_tsunami_ (_tsunami_) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2009-05-29 21:19:00

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antaeus, inactive - photon, team - x-men, tsunami

Practice Makes Perfect (Open)
Cait was practicing with her powers out on the lake. She stood on the surface of the lake and moved water all around her. Columns shot up into the air to crash back down, whips shot out and struck targets on the shore, tall waves rose from the surface only to disappear as quickly as they formed and small spheres rose from the surface before turning into ice daggers and went flying at the targets on the shore.

In her book there was no such thing as too much practice.

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	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 03:37 am UTC (link)
	She gave a little wave. "Hey." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Cait surfed over to the shore where the girl was standing. "Hey there." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 03:56 am UTC (link)
	Crap. Did she know aqua-girl's name? She was bad with that. Made worse by the fact that she really hadn't bothered to get to know anyone. "Um... pretty impressive stuff there," she tried. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 03:59 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks. I like to practice as much as possible." She couldn't remember this girl's name. "I'm Cait." And hopefully this girl will say her name. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 04:15 am UTC (link)
	One more person here who actually liked using their powers. Pretty much par for the course around here. No one else whose life had been turned as upside down as hers. "Jessica," she volunteered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 04:18 am UTC (link)
	"Nice to meet you," Cait said. "I usually don't have an audience except for my bratty brother." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 04:35 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, well... you should be proud. Looks like you got one of the good powers." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 04:39 am UTC (link)
	"Not really. It's useless if there's not any water nearby. What can you do?" Cait stepped ashore. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 04:58 am UTC (link)
	"I've ah, I've got light powers," Jessica said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 05:00 am UTC (link)
	Cait got an interested look on her face. "Interesting. What specifically can you do with them?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 05:18 am UTC (link)
	"Um... almost everything," she said, after a moment. "Lasers, holograms, flashlight stuff..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 05:24 am UTC (link)
	"Okay, see, that is totally cool." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 05:38 am UTC (link)
	"I guess," she said. "I don't really use them much." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 05:40 am UTC (link)
	"It's still cool." An idea struck her. "I bet between the two of us we could make the most killer rainbows ever." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 05:51 am UTC (link)
	Jessica managed a smallish smile. "Yeah, I guess we could." She brought up a hand and sent off a streamer of colored light. It was a moment before she realized her hand was still prismatic, glowing and shifting with rainbow colored light. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 06:17 am UTC (link)
	"See? You don't even need me. You can do it on your own. I still need a light source to be able to do it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 06:35 am UTC (link)
	A look of concentration quickly flashed over Jessica's face as she willed her hand back to flesh-looking. "Guess that's me," she said. "A walking flashlight." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 06:38 am UTC (link)
	"Come on. Don't be so hard and down on yourself. I think you have pretty cool powers." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-05-31 06:49 am UTC (link)
	Jessica couldn't blame her, really. She didn't know. She looked away. "My powers cost me everything." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-05-31 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	"What happened?" Cait knew she had been one of the lucky ones. She grew up in a family of mutants and her powers really didn't have a negative impact on her life. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-06-01 12:58 am UTC (link)
	She frowned. "I'm... I'm not really real, okay. Not flesh and blood anymore. Just light." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-06-01 01:20 am UTC (link)
	"That, like everything else, can be good or bad. It's what you make of it. You still have friends and people here that care about you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-06-01 01:35 am UTC (link)
	"...Maybe." She frowned again. "My own parents think I'm just some kind of ghost. They think their daughter's dead." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	_tsunami_ 2009-06-01 01:38 am UTC (link)
	"Then that's them being stupid," she said before she realized what she said. "Sorry. I just think they are." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glowstick_girl 2009-06-01 01:57 am UTC (link)
	She'd probably be crying if it wasn't for the fact that she didn't have tear ducts any more. She looked away instead. "I just... I just think... why me? What did I do to deserve this?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)