The trip through the portal was almost disapointingly easy. Inbetween one blink and the next, they were somewhere completely different, a lockerroom to be exact, with nnothing more than a slight flash of light. Whiping her head around to look behind her, Cora stumbled, just managing to avoid crashing into Wu. Righting herself, she saw that the portal looked exatly the same as it had from the other side. At least now she knew that she could travel protals without concequences.
Moving out of the door Wu indicated, Cora couldn't help the gasp that escaped her. They were in what looked like a forest, a real live forest. She could hear a stream somewhere and birds in the trees and it smellt of grass and dirt and the general outdoors. Staring around in wonder, she walked a little way, hardly noticing Gabriel behind her or Wus reappearance. Only renewed sounds from her arm bands pulled her back to the presense. She could admire the place later, if she didn't accidentally destroy everything that was.
Flicking on her arm bands, she watched the spheres, sorting through them and trying to decide which to let go. A large pulsing red light with a faint oriental looking symbol in the middle was the mana she had accidentally taken from Wu in the dorms. Deciding she might as well try it out, Cora took a deep steadying breath, directed the light to split into two spheres, one on each hand, then slowly closed her left fist around the ball of light, willing the mana it symbolised into a wall behind her, shielding the other two from whatever might happen next. It shot up a little higher than she had anticipated, a wall of mana that looked a lot like roaring white flames. Adjusting it and keeping part of herself focussed on mainting the shield, she held the other hand out infront of her and tried to close it around the resistance building there, this time wanting to propell the mana forward in a direct line.
This plan didn't quite work out. The fire blast that erupted from her now almost closed hand shot in all directions, making her flinch away from the sudden light and warmth, which thankfully couldn't harm her too much. Her shield wobbled and dipped as her focus was disruped by her surprise, then flared up again as she let her right hand open again, stopping the roaring flames erupting all over the place. Panting slightly, she checked her hair and clothes, patting at a smouldering sleeve to discourage any more fires. Looking around, she realised that the inferno she had inadvertantly created had sorched several small bushes to the ground as well as set several more and quite a few trees ablaze. At least know she knew for sure they were real.
Quickly sorting through her other stored magics, she found the last small drop of water and ice magics from back in england. Still not wanting to drop the shield incase the fire spread, she made a throwing motion into the air, scattering the mana into a cloud which promply started raining down on her head. Flicking her dripping hair away from her face in annoyance, she directed the cloud at the worst parts of the fire. The cloud depleated too quickly for her liking, but it would do to stop any more damage. Unclenching her left hand to let the shield down, she jogged back over to Wu and Gabriel just as Takeshi joined them, pinching a little bit of the fire mana to quickly dry herself somewhat.
"Hi Takeshi." She panted, "You have some really volatile magic." She directed the last bit a Wu, half impresed, half reproachful that he hadn't warned her. Then again she hadn't asked either. Listening to Takeshi and Wu planing their faceoff, she thought of a way to make the whole thing a little more interesting.
"I could make a sort of barrier or obstacles or something for you guys if you like, it would be good practice for me and you'd be a little more restricted with your fight." She waved her hands to indicate the arm bands, "I'm still way to full of mana and don't feel like blowing up anything else." She glanced slightly ruefully back at the area she had just deprived of all life.