Chapter 19: Training Session
As she sat on the fence of the Town Square sipping her tea and patting the sheep that
grazed lazily in the bright morning sun, Sabrina pondered how she was going to find out about the tournament. While she was thinking, a man came by with a hammer and a stack of parchment paper in his hand. Politely, he asked, "Excuse me miss, but I hafta post this on that there fence post that ye's sitting on." "Oh of course." said Sabrina, draining the last of her tea and jumping down from the post. She stood there still thinking of the problem at hand and lazily looked at the pile of papers that the man had set on the ground. "Yes!" she exclaimed to herself, upon seeing that they were notice papers for the upcoming tournament. Politely, she asked the man if she could have a paper and after handing it to her, Sabrina skipped away back to the inn to get her sword. As she approached the door, she suddenly stopped, seeing the outline of the man who had accosted her earlier. Not wanting another argument, she decided to phase into the inn. When she tried this though, she ended up in a room that was most definitely not hers, and so grudgingly entered the inn through the doors. Upon entering, she was surprised to see Rion sitting at a table talking to someone wearing a black cloak with a hood. As she approached the table, with the paper in hand, the man suddenly got up from the chair and left. "Friend of yours?" she remarked. "Yeah.sort of" Rion replied. After a pause, he asked, "Why don't you have some breakfast?" "Ok sure," said Sabrina. "Could you order me some waffles with strawberries on top? I'll be right back.I have to get my sword from my room," Sabrina said, placing the paper on the table and rushing up the stairs. "Waffles.?" Rion whispered to himself, as he reached for the waived a waitress to the table. After getting lost twice, Sabrina managed to find her way to her room and get her sword. Walking back down, she decided that, after eating, she was going to train for the tournament today. Upon getting back to the table, Sabrina was surprised to find a pile
of scones at her place with a pot of strawberry jam. Looking at Rion inquisitively, he answered, "No idea what a waffle is sorry.and I'm assuming that you are in a rush to start preparing for this," he said pointing to the paper. "Uh huh," said Sabrina, sitting down and starting to spread jam on the scones, which were very good. At that moment, Nata walked into the inn followed by Pyro, "Heeeyyy!" she called (as is her usual custom) as she pulled up a chair. "Heeeey," called Renata and everyone in the inn turned and looked at them. Everyone then either had a confused or shocked look on their face when they saw what Renata and Pyro were both wearing. Both paid no attention and sat down at Sabrina's table. "So what's up Freshman?" asked Pyro. Swallowing her food, (cause its not polite to talk with your mouth full lol), Sabrina winced at the use of her nickname, and glared at Nata for revealing her nickname. At Pyro's words, she could hear Rion choking on his water as he heard the name. Thankful that she hadn't taken that CPR class (so she wouldn't be obliged to save him if he DID choke), she chose to
ignore the comment to avoid teasing. Instead she responded excitedly, handing Nata the paper, "Look NC!!! A tournament!!! And I'm gonna enter!" Renata looked at Sabrina. "Ok little one. Just hang on a sec. Why exactly do you wanna enter this tournament? Is it to show Mr. Stick-up-his-ass up? Or what?" "Well yeah, for one," she said turning to glare at Rion only to find him smirking at her.
