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It was butt ugly cold out but Havasu found that with a bit of exercise and a leather jacket his uniform kept him surprisingly warm...ish. He found himself deep in a park on a quiet, cold, winters eve when anyone with a brain would be inside. He had things to work out mentally and he just couldn't get settled while packing his loft. So he had grabbed his jacket, headed out, and powered up. Havasu might as well practice fighting in the winter conditions since it was beginning to feel like the season would never be over.

After rounds of jogging and jumping, sliding and skidding, overall making a fool of himself, Havasu paused in his self created training regimen. His breathing was a bit raged and the warm breath puffed out like a dragon. His stamina was building but he wished he could do something more than just learning his limitations and working on expanding them. He really only knew a handful of others and his main sparring partner was currently dealing with his sister's illness, Lily's hospitalization was just one of the reasons Havasu was out courting hypothermia.

Once more he had lapsed in the one area that was quite dangerous, aura detection, most of the time he had to focus in order to detect any approaching auras and he knew he needed to work on that to make it more of a second nature so when a voice called out Havasu couldn't help the muttered curse. He belatedly sensed the order aura and knew the voice was a 'friendly' person so no real harm had come from his lapse. "Hello, over here." He returned the greeting and stepped further out into a clearer part of the park, absurdly happy that most of the recent snow had mostly vanished except in the shadows even though the weather stations were predicting yet more heading their way.

Havasu watched as the senshi approached. He smiled and suppressed a laugh when she curtsied, instead he tipped his hat in greeting and I stories himself. "I'm Havasu Fall, page of Pluto. Nice to meet you as well." He shoved his hands into his jacket as his body temperature dropped once he was standing around.

He shrugged when she asked if he was patrolling. It was hard to admit that rather than looking for danger he was still trying to get a handle on his skills but he squashed the feeling of inadequacy. After all he went nearly a year before he believed that he was now part of the nightly fight for the city. "Just practicing. You know trying to figure out how the weather affects fighting." He laughed and brushed at some of the scuff marks on his pants, "and I'm kind of losing to the ground. Go figure. You wouldn't happen to have any pointers would you?" He asked the senshi. Maybe she could give him fighting pointers or even maybe spar with him for a while.

Havasu snickered. "Yeah except when it's not and somehow it still wins." So far he had only really encountered solid ground but he was starting to dread spring when the frozen hard ground will turn squishy with the warmth of the sun. The mess and difficulties associated with the mud of spring was not something the cowboy was looking forward too but knew he would have to learn to fight in them as well. Last spring he had completely denied the existence of the war and had no clue how that particular season would affect fighting.

"Yeah one of the reasons I'm practicing tonight not patrolling, not as if I'm great at patrolling either." He shrugged and actually seemed rather sheepish before he admitted, "The jacket was a add on tonight. Its too damn cold to go out without extra protection, at least for my outfit...."He eyed what he could see under the jacket, or rather what he couldn't, "and I'm guessing for you as well."

He nodded in agreement, after all training with others is better then just making a fool of himself alone. Besides the exercise would help keep them both warmer then they likely were. He had no issues with her points until she started to pull off her jacket. "Woh, woh, woh .... Hold up. Its too damn cold out for you not to have something on." Havasu stepped forward and reached out a hand as if to stop her but he was too late since she already hung her jacket up. When he saw her full outfit he practically blanched at the thought of how cold she had to be. He quickly pulled off his jacket and tossed it at Cybele, the leather was warm from his bodyheat and unlike her jacket his could hold up to a beating. "Wont hit you till you put it on! If you dont want to mess up your coat thats cool, makes sense but the leather will clean and besides, more scuffs make it look more badass." He shrugged and crossed his arms to look like he meant it while really he wanted all the extra heat he could generate at least until his system got use to not having a coat on... or they started fighting and his body heat started to jump again.

Havasu was intrigued with the idea of hunting chaos rather than patrolling. So far he had really only encountered the other side primarily off his own stomping grounds so maybe Cybele had a point. "You do your 'hunting' alone? Or do you have a team?" Shang had explained the whole team thing but at the time Havasu wasn't terribly interested. He still wasn't mainly because he didn't take orders very well, or at all really.

