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Michael walked onto the trainning hall, he was looking for a place to spar, he noticed Carly's voice from the distance and walked to it. He stood in the door way watching her and timmy sparring. The ice spirit dissapeare and he laughed lowly at it. Michael kissed the air and a wind blew across her cheek. It was blew for a second then stopped. He smiled hoping she would know it was him.

Mae smiled lightly as he helped her up. I would rather practice with lighter weights for now. Build up the strength. That ball almost dropped on your foot! If I had let it go a few inches sooner you would be in the hospital with a broken foot." Mae looked at the Evil weight and frowned, "Yes the lighter ones will do unti lI build up more strenght..." Mae decided she needed to rest a bit, "I am going to go to the Hot Springs for a bit. I think I need to rest. Wanna come?"

About five minutes later, Orthae and Verin glided down to the entrance gate that led to the training hall. Landing softly, they turned and looked to the sky to see if Sakura and Raine were behind them. Sure enough, they were. They walked into the training hall, passing all the private rooms and such (they didn't call ahead and make an appointment), and went straight to the public training room in the North Wing. Weapons lined the walls and dummies stood affixed to pegs, or dangled from the ceiling on a rope. Some were even animated and walking around. While Verin set about to learning what this room held within, Orthae waited at the North Wing door for their two compatriots.

And filled with neat little items, it was. The public training room was vast, and took up pretty much everything other than the private rooms and classrooms. Some dummies swayed on their ropes while others trudged around, carrying their straw-filled bodies around the room. Orthae was looking at one hanging from the ceiling when, all of a sudden, it was set ablaze. The fire ate at the straw dummy like a termite horde would eat wood. It licked the rope, which eventually snapped, sending the now-smoldering pile of burnt straw to the ground. Orthae looked hard at Verin. "What?" Verin shrugged his shoulders. "There's courses we start with, smart one. Over there." He motioned to an area where there were four conveniently pegged straw dummies lined up. "'Course 1: The Physical Course.'" Orthae started reading off the sign that had also been conveniently placed. "'Test your physical skills. Kill the dummy using only physical ability, unless magic is absolutely required. Proceed to Course 2 when you have finished.' Sounds easy enough." Verin would have no trouble with it, whereas a little bit of Material Manipulation was mandatory for Orthae. "Guess we're up first."

Verin took the first dummy. He charged foward so fast, he blurred, and then Verin was behind the dummy with two daggers at its would-be throat. A quick slash and the dummy's head fell to the floor. That had been awfully quick. Not in as much of a rush, but knowing an enemy wouldn't wait for him to waltz up to them, Orthae ran at the dummy. He sidestepped, undid his scarf, and in a quick, graceful motion, had the scarf wrapped around the dummy in an X fashion. He spoke one word of the ancient language (he knew quite a bit from Verin's teachings), "Nizzik!*" The scarf gleamed and then seemed to return to normal. Orthae yanked on his end of the scarf, making it tighten on the dummy. It eventually tightened enough to the point that it cut through the dummy in the way it had been bound, and pieces of the dummy hit the floor. Now it was Sakura and Raine's turn.

*Nizzik! -- Sharpen!

Sakura watched as the guys destroyed the dummies quickly. Looking towards her own dummy she mumbled something quietly to herself. Her wrist disappeared while a large blade covered the entire lower portion of her left arm; from her elbow down. The blade on her arm ended in five miniture blades that were bendable, almost as if they were fingers. Rushing towards the dummy, she sliced at it quite a few times, cutting the arms and head off of it. It seemed to burst with straw, spilling it all over the clean floor around it. Pulling her arm back, she wiggled her fingers until her hand slowly regained its normal form and looked over at Raine, who was the only one who had yet to destroy her dummy.

Raine looked at the dummy, at first thinking of the different kinds of things that she could do to it. A smile finally crossed her face as she raised her hand up into the air. She held her hand flat above her head, her eyes glowing a soft blue color for a moment. Within moments she had what looked like a white boomarang. Grabbing the boomarang in her hand she swung it like a frisbee, letting go once she had fully extended her arm. It swung through once sliding through the body of the dummy and then back towards her slicing through its head. She quickly grabbed onto the boomarang making sure that it was blade outward instead of into her hand.

Sakura took a moment to concentrate, she knew exactly what she was going to do. Holding her hands down by her sides, the wisp spirits began covering them completely, making her hands look almost white. Then suddenly her hands turned black, they looked like they were covered completely in black fire. Pulling her hands up, the fire on her hands rolled up into balls in the middle of her palms. Grinning she threw one of the black fire balls against the dummy in front of her, causing its head to catch on fire. Throwing the second one, it struck the dummy's body. The crackling sound the fire made was enormous, the body of the dummy was charred within seconds of the fire touching it. Grinning she turned to Raine.

"Oh..um..okay," Raine said looked at the dummy. Plucking a single white feather from her wings, she tucked them securely behind her back once again. Holding the feather before her, speaking softly she said "Hyoushin." Before she knew what she was doing, the ground began to shake violently. Wind began to pick up quickly as ice shards began coming up from the ground and snapping in two. The wind caused them to fly towards the dummy, when they hit the dummy exploded into pieces. Once the wind died down and the ice melted, the feather in her hand disappeared.

(hyoushin = ice quake)

Raine laughed, "This'll be a cinch." She walked over to her pack and pulled out a pair of blades. Their curved edges made them look more like crescent moons than blades, however the handle in between the curves of each said otherwise. Strolling up to one of the dummies she attempted to strike at it with her blade. Slicing through its arm, she noticed the dummy move away from her. "Oh no you don't," she said quickly giving it three more slices to the legs and the head. The body of the dummy quickly dropped to the ground in seconds.

Sakura clapped her hands, she had never seen Raine fight with her weapons before. Taking out her swords she knew taking down the dummy would be easy for her. Holding a sword in each hand she followed behind one of the dummies, quicking giving sharp swipes at it, taking each limb off in a matter of moments. She smiled and turned around to look at the guys.

Riecheik seeing the dummies and having not tested his skills in a while stands up and walks over to the a group of five of them three in front on to the right and one behind......he glances around so as to not acidently hurt anyone.....then he raises his right fist swinging it behind his body a get of fire springs from his hand and neatly decapitates and sauderize((melts the holes shut...just not quite sure how to spell that)) the dummies then with his left he fully exstendes it a long katana made completly of fire exstends backwards up the arm the handle in the palm of his left hand....he charges and about 3 feet away stop spining his body around the katana exstending behind him nicely cutting the dummies in half and lighting the remains on fire.....smiliong the flames quickly dissapear along with the katana....turning around sitting back on the bench i was occuping...again relizing tha still no one has even made an attempt to know him this place is not that diffrent from others he has been to