|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:52 pm
So, right, we need to describe the scenery.
An unoccupied area in the training grounds that all Squads have (Because it comes at standard), its what you think about when you hear "training": Big dusty area, with a few of those blocks of woods around that people punch. For some strange reason.
A small creek trickles by, and is shaded by a large tree. You know, with the branches and roots and chocolate.
But most importantly, there's a tape player there, filled with inspirational speeches and songs from movies.
Now Playing: Aragon's Speech At The Black Gate.
((Feel free to enter and talk to Nicholas if you want to. Most of the time he'll be here))
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:14 pm
Nicholas was sure now he was experiencing some ******** up version of deja vu.
"This is the third time I've entered a big dusty training area for the purposes of improving my strength and skill and all that sexy business..." he hummed in thought, taking the time to set his pack of tea, crumpet, manga, tent, pillow...
(Some time later)
...and new longsword down onto the ground, he tilted his head back to stare at the brilliant blue sky above him through the slits of his mask, a sense of peace and understanding filling him...
"Let's get training"
Flipping his tape recorder to the "Braveheart" Speech, he slapped up his longsword and began swinging it with great gusto, with a song in his head and heart and sunlight shining down on his joyful mask, he couldn't help laughing.
Like a mad man.
"Just you wait Squad Three! I'll be back, bigger, badder and insaner than ever!"
He soon changed from bizarre swinging to his sword routines, getting a feel for his sword, and actually warming up like a normal person would. His breath came out in calmly and easily as he danced along, his blade glinting blue in the light.
"This type of weapon isn't a slashing kind...its far too heavy for that...its more of a smashing one...Hm, does that mean I'll have to remake my 5 Second Slash...?"
"5 Second Smash!" he tried, dashing forward, reiatsu flowing. It soon became apparent, that while the attack was pretty impressive (Posing was cool), his current reflexes were not up to using the attack.
Besides, an aerial attack would completely wipe him.
"In that case..."
"5 Second Smash!" he tried, using his reiatsu to speed him up, before he leapt high in the air, bringing his sword down to smash onto the ground. There was a small pause as Nicholas counted up to 5, before a lovely crater appeared under him.
"The reiatsu boosting my strength, the potential energy from the running, gravity...I'm a genius."
--
He continued work on the 5 Second Smash for a while longer, leaving several craters in the field (which he covered up with dust) before he began reflex training.
In other words juggling eggs.
"Okay, let us begin."
Sometime later, after he had cracked all his eggs and eaten a lovely dinner, he went on to hand to hand fighting, and it became obvious quickly that he didn't know what he was doing, leading to him dropping the idea.
"Will probably need a teacher for that..." he muttered, starting up his kido training. For a bit he practised Thrust and White Lightning, before going onto his Restraining ones.
---
That night, after buying some eggs from the Squad Three Store (as standard), he bathed in the creek and set up camp.
"Rest for tomorrow! Sleep is for the strong!"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:41 am
Waking up the next day, Nicholas proceeded to meditate in his mini camp site, gathering his reiatsu and generally pondering on the subject of Life, the Universe and Everything else.
For about 3 seconds.
"EGG JUGGLING!"
After breaking the dozen eggs and leaving his hands all sticky, he made himself a breakfast and returned to his training.
Spinning and twisting, he ducked and slashed out at imaginary opponents, utilizing every one of his skills to fight them all. And of course, he won at the end...
"GASP! You fiend, you have stabbed me in my weakest moment!"
He dropped to his knees, clutching his "injury"
"No! I'm only 300 and a bit years old, I'm too young for this!"
He cried out again, looking every bit the over dramatic hero.
"Tell Squad Three...to stay out of my stuff..."
He fell.
No doubt, there was a thunderous applause going on somewhere in the world.
"Alright, back to training"
After spending more time refining and practising his "5 Second Smash", he began incorporating the move with his "5 Second Slash"
Landing on the ground, he did not take the chance to count up to 5, instead, immediately twisting his body, reiatsu still pumping away as he dashed after his hypothetical opponent, sword stabbing through.
"Booyah."
No doubt, his opponent would have exploded into a thousand itty pieces. Cause he said so.