"And for two, it would be good practice...I haven't handled a sword in like a week and a half!" "Well," began Pyro. "I dunno about you, but I've NEVER handled a sword before. We're from the 21st century remember? And you make it sound like you've always handled swords." "Yeah," said Renata. "Besides, I don't have a really good feeling about this tournament." "Yeah," added Pyro. "we heard some of the villagers talking at the blacksmith's. It doesn't sound like a very good idea." Defensively, Sabrina said, "Well, for you information, I have been trained in the art of
sword fighting since I was three years old. And I REALLY want to be in this tournament...Please?" she finished looking at Nata. Renata hesitated and looked at Pyro. Pyro hesitated as well and shrugged and looked at Renata, "I wouldn't let her go. She could get hurt if what we heard is true." Renata looked at Sabrina again. "Well... I...as long as we're both there to keep an eye on you I guess so..." She looked at Pyro, "I'm gonna regret this aren't I?" Pyro grinned, "Maybe so. But at least it wouldn't be my fault again now would it?" "Ok, so now I need supervision?" "Yes freshman," smirked Rion from his chair. Sabrina got up, hit Rion upside the head and sat back down. "Might've deserved that," he said to himself, finishing his food. "Well since that's decided...NC...can I buy you anything?" Renata nodded. "Hey, what bout me?" Pyro asked playfully. "Okay Pyro," Sabrina said smiling sweetly at him. "What would you like?" "Hey what's this? You buy them food?" Rion said indignantly. "Ah whatever...I'll pay for the whole bill," said Sabrina. Renata and Pyro both ordered their breakfasts and began eating once the food was brought to them. "Hey wait a minute," began Pyro in between mouthfuls. "Why are you suddenly so nice to us? There's something you want isn't there? I know, I've pulled this stunt with NC one too many times. So spill." "Well...for your information...I'm always nice to NC, but..." Renata stopped eating abruptly. "Excuse me? Always? Not THIS nice you're not." "Well...I'm still nice...ok ill tell...I was wondering if you guys would train with me...I'm kinda rusty like I said, I haven't practiced in like 2 weeks." Renata and Pyro looked at each other. "Ok fine, we'll train you girl," Renata began. "But I dunno how good we are with swords...Hey! We can train you with our --er our way. You know? We'll be creative. I mean, there's bound to be things besides swordfighting." "Ok that works! " said Sabrina happily, but where should we go?" "How about the forest we were at?" suggested Pyro. "I mean, it's pretty durn private. And there might be fields around and stuff. So what do you think?" "Sure that works." The group sat there chatting about the tournament, and when they were done, Sabrina
paid the bill and they went up to their room to port to the forest. Once they got to the room, only getting lost once. Sabrina then suggested that they port to the forest form there. "Uhm, Brina. There's a bit of a problem," began Renata. Sabrina's bubble of happiness burst. "What?" she said. "Uhm," Renata continued. "I can't port us there." "Oh yeah," started Pyro as he looked at Renata. "You can't port us there unless you can either see the place or know it real well." "Exactly," she said. "And I don't know it well. So, we're gonna have to walk. Sorry Brina." "Oh well...Hey maybe we can jog over...you know as part of the training!" she replied
excitedly. Pyro rolled his eyes. "Or YOU can jog over there. We're your trainers, so we don't have to. So get along Freshman." "HEY you guys are NOT my trainers...you are just HELPING me train." Renata rolled her eyes. "Yeah ok whatever. Just go ahead and jog out there and we'll be out there in a bit ok? Once you pick a spot and I can see it I'll port us over there ok?" "Alright," said Sabrina conjuring invisible leg weights and doing an anti- sunburn charm on herself. With a wave to Rion, Nata and Pyro, she set off towards the forest. Renata and Pyro set off walking through the town with Rion at their heels. "Well," Renata said to Pyro. "Have any idea how to help her train?" "Yeah, kinda. I figure we just use our powers and create obstacles for her you no. I can create swordsmen with my fire and such, and horses. I can experiment with it and maybe I can create a horse for her to ride on...but I can't let fire not burn at all, so maybe I can lower the heat enough so its bearable..." "I have an idea," Rion said with a smirk. "We can bring a stove and a needle and thread and train her in the ways of a proper lady." Renata glanced at Rion then at Pyro and smirked. The minute the three were on the outskirts of town, Renata grabbed Rion, teleported up in the air for a minute, dropped him and then ported back to the ground. Renata smirked. "Lady-like enough for ya pal?" "Yeah!!!" shouted Pyro. "That's my girl!" Pyro and Renata high-fived each other and then saw Sabrina waving at them from the distance. "Hey guys!!! I found a good spot!" she called waving them over. She was standing on the outskirts of the forest, but when the group reached her she told them to follow her. After walking for a few minutes, they reached a large clearing. It was a circle surrounded by trees and looked out of place in the dense forest. "I erm...fixed it up a bit...you know...clearing, leveling charms...anti fire spells, sound wards, and stuff...You know...just to be safe and all..." Turning to the group, she saw Nata and Pyro smirking, and Rion sitting on the ground with a pained expression. "What's with him?" she asked Nata and Pyro. Renata merely started cracking up and let Pyro explain. "Yeah hahahahaa Rion made some snot-nosed remark about giving you a needle and thread and training you in lady-like ways. So NC here ported him up in midair and dropped him! HAHAHAHA You shoulda seen it!" Pyro finally stopped laughing. "Uh, Freshman... you DO know that since I CAN control fire, I can make it go out and such? I mean, in case the forest did catch fire." "He said WHAT?!?!" Sabrina asked enraged. "You ROCK NC thanks. Oh ummm no I guess I forgot that...." she trailed off looking at Pyro. Pyro shrugged. "Whatever. Doesn't matter to me. Only a freshman wouldn't think things through." He laughed, "What? Oh come on! Lighten up a bit!" "Yes," Sabrina replied with a smirk. "Only a FRESHMAN would take precautions to protect her friends from being thought of as wierdos... I mean what if someone came into the clearing and saw NC use her powers or something? Or you playing with fire? Or me walking
through trees? I mean I can do memory charms but still...." she trailed off. "Alrighty then...Now how shall we start?" she said walking past Rion, who had just gotten up, stepping on his foot in
the process. As he winced in pain, he said, "Well I guess I deserved that..." and sat down again. Renata and Pyro both nodded and started talking amongst themselves about what to do.
