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Moonstone was fully pre-pared to lose. He didn't care how this turned out. he sgrugged. "Suit yourself." Moonstone had spent more time training than his brother. Perhaps that would pay off now.

He left the first swing hit is leg, which was god-awefully painful but it brought Malik down enough for Moon to swing his sword at Malik's shoulder. He swung, the jumped backwards out of the way of Malik's next attack. He wasn't all that quick enough, the sword found and bashed his wrist, making him drop the sword. On instinct, moonstone threw himself into the air, spread his wings long enough to catch some height, and landed behing him. Closing the distance, he dropped and lashed out a kick to try and trip Malik.

Damn. He saw the mistake about two seconds before he commited, which was about four seconds to late. The blow did in fact take him in the back, between the wings. Moonstone wasn't the arching type of cat. He immidiatly relxed his muscles, both lessening the blow...well only slightly less...and dropped face firs to the ground. He rolled out of the way, and stood up.

"Cudos." That bruis would be there for the rest of the tournament.

Okay. Next move was all or bust. He pounced in the air, aming for Malik's head. He did not follow through though, instead he landed about a foot in front of Malik and amied an uppercut for his jaw. He hopped the feint was enough to through the elf off, but then again with Malik you never really knew.

She giggled. "Okay miss Piper! We'll both win, together! Then every thing is fair for everybody, right?"

It didn't work..but not becuase Malik saw it comig or prepared for it..but because he had the same idea. Both of them collided in the midair, though Moonstone was feinting, and Malik was swinging...and into a heap, Malik getting to his feet a bit slow. dealing with those two was hard even from just impacts because of thier sheer massive size..and picked up his sword pointing it at Moonstone.

"Still got some left..or you going to accept a defeat?"

Though peripheral vision caught Piper moving down from someone. he'd have to look into that a bit later.

Malik grinned lightly.

"I always do."

Then he waited for that little man called King to go through some spiel obviously about him winning and getting to choose and so on. of course he did want to see the look on his face when his beefed up guards had obviously not lived up to expectations in this first little preliminary conflict.


Onyx sat with most of hte rest of them who were recovering, watching as his brother lost as well. at least that made him feel a bit better to know he wasn't that much less than his twin in combat. But Malik..by the ancestors he was skilled. no wonder thier father had trouble. Malik was as agile and graceful in combat as Cymarron was fast and powerful. and just think..more events of possibly facing that elf. But he wasn't going to just roll over..he was going to take Malik down at least once.

Bode watched the man leave. "I don't like Mr. Terran. His eyes are all shifty." She clapped for Malik though, cause that was sometihng polite to do. Her gusto wsa a little gone. It was getting late for a child her size, and she had had an odd day as it was.

Moonstone clapped his brother on the back when they finally met up. "Well, that was fun wasn't it?" He was only slightly out of breath, but he was content with the way he had fought. A look back at Malik. "Father must have some skill we have never seen beofre, to have given Malik a run."

She would of clapped, had her hands been free but she was holding Bode. Who was apparently, like all little children, starting to loose her energy for the day and letting the blissful world of sleep creep up to her. Piper gave a look of thought...it had been a few hours, closing in on dusk and heading toward night. Reasonable for the child. Though she chuckled lightly, one hand patting Bode's back in gentle comfort. "I don't like him either." Moment of quiet. "You tired? Want me to take you back to the inn and they can meet us back there?"

"Yes there will all the blankets you want so that you don't get cold. And Onyx will be there as well for you to cuddle with." Yes, Bode was quite the adorable little thing. Still holding her she gathered up her junk, throwing it all into the satchel she had, slinging that over her soulder before adjusting her hold on Bode once more and making her way down from the stands. She knew full well the boys would know where they went...after all, where else would they go? The walk wasn't long and she was rather pleased with the fact that she wasn't being followed this time. Making her way into the inn she took Bode upstairs to the room that Onyx and Moon had picked out, setting her down on the bed.