The Betting Ring

[Neon]

Anya looked horrified by the mere notion. "I think you're on my team. Besides, if you fell I'd simply catch you."

Eryk shrugged. "Don't care a bit. They mean nothing to me."

[Raven]

Cody's card red, 'Heaven, hell, and an innocent'.

"How do you figure?" Kailen asked. She hadn't looked very strong from the brief glance he'd had.

[Gifted]

"Welp, I'm gonna just assume I'm hell, although that's a bit harsh." Cody chuckled. "Heaven and an innocent? What's that supposed to mean?"

Rick smiled. "Alright, well then welcome to the team. Oh, by the way, don't touch me while your girlfriend's like that. I negate other peoples powers, it'd force her to turn back to a person against her will and I dunno if that'd hurt her or what."

[Neon]

Anya spread her wings out a bit. "I'm stronger than I look."

"Fine by me. Though it probably wouldn't hurt. So, what now?" Eryk asked.

[Raven]

Katrina shrugged. She couldn't help but feel bad for Eryk's team.

Meanwhile, Mia was still sitting on Nicholas' lap.

Kailen wasn't looking, but he figured she had to have gotten there somehow. Maybe her power was super strength. "What makes you think we're on the same team?"

[Neon]

Anya shrugged. "You look very young. My note said 'heaven, hell, and an innocent.' I'm heaven. You look very young, so I guess you might be an innocent."

Nicholas had his powers working on her the entire time, electrifying even the tiniest bits she touched him. He kissed her cheek innocently, winning her trust as much as he could.

[Raven]

"I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way," Kailen said.

Mia had taken to playing with Nicholas' hair.

[Neon]

Nicholas tolerated it, awaiting the perfect moment to strike. He planned to snap her neck in one quick, unexpected move.

Anya shrugged. "I won't take any chances."

[Raven]

"Why should I trust you?" Kailen asked. "We're in a battle to the death."

Then, inexplicably, Nicholas started feeling more and more attracted to her. "We should probably try to figure out that note and find our last person..."

[Gifted]

"I guess now they expect us to go kill everyone else." Rick shrugged.

Stephanie was very lost. She wandered up and down the river bank, keeping a sharp eye for contestants who'd have to drink from here. She walked further down, feeling very exposed out here.

Roseanne hid in the thick trees, practicing what she remembered from self-defense classes. Her training was her only hope... But this stuff was supposed to be to fend of creeps like Adam Clark, not against people who wanted to kill her!

Leia came to the foot of a cliff and saw Kailen and Anya partway up. Perfect. She thought. All I gotta do is make him let go. She pulled out a club from her deck and took careful aim. Come on. Do it. Get one step closer to getting back to Samantha and Jackson. Her hand shook slightly. She watched the two chat above her on the cliff. She had to just activate it... Let him fall... She'd killed people before, hadn't she?
Her friends faces flashed in her mind. She couldn't do it. She couldn't go back on what little she believed in. That guy up there had a life, just like she did. She couldn't become a hypocrite. But if she couldn't kill anyone here, she could only die...
The card fell from her numb fingers and landed softly on the ground. She couldn't kill him. She couldn't make herself such a foul hypocrite...
Picking up her card, she ran back to the trees.

[Neon]

Anya sighed. "I have no team. It's very likely you are on my team. If I wanted you dead I would just push you off."

Nico was feeling more and more uneasy the more attracted he felt. And with that unease the urge to kill her now strengthened. Eventually he realized that if he didn't act then, he wouldn't be able to. He pulled her close and grabbed a knife from his pocket with his hand that was behind her back. He gently caressed her back to her neck and quick as a snake he thrust his knife into where he guessed her spinal cord to be.

[Raven]

Mia brought her hand up as soon as he pulled his away, but it was too late to do more than knock it off target. The blade sunk into her shoulder and it became physically painful for her to hold his arm, but she continued, her other arm curling around and ramming the elbow into his throat. She kept pouring his own power back into him - by this point he was more effected than she was, though that wasn't actually saying much. It hadn't taken her long to figure out he was doing something to her, she was just damn lucky it was mostly physical. "How do you like it?" She hissed.

That finally made sense to Kailen. After all, if she really meant to kill him and this was a trick, he'd be dead anyway, eventually. He may as well take the safer route. "Alright," he agreed.

[Neon]

Nicholas just started laughing as he fought. "I knew it. You're a mirror. Brilliant." He struggled for breath but laughed nonetheless. He fought to pin her back down and twist the knife in further.

Anya smiled. "I'm Anya," she said, offering her hand. "Hold tight"

[Raven]

Kailen took it, nearly falling backwards. "Kailen."

"A mirror?" Mia asked, striking the inside of his elbow, clenching her jaw as she pulled away from the knife. She grabbed his arm and kicked his kneecap.

[Neon]

Anya smiled and pulled him into a bearhug, then began to fly.

Nicholas winced as his knee fractured. "Yup." He clawed at her with his free hand and tried to break her neck.