Renata decided to give Brina the element of surprise in various occasions in order to train her to adapt to different situations. Pyro agreed and decided that he would create a swordfighter with his fire, but make it burn only slightly, so as not to melt Brina's sword, but the fire won't die out.
Renata ported away, while Pyro and Rion sat down on a rock and watched the training commence. Renata suddenly ported down to where Sabrina was the ported up in midair next to a tree and dropped her. Grateful for her gymnastic training, Sabrina was able to maneuver herself so that she landed (somewhat) on her feet, and then fell to the ground. Standing up and brushing herself off she called to Nata; "Hey what was THAT for?" Renata ported next to Sabrina and shook her head. "I was trying to force you to improvise in an unexpected situation so that you wouldn't either get hurt or maneuver yourself in another position ready to keep going. So lets try again ok?" Renata then looked at Pyro and nodded to him. Then, she ported away. "Ok whatever...I doubt that my opponent will be able to do that though," she said as she smiled at Nata. Renata's tail suddenly sung out at Sabrina from the tree she was in, grabbed her foot and flipped her over. Just then Pyro sent a running horse in her direction. Sabrina rolled over to avoid the fire horse's hooves and jumped to her feet. Pyro then turned the horse around and sent it running to Brina once again. In a split second it morphed into a swordsman who whipped out his sword and began waving it at Brina. Sabrina grinned and whipped out her sword. Both fire-swordsmen/women and Brina began a fight that only lasted a few minutes, since Pyro was afraid of melting her sword.
"Sorry that didn't take long Brina. But it's hard to make fire burn as little as possible you know? Man! Am I beat," he finished as he flopped back onto the grass. "Controlling fire like that takes a lot out of you, you know. I don't think I've ever done that before." "Yeah, but you did great man," congratulated Renata. "Well Brina, I think I still have a bit more left in me. Shall we?" "Sure," she replied and conjured a bucket of water and poised it over Pyro's head. He looked ready to yell at her so she explained quickly, "Its just so you could cool down sheesh. And I made it voice activated...just tell it to drop and it will," she said and followed NC to the middle of the clearing. Pyro then started cooling himself off with the water little by little and eventually drank from it and offered Rion some as well. Renata however walked to the middle of the clearing with Brina. "Ok Brina, I just want you to start swinging this stick here and see if you can hit me. I'll just port to no end. If you can hit me then you're reflexes are pretty good. So wanna try?" "Sure..." she said taking the stick. "But I don't wanna hurt you NC." "Don't worry Brina. I'll probably port away before you can smack me good. But I'll definitely notice it. So here goes." Renata began porting around her in random places. WOW! Sabrina thought. She's fast! But there's NO way I'm gonna give up... With that she started to swing at NC whenever she saw her. After about an hour (or more) it seemed, Renata felt a tap on her side as she ported. Meanwhile, Pyro and Rion fell asleep with the bucket at their side. "Ok Brina, it looks like you got me. And I'm tired! I've never ported that fast or that many times before. Man, and Pyro looks wiped," she said as she glanced at him. "Well, I guess it served us both good training for our powers since we never needed them this much, or even had much control like this before. But I think I'm done." She glanced at her watch. "Oh, right, its our time, not theirs...." "Oh I have a trick for that..." said Sabrina mysteriously. She picked up a twig and muttered a few words. The twig turned toward where, if there were a clock, it would be pointing to 5:00 "Wow really? We better get back...Let's wake up Pyro and Rion first...hahaha I have an idea. Watch this," Renata said as she tried to suppress her laughter. She walked over to Pyro and leaned close to him and whispered, "Wake up sexy." Pyro stirred and mumbled, "Hey beautiful...wanna go out sometime.....pizza........" Renata and Sabrina started laughing as if there were no tomorrow. Renata's knees gave out from the laughter and she fell on the floor laughing. "Yeah sweetums and a movie too..." Sabrina added trying to copy Nata's voice. Renata started laughing even harder but managed to whisper, "Come on babycakes, wake up...." But she continued laughing so hard her abs hurt and her eyes started to tear. Pyro mumbled something again, which sounded like: "ok love...movie? ...Pirates of...." then he suddenly sat up awake at Renata and Sabrina's roar of laughter. "What?! Oh my lord you scared me you two! ...What's going on?" he asked confused. Renata managed to stop laughing enough to imitate him, "Hey beautiful, how about some