Hope in the Dark 14 - The Grave Robber

Rald felt a pain in his chest as he
stared at the body of Fairfax with sad eyes, Quincy stood up and
wiped something from her face, “Let's keep going.” Garin
stared at the woman coldly, “Are you insane? He's dead we're
take his body back to the estate.” he spoke seriously Quincy
turned with determined eyes, “And let his sacrifice be for
nothing! No, We have one more weakling group of bandits to remove
then we're taking him back to the estate.” the two companions
look to Rald, Fairfax has died under his command and he sighed sadly.
“We can't make his sacrifice be for nothing. We'll keep the
body here and come back to the clearing.” Garin grumbled and
grabbed his axe, “Fine let's move the quicker we kill these
bastards the better.” he stepped forward into the woods yet
again, he had given up on trying to reason with these two and with a
heavy heart left his friend behind. Quincy and Rald followed from
behind, Rald was concerned about Garin but let him take the lead, he
drew his longsword and gripped it in his hands from the corner of his
eye he saw Quincy with cold eyes holding her glaive with
determination. Without any sense of hiding the Bounty Hunter strode
into the clearing, the bandits looked in shock as Garin threw a flash
bomb into the face of one of the marksmen who screamed clutching his
eyes, Garin took the advantage throwing a hook into the side of the
marksmen and dragging the marksmen to himself his screams finished by
a furious axe swing.

The three remaining bandits look over in
shock, two carried blades while there was one remaining marksmen who
hurriedly started to load his blunderbuss, Quincy dashed forward and
slashed to one of the bladed bandits but he rose his swords to parry
knocking the blade away Rald saw this and leapt forward bringing the
pommel of his sword against the face of the bladed bandit, the bandit
staggered just long enough for Quincy to get a second hit the blade
cleaving into his body as he stiffened and collapsed, the other blade
bandit slipped a blade between the slits from crusader's armour. Rald
gasped in pain and swung his blade into the bandit's side who
staggered back and collapsed. Garin saw the remaining marksmen raise
his blunderbuss Garin threw the hook out and it stabbed into the
marksmen and when he was pulled the Marksmen took aim to Garin and
fired, the bullets slammed against his armour and tore through his
clothes, he gasped in pain as he bled from various pellets but he
glared with venomous hatred as he dragged the bandit close and his
axe bit deeply into the bandit's chest and Garin ripped it free. “Can
we go return to Fairfax now.” he grumbled not amused at this
display. Rald and Quincy nodded as Rald marked down on the contract
as he kept walking back towards the clearing. Fairfax's body was
there but someone was inspecting in and hate rose inside Garin as he
stepped forward, “GRAVE ROBBER! Step away from that corpse
now!” the Grave Robber leapt up throwing a knife at the bounty
hunter who deflected it with his axe but when they looked to see her
again the grave robber was gone. Rald looked to Fairfax he was still
clothed which was a plus and he picked up his body delicately,
“Doesn't matter now...let's just get Fairfax back to the
estate.” He spoke quietly and the companions made their way
back.