Not Quite The Fire Magic She Intended - Pseudo OTA (See warnings)

[nobodys_puppet]

Who: Xion and whomever.
What: Attempting to practice fire magic with... interesting results.
Where: A clear area a little way off of campus
When: midmorning
Warnings: Possible violence, angst and angst mentions. (Also as a warning, I'm doing Nano, so replies will be potentially super slow.)



Xion had promised she wouldn't stop using her magic, though she intended to keep an eye on Roxas to make sure he wasn't suffering because she was practicing. The best way to do this, of course, was to practice when he didn't know she was going to, so if he was feeling drained he wouldn't know to hide it. Yes she still worried, but she wasn't locking herself away because of it she was being... cautious. At least that was how she planned to explain it if she got caught watching him too closely. It wasn't bad to want to be sure, right?

So she had slipped off on her own to practice. She had her hood down, which still made her a little nervous, but no one was around so that should be okay. Right? She was trying to get her fire spells working, aiming at a target she had set up, made of a broken art easel she had found in a trash heap. Not that she quite knew what it was supposed to be, but it more or less stood and should burn, so it should be fine.

Except that the spell wasn't working. She kept aiming her Keyblade at it. Kept saying the spell name at it, and... nothing. She slashed her blade down in frustration after an hour of this. "I don't get it!" she complained to herself. "My other spell worked! I could do Thundaga just fine...." Of course...

Because of course....

Lightning flashed as she said the name of that spell, splitting the sky, splitting the target and setting the pieces, and a nearby bush... on fire.

Eyes wide she aimed her Keyblade at the flaming mess. She should have been prepared for success, but she hadn't really expected it. And this wasn't quite success, but... it was still fire. "Blizzaga!" she cried, trying to freeze the flames. Trying... and failing...

Maybe she should have been practicing more after all?

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[burningbrighter]

Meanwhile, Sunset was really not enjoying herself. The campus felt a little colder and emptier with all the friends who'd left them recently,. She tried to forget it all with a brisk walk around the campus.

There was just one problem: it was freezing out here. She pulled her cloak a little tighter around herself with a huff. She was just about to turn back when she felt the lick of heat from nearby, then spotted the somewhat familiar face.

The fire was nice and warm...but oh. They should probably control that.

"Whoa, hey!" she called, ducking around to the other side of the bush. "What happened?"

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion's hand raised quickly to grab her hood, but she forced the hand back down empty. She would see Xion's face and not a blank... right? Axel and Roxas had been right... right? She had a face of her own now? She was an actual person?

Even if she was, how did she answer that question without getting in trouble. Maybe they wouldn't turn her into a dusk here, but usually when she set something on fire it died and the fire went with it. This fire... was spreading. She had been in a burning building once. She knew that spreading fire when it wasn't controlled could be bad. But she wasn't Axel. She didn't know how to control it.

And she didn't know how to answer. Her shoulders hunched around her shoulders and she stood paralyzed by indecision, not knowing what to say or do....

[burningbrighter]

Sunset shook her head. "Okay. Fires happen. We just have to stop it before it takes over the field."

She pulled her wand out of her wand pocket, looking curiously at the giant key. That was...a big wand. "Maybe if we both cast water spells?"

She tried that, resulting in some crackling and steam. More water was needed, probably.

[nobodys_puppet]

She hesitated, then lifted her Keyblade again to aim at the fire. "I tried, but the only ice spell I know failed...." she said her voice almost whisper soft. She wasn't sure if she'd be heard.

[burningbrighter]

"Did you try water? That might work too!"

Sunset adds her own water spells, but all she succeeds in doing is making more steam. It's not quite enough.

[nobodys_puppet]

"I do not know any water spells," she said. Or else she would have. "Demyx was the best at those, like Axel is the best at fire." If Axel were here he could put this out like it was nothing. But he wasn't, and she really was trying to learn to do things for them instead of needing her friends to do everything for her.

[burningbrighter]

"Okay, okay...we can do this. How about we seal it off with a bubble?"

With that, she twirls her wand and tries to conjure a nice, big bubble. "Help me---it needs to be thick!"

[nobodys_puppet]

"Help you how?" she asked, aiming her Keyblade at the fire, but beyond that, she wasn't sure what to do.

[burningbrighter]

"Cast the charm together. You use the ice spell, I'll use the bubble to keep the fire from escaping. On three. Ready?"

She hums a little and flexes her fingers, wand in position. Maybe a one-two will do it. On three, she lets it fly and crosses her fingers.

[nobodys_puppet]

"But my ice spell isn't working," she pointed out. She was willing to try, though. Sometimes things were easier when she tried them with Roxas, but that could just be because they came from the same person and their powers used to be linked. She wasn't sure.