pizza? And the movie? Sure love..." But she collapsed in peals of laughter once again. "Oh yeah." said Sabrina holding up a rock, "and I got it all on tape..." Pyro screamed, "You DID WHAT?! OMG!!! You didn't..." but upon Renata nodding Pyro then said, "OMG! You little NIGHTCREEPER! You DIDN'T! Oh no....." Pyro moaned, "Ok fine, you got me. But please don't tell anyone?" "Don't worry about it man, I wouldn't tell a soul. Not even Rion here. Who miraculously, slept though this entire thing." "Well...I'M not promising ANYTHING..." said Sabrina as she put the rock in her bag. "Come on...wake up sleeping beauty..." said Sabrina as she nudged Rion with her toe. Yawning, Rion stood up and asked with a smirk "So.can I take that as a compliment?" "No," said Sabrina over her shoulder as she sheathed her sword. "Ok NC...can you port us back?" Renata nodded, "Yeah, only as far as the edge again. Member the villagers...wait, there's three of us...Pyro, can you wait here for me?" "Why? Why can't you just port the three of us together? It'd be easier," he commented. "Because, I've never done more than 2 people before and I don't wanna risk trying more than that. So wait here." Renata first ported Sabrina and Rion to town then came back for Pyro. After Nata and Pyro ported the group walked tiredly to the inn. There they met the rest of their group.
As she sat on the fence of the Town Square sipping her tea and patting the sheep that
grazed lazily in the bright morning sun, Sabrina pondered how she was going to find out about the tournament. While she was thinking, a man came by with a hammer and a stack of parchment paper in his hand. Politely, he asked, "Excuse me miss, but I hafta post this on that there fence post that ye's sitting on." "Oh of course." said Sabrina, draining the last of her tea and jumping down from the post. She stood there still thinking of the problem at hand and lazily looked at the pile of papers that the man had set on the ground. "Yes!" she exclaimed to herself, upon seeing that they were notice papers for the upcoming tournament. Politely, she asked the man if she could have a paper and after handing it to her, Sabrina skipped away back to the inn to get her sword. As she approached the door, she suddenly stopped, seeing the outline of the man who had accosted her earlier. Not wanting another argument, she decided to phase into the inn. When she tried this though, she ended up in a room that was most definitely not hers, and so grudgingly entered the inn through the doors. Upon entering, she was surprised to see Rion sitting at a table talking to someone wearing a black cloak with a hood. As she approached the table, with the paper in hand, the man suddenly got up from the chair and left. "Friend of yours?" she remarked. "Yeah.sort of" Rion replied. After a pause, he asked, "Why don't you have some breakfast?" "Ok sure," said Sabrina. "Could you order me some waffles with strawberries on top? I'll be right back.I have to get my sword from my room," Sabrina said, placing the paper on the table and rushing up the stairs. "Waffles.?" Rion whispered to himself, as he reached for the waived a waitress to the table. After getting lost twice, Sabrina managed to find her way to her room and get her sword. Walking back down, she decided that, after eating, she was going to train for the tournament today. Upon getting back to the table, Sabrina was surprised to find a pile
of scones at her place with a pot of strawberry jam. Looking at Rion inquisitively, he answered, "No idea what a waffle is sorry.and I'm assuming that you are in a rush to start preparing for this," he said pointing to the paper. "Uh huh," said Sabrina, sitting down and starting to spread jam on the scones, which were very good. At that moment, Nata walked into the inn followed by Pyro, "Heeeyyy!" she called (as is her usual custom) as she pulled up a chair. "Heeeey," called Renata and everyone in the inn turned and looked at them. Everyone then either had a confused or shocked look on their face when they saw what Renata and Pyro were both wearing. Both paid no attention and sat down at Sabrina's table. "So what's up Freshman?" asked Pyro. Swallowing her food, (cause its not polite to talk with your mouth full lol), Sabrina winced at the use of her nickname, and glared at Nata for revealing her nickname. At Pyro's words, she could hear Rion choking on his water as he heard the name. Thankful that she hadn't taken that CPR class (so she wouldn't be obliged to save him if he DID choke), she chose to
ignore the comment to avoid teasing. Instead she responded excitedly, handing Nata the paper, "Look NC!!! A tournament!!! And I'm gonna enter!" Renata looked at Sabrina. "Ok little one. Just hang on a sec. Why exactly do you wanna enter this tournament? Is it to show Mr. Stick-up-his-ass up? Or what?" "Well yeah, for one," she said turning to glare at Rion only to find him smirking at her.
