"What?!" Riku exclaimed.
"Exactly," Kludd snarled, extending his wings and walking in a circle around Riku. After a few minutes he lunged for him, pinning him against the wall. Riku grunted, having the wind knocked out of him.
"Kludd," Riku stammered, looking up at his brother in shock, "you're not one of them!"
"Don't try to reason," Kludd roared, "I gave you a huge opportunity to get away from this, and you ignored it."
"What 'opportunity'?" Riku looked up at Kludd, "to 'follow down the inevitable path of Manex'?"
"That's the first intelligent thing you've said since you got here," Kludd hissed.
"Kludd, what are you doing?" He whispered, not fighting back at all.
"This will be easier than I thought," Kludd said, tightening his grip around Riku's throat.
"Kludd," Riku whispered, "I can't fight you..."
"Wish I could say the same," Kludd roared, grabbing onto Riku's tail and throwing him into the wall. Riku cried out in pain as his body slammed into the metal, knocking the wind out of him again. He soared upwards after he regained his composure, knowing what he had to do. Kludd flew up after him, trying to attack him. Riku flew sideways at the last second, and rammed into Kludd's gut at the last second. Kludd hacked violently, his stomach convulsing as he gagged. He grabbed Riku's wing and jerked back, snapping it. Riku shrieked in pain as Kludd punched his antler as hard as he could, making a small crack in one of his antlers. Riku barely had time to dodge as Kludd dove for him like a falcon, and Kludd had the wind knocked out of him as he barely avoided breaking his neck on the spot. Riku kicked him in the gut again, and Kludd was knocked backwards, his stomach convulsing violently as he gagged again. Furious, he got back up, grabbing Riku by his cracked antler with his left hand and grabbing onto his leg with the next, twisting his ankle and making it very painful for him to walk. Riku cried out in pain again as Kludd grabbed him by his twisted ankle and hit him into the wall again. Black spots peppered Riku's vision as he fought against unconsciousness.