Drops from a Pond

[Xyrael]

Saia had sensed danger from all sides before she had even reacted to Matsu's attack. She let Matsu's balls of water smack her, propelling herself upwards and towards a low lying branch and away from Matsu's body. By the time her feet planted, she sensed several more orbs bound for her. She shot both of her orbs up into the air, letting control of them disappear for a moment as she focused on shifting the branch she was perched upon.

The orbs splashed against the leaves and shattered against stray twigs, only splatters touching her face. She focused herself on the water she had shot up into the sky, collecting the droplets together, enough to form a one litre sphere. She set her mind to controlling it, launching it down like a laser guided missile towards her target: Akacen. She had decided he was not soaked enough. The boys had interrupted her duel with Matsu, and now they would reap what they sow.

 

[Syn]

Matsu looked at Saia jump into the air and she landed on the top of the barrel as she got splashed and giggled. Then she felt Saia's plan and jumped off the barrel using the force to help her and threw up a long splash of water into the sky as she focused on suspending it and levitated into the tree next to Saia working on keeping her concentration she spoke clutching her eyes shut with a gasp. "Do it, soak them then we can go back to having fun." Matsu didn't want to open her eyes as she touched her hand to Saia's shoulder and felt peace just enough to keep her concentration and allow them to preform their double team.

 

[Master Maverick]

Watching Saia jump into the tree was unexpected, but he kept with his plan. When Matsu followed, and it proved that they were working together, he was a bit surprised, but not at the same time.

He maneuvered them so the orbs would be a straight shot to his targets and would require little real concentration.

When they were in line, Saia had thrown an orb at him in the same way he was at her. He was a bit disheartened as he felt they were all against him, and it didn't help he was by far the youngest. But he was determined at this point.

With the orbs in a straight path, he tried to give control of both of them to his left hand, which was somewhat successful. They faltered only a bit, but the orb headed for Matsu was now headed towards the branch and a bit to her right. the orb targeted for Saia was going to where her head was now, rather than her torso.

With his right hand, he tried to stop Saia's orb in its tracks, and possibly even back at her. However, with her control over it, it would be incredibly difficult. If it came to it, he would try to break the orb so only a few drops or small splashes would hit him.

 

[Rameth]

When Hal noticed Saia and Matsu up in the tree together he knew exactly what had happened. They were teaming up against them. Well someone's not playing fair, Hal thought to himself grinning. Oddly none of them sent a one after Hal in retaliation. He saw they were focusing their attention on Acaken and Hal figured he might as well team up as they had done. He gathered water from the bowl behind him and two small streams of water shot out. One heading toward the orb Saia sent at Akacen, if anything it would help divert the path of the orb so that it wouldn't hit him. The other at Saia and Matsu on the tree branch hoping to distract them both enough so that Akacen's orbs would connect. Hal hoped Acaken would notice the help and accept the offer to team up.

 

[Xyrael]

Saia frowned when Matsu joined her. She didn't mind teaming up, but Matsu had inadvertently concentrated them, thus making them a single target instead of two individual targets. Akacen and Hal would have mobility, while Matsu and Saia would present a single target; the branch would only be able to deflect so much water. She looked back at Matsu, her eyes serious and stern. "This is my spot. If you stay here, we'll get flanked and we'll both end up wet! Go attack them, I'll cover you!" she said, diverting the missile that had spiralled off at Akacen into an erratic change of direction. Now it fired towards Hal from where Akacen had hidden, for all the world appearing to be an attack by the boy if Hal was not being observant.

She began to coalesce the floating puddle Matsu had brought her into a singular thin wall of water which she used to cover her right side; it was now literally a shield that would absorb any attacks from that direction. But, it was difficult to maintain control over, especially while focusing on controlling the attack she had shifted towards Hal.

 

[Syn]

Matsu opened an eye to look at Saia who had taken over her water and eased up a little space to think. She quickly saw Hal and Akacen sending water at them as she reacted and used the wall's edges to send orbs at the two boys while she felt water spray on her face. "Hey not my fault, I needed to get close so as not to break my concentration." Quickly Matsu jumped down and looked at Hal as she kicked a bucket to make it slosh and guided a line of water out towards him.

