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 Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:04 pm
Arthur smiled lightly and gave a shrug. "Yeah we have all the time in the world, literally, so we can take out time with it all." A small chuckle to that as he looked at her again. "Your right, Malik's got me training and Sevilin...well yeah he maybe training me but it's been awhile and I have been training on my own..." A small paused as he thought it over and he grinned, he didn't mind the training though he wished it could end sometime soon. Though he raised an eyebrow and smiled a little, he didn't mind that she had to use that saying really so he shrugged it off. "Well Piper I'm just amazed by the magic that I've been seeing today, I'm just happy with what I've learned and still learning...it's still good to keep an open mind though Piper."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:14 pm
He lightly pat at his son's back as he lay his head against his chest and started to cry. "I promise I won't fight with Zahara anymore, okay? She was just yelling because I've been a bad paitent is all." Pressing a kiss to the child's hair in comfort. Though he had to give a chuckle. "Ate too much cookie batter, didn't you?" Shaking his head lightly and titling his head up to look at him. "No more cookie batter."
"Open minds only provide doors, your feet have to be willing to walk the path of thier own free will before you can start a single journey in this life Arthur Murdock. Remember that." Piper shook her head at the two in the arena. "Remember Isleandra, that's my husband!" Okay yes it was all a joke, but Piper had found that because of that little self concious flaw of hers, the moment it looked like her position to Malik was threatened, she had to say something. Jealous of Isle? Perhaps somewhat. A look to Malikhai on her lap who had leaned back against her and curled up, fingers of one hand twined into her collar. Hm...looked like he was taking a light reverie of sorts. Humans would call it a nap. Magic was trying on the mind, no surprise there. Though her attention did waver at the movement of Zahara she caught out of the corner of her eye. Did things not go well?
Isle merley gave him that saucy look she liked to give every man she thoguht a challenge in some way. "Aw, you haven't liked me before now? I think I am heart broken." Another little smile to him. "Alright, ladies first." A punch and two kicks in the air, and surprisngly a surge of air from those at Malik before she followed up, throwing another punch his way...though her punches always stopped short, a surge of air making the hit rather than her fist. No reason to break her knuckles now was there. See who was faster now.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:26 pm
And Malik stood quite still, and actually yawned a bit. Wind didn't bother him, might make his step back from the gusts, but come on. wind didn't really start to hurt a well trained body until they were taking storms and wind tunnels.
"come now. a little air isn't going to hurt. it's not even statically charged or anything. Surely you can do better than that."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:33 pm
Zahara was furious. She stomped over to Piper and glared at Arthur before shaking her head. "Mind if I rant to you for a few moments? No? good. He is the most aggrivating man I've ever met in my life. If he kills himself out of his own stupidity I swear I'm going to have Malik bring him back just so I can kill him again. He is coughing up blood and didn't think I needed to know about it. Then he says, oh, it's no big deal. No big deal. If he was coughing up mucus or magically colored slime, fine. But blood. That's not no big deal. That's dangerous. But Zykariel told me about it. He didn't even have the decency to tell me himself and I'm his gods be damned healer." She took a deep breath adn sighed. "What am I going to do with him? The whole time I had him in bed, he wanted to get up. then I catch him with a map, making plans. does he want to die?"
He sniffled and locked his arms around his father's neck. "You can promise but it doesn't mean you won't. You two fight about everything, Daddy. Why can't you just share and be nice to each other?" He buried his head in his father's shoulder and whimpered. "It hurts...make it feel better..."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:39 pm
Arthur again nodded though he had to wonder why Piper shook her head at him before he shrugged it off again. "Well how can I forget?" He said with a small chuckle, though he kept a watch on the fight so he could see Isle and her own moves, after all he had a feeling that she would want to train him in the days to come, not that he would mind anyway. Though he also saw Zahara and turned his head lightly towards her, what did she want anyway? But when she came over all he got was a glare which made his eye widen a little before calming down, just what was her problem? He got that answer when she started talking about Sevilin and how he's killing himself, but Arthur kept himself quiet and turned his head back to the arena, no need to get in on that rant.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:52 pm
" Not only does he stand like a rock, he feels like one too. Pity, I feel sorry for Pip. I'm just getting started." Giving him a smile that was indeed manufactured to lure any man. Loved playing around before getting serious, she couldn't help herself. "Can't do much on it's own, but a little help from something goes a long way. Let us start." A quick step to that hidden state again before popping up behind him and throwing two punches at his back, the first one that would just mess with his balance the tiniest bit, and the second the air behind him growing distinctly colder, the temperature drop enough to even both an elf and instead of a wind bolt, it was a ice bolt rather. Hey, he had scratches, she was going to exploit it. "And rather than trying to belittle me, how about you get your lazy a** into gear?"
