Lucina’s head spinning and before she could recover a sudden burst of wind swept her legs from beneath her sending her tumbling to the ground. Lucina instinctively flailed her whip preventing her attackers from getting close. Pushing off the ground she jumped to her feet and quickly reached into her subspace and attempted to pull something out. It wasn’t there.

‘How could I have I forgot them’. She didn’t have long to be annoyed with herself before fireballs and crimson knives launched towards her. Suddenly Cali appeared and blocked the projectiles with a shield formed from tendrils of lightning. ‘But if Cali was back that means’ as if on cue Voc emerged from the darkness behind his allies blood leaking from his mouth and looking extremely pissed. Without her brothers ‘gifts’ this would be a lot harder. She channelled mana into her discipline and the shadows to her left convulsed. The shadows suddenly grew and shaped themselves into a creature twice Lucina’s size before fading away. A massive quadrupedal wolf like creature stood beside her, icy flew from its mouth as it growled aggressively at her attackers. It had thick silvery white fur and light blue eyes that were colder than ice. Its had a muscular frame all round however its front legs where noticeably bigger than its hind and shaped more like arms with its claws even containing a thumb.

A feral growl emerged from its throat as the wolf suddenly lashed out, its silver claws tearing apart a jade orb. Cali quickly soared across the depot towards their attackers however, Voc and Mor crashed into the raven slamming it into the ground.

“Luna” Lucina commanded and in an instant the white wolf darted towards Cali pouncing on Voc. Flames streamed through the air and quickly engulfed the wolf sending it retreating back. Cali used this distraction to swiftly recover, and her two-summons engaged Mor and Voc. However, Lucina had no time to watch instead quickly swinging out her whip tearing apart spells of crimson, jade, and air. Venli and Nei rushed towards her, Lucina once again wrapped her weapons together and swung the creation through the air. Unfortunately this time Nei was prepared. The air clashed against the sword sending it flying off away in the opposite direction leaving Lucina completely defenceless. Noticing this Venli launched a group of crimson daggers burning through the air. Lucina quickly weaved in between them while attempted to pull her sword back to her hand. However, Lucina couldn’t avoid what came next Jade orbs shot through the sky. Lucina attempted to jump back and avoid them however they quickly changed trajectory and sped into her. They shattered against her torso producing a green glow and immense force that threw her back across the gravel. Suddenly something crashed next to her. She glanced up and ragged the hair from out of her eyes to see Luna and Cali beside her on the ground. However, they where both up in a flash and quickly moved to protect her.

Lucina quickly got to her feet as her attacker began to approach her a lot more casually than before “Shit” she muttered once she realised where her weapon was. Her sword and whip on the ground where she been sent flying on which was now unfortunately behind her attackers. Analysing her situation to her right she could see flames covered Mor’s hands and Voc now had golden runes running along his forearms which Lucina assumed was how he’d managed to go against Cali and Luna. To her left Venli was surrounded by a green and crimson aura and Nei was surrounded by a shield of wild wind. It didn’t take long for Lucina to predict the ending of this fight. It was not in her favour.

Voc cracked his knuckles and then charged across the gravel towards Lucina however, something caught her eye. She noticed Nei and Mor’s faces crease in confusion as the air around Nei became calm and Mor’s flames suddenly extinguished. Voc enclosed in on Lucina, Cali and Luna getting ready to face him when suddenly a figure came plummeting from the sky and slammed into Voc. He was sent flying back and the figure suddenly appeared on the ground with their backs to Lucina and her summons. Lucina eyes went wide.

“Lewis” she said stunned

“Look at that Ike, you and Arthur was right” Lewis stated, “It was something stupid”. Hearing his words she felt her face flush red. Ike suddenly appeared next to Lucina her weapons in his hand an annoyed look on his face which just deepened Lucina’s embarrassment.

“So you lot are all with Blade now? And here I was thinking your lives couldn’t get any lower” Lewis taunted. They gazed upon her brother stunned and bewildered however, it took only moments for that to quickly turn to rage.

Mana surged through their bodies more than any of them had used in the fight so far, and they all attacked.

“Athra!” they roared.

It was the last word they ever said.