"No!" Sam yelled, and dove forward as he noticed a man with a sword running at Zarch.
Sam jumped and tackled the man, wrapping his arms around the guard's soldiers. The guard toppled downwards, and his sword was pushed downwards, below it's intended target. It's blade sank into Zarch's thigh, and Zarch fell to the ground leaking blood at an alarming rate.
Sam's right arm morphed into a sword blade and pierced Zarch's attacker through the throat, then ripped a shred of fabric from the dead man's tunic.
Sam grabbed Zarch by the arms and tried hard to pull him towards the relative safety of somewhere away from the battle. Perhaps positioned behind some nearby rubble.
A man with a sword dove at both of them, but his attack was interrupted by a pair of squid tentacles appearing around his head as quickly as he himself had appeared above Sam.
Danny whipped his tentacles backwards and flung the man towards the ground, snapping his neck.
Sam grabbed Zarch's arms and hoisted him bodily backwards to the large pile of stones left when a nearby wall had collapsed.
Zarch raised his bow and pulled an arrow from his quiver.
"You're injured," Sam said, protesting Zarch's decision to keep fighting.
"I don't need my leg to shoot," Zarch said, then drove an arrow into the kidney of a red guard who was charging at Adem. A second arrow struck the man in the heart, and he fell to the floor in a puddle of his own blood, dead.
