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Berdly turned off his table lamp, He was doing some last-minute studying for a test tomorrow and now he really wanted to go to sleep, but then he heard a knock at his window, he walked to it and saw a familiar face
“What are you doing here Kris?, It’s a school night.” He opened the window to let them in,
“Well I couldn’t sleep, so I sneaked out and came here”
“For what?”
They pulled out their controller out of their pockets and pointed to the console.
Berdly was exhausted and had no energy to play any games, he replied “But-“
Kris started to use their puppy eyes to try and convince him.
“Please”
“But-“
“Pleaseeeee”
He eventually caved in as he knew it was a losing battle at this point “Okay fine! only one game. I don’t want to waste my sleeping time any longer.”
Berdly turned on the console, the room was lit by the television screen. He selected the fighting game they always played together, it loaded in and they set the rules, no items, one stock, and stamina mode. They picked their characters and Berdly picked a simple map
5!
4!
3!
2!
1!
Fight!
Kris dashed in first, but Berdly was able to block their first hit. He swung his green halberd in a wide arc but was only able to cut a small piece of their cloak. They watched as Berdly used his spear blast attack and quickly pulled out their shield to block it. Kris continued to block his attacks using their shield but Berdly damaged the shield enough to break it, which lead to Kris having to use their sword to block his next attack, a thrust from the pike of his weapon. Kris then continued to slash wildly and Berdly dodged their sword slashes.
During the exchange of strikes, Berdly realized he was being pushed against a wall with no space on his flank for an escape, so he used his wind magic to amplify a short hop to go above kris and land behind them. He was about to land a massive blow, but they were quick to react and moved back out of the way as he swung his halberd, and it got stuck into the nearby wall. He couldn’t pull it out quickly enough and had to leave it as Kris continued their barrage. It was a long cooldown to summon his halberd again, so the only thing Berdly could do was move away from the small alleyway and dodge their slashes, one of them close to hitting him but only cut off a few feathers, which softly fell to the ground.
As they were about to swing down their sword, Berdly quickly raised his hand and used a gust of wind to disarm them. Kris realized their had lost their weapon, and proceeded to pounce at him, using the only thing they had at their disposal, their hands. Berdly tried doing the same, but he was terrible at fisticuffs. They used that to their advantage, as his inexperience lead to him failing to retaliate every time.
Then he, post-haste, tired of getting thrashed, forcefully pushed Kris backwards with his wind magic, picking up various things off the ground and directing it at them. Kris at first staggered against the focused air current but was able to push against it, protecting themselves from the junk being thrown at them with their gauntlets, their pace was increasing , and they were nearing to his position to give him another beatdown. They noticed that the wind was intensifying around them and then realized they were floating off the ground. Kris helplessly tried to fight against the violent winds that surrounded them as they were in the eye of a tornado. Berdly felt drained from all the magic he had to use, and did one final move, directing all the wind surrounding them, he moved his hand down, and they were smashed against the ground.
Kris got up in a short daze, they weren’t defeated yet. Then they saw a green streak, Berdly was able to summon his halberd now. He ran through the dust and with a bit of a forward thrust from his wind magic, leapt at them. Kris was able to block him but he finally had the upper hand. Their sword and halberd continued to clash, they were now playing more defensively, the damage from Berdly’s ground smash made them lose a ton of health, Kris was close to losing. He quickly used his spear blast attack one last time and They were able to summon their shield and block it as it just barely hit them, but weren’t quick enough to block his next halberd swing.
He watched as they fell and hit the ground with a thud.
The victory screen then popped up.
Berdly grinned “Haha! it seems my skills have bested you again!”
Kris sighed “...I think i have to go now. My brother is going to panic if he saw that i sneaked out again.”
They took their controller, crammed it into their pocket, and through the window, went out into the dark street,
He watched them walk back home “Goodbye! next time we could play after school you know?”
Their voice started fading away “Bye, We’ll see tomorrow I guess”
He sighed and muttered to himself “What a weirdo, sneaking out in the middle of the night like that” and went to bed.