"And for two, it would be good practice...I haven't handled a sword in like a week and a half!" "Well," began Pyro. "I dunno about you, but I've NEVER handled a sword before. We're from the 21st century remember? And you make it sound like you've always handled swords." "Yeah," said Renata. "Besides, I don't have a really good feeling about this tournament." "Yeah," added Pyro. "we heard some of the villagers talking at the blacksmith's. It doesn't sound like a very good idea." Defensively, Sabrina said, "Well, for you information, I have been trained in the art of
sword fighting since I was three years old. And I REALLY want to be in this tournament...Please?" she finished looking at Nata. Renata hesitated and looked at Pyro. Pyro hesitated as well and shrugged and looked at Renata, "I wouldn't let her go. She could get hurt if what we heard is true." Renata looked at Sabrina again. "Well... I...as long as we're both there to keep an eye on you I guess so..." She looked at Pyro, "I'm gonna regret this aren't I?" Pyro grinned, "Maybe so. But at least it wouldn't be my fault again now would it?" "Ok, so now I need supervision?" "Yes freshman," smirked Rion from his chair. Sabrina got up, hit Rion upside the head and sat back down. "Might've deserved that," he said to himself, finishing his food. "Well since that's decided...NC...can I buy you anything?" Renata nodded. "Hey, what bout me?" Pyro asked playfully. "Okay Pyro," Sabrina said smiling sweetly at him. "What would you like?" "Hey what's this? You buy them food?" Rion said indignantly. "Ah whatever...I'll pay for the whole bill," said Sabrina. Renata and Pyro both ordered their breakfasts and began eating once the food was brought to them. "Hey wait a minute," began Pyro in between mouthfuls. "Why are you suddenly so nice to us? There's something you want isn't there? I know, I've pulled this stunt with NC one too many times. So spill." "Well...for your information...I'm always nice to NC, but..." Renata stopped eating abruptly. "Excuse me? Always? Not THIS nice you're not." "Well...I'm still nice...ok ill tell...I was wondering if you guys would train with me...I'm kinda rusty like I said, I haven't practiced in like 2 weeks." Renata and Pyro looked at each other. "Ok fine, we'll train you girl," Renata began. "But I dunno how good we are with swords...Hey! We can train you with our --er our way. You know? We'll be creative. I mean, there's bound to be things besides swordfighting." "Ok that works! " said Sabrina happily, but where should we go?" "How about the forest we were at?" suggested Pyro. "I mean, it's pretty durn private. And there might be fields around and stuff. So what do you think?" "Sure that works." The group sat there chatting about the tournament, and when they were done, Sabrina
paid the bill and they went up to their room to port to the forest. Once they got to the room, only getting lost once. Sabrina then suggested that they port to the forest form there. "Uhm, Brina. There's a bit of a problem," began Renata. Sabrina's bubble of happiness burst. "What?" she said. "Uhm," Renata continued. "I can't port us there." "Oh yeah," started Pyro as he looked at Renata. "You can't port us there unless you can either see the place or know it real well." "Exactly," she said. "And I don't know it well. So, we're gonna have to walk. Sorry Brina." "Oh well...Hey maybe we can jog over...you know as part of the training!" she replied
excitedly. Pyro rolled his eyes. "Or YOU can jog over there. We're your trainers, so we don't have to. So get along Freshman." "HEY you guys are NOT my trainers...you are just HELPING me train." Renata rolled her eyes. "Yeah ok whatever. Just go ahead and jog out there and we'll be out there in a bit ok? Once you pick a spot and I can see it I'll port us over there ok?" "Alright," said Sabrina conjuring invisible leg weights and doing an anti- sunburn charm on herself. With a wave to Rion, Nata and Pyro, she set off towards the forest. Renata and Pyro set off walking through the town with Rion at their heels. "Well," Renata said to Pyro. "Have any idea how to help her train?" "Yeah, kinda. I figure we just use our powers and create obstacles for her you no. I can create swordsmen with my fire and such, and horses. I can experiment with it and maybe I can create a