The garden was now silent as Koto pulled out his pistols, scanning the rooftops for the shooter.<br/>"Was anyone else injured?" asked the king as he held his sword at the ready, her brother doing the same as he let a long, elegant emerald rapier slide from its sheath, "No father..."<br/>"Daughter, keep the crystal safe, the necronians will try to take it. No doubt they are still here with us..."<br/>Just as he spoke, the necronian who's hand he had taken, sprung from the emptiness and tackled him to the ground, withdrawing a spike of black steel that it plunged into the king's torso. But the King was not one to be underestimated and shoved the necronian off with such force that it flew through the air and shattered against the pristene wall of the dragonian sanctuary. He grimaced as he yanked the spike from his stomach and tossed it away before looking up and seeing a faint glimmer of metal on the roof of one building.<br/>"Inside... everyone... NOW!!!"<br/>*BZZZZZZZT!!!*<br/>The shot aimed for Lai flew wide and struck the stone statue, the visage of her mother's fair marble face charring and crumbling before their eyes.<br/>Koto's blood suddenly boiled away and he felt as though he were in a trance as he ran for the building with guns in hand as bolt after bolt struck next to him as he ran. In an almost inhuman feat of acrobatic skill, he ran up the wall of the building and began to scale every hold with blinding speed. He jumped onto the roof and drew his guns, the two silver blades flipping out and engaging to crackle with a vicious blue energy as the necronian's skeletal smile slipped back into the ether just as he swept his blade at it.