Raven break out

Tired, and with a broken leg, Raven falls to his knees.

Amber watches in horror as Raven gets cuffed by the green pads. Trying to somehow go back to the other side, she gets grabbed by yelling Edward. "We've got to go!" He slides down the building out of sight of those green pads. "Let me go! We have to help him!"

Wiggling in his hands, Edward speaks up. "Don't worry, We're gonna help him. This isn't the first time something like this has happened." Running down the street like a wild bison, he takes a sharp turn back to the river.

"We just have to get to him first!" Diving into the water, Edward swims to the other shore.

Pulling himself out, he starts to drain his clothes of all the water.

Amber coughed all the water she accidentally breathed in, before asking. "*Cough!* What do you mean by first? And who are those green pads?!"

Scratching his neck, Edward begins to walk. "You could say that they're the police, but not really. They're just volunteers that try to keep order here in the slums."

Confused Amber catches up before asking questions about slums not having an official police force. "Yes, slums don't have a police force they have volunteers. It's the same thing, but one is official and the other one isn't."

Continuing, he tells her that they keep criminals locked up through the night and hand them to the proper authorities in the morning.

"Oh, so we have plenty of time!" Feeling the weight fall off her chest, she smiles.

"Yeah, plenty of time....." Edward thinks of a certain woman, but with her authority, none would dare to wake her up at this hour.

Looking around the corner for anyone wearing a green shoulder pad.

Instead, he saw something worse. It's a group of greens with a guy that has a purple pad!

"Shit! Hide!" Pulling Amber back behind the corner. Amber asked what had happened. "A purple problem has shown up." Confused, she asked Edward to elaborate more.

"Remember the captain? He was Yesod-level. Yesod Sephirah is a guy with crazy magic! If Raven was here there wouldn't be a problem, but I'm a practitioner of Malkuth."

Tilting her head Amber asks. "Yesod? I'm also a Yesod Sephirah! Maybe I can take-"

Shutting her down Edward tells her clearly that she has no proper fighting experience. So he proposes for them to wait while the guys walk past, or at least that's what he wanted.

But their loud conversation got the guards' attention.

"THEY'RE HERE!" Spotting the guard at the entrance of the alley, Edward quickly grabs a bunch of trash bags and throws them at the guards. Blocking their vision, Edward grabs Amber and promptly scales the building.

Hiding behind the ledge, he signals Amber to stay quiet.

"AFTER THEM!"

As the guys below run past them. Edward looks from the roof and points to a small building in the distance. "That's the holding area where green pads keep the criminals."

"And now Raven is there as well." Giving Amber a nod, he breaks a lock on a rooftop door.

Climbing down the stairs, Amber asks a question that has been bugging her for a while now.

"Why does Raven smile all the time?"

Stopping in his tracks, Edward reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pack of cigarettes.

"Simple, he's crazy. He thinks that as long as you keep smiling, his fake smile will turn into a real one, nothing else." Snapping his fingers, he lit his cigarette.

Whatever explanation, Edward just gave was ignored as Amber was too focused on the cigarette. "You... smoke?"

Shaking his head, he gives the cigar a good puff. "Only when Raven doesn't see it. Even though he acts like he hates these things, he still runs a drug lab."

"A DRUG LAB?" Amber yelled, realizing that he had said too much. Edward gives his cigar one more puff before putting it out against Amber's clothes.

"Sorry, but let me be honest. I'm not a fan of you Amber. Well, I don't mind you, but I don't see you as a friend, since if after the sun rises we will never see each other again, so I don't want to get too attached."

Understanding where's coming from Amber thinks. "Why befriend someone you're not gonna see ever again? The goodbye would just hurt."

"Correct, now, let's get Raven."

.....

As Raven is in his holding cell he thinks. "Well, at least they healed my leg."

Magic can truly do wonders. I will have to thank the volunteers one day for all their hard work.

Since they're all volunteers they all know the risk and accept the fact that they might die. And I respect it. For that reason, I try not to kill the green pads.

But, I was too slow to stop Amber from killing those two.....

Feeling bad about it, I felt like didn't deserve my leg to be healed.

"Hey, you! With the ponytail!" Being brought out of my thoughts, I hear the other criminals talk to me. "Yes?"

"You're Raven! Aren't you? I hear that Gunter put a huge bounty on your head!" As the criminals begin to chatter among each other, I hear. "He probably got wet feet!"

