Fair.

Aella, Timon and Claire pushed towards Koob as the evening wore on, but they weren’t focussed like before. As Claire took a step a rope grasped her ankle and pulled him up by a mast that sprang from the ground.

“Wha!”

“It’s an ambush!” Shouted Timon and he pulled knives from his clothes and scanned their surroundings.

A gunshot sounded and a bullet flew straight for Aella’s chest, it was deflected by a knife thrown right at it and instead it hit the mast a little below the hanging Claire’s head.

“Umm, Hello?” Claire was not amused.

Timon threw another knife in the direction the gunshot had come from at a bush and a mast shot up out of the ground blocking the attack.

“You idiot Appetis, you’re always too rash. Firing early gave away your position, and I had to ruin the my trap to save your hide!”

“Shut it Ratis, your traps are worthless anyway, look you only caught the one that doesn’t have a bracelet!”

“If you two don’t mind, seeing as the ambush is foiled, how about we face them like real warriors now?”

“ugh, fine!” Came Appetis’ voice

“Whatever you say Spiris” Agreed Ratis.

The three men came out of their hiding places and stood before Aella, Timon and the hanging Claire.

Aella looked over the men, Appetis with a gun, Spiris with a sword and Ratis seemed to have no weapon at all, then something about them confused her.

“You don’t have bracelets! Why are you attacking us?”

“They want bracelets of course.” Timon said, not letting his guard down.

“Your friend is right girl.” Spiris said, “We want in on the competition, to be honest I’m glad we face each other openly after all, though my brothers are rather fond of ambushes I prefer a nice clean fight.”

“There’s no such thing!” Timon yelled and started throwing knives, he caught Ratis in both legs and arms, leaving him disabled on the floor, and Appetis hid behind the mast a second time whilst Spiris dodged Timon’s attacks and hid behind a third mast as it sprouted from the ground.

“This is more like it!” Appetis yelled before jumping out from behind his mast to aim his gun at Timon, but Timon was no-where to be seen, it was just Aella and Claire looking up the mast beside Appetis, who looked up in time to see Timon atop the wooden pole and knives flying down.

Appetis was also paralysed on the floor too, and Timon looked toward’s Aella and threw two knives right in her direction, she ducked instinctively and they hit Spiris who was sneaking up behind her.

All three brothers disabled on the floor, Timon cut Aella down.

“If you guys pull out the knives now, by morning the pain from your wounds will bearable enough for you to walk to the nearest village.” Timon called out behind him as the three continued towards Koob.

“You should have just killed them.” Claire said.

Timon smiled and patted Claire on the head. “I’m not a killer.”

Claire kicked Timon in the shin “Hey, who said you could pat me on the head!” He folded his arms and looked on ahead in a huff “And you should have been keeping an eye out for traps too.”

Timon smiled to himself this time. “Well I’m sorry about that too.”