Piper gave a chuckle after listening patiently, merely petting through a half tranced Malikhai's hair. "Let me tell you something about men, Zahara. They think they can handle anything. They think that they can stand there with thier arm cut off, blood pouring, look at you and say 'oh it's nothing, we'll just glue it back on'. They have thier pride. Malik makes me furious everytime he get's hurt. He refuses to get clerical treatment for wounds that are not mortal. He wants no quickfire healing. And he doesn't know it, but there were nights where I would stay awake and just watch him, afraid that if I let myelf trance out, that he wouldn't be breathing when I came back to awareness. Sure, it's stupid and it makes us hurt worrying so much about them, but they're not completely stupid in the endeavor...they know thier bodies. They know when to stop pushing and open thier mouths to ask for help rather than to deny it."
"Then if you won't take a promise, would you take my word that I'll try very very hard not to fight with her?" Childeren were more observant than one originally thought weren't they? Very much so. Sevilin gave a sigh and pat at his son's back again. He'd...well he'd never delt with stomach aches before any other way that just bearing them and goign on with life. Thus he shifted his hold on the boy and took to rubbing at his stomach as he usually did when the boy complained of things of this nature.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:56 pm
Malik grinned lightly.
"I'm already in gear."
which ment the first hit on his back, her arm burned like someone had stuck needles in it up to her elbow, though the icy bolt did stagger him forward a bit, spinning into the stagger and bringing his foot up for a aim at her neck. the idea was if she ducked, it hurt, if she stay up, it hurt, and it's level made most snags hard to pull off. after all most instinctivly blocked or grabbed at higher than the foot actually was.
"How do you like the Banshee Aura?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:08 pm
"Sevilin doesn't think very highly of himself in teh first place but he's got more than himself to live for. Zykariel adores him and will be utterly and completely devastated if he dies. And I am a healer. I know what's good for him and what's not if he would stop being so damn stubborn." She blew out a sigh and shook her head then glanced down at the arena. "Do I want to know? Probably not..." Leaning back in her chair she crossed her arms. "I just wish he wouldn't fight me tooth and nail every time I try to do something. I'm only trying to help him."
"I can take your word." He leaned back against his father and let him rub at his tummy for a little while. "Where did she go? We didn't scare her off did we?" The smell of freshly made cookies wafted about the room and he felt his mouth begin to water though he knew better than to eat anyting right now. It would only make him sicker.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:21 pm
Whoa that hurt, though it didn't slow her down as she bent back into a backflip as he enterted into a counter, bringing her arms back up and keeping her fingers together, cutting them through that air with large enough effect that it stirred up the ground, but also dragged the very air with her and thus creating a buffer that stopped his motion and held him in it for the moment. Wind may not hurt him, but it could sure be stong enough to stop movement against it. "Tricky man you, I do believe I can't feel my arm." Holding her position despite the pain in her arm, thus holding his own. "Are things always this intense with you?"
Piper blinked. "Did you not just listen to me? They don't care what you have to say. I could get down on my knees in front of Malik and beg for him to just stop pushing himself as he is and he wouldn't pay a lick of attention to me." Shaking her head lightly. "Men have pride about them...every man. Even Sevilin." A raised eyebrow. "He's not at death's door Zahara, why are you so upset?"
"Good because you know I always keep my word." Soothing his son or at least trying to, kicking out a chair with his foot, before sitting down in it, giving a light cough. "She...needed to take a moment by herself so that we didn't fight." Hell if he knew, but he had to tell the child something and the answer sounded good. "How did you know I was coughing up blood?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:27 pm
Arthur paused as his ears twitched when he heard Isle's words and he smiled just a tiny bit before he said out loud. "Trust me when and Malik had fought before it was a little more intense than this Isle!" He said with a small chuckle and sat back in the chair, he just hoped that Malik wouldn’t over do it and seriously hurt Isle.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:29 pm
"sometimes even more intense. ask Piper to tell you some stories sometime."
though the wind shield did stop him and a light grin.
"Oh come now, you didn't think this was going to be some simply easy little thing, did you? after all, you wanted to test yourself against a drow, the least I could do is actually put you up against some of the tricks in our arsenals."
though a shadowstep around the barrier, trying for a jab in her lower back and a knee into her side.
"Many drow die from training alone. they never get to test thier blade to anyone but other students, and they don't live long enough to even get decent at it."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:39 pm
That stopped her in her tracks and she looked totally taken aback a moment. "I...I don't know. It just really got to me. I mean he's coughing up blood and I asked him just to let me know if anything new developed. I didn't say I would necesarily heal it just that I wanted to know. And he didn't tell me. Zykariel told me." She ran her hands over her face in exasperation and tapped one boot. Why was she so agitated? Hell if she knew. "Okay, I have to know. Why are they fighting? Just because? Or did Isle try goign after your man? No wait, then it would be you in the arena not Malik and there would be a lot of blood."