Rolling on my side, I try to get some shut eyes only to hear one of the prisoners scream.

Turning, I see a guy in another cell bleeding out of his gut. "GUARDS!" The prisoners start to scream.

"Oh, No." Knowing what's happening, I immediately start to smash my cuffs against the bed frame.

As 2 volunteers run up, they open the cell to get the wounded guy out. But the second they open in they get rushed by criminals. "GAH!~ STAY IN YOUR CELL!" As the hall is too narrow he can't swing his halberd efficiently causing it to get stuck on some things.

It's not long before one of them gets stabbed, while the other guy runs for it.

"HEY! Fuck, you're some help!" Screaming at the running volunteer, I finally smash my cuffs open. Throwing them away, I see my cell doors open.

Getting jumped on by a guy with a shiv.

"How the hell did you make a shiv?! You weren't here for more than 3 hours!"

Ignoring me, he continues to try and cut my stomach. Backing up, I hit my back against the wall. "Oh, it's on now!" Kicking him into the ball, he stabs my leg before crumbling to the ground.

Hitting the back of his head, he falls unconscious. As another guy charges me, he slams me against the back wall. Slamming my elbows into his neck, I grab him by the head and slam it against the bedframe.

Grabbing the keys, I leave my cell. As the other prisoners yell at me to open their cell, I raise my hands. "Sorry, but this zoo had bars installed for a reason."

Stepping over the unconscious volunteer, the main door for the cell block gets opened with 2 guys wearing purple pads. Clapping their hands they create halberds out of fire.

"Criminal Return to your cell!" Raising my eyebrow, I ask something. "Does it ever work? You know, the whole "Do this, Do that?" Even though they don't drop their guard as I hoped, they give me a good explanation.

"No, but under the law, we can't use force unless we give you a chance to surrender."

Nodding my head, I turn around and start to run to the other side. Starting to chase after me, I throw the cell key into a cell with the most guys.

Noticing it, one of the Purple magic pricks stops at the cell. Turning back around, I clap my hands. Forming a pole of water, freezing it, and turning it into a staff, I point it at the guard.

"You fool! You made an Ice weapon again my fire halberd!" Making fun of me he brings his burning halberd down, only to crack my Ice staff.

"You moron," Telling him off, water comes spraying out of the crack. Turning it into a loop I freeze it around his staff.

"You didn't freeze it fully!" Twisting the halberd out of his hands, the burning halberd disappears into thin air. Not giving him a chance to do something stupid I slam my staff into his belly.

Crumbling over, I finish it with a strike to the back of the head.

Leaving him conscious, I tell him to get better soon as his friend will need him soon.

Running past the other wizard that's trying to keep the prisoners from running out of their cells. I close the main door behind me.

Spotting a map on the wall, I read.

[Confiscated item storage room]

That! Finding the storage room. I start to run to it only to start feeling something creep up on me. Looking at my leg, I realize that I was stabbed by the makeshift knife. Seeing that it's not too deep, I pull it out.

Rubbing my leg, a bit I get a feeling of Déjá vu.

Opening the storage room door, I spot a guy behind a desk. "Oh shi-!" Almost yelling out loud I stab my Ice staff into his throat shutting him.

Reaching for his baton, I slam his head against the desk using my staff. Rolling off the table onto the ground. I grab his keys.

Taking a tag off my clothes with a number, I look for a safety box.

[A-3]... [A-15]... [A-24] "Got it"

Pulling it out, I see my cane and my gun inside. Stashing those away, I throw the cane in my hand up and down for a second.

The cane is made out of metal!

Letting go of my ice, it turns back into water that then evaporates into thin air. "Sorry buddy, but I just found a new toy." Looking at the cane now more like a weapon I realize that instead of a normal U-shaped handle it looks more like an Ax.

"Hey, I heard a scream is everything-" As another volunteer enters the storage room, I smile.

"A Practice Target." Slamming the flat side of the cane on his head he hits the door frame and slides down onto the cold floor.

Thanking God for making us more durable with magic, I realized that I didn't hear the sound of his skull breaking as I did with Amber.

"How strong is she?"

Thinking about it for a second, as to how she managed to brake a guy's skull with her frail body? I just decided to put it on my list of reasons why to not be associated with Amber after this.

Leaving the room I stopped myself for a second.

Wait a second, why am I only taking my things? I can take everything! Opening all the safety boxes I take everything that interests me, mostly the money out of those guys' wallets!