--
Nicholas began to expand on his idea of combining Kidos with hand to hand fighting i.e, seeing if he could shoot out Hados while punching the s**t out of people
"Thrust! Thrust! Thrust! Thrust!"
Still, it looked kinda odd, seeing a robed, masked man punching at nothing, shooting strange balls of reiatsu out of his hands while chanting "Thrust" over and over again.
"I shall call it...Reiatsu-bending"
---
That night, after buying more eggs and eating a healthy meal of instant noodles and Pocky, and crap loads of pushups and sit ups (For the upper body training he so desperately needed), Nicholas began his meditation training again, gathering as much reiatsu as he could and holding on to it for as long as he could.
Most of the time (read here, all of the time), the reiatsu blew up in his face, sending him reeling back.
"Alright then, let's continue this until I can concentrate s**t loads of reiatsu then..."
And so he did.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:19 pm
"Wow, hanging yourself upside down from a high a** tree really changes your perspective of things."
Nicholas nodded thoughtfully as he attempted to perform a sit up, upside down from his position on the tree, letting out an "oof" when he failed.
"All the blood rushing to your head. Fun."
Another [failed] attempt at sitting up.
"Oh for ******** with his egg juggling had improved greatly, and now only 4 or 5 eggs cracked when he played around with them. Nicholas felt immensely pleased as he chowed down on instant ramen and French Fries made from acorns.
His swordsmanshipnessthingy was coming along fine as well, and Nicholas found it easier to swing around his sword, becoming familiar to the blade's weight.
"And to think I used to fight with a katana!"
Today, he had stolen a melon and a cape from the Squad Three supply house and set it up on the wooden block, before drawing on the melon a strange smiley face. With vampire teeth.
"Begone foul evil!" he cried, bringing his reiatsu forward as he punched out at it.
"Hado 1: Thrust!" The ball of reiatsu flew over the melon and collided with the creek,sending up a fine spray of water that made Nicholas wet in more places than one.
He twitched behind his mask
---Sometime later---
"YOU THINK YOU SO GOOD MELON LORD? DODGING MY ATTACKS! ORA!"
More thrusts, followed by a reiatsu added kick that caused Nicholas to sail over the melon, who made no response, but instead gave off an aura of general smugness.
"Its defense is impenetrable. This may be the hardest opponent I have ever faced...Not even Captain Michiko could handle it!"
A bird proceeded to fly onto the melon, and pecked at it for a bit, causing the thing to fall over. Nicholas stared in awe.
"TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!"
The bird cocked its head.
--
Nicholas began spending his time imitating the birds actions and turning them into fighting moves, though his initial plagiarism in which he headbutted a piece of wood had left him with splinters in his mask.
Instead, the pecking was imitated by his hands, which were curled up in an imitation of the bird's beak. After a few days of practise, he found his jabbing to be highly effective after he jabbed himself in the left arm with his right hand.
"Thank you, Sensei Bird" He said formally, bowing lowly. The bird cocked its head.
Nicholas took to finding more birds, and eventually after following the creek for a bit, came across a river where a bunch of birds hung around. He spent several days there, imitating bird movements, and modifying them for fighting purposes.
He raced them as well, as a strange robed man with a mask, hat and longsword staring at you for long periods of time had unsettled the birds, causing them to fly off. Nicholas gave chase, and it helped him improve his speed.
"Crane High Kick!" He imitated the crane, hands held up high as substitute wings as he kicked out, his foot soaring upwards.
"Drill Peck!" Nicholas sucked at naming, nevertheless, the struck outwards several times with his beaky hands.
"Pigeon Crap Attack!"
There was a pause.
"No...just...no..."
---
"5 Second Smash!" A leap into the air, and then he landed, sword striking the ground. Immediately, he turned to give chase after his imaginary opponent, his newfound speed improved by reiatsu.
"5 Second Slash." He wasn't so lucky, only managing to nick his opponents knee. Nevertheless, it was enough (in his mind) to send his opponent to the floor. Cue the Veronicas music.
"5 Second...STAB" Focusing all of his reiatsu onto the tip of his blade (which, thanks to his meditating and reiatsu control training, was easier to do), he stabbed forward, piercing the chest of his imaginary opponent.
"Excellent..."
