Chapter 3: Escape

 While trying to be as unnoticeable as possible they crawled their way through the cramped vent duct. They did not speak or make any extra noise or movements, solely focused on trying to leave this building as quick as possible. After minutes of crawling through a complicated route they arrived at a room on the 5th floor looking, it was dark and they couldn't see anyone from the vent cover. However just to be Samira jumped down first, not making a sound the whole time. After checking to room she finally let Lucius know it was safe to drop down. 

After confirmation that it was safe, Lucius dropped the second duffle bag that he brought earlier down to Samira before getting down himself. Now down on the floor he immediately dropped to one knee and grabbed a small well concealed device. He also took out his Wife's main weapons as the chances of fighting are about to rapidly rise. Samira softly grabbed her twin blades, two medium length straight blades, both straight and only 2 fingers wide. The blades obsidian in color as if just dragged from night itself, right above the hilt on the back of the blade lay a 3 inch long small knife jutting out of it. A light smile crept up on her face as she looked at her blades now that she can finally hold them again after months of being forced away from anything dangerous. 

Snapping herself out of her daze she sheathed her weapons to either sides of her hips. All ready for any potential combat they might have to prepare for. She once again focused on her husband as he secured the duffle bag to his back and was also ready to go. They both looked at each other through their masks and gave a quick nod to let the other know they were ready. With that he crouched down hiding their baby as much as possible and Samira went behind him and covered him as well. 

BOOOOM

A thunderous noise travelled throughout the whole building as nearly 100 potential escape route exploded simultaneously, the entire building shook as although each explosion themselves weren't very strong 100 going off at the same time means something completely different. To go along with that multiple secondary explosives went off at key locations to cause certain systems to shut down and create minor distractions for any possible trackers they might have. Lucious stood up and turned around, luckily there wasn't any extra dust coming near him since his wife used some of her energy source energy to cover their immediate surrounding in a wind barrier. 

After quickly confirming that they were both still okay they walked to the brand new hole in the building looked down for a moment to make sure nothing was below them and jumped. Now outside they could finally feel just how strong tonight's storm was, however that's exactly what they needed to hide their tracks. They both quickly rushed through the woods doing their utmost to land on the roots jutting from the ground. Although Samira was much stronger than Lucious, that did not mean he was slow or weak by any means. They both rapidly traversed the enormous jungle surrounding the edge of their isolated island nation. 

Their journey was experiencing an unnaturally smooth progression, normally this jungle is vicious and constantly hungry as a way to stop any potential intruders from breaking through and finding the nation. However not once on their journey did they find any sign of a predator getting ready to launch an attack. Now that they were paying extra attention they noticed that they couldn't see any signs of any creatures in front of them. When Samira was about to get tense prepared for a trap she felt the presences of some of the beast directly behind them. She tried to pay more attention to those presences in case they decided to try and hunt them down but they weren't moving, as if they were guarding their path and making sure no one followed. 

This still did not stop her going from running next to Lucious to being right behind him. He looked at her momentarily before focusing once again on the path before him. He trusted his life in her hands completely and wouldn't questions her actions, so he just tried his absolute best to run his fastest through the forest and not make any mistake. Leaving all their defenses to his wife as that's never once failed him before and he highly doubted that would change today. 

They stayed on their course not lowering their guard for 30 minutes, steadily progressing to their boat that Lucious hidden away at some point throughout the pregnancy while everyone's attention was squarely on Samira. He slowly built up the plan for their escape, trying to find out the best way to leave and cover their trails at the same time. Trial by trial he came up with one solution after another all without ever catching any attention from the security forces or the council. Although they know true escape is a slim to none possibility that doesn't mean they wont fight through the abyss itself to try. At the very least let their baby girl get the freedom she deserves. 

As they neared the border of the jungle where the sea touches their lands, a whistling sound came from behind Lucious before a sudden clash of metal and a tremble of the ground. He looked behind to see that Samira was turned around with her blades already drawn. To her left and in the ground a spear was sticking out. On the spear were special engravings that no one else dared to mimic as only he was allowed to bear them. The 11th on the rankings and the strongest being in the empire below the pillars "Avantus" Samira snarled before taking a strong step forward, further separating Lucious and her baby from him. Although she knew he wouldn't kill her baby since the Empire dearly need her, it didn't change the fact that he would easily do everything other than killing. He has one of the worst reputations in the Empire, a sniveling coward to those stronger and a evil tyrant to those weaker.

"My my my little girl did you really think that you could run away that easily, did that bit attention you got from carrying a monstrosity in your body cloud your judgement or something. Well it's honestly better this way, now I can do whatever I want to you and that little scholar of a husband you got without having those old guys nagging me" while he was venting his frustrations Samira gave a quick signal to Lucious telling him to go on and that she would catch up soon. Although Avantus saw this he did not care, it did not matter how much a weak little boy ran away he could always catch up at any time. Plus now he can show this arrogant little bitch her place, there's a good chance she will beg and crawl to spare her husbands life. Just thinking about it brings a warped sense of pleasure to himself. Now that would be something interesting to do. As these disturbing thoughts were crossing his mind he raised his hand to his spear and it immediately launched itself from the ground it was buried in back to his palm. They both now weapons ready and prepared to fight, stare each other down.