Daughter of the Sea (lord_admiral) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2018-04-01 13:17:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, jaina proudmoore, li-ming |
Who: Jaina and Li
What: Peeps and Magic
When: 4/1
Where: Somewhere
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13
This was just not her day.
Jaina had no particularly occasion to celebrate, but she hadn’t been expecting anything. Certainly not the peeps running rampant. She heard one scream as someone stepped on it and winced. That was just… great.
“I hate peeps.”
She went around a corner and saw what looked like an easter egg. Before her eyes, it hatched. Into a bunny. Jaina threw up her hands. “Oh, of course! RABBITS ARE MAMMALS THEY DON’T LAY EGGS!”
Naturally, Orange County didn’t care.
And to make matters worse the newborn rabbit was a full adult and looking at her with red eyes and … razor sharp teeth. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Jaina lifted her hands, freezing the vorpal bunny to the pavement.
Easter was not a holiday that Li celebrated, it wasn’t part of her religion. Though these days, she wasn’t so certain she followed Buddhism much either. There had been various religions in her dream universe, and she’d followed one, but that hadn’t quite crossed over to this life.
However, she was a bit unnerved by the peeps and did her best to avoid them at all costs. She’d heard one scream and that was just highly unnerving. She came around a corner to see a bunny get...frozen to the pavement? She blinked and looked at the other woman curiously.
“Do you have magic?” She asked curiously, obviously not concerned by that in the least. In fact, she looked intrigued. Despite the peep invasion, Li wasn’t wearing armor from her dreams, she was dressed in a shirt and pants. Her hair was in a high-set ponytail and it almost seemed to defy gravity a little bit.
Jaina lifted her eyes to Li, knowing it was impossible to hide this. So she nodded her head. “Yes, just a simple frost trap. I didn’t want to hurt it, even if it seems to be … bloodthirsty.”
The rabbit hissed, and managed to break free. This time Jaina’s hands glowed a different shade of blue and the rabbit turned into a sheep. Harmless, and not blood thirsty.
“If it does that again I’m cooking it.”
Li tilted her head a bit as she saw the rabbit turn into a sheep. That was certainly interesting, and reminded Li of one of her friends’ spells that turned things into chickens. It was certainly something.
“At least it would make a decent meal if it needs to be cooked. Though it is good to meet another who can wield magic.” Li didn’t have any active spells currently, there seemed to be little need for her to have her armor spells active currently.
“You’re a magic-user?” Jaina turned to her, unable to keep the excitement out of her voice. She knew there had to be others, but she hadn’t actually met anyone yet. She wondered - hoped - Li might know her dream world.
“Yes. I’m a Wizard.” Li held her hand up and electricity, similar to lightning crackled between her fingers and palm. “I broke the rules of magic, shall we say, to learn the spells I know.” Magic wasn’t taught to be used the way Li used it. It was one of the things that made the Wizard an unstable anomaly because of how she drew her power. She was raw power, but as most magic-users were, she was a glass canon.
“The rules where I’m from are both complex and simple. The spells themselves are complex in how they work. Where it’s simple is that you don’t resort to fel magic or necromancy.” Jaina drew her hand into a fist. “I specialize in Frost and some arcane, but I can do fire, too. I’ve been studying time magic, as well. It’s all related.”
“Interesting,” she said as she moved closer to the woman to better talk with her. “There are different schools of magic, I suppose you would say, where I am from. They come from the different tribes that practice magic. There are sorcerers, sorceresses, witch doctors, necromancers, and such things. My teacher was a sorceress, but I was not satisfied with the magic I was being taught. And she somewhat encouraged me to find fulfillment. I came upon tomes of magic tucked away in the library at the Ishari Sanctum where I grew up, and knew that all of my teachers were merely afraid of what magic really was. I can wield fire and ice, but I can also master illusions and protective spells. I can also teleport, though only over short distances.” Which was a disappointment, really.
Jaina could get the whole needing to learn more. “I’ve read a lot of tomes too. It’s..pretty much what I do in my spare time, at least in my own dreams. Read and learn and study.”
Then she caught what Li had said, “You can teleport? Damn it, I know the spells but the power hasn’t.. Happened yet!”
She was so, so jealous.
Li smiled. “I liked studying magic. Though I prefer putting it into action.” Though she could sit for hours and read tomes and delve deeper into magic. But she enjoyed putting the things into practice.
“I’m sorry, though I can only teleport a few meters away. I can’t teleport across the world or something. Which kind of defeats the purpose of teleporting to begin with.”
“Teleportation on Azeroth can go much father. I can teleport from Dalaran to Stormwind, for example, which is roughly like the distance from Zimbabwe to Spain. And I can portal multiple people. Theoretically a small attack force if necessary.” Jaina wasn’t bragging, just explaining.
The sound of more peeps drew her attention down the street, where the multicolored pests were hopping towards them with determination and little squeaking sounds.
“Well, now I’m jealous. My teleportation is only good for if I’m being mobbed by demons and need to get out of the middle of the fray.” Li responded. She wondered if she could learn how to teleport farther. It would probably be dangerous considering how her magic worked, but she never was one to shy away from danger.
“Perhaps you need practice? I actually wonder if we’d be able to learn each others’ spells.” It sounded like an exciting project for them, at least, and Jaina was nothing if not into projects.
She glanced at the peeps. “... Really?”
“I don’t know, I could never go very far in my dreams. Maybe it’s just the spell itself.” Li mused with a little shrug. She then glanced at the peeps and frowned a bit.
“Those honestly remind me of a spell an enchantress in my dreams knew. Though I’m not really wanting to kill these ones because they scream.”
“Casting a blizzard spell would probably be painful to listen to,” Jaina agreed. She looked at Li and chewed her lip, “Think you can teleport us away?”
Li looked over at Jaina. “Uh, I’ve never teleported anyone other than myself, so I couldn’t tell you. But I have a better idea.” With a wave of her arm, Li was enveloped by a blue-ish-white aura, and two mirror images of herself popped out of her and started running around, distracting the peeps. “Go!” She guestered in the opposite direction and ran, leaving her mirror images to distract the peeps long enough so they could get out of sight of them.
“That has to be fun at parties,” Jaina said, running after Li. She was certain there was a spell like that in her book but she didn’t know it yet. Now, she had to figure it out.
Li dashed around a corner and down the block a ways until she felt they were safe for the time being. Coming to a stop, she took a few deep breaths. “It could be,” she said as the glow faded from around her, suggesting the spell had expired. “Haven’t actually tried that at a party.”
“Very neat trick.” Jaina ran her hand through her hair. “Want to get a drink and compare magic?”
“Sure, I’d like that.” Li said with a smile. “My name is Li-Ming, though you can call me Li.” She offered her hand in greeting.
“Jaina,” Jaina replied. She almost never mentioned her last name unless she absolutely had to. “I’ll buy the first round.”