Disrupts a Nevermore's flight

I already had everything I needed for this. It hadn’t been the crash that had brought down the Giant Nevermore the first time, after all, but my Aura, used in such a way that it countered the most basic principles of flight. And now…now I had something even better. Levant moved her hands like she was shaping something or playing an instrument, power gathering like a storm as she did—and in seconds, the air struck out at the creature that flew upon it.

It was a quiet thing—for that first instant, at least. There was nothing visible to the process, nothing that draw attention. No lights, not even any real sound, just a shift in invisible air, above and below a set of wings. And yet the Nevermore, a might expression of the creatures of Grimm, fell from the sky with an ear-piercing shriek, as surely as if a massive blade and cleaved away both its wings. It flapped them desperately, trying to fly again, but to no avail.

But as it fell, I rose. I launched myself high into the air, a great Lunging leap assisted further by more of Levant’s power until I almost flew, and at the apex of my climb I met the beast with a smile. Matching eyes met from matching masks, and I felt its attention upon me.

It didn’t matter. This creature, a monster that had once seemed so frightening, was…nothing to me now. I’d seen what Penny could do and Pyrrha—even glimpsed the power of my mother, in small part. I’d received a, heh, grim reminder of how horrifying this world could be when I saw Ziz, a being that could have erased me on accident, had I been a bit more unlucky. This thing, a giant bird with two forms of attack that I could easily deny it…it was strictly little league, compared to that.

And though once its power might have been intimidating…that was a long, long time ago.