fandomhighdorms | Magic Reserves, The Preserve, Wednesday Afternoon

The plastic-covered snacks were once again under umbrellas today as the Magic Reserves met outside. Next to the table was a very large tub, covered with a bright blue plastic tarp from T&C's.

"Kiss kiss!" Karla greeted everyone as they assembled around the table. "Today, we're going back to different ways magic can be used to dodge or shield against attacks. Hopefully most of us will never need to know ways to avoid missiles flying at our heads and other various body parts, but as long as the island keeps getting attacked, we need to devote time and energy to keeping our skills sharp." She grinned. "Though no one said we can't have fun doing it."

"And what better time to break out a bit of fun than now?" Merlin asked, ~~blinding people with his Irish-ness~~ smiling far too much for someone only wearing a pair of swim-trunks. "Tony? Would you do the honors of starting us off?"

"Absolutely," Tony said. He flipped the tarp off the tub and called a balloon to his hand. Which he promptly threw at Merlin.

"Hey!" Merlin, so very kindly, responded the same way. Though his balloon was aimed at Karla.

Karla squealed. "I thought we'd agreed to gang up on Tony!" she protested, snagging the balloon with Craft and tossing it back at Merlin. Another flew out of the tub and raced towards Tony. "Have at!" she called to the rest of them. "Try to keep as many balloons as possible from hitting you!"

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Kennedy did dodge the first balloon, thinking if it was going to go that way, with magically thrown balloons, she had better not fall for any physical cues because those were probably a fakeout.

Which was how she ended up taking the second balloon smack in the forehead when she recovered from her dodge, and spluttered her way through hurling a two-balloon return volley.

This time, it was Karla's own hubris that got her. Someone was so busy preening about actually tagging Kennedy with a balloon that she failed to notice the return volley until it was too late.

Splash!

Both balloons connected, leaving Karla soaking wet and shrieking with laughter. "Enjoy those two!" she called, hurling a few more back.

"Oh, I am," Kennedy replied with a smirk that was actually mostly innocent for the second or two before she ended up two balloons closer to waterlogged. "Oh, hey!"

Like she was really protesting all that much. Slinging three more balloons in rapid succession, sidearm, yes. Protesting, no.

Karla was impressed with Kennedy's arm. She knew she couldn't whip balloons with anywhere near as much accuracy or strength as Kennedy had without resorting to Craft.

Not that she was going to let being impressed get in the way of dodging, mind

The first water balloon exploded in the air, halfway between them; the victim of a bolt of energy. Karla dodged the second by running up the air, away from the balloon. She grabbled the third with Craft and flung it at Kennedy from above.

Well, you know, when it was all you had to work with you did what you could, so Kennedy's aim was pretty damn good.

"Jesus," she half-complained, though it was hard to keep an impressed note out of her voice, even while diving out of the way of not-quite-death-from-above. She got splashed with some of the balloon's contents anyway, and was a little muddy now to boot. It meant she had to scramble back to her balloon-arsenal, empty-handed for the moment.

A one-sided water balloon fight wasn't anywhere near as much fun, so Karla paused in mid-air. "Momentary truce while you reload?" she called.

"As if," Kennedy said instantly. "If you were really after me, you so wouldn't offer."

Note how this question, when asked of her rather than extended, would later get a different answer.

"Come on," she said, raising a hand in a 'bring it' gesture. "Make me work for 'em."

"If you saaaaaaaaaaay so," Karla said, sending the last two in her hands straight for Kennedy's head. More balloons rose up out of the tub, also speeding towards Kennedy even as Karla raced to get her hands on a few more.

In a flat footrace, Kennedy would beat her flat. Kennedy dodging a barrage of water balloons was another question entirely...

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