((So yeah, I suck at making names. Mwhaha. Also, the whole bird thing was based off ancient martial arts people who based kung fu attacks off birds. I don't do kung fu myself, but whatever...BUNNY))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:05 am
((I do martial arts....and yes the bird part was rather odd....and the melon....actually everything was odd sweatdrop ))
Junichiro was walking slowly along a foot path where he heared a bunch of loud randim prases and terribly named attack's, Junichiro sighed and a large sweat drop as though he were in some anime began forming. His head slowly turned and cracked a few times as he witnessed what he had feared, it was Nicholas 'training', Junichiro in chibi mode, snuck on tip toe's to a bush where he watched him for a few moment's.
Junichiro witnessed the whole melon insident and his jaw dropped in shame, his anticks were nothing to do with Junichiro but he could not help but feel a odd, negative feeling from watching such a strange thing, and when the bird came into the scene Junichiro did not know whether to cry from the shame or birst into a histerical laughter, so due to the strain of not knowing how to react, the preasure broke his 'funny fuse' which created a blank expression on his face as he gazed at the randomness that was Nicholas.
Junichiro thought to himself, ''Is he trying to perform martial art's? Seriously? My lord, no way, he must be bored and is just passing the time, nobody can perform such, such, I don't know WHAT to call that...'' Junichiro sighed heavily as just watching his attempts caused mental pain as Junichiro was quite a profound martial artist, and respected the martial art's greatly, but to see such a display was rather painful for Junichiro. Junichiro forced himself to watch Nicholas as Junichiro, in a way, really did needed cheering up from his recent shamefull defeat, AGAIN, so he watched in the hopes his spirit could be lifted from the wild and child-like anick's of Nicholas.
((It say's PRP...sort of, so if I am not really aloud to be around, I will leave.))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:35 pm
((By all means come along. I'm okay with people coming to train with me...))
Nicholas had begun his morning meditation, questioning Life, the Universe, and anything else that mattered.
"Why's there an awesome theme song that follows me whereever I walk? Why am I always wearing a mask? Why did God create the platypus? Why isn't 11 pronounced "onety-one?" Why is Junichiro watching me train from a bush?"
Deciding that the last one was more important at the moment, he thought it was best the address it...after some egg juggling.
--
"So..." Nicholas said, juggling some eggs while he talked. "What bring you here?"
Melon Lord said nothing.
"You stumbled upon me training accidentally you say! My, the coincidence of that is amazing! Say, you wouldn't happen to be a martial artist would you?"
Melon Lord said nothing.
"You are! Brilliant? What to train me?"
Melon Lord said nothing.
"I'm so happy..."
Catching the eggs (and breaking one), he pumped his fist.
"Alright! Now I'll ask him for real!"
"Junichiro-senpaaaai...would you happen to be a martial artist who's keen on training young innocent and naive
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:50 am
Yet another typical comedy style expression spread across his face as he sighed with a large sweat drop forming, ''How'd he know I was here'' Junichiro though to himself. He slowly stood up and stepped over the bush scrathcing the back of his head, ''Yeah, I am, I suppose.'' Junichiro did not know if he should 'train' Nicholas due to he'd need higher authority and permission to train other squad member's and he had no idea if he had such authority.
''Training is a bit of an unknown department, but there is no problem with sparring I guess.'' Junichiro's facial expression became oddly troubled as he was still thinking about recent negative even't. Untieing his Zanpaku-to, he layed it in the shade of a near-by tree where he began a few minor leg and arm stretches. ''I guess you might be able to pick up on a few basic thing's, then again with you're attention span, maybe my hopes are a little high here.'' Junichiro sighs once again as he took a very lazy looking and very basic defencive stance, he held his left hand loosly to his hip with his right hand stretched forward with his palm facing Nicholas, and his legs were seperated partially with his right leg slightly forward at a diagonal position and straight, while his left leg was on its side slightly bent, ''Alright then Nicholas, I got time, show me what you got...''.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:22 pm
Watching from atop a tree branch was Matsu. 'Some may think that it's boring to watch someone train, but this seems to be an exeption!' he thought, referring to Nicholas' unique training method. He noticed that Junichiro was also here and that they would spar. 'A match between these two? This ought to be interesting.' he thought. He drank a bit of sake, from the sake bottle that he had hidden in his robe. This was a clue as to what he was really up to. Especially since he only drank sake on certain occasions...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:25 pm
Nicholas smirked behind his mask, reaching for his blade and tossing it hazardously away.