horse for her to ride on...but I can't let fire not burn at all, so maybe I can lower the heat enough so its bearable..." "I have an idea," Rion said with a smirk. "We can bring a stove and a needle and thread and train her in the ways of a proper lady." Renata glanced at Rion then at Pyro and smirked. The minute the three were on the outskirts of town, Renata grabbed Rion, teleported up in the air for a minute, dropped him and then ported back to the ground. Renata smirked. "Lady-like enough for ya pal?" "Yeah!!!" shouted Pyro. "That's my girl!" Pyro and Renata high-fived each other and then saw Sabrina waving at them from the distance. "Hey guys!!! I found a good spot!" she called waving them over. She was standing on the outskirts of the forest, but when the group reached her she told them to follow her. After walking for a few minutes, they reached a large clearing. It was a circle surrounded by trees and looked out of place in the dense forest. "I erm...fixed it up a bit...you know...clearing, leveling charms...anti fire spells, sound wards, and stuff...You know...just to be safe and all..." Turning to the group, she saw Nata and Pyro smirking, and Rion sitting on the ground with a pained expression. "What's with him?" she asked Nata and Pyro. Renata merely started cracking up and let Pyro explain. "Yeah hahahahaa Rion made some snot-nosed remark about giving you a needle and thread and training you in lady-like ways. So NC here ported him up in midair and dropped him! HAHAHAHA You shoulda seen it!" Pyro finally stopped laughing. "Uh, Freshman... you DO know that since I CAN control fire, I can make it go out and such? I mean, in case the forest did catch fire." "He said WHAT?!?!" Sabrina asked enraged. "You ROCK NC thanks. Oh ummm no I guess I forgot that...." she trailed off looking at Pyro. Pyro shrugged. "Whatever. Doesn't matter to me. Only a freshman wouldn't think things through." He laughed, "What? Oh come on! Lighten up a bit!" "Yes," Sabrina replied with a smirk. "Only a FRESHMAN would take precautions to protect her friends from being thought of as wierdos... I mean what if someone came into the clearing and saw NC use her powers or something? Or you playing with fire? Or me walking
through trees? I mean I can do memory charms but still...." she trailed off. "Alrighty then...Now how shall we start?" she said walking past Rion, who had just gotten up, stepping on his foot in
the process. As he winced in pain, he said, "Well I guess I deserved that..." and sat down again. Renata and Pyro both nodded and started talking amongst themselves about what to do.
Renata decided to give Brina the element of surprise in various occasions in order to train her to adapt to different situations. Pyro agreed and decided that he would create a swordfighter with his fire, but make it burn only slightly, so as not to melt Brina's sword, but the fire won't die out.
Renata ported away, while Pyro and Rion sat down on a rock and watched the training commence. Renata suddenly ported down to where Sabrina was the ported up in midair next to a tree and dropped her. Grateful for her gymnastic training, Sabrina was able to maneuver herself so that she landed (somewhat) on her feet, and then fell to the ground. Standing up and brushing herself off she called to Nata; "Hey what was THAT for?" Renata ported next to Sabrina and shook her head. "I was trying to force you to improvise in an unexpected situation so that you wouldn't either get hurt or maneuver yourself in another position ready to keep going. So lets try again ok?" Renata then looked at Pyro and nodded to him. Then, she ported away. "Ok whatever...I doubt that my opponent will be able to do that though," she said as she smiled at Nata. Renata's tail suddenly sung out at Sabrina from the tree she was in, grabbed her foot and flipped her over. Just then Pyro sent a running horse in her direction. Sabrina rolled over to avoid the fire horse's hooves and jumped to her feet. Pyro then turned the horse around and sent it running to Brina once again. In a split second it morphed into a swordsman who whipped out his sword and began waving it at Brina. Sabrina grinned and whipped out her sword. Both fire-swordsmen/women and Brina began a fight that only lasted a few minutes, since Pyro was afraid of melting her sword.
