Playing a game. (Zeke,) COMPLETE

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei entered the area of the Academy meant for practicing telekinesis. He had a bag full of tennis balls. Wei went to the middle of the room and dumped them all onto the floor. Then he went to one side of the room and sat down, waiting for his competition.

"This is going to be so much fun!"

[Zeke]

"And what is it we're doing exactly?"

Zeke walked in from the other side of the room, and sat across from Wei.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei lifted a ball with his mind and sent it hurtling towards Zeke. "Stop it with your mind and send it back at me. The idea is to hit the wall behind your opponent."

[Zeke]

Zeke halted the ball, flung it back.

"Simple enough."

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped the ball and sent it back. "Oh, and when you feel ready, add another ball. It's a good practice, I think."

[Zeke]

As the first ball came hurtling back, Zeke sent a second one at Wei. He stopped his own and flung it back.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped the new one and sent it back to Zeke, then stopped the other one, let it circle his head, and flung it back at the opposite wall.

[Zeke]

Zeke stopped them both, one a bit after the other. He sent them both back at once.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped them, then sent them back spiraling around each other. Then for grins, he sent another ball right after them.

[Zeke]

Zeke stopped the first two, but the second nearly hit the wall. He sent them on their way at varying speeds, at intervals, one at a time.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped the first one, the second one was stopped a moment later, and the third came to a halt inches from his nose.

"That was close, wasn;t it?"

Wei sent them all back so they got farther apart as they went along.

[Zeke]

Zeke plucked them from the air and idly circled them around his body.

"Sure was."

He retrned fire, sending them in a straight line.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei decided not to stop the balls this time, but instead let them arc around and shot them back at Zeke. Wei made them so they looked like a wheel rolling through the air.

[Zeke]

Zeke threw in a single ball, knocking the rotating wheel from the air, then sent them on their way again.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped one, then another, then put the two stopped balls in the way of the two moving ones so they all came to a halt. Wei put them into groups of two, then shot them off at Zeke, separating the groups at the last minute.

[Zeke]

The balls orbited Zeke, tilting the plane of the circles they traced, then fired off one by one to Zeke's right.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped them one after another, then shot them back, giving them a second of space in between, then he added a fifth ball to the mix.

[Zeke]

The balls bounced fluidly back to Wei, as if they had hit the wall behind him.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei decided to do something more or less out there. The first ball went incredibly slow, the second one extremely fast, the third went at a more or less medium pace, and the other two started fast, and changed form fast to slow at random.

[Zeke]

Zeke stopped the fast ones, then the moderate ones, then the slow one. He returned them all at a blazing speed.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei focused hard on the balls as they came back. He knocked one into another, letting the collisions slow the balls down enough so that he could put them to a halt. They hovered dangerously close to the wall.

Wei's forehead shone with sweat and his breathing became heavier than it had been before. He was running out of ideas. So, he just flung the balls back in Zeke's direction, the balls dipping up and down as Wei's concentration wavered. Wei steeled himself and concentrated harder on the balls, making them zig zag left and right as well as foreward and back. He hoped that the erratic movement would throw Zeke off.

[Zeke]

Zeke stopped one two, three...four and five halted inches from the wall as he leaned back, focusing on halting their movement. He threw them back on a straight line course, no fancy variations.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei gritted his teeth and focused all he had on ball one, then ball two, then three, and four, all the way down to five. Five was too close for comfort, but Wei could not do the one at a time thing and always be able to stop the balls. Adding anymore would be detrimental to his game.

Wei tossed the balls back, trying his level best to stay relaxed.

[Zeke]

Zeke started to stop the balls, slowing them down, flinging a sixth at Wei as he stopped the five in play. Once he had the others under control, he threw them back as well.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped the sixth one and flung it back, then split his attention to focus on all the balls at once. He gathered them up into one large group and focused on them as though they were one object. His trick worked and he stopped them, flinging them back in a pentagonal shape.

[Zeke]

Zeke halted the single ball with fair ease and guided it around the other five, drawing them in and gathering them into a single mass of balls. This he threw at Wei.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei felt a drop of sweat travel down along his nose. His glasses slipped down. Wei Force pushed the balls, but that only made them spin. Wei held out his hands and managed to slow the balls down, but it was not enough. The foremost ball touched the wall with a gentle thud. Wei let go his focus from the balls and they fell to the ground behnd him. Wei wiped the sweat from his brow and pushed his glasses up his nose.

"Force boosting come naturally, but this telekinesis stuff if murder." Wei chuckled a little bit. "Let's take a break and then we'll have a nother round of it."

[Zeke]

Zeke flopped backward.

"ANOTHER round?"

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei nodded. "You bet. It's like lifting wieghts. You do so many sets of so many repetitions. Such as 5 sets of 20 push ups, 4 sets of 100 stomach crunches, 1 set of 200 hundred jumpingjacks...." Wei paused. "That's not weight training, but you get the idea."

[Zeke]

"Yeah...basically..."

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei had a large jug of water with him and he drank deeply from it before stretching and relaxing again into his previous sitting position.

"Are you ready? Would you like some water?"

[Zeke]

Zeke shook his head, declining the offer of water.

"No, I'm not ready, but that's never stopped me before."

A ball went zinging by Wei's ear.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped it and flung it back, adding in two more balls. "We need to start on a higher difficulty than last time, or we won;t gain anything from it!" Wei said jovially.

[Zeke]

The three objects circled Zeke's face, as he was still lying on the ground.

"I guess so..."

He threw them back at Wei nearly at random, one ball going wide of him.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei stopped the wide ball and brought it back to be with its brothers. Wei shot them back at Zeke, letting the balls spiral around one a nother.

[Zeke]

Zeke watched the balls follow the path of his eyes, pulling a U turn to shoot at Wei's shoulders.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei put his arms in the air, and let the balls do figure eights around his hands. Then he shot the figure eight at Zeke.

[Zeke]

The figure eight slowed and stopped its rotation, then reversed it and returned to Wei.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei grinned and added one ball to the inside of each of the loops.

"It's staring at you!"

Then he shot it back.

[Zeke]

The eyeballs stopped, but their figure eight ring was slow to come to a complete halt. The whole thing hit the wall and Zeke let out a tired sigh, the balls dropping from the air.

"Force levitation was never my strong suit..."

[Wei Wu Wei]

"Me niether. That's why I asked that we do this. Man, you sure gave up pretty quick. Oh well. LEt's give ourselves a break and then we can pick this back up another day."

Wei used the Force to gather up the scattered balls into the bag.

"Let's go get something to eat at the Bar and Grill."

[Zeke]

"Give up so easy? I went a round and a half!"

Zeke sat up, an almost lazy motion.

"Food is good."

[Wei Wu Wei]

Wei got up and headed out the door. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Wei gave Zeke time to catch up and they went to the Bar and Grill together.