Family Business 47

Family Business
Chapter 47

-VB-

Where is he?

Where is Viego?

Viego is on the list.

He has too many minions. Too many magicks.

He needs to die.

Where is Viego?

He unleashed his magic here in Bilgewater again.

Accursed traitor.

I’ll kill him. I’ll kill them all. They should have never cut his line.

I’ll kill him.

Where is Viego?

Not here.

Not here.

Have to find Viego. He will taste my skewer.

I will be his death from below.

Where is he?

Too many minio-.

“Pyke!”

Pyke turned around, black ichor dripping from his bone skewer. He recognized this man. Lucian. He helped him against Viego. He was not a traitor.

He will not be on the List.

Lucian and the rest of the Sentinels cannot be on the List. They helped.

Please let them not be on the List.

“What?” he drawled while looking around.

“Viego might be here on Bilgewater right now!”

Pyke’s still heart squeezed and he grinned at the anticipation of the hunt.

Viego is on the List.

Viego will feel what it feels like to die under the waves.

“Take me to him.”

“We can’t find him,” Lucian frowned before looking up. “But the Black Mist is the thickest in the mountain there.”

Pyke followed Lucian’s gaze and saw the mountain in question. It did look like the Black Mist was surrounding the mountain more thickly than anywhere else on the island and the city.

“Then we kill him.”

Pyke drew in a deep breath before he allowed himself to submerge. He let himself fall forward, but just before he would hit the cobblestone pavement of the inner city, he felt himself splash against the water only he could see, and he swam towards the mountain.

Kill Viego. Must kill Viego.

Cross off the last name on the List.

Finally get to rest.

*Crrrrkkkk*

Where is he?

Cross off the second to last name on the List.

Will get to rest soon.

*Crrrrkkk*

Where is Viego?

Viego needs to die.

He will taste my skewer.

In the mountain.

Not here. Over there.

Accursed traitor.

Just one of many names on the List.

Behind him, he heard Lucian.

His name was on the List, but so far down and so far removed from the betrayal that Pyke didn’t want to hurt him. Lucian was helping him against Viego.

But Pyke can’t let any traitor go. Lucian will live for a while longer.

“Hurry up,” he growled as he swam faster. He turned his attention back to the front, and frowned.

Ghouls rose out of the ground and walked out from the many alleys that littered Bilgewater.

There was no way through the street with how many there were in front of him.

Instead of pulling out his skewer to take down one ghoul at a time, he dove deeper into the water and dashed.

His afterimage stayed behind him, in front of the now confused ghouls, while he stood behind them all.

And then reality caught up and warped.

The ghouls screeched in pain as he struck through them all, and he whirled around to slice into their backs.

Instead of him doing so, Lucian machinegun’ed them down, firing elemental light from his Sentinel pistols - Pyke wasn’t interested in the weapons’ names - and striking down ghouls with efficiency.

He burst through the ichor dropped by the last of the ghouls.

Pyke snorted. “Show off.”

And then he dove again and swam towards where Viego was.

Just one more name off the List.

-VB-

“Can a man not rest even in a far away land?” Yasuo drawled lazily as he flicked his sword thrice before re-sheathing it.

The three ghouls froze before dissipating from his near invisible strikes.

“You should be working towards a goal,” the silver haired lady fighting by his side snorted as she lashed out with her crescent blade. A blade of light curved outward, striking down half a dozen ghouls in the town square.

It was unfortunate that they were stuck being the bait along with Senna.

It was something about the woman that made Viego keep trying to kill her.

“Disgusting shade should leave living woman alone,” Diana growled as she slashed apart another ghoul that got too close.

Senna, meanwhile, lugged her huge artifact around and shot a beam of light that punched through a dozen ghouls.

Behind them, the Piltover and Zaun duo, Ada and Dess, had their Sentinel artifacts set-up … and firing a lot of light.

“... It’s moving.”

Everyone turned to him, and he pointed to the clouds in the sky.

They looked between slashing and shooting and saw the Black Mist that had become a cloud covering the nearest mountain slowly moved towards Bilgewater. As the cloud-like Black Mist moved in, the trees withered and ghouls rose up even stronger than before.

That’s when Olaf, the northern barbarian, jumped into the fray. He screamed and shouted as he happily cut down ghouls with his axes.

Yasuo sighed as he struck out at an opportunistic ghoul. No one among them saw him strike, though Diana looked like she might have seen something. The ghoul, which was five yards away, stumbled and then fell apart a dozen parts before dissipating into black mist and ichor.

“Keep fighting, people. We gotta keep the missy here safe for her husband.”