The Beach / Friday Afternoon

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It's been a while since she's seen the beach, she chose the area she frequently used for practice and settled there. After the prerequisite stretching Azula placed her hands behind her back, almost at parade rest and watched the ocean.

It wasn't bothering her as it used to Azula considered this a victory. Perhaps she should test herself later on.

(For Dinah! Open beach is open!)

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She took out the waterballoons, "The goal is to keep the balloons from hitting you."

Then without any word of warning Azula launched the first balloon.

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Dinah took a step back, and called water to her, in a shimmery arc. The first one she had to just duck, but she was ready for the next, with a whip of water poised to take it out.

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Azula increased the speed, throwing one after another, aiming for the shoulder, for the chest, for the knees and her head.

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Dinah got the first one with one whip, twisted it and zapped another, then started doing everything she could think of-- knocking them into each other, grabbing two at once to smash into the ground, sending a wall of sand up to block them, dodging the ones that got through all the time. So far, no hits! Woo!

Although she was getting tired....

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Good. Dinah was doing well.

"Let's speed things up a little more," Azula said and let loose a barrage of balloon attacks. "Try moving as well, see if you can bend while moving."

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Hoooo boy. Okay. Stepping it up. Think!

Sand bursting upward first, and Dinah dodged down to the water to give her more material to work with, her back to the surf as she raised her arms to summon one whip, then a second, sending them spirally forward at the next wall of paint balloons. Dodge. Duck!

Rush to the right, focus focus slam the balloons into each other, miss one and get hit on the arm, red paint coating her clothes. Ahhh, splatter. How she didn't miss you.

Dinah didn't stop though, but hit the ground, and sliced at the send to send it before her again, still working on staying un-hit any longer.

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"Faster," Azula barked. "Use those legs of yours, Dinah! Use the earth!"

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Run run run and slam TK into the ground hard enough to send just a column up as fast as she could, cannoning into the air to take out another barrage. Dive-roll forward, and cut at the ground to send something closer to an earthquake across it, rolling forward to completely obliterate and burst several balloons at once. "Woo!"

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"You're Earthbending's a little shaky," Azula noted. "You have to be more firm. Water and Earth are opposites too, Water is about softness while Earth is about being strong and firm."