Despite the lack of any obvious level of consciousness, Malizia's puppet body put up an adamant fight against Serphia's sudden onslaught. Her arms twitched whenever an attack was brought against her, bringing her own Runeblades in to defend and deflect the attacks. Serphia's flurry of attacks rained like a hail of lightning fast blows against her, each of which the runeblades reached out to deflect with mechanical precision. "YOU WILL DIE FOR YOUR SINS, TRAITOR!" As if suddenly awaking from a deep slumber, Malizia would slow down for a moment when she heard Mei, slowly opening her dreary eyes to gaze forward. This brief slowdown would be enough for Serphia to get another attack in as Malizia lowered her runeblade, the elf's blade striking against the Draenei's head as it met the metal cirle around her temple; stopped, but leaving a deep dent in the circlet, as well as a light scar down across Malizia's left eyebrow! "Akk!" Waking back to life, Malizia's eyes would turn back to Serphia, before the Draenei spun out of place just as Mei came charging in from behind! The result was that Serphia's fury would be directed not at Malizia, but instead at the newly arrived Draenei! A high kick from the powerful legs of the Captain, originally meant for Malizia, would instead fly straight into the incoming Mei's face, causing the Draenei to almost do a reversed barrel roll as she slammed into the ground with her back at Serphia's side! Stepping back towards the side of the two, Malizia would raise her two cursed runeblades, now covered in a frosty rime as a chilling mist seemed to emanate from the metal. Holding them like an X in front of her, Malizia would glare through them at Serphia and Mei, half of the Draenei's face now covered by a stream of dark blue blood running down from it. "What does the word "treason" even mean when we brand our only heroes as such, simply because they are the only ones with the will to do what is necessary to save their people?" Malizia spoke, her eyes focused mainly on Mei as she the other Draenei still lay next to Serphia's feet. --------------------------------------------------------------- “Did you know that that was a death knight?” "A... a-a a Death Knight?" Silje-Serphia managed to speak, her face now covered with various scratches and bruisiers with her hair sprawled all over. Looking over to Kathlin, she raised her voice and pointed at her face. "Nobody told me the Night Elves had a Death Knight! She almost killed me!" She exclaimed as she leaned against the wall next to where Kathlin sat in front of the door. "I'm no... no *Pant* I am not made for this fighting stuff! Light, I'm just a cultural student at the Stormwind's Royal Academy for Anthropological & History Studies, for crying out loud! If I had known that they were going to have me impersonate a hyper-violent, bloodthirsty psychopathic Night Elven Death Knight without the latter consenting about it in the first place, I would kindly have asked Mister Nielsen to go fuck himself!" Silje-Serphia spoke with a shaky voice. On half of her face, she now seemed furious, but on the other side, she seemed terrified beyond reason and almost crying. "I mean... light, they told me this would be like four hours at most! What have I gotten myself into?!!" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Outside in the corridor, Sharon and Valion were circling one another on the banister, eyeing each other intently. Around them they could hear the sound of a brawl. Although some of it emanated from the direction of Sharon's own study, most of it was actually coming from the chaotic brawl right below them on the first floor where it seemed Serphia's entire warband had broken into a wild free for all, where those elves who weren't passed out drunk had participated in the all-out melee! Had this been any other normal moment, Sharon would be lamenting the unjust destruction of his furniture. But right now, the illusionist standing in front of him demanded his sole attention! "I tire of this cliche!" Valion exclaimed as he blocked Sharon's sword with his scepter, sliding it aside before doing a quick jab with his own sword. "Die!" Sharon quickly sidestepped the incoming thrust from Valion's black blade, all the while lining his own sword up in a upwards-side sweep! As he did, his silver blade began to glow with a mystic blue light, interwoven with white, crackling tendrils of lightning before swiping it up against Valion's lower chestplate! The strike would be a direct hit, slicing across the warped surface the illusionist's saronite armor with such a force it would send shards of black metal flying and leave a wide dent as Valion stumbled back! At this time, any illusion Liaena had been seeing would suddenly disappear! "Aaaaaargh!" "I'm afraid to disappoint you, but nobody is dying today." Sharon replied as he walked across the surface of the bannister towards the black armored elf. "You don't have to either. Leave the mad plots of my brother behind, and let's have a civil discussion like two grown ups... !" Sharon barely didn't manage to finish the last sentence before Valion had already raised his plated arm and fired out a shadowbolt straight at him, narrowly missing Sharon's head! But as he dodged, Sharon would quickly realize that he had almost run out of available space on the surface of the banister, as he almost stepped off and fell! [i]"That was too closeoooohsshit!"[/i] While frantically waving his arms to maintain balance, Sharon would see Valion charge in from the front with his black sword. Only by raising his armored glove did he manage to block the sword before it could be brought against him, but the kinetic force of the blow was enough for him to begin to tip backwards and off the edge of the banister! Frantically trying to find something to grab a hold of, Sharon would drop his sword and reach around Valion's waist. But even the other High Elf was not in a position of balance, and soon found himself pulled off the banister, falling off alongside Sharon as the two elves fell down towards the main atrium floor. "Unlike you, I do not fear battle, Dal'dieb!" Valion would exclaim as they fell, reaching his armored hand around Sharon's throat as he began to squeeze! But as Sharon attempted to grab his hand in return, the two shrunk elves would already have reached the first floor, dropping right into the chaotic purple mass that constituted the free-for-all Night Elf brawl! With a thud, the two tiny elves would fall down and land onto the back of one of the Night Elves as she was wrestling with another beneath her. Sharon and Valion were momentarily separated as they rolled away to each side, but would quickly get back onto their feet, rushing against one another as they ran across the Sentinel's back! Yet before they could clash with one another, the Sentinel below them would be suddenly kicked off! Both Sharon and Valion would both be thrown off and land on the floor, only barely managing to recover in time as they first looked at one another, then at the back of the massive Night Elf as she fell towards them, before rolling away as the Sentinel crashed between them! As she landed with a heavy crash, the two elves would leap up into the air, landing on her belly to strike at one another. Exchanging a couple of brief blows, there would be an awkward pause as the two of them suddenly looked to the side, and saw the opponent of the Sentinel they were fighting on top of suddenly throw herself at her in a body slam! In the split second before the giant Night Elves collided with one another, the two mages would blink away before getting sandwiched between the Sentinels! Reappearing on the ground next to the wrestling elves, they would not even exchange a word as they charged against one another! [i]"I much preferred fighting on the banister to this!"[/i] Even though they were now fighting on the ground as opposed to on top of the wrestling elves, it was not much of an improvement. Sharon found himself having to pay just as much attention to his surroundings as he did to Valion, constantly looking out to make sure none of the surrounding elves didn't step on him, accidentally roll over them without any warning or suddenly fall on him! The two tiny High Elves were caught in the center of the huge brawl, with gigantic Night Elves surrounding them! This was a fight where the environment would be just as dangerous as his opponent!