Just as Gwen flinched covering her face for the kick a blast seemed to sweep over her and as she peeked out she saw the boy was gone. Looking around she saw the boy had been blown away and lying in the same ditch as her.

  “I would like to hear your arguments for that belief.” another voice came from down the track, “But I warn you I have had this debate before and I have some very convincing counterarguments.”

  She flew in on obvious fairy wings. Her dress seemed to be cut from a single flower petal and on her head was the most beautiful flower wreath Gwendolyn had ever seen. She was small, but with her attitude and fluttering height, she seemed giant to Gwen.

  “I am Mercedes. Daughter to the Fairy Queen. To what may I address you as?” She said with vicious politeness.

  “You little… The name is Adrian Priest, and I’ll be happy to explain to you why your kind aren’t welcomed here.” The boy had climbed out of the ditch and was now facing Mercedes.

  In the blink of an eye, Adrian had leapt the distance and swung at Mercedes only for her to dodge by flying up just as fast. She waved her arm and summoned a gale force to throw Adrian back again. He landed on his feet solidly and immediately leaped again at Mercedes. Clearing the height and distance easily she was forced to dodge again countering with another gale force straight down this time.

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  “Wind magic. Is that all you got?” Adrian yelled, lifting himself from the dirt, “Why don’t you fight for real?”

  “Fight? I thought we were having a civil discussion. This is how you demons communicate, right?” Mercedes put a finger on her chin in thought, “Although, you are just a half-breed, so maybe…”

  “Shut your fairy mouth!” Adrian reached into his pocket and seemed to throw something at Mercedes. One of the flowers on Mercedes’s head exploded causing her to gasp in shock, “Thought I was just a dumb brute? Well, surprise!”

  He held out what looked like a marble made of metal, “Ball bearings. Real cheap and real painful at mach one.”

  He threw another one, but Mercedes jumped out of the way before it hit.

  “Fine then. I’ll be happy to put you in your place.” Mercedes flew over to the inner ring of the course and started to make hand gestures. Soon the ground started to shake as vines shot out of the forest and attacked Adrian.

  Adrian showed off his strength as he punched and chopped at the vines and managed to defend himself fairly well while throwing a ball bearing in a counterattack, but the vines kept up and eventually grabbed a hold of him. He continued to struggle, ripping the plants apart cursing and swearing. “You think you’ve won? I haven’t even been trying. Let me show you what I can really do!”

  The air seemed to become laced with sulfur as it shifted around Adrian’s body, but before he could unleash whatever hidden power he had, another voice chimed in, “What’s going on here?”