protection mode >> Personal ProtMods >> Combined >> Storm, Circe

Enemies: 10 (various)

Extras: enemy target specified >> Circe
repeat mode: no repeat

... was what the screen read after Aurora had modified the settings.

"Erm... you there?... what was it again... Aurora? There're some guys
appearing outta nowhere having some 'gonna kill ya' look on their ugly
faces. Should I panic?"
the hesitant voice of Tempest sounded from the inner area.

"No" Circe re-entered and lifted herself gracefully in the air - a fire
corona around the slender body.
"They will attack me only"

As to a silent signal, the artificial opponents turned to the ebony-haired
girl and began to attack from various sides.
Some were able to fly, some shot with bows, guns or energy rays.

"First: the birds" she announced and whispering some words, a fiery figure
left her hands, growing as it speeded towards the flying enemies. Nearly
tenderly, it touched one after one lightly and shortly before they burned to
ashesin a sudden combustion, Kane could recognize the form befoe it just
disappeared. It was a phoenix.

With a sideglance, Aurora saw his confused expression.
"It's not real. Well, the fire is but the shape is nothing but a spleen of
me. I find it much easier to control my flames in combat when they mean
something to me like the phoenix. At least if I have to guide the fire's
movements and direction as against opponents which tend to fast changes of
their position."

She landed and decided quickly for the next aim while a fiery shield around
her kept every shot attack away.

"Now the armed one" Again, she whispered some words while squatting down
shortly. Another figure jumped from her hands which turned out to be a
gepard. It was the same as with the phoenix but this time, Garnet had no
time for comments.

The martial arts party of those holograms had decided on attacking just now
and kept her busy with defence, conter attacks and ducking away from hits
and kicks while moving her creature made of flames the way she wanted it to
go.

Watching, Tempest finally realized the long slit in her dress nearly
exposing her legs fully was not the latest fashion but necessary to be able
to fight properly.

After some minutes, he began to grin. She might have been perfect regarding
her mutant powers but martial arts was a totally different topic.
Trying to do everything at once since she had 5 opponents around her
attacking, Circe had to take much more than she gave out.

"Oh heavens, I just can't do that" she suddenly shouted in a frustrated tone
and closed just for the split of a second her eyes taking a deep breath.

"Watch ou...." Tempest began seeing all those holograms attacking at
once.... and forgot to add the "t".

Circe's body began to burn or at least it seemed so as an aura of fire
roared around her.
Like a small supernova, it let everything nearby just evaporate without
hurting her even a little.

Breathing heavily, she sat down, flashing a half-smile at the white-haired
young man.

"As you see, I do have my weaknesses as well. The martial arts are something
I most certainly need to train harder... not today though. What do you think
about training together? I could let something burn and you could try to
summon rain or similar...?"

Not saying anything, Kane nodded and desperated feeling something
towards here. Not love... but he wanted to be friends with her.

*Damn!* he thought following her proposal...

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After some hours of exhausting training, Circe looked doubfully at Kane.
"You seem to be tired"

Tempest tried a smile and sat down.
"Yeah.. after all, it's the first time I used my powers in a controled way." He breathed heavily wiping some sweatdrops away from his forehead.

"Well then, I propose we stop here. If you have the feeling you could need some training sessions with me, just ask"

Brushing the dust from her dress, Aurora landed on the ground again and the fiery aura disappeared.
With some habitual gesture, she pushed her hair back and went to the control room.

"I will cancel the program. Have a nice day!"

Training Program finished
the electronic voice said shortly after.

"Bye" Tempest shouted and Circe was gone.

Slowly, the white-haired mutant got up and approached the exit.
*That went much better than I thought.... gonna need some outdoor training but seems it won't take that long....*

THREAD CLOSED

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Life can be like a stone thrown in the sea. It creates waves, maybe changing something, maybe not, but no matter what it causes, every single wave will disappear into nowhere... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Edited by: 0x Tempest x0 at: 5/26/03 10:37:14 pm