Ursa was glad that she had raised her visor. The amount of running, dodging and weaving she had to do in order to avoid being turned into a pincushion by the enemy archer was truly extraneous.

And as expected the heat that she had built up from her run was boiling her from the inside her own armor. She needed more oxygen to properly breath and cool off. Since ripping off her own armour and protection was out of the question, the visor had to be raised.

She might have been superhuman but having to dodge hypersonic arrows continuously as she neared the archer was exhausting even for her. Her lungs were on fire and her armpits irritated her from the sweat built up that also attacked her nose much to her disgust.

The rest of her body might have been waining from exhaustion but her eyes were as good as ever. With hawk like vision, Ursa saw the origin of the arrow's from above a few collapsed pillars that had piled up above each other to create an elevated platform.

It was the perfect position for a sniper to easily pick off targets below. This was while some of the broken pieces of the pillar's acted like bunkers and camouflage. It was honestly perfect and Ursa was begrudgingly impressed by the enemy's skill and choice of launching pad.

"Got you." she thought triumphantly as she neared her target and increased her speed.

The closer she got to the archer the more the velocity of the arrows increased and the more numerous they became. This reached the point that the many arrows had formed a black descending wall of death.

In response she let loose the magic infused arrow that she had drawn for roughly three seconds now. This arrow shot forward and parted the arrow wall like Moses did the red sea. The arrow didn't stop there though, it flew all the way to the enemy archer's location and the explosion that followed was confirmation that she had struck home.

" Yes!" She cheered while throwing her fist into the air in a manner that one would expect to see from Hamanymu and Chris than from her.

She turned to face the knights who had provided cover for her from many of the enemy archer's arrows all the way back as she declared with a giant grin. " I've got the bastard, I got him."

She would have taken a short breather before she started looking for her friends had a large cracking sound not escaped from the already broken pillars.

From the dust and smoke a arrow flew so fast that the shockwave it generated dispersed the smoke and dust just like Ursa's arrow had done to the wall of arrows not too long ago.

Ursa felt the hair on her neck stand up as her heart beat increased leaving a thumping jackhammer in her chest and in a panic she managed to jump backwards by a few steps hoping to put some distance between herself and the arrow that flew at her.

She reached her right hand to her side where her short sword rested in its scabbard. She had very rarely used blades as the bow was her true love, but that didn't matter now as her right hand grasped ahold of the sword's handle.

"Don't mess up, Don't mess this up." she repeatedly thought as she got into the right position and footing.

As the arrow neared she swung the sword in a sideways slash at the arrow. She could feel the slight resistance by the arrow as her blade cut through both the wood and metal that composed it.

The sword cut clean through the arrow and sent the arrow flying in two parts. While some splinters of the wood arrow showered her face leaving a portion of her face looking like she had just walked by a wood chipper.

"An impressive use of the sword and bow, girl." a deep male voice spoke from the dust cloud and smoke as something large exited it. "From one master of the bow to another, colour me impressed."

The enemy archer from the waist up was a male Fae with a strange blonde thick beard and a shining balled head that was stripped of any sort of hair. He wore a dull blue breastplate made from gambeson and ring mail and in hand he carried a red longbow with black markings adorning the shaft. His lower half was his most confusing feature, for it was metal and bolts crafted into the mighty frame of a great horse.

"What are you?"

"His a centaur stupid." she scolded herself internally.

The centaur didn't seem all that offended by her question, in fact he started laughing as if something about what she had just said amused him well enough to make him laugh in a fit of laughter.

"To start off politely, my name is Sagittarius, the Zodiac of the bow." he bowed with one arm resting upon his chest.

This reminded her to much of the military greetings Avalonian military personnel used when greeting each other and she thought. "I guess some things transcend dimensional barriers."

While Ursa had a clear shot for his exposed scalp as he bowed, she couldn't risk enraging a possibly stronger enemy unless she truly knew that she was in an advantageous position.

"Good, I have him talking. Now a plan..." She could hear continuous and intensifying fighting around her. This meant that her comrades in the back had more pressing concerns than covering her right now. "I am on my own, great, just great."

As she brain stormed any possible option, Sagittarius began to rise from his bow with a grin did not put her at ease and she followed Sagittarius eagle like eyes that studied her from head to toe.

