Students face the Master
The girls remained rooted on the spot as their master stared them down. The winds and waters were raging around her as she smiled at them in challenge.
"Well, come on then," PH insisted as she gestured for them to attack her.
"I'm not sure about this," Elsa said nervously.
"Yeah…and this is kind of unfair for me. There's water everywhere," Anna pointed out indignantly.
PH shrugged. "The villains and criminals you'll face won't fight fair. This will test your ability to adapt and think on your feet. Besides, I'm at a handicap too. There are no plants of earth for me to control, leaving me with only the wind," PH replied.
"We really rather not master," Elsa pleaded.
PH sighed and crossed her arms over her chest. She pursed her lips in thought. "So you won't fight? Even if I order you too?" she asked cocking her head to the side.
Elsa and Anna both nodded.
"Hmmmm…maybe you'll change your mind if I attack Anna," PH said lowly. She thrust her palm forward, hitting the sisters with a blast of air that knocked them off their feet. Elsa froze the water so they could land on something. But while she hit the icy platform…
"AHHHHHHH!" Anna screamed as PH conjured a whirlwind, lifting her off the ground and into the air. She flailed her arms in a wild panic as the water got further and further away. "ELSA HELP!" she shouted.
"ANNA!" Elsa immediately raised her hands up. She summoned the winds. She threw her hands to the side, dispersing PH's wind as she summoned her own. She conjured a whirlwind that caught a falling Anna before lowering her safely and gently to the icy surface.
"Look out!" Anna shouted. Elsa whirled around and leapt to the side with a yelp as a blade of air sliced through the ice. She looked to PH as she began preparing another wind blade. Elsa narrowed her eyes, wrapping some wind around her arm and making it spin at high speeds. She made it thin like a blade and waited.
PH waved her arm, directing the blade of wind at Elsa. But she countered with her own. The two blades collided between them, exploding in a massive burst of air.
"Very good Elsa," PH complimented with a nod. "But you aren't listening. This is a fight. Meaning you're supposed to attack me," PH said with a frown.
Elsa looked at PH. She didn't want to. She respected PH greatly for all she'd done for them. She couldn't bring herself to attack her.
"I can't," Elsa said shaking her head.
"You aren't always going to get that choice. Being a hero means you do what has to be done…whether you want to or not. So attack me," PH commanded.
Elsa processed her words. She was right. There were probably going to be times where she'd rather run. But if she was serious about being a hero she couldn't do that. Not if it meant sacrificing innocent lives.
"Elsa…let it go," PH said softly. Elsa looked up to her master and saw her smiling at her. A genuine smile full of love and understanding. Elsa clenched her fists and nodded.
She turned to glance back at a slightly unsure Anna. "Let's kick her butt," she said smiling. Anna's eyes widened in uncertainty. But with a firm nod, she narrowed them. She clenched her fists as fire blazed around them.
Elsa turned to face heir master as she began summoning the storm inside of her.
PH smiled. She liked that look in Elsa's eyes. In both their eyes.
This was going to be fun.
Elsa and Anna attacked PH with a flurry of wind and fire blasts. That did absolutely nothing. PH simply remained where she was as a wall of spiraling wind defended her from any attack. She chuckled at their efforts. She waved her hand, letting out a burst of air with enough force to blow them away.
Elsa saw it coming. She made a large ice wall in front of her and Anna. She held her arms up as the air collided with the wall. It held, protecting them. She lowered the wall and glared back at PH.
"It's too easy if I only have to defend from one side. If only Anna and you could separate," PH called out casually.
Elsa was struck with an idea. She raised a foot up before she stomped down on the ice. It spread, she made it expand outward, forming a giant platform of ice.
PH nodded. Elsa was starting to think on her feet.
Anna ran from cover and blasted at PH with fireballs. PH held her hand up as she defended herself. But at the same time Elsa began throwing ice shards at her. She waved her hand, blowing the shard away before returning fire.
"Good, a two pronged attack. This makes it much harder to defend," PH said in satisfaction.
Anna came around behind her. She gathered fire into her palms and threw it at her in a large fiery blast. PH smiled. She gathered wind into her hand before she let it fly. It ripped through Anna's fire before colliding with her chest. The air was knocked out of her as PH had aimed for her solar plexus. It was only enough to incapacitate her for few short moments.
She looked back to Elsa as Anna was down. Elsa threw ice shards at her in quick succession. PH smiled. She liked Elsa's aggressive approach. She controlled the wind, using it to alter the shard's flight path and sail past her harmlessly.
"Any projectile is subject to the wind Elsa. Manipulate the air currents around it and you can control its flight," PH advised.
Elsa narrowed her eyes. She summoned the storm inside of her. Releasing it as the winds raged around her. PH looked up to see the clouds gathering, snow beginning to fall, and a blizzard beginning to whip up. She could see how powerful Elsa was. She could see how she could definitely freeze a city over.
