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After Faye had finished helping set up the common area. She had set off along the beach towards the water. She splashed into the water and once she was deep enough in she dived under. With no tourist around and the beach basically empty. I can presume that I can try my experiment here. I mean, boss didn't tell me I couldn't!, She thought as she started to do backstrokes parallel to the shore.

Luciano sat in the quiet lighthouse writing. Next week his Editorial was due, and he was about to make a big finish:
". . . and their sound reminded me of a mixture between nails on a chalk board and a train making a sudden hault on rusty tracks; making an alarming screeching sound. These guys claim to be a Goth/Industrial/Synth-tech/Rock band? I call them lazy amatuers trying to catch their first break. If you ask me, and I know you didn't but it's not like I care at all, I say they should have stayed in the basement they came from. . ."
All the while Luciano was writing, a presence he knew was in the room with him. It spoke to him coldly, ". . . This scene looks so familiar, Luciano. . ." Luciano spun around and looked up to see who it was, then he sighed and then calmly turned his back to him, "Oh. It's just you. . . Anyway, say what you're going to say then get out, Miguel." he said. "Hm." Miguel hopped off of the balcony leading from the second floor of the lighthouse- where the light was located. He walked over towards Luciano, ". . This takes me back to our childhood. . you were always sitting away from everyone else. So anti-social. So. . . pitiful. Even back then you made me sick."
Luciano haulted his pen and then he looked over at him, "You finished yet?" he was very disinterested in his foster brother's nonsense. For his information, Luciano never hid away from people. In fact, he was a very social boy despite losing his parents. He had a pretty happy childhood. And the whole reason he hid away from everyone else was he couldn't stand Miguel constantly trying to upstage him. . and he couldn't stand watching Miguel being made fun of.
Miguel scoffed then he walked to Luciano's right to look out the window, in the distance he could see Luciano's friends doing their own thing on the beach. The moment he saw Shade down there, he gave an evil smile then he turned his head slightly to talk to Luciano, "Shade told you I ******** her? Is that why you're up here?"
Luciano paused a moment, he looked over at Miguel again and then he stood up. He folded his arms and then suddenly he started laughing hysterically.

Faye had swum out quite far now and was starting the next stage in her experiment. Gather up energy, by swimming back and forth was the first step. The second was to concentrate this new found physical energy into magical energy. Gathering it up she focused on combining the energy and the water into her hand. After a brief, but great flash of light her eyes cleared enough to see. She saw that in her hands was a piece of cloth, this cloth appeared to shift and move like clear water in the Caribbean. She smiled, "Fusion and creation arts in one. The power of the water in a cloth form, I'm amazing!" She said and then started to swim back to the shore. I'll need to rest after this, but first some food.

Kydre felt a surge of magical energy and came up to the surface. She looked around wondering where it had come from. She could feel the magic hanging in the air like a mist. It confused, irritated, and perplexed her all at the same time. There was a taste of water magic in it and she didn't know if she liked that or not. She looked at the shells she had collected and then back towards where she felt the magic. She shrugged and went back to her towel where she sat down to inspect her new treasures.

Luciano laughed hysterically at Miguel, who was becoming more angry by the second, "What the ******** is so funny?!" Miguel shouted. Luciano stopped laughing for a moment and then he said, "Shade was using you!! You didn't do ANYTHING to her! If anything, she was dominating you- You had no hand in it! You were just her toy, Miguel!" then he continued to laugh.
Miguel growled and then he took out his revolver and pointed it at Luciano "You shut up. . Shade didn't use me, I used her. I showed her what a real man was. She loved ever minute of it." he said, even trying to make himself believe it.
Luciano shook his head and he said, not even hiding his shame for Miguel, "That's not telling a woman that you're a real man. . . it's telling her you're easy to control. You're not a man, Miguel, you're nothing but a boy still. Now Shade knows it. . you're pitiful."

Faye stared down at her cloth, she need to control the energy flowing off it or she would have problems. She was think up a solution as she munched on the chips. This is going to be the hard part, She thought. I could ask my 'good' friend for help, but then I risk family involvement. I could take it to the academy, but then again family involvement. She sighed her eyes closing as she thought and then they snapped open with an idea burning bright in their depth. Lifting her hand over the cloth she focus, trying to gather and put as much energy back into her being. It was hard because her magic had combined with the water's natural energy, thus turning it into something new. She gasp, her face contorting in pain. I can't gather it into my self, she thought desperately and then took several breaths to calm herself. Which means, that this will have to go soon. Great! All that work and nothing to show...at least I know I can do it. I just need to figure out how to contain its energy afterward. Or risk having those snobs in the High Magical Office coming and taking me in for form signing and questions. I can't have that happening...goddess only know what would happen then.

Skotti cooked burgers on the fire while the shade read a magazine. She looked over at skotti "Hope everybody comes around later to hang out, they all seem to have gone their separate ways" she said.

"They will be done in a little bit, why don't you two go around to grab everybody for lunch." asked skotti.
"Sure thing, Dark" said the shade, heading to the lighthouse, the strings on her bikini bouncing as she walked.