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"His looking for a weakness." she thought as Sagittarius's grip of his bow tightened and his body tensed. He may have forced a smile upon his face but Ursa knew what he was planning.

"And as for what I am..." he continued his eyes never blinking and focused so deeply on her, Ursa swore that it was like he was gleaming knowledge from her very soul.

" I am one of the Zodiac the righteous defenders of the Lunar Empire." he beamed with pride as he mentioned the name. Ursa had seen patriotism like this before, and like many beliefs it was good and bad dependent on the person.

" I am Ursa Tudor, a knight of Avalon." she wanted to add the same amount of zeal but like many from earth she had been in Avalon for roughly two years and a half. She just did not see this place as home in the same way that she had looked at Scotland and Zambia. Avalon was still an alien place and in truth her only connections to it were Chris and William.

From the look on Sagittarius face he could tell this as well. Once again she found her self to the unblinking all seeing eye of the fae that made her unconsciously squirm under his gaze even more than she did before.

"You claim undying loyalty as a knight of Avalon..." He now began trotting to her left now relaxed of his tense stance much to Ursa's relief though she kept hers all the same "...But you speak not like one proud to serve their country."

" Because it doesn't feel like my country. " the answer was steaming inside her head but she didn't think that would be a good idea to say it out loud that. " Some of us aren't fanatics in the service of our state. I mean what do you expect, a tattoo of the flag with the words I luv Avalon at the bottom."

Her suspicions on not telling that she didn't view Avalon with same type of loyalty she would her old earth countries was proven right as his face morphed from one of smiles and respect to one of pure irritation.

He spat on the floor near her feet as his voice went from kind and soft to grizzly and cold with a murderous glare" If there is one thing that I despise more than those turn coats to their lands, it is a damn mercenary."

Ursa nervously laughed as more sweat rolled down her neck. " Don't be ridiculous, I am not a mercenary. I am loyal to country and I don't need your personal seal of approval."

Sagittarius gnashed his teeth together in annoyance before he spat out " Don't you dare lie to me girl. A solider without a cause is a worm worthy only of being trampled."

" Who are you to call me a worm."

She had been busting her back in training for this job like a slave just so that she could carry it with the honor and respect one should. On top of that she fought all sorts of unmentionables and suffered at times life threatening injuries for a Avalon. So to call her a fake service woman was an insult, it was the ultimate disrespect to everything she had done and Ursa wouldn't stand for it.

She didn't wait for him to answer as drew her bowstring and an arrow materialized. She didn't wait to infuse the arrow with enough energy and she let the the arrow fly straight for Sagittarius head.

As the arrow neared Sagittarius, he jerked his head to the right side to save himself. This motion was so fast that the arrow flew past him and not through his skull as Ursa intended for it to do. Though as the arrow passed it nicked off some flesh from his left cheek letting a trail of blood staining his cheek.

He grunted in pain and drew back his bowstring with eye's focused on her. His arrow formed ready to fire but Ursa had already jumped out of the bowman's way. She could still feels the intense heat and air pressure created by Sagittarius arrow's as it flew into the area that she had once stood in.

She scrambled towards the many broken sections of the room so she could have some cover. It felt ridiculous running in zigzags but one thing that she learnt as an archer is that it's easier to hit a targeting running in a straight line than those running in unpredictable fashions.

In her scramble she spotted the biggest and tallest collection of piled upon rubble with many spaces for her to fit and fire her arrow's against Sagittarius, provided he didn't just chose to blow it up, but Ursa didn't exactly have the time to measure her best options.

She turned for the rubble bunker much faster than before. She could feel her heart pumping faster and faster like a war drum being furiously beaten.

This thumping feeling that beat inside her chest was suddenly in a single second stopped as a sharp pain erupted in her left thigh. It was like a sharp knife was cutting into her flesh and she felt hot blood stain her leg.

Her footing gave way as she slipped over and landed hard on her face. She hissed in pain as her hand reached down for her thigh where she felt a wooden shaft that had gone through armour and flesh.

" He... he... he shot me? " she couldn't think properly as numbness passed over her body followed by nerve racking pain.

The sound of hooves hitting the earth brought some of her attention back to Sagittarius who was trotting as fast as he could with his bowstring drawn ready to kill with his second arrow.

