To Kill A Queen

The High Fox Battle

Shadow leapt at them, and missed by a few feet. Red and I bust out laughing and the four girls just follow him to where he lands. 

They start towards him when Red says: "Are you more worried about a fox, or us?"

Kiwi nods at everybody. Kiwi and Strawberry come my way. Haven goes to Red, and Nala goes over to the high fox.

I smiled. "Well now, this isn't a fair fight."

Strawberry growled. "You don't have your witch or friends here to save you now. What are you going to do"

I spun my swords around in my hands. "I don't know. Maybe I'll beat you into the next century."

They smiled and took out their weapons. And then the battle commenced.

Pandora's POV

Eli handed Red a glass. They both took a sip and had smiles on their faces. I wrinkled my nose. I will never understand their obsession with those drinks.

"Pandora." Eli called over to me. "Why do you want to kill me?"

I thought about it and shrugged. "I want to kill all of my students. They become to powerful and I'm just not a nice person."

Erin scooted away from me and Eli laughed. Her and Red took another swig. Eli looked over passed my shoulder. I followed her gaze to find Shadow eating pixie flowers.

"No! Shadow! Get out of there!" I yelled.

Shadow turns towards me. His pupils are dilated and he looked insane. He turns into his fox form and runs off. Red and Eli chug their beer and run off after him screaming: "No! Shadow! Get back here."

I watch them run off and shake my head. Humans are idiots. I look over at Bronze who has almost never left my side. I've grown almost attached to the small human. I sit down beside her and she looks up at me.

"How do you-" I started to ask. 

I was so rudely cut off by a screech of metal hitting other metal and then a scream. Naomi and Diana looked around while drawing their weapons. Good girls.

I ran over where I heard the scream with Bronze trailing behind me, dagger drawn. We came into a clearing to see Red fighting Haven. Haven had her sword drawn while Red was still unarmed. I remembered her power was to 'see' others abilities before they happen in a fight. Eli was fighting Kiwi and Strawberry. I smiled, remembering Diana's comment back at the village. 'They're named after fruit.' 

Shadow, who was still high and not exactly there, was fighting Nikki who was charging him with her silver sword drawn.

I raised my staff and chanted a spell. Everybody with a weapon drawn in front of me stopped... and dropped to the ground. Bronze ran forward to Shadow and Eli to check their pulse.

"They're not dead." I said. "Merely knocked out."

"Why would you-?" She started to ask.

"Because it was the only way to get them to stop fighting without one of us getting hurt."

Red walked over to me. "What are we going to do now that we have prisoners?"

I hadn't thought about that. I looked over to Bronze. 

"Project Gold Tie."

She nodded and closed her eyes. All kinds of metal sprang up from the ground. It molded into a long slender rope. It dropped into my hands and Red rounded up the four girls. I tied them up and turned to Red.

"I'm going to need you to carry this back to camp."

She looked down at the bundle and smiled. Good. They weren't going to do anything for a while. I turned towards Bronze who was sitting on the ground. 

"You got Shadow. I got Eli."

She smiled and picked up the only boy. 

I sighed and picked up Eli, sheathing her swords. The three of us walked back to camp.