Garden Festival day one

[wrnpcs]

Twas day one of the Festival, and all through the school
The GFC prepared for something like Yule...

Morning, quad: Ice carving festival

Afternoon, first floor main circle: School fair

Night, ballroom: Art show and talent show

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[dragonspooker]

[This little block of ice? It just won't do. Lina's saved the world once with ice, so clearly winning a little ice-sculpture competition should be easy-peasy! ...ignoring that she had help for the world-saving and encasing a monster in ice is completely different than carving something out of it.

Standing several feet away from where her block is, she raises her hands, firing several blue beams at the block, making it grow in size.]

Aqua Create! Freeze Arrow! Aqua Create! Freeze Arrow!

[This goes on for a few moments until the block is several times the size it was when she started. Lina cracks her knuckles, then rubs her hands together with a cocky chuckle - it's been a while since she could really cut loose and have some fun with her magic.]

[jellyfishbrain]

[Gourry is spectating rather than helping -- though he's sure Lina will draft him to assist in her endeavors before too long.]

You don't need that much ice, do ya, Lina? What are you sculpting, anyway?

[dragonspooker]

Of course I do! I need a lot of ice to make a monument to the greatest sorcery genius known to the world at large!

[By which she means her, of course.]

Now, watch a true master at work, Gourry! FLARE BIT!

[A stream of small red balls spray from Lina's outstretched hands, and start knocking chunks of the ice away. Rather...er, dangerously in fact. Some of the larger bits crash around the base of her ice pile.]

[jellyfishbrain]

[He throws a hand up to shield his eyes from any splintering ice that might come his way.]

What, you're gonna make an ice sculpture of some old guy? I thought for sure you'd make one of yourself!

[Yep, over his head.]

[dragonspooker]

[There's an audible thud once the spell ends - Lina's fallen over. On one hand, Gourry gets it. On the other hand, it's like he's trying to put out a housefire with a squirt gun - technically the right thing to do, but entirely the wrong way of going about it.]

...yes, Gourry, I'm doing one of me. Who else would you think I'd be making one of?

[jellyfishbrain]

Well, I don't know, do we really know for sure that you're the greatest sorcery genius known to the world? Isn't it just you that says that all the time?

[dragonspooker]

[Ow, her pride!]

Hey, how many other people do you know that managed to defeat a Dark Lord at the age of fifteen, huh?!

[jellyfishbrain]

Well, I guess that was pretty impressive.

[Actually, he's taking a moment to try and remember it because, you know, he's Gourry.]

Do people here even know who Shalabingo is?

[dragonspooker]

FLARE BI-wah?!

[Lina was intending on continuing to cast while Gourry was talking, but him mentioning the name caught her off-guard. Whether it was him failing to get the name right, or that Gourry actually remembered enough to mess up was uncertain.

Her spell fizzles out as she sighs, then smiles just a little. It's a slightly exasperated one, though.]

Shabranigdu, Gourry, and no. Not very many people, at least.

[jellyfishbrain]

That's what I said! Shellydingo.

Anyway, that was a pretty great story! If that one got around, then maybe I could see why you deserve your own ice sculpture -- but y'know, Lina, i helped!