Battle of the Mages
Three Years Later
Kairi's a Mage. We found that out the second day after we met. When we took her to see the Secret Place, Sora tripped on a rock. Another rock lying around cut his forearm straight across. Needless to say, Sora cried, but as soon as Kairi touched his arm, the cut disappeared, and he was fine.
"Tai, come on! Hurry up!"
"Don't rush me!"
"Hurry up and climb the tree!"
Tai and Kylie are Mages as well. They told us, but we had already figured by the energy that bound us as Mages. Three years ago, they weren't allowed to buy a house, mostly because they were too young to live by themselves, so they were forced to live at the orphanage. Lots of children searching adults had their eyes on Tai, but on the other hand, nobody would take Kylie because she was a teenager. Tai refused every one of them, as her successful attempts to stay with her mother like friend.
"What did I say about rushing me!"
"Just get up the tree, you can complain later."
Tai...The youngest of us all. When we first met, she was even paler than I was. But living here for three years, her skin had darkened to a nice tan color. She didn't like the heat at first; complained every time we begged her to come outside and play. Now the sun to her is just about as part of her as the ocean is.
"Okay, finally."
"What do we do now?"
"What else? Throw coconuts at random people who pass by! Duh."
Kylie had gotten more beautiful in these last three years. She just graduated out of High School, and was now her own woman. She now owns her own house, and Tai lives with her comfortably.
"That's why you rushed me? How many times do I have to tell you not to rush me!"
"I'll rush you if I wanna rush you! Now here come Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie. We'll throw coconuts at them and hope they don't die."
"Hey! Don't take my kills. Hit the annoying little sunspot down there, I don't like her."
Little battle monkeys, those two are. Every chance they got, they fought others or each other. Being Mages, they had nearly limitless strengths, but they always went easy on those who weren't lucky enough to be Mages like them.
"Heck yes, your majesty!"
"I don't appreciate that."
"Too bad, so sad. Anyways, when Sora, Riku, and Kairi come by, I'm throwing coconuts at them whether you like it or not."
"...Hit Riku or Kairi and you die."
"Oh, fine, I'll just hit Sora, then."
Coconuts let fly, many at a time. Kylie threw three, one after another, aiming all at the brown haired girl in the yellow sundress. Tai launched only one, high in the sky, not exactly aiming for anyone. Kylie grinned, took this as a challenge, pointing her fingers like a gun at the high flying coconut Tai had thrown, and shot a bullet of plasmic energy straight at the shell. It hit, breaking it totally and completely in half, just as three coconuts fell atop Selphie's head, one after the other. Clok, clok, clok. Kylie slid down the tree, Tai following close behind her. Right under the two shells that fell from the sky, Kylie threw both her hands, up, pointer fingers both at the sky, and felt the two shells touch and spin on the tips like basketballs, while she spun, catching every last drop of coconut milk in the two half shells.
"Here you go, Tai," she said, handing one shell to the brown little girl. Tai took it gratefully and quietly, and held it to her lips to take a sip.
"Showing off again, you guys?" a blonde Tidus asked haughtily, though he laughed proudly. Wakka grinned, too, quite impressed with the black haired beauty's show of talent.
"Perhaps," Kylie said with a flip of her hair and a raise of her eyebrows. She took a sip of her own coconut milk and walked left, then stopped. "Oh, Selphie's dead," Tai was forced to spit out her coconut milk on the ground, staring wide eyed at the unconscious yellow thing now lying on the ground. Three coconuts did this; three coconuts that Kylie threw had done this. And Tai just giggled.
"What the crap!"
Both Tidus and Wakka threw themselves down by Selphie, checking a pulse and checking for breath...She was alive, of course, possible brain damage, but alive.
"Troubles in paradise again?" wondered Kairi's voice from halfway across the beach. She stood with her hands on her hips, next to Sora, who stood next to Riku. Kylie only managed to see a flash of long brown hair before Tai was suddenly standing in front of Riku, with her coconut bowl of coconut milk held out as an offering to him.
"What's this?" Riku asked Tai.
"Just a little trouble," Kylie answered Kairi
"It's for you," Tai told Riku.
"What happened?" Kairi questioned Kylie.
"Why?" - Riku
"Selphie got hit with three coconuts in a row...again." - Kylie
"I don't like coconut milk" - Tai
"Purposely, or on 'accident' like last time?" - Kairi
"I thought you did." - Riku
"Tai, that's a lie." - Kylie
Everything was silent, and no one knew quite why. All eyes were turned to Tai, all except for one pair that stared up for a sky for just a moment, before returning their bright green gaze to the little girl in front of the silver haired boy.
They say when everybody suddenly falls silent, an angel is flying overhead.
