Bloodily

As soon as you swing the door open, your men rush through the doorway. You take a moment to take a deep breath...then plunge in right behind them.

The room is chaos.

The sounds of clanging metal and shouting fill your ears. You take in the entire scene in a fraction of a second—nine of your men facing against a half dozen soldiers of Athenapolis. Fighting with the crazed strength of men who (quite literally) had their backs against a wall, the enemy soldiers were equally matched against your men.

A man rushes toward you with his sword raised, ready to slice your head off your shoulders. You sidestep and bring up your own blade to parry his just in time. He screams as you flick your wrist and your sword cleaves through his other hand. As he struggles to adjust, you drive your sword through his belly. Still staring at you, he topples to the ground, unintelligible curses spilling out of his mouth as blood spills similarly from his torso.

Focus.

You're here to cut the Drake wires. You look about the room, and your eyes land on a passageway to the roof.

"This way men!" you shout, rallying your handful soldiers to follow you. The few remaining soldiers of Athenapolis chase after you, but are too late to stop you from slicing your blade through the cables attached to the side of the tower's roof. As they are about to reach your party, you hear the screeching roars of the Drakes. A heartbeat later, you see the lances of their riders fly through the air and plunge into the bodies of the Athenian soldiers. One Drake lands on the roof, its claws digging into the side of the tower. Its Rider—undoubtedly the leader—calls out to you.

"Job well done," he says. "We can fly on the citadel now."

Lethos is bandaging another badly wounded soldier. You nod grimly at the Rider. "Yes, well done. We'll find a base of operations to recuperate now."

The Rider laughs and says "By 'recuperate', I'm assuming you mean 'fuck some Athenian broads'. Have fun, just remember you won't have your eyes in the sky anymore." His Drake leaps from the roof, taking flight and joining the rest of the Drakes in the sky.