He nodded in approval as Cybele put on his jacket, he might feel the n** of the cold now but she needed it more than he did. He at least had some layers and his shirt/vest combo was actually surprisingly warmish. He shrugged off her thanks but paused in thought as she mentioned the possible tactics of female negas. How many has he actually met? The most he could say was from the hazy memories of New Year's Eve. He didn't remember much after things went bonkers since in the ensuing insanity while he was trying to get people out he had hit his head rather hard and blacked out.

"I actually don't think I have seen, talked to, or even fought a girl nega. The closest I've gotten to flirting during a fight or what ever was this one guy with long a** blue hair but I think it was just a snarky comment or something." That fight had actually been the first time he had accepted the truth about his new life and Havasu really only remember the information he had received from Shang and his companion, he couldn't remember her name, once the fight was done. Mentally shaking off the thoughts Havasu shrugged and smiled rather cheekily. "Are you trying to say I'm a sucker for a pretty face and a nice pair of legs?" He was just teasing her and didn't mean anything by it.

With a laugh he held up his hands in surrender. "Alright. If you're ready, and it looks like you are, let's have a go at it." He took a fighting stance and after a few moments of gauging Cybele stance he sprung into action. He wasn't really going to hold back too much, he knew too many girls who would wipe the ground with him if he even dared to not give his best when fighting them. Granted it tended to be in games or a battle of wits and not a real battle. He came at the senshi with speed hoping to tackle Cybele since he seemed to do best with that particular move.

"Not alone, necessarily. I hunt with other people when I can find them." Which... wasn't that often, honestly, but Cybele was fine with that. She could take care of herself. "I wouldn't mind a team, if I could find one I liked. I went the first meeting of one, once, but they wanted fourteen year olds to give them money, and some other things like that, so I didn't go back," she continued. Since then, she'd sort of stopped looking. She made a mental note to maybe ask around a little. "And you?"

She shifted slightly, waiting for him to attack. Instead, he kept talking about girls, which made her smile a little and shake her head. "They exist," she promised, "And they're dangerous, although that's not hard to guess. It's the Negaverse. Flirting..." she paused for a moment to remember, "That exists, too. The first Negaverser I ever actually fought was actually very flattering... until he started insulting the White Moon and I punched him in the face." The memory made her smile. She shrugged a bit too innocently at his question, but then she shifted again, more serious this time. "I'm ready."

Then, he ran at her and she stepped out of his way, vaguely remembering some fancy trick that had been used on her several times that involved tripping someone using their own momentum and wishing she knew how to do it. Instead, she pushed at him from behind with maybe half her strength, enough to knock him over but not hurt him, she hoped. "Charging is usually a bad idea," she pointed out, and couldn't help but add, with a smirk, "Even if the person you're running at is irresistible."

She took a step back and began to circle him, not one to pile on attacks in a sparring match. A sparkle in the distance caught her attention, and she squinted at it.

While Havasu was regaining his composure, Cybele walked back over towards her coat. The glow wasn't just a trick of the moonlight. After a few steps, she saw that it was a small bottle filled with yellow liquid, which would have been suspicious or even gross if it hadn't felt distinctly magical. She gently pulled it out of the mud, then turned back, slipping it into the pocket of her coat as she walked past.

His final comment made her giggle a little and blush more than she wanted to, whether or not he was actually trying to flirt with her. Maybe it was time to focus on more serious things? Yes, that seemed like a good idea.

"Well, charging can work sometimes," she explained, still grinning as she shifted into a slightly more relaxed version of her battle stance. "If someone's distracted, maybe, or you're if close enough to them it might work." She tried to think back to the techniques she normally used, but since she'd learned from trial and error rather than training, she mostly just knew what not to do. "To get close enough, I suggest walking, maybe jogging, then attacking." To demonstrate, she took several steps towards him, broke into a sprint at the last second, and threw a light punch at his shoulder, since that seemed safer than his face. Maybe it wasn't the best advice, but she wasn't too discouraged. This was going a lot better than it could have.

"I've never taught anyone to fight before..." she admitted, because soon that was probably going to be glaringly obvious anyway.

Congratulations Cybele! You have found a potion! It sparkles and gives off a soft glow and while powered up you feel nothing sinister or alarming about it. Still you better not drink it....just yet.

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