paixaorpg | Training Time!

Characters: Toph, Terra, Sanzo and anyone else who drops by.
Content: Toph and Terra are going to start training their earth bending.
Setting: Vanaheim area (G3)
Time: Afternoon
Warnings: Appearance of Dan

Terra had first suggested the Elysian fields, but Toph nixed that after hearing all those stories about Lumens. If they were going to train anywhere, it had to be at a place where they wouldn't be bothered. In this "grassy" place, Toph found it acceptable enough to train Terra here.

"Ok, we'll start by taking a deep breath," Toph said. She inhaled loudly, then slowly let it out. "We get ourselves centered: this is so we can take a moment to be one with the earth. We're moving it, but in a way its like a pact with the ground itself. Remember that: NEVER take your power for granted and the earth will always listen to you."

She got up and shook herself a little, extending her arms and legs. "I like to warm up a bit first, just so I don't cramp up or anything. You might wanna do the same."

Once the girls had both done this, Toph stomped softly on her left foot and a rock protruded from the ground, to which Toph promptly sat on. She was maybe two feet up from Terra, and she grinned.

"Ok Terra, show me what you can do."

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Toph grinned when she heard the familiar voice and looked up. She bowed slightly and pointed to Terra. "we're each other's pupils," she said grinning. "We're learning the exquisite art of bending the earth for no other purpose than honing our skills!"

Toph was happy to hear Sanzo again. She had wondered how he was doing after all the drinking, and was glad to meet him again. She was about to talk engage Sanzo in more conversation when she stopped abruptly. There was something very off in the air, and before anyone knew it, Toph had pushed them both aside and sent a very large rock hurtling near Terra. Before anyone could so much as react, the rock exploded into pieces as they saw it had been hit by a green flash.

Toph was lousy at deflecting airborne attacks, but that didn't mean she couldn't sense things.

She turned, angry. "Who's out there? Show yourself!"

The rock itself blocked anything coming at Terra, and Terra was immediately on the defensive. She put her goggles back on, assuming that the both of them were going to be attacked immediately.

Unfortunately, she was too distracted to notice any flash coming from anywhere, but that wasn't going to stop her from looking for the jerk.

"Earthbending?" Sanzo said "We don't exactly have that in Shangri-La, but I'll go with it. And its good that you two are training, you never know when something or someone may strike"

Sanzo could tell that someone was happy to see him in all his hung-over glory, but also noticed that something was amiss when Toph stopped before saying something else to him.

Before he had realized what was going on, Toph had actually managed to push him to the ground as some kind of green flash nearly blinded him.

Sanzo quickly got to his feet, he drew his gun, ready to shoot anything that moved or remotely looked like it was going to attack him or the two girls.

"Come out you coward!!!" he shouted just as angry as Toph making sure his gun was ready to fire.

Dan cackled, appearing in mid-air above them.

"My, quite quick to jump offensive, are we?" he grinned. He then spotted Sanzo's gun and frowned, but in a more playful way than serious. "And I'm afraid the gun won't quite work. Last I checked, bullets didn't kill dead people."

For now, he'd just scare. Intimidate. He wanted to see what these people could do for now...he learned that moving in without an idea of the enemy was stupid, no matter how powerful he was. He couldn't let his ego get to him anymore.

He fired a warning shot at Terra, aiming for the very base of her feet. If she knew what was good for her, she'd jump away. If not, she was probably masochistic or very slow.

Toph sensed the projectile coming at Terra, but she decided that she wouldn't blast it away. If she did that, it would be an insult to Terra, and just as bad as saying that she thought Terra couldn't take care of herself. Instead, she decided to start lobbing some attacks of her own.

Toph took her stance with her legs apart and started rapidly bringing her arms back and straight in front of her, allowing huge loose chunks of earth to be lobbed in Dan's direction (she'd made sure to hear where he was) and finished with a 360 spin and made a striking motion with her hand. This let loose a projectile very different, as it was very concentrated rock rather than the previous porous rock she'd been attacking with.

Unfortunately for Dan, Terra wasn't going to be slow this time. She also didn't intend to be pushed around for no good reason. She quickly jumped out of the way, and she sent a rock up from the ground to jump on it. So this is what that meerkat meant, she thought to herself, as she got steady on her rock and prepared to get a clear enough distance away from Dan.

She didn't know what this guy was supposed to be, but frankly, Terra didn't care. If he was physically here, then there should be some way to get at him. Grunting, her eyes glowed a faint yellow and she raised two rocks, and threw her arms forward to lob the rocks in Dan's direction.

"Then you're nothing but a worhtless shikigami" Sanzo replied to Dan "And last time I checked, shikigamis can be destroyed"

Sanzo let fly a set of rounds into some of what would be Dan's vital points, searching for some sort of charm that was giving Dan his powers.

He watched as Dan fired the blast at Terra. Sanzo figured that she was a big girl and could take care of herself, so he didn't bother giving her a heads up.

After Terra had lobbed her rocks at Dan, Sanzo let fly another set of rounds behind them, hoping that one would find where the charm was hidden. For all that Sanzo knew, this guy was a shikigami, and Sanzo was hell bent on destroying him no matter what it took.

Training Time!

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