M  O  R  D  E  C  A  I

i will be the power in this vast and empty world
i will ride under no banners but my vengeance will unfurl

Honestly, the last thing Mordecai expected was for her shove against Megaera to actually work and send the more experienced mare falling backwards onto the ground. Even with the use of her magic she had expected some sort of retaliation on her mother's part and when there was none she hesitated for a moment. She could hear the snap of bone when Meg hit the ground and it made the girl fidget. It made her think of the mother that hadn't wanted her, the one she spent so little time with, the one that broke her wing and it made Mordecai's stomach churn uneasily. She finally forced herself into motion and moved over the mare that had raised her, kicking sand toward the mare as she moved past.

The chaos of battle was beginning to wane thanks to the snap of bone that had effectively snapped her back into reality as well. She had attacked her mother. She attacked her mother. As the chaos continued to bleed away and she continued to become more and more aware of her surroundings and what she had done, the more guilt she began to feel. She had come into the arena at Meg's call assuming that she was going to be punished for disobeying her mother's orders and she fought her.

The thundering of hooves on the ground behind her became apparent to Mordecai as she raced across the arena. Sweat foamed on her sides, neck, and haunches but she didn't let the sweltering heat slow her. She was looking for an escape, for an opening in the arena walls even though she could have flown. She could have spread her wings and taken to the air and flew away but she could see, in her mind's eye, Megaera catching up to her and clamping her teeth down on a wing and yanking her back down to the ground. She didn't want that. She couldn't have that, so running to freedom, at that moment, was the only option that she saw.

In the end it was the lose sand that slowed her enough to allow Megaera to catch up with her. Her ears were flat against her head as she glanced back to see how close her mother was and it surprised the girl at how fast Meg could be. She was soon snapping at Mordecai's heels and the girl tried to kick at her mother's nose to get her to back off, but it just helped with tripping her.Mordecai's dark eyes were wide with surprise when she realized that she was falling. Her wings stayed tucked tightly against her side as she hit the ground. Sand bit into the skin of her knees as they hit first then her right shoulder and wing hit the ground. The rough sand rubbed away skin on her knees, leaving them raw,  the muscles in her shoulder ached from the weight of her body slamming it into the ground, and her wing ached from being dragged along the ground as her body slid until it finally stopped.

She laid still for only a few seconds, but those seconds seemed like an eternity. The brindled girl forced herself to her hooves and spun to face where her mother had been. There were no words that found their way to her lips and she could only assume that Megaera's pursuit of her meant that she wouldn't allow Mordecai to run away and abandon the fight. So what could she do? The obvious answer was keep fighting and that was what the girl did. She continued to move until she found where her mother was and then she launched herself into reckless, headlong attack. Her wings flared at her sides and her teeth were bared as she moved to attack with the sole purpose of biting wherever she could and slapping her mother with her wings to confuse and distract her.

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Attack: 3/3

Meg trips her, she falls and scrapes up her knees. Her shoulder and wing are also strained from falling. She gets up and turns until she finds meg then attacks by trying to bite wherever she can and slap at her with her wings.

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i know this is late, just trying to wrap it up for plot purposes <3