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Ray waited patiently in the Great Maw for her student to appear. A glance at her watch told him he was already a few minutes late, but that was alright. She'd sort of sprung this session on him, anyway, so he probably knew what was to come.

Well... he'd know part of it, anyway. She had a couple of tricks up her sleeve for this particular little test, and she couldn't wait to see how he handled them.

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The Darkside growled in pain and the ground shook as its fist struck, billowing out Darkness and Shadows. Ray chugged down an Ether as she passively watched the fight. Fire was fizzling out again - no surprise there. They really were gonna have to spend an extra week or two on that one if he were to get it working well enough. Blizzard was good, though, as expected.

The Shadows swarmed around him, staying just under the surface until they could get behind him. If he'd paid enough attention to the physical training she'd made him do, though, that wouldn't be an issue.

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Geeze, this was fun. Eli had lost his footing for a second as the ground shook, but he gained it back as he noticed the darkness pooling under him. Uh oh. Dancing back a bit and hoping he wouldn't be stepped on while his attention was divided, he raised his sword, waiting for one of the creepers to pounce.

It didn't take long. At least three sprang out of the ground at the same time, or close to it; Eli was too busy swinging and dodging to actually compare. He got the first two fairly easily, but the third surprised him and actually managed to get onto his back, latching scrabbling hands around his neck. Okay, time to panic. Without thinking about it, his fire spell flared to life and he twisted his head around as he brought up his hand, not wanting to set his hair on fire. The flames engulfed the Shadow, killing it.

"Ha! Who's next?"

He glanced around at the others, then groaned. Stupid question.

sorry for late!tag ._.

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Ray chuckled. He wasn't doing too badly, for his first time against a Darkside. But those Shadows were easy to kill, and there he was, crowing about it, when there were still plenty more aiming to rip out his Heart.

Well, okay, maybe they weren't trying to do that. But he didn't need to know.

"Concentrate, grasshopper," she called out to him. "Remember, these guys are trying to take your Heart; you can't just stand around and brag about killing one or two of them! Stay on the ball here!"

Right on cue, one of the Shadows rose out of the ground behind him and lunged, right as Ray was preparing another little bit of magic. Her eyes locked onto Eli, waiting to see which spell he would cast next. If everything went according to plan, and she didn't lose control over the Dark spell, he'd be getting another curve ball thrown at him, to make this the hardest test he'd ever faced.

She was going to try to steal his magic.

S'okay. ^^

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"I know, I know!" Eli shouted back, face burning. Geeze, when his dad heard about this...When Larkin heard about it. He was about to pull an Ether from his arm guard when the hair on the back of his neck stood up. Instead, he raised a hand and Thunder shot down, wiping out the Shadow in mid-lunge, along with the others rising out of the Darkness.

He allowed himself the tiniest smile before downing the Ether and turning most of his attention back to the Darkside. Oh boy. He still wasn't sure how to deal with this.

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

Excellent, he'd seen that one coming. He really was doing well. Still, it sucked that she'd missed that Thunder. Maybe next time.

The Darkside, however, was still looming over them menacingly. And now that all the Shadows were gone, it wanted to get in some damage of its own. How? By brute force, of course, as it swept one large hand at Eli to knock him off of his feet.

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Eli managed to get out of the way of the Darkside's hand, but just barely; he still went sprawling, losing his sword as he came to his knees. Okay, so he could do this. On his own, sure, but hadn't Sora dealt with one of these things when he had no idea what he was doing? He was still breathing.

Eli briefly considered grabbing his sword and swinging at one of it's legs, then tossed the idea aside in favor of some more magic. He could try Fire again, it might actually work this time. Cupping his hands in front of him, he rose to his feet, smirking as the flame came to life in his palms. He shaped it into a ball, preparing to throw it at the Heartless.

Let's see how it liked this.