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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Dan went intangible, allowing all the attacks to go through. Really, did they think that throwing pieces of rock at him was going to work? Did they think that simple bullets would destroy him? Humans were so naive. Dan was grateful that he had gotten rid of his humanity ten years ago. He was better off without it.

He took a good look at Sanzo, the only one who had spoken so far beyond the lines of, "Show yourself!"

"A shikigami, hmm?" he said, his lips parting in a disgusting, sinful smile. "I'm afraid you're mistaken!" And with that, he let his attack do the talking for him, letting loose the widest (but not necessarily) the strongest Ghostly Wail he could. He wanted a good range on these people, since they weren't exactly lobbed together in a chunk.

The noise should deafen them, he thought to himself. Not to mention the intense physical damage... Morbidly, memories of Dan Ghostly Wailing whole slews of the American Armed Forces into oblivion.

He stopped the Ghostly Wail and cackled.

Darn it all! Toph was furious. There was no doubt that they weren't dealing with your average villain, and he seemed to mean business. Her attacks had done nothing, and neither had Terra's or Sanzo's. HIS attack, on the other hand, was very devastating, and while Toph couldn't stop it immediately, she felt enough of the earth to feel the echo. It was a reverberation tactic she had seen in bat-like creatures, and there was really no time to debate anyone's thoughts on what happened next.

Toph literally made herself a human shield: the rocks made the shield and she herself allowed her stance to ground her at the spot. This attack wouldn't be ultimately deterred, but at least the others wouldn't get the full blast of the attack.

Momentarily, it worked. The wail blast hit Toph head on, and not the others. What also happened, however, was the impact of the wail that decimated the rock formation and threw Toph several feet in the air before lading rather roughly at the feet of Terra.

She groaned and shuddered, heaving her body to her feet, gasping. He was strong all right, and she only hoped the others would start to try to bring him down. At the moment, she felt pretty spent.

Sanzo wasn't at all happy to those words coming out of Dan's mouth, or the wail that followed. Sanzo managed to cover his ears just in time, as the wail threw him back into a tree.

"Damn!!" Sanzo yelled, his ears ringing. He tried to stand up but his ankle wouldn't have it, so he supported himself on the tree.

"Toph!" he yelled hoping her hearing wasn't as shot as his was, "Do you think you or your friend could keep him busy?"

Sanzo limped away from the support of the tree "I want to try something, and I need a minute of two" Sanzo yelled to her putting his gun away in his robes.

Dan's eyes narrowed at Sanzo. What exactly was he going to try? Frowning, he shot out a series of blasts around (and at) the man to deter and hopefully stick him to a tree or the grass.

At least one girl was down.

Dan elevated himself in the air, now staring at the situation from even higher above. He cackled insanely, the flames atop his head burning at a faster rate than usual.

"Just trying something won't quite deter me!" he yelled out to the man.

Toph had time to get up now, and though Terra looked a little frozen, Toph couldn't blame her. This guy had just thrown her several feet, and he seemed to be mocking Sanzo right now. She probably felt like there was little she could do.

Well, Toph was going to have to convince her to abandon those thoughts.

Terra got Toph to her feet and, though Toph was panting, her mind was a bit clearer. "We better give Sanzo a hand. I never fought against anything that could avoid rocks, but Sanzo sounds like he's at least fought things like it. We better combine our efforts and direct our attacks at this guy. If your powers get out of control, I'll do my best to keep you under wraps, but right now we gotta help Sanzo!"

The two adopted a similar stance and, under Toph's direction, the two set a barrage of projectiles at Dan in every direction, and Toph had them under rock shielding. She wasn't feeling too good, but that was no excuse to stop fighting.

Sanzo isn't very agile, but he is pretty good at dodging when something harmful comes his way, or at least he thought. he managed to get past the blasts that were shot around him, but juat barely missed the ones at him.

A few of Dan's blasts managed to hit Sanzo's legs as he tried to get out of the way.

Sanzo struggled to his feet as the girls launched their rock projectiles at Dan Sanzo tossed his sutra into the air and began to chant.

Please let this work Sanzo thought to himself as he let the words "Makai Tenjyo!!" leave his mouth, and the scroll that was on his shoulders, opened up with a violet glow, and attacked Dan head on.

(Due to Dan-mun resigning the RPG, this thread cannot be continued. We apologize and our characters will be moved to new active threads soon.)

To the trio's surprise, Ghost Dan suddenly became engulfed in a burst of magenta light just as Sanzo's Makai Tenjyo attack hit home. With a burst of wailing, their enemy exploded in green and blue flames, and the effect knocked them back several feet. Terra hit the ground hardest of all, and lay motionless. Toph lost no time in kneeling down in front of her, trying to see if she was ok.

She looked up at Sanzo. "She's all right. I don't know what went down with that ghost guy, but for now we're safe. Think you can give me a hand? I'm going to lug her back over to that soup kitchen place. After this, it looks like we're going to need a long rest."

Toph took one arm and Sanzo took the other, and the two helped Terra to her feet.

Training Time!

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