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[What with Zuko's unexpected and somewhat... well, dubious bout of hopefully-it-will-be-win and please don't burn their house again, Katara has an unexpected bout of free time. This is both a good thing, and a bad thing, since with the craziness of her first few months dying down, Katara has started to feel homesickness pressing down on her. Couple that with Sokka's keeping secrets, his friendship with Ty Lee, and learning chi blocking, the extra time to think is not... exactly... happy.

So here she is, at the bridge by her house, standing at the arch and staring out over the water.]

[Filtered to Ginko 70 percent]

Ginko, have you ever-

Is there a time where

I need

[No. It wasn't fair to bring anyone into this. She'd figure it out the same way she always did.]

[Voice: Filtered away from Zuko, 70%]

~~So... has anyone else noticed anything strange going on tonight? There isn't a new experiment going on, is there?~~

[And pretty much immediately after this comment Katara is going to find a way to erase this voice post if it kills her. She didn't mean to upset anyone! It was just - so weird.]

[...And sometime after dinner, she'll be returning to her practicing routine outside of the house, in case she's due for a talking to ~~you know who you are~~.]

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[She... kinda figured that out, and kinda doesn't care, because it's so good to be fighting against something she can control again. Besides, she counts Luffy as a friend.

But that doesn't mean she's going to let him win. The different targets of water make it a little bit more complicated than dealing with a giant stream, but she's been working on her control since getting to Luceti so Katara has no problem executing a form to take control and stop the water just like this.

She holds it there for a moment, and then takes the bubbles and the loose water and turns it into one solid mass of water between them. And smirks. Then she streams the water behind her - not letting it touch her body but hovering over her arms.] Not bad! [Grin.] But you've got to do better.

Edited 2010-05-09 06:25 (UTC)

[Oh fien Katara! If that's how you want it!]

Mizu Mizu no Rifle!! [He fires another powerful stream of water at Katara before running towards her before doing a spinning sommersault over her head]

Mizu Mizu no Pistol! [Have a tornado of water bubbles coming down at you before he lands one your other side.]

[That water stream is met with the water she's collected above her arms, and she incorporates that water into her hold--

--but Luffy is fast and that was unexpected. Fortunately he calls out his attacks, but she's still not quite fast enough in bringing the water she's just collected over her head to just stand there -- Katara quickly moves to the side, just in time to escape the few bubbles that make it through before her shield is in place.

And then she shifts to face Luffy again - it's weird not to follow through and attack, but that hadn't been part of the rules.] OK. [And she drops some of that water to the ground, preferring to keep her hold light and mobile with her power constraints. The rest of the water remains in a stream at her side. Grinning:] That was better.

...I thought I was gonna get you with that.

[He starts flailing his arms again. Geez he needs to think up a way to distract her with water longer enough so she can get hit by... water. Shut up.]

[She laughs.] You never said I had to stand still!

[And then she eyes him. She's still not completely sure this is healthy.] How are you doing there? Got enough water left?

I got enough!

Mizu Mizu no Gigant Pistol! [A giant bubble starts to form like before and he sends it at her except this time it goes above her head.]

Mizu Mizu no RIFLE! [This time when he uses the move, he uses it to pop the giant bubble, causing a rainfall of water to come down at her. But, as soon as it starts to rain Katara might notice Luffy is circling around her, now going at full non-Gear Second speed]

Mizu Mizu no PISTOL! [As he's circling her, he's going to be blowing out a constant stream of bubbles in her direction! He's using just about every little supply of water he has left at this point]

[That first attack has her swinging up the water at her side and making a shield like an umbrella above her head--

--Holy crap he's fast! Katara quickly absorbs the falling water into one giant stream and has to actually check herself from making an ice slide right in front of Luffy, because that is not part of the training.

Fortunately, though, it appears that the bubbles are traveling at the same speed. ~~And if I am wrong, tell me!~~ So she has time to bring that water from above all around her and move into the octopus form. The tendrils shoot up all around her, and she uses them to block the incoming bubbles. Do some of them make it through anyway?]

[Nope, she blocks all of them! After she does Luffy just stands there grinning. She really is strong if she was able to keep up with him like that.]

I'm out!

[And so she can't resist showing off a little - she just directs the rest of the water over towards the forest area in a large stream before flexing her fingers once and turning itinto mist. It will have a chance to spread to more of the forest that way... or something.

Then she turns and looks at Luffy and he is... back to normal. That's... so weird.]

[She grins.] That was fun, Luffy!

Edited 2010-05-20 17:07 (UTC)

It was! We should do that again one day!

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