But…
"You aren't the only one who controls the wind Elsa," PH said with a smirk. She raised her arms and waved them. The winds suddenly stopped. Elsa gaped and looked around in bewilderment. PH commanded the spirits of the air and sky to calm themselves. She willed them to disperse, clearing the sky of dark clouds and snow as the wind settled down.
"I am truly one with the wind and sky Elsa. And I have been for much longer than you," PH said proudly. The wind suddenly whipped up behind her. She glanced over her shoulder to see it block a fireball aimed at her back. Anna was back in the fight.
Anna summoned fire into her palm, she raised it up in preparation to throw it when PH suddenly pointed at it. And then with red flash the fire in her hand exploded. Anna was sent flying from the force. Unharmed by heat but rocked by the explosion's force.
"Control the wind and air around fire and you can turn it into a bomb," PH explained. She looked back to Elsa who was looking at her in surprise. "I taught you well. But I didn't teach you everything."
"HIYAH!" came shout from behind. PH looked behind her and ducked as Anna charged her and swung at her with flaming fists. She went on the evasive. Unable to make the fire explode with Anna's proximity. She ducked, weaved, and jerked out of the way as Anna lashed out at her. But PH was the much more experienced fighter. As Anna tried to back hand her with a fist, she caught her by the wrist.
She swept her legs out from under her and flipped her onto her back. Anna cried out as the air was knocked out of her.
Another shout took PH's attention as Elsa charged her. Elsa cocked back a fist before throwing it forward. PH's eyes winded as she merged her spirit with Simba. She caught Elsa' fist with a clawed hand. She looked to see Elsa's arm and entire torso covered in spiked icy armor.
"That's new," PH said curiously.
"Thank you," Elsa said with a smile. Ice soundly started creeping up PH's arm. She growled before squeezing down. Cracking and eventually shattering the icy gauntlet. PH leapt back as she ducked a swing from Elsa's other arm.
Elsa stepped over Anna protectively. Allowing her to get up. PH took a deep breath. Calling forth more of Simba's energy.
And then she roared. Both sisters were nearly pushed back by her attack. Elsa rooted herself to the ground with ice, allowing Anna to hold on as they waited for PH to finish. When she was done they looked up to her and smirked.
"Impressive. You both doing quite well," PH said.
"Thanks. Now right back at you," Elsa shouted. PH raised an eyebrow. But then she felt something within Elsa change. Her spirit started to resonate with another. And then she saw the silhouette of a wolf behind her. She watched as Elsa took a deep breath.
Then Elsa released a great shout. It sounded like a wolf's howl as it came straight at PH. She was too surprised to react and was knocked off her feet. She landed on her back before rolling to her feet and planting her fingers into the ground.
She looked up at Elsa with wide eyes. Elsa had merged her spirit with Aleau's. She definitely hadn't taught her to do that.
"Ok, I'm impressed," PH said honestly.
"Thank you master. But we're not done yet," Elsa said with a smirk. Anna gathered fire into her hands. She aimed it at the ice, melting the surface before she started vaporizing the sea water. Steam rose up, obscuring the sisters from PH's view.
"Clever girls."
The steam began to shift, it circled around her. Covering the entire platform. PH guessed Elsa was using the wind to spread it around. She was about to blow it all away when fireballs and ice shards began flying out of from the veil. PH used her cat like reflexes to dodge. But the sister were obviously getting serious. They weren't allowing her the time to blow the steam away.
A fireball suddenly shot into the sky. PH looked up to see it rising before it exploded, splitting into five more fireballs that came down at her. She raised her hands up, having the wind act as a spiraling shield to protect her.
As she locked the barrage of flames ice began creeping up her legs. She looked down right as icy spike shot upward, ensnaring her entire form. She was wide eyed as she'd just ben immobilized. The wind picked up and blew the steam away. Revealing a proud and smiling pair of sisters.
"HA! Got you!" Anna cried victoriously as she and Elsa high fived.
PH smiled despite being captured. "OK. So you two have learned a lot," she conceded. The sisters misled wider. "But never forget…never let you guard down until your opponent can no longer fight."
PH flicked her fingers, summoning wind bladed that ripped the ice encasing her apart. With a thrust of her hand she blew the sisters away. With a wave she sent Anna sliding across the ice.
"Let's see what happens when you lose your platform."
PH threw her arms out. In the next instance numerous air blades carved the icy platform apart. Leaving only small floating patches of ice. Elsa was good since she froze the water beneath her. But Anna was trying to balance of a bobbing ice ring barely big enough to hold her.
Elsa tried spreading the ice outwards toward her, but it was stopped by another blade of wind slicing in front its path.
"Defend yourself Elsa," PH warned. She started throwing little balls of air at her. They flew with the equal force of rubber bullets. Enough to bruise but not maim. Elsa covered her arms and chest in icy armor and raised her arms in front of the assault.
