Fair.

Zephyr and Aella faced each other across the arena.

Aella just held on to the jar. Waiting.

“You really wont try kill me?” Zephyr asked across the space.

“I wont.”

“This is your chance Zephyr, you can really do it, you can really destroy everything!”

Zephyr turned to Deborah. “I’m not going to kill her.”

“What!?”

“I was wrong, this whole time I was wrong. I wanted to destroy the world, a world that could only create pain. But by taking on the world I only created infinitely more pain.” Zephyr turned to face Aella and smiled calmly “If I didn’t fight and kill, imagine just how much better my life could have been, how much I’ve destroyed that could have been left to bloom.”

“If you let her go she’ll kill you!”

“She won’t. If one person is a pacifist, there is no reason for the other person to kill.” Zephyr looked up at the sky. “I finally see now, if you want to live a happy peaceful life, you just have to live peacefully, and then you have a chance for happiness too.”

Aella and Zephyr smiled at each other.

“I owe you so much girl. So I’m going to give you the world, I think in your hands, it will be ok.”

Zephyr shot himself in the head and his body fell lifeless to the floor.

The glows from his bracelet floated out and started to spiral slowly around Aella.

The arena started to shake, and Claire’s image appeared before Aella.

“You didn’t use your power!”

“The only winning move, the real power… an arena cannot understand, an arena cannot withstand.”

“THIS DOESENT MEAN ANYTHING, THIS DOESNT-” The image faded as the glows spiralled tighter and faster around Aella, one by one taking a place around her bracelet. The pillars around the arena started to crumble, and the whole structured caved in on top of Aella.