A General's Chicken. (Open)

[Red Wizard]

Sterling's brow furrowed for a moment before he remembered something. Healing magic. He had this. He didn't need to recover naturally from the bump on the head. He thought for a moment, and since Wakka seemed to be confusing Kaie, he motioned for them to stop. Or tried to. They kept going, until Wakka asked him what else he could do.

"I know a few other spells. Nothing much I can cast reliably yet, but if you tow step back about five feet, I'ma cast a healing spell to take care of the bump on my head. If it backfires....everyone in a five foot radius will get REALLY hyper."

And he meant hyper. Like a ferret hopped up on meth hyper. Healing magic when you weren't hurt had to have some effect, and usually it led to a sense of euphoria and a rush of energy. It was a weird feeling, Sterling having accidentally healed himself once when trying to heal a kid's broken arm. He had healed the kid too, but he had ended up on a sugar rush sort of trip, eating every bit of candy he could get a hold of and then claiming to be the great Cornholio on top of someone's couch.

When they backed off, he would hold out one hand and chant his healing Mantra. Or rather intone the one word.

"Lefna."

A green, swirling ball of energy appeared in his hand, which he then pressed to his chest. It vanished, and there was a small shock wave around him, but hopefully they had stepped back far enough to not be affected. He felt the knot in his head relieve itself, the swelling going down and everything going back to normal. God, getting hurt in reverse felt weird.

"Whelp, my head feels a lot better now. I hope I didn't catch you guys in that."

[Kenni]

Before Captain Wakka got the chance to open his mouth again and potentially confuse Ms. Leary any further, he had the wherewithal to take Sterling's heads-up seriously.

Unfortunately, his depth perception and general sense of measurement was more accurate under Speedy-strain than in such a casual setting such as their's.

His 5ft.-backpedal ended up short a good 5 centimetres (did I mention he crosses his units?).

"WAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!"

Within the next 60 seconds, the Blitzball Captain had BECOME a blitzball, whizzing around them in a cyclone of costume colours and whooping.

He ended up skipping around the rim of the fountain in the middle of the food court, with small children tugging their mothers' skirts and hands to 'go try the manual merry-go-round too, please, Mom?'

If Harper could process what Sterling's powers had made him do, he'd be pretty impressed.

[Gaunt]

Kaie nodded, taking a couple steps back. With the length of her stride, it was more than enough to get a safe distance away. She looked on in awe as Sterling worked his healing magic. His wounds were gone in a matter of seconds, making a cool light show in the process. Once again, Kaie found herself wishing she could do some magic. The wizards had all the cool tricks.

Her admiration was interrupted when Roy did an acrobatic pirouette off the handle. The Wakka went absolutely nuts, howling and ricocheting around the food court. Kaie tried to grab him, but she wasn't the most nimble Titan. Roy slipped right by her, going on his merry way. She wasn't really in a position to chase him, even if she did catch him the pursuit would cause a lot more property damage than he was. Kaie walked back over to Sterling, leaning down to talk to him. "I don' suppose ye have a slow spell?" She had to admit, Roy's antics were fun to watch. She didn't envy the bill he was probably racking up, but it was kind of funny.

[Red Wizard]

"Oh jeez....I..uhhh....."

He thought for a minute. He didn't know any slowing spells. He could count the spells he could cast reliably on one hand, but he had an idea. Maybe if he hit the young man with a water ball, it would shock him out of his hyperactivity and cause him to calm down? Maybe? Who even freakin' knew anymore.

"I can hit him with a water ball and see if that works. Yeah, that's what I'll do."


So he walked quickly and quietly over to the fountain The Wakka, as he had come to mentally call the boy, was running circles around. He thought for a second, knowing he was actually a good aim when it came to throwing the spells, just not good at not hitting himself too, and whispered the incantation.

"Aquna."


He waited for The Wakka to make another round, and as soon as he was facing away, he threw the water ball at him. It would soak him if it hit him, but not to any real harm except be cold as heck. After all, it was just a ball of water. It it missed, however, it would sail straight into a Stereo Palace store, and Sterling realized this just as he loosed the ball of water. He could NOT afford that kind of damages, so he really hoped it hit the mark...

[Kenni]

"Da~nce, Water-Dance!" hollered Roy, quoting (and misquoting, at that) a Kingdom Hearts villain instead of anything from the Square franchise to which his outfit belonged.

The health-nebriated cosplayer fell into an Egyptian strut along the perimetre of the fountain at the onslaught of Sterling's water-ball attack, meaning it as an evasive manouevre.
He met Kaie's eyes and wigglewigglewigglewigglewiggled to add to the ridiculous strutting, a broad grin plastered across his face, then pointed right at her.

"Ya look worried! Take a load off~. C'moooon down and dance with me."
The character's Evasion and Magic Defense were at the same level; terrible.

Despite both Wakka and Speedy's good Luck stats, Roy Harper claimed neither persona's.

His unlikely fall from greatness began with some insults at the Mage's hair-colour.

"Catch me if you can, grandpa! That's right, I'm talkin' ta you, Sterling-Silver! I'm a NINJA! I'm unSTOPpable, I'--irglegrrgleggrlggpfoooooo!"

The Aquna attack made its mark squarely in the middle of Harper's face.
Captain Wakka was a pushover defensively, after all.