--
A little girl and her pet bunny were running by. Both wore identical smiles of happiness, while the bright yellow sun flared awesomely in the blue sky. It was a great day, as the flowers sang words of praise and the fish leapt high into the air.
"Yay, fluffy bunny!"
This all ended with a shatter as a large blue longsword flew through the air and pierced the bunny. The flower's gasp and withered, the fish just...died and the sun hid behind some clouds, eager to get away from the police.
"F-fluffy bunny?"
--
"A spar? With little ol' me? Oh what heavens will I do?" Nicholas cried, hands flying to the cheeks of his mask. You could just see the sparkly lights and fake glitter in the background as he freaked out like a japanese school girl.
"Very well Junichiro-senpai, I shall accept your proposal! But I must insist we be married on the hill in the summers! You know what its like in winter, all cold and horrible."
As he talked, he got into his own, loose, bird-like fighting stance, and despite himself, a rather madlike grin was forming on his face behind the mask.
"What's that? You can't afford the 24 caret Tiffany diamond ring I want? Such a shame...I guess you'll have to be...REJECTED!"
He dashed forward, hand forming into a fist as he aimed his attack at Junichiro's chest.
5 Steps until attacking range
4.
3. Pumping reiatsu into his legs, he crossed the space between the two in a single leap, fist pulled back as his body twisted into the strike.
"Hado One: THRUST!"
Cue big red ball of reiatsu. Thanks to Nicholas' constant practice with this attack and his days spent channeling reiatsu, the kido was called up very quickly, and despite the crappy aim Nicholas still had, at the range he was at, there was little chance of him missing.
'I shall call this move Hado: Ken' He thought to himself gleefully. 'Now where the hell is my sword?'
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:25 am
''WHAT? MARRY YOU!? WHAT THE HELL!?'' Jnichiro paused for a moment and had the very disturbing image of Nicholas in a wedding dress, this picture caused Junichiro to throw up a little in his mouth. ''Damn you Nicholas, I knew you had problems, but now....YOU REALLY CROSSED THE LINE!'' Junichiro, when realising how close Nicholas had gotten in Junichiro's moment if disgust, reacted purely on impulse.
Junichiro leaned slightly to his right avoiding the fist by a fraction of a hair, in the brief moment of the dodge, to Junichiro, time appeared to move at a snails pace, he analysed Nicholases stature, reiatsu levels, and accuracy in this matter of a second before launching his counter attack. Junichiro after allowing the very ripped off named attack fly passed, he slowly thrusted his palm a meere inch away from Nicholas and quietly chanted, ''Hado #4....Thrust'' Junichiro's palm then pulsated as reiatsu formed in the palm and was sent to thrust Nicholases stomach at point blank without hesitation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:09 pm
Matsu covered his mouth to avoid being heard. He started laughing a lot and almost fell off the tree branch. Fortunately, he managed to hold on. After laughing at what Nicholas said and Junichiro's answer for a long time, he was able to stop and continue watching the battle. "This seems to be turning into a good fight. But then again... It has only begun." he whispered to himself.
[Took me about ten minutes to write the first sentence. xd ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:00 pm
'What the hell...wasn't Hado 4 suppose to be lightning?'
Of course, such a logical thought wasn't in Nicholas' mind at the moment, as the poor 300 year old boy was sent flying back by the close range Thrust attack on his body.
Coughing as he held his side, he grimaced as he felt blood trickle down his mask.
"Eww...coughing up blood while wearing a mask...do you know how long that's gonna take me to wash?"
He supposed he looked a little more crazy now, with blood trickling out of the slit of his mouth and down his mask.
"My my Junichiro-chan~" You could hear the emphasis on chan. "You've hurt my feelings...I'm hurt both physically and emotionally by your horrible attack on my poor innocent body."
A sniff could be heard.
"It was so sudden and unexpected...I could not take the vastness of your attack...but I know...I want more."
His hand shot up.
"Please...be gentle..."
He smirked behind his mask.
