The three had finally entered a clearing where they were able to stand their ground against the spirits that seemed to be manifesting out of thin air to attack them. Kieron shifted his feet on the ground and stomped to a constant rhythm, shoving up pillars of earth at the incoming spirits and knocking them back a bit.

Barron was more restricted with his bending, as there was not a source of water nearby for him to draw from. All he had to pull from was the pouch that hung on his side, which was reduced in amount anyways from the earlier attack where he hadn't had time to retrieve the then icy water to his pouch. Instead, he flung ropes of water like whips from his hands, repelling the incoming attacks with quick, sharp motions.

Kasai was shooting explosive flames to cover those spirits that avoided Kieron and Barron's attacks, knocking them back with singed flesh. She paused for just a second when she saw an incoming fire attack that she did not send from her own hand. She turned to see the man from earlier, the one who introduced himself as Ryuu. He was launching attacks with the same fierceness she was. 

"what the-?" it was not half a second later that the other woman was moving around Kasai on a rock, blocking her view of the attackers in a constant interval. Kasai grit her teeth and continued to launch fireballs in between circles from the girl, stopping for a few seconds to avoid blasting her with white hot fire. 

When she stopped in front of her Kas let out an unpleasant sound and narrowed her eyes to the woman. After a snarky introduction and a showing of her tongue, the woman, now known to Kasai as Avani, continued to move in laps around her. Kasai returned to launching fire at spirits in between rounds and grunted with each attack. "Do you mind? Kind of trying to fight off evil spirits at the moment." 

She had to flip back after a spirit launched at Avani and she dodged it, sending it towards Kas. She ducked when a boulder flew overhead to squash the same spirit. "Sure all that food hasn't slowed you down? I mean you are using that big ass rock to move around." She smirked and continued fighting the spirits, which somehow seemed to replenish in numbers at astounding rates. 

Kasai ignored Avani after she had moved along to do her own attacking. Flames launched from her feet and hands as she did a combination of moves to chain her attacks together in greater strength. Finally, the numbers seemed to be dying off, though the five were still immensely outnumbered. At least they were not attacking in great waves like they had been before. 

Barron saw something go flying out of the corner of his eye, and he turned to make sure it was not an incoming spirit. A moment later, Avani emerged from the bushes and continued on with the attack. He smiled to himself, but said no more as he started launching ice crystals towards the spirits. 

Kieron, Kasai, and Barron all worked in unison to quell the attackers. It was an unspoken rhythm that they had learned after years of training together, and for Kieron and Kasai, the Pro Bending League taught them even more about working together. Now that they were not overwhelmed with spirits, Kasai could see for herself the "skill" Avani claimed to have. Slightly to her displeasure. she was an impressive earthbender. It seemed that she had a better understanding of her footing and the motion of the enemy than even Kieron. 

Kasai sighed when she admitted to herself that the other team was quite impressive in tandem. Finally. after several more minutes of fighting, there were no more spirits to quell. Kasai took in a deep breath and wiped her brow, where sweat had begun to bead around her face. Kieron and Barron both loosened their stance and looked around, not giving anything the chance of a sneak attack. 

Kasai looked at Avani and Ryuu, "Isn't there one more to your team? The little air bender, right?" Kasai looked around, realizing she did not notice her during the fight. The officer in her grew concerned for a moment that the woman had been ambushed in the spirit attack but she straightened her expression again. "I hope for your sake she's alright." 

Kasai looked at her team and paused a moment to listen to the forest. It was quiet... but it was too quiet. "Alright boys, we need to find out what triggered that attack. Let's get moving." She turned to Avani and Ryuu and gave a half-hearted wave. "Thanks for the backup, but we got it from here. Try to lay off the snack cakes, yeah?" She smirked and gave a wink, then turned to her team to get their bearings and decide on a direction to take.