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After helping Pryce down from the tree, as in everyone being ready to catch him when he falls from untangling himself and his wings from the branches. That in turn, ended with Pryce landing on the others as they were cushions for his fall.
Now Ursa was picking the small twigs and leaves from her brother's gelled up blue hair, as he sat on the ground in front of her, pouting at his loss.
Phoebe and Seth were at opposite ends inside the chalk drawn rectangle, both staring at the other with confident expressions on their faces.
"Avenge me, Pheebs!" Pryce cheered.
"Do your best, both of you!" Ursa joined and then got back to work.
"Does that count as our go ahead?" Phoebe asked in an amused tone, before being surprised by a jet stream of water being aimed at her.
"I think it is." Seth mused, smirking as he had taken another distraction opportunity to attack his opponent like in his previous match. Using both of his hands to control the water from the pond, Seth increased the power of water stream attack.
Suddenly, a large cloud of steam clouded everyone's vision for a moment, but Seth's attack stopped by him being pushed back by something forcing the steam towards him. As Seth stumbled back a few steps, the steam cleared to reveal Phoebe protects e herself in an expanded, translucent fire coloured shield.
Phoebe smirked at Seth before pushed the shield, causing it to expand further. Quickly, Seth began to lose ground and places to avoid the shield that continued to grow and cover his options for moving.
"You always fall for this, Seth." Phoebe teased, not faltering her attack. "I guess it's pretty good at backing you into a corner."
Seth gritted his teeth, not sure how he was going to act.
From past experiences, Seth knew that he couldn't touch Phoebe's shield or else he would burn himself. Usually the heat's intensity depended on Phoebe's emotional control, but he didn't feel like wasting the skin on his fingers on a simple sparring match.
Suddenly, Seth noticed Phoebe's arms beginning to shake from the exertion of power that she had been doing her best to maintain. Taking advantage of her weakening attack, Seth controlled more water, and began to strike the shield with fast and sharp water movements.
Phoebe grunted as she felt her hold on her shield start to deteriorate. Deciding that her original plan of attack wasn't working anymore, Phoebe acted quickly by shrinking her shield into a smaller size that hovered over her right forearm. She threw her shield like a frisbee at Seth, who was able to deflect it with another sharp swipe from his water.
"Oh c'mon Pheebs, is that all that you got?" Seth sneered with a cocky expression.
Rolling her eyes, Phoebe summoned another shield in front of her. She jumped onto it, and when she jumped off of it, it disappeared only to be resummoned in her hands. Phoenix put the shield under her feet and she kicked it in Seth's direction. Not recognizing the attack, Seth wasn't able to react quickly enough and was hit by the shield in his abdomen, landing on is back and out of bounds.
"Awwr shit, that's gonna hurt in the morning!" Pryce howled with laughter, with an exaggerated western accent and slapped his knee.
"I thought we said no low blows." Seth groaned.
Phoebe chuckled and helped him to his feet, "It's not a low blow if it's well deserved." She remarked with a smirk.
"Yay! Phoebe won!" Ursa cheered happily, clapping her hands.
"So you kids were sparring again, without my instruction?" The British voice scolded, causing the kids to groan in annoyance.
"Look who came out into the sunlight, you aren't bursting into flames, that's usually a good sign." Seth quipped at Chandler.
His appearance did look of one of someone who was shut in the basement for a majority of his time. Chandler's pulled back brunette hair was greasy and in dire need of a wash. His sienna skin tone was now paler, due to the lack of sunshine to be exposed to. All that he wore was his usual light blue dress shirt, but now had wrinkles, as well as his black dress pants.
"Not now, Seperent." Chandler grumbled, "I was about to inform you all about an upcoming mission, your first all together, but if you all seem content on furthering your combat training, I won't oppose." He shrugged.
"Um excuse me, what?!" Pryce exclaimed, as she shared a shocked expression with the others. "You can't just say that! It breaks my heart!" He then cupped his sister's chubby cheeks, "You're even breaking Ursa's heart!"
"Enough of that. I've said no sparring with no purpose." Chandler scolded.
"To be fair, I learned that Phoebe's shields hurt a lot and my stomach is going to be bruised while we watch some summer rom com with recycled plot on Friday." Seth remarked.
Chandler huffed in annoyance, while giving Seth a 'why are you like this?' look.
"Not exactly what I was hinting towards, Serpent, but you all can work with your weapons for the remainder of the day. Unicorn, you should continue working on controlling your powers and your horn, you'll be attending school in a few weeks." Chandler instructed, as he rubbed on his facial hair stubble.
Rolling his eyes, Seth turned away from the others and began to walk away to his own area. This ensued the others to disband to do their own tasks.
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