When the battle first began at the edge of the dune Neo quickly surveyed the incoming fighters. Luckily he, his brother and daughter were all near the back of the group, buying them a moment. Instead of paying attention to the incoming assault the grandmaster looked beyond the frontlines and saw the ones pulling the strings. A broad warrior carrying a bloodstained axe on his back and firing arrows into the crowd. Staying there with him stood a troubadour and cavalier, obviously his last line if things went against his favor. Turning to Leon he pointed back to the man at the other end of the battle. "We need to get to their leader. With him unable to fight we should be able to-ach!" Interrupted by a volley of arrows, Neo began to turn back, deciding to go around the dune. "Stay towards the back!" he yelled to Leon and Trin, rounding the dune. As he began to come around Neo found himself facing an odd spectacle; on the ground an archer and wyvern knight fought hand to hand combat. The fight was over quickly as he began to approach, but as the wyvern rider began to climb onto her steed Neo waved his tome wielding hand in the air. "My lady! Please, if you've come to stop this group of bandits, I think I know of a quick way of ending it. Their leader, a warrior firing off arrows next to two riders seems to be the one to take out. He is currently volleying arrows, so it would be difficult if you sent your beast up against him if he's a marksman of any sort."
Taking his tome he pointed towards the dune. "If we circle around, unnoticed, we could surprise the three and hopefully end the bloodshed sooner. Also, like you did with this gentleman here, I would like to talk to the leader after the battle. See where his motives lie." Neo tried to hold his steed still, wanting so much to run off towards the enemy.
Leon grumbled to himself as Neo ran off around the dune, debating chasing after him. If there was one person he cared about protecting more than Neo, it was Trin. In the end, he stayed near the back of the group, slowly building up his spells to release powerful flames. He saw another magic user doing the same from Lumaras saddle, so he released a blast away from the dune, hopefully drawing the enemy into tighter formations near the dune to exploit. Behind him, Trin yelled over the fighting. "Someone's down near the front!" With a quick kick of the knees they rushed off to see the small group of bandits get slaughtered by a single female assassin. As she carved up a rider Leon let loosed a Bologane at the him before slowing down to a trot and firing a wide blast to the side for deterring attackers.
Trin turned toward Talbot and his apparent savior. "Father's trying to take out the leader!" she said, pointing her sword towards the Warrior, who choose that time to fire an arrow back at them, In short decent the arrow found itself lodged in Trin's leg, causing her to let out a yell of pure pain for a moment before she forced herself to be silent. The arrowhead was definitely inside her leg. What was she to do about it now? With a groan of surrender Trin released a large wind spell at an approaching fighter, knocking him flat on his ass, unconscious or even dead from the impact. Her free hand clutched Leon with all of its might, the pain causing Trin to loose her grip on the situation."N-n-no. We n-need to keep f-fi-fi-fighting."