Chapter 9: Silkweaver Estate

As they approached, the Estate was silent. They saw several guards dead near the gate. They died unawares with their eyes open, still sitting or standing at their posts. They rushed past them and approached the house.

The second floor window to Kyra's room was open. As the approached, a dagger enhanced by wind flew at Cyril. He deflected the dagger with his mind and creating a gust of wind, he flew directly into the window smashing into the room. 

He immediately lifted the mercenary to the air and sliced off his leg below the knee and ordered "Where are the rest?". 

"Wwww.... we couldn't find the girl, so they went into the house to start the slaughter early." replied the mercenary in fear.

Kyra flew in through the window copying Cyril's use of wind. As she landed, they heard a scream from inside the house. 

The man's head fell off as he ran out of Kyra's room. Kyra followed behind as the mercenary's body dropped onto the floor. 

They saw three mercenaries were pinning down a pretty young maid, ripping her clothes and groping her. As Cyril approached them from behind, a loud yell came from the bedroom of Kyra's parents.

Not wasting time, Cyril made a chopping motion at the 3 mercenaries, and they stopped in their tracks as their heads just fell off their bodies cut by wind blades. 

The maid screamed, and retreated backwards as Kyra grabbed her to comfort her. She looked at Cyril's back in astonishment as he burst into her parent's bedroom.

Kyra's father, Mason Silkweaver was lying motionless and bleeding on the ground, with a sabre in his hand. Kyra's mother Victoria Mercantile had her clothes ripped off and was currently being molested by the 3 men.

Cyril approached from behind and with a wave, the 3 mercenaries' heads just fell off their bodies. Cyril immediately grabbed a blanked and rushed to cover Kyra's crying mother. 

Cyril then examined Kyra's father. Unfortunately, he was already dead from his wounds.

Suddenly another scream came from outside the door. He rushed out in time to see 2 mercenaries' heads falling to the floor. 

Kyra had learned by watching Cyril, and the scream came from the maid who has already seen several beheadings by both Cyril, and now by Kyra.

Cyril nodded and gestured to the room, and Kyra rushed past him to see her parents. Cyril started searching the house silently for any last remnants of the mercenaries. If the earlier man's word is true, there should be one more man around.

"Ah, a greedy fellow" thought Cyril as he glanced from the shadows at a mercenary downstairs filling up his sack with with gold candelabras and goblets. 

In an instant, he gestured as all the air abruptly departed from the mercenary's lungs, causing him to fall unconscious.

"Its over" sighed Cyril as he walked upstairs to check on Kyra and her family. Kyra's mother was inconsolably crying over her father's dead body. Kyra was also sobbing while hugging her mother.

Not knowing what to do, he gave Kyra a hug, then left to clean up the dead bodies lying around.

He searched all the bodies but found nothing of note. He then gathered the headless bodies into a pile outside the house with their heads arranged in a row next to the pile.

Cyril tied up the unconscious mercenary outside with rope he found in the stables. He made one more sweep around the compound and went back to Kyra and her mother Victoria. 

They spoke for a while as Victoria thanked him for his help. The Silkweaver estate was too big for the two women to defend on their own, but they didn't want to leave Kyra's father, Mason's body there by himself.

So they put his body on a cart as both Kyra and Victoria sat on it with him, and Cyril led a cart to pull the cart over to Cyril's smaller, but more defensible home.

As he arrived home, things were peaceful. His mother was Cleaned up and arranged on the bed, while his father was cleaning up the house, throwing the mercenaries' dead bodies outside onto a pile of the other bodies.

Bart saw Cyril coming back with Mason's body. "Oh no, not Mason too" he said as Victoria got off and gave Bart a tearful hug.

Cyril lifted Mason's body and put it in the house side by side with Jemina's body as both their spouses wept together.

It was too dark and dangerous to go back to the town of Westhaven right now. Reporting the situation will have to be done when day breaks tomorrow.

They started talking for a while, and Kyra told both Barthelomew Songsoul and Victoria Merchantile about their acceptance to StarRock.

Both the adults insisted that they go to StarRock Academy as planned. Staying back for the sake of their dead parent would not benefit anyone. Going to StarRock would secure their future, and perhaps prevent such an attack from happening again, if famous wizards came from their families. 

Both Cyril and Kyra nodded grimly, then hugged their parents. Bart and Victoria decided to sleep in the main hall while Kyra took the guest room. 

Cyril entered his own room, and thought for awhile. He created a forcefield of wind surrounded his house. After he was satisfied, he fell into a deep sleep