"Well, well, look who's here," James laughed, seeing Jack arrive. "If it isn't Pee Wee! Long time no see. You better cough up my bride because, on the count of three, there's going to be all kinds of hell."
Angus saw the others with James seeming to be taking a different position, spreading out somewhat. He reached out his arm and put it in front of Ruby to move her behind him.
"They're up to something. Move," he told her. "You can stay with me, but do it from behind me."
"One!" James shouted. "You're running out of time. Better bring her out where I can see her." No one moved, and he was sure that Jack and Jessie and Jess weren't moving. "Two!" James shouted.
At that moment, more figures began appearing, and Angus recognized some of the new arrivals. They were some of Gelding's men.
"Oh, shit," Angus cursed. "We've been breeched by Gelding. They're here." Angus sounded his medallion again.
"Three!" James shouted, and at that, all the fighters James had with him fired their wands to throw flames on the main house. Angus felt his heart rise up in his throat. If Khaat and Marcus and Abbey were inside, things just got desperate.
At the farm, Kate's seers powers showed her a huge bright burst of flame, and then she saw Marcus apparating out and taking Khaat and Abbey with him. She wasn't sure where they were, but they were safe. She saw Angus trying to run back into the main house through the flame.
"Robert! The estate's on fire!" she looked at him. "And they think Khaat and Abbey are in the house, but they're not there. Marcus evacuated them somewhere. Someone's thinking of going into that burning house to look for them."
"I'm going," Robert said, drawing his wand and apparating out. In a moment, he appeared outside and saw James and all the fighters. He immediately recognized the ones he had fought before when he had had skirmishes with Gelding.
"We haven't found Khaat," Angus said, feeling an urgent need to find her and Abbey.
"They're safe," Robert said, turning towards the house, "Aguamente! Focus on the intruders!" He saw Owens arrive with a large number of reinforcement from Paris. They immediately divided. Some focused Aguamente spells on the house, and some immediately engaged the intruders.
Angus saw one of Gelding's fighters fall, and he saw something shiny fall out of the fighter's grasp. He couldn't accio it if he didn't know what it was, but for a fighter to hold it i his hand during a battle, it had to be important. He couldn't just shout "Accio shiny thing!" That wouldn't ever work. He'd get every freaking shiny thing on the estate.
"Ruby, go help Robert with the fire,' he told her. "I need a moment. I'll be right back." He apparated right into the midst of Gelding's fighters to the badly wounded fighter and picked up a bracelet off the ground. Gelding's fighters were all trying to fire at him, and he immediately apparated back to Ruby. He wasn't stupid enough to stay in the midst of them.
"Get him!" one of Gelding's fighters shouted, and the fighter suddenly turned and focused right in on trying to get Angus. They were hitting him with some minor slashing spells, but Angus knew he had definitely gotten something very important. Robert saw the fighting turn to focus on Angus.
"Ruby, get him out of here!" Robert shouted at her. "Before they kill him!"