Author's Note: Alright! Fight time! I own nothing.

12. Eye Of The Tiger

Piper leapt up the wall behind Kraven as he lashed out at Ava with a set of red laser knives. She had to give it to him he kept up with technology but he wasn't the only one. She pulled a small device, shaped like a spider from her belt and threw it at him. It landed on his main and she twiddled her fingers over the interface on her watch, scrolling through the functions until she found the one she wanted. She grinned under her mask.

"You and your spider friend were able to resist the magic song of the Savanah Drum for longer than either of the White Tigers before you but otherwise I'm not impressed. Your father would be disappointed." He glanced back at the boat full of sleeping teens, smiling to see that the girl in red and blue wasn't there. "He would never have taken the bait so easily. He was crafty." Ava growled loudly.

"Don't you dare talk about him!" She lunged and Kraven pulled a new knife behind his back and Piper hit the button on her screen. A light pulsed over Kraven and the laser flickered out as he swung it at Ava. It was his turn to growl. He glanced up.

"Tiger is plenty crafty, but she's not the only one." Piper said waving from her spot on the wall. Ava swiped at Kraven as he dodged backwards and pulled out a small baton, clicking a button on it. The baton extended but nothing sprung up on the edge. Kraven growled again swinging the staff at White Tiger forcing her back. Spidey swung over to her.

"What have you done insect!" Piper waggled a finger at him.

"First off any decent hunter would know that a spider isn't an insect. Spiders are arachnids, this is like middle school stuff there Scruffy." She dove out of the way summersaulting to her feet as he snarled. "Second of all that was a localized EMP, I made them myself. I have way too many tech villains to deal with not to have developed something to deal with them, at least partially." He pulled a bowie knife from his belt and swung it at her forcing her back onto the grass around the lake. He tumbled back out of the way of Ava as she roared and landed between Spidey and Kraven.

"Last warning Spidey, he's mine." Piper rolled her eyes under her mask.

"And I'm telling you for the last time, get down!" Piper tackled Ava, both girls rolling to their feet and running as another grenade was hurled their way. They kept running as Piper cursed the lack of buildings to web onto, that would be an easy way to get away from this psycho but he didn't seem to care about property damage he likely wouldn't care about civilian lives so leaving the mostly empty park would be a bad decision.

"We need a plan, some king of strategy." She whirled and shot a web at Kraven striking one of the grenades on his belt. The extra weight of the webbing pulled the body of the grenade off the pin and it fell. Kraven dove to the side, away from the girls as the grenade exploded in a flash of bright light and sound at his feet. Taking advantage of the hunter's momentary distraction Piper grabbed Ava by the hand and pulled her into the trees and through them quickly, dragging her under a bridge and up the underside of it into the shadows. She slapped a hand over her friends mouth as she began to growl as Kraven crossed the bridge, rubbing his eyes slightly.

"Let me at him!" Piper held Ava back.

"No that's what he wants! He wants you to fight him blind, animalistic, he doesn't want you to think because he knows he won't win if you do." Ava flipped to the path below them. She huffed a breath.

"You don't understand." Piper nodded.

"Yeah the girl who's lost literally every blood relative she's ever had doesn't understand loss and anger." White Tiger stared down at her feet so Piper continued. "I get it, my uncle got taken from me too. And loss is different for everyone, I get that too. So help me understand yours, help me help you." Ava paused and finally nodded.

"Kraven steals weapons and tribal magic from around the world to become the worlds greatest hunter, he's no slouch at technology either. Not at your level but no slouch. That stupid magic drum was what affected us on the roof, made us both go full animal. But all of that is nothing compared to the power in this." She tapped the amulet at her side. Piper nodded.

"It was your dads right, Fury had that in his file." Ava nodded.

"It was, and my grandfathers before him. They were both hunted by Kraven in their time. I was there that night. When he hunted my father. My dad got away, but he was hurt, the kind that doesn't get better. So he entrusted the amulet to me. Now it's my job to protect it, to keep the tiger side calm. But I don't want to be calm anymore. I want to be the Tiger, I want revenge. You wouldn't understand that feeling, you're too… well adjusted." Ava leapt off and Piper blinked as memories of her first trip out as Spidergirl flashed through her mind.

"I understand better than you know." She leapt after her friend. She followed her at a distance. She knew that Ava didn't want her help, would probably try to slap her around but she wasn't thinking straight. Piper couldn't help but think that the drum had affected her friend worse than it had affected her. Probably because Ava didn't let loose her animal side as much as Piper did. She flipped to the top of the reptile house as Ava flipped over a bush slashing at air behind a crossbow. Piper missed what happened next as her spidey sense went crazy and she leapt to avoid a volley of arrows from another set of hidden crossbows. She did hear Kraven though as she rolled and ducked.

"Your friend needs to work on her little toys, they don't last very long." Piper grumbled.

"You try miniaturizing an EMP into the shape of a spider, it's trial and error dude." She knew Kraven couldn't hear her though. He was still talking to Ava, taunting her.

"You're so afraid to unleash the power of the amulet. You're even weaker than your father was, weaker than you grandfather." She heard Ava shout and grunt as she sprang onto another roof. This one didn't seem to be booby trapped. "They would be so ashamed of what you've become." Ava roared like a feral beast and lunged at Kraven as Piper called for her to stop. She didn't listen and Kraven sidestepped her easily swinging his now active spear at her as she passed him. Her belt, amulet and all fell to the grass. Kraven grinned and pressed a button on his belt. Ava screamed as the ground underneath her gave way and Piper fired a webline at her friend yanking hard. Ava stopped inches from the spikes in the pit and Piper pulled hard, yanking her friend to the roof beside her. She helped her to her feet and noticed that she looked normal again. Her hair wasn't as wild and she wasn't radiating rage anymore like she had been all day.

"No kitty kebab for you Kraven!" The hunter ignored her as he knelt and grabbed Ava's belt. Ava stumbled slightly on the rooftop and Piper steadied her friend. She was shaking, and it took Piper a second to realize that her friend was crying.

"Come on, we're not done here, we can still beat him." Ava batted her hand away.

"No. It's too late. My powers are gone and…" Piper grabbed Ava and shoved her out of the way as a clawed hand swung out of nowhere, narrowly missing Ava. It did catch the edge of Piper's mas, shredding the fabric over her mouth and drawing blood from her chin. She landed, Ava in her arms and turned to see Kraven standing triumphant on the rooftop, his eyes glowing a bright electric green, matching the amulet that now sat on a necklace of fangs around his neck. "And now the Tiger is free."