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The four generals of the Otontin looked at Malina, their eyes did not waver they watched every movement she made. She leaned back in her chair barely resisting the urge to brush her hair off of her face. Itzi adjusted his weight slightly causing the floor boards beneath his feet to creak slightly adding another wooden sound to the air.

The room exploded with motion and sound.

Knives were in the air. Her training allowed her to react before the two knives stuck her. Her awakened ancestors held the knives in the air for a moment before she flung them back at the two generals, Jaguar and Eagle both fell to the ground, knives having gone through their throats. Malina rolled to the ground, she heard Itz fall and the pounding feet of Teiuc and Chantico. She rolled onto her back to face the two remaining generals as the ran towards her. She summoned her Gods and the ancestors to her, attempting to snap the neck of Teiuc when something slammed into her chest and threw her back into a chest where she kept her maps. Star bursts of light appeared before her eyes clouding her vision for a moment before the room returned to normal, but in that instant she saw it. The blackness was there, someone had had summoned ancestors she had never seen before. They we black and wreathed in smoke that twisted and boiled around them.

The nameless and shapeless figures crashed into her once more slamming her head into the chest. She felt blood leak from her nose as the room began to slow. Teiuc kicked her in the stomach once but Malina barely paid any attention to it. The blow felt as though it happened to someone else's body. She expected more but none came.

She blinked and it seemed to take longer then normal for her eyes to open. Something warm was running down her shoulders, Chantico stood looking at her, his hands resting on her desk. 'It's blood.' She thought.

Her eyes blinked again. She struggled to turn to look at Teuic but her body wouldn't respond. The blackness crawled in from the corners of her eyes slowly and she watched the room disappear. For a she saw black, and then nothing.