Cesura stops spinning and sees the dragon leap off the ground she rolls and barely dodges the attack. As the attacker lands she lungs at its chest and kicks her talons aiming for its underbelly, both caught in a deadly embrace. As this is going on she says in her eerie voice through clenched teeth, "Someone wants you and your friend dead."

Elenor jumps off of her back legs, the other dragon's talons instead grazing the plates of her underbelly, drawing blood. She uses her entire body weight to try and slam the mercenary to the ground - but the other dragon is a lot bigger than her, so it doesn't have the desired affect.

She saves her breath, ignoring the dragoness. Obviously she had been hired to kill Elenor and Kona, it didn't take a genius to figure out that was why she was watching them from the roof. If only Kona had just listened to her in the first place, and this dragon wouldn't know who they were.

She let loose a growl of frustration, pressing forward on her hind legs, using her compact muscle to force the other dragon to the ground, or to take other measures to get out of Elenor's grasp.

Cesura felt the smaller dragon pushing back and she suddenly lurched her jaws forward towards the dragon's neck putting off her balance.

Elenor grinned - she had anticipated that move.

She ducked, suddenly letting go of the other dragon and steadying all four feet beneath her - now the other dragon was lunging forward with nothing to break her fall - besides Elenor's horns. She ducked her head, angling her horns upwards, and stood steadfast, waiting for the other dragon to impale herself.

As cesura fell she fell sideways, opposite of the way the dragon had gone underneath her, she scratched her side on the other dragons horns hard. "Not.. today.." she hissed through the pain. She steadied herself on her four legs and attempted to knock the other dragon away with her horns.

Elenor hopped round the sluggish arc of the other dragon's dainty little deer horns, grabbing them and tugging them round, forcing the dragon's head to move along with them - the body with it, unless this dragon wanted her neck snapped.

She readied to sink her teeth into the mercenary's exposed neck, but was hit with a sudden wave of nausea.

No... she froze up, her talons still locked round the other dragon's horns. She couldn't move.

This was how it happened before. This is exactly what you did.

Her mouth opened and closed, and her whole body shuddered.

He struggled to throw her off, his eyes moist with the threat of tears. Her talons held his horns, forcing his face into the ground.

"Elenor, we don't have to do this - please, stop," his pained voice was muffled, his every breath a struggle.

"Kill, Elenor," the large dragon in the corner of the arena said flatly. As if this was all a petty event he had to put up with until it was all over. "Get it over with. I haven't got all day."

Odin writhed under her grasp again, his eyes locked onto hers. "Please, sister."

She opened her jaws, readying to strike, but found herself not moving. She... she couldn't do it. She couldn't do this to her own brother.

Her grip loosened. "No."

The examiner heaved a sigh. "If you don't kill him now, then I will simply kill the both of you for disobedience. Do I make myself clear?"

Odin sagged, closing his eyes. "Fine. If... if that's how it is. Do it Elenor. I'd much rather die knowing you were going to live."

"Odin... there must be a way. This must be a test to figure out how we can get round this," she nodded. "Yes, that's it. A test. Do you know how to to this?"

He shook his head. "You need to kill me, Elenor. If it saves you then we must." He looked sick. "Just do it quickly."

"I can't!" she cried.

He suddenly lunged at her, taking her off guard and snapping at her neck. His teeth punctured her scales, drawing blood. She roared, shoving him to the ground and closing her jaws around his neck.

His eyes shone with gratitude and relief, before going dull. It was then she realised his bite was deliberately non-lethal. Just enough to push her over the edge... so she could live.


Elenor sobbed, letting go of the other dragon. "No. No. Nononono," she repeated, backing away defensively.

She then remembered what had made her stop when she had first seen this dragon - what had made her hesitate, even if she didn't realise it at first.

Odin had black scales with red underscales. He had the same panther-like build as this dragon. He'd... had that. He'd been just like this dragon.

Cesura got yanked forward by her horns.

-This is it. I'm done.-

Then surprisingly the other dragon backed away. Cesura took this chance to knock this dragon to the ground. She put her sharp claws close to the smaller dragons neck and growled menacingly. "You're a good fighter. I can respect that," she managed through the pain in her now heavily bleeding side," but it's time to end this. One thing I've learned is that you can't let your feelings get in the way." she lashed her tail.

(Changed it a bit so it made more sense)

"Would you let your feelings get in the way if it was your brother?!" she roared into the other dragon's face. "Would you care then? Would you feel the guilt or would you just kill the same way again and again?" she sobbed. "I have no-one now, and his life was wasted! And no matter what I do, no-one sees past the naive, weird little dragon who doesn't understand the world! So end it. Go on, do it."

She was past caring what she was saying. Nothing she could do could make up for Odin's sacrifice. It was in vain, for a sister who was useless and stupid. She should have died that day. Odin would have used his freedom better.

Noticing that the place was slowly deserted he decided that this was the time to move before they were too isolated. He nudge her softly " Common now, we have to go."

All lives that she had taken flashed before her eyes. Some begging for there lives, some pretty young, some old. All done for money. Some that could have helped her, some that could've been her friend. But no. She thought this was what she wanted, she thought this was ok. But she had taken lives. This was not okay this was not what she wanted anymore, she had to stop. She released the other dragon and let out a wild roar, full of all the pain she had caused to other dragons and there families.