Hardly a sobering effect, the magic check had him floundering in the fountain-pool within seconds, flutter-kicking his way back to the surface, expelling pool-water from his mouth in a much less graceful arc than the fountain statue's.

He figured he was just disoriented in the Blitzball 'stadium', which was underwater anyway. As he made his way back to the top of the pool at he other end, his heel struck the edge of the fountain-pool..
...which caused him enough concentrated pain to snap back to enough conscious thought to consider...
why he was still...moving.

And quickly, at that; he sa~iled into the Stereo Palace's PlayStation display behind them, headband absorbing some of the blow to the back of his head from the glass, but lacerating the un-costumed shoulder and the back of his neck.

Although he had no idea as to what had just happened, it seemed that the mixture of Sterling's magical power-shot and Roy's heightened health due to the magic, on top of his being only human, resulted in a surplus of power that carried him several metres away from his new friends.

The last thing Harper remembered before blacking out, was a horse braying into the night from his immediate left, off of a copy of Harvest Moon.

[Gaunt]

"Alright, go for it!" Kaie grinned broadly. She was a huge fan of magic, and this was going to be her third spell of the day. Meanwhile, the hyper cosplayer was dancing around the fountain, and even inviting her to join. "No thanks." Even in the best of circumstances, she didn't trust her dancing ability. Right now was even worse, she didn't want to block Sterling's shot.

Roy segued right into a taunt at Sterling, which was amazingly ill-timed. In the middle of a sentence, the water ball caught him in the face. "Alright!" Kaie pumped her fist before putting a fist down for Sterling for bump. That was a pretty sweet trick shot, it deserved some acknowledgement.

The celebration was short-lived. Roy had a lot more momentum than anticipated, and was sent reeling across the fountain and through a window. Kaie let out a shout, running to his side to check if he was alright. The floor shook with her footfalls as she rushed over to him. He was looking somewhat the worse for wear, with some cuts from the glass. She couldn't tell how bad they were. "We need a paramedic o'er here!" It was a good thing that the ambulances were already there, by the time she shouted it out they were already running over to check on the wounded cosplayer.

[Red Wizard]

Sterling literally facepalmed. This was his fault, he would fix it. He had the power to fix it, at least. While the paramedics rushed in, he motioned them to stay back. They gave him a dirty look before he actually shouted.A cop actually stepped forward and reached for his handcuffs.

"I have healing magic!"

They stepped back for a second, then one of the paramedics mentioned that healing magic was what sent The Wakka into his trance of sorts and then Sterling's magic AGAIN that sent him through the window. Suddenly, more cops were surrounding Sterling, and the detective who had talked to him earlier had a gun trained on him. They yelled at him to drop the sword that was on his hip, so naturally, unlike most of the superhero persuasion, he complied. He really didn't want to get in any MORE trouble. He unbuckled his sword belt, which was a different belt than the one that held his pants up, and dropped it to the floor, kicking it over to the cops when motioned to do so.


Then he was cuffed and hauled off while the paramedics tended to The Wakka.


He sighed. Today was pretty crappy, aside from meeting at least one new friend. If she wasn't as mad at him as the Wakka guy was likely to be.

[Kenni]

He came to, throbbing shoulder buried beneath the mostly-sharp fragments of a few destroyed displays. A DVD shelf had come down over his chest from the right; while none too heavy or damaging, the paramedic team had to rip the cardboard shelving away from his face and neck to gently pry him loose of the glass shards he'd lodged into the back of his head and..well. Back.

"Hngh..won't be riding the Lefna-whirl anytime soon again..! Completely outta Lefna-field, that last shot, eh Sterling?...Buddy?" Speedy frowned then, noticing that of his two new friends, only one of them, the giantess, and the one he wasn't directly addressing, was nearby.

For a 'civilian', this Roy Harper was taking the pain (both residual and unintentional due to removal of foreign, sharp bodies outta HIS body) rather well; the whole thing had been such a whirlwind that he could only laugh, once, barked, short, in awe at the fuzzy but still very spirited spectacle of himself he'd just made, just before the sobering blow to his Achilles.

"Hey..hey cudditout, ladies, I'm awright!" sighed the Wakka in exasperation, including a pat or two over Kaie's gargantuan hand in his imploration that the laides one and all cease their fretting.

"I'll take you all out for sushi later ta prove it; coulda sworn I saw some in the fountain during my riverdance. Or during my..power-trip. Hanh. Now, where're you takin' my friend..?"

By the time he came out of it, struggled to his feet, fell flat on his bottom and then finally crawled forward on his knees amidst the muggy feeling in his noggin, Sterling was already past the sliding doors that led into the mall.

"Awh c'mon, what happened to the 3-strikes rule? He hasn't done anymat wrong! Tell 'em, Kaie!"

Speedy winced again, this time out of sorriness for not being able to throw his Titan influence around and get Mortlock completely off the hook with some kind of 'training exercise' excuse. The paramedics were trying to shush him, get him to lie down on his stomach now, and clean him up a bit before an ambulance-trip could be considered a viable next step; if he was already speaking in coherent sentences and somewhat able to stand, he was pretty resilient, but they had to be careful.

All he could do as Roy to help Sterling now, was talk big.

Thus, talk he would, while his spotty consciousness permitted.