Hello again. Today was lots of fun!

We hit land today! A few hours after sunrise we saw the first sign of land. An uneven and unmoving horizon that slowly became clearer. White bright sand dunes speckled with grass and the occasional stunted tree. The sands run back a ways from the shore leading into a grassy boggy flood plain. Where the tall grass hides singing birds and skulking lizards.

Behind the flood plain stand tall hills. Silent sentinels crowned with tall trees, and split by rivers. Rivers that sweep down them, and cut through the plain before reaching their end in the ocean.

I sailed the Ivers dream directly at the beach. Grounding my ship directy in the sand before I leapt headfirst into the, harder than it first looks, sand.

Julius directly molded his Tyrant into a giant wooden mimickery of himself. Complete with a crown on its head. It  is cute but it lacks fluffiness in my opinion.

Lena sailed her Mirage up the river before molding it into a great blue serpent and slithering onto the beach.

Almost immediately their gazes clashed and a great battle between rabbit and snake started to play out on the beach. Julius sent fire cascading in all directions as his battle bunny hopped, kicked, and spit pure fury upon the world. Lena played it cool. Ice and mist concealing her sneaky snake as she slithered about looking for an angle to launch a decisive strike from.

As the little ones played I was working my bare toes deep into the sand. I had missed the sensation of dirt so very much. That cleansing grit. That calming stability. How it doesn't move unless you make it.

Lena managed to entangle Julius and the two went smashing through a dune into the flood plains.

I molded the Ivers Dream into a bunch of balls the size of my head. Then I tucked most of them into my satchel and the rest I turned into a sunshade. As I relaxed on the warm sand and munched on some of the snacks and goodies I had pilfered from Francis' so long ago I cheered on my two friends.

Julius had by now ignited the entirety of the grassy plains. Aside from the rivers of course. There Lena rallied her moral, and sent waves of water to assail Julius' firey forces. Steam rose into the sky. Julius must have gotten impatient because his battle bunny began ripping huge chunks of land up and damming the rivers.

This annoyed Lena and she cut new channels with streams of water. These new channels were also dammed by Julius, but they had simply been a distraction.

The underground channels she had been digging at the same time came to fruition. Julius was surrounded by water and then Lena cut the ground out from under him. The battle bunny sank into the muddy waters. Then they began to boil.

Steam once more shot into the air. Lean gathered it into a screen and hid her snake inside. Julius came rocketing out of the drying soil and shot directly into the cloud. Lena had been waiting and she condensed the cloud while also freezing it.

Julius was caught in a ice prison.

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For about three seconds.

Lena can sure outmaneuver Julius, but she can't outmuscle him. They declared it a tie because neither could catch the other. Julius was to hotheaded, and Lena lacked firepower.

Then we made forts out of sand and all three of us engaged in a battle royale. Trying to catch the others tinglewood flag at their base, and protect our own only using little men made of fire and water, and weapons made from tinglewood.

I had made a simple hill and wall fortifiction on top of a dune, but I had surrounded my main fort with numerous smaller forts. Any attempt to reach my main base would result in being surrounded and ambushed from the rear.

Julius built a massive square fort. High walls reinforced with glassed sand ward off assailants as his horde went to war. Simple, but effective.

Lena had played to her strengths and put her back to the ocean. A deep and wide moat sheltered her intricate and beautiful base from our firey intrusion. Beautiful ice walls surrounded her glittering ice and white sand base.

I had finished my base first. So I marched my  regiments of small fire men into the middle ground. Armed with tiny tinglewood spears and shields. I began digging trenches with them. Determined to make any attempt on my base a long slogging war of attrition. Since I had the highest stamina amog us I was sure I could win such a challenge.

Julius was second. From his base came wave after wave of fire beasts. Claws and fangs of his own tinglewood reflecting the firelight as they roared in defiance of my defences. They charged my men in the trenches, and smashed right through my first two lines of defence.

As expected of Julius. His forces are certainly explosive. I flanked him with the survivors from the first two lines and as his creations lost steam they were surrounded and cut down.

The tinglewood was returned to him. This was just a game after all. 

Finally Lena came onto the field. Small squads off glittering ice women spread across the field of battle. Armed with blue swords and daggers. Threatening both mine and Julius' flanks. A standstill developed. Skirmishing and positioning began. I kept digging trenches. Determined to make this a battle of endurance. 

Julius finally decided to go all out. All his forces left his base and a brutal crazy charge was launched. He seemed to want to wipe me and Lena off of the field in one fell swoop before turning to hammer our bases. Sadly, he never even got the chance.

A squad of Lenas ice women came tunneling out from under Julius' base, and snatched his tinglewood flag as soon as he had abandoned his base.

The same thing was attempted at my base and nearly succeeded. Lena was being tricky.

Julius was enraged and his horde went screaming towards Lenas base. She drowned them in a tiny tidal wave from her moat. The survivors were mopped up by the converged squads of ice women she had been forming behind Julius' forces.

While she was busy with that I sent my first attack. A legion of fire soldiers marched on the crystal city. I was sure to wipe out any ice squads they saw. When they reached the moat I simply reformed the shields and spears into rafts and paddles. A few of my troops got destroyed by her waves and a ice sea serpent monster, but we landed and the seige was on.

Until the troops I had sent through the same tunnel she had dug popped out inside her base and captured her flag.

Victory is mine!

By that time the sun was going down so we had a feast of fish, and fresh green grass with a side of firemoss for julius. No hard feelings were held and we laughed and played in the sand until the sun was long gone. As it sunk I replaced its light with a great big fire.

I started dancing with a fire lady in my festive mood. Lena summoned her own dance partner from the ocean and they danced a lively and uncoordinated jig around the fire. Julius summoned a flock of firey butterflies and led them on a merry chase around the dancers. He leapt and spun in their midst. Clearly happy to join in the fun.

Why were we so happy tonight?

I suppose it was finally being off the water for me. I had never truly relaxed ever since I saw the Wave Waker. Who knows what other horrors lurk beneath those cold waves. Or on the land I suppose. Still, I am more comfortable on land, and I suppose me relaxing and having fun has caught the little ones in my merry mood. 

Not that they really need a reason to have fun. But an excuse is always nice to have.

Today was so much fun!

Goodnight.