Talk:Scrooge McDuck VS Shovel Knight/@comment-27034312-20170219204209/@comment-25620113-20170220040101

Cinder was confident that she knew about everyone's powers at Beacon due to observing them. So when Ruby unleashed a power that neither her nor Cinder knew she had, it was a surprise to say the least. In addition to that Ruby had just gotten up on the roof, so its unlikely that Cinder and the dragon even knew she was there due to Cinder finishing off Pyrrha.

Also I don't know if you noticed but that attack happened in the span of seconds so combining that fact with everything else, they likely wouldn't have been able to get away in time due to the range of the attack. Due to the dragon's size, it almost certainly wouldn't have been able to get off the ground and fly away before the attack it.

There's also the matter of the Silver Eyes having an advantage over the maiden's power according to Salem. Taking that into account, any counterattack Cinder attempted to perform would've likely ended in failure.

Also Cinder didn't know about Ruby's Silver Eyes because Ruby herself hadn't shown any signs of those powers. Yes she has silver eyes but that could easily be passed off as contacts andCinder left most of the scouting to Emerald and Mercury. I highly doubt she would've told them to "look out for silver eyes" considering the race was thought to be extinct.