"Hado 4: White Lightning."
His bastadized Hado fired out from all 5 of his fingers, which were spread out. The attack covered a reasonably large area, preventing the movement of Junichiro, before Nicholas dashed forward, lashing out at the air with his fists.
"Hado One: THRUST!"
With each punch he threw, balls of Hado's were fired out, all aimed at Junichiro.
Sending down the trickle of reiatsu again, he dashed forward, chasing after Junichiro.
"Hado 1: THRUST!" He shouted, blasting the kido from one hand as his second hand flew up.
"Hado 4: White Lightning!" Cue the big bad blue lightning attack.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:19 am
''What the hell? Junichiro......CHAN!?'' Junichiro's expression clearly showed irritation, ''And must you always say such mis-leading thing's, like 'be gentle'?'' Junichiro sigh's as the kido's came flying toward's him. ''Just because there are more of them does not mean they are that hard to dodge Nicholas...'' Junichiro performs a spining evasion which was slightly over dramatic as his cape flapped wildly in with the wind and the spin. Realising that Nicholas was quick enough to follow up the lightning with thrust's, Junichiro did not flinch as Junichiro knew all to well it was a close range Kido and at this range would accomplish nuthing.
The thrusts slowly lost momentum and force as they approched Junichiro, by the time they came into contact they only managed to do as much force as a mild shove or bumpinto him. ''Nicholas, honestly using a close quarters combat kido at this distence was a stupid mistake.'' Junichiro closed his eye for a moment and sighed deeply. Upon opening his eye he saw Nicholas had closed the gap and managed to make a rush at Junichiro getting into a far greater vantage point to use the thrust, which he noticed he was performing. Quick to react Junichiro shout's ''Hado #1, THRUST!'' Sending his right hand toward's Nicholases incoming thrusting hand ready to create a counter thrust which would create a large shockwave repeling the two away from eachother.
((4 finger's and 1 thumb, not 5 finger's xp . Also the hado 4 thing, yeah that was a typo, I meant 1 but accidentaly said 4 so it seem's, but lets go with Junichiro doing a fake out since it seem's to have made thing's a bit more interesting sweatdrop xd ))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:45 pm
((Bah, not much in a writing mood. Too many RL probs ATM))
"Oh for f-"
Nicholas fell back, hitting the ground with an audible "oof" before rolling back a few metres and landing face up.
"Hm, buttered Nicholas lands face up. Intriguing."
Dusting himself off, he stood back up again, returning to his obscure stance.
"You sure talk alot when fighting Junichiro-chan. I hope this does not reflect your performance in the bedroom."
"Hado 4: WHITE LIGHTNING"
The lightning (which actually looked quite blue in the anime) shot forward, leaving the smell of ozone in the air. Nicholas charged forward moments later, and struck out with his beak like hand. For a while, he continued like this, dashing forward and attacking with his bird attacks, before retreating and firing off a few White Lightnings to keep Junichiro busy.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:51 am
After Junichiro watched Nicholas roll around from the shock wave in a very comedic manner, Junichiro being Junichiro flew up into the air and performed a more professional landing, with less pain involved. ''IN THE BEDROOM! That is nont of you're business kid!'' Realising yet another kido was sent at him Junichiro began to seriously get ticked off and though, ''I thought this was a martial art's session, not a kido session...''.
Junichiro as he has done so far evade's the attack by side stepping it, but as usual Nicholas seemed to follow up his kido with a close quarter method of assault. Junichiro used his armored glove's to deflect each of these peculiar and what seemed to be rather innefective 'beak' attack's off of himself. ''Seriously, what the hell do you think you are doing, do you honestly know ANY martial art's? And I mean REAL martial arts?'' Junichiro then leap's back in the appearence of a tactful retreat for distence, he then dashes forward the split second his heel touched the floor.
Junichiro tightly clenched his right fist back at his side where he closed the gap between the two, and upon comming in striking range attempted a strange combo where he tried to perform an upper cut from his right and sprung his left leg up in an odd diagonal manner to try and knee Nicholas in the side. Junichiro being an odd martial artist liked to create awkward and new form's of martial art's by combining other's to create new and innovative move's though awkward in appearence they are suprisingly effective in the way he applies the move's.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
