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 Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:50 pm
"Well, I guess I'm just a trusting person," Ananda said with a shrug. "I didn't think you were someone out to get me...you're not, are you?" She smiled to show she was kidding. "Thanks for the compliment, but I'm nowhere near as good as I could be. Or need to be, really. My fa...um, teacher...well, I can't ever go back to him. So I'm stuck." She sighed. "At least I'm not getting any worse."
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:59 pm
"well, you are coming along very nicely...and i am sure you will get to be far better.." he sits back down and looks up at her...
"you may sit here with me if you wish, perhaps exchange stories, tales of past experience, and many different things i am sure we can speak about. you will be the first person i have had a real conversation with since i came to this school..." he slides over giving her room to sit down if she wished it.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:23 pm
Ananda sat gingerly down. "Thank you. But I still don't have any idea who you are..." She trailed off. "I understand you being cautious, but it's a whole 'nother thing to tell a perfect stranger my life story" She groaned, and looked at him appoligetically. "That was mean. Ignore it, please." She added, laughing a little, "I guess I'm a little out of practice with talking to people, myself." She turned to face him, sitting cross-legged.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:27 pm
"meh, i am not cautious, i just find a name to be a very personal thing, something that tells so much about you that its something that should not be thrown about needlessly....My name is Zasz..." he stares out into the training area and laughs slightly....
"wow, it has been long since i have been in a dojo, i have been on the real battlefield for the past two years, its so calm and peaceful here comparetivly*SP*"
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:36 pm
"Zasz," she repeated, trying it out. "It's nice. I like it." She grinned at him. "I wouldn't know about being in a dojo, but my life was far from peaceful. I like it much better here." She smiled. "Even though I lived with my family, life was...hard, I guess." Shaking her head, she added, "I don't know how to describe it. But I had...well, have...brothers." She shrugged. "Sounds like you had it harder than me, though."
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:44 pm
"not really that hard, i grew up in battle, war is all i know and all i really know how to do, it is second nature for me" he turns and looks at her for a moment before turning away...
"be glad that you had a family to look after you, to train you, to help you...even though it was hard it was far better than being alone i am sure"
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:04 pm
Ananda looked at Zasz sadly. "Don't be so sure," she muttered fiercely. "I would have rather been alone. The only family I actually want to be related to is my cousin, and she's here. The rest of them...didn't care." Her eyes misted up slightly, and she scowled, blinking furiously to clear them. "Let's talk about something else," she said quickly. She didn't want to start crying in front of him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:16 pm
Zasz nodded his head and smiled slightly...
"so...is the only skill you have with your daggers, or are you something other than what you seem...are you a half demon or something of the sort, i have seen many different kinds here and they all seem to be accepted very well..for that i am thankful..." he turns and smiles a very small faint smile at her, trying to comfort her slightly, and also as a kind of apology for bringing up a subject she did not like.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:28 pm
Relieved, she shook her head. "No...at least, as far as I know, I'm one-hundred percent...well, not normal, but human. Not normal, because I can...well..." Closing her eyes, she teleported to the center of the training hall, then back to her seat. "Do that," she said. "Teleport myself. I've been doing it for years, I thought it was...well, normal. That everyone could do it." Shrugging, she added, "But I found out it wasn't. So I came here. I dunno how I can do it..." She trailed off into silence. "What about you?"
((Edit: I have to leave, it's late, and I won't be on tomorrow, but I'll see you after that...))
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:39 pm
he smiles at her...
"with that skill, your daggers are magnificent killing machines....you are truly blessed with such a skill...and i am acually a half demon, which is why i was rather...unwanted as a child, and growing up, which is why i joined the army in the first place, then i got kicked out because they didnt want me, then i became a mercinary, where i started being known as the black swordsman..." he looked out at the center of the dojo, remembering her teleport there, he is very impressed at her level of skill.
((Alright...see you later))
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:34 am
"But I would never use my power with my fighting," Ananda replied with a slight frown. "It feels too much like...well, like cheating. I don't want to win...or to kill, or anything, just because I can teleport myself around. It's an unfair advantage. I want to win as much as anyone, but not that way." She stopped, embarassed, realizing that if she kept going she would end up giving him a lecture. "A half demon