Soyala widened her bending stance when she realized that the cannon fire was being concentrated on her. She needed to stay solid in her stance, but that was difficult with waterbending. Water wasn't solid, and the waterbending forms were equally as fluid. Dropping the wall of water, she used jets of water instead to knock the cannon balls away from herself, and the ship. It used less water, but required more movement, so she had to be as efficient as she could with it.

"Yeah!" she heard from behind her. Jianyu was standing as far from the edge of the deck as possible. "Go Soya! You're the man!"

"Jian, if you don't shut up you're going overboard," Soyala ground out. Jianyu shut up. Distantly, Soyala wished there was some earth to bend. At least then she wouldn't be constantly on the defensive, and then Jianyu could help her. As it stood, she couldn't get a spare moment to attack, so all she could do was keep sweeping aside the cannon balls.