Tai melted into the sand, a form of water that easily disappeared into the sand to hide from the stare of people. Kylie scratched her head as the last bits of puddle went away and the sand returned to its normal, dry white color. She did that often, when she wanted to be somewhere else and she wanted a quick way out. She was a Water Mage after all.
"Where do you think she's at?" Kairi asked aloud. By now she was kneeling beside Selphie, her hand on the girl's head, and focusing energy into her brain to heal any of the damage sustained from the coconuts.
"No clue, she hid her energy," Kylie answered with a shrug.
"She looked pretty mad," Riku allowed.
"Yeah, she was completely red!" Sora practically shouted. Kylie laughed.
"Red!"
"Yeah!"
"She must've been hot!"
"Hey, look out!" Riku warned, stretching one hand forward without any ability to move to save the black haired beauty's life. Kylie turned her head, seeing the other half of the coconut she didn't have flying straight at her. With a smirk, she spun, catching it like a frisbie, and twirled it on her finger, again like a basketball, and there was milk still in it.
"Can't waste the milk."
Tai's foot flew at Kylie next and Kylie threw the coconut half into the air. Sora, Taking Kylie's words seriously, stood under the bowl, rocking back and forth to try to catch the thing. Kylie caught Tai's foot, then the other that flung at her while she let the first one go, and a series of kicks flew at her in the same way until Kylie threw the girl down in the sand. Tai fell flat on her back with the wind knocked out of her. Kylie took a step back, waiting for the girl to get up before continuing. Sora caught the coconut shell in his hands, but he caught the milk with his face.
Tai giggled while she stood up, and stood in her own attack stance, her arms bent in front of her, her back arched, and her knees bent. Kylie stood straight up, anticipating Tai's moves before they happened. Tai wasn't mad; she just needed to cool off.
"So Tai," Kylie started, dodging a full shoulder ram from Tai. "Do you like him?" she asked. Tai snorted, throwing a kick at the young adult woman. Kylie caught her leg, spinning and throwing her on the ground again. When Tai came back, she held a staff in her hand, pushing it with her right hand for Kylie's side, but was stopped by a short sword quite easily.
"No one said that," she answered, spinning the long black staff in her hands. Red and orange flames spun in Kylie's right hand, creating another short sword she could use.
"But I bet you do!" Kylie chimed. "Tell me, please?" Tai ignored her and kept spinning her staff round in circles while Kylie threw both swords at her before flicking a burst of flame. Tai fell on her butt, shoving her hand forward. A snake of water jetted toward Kylie, wrapping around her and lifting her in to the air, while Kylie forced her fire magic on the girl still. Tai coughed, rolling out of the way of the fire, but she let her own magic break And Kylie fell downwards, her short swords in her hands again and pointed at Tai.
When they fought each other, they usually went all out.
Covered in fire and spinning rapidly down, Kylie drilled a hole in the air that only led to Tai, who tried to back away from the fiery dive. But, since she didn't move fast enough, a dome appeared around her, her own dome, made of water that would easily stop the fire if she was stronger, but she wasn't. The dome broke, and the fire succeeded, but didn't hit the target.
Water was supposed to have an advantage over fire, but fire always won.
Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie were far enough away to watch and not be harmed. They usually took joy in watching the two girls fight, the flashy mix of fire and water didn't scare them anymore after three years of the same thing.
Tai was gone again when everything cleared. The sand was melted, soon to turn to glass, but everybody just stood in one place, wondering where the little Water Mage went off to.
"Aww, and I got nothing from her," Kylie complained. She scratched the back of her head and turned away, stopping to face Sora, Riku, and Kairi, who were all still there. "So guys, how are you doing on the raft?" she asked in the most suspicious manner she could. The three looked at each other with confused expressions.
"Nobody was supposed to know about the raft!" Sora blurted before two hands, Riku's and Kairi's, slapped over his mouth.
"How do you know we're building a raft?" Riku demanded, hand still on Sora's mouth. Kylie smiled, shifting her weight on her feet, and crunching some of the glass beneath her shoes.
"I, uh...kinda sorta followed you guys and...I've kinda sorta been helping build it at night...And in exchange for my service, I wanna go with you!" she decided, holding herself tall and strong. Sora's eyes fluttered, as Kairi and Riku looked at each other.
"That's all?" she whispered to him.
"Apparently," he whispered to her.
"Do we have enough room?" she whispered back.
"If it's big enough..."
"Is there a problem?" Kylie wondered. Riku and Kairi shook there heads. "And...we'd have to take Tai, too, I'm not leaving her here alone."
"There's not enough room!" Sora suddenly gasped. Kylie, fell back a little, eyes wide, and surprised by the sudden impulsive boy.
"Then we'll make it bigger."
"Oh."
Finally everything was settled.