""Elsa hold on!" Anna shouted. She raised a hand to attack PH as a distraction, when PH waved her hand at her. She blew water straight onto Anna, dowsing her powers and leaving her soaked. She sputtered and spit out salt water. "Just a minute!" she corrected. She willed her fire to dry her off.
Meanwhile, Elsa had formed an icy wall. She took cover behind it and returned fire with ice shard and air blasts of her own. But PH kept kept blocking her attacks. Her wall was slowly being chipped away as PH kept increasing the force of her air blasts.
Suddenly they stopped. Elsa blinked in surprise before she took a peek over the wall. She saw PH standing there. Her arms crossed over her chest and smiling. Elsa raised an eyebrow just as a small sphere suddenly drifted down into her vision.
"She gasped as she made her ice wall bigger. She tucked herself into a ball as she knew what was coming. And sure enough a giant explosion of air rocked the entire icy platform. She glanced over her shoulder to see most of her wall had been destroyed from the blast. PH pointed in Elsa's direction before pointing downwards. She brought a heavy burst of air do wont top of Elsa, flattening her to the gorund.
PH spared a glance at Anna. Only to find her gone. She raised an eyebrow before she looked around. And she couldn't find her anywhere.
A red flash got her attention and she looked up and raise a hand to block a crimson fireball from above. She followed the direction it had come from and her eyes widened.
"Wow," she muttered in genuine shock and awe.
Elsa shakily rose to her feet. She looked up to PH only to see her looking at something Elsa. She followed her gaze and her jaw dropped.
"TOLD YOU!" Anna shouted as she hovered a few meters above the icy surface. Her crimson flames were keeping her in the air. She smiled as she gathered more flames into her hand and threw them at PH. She began circling her keeping up her assault as she forced PH on the defensive.
Elsa decided to join in. With a wave of her hand, she formed ice skates under feet. And then she began sliding across the ice. Forming a path as she went. Even making it slope and incline upwards, getting her off the ground. She skated at high speeds around PH as she shot at her with ice and air.
PH had to keep her hands up and keep turning to keep form receiving a shot from the now very mobile sisters. She found them to actually be quite the challenge. Her blood rushed through her and her heart thrummed in excitement.
This was fun. She hadn't had a good magical duel like this in quite some time. Usually the only one who could match her was her mermaid friend.
Everyone paused. They panted and caught their breaths. Anna came to land beside Elsa as they waited to continue their fight.
"Elsa, how are you feeling?" PH asked. Elsa blinked a little in surprise at her question. She looked to see if this was a distraction. But found no trace of trickery in her teacher's concerned eyes.
Elsa smiled. "Good. Completely under control," she said with a nod.
"And Anna?"
"I feel good. I'm excited. But not too much. I couldn't be better," Anna answered heartily.
PH nodded and gave them both a smile. She felt proud as she looked at them. They'd come along nicely. She had no doubt that they'd be fine without her.
"Good. Very good. I'm proud of you both…but I still intend to win," PH replied. "Let me show you one last trick you can do with the wind Elsa," PH sad to the platinum blonde. "You gather the wind and make it spin and whirl around at high speeds," she said as wind began gathering in her palm.
The sister watched on curious. Wondering what she was up to.
"You make it rub together, the wind friction creates static electricity. Make enough and you get…"
The cloud above them suddenly began to roll over. The sisters looked up to see the sky beginning to darken. They looked to their teacher and saw her eyes glowing white. Thunder boomed overhead and in a white flash…
"Lightning," PH said as she held a ball of electricity in the palm of her hand. The sisters gasped as they saw it crackling and arching in her hand. PH smiled as she eyed it. She looked to the sister as she raised her hand up to the sky. Lighting bolts crashed through the air. Thunder boomed.
PH suddenly brought her hand down. And the cloud split as a bolt of lightning descend from the sky and collided near the sisters' feet. They screamed and leapt back. The lighting melted a hole in the ice before more kept crashing around their feet. They jumped and yelped each time, trying to avoid getting hit.
The ice underneath them began splitting as numerous holes were opened by the crashing bolts. The sister huddled together, unsure on how to strike back. They looked to PH and saw her smiling triumphantly.
"I think that's enough," she said casually. She closed her palm, snuffing out the electric ball in her hand. With a small wave, the sky began to clear. The sisters breathed a sigh in relief.
"You two both did excellent. You showed me you could think on your feet and work together. Well done," PH congratulated them as came to sand before them.
"With that I have nothing left to teach you. You'll have to keep discovering what you can do on your own," PH said with a small smile.
The sister smiled back. Albeit they were a little sad. With their lessons over, it meant PH would soon leave.
"Now let's head back," PH commanded lightly as she started walking back to shore.
The sister obediently followed. Proud that they'd held their own against their master. But also wishing this could last a little longer.