Fair.

in Mav’s apartment which overlooked a huge area of the city, she lay in bed smoking, naked and only covered by sheets.

Across the room Timon pulled his pants back on, and began to look for his shirt.

“Going so soon kid?”

“It’s not that this wasn’t… good, it’s just, I have friends who will wonder where I am.”

“whatev-” Mav was cut off by a sharp whistling sound. “Cadence?”

“Hey kids, it looked like you had fun just now.” Cadence appeared in the room lit only by the lights outside.

“Hey, why are you back here?” Timon was suddenly tense… and with good reason.

“Well I figured I was bored, and I want to see if you and your friend are worth a dance, so I’m going to turn Mavis on.”

“Cadence, don’t!” Mav protested but it was too late, Cadence pointed her flute to Mav’s forehead and said very quietly; “Berk.”

Cadence quickly vanished with a sharp shrill flute noise.

Timon looked at Mav for a moment, “Mav, what’s-”

“Not Mav anymore.” At that Mavis shot a thousand black shadows, seemingly birds from her fingertips pushing Timon in nothing but his pants through her window and out into the sky above Koob.

It was a cold night and Timon felt it past the glass falling around him and the cut’s it was giving him, he had to think quickly if he was to survive being thrown from a skyscraper.

He pulled himself upright, and threw his knives so as they would fall slower than he did, doing this he stepped on the handles of successively thrown knives and made his way across the sky to the top of a building, which he still hit hard and even rolling to land he was in huge amounts of pain.

Up in the apartment Mavis floated up in the bedsheets, which stuck to her skin by the sweat of her madness, she glided out of the window held aloft by hundreds of these shadowy looking birds which she spawned beneath her, and died the moment each one had pushed her up a little, then faded like smoke.

Mavis floating beside her apartment building looked 30 stories down at Timon, for the first time in her life she had an opponent who was proving hard to kill, ‘all the more fun’ she thought, and flew at Timon at top speed, a cloud of thousands of shadows behind her.

Timon looked up just in time, Mavis’ eyes were wide open, her hair pushed back by the great speed with which she hurtled towards him, she seemed to Timon to be totally hysterical, it was all he could do to use his attacks and block her attack, but he didn’t have the footing on this mirrored roof, the force of the collision threw Timon off the roof and into the adjacent building so hard he flew out the other side.

Timon was falling again, he knew he had never been hurt this badly before, but he had made a promise, he knew if he didn’t kill Mavis, she would kill both him and Aella, and there was nothing the city guards could do to stop her. It was all on him.

Timon righted himself and landed on the nearest building, he pulled out a load of knives from his pants and waited. He was starting to run short on knives.

Panting, his focus was on nothing but the hole he made from being thrown through the building…

‘now!’ Timon threw his knives at the fullest strength he could manage, fifty knives, twice the size of Mavis flew at her as she passed through the building coming after Timon.

The center of the building exploded in shards of light and smoking shadow, in the center was Mavis, ‘how can she block an attack like that?’ Timon became truly fearful of his opponent.

The top half of the building above Mavis started to fall down beside her, like a tree being felled, it slowly crashed down and crashed through several buildings and streets. The city suddenly changed, the lights went off, now lit only by moonlight reflected. The power must have been disrupted by the wreckage.

–

Aella and Claire ran through the darkened streets the city had a worried quiet about it, and the only noise that really stood out was a mad screaming laughter, and that is what Aella and Claire chased so hard.

They reached a point where the laughing was more above them than ahead.

“They are up on the rooves!” Aella shouted to Claire.

“Not a problem,” Claire said, and he opened his big book and started reading from it, a glowing circular glyph appeared beneath Aella and Claire’s feet, it started to rise taking them with it.

“How are you doing this Claire?”

“I have my own tricks you know!”

the two rode the glyph up and around the buildings until they saw flashes of light from beside shadows jumping across a building.

Coming in closer they could see a woman sending what seemed to be smoking black birds as Timon, who was getting cut badly, he couldn’t block all of her attacks. Claire and Aella circled the battle, but Aella couldn’t bear to watch, she leaped from the glyph to the building.

“Leave him alone!”

Mavis turned to face Aella, her attack still unceasing on Timon, “Well if it isn’t another warrio-” Mavis caught sight of Claire riding the glyph “the book! She can read it! I’ll make this quick children!”

Mavis stopped her attack on Timon and launched full speed at Aella, who didn’t know how to react, she ducked for cover and felt a huge force, but it wasn’t what she expected. She looked up to see Mavis was blocked by a Bright light around Aella, but before either of them could assess it A huge knife went through Mavis’ chest, Aella’s shield dropped and there was a moments silence.

Mavis spoke “Mav… thanks you kid.” her head fell, and the glows from her bracelet floated slowly over to Timon’s.

Claire landed on the roof to find Timon starting to cry, for a long time, the three and the body stayed on the roof unspeaking.