Ursa stumbled back onto her feet with the arrow still in her thigh. She quickly reached down to it and though hot tears flowed down her cheeks and her hands trembled from the pain coursing through her body, she pulled out the arrow, a moment that was painful than getting hit by the arrow itself.

Just as she ripped out the arrow, another arrow struck her left shoulder though thankfully this time her armour held together and stopped the arrow. The only thing that was achieved by the arrow was that it sent her crashing into the piles of ruble that she had previously hoped to hide in earlier.

She ploughed through meters of rock, she found herself buried under a hundred tons of concrete. The crushing feeling of the rock's all bring their full weight upon her was extremely painful.

She tried to move but that moment a ripple of air pressure and heat rocked the rubble from one of Sagittarius arrow's no doubt. The rocks were now being torn apart over and over again shifting everything around and atop her. She began to take long deep breath's in order to calm and steel her nerve's.

The attacking arrows stopped and she managed to pull herself to a position in the ruble to see what was happening. To her shock she saw Eliwold engaging Sagittarius in battle, his crossbow replaced with a spear.

The two danced their deadly dance for a while and Eliwold made a quick stab into one of the faes metallic legs, perhaps hoping to send him tumbling for the ground. This didn't happen as the spear got stuck in the metal and the zodiac archer still remained standing.

Sagittarius smiled before pulling a dagger from his side and swung it at Eliwold who dodged it the first time, but the second time took his right ear and left a gash in his cheek.

The young knight screamed in pain as he fell to the ground clutching onto the side of his head with his crimson stained fingers.

"What am i going to do?" She thought in a panic as she watched the enemy fae draw his bowstring to finish off the wounded Eliwold.

She pushed her way out of the ruble and with her hand outstretched she called for the earth to aid her. She remembered a double spell which she had worked with William on and bending the threads of magic, she cast both a spell of invisibility on the downed knight and using the force of gravity she pushed his body away, leaving Sagittarius confused.

She then pulled on her bowstring and let a arrow fly which the Zodiac of the bow did not see coming until it was too late. He tried to move out of the way, and through he saved himself from the arrow going through his right eye, it still sliced past it.

"My eye!" he shouted in pain.

" I must end this." she thought.

Her thought's soon turned to her Alpha-spell's, her first one was too volatile to use in an enclosed space like this one, but her second Alpha-spell while untested, would do nicely.

She pulled on her bowstring and with that firm grasp she felt large amounts of magical energy surging through her body like massive amounts of electricity.

As she pulled the bowstring backwards a dark grey arrow materialized with an arrow head that had a bright orange ball. She opened her mouth ready to declare it's name and unlock it's true power.

"Devouring Star!" Ursa roared as she let the arrow fly forward through the ruble towards Sagittarius. The centaur saw it coming and he quickly fired one of his own arrow's against hers probably hoping to knock it off course. Upon collision the unexpected happened, at least one could say that from Sagittarius's point of view.

Her arrow swallowed his before it began to expand as if it was a balloon being filled with air. It took a few seconds before it morphed into a massive ball of fire so bright it was almost like looking upon an actual star.

Then at it's most intense the ball began to deem from a bright blinding light while reducing in size until it was nothing more than the size of a simple marble. It had lost it's fiery glow and was now a harmonic white light that wasn't as bright as it had originally been.

The area around the orb began to bend towards it, drawing everything into the orb by some sort of otherworldly gravitational pull.

This gravity drew in tons of materials that all vanished into the orb, amongst these things drawn in was Sagittarius who seemed to be screaming something at her but it didn't matter. He was soon drawn into the orb like sometimes being caught in the world's strongest vacuum cleaner.

The orb began to shrink just as the things that had been sucked into it had done before. It deemed more and more until only a large circular crater remained where the orb once stood.

"Is he dead." She had never used this on a living being so she didn't know and frankly...

Then the roof above her collapsed into a ball of fire that leaked out molten magma that missed her by a few inches. Two more things followed and these were Hamanymu who landed right on his head straight into the magma with his sword landing right between his legs too close to home.

He was followed by the body of another knight dressed in some bronze armour. The two of them groaned as they lay in the shallow lake of molten magma.

Ursa looked at her friend who appeared to be regaining some consciousness and asked " What the hell happened to you?".