Blue Team:
Their starting position is in a jungle of sorts. The two swung their weapons side to side, chanting energies into it, testing the grip and so on while making sure they could do the right thing.
"Hey… Marc." Mei squinted her eyes and covered her forehead to avoid direct sunlight, she looked forwards to the tall cliff far above.
There, they saw Rina Wenswood getting on top, taking her spot on the cliff, kneeling down to have an overview.
"A weird choice, don't you think?" Marc said.
"I think… If only Rina's up there, then Pearl must be down in the woods, so he's either very good with his archery skills to aim between trees. Or he's staying in an open area of sorts." Mei rubbed her chin, doubtful of Pearl's archery skill. He did practice from time to time, but not to the point of shooting through trees or developed any archery spells. "Well, Rina does have good eyes to be a look-out though, that's a reason."
"Do you think I can take her out?" Marc said, gripping the staff tight.
"To dinner? Of course, you can take me out too, but as in, like, this hostage situation? Nope. But I have a job for you, an important one." Mei kept her face straight saying that.
"I'm all ears, boss." Marc crossed his arms, chuckling.
GAME ON!
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"It's every man for himself."
Rina carefully used her high and enhanced elf's vision to scan the area. Looking for sudden movements or any distinct energies flowing around. She's not trying to hide herself or anything, openly inviting the Blue team to advance on her.
On the other hand, Marc and Mei quietly sneaked their way deep into the forest, surpassing Rina's scouting eyes as best as they could by hiding their breaths and steps. She's not at all bad with magic, and the defending team usually has more grounds to play with various plans; so they had to be extra careful. The attackers only have one objective: locate and engage. But they have no information on Pearl so it's best to conceal themselves for now.
Mei snuck her way to the base of the cliff and climbed on top of it. She could see a lot of the forest from up here, but definitely needed to get to the tip of the cliff if she wanted to get a good look.
"Elemental Spell: Phantom Presence"
Phantom Presence: Hide the user's present while also helping them to breathe and move quieter. Relying heavily on the air around the user, the clearer the better and the user's focus.
Mei quietly snuck, she could see Rina on top of the cliff, still kneeling down and watching with her back exposed.
"Elemental Spell…" She pointed the sword towards Rina, then slightly tweaked it to the right side. "Fireball."
From the tip of the sword, a flaming hot ball of fire formed and flew towards Rina's right shoulder. Mei squinted and braced herself first, no way Rina wasn't prepared for this. And she was right.
"A bit rude, yeah?" Using Mei's elemental staff, Rina turned around and easily negate the ball of fire by just clashing the thing with the staff. No sweat.
"I really should've just gone with stabbing you, huh?" Mei charged, leaning forward with the sharp sword on her right hand. She prepared to slash— placing the blade over her left shoulder for a right swing.
To her surprise, Rina dashed backwards, Mei hadn't reached her yet so that dash wasn't to dodge the sword.
To add salt onto Mei's dumbfounded expression. Rina casually stood on the literal edge of the cliff, one small step away from falling down onto the forest below.
Mei, however, didn't hesitate and kept on charging forward, her mind was more occupied about what Rina was about to do than how to get advantages for this fight.
"Elemental Spell: Breeze Torch." Rina playfully smirked.
Breeze Torch: Combining Air and Fire magic, using fire as energy and air as fuel, as well as weight support. The user covered themself with weak fire throughout and could hover/fly for a duration of the spell.
Rina did a show-off backflip off of the cliff and hovered herself. Mei immediately handbraked to stop charging, the momentum carried her forward.
The ground shrieked loudly as Mei slammed the sword down the ground to brace, slowing herself from moving forward. She stopped right at the edge of the cliff and looked back up at Rina.
Rina wasn't there.
Mei looked behind her to see Rina waving goodbye and making a non-apologetic "aww" before giving a big push on her back. Causing Mei to tumble and seemingly fall off the cliff. Down to the forest she goes.
Rina, however, didn't forget to catch Mei's big wizard hat and put it on herself.
"I've always wanted to use Fire magic at this level, your staff is just too beautiful Mei. Also, how did you run around wearing this without the wind blowing it off?" She deactivated Breeze Torch to wear and adjusted the wizard hat, even it is a bit too big for her.
"Give… it back…"
Mei's voice could be heard somewhere, Rina looked underneath her to see Mei hadn't fallen off yet, she somehow held onto the cliff and now dangling.
"Oh yeah sure. We all have valuebles right?" She kneeled down to find where Mei's head was, carefully placing the hat back on her head. "Darling, if this is a real fight, I could've just stepped on your fingers. So why don't you just…"
She slowly used her hands to peel Mei's finger off of the grip of the cliff.
"Ca-n I at least have the sword back?" Mei tried to climb back up, waggling her feet.
Rina turned around to see the sword impaled deep onto the ground, before shaking her head.
"No, cutie, just... let it go, this is my cliff, and, my sword now, just let go, good girl." Rina struggled to get Mei's finger off, but soon Mei's arms got numb and she let go.
Rina lunged forward to take a good look at Mei. She saw no one.
Rina widened her eyes in surprise when she saw Mei flew up, using fire with air to burn the front of her shoes and flew backwards, did a three-sixty and slammed her feet down, almost hitting Rina on her head.
"Breeze Torch? you can finally do a child-level spell!" Mei smiled, adjusting her hat in a haughty tone. "I'm curious how good you are without your bow, Rina Wenswood."
The sword was next to Rina, which gave her a favorable weapon advantage against an unarmed, shoeless Mei, but is it enough?