At exactly noon, the fight began.
The fight went on for over two hours, neither pilot getting a distinct advantage. Many of the rock formations were destroyed, but the centre one remained intact. At one point it did seem Van was going to push Raven off the plateau, but Raven managed to dodge the attack.
Van was very lucky, he managed to stay on the plateau when he landed. Reice moved to get a better view of the fight with Specula, but Jeni remained where she was, not wanting to get in too much danger. The fight continued with both Raven and Van pulling all the stops to try and win. Eventually both organoids were called into the fray, but it made little difference.
Moonbay, Fiona and Thomas were often moving out of harms way. But, in the end Van tried a move he had used in an attempt to push Raven of the plateau, he thought that if he went faster Raven would not dodge and fall.
He did not consider what would happen if Raven did get out of the way.
He looked out of the cockpit of the Blade Liger and saw the Geno Breaker move sideways. He went passed Raven and his zoid and over the edge. When he saw the ground fall away sharply, he knew he had misjudged the attack. That one move cost him the fight.
Jeni saw the Blade Liger sail over the edge then disappear from sight, it would be the last she would see that day. An arm wrapped around her body, while a hand clamped over her mouth, stopping her from screaming. In the hand was a cloth, it smelt funny, then everything went black as she went limp in her captors arms. The person carried her away, no one noticed she was gone.
After Van landed, quite well considering how high the plateau was, Raven taunted him mercilessly: "So what happened after you got my letter?" sneered Raven.
"Why would you want to know?" replied Van.
"Thing is, I already do." said Raven with the air of one holding a big sack which contained something the owner of the sack wanted.
"So what happened?" asked Van, he hid his worry that Raven knew he had fainted with shock.
"I have been reliably informed," said Raven, looking at Reice, "that you fainted!" he laughed. "I knew you could be pathetic at times but you fainted, I never expected you to go that low."
Van did not respond, he had lost the battle, and he was loosing the slanging match as well.
"So what?" came Fiona's voice, "at least Van can keep track of Zeke, unlike you can, you don't even know where Shadow is half the time." She had struck a nerve and realised at once. Losing Shadow before had hit Raven hard.
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