"Sorry that didn't take long Brina. But it's hard to make fire burn as little as possible you know? Man! Am I beat," he finished as he flopped back onto the grass. "Controlling fire like that takes a lot out of you, you know. I don't think I've ever done that before." "Yeah, but you did great man," congratulated Renata. "Well Brina, I think I still have a bit more left in me. Shall we?" "Sure," she replied and conjured a bucket of water and poised it over Pyro's head. He looked ready to yell at her so she explained quickly, "Its just so you could cool down sheesh. And I made it voice activated...just tell it to drop and it will," she said and followed NC to the middle of the clearing. Pyro then started cooling himself off with the water little by little and eventually drank from it and offered Rion some as well. Renata however walked to the middle of the clearing with Brina. "Ok Brina, I just want you to start swinging this stick here and see if you can hit me. I'll just port to no end. If you can hit me then you're reflexes are pretty good. So wanna try?" "Sure..." she said taking the stick. "But I don't wanna hurt you NC." "Don't worry Brina. I'll probably port away before you can smack me good. But I'll definitely notice it. So here goes." Renata began porting around her in random places. WOW! Sabrina thought. She's fast! But there's NO way I'm gonna give up... With that she started to swing at NC whenever she saw her. After about an hour (or more) it seemed, Renata felt a tap on her side as she ported. Meanwhile, Pyro and Rion fell asleep with the bucket at their side. "Ok Brina, it looks like you got me. And I'm tired! I've never ported that fast or that many times before. Man, and Pyro looks wiped," she said as she glanced at him. "Well, I guess it served us both good training for our powers since we never needed them this much, or even had much control like this before. But I think I'm done." She glanced at her watch. "Oh, right, its our time, not theirs...." "Oh I have a trick for that..." said Sabrina mysteriously. She picked up a twig and muttered a few words. The twig turned toward where, if there were a clock, it would be pointing to 5:00 "Wow really? We better get back...Let's wake up Pyro and Rion first...hahaha I have an idea. Watch this," Renata said as she tried to suppress her laughter. She walked over to Pyro and leaned close to him and whispered, "Wake up sexy." Pyro stirred and mumbled, "Hey beautiful...wanna go out sometime.....pizza........" Renata and Sabrina started laughing as if there were no tomorrow. Renata's knees gave out from the laughter and she fell on the floor laughing. "Yeah sweetums and a movie too..." Sabrina added trying to copy Nata's voice. Renata started laughing even harder but managed to whisper, "Come on babycakes, wake up...." But she continued laughing so hard her abs hurt and her eyes started to tear. Pyro mumbled something again, which sounded like: "ok love...movie? ...Pirates of...." then he suddenly sat up awake at Renata and Sabrina's roar of laughter. "What?! Oh my lord you scared me you two! ...What's going on?" he asked confused. Renata managed to stop laughing enough to imitate him, "Hey beautiful, how about some pizza? And the movie? Sure love..." But she collapsed in peals of laughter once again. "Oh yeah." said Sabrina holding up a rock, "and I got it all on tape..." Pyro screamed, "You DID WHAT?! OMG!!! You didn't..." but upon Renata nodding Pyro then said, "OMG! You little NIGHTCREEPER! You DIDN'T! Oh no....." Pyro moaned, "Ok fine, you got me. But please don't tell anyone?" "Don't worry about it man, I wouldn't tell a soul. Not even Rion here. Who miraculously, slept though this entire thing." "Well...I'M not promising ANYTHING..." said Sabrina as she put the rock in her bag. "Come on...wake up sleeping beauty..." said Sabrina as she nudged Rion with her toe. Yawning, Rion stood up and asked with a smirk "So.can I take that as a compliment?" "No," said Sabrina over her shoulder as she sheathed her sword. "Ok NC...can you port us back?" Renata nodded, "Yeah, only as far as the edge again. Member the villagers...wait, there's three of us...Pyro, can you wait here for me?" "Why? Why can't you just port the three of us together? It'd be easier," he commented. "Because, I've never done more than 2 people before and I don't wanna risk trying more than that. So wait here." Renata first ported Sabrina and Rion to town then came back for Pyro. After Nata and Pyro ported the group walked tiredly to the inn. There they met the rest of their group.