He stretched out over his knees so that his body was laying straight and there was no extra pressure on his stomach. "I keep seeing you swallow stuff down. So last time you spit stuff out I watched you real close and saw some red stuff on your lip. You wiped it away real quick but I still saw it. And I know you haven't eaten stuff in a little while so it had to be what you were coughing up adn swallowing back down."
He settled himself completely and yawned, "Is that bad? Mommy made it sound bad...you're not going to die or anyting are you?" He knew, blood stayed inside the body unless he somehow cut himself or hurt himself and then it was bad. The only time he'd had blood in his mouth was when he'd bit his cheek too hard and that hadn't been fun at all.
Lharika nodded from her perch at the top of the stairs. "Yes, it's time Broog. You have to come to the party. It's in the library." Turning back she started to skip away before yelling, "If you're late you get locked out!"
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:52 pm
Ears twitched at Galesen's voice but she didn't turn her eyes from Malik. "Oh more girl talk...how nice." No but really...she couldn't feel her arm. That was gonna be bad for her. "You're right, I ask to be tested as if not a friend and I duely should be ready for that kind of treatment...well, other than the death part with you'll avoid for obvious reasons. So then, no holding back." Before a quick descision as he disappeared again, and she twisted slightly to catch a glimpse of him behind her as she dropped her own defense. Slight movement saved her from spinal injury but didn't prevent his knee catching her. Meant Isle got good momentum from being slammed into at the side, which she turned into a cartwheel to keep from going all the way down.
Landing back into a stance a few feet from him she nodded to him, frowning lightly. "I think you just rearranged my insides some there Malik." Oh that was going to bruise so bad. "Mmm, I can see why." What with them rearranging each others body parts. But she took a breath to steady herself before she had at him again, closing the space between them and again using close quarters to her own advantage, dropping down and feigning a strike at his ankles as if to trip him, only to change bodily direction upward and thrusting a hand up to catch his jaw with the heel of his palm, as well a letting her leg come with the motion to catch in the back of his knee instead of his ankle. Any combination of being hit in one of those places or both would be great and hopefully bring him down a second. And if he did go down some, well a booted heel was going to follow."
Piper smiled perhaps a secretive smile. "Uh huh. Seriously...they may act like total morons sometimes but they're really not. Take it from a woman who has watched the man she loves suffer more than he needs to and knows that whatever she says doesnt' matter to him on that situation." Shaking her head lightly. "If anything bad develops he'll tell you. Some symptoms are expected." But she shifted her hold on Malikhai, pulling him up in her lap some more before looking down to the arena. "I mentioned that we should all try against one another...but then remembered that Malik wouldn't let me play anyway, and Arthur didn't want to do it...so they're going at it. And Isle isn't looking for practice play..."
"No no, I'm not going to die." Petting at the boy in reassuring fashion. "You're very observant, that's a very good trait to have. But you see, daddy's throat is hurt. I breathed in some bad stuff and it burned me on the inside. Talking makes things a little upset in there, and thus bleeds. And that blood has to go somewhere." Another pet at him and a sigh. Sure, that's what was happening but he wasn't shutting up now was he? "Feeling any better yet?" Starting to scribe a rune to his child's tunic over his stomach.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:02 pm
"Well that sucks. Don't they know they don't have to act all big and bad? I mean I'm not going to think any less of him if he shows pain. Arthur does and he's not less of a man for it," Arthur had shown quite a bit of pain over the years she'd known him. "But then Arthur isn't nearly as stubborn as those two." She shook her head and returned her gaze to the arena wincing at the play going on. Some of those moves would hurt. "Nope, if he did let you play, I'd kick your...butt and then his." Had to be mindful of the child, even if he was in reverie of sorts. "What's Isle using? I saw her slicing through things like it was a barrier of sorts. She seems like a competent opponent. I'd fight her myself but I find it enjoyable to watch Malik take a hit or two."
"You taught me that. You told me to always know what's going on around me, Daddy. That way if you have to react quick you know what you have to work with." He was quite pleased to know it was good that he saw these things, sometimes he felt like he shouldn't be looking when he saw things.
"Maybe you shouldn't talk anymore. I don't like you spitting out blood. It's suppposed to stay in your body 'cause you only gots so much of it." He felt his tummy heat up and sighed before nodding. That had felt good and the dull throbbing was beginning to go away. "A glass of milk will help." He didn't know how or why he just knew that it did. "and maybe a cookie in a little bit."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:08 pm
Arthur blinked a few times and turned to the drow sitting over beside Piper and stared at her for a bit before turning his head back to the arena. "Thanks Zahara..." He muttered, he wasn't pissed off he was just a little happy to hear about it but didn't want to get too emotional in front of them because he knew how much they hated that. Though he had to chuckle a little at the comment that Zahara said about his stubbornness, he may not be that stubborn but he can be from time to time. "I think it's some sort of wind technique she has learn while growing up...pretty good really."
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