“Hey! Why don’t you pick on someone your own size?!” Six shouted. “Metaphorically speaking,” she added under her breath. She looked at Nine. “What’s that thing she’s riding, anyway?”

“I don’t know,” Nine said, eyeing the floating platform. “But I want one.”

Eleni turned her attention to Six and Nine, noticing them for the first time. She scowled. Then she waved her staff. The three monsters turned their heads, each looking a different direction. Two of them started off in opposite directions, their bulky bodies filling the street as they went deeper into the city.

“She’s trying to divide our attention,” Six said angrily.

“Well, it’s working,” said Nine. “Do you want to go after those two or deal with her and the third one?”

“Leave her to me,” Six said. “This has been a long time coming.”

Nine grinned. “Have fun,” he said, then took off after one of the retreating beasts.

Six focused her attention on Eleni and the remaining monster. It loomed over her, the stench of its foul breath filling the air as it roared.

“Here goes nothing,” Six said, and ran towards it.

She leaped up, getting a purchase on its scaly hide and climbing its leg until she was on its shoulder. Eleni still hovered above it on her platform, out of reach. Six attempted to hit the platform with a wave of telekinesis, but Eleni was expecting it and rose up and away.

Six considered conjuring a storm. Something to knock Eleni off. But since she was getting reacquainted with her Legacies, Six knew she had to be careful about collateral damage with the crowd below. Police were attempting to herd bystanders out of the way, but people were too interested in what was happening to leave.

She decided to risk it.

Concentrating on the air above Eleni, she summoned lightning. The air crackled with electricity. Eleni, hearing it, looked up just as a bolt burst towards her. She managed to maneuver out of the way at the last second, and the lightning hit one of the police cars.

“She’s attacking us!” an officer shouted, pointing at Six as two more bolts rained down.

“I’m trying to stop the psychopath!” Six shouted back.

He ignored her, pulling his pistol as several of the other officers did the same thing. Half pointed them at Six, while the other half pointed them at Eleni. Six braced herself to deflect the bullets if they fired, and quickly quelled the lightning storm, not wanting to antagonize the police any further.

Before she could figure out another way to get to Eleni, the Mog’s staff started to glow. Then she raised it, and the beast Six was standing on tried to shake her off. Six fell into a crouch, hanging on as she had the first time she’d ridden one. She was used to their movements now, and knew where to stick her fingers between the scales to keep from falling off. The monsters were huge, but they were also slow, so she was able to adjust to the thing’s attempts to dislodge her.