 

[Master Maverick]

Akacen felt the strain of the game start to wear on him. His muscles were starting to get sore and he was getting tired, sleepy even.

He just launched the orb at Saia to get rid of it. It was absorbed easily enough by the wall of water, but he could visibly see the strain on her face; it wouldn't last too much longer. His control of Saia's orb backfired and was headed towards Hal. Now that he had nothing else to worry about he tried to break the orb apart before it hit Hal so he would only be wet from a few drops, rather than drenched from the whole thing. He had a fair bit of confidence that he would succeed, though, because she had to keep her wall up, and that was a difficult to do by itself.

(this is after succeeding or failing with Saia's orb.)

Then he noticed Matsu's attempt at Hal. "I got it!" He yelled over to him while impressing a sense of safety and danger towards Hal rather than himself. He wanted Hal to give him control of the stream of water he had shot at the orb that was headed for himself so he could redirect it to Matsu, who was now of the ground and he could deal with Matsu's 'attack'. He focused on it with the force, trying to gain control of it.

 

[Rameth]

Hal was surprised when the orb of water flying toward him exploded before it hit him, leaving only a cool mist touching his skin. He figured it was Akacen, at least he saw Hal's attempt to help and responded in kind. It was then that Hal felt another tug on his stream of water. Hearing Akacen yell Hal let the stream go and decided to focus on attacking Matsu or Saia. With Akacen defending Hal he should be able to direct a successful offensive.

Jumping off the boulder Hal was oblivious to the attack Akacen was defending him against. He hadn't noticed Matsus attempt, focusing instead on the water he himself was gathering. Since he knew where the water was Hal gathered two orbs from different directions and flung them at both Saia and Matsu. He did this while running into the middle of the clearing hoping Saia and Matsu would focus on attacking him, distracting them from the orbs heading to their backs.

 

[Xyrael]

Saia was beginning to grow weary from her concentration on the wall of water she had crafted, too weary to concentrate effectively on multiple threats. Instead, she recognized the most obvious threat - Hal's down-the-center approach. She reshaped her shields into a stream of water; more akin to a spear than a sphere, and launched it towards Hal, focusing on concentrating on hitting where Hal would be than his incoming attack. As a result, the sphere struck her, nearly knocking her off balanced and creating a lapse in her concentration significant enough to cost her half of her spear. Nonetheless, the remaining shaft of water remained intact and homed in on its target.

 

[Syn]

Matsu kept the line going at Akacen as she looked at Saia and set her hand on her shoulder. She had learned a few things about their bond. One they could predict each other and two share strength. Quickly Matsu felt water on her face also and focused on the line she sent at Akacen. If he wanted to control it he could but she was going to get him as she focused on the center with sending it faster towards him.

 

[Master Maverick]

With the success of Hal's trick, Akacen felt that pressing the attack wasn't particularly necessary. He wanted to work on his defense anyway.

Quickly Matsu jumped down and looked at Hal as she kicked a bucket to make it slosh and guided a line of water out towards him.

With the redirection of Matsu's attack towards Akacen, he noticed it in mid-flight. However, it was going exceedingly fast and he didn't have time to focus on it. So, instead, he proceeded to jump to his right, going for behind a rock, while at the same time trying to manipulate the stream so it would just barely miss him. Since Matsu was more focusing on speed, he figured that her control over fixing his manipulation would be minimal.

He noticed Saia had gone on the offensive as well, after being hit by Hal's orb. "Watch out!" With that, he quickly gathered a moderately sized orb of water and flung it as hard and fast as he could trying to intercept her spear, which had lost some water by this point. With that, he ran towards where Hal was and fixed the trajectory of the path of his orb slightly, keeping it in line with her's. He wasn't going to try to slow her's down, because that would just require him to fix the angle his was going at.

"I'll cover you!" He yelled. He wanted Hal to keep up an offensive and distract them so he himself could concentrate on defending him without having to defend himself.

 

[Rameth]

Hal's plan had worked well. Akacen was doing a good job in defending him. He smiled when his own orbs struck the two girls. Things were going well, he and Akacen were winning this team up. Nearly done running down the middle Hal noticed the spear of water coming at him from the trees. He quickly tried to jump to side to avoid it when another orb came into contact with the spear. The two bodies of water exploded about two meters away from him. Some of the water got him but he was left rather untouched. Not like you could tell considering he was still drying from being hit so many times before.

Hal heard Akacen yell out he had him covered as he scrambled behind a boulder. They worked well together, Hal would have to mentioned that after they were done. He was looking for another bowl of water when he came across Matsu. He had unexpectedly run into her as he was trying to flank them. He saw the bowl of water not far from them. It seemed they were at a stand off. Hal quickly gathered water and flung it at here, hoping it get her before she got him.

 

[Xyrael]

Saia was beginning to see the tactics the other two were using. They were working together as a team, with Akacen focusing entirely on defending both of them. She smiled, knowing that this was what he seemed to enjoy to do. But she wanted to apply pressure to him; with Hal relying on his defense, she'd have to launch an all-out assault on him.

Her spear had shattered, but she still maintained some control over it. She reformed the water into a ball and launched it at Akacen, reaching out with her mind for several other bowls, forming several more spheres, and launching them as well at him. Most of them were not controlled, they were simply well aimed. One, however, was not like the others. Saia used the Force to control this one, to launch it hard and fast and precisely directly at Akacen. She hoped the flurry of attacks would distract him long enough to give Matsu the comparative advantage against Hal.

 

[Syn]

Matsu looked at Akacen and grinned as she saw her attack just barely miss and reached out with another tipped jar getting some water and then she saw Hal close by and gasped a little he was so close. Quickly when he flung some water she held out her hands and focused made them like little scoops while she did a corkscrew with her body and pudhed the force into her spin. It was a flurry as she made small scoops and spun around sending them back then felt the water splash her hair. She came down and kicked a jar to the side spilling out water and sent it up high and to fall like a small rain on the two boys and herself. Matsu looked at them with her hair clinging to her face.

 

[Master Maverick]

The barrage of orbs coming from him by Saia were almost intimidating. At this, instead of dodging, he decided to have a little fun. It was just a game after all.

He stayed where he was and focused intently at the incoming water. He closed his eyes, concentrating, and as each one neared, he would redirect them into the air, some at odd angles. That is, all except one; the one Saia had complete control over. That one managed to get through and hit him square across the face.

Then, out of sheer luck and coincidence, the orbs he had sent flying ended up colliding with the water Matsu had sent up and ended up making a heavy rain fall down upon all of them. He just looked up, his eyes closed, and took the rain laughing. Feeling the cool liquid chill him ever so slightly. He had managed to work up a little bit of a sweat and welcomed the reprieve.

He simply looked around after, observing the others.

 

[Rameth]

((OOC: I'm going to end the thread right now. Or least my character will be leaving. You guys can keep going if you like, it doesn't matter to me lol. It's served it's purpose and it was all good fun. You guys can either leave with my character or the just say no and continue. I'll post my "leaving post" after you guys respond.))


The shower felt refreshing as it covered Hal head to toe. How soothing it felt let Hal know how tired he actually was. They had been at this for the better part of an hour. Being active that long on top of using the force to control the orbs was starting to fatigue Hal. He was sure the others were feeling the same way. Jumping on top of the rock next to him he shook his head free of water, as would a dog, and called out to the rest of the group.

"I think I'm going to call it a day you guys. Will you all be accompanying me back to the temple?", Hal said loudly so they all could hear. He wouldn't mind if they continued, he was just wondering who would be coming back to the temple with him.

 

[Master Maverick]

"I think I've had my fun for today." Akacen walked out from behind a boulder as Hal made his announcement.

He had fun, and learned a bit at the same time, and got some practice in. The perfect combination for him, and he was content at the moment.

He looked at the 2 girls, assuming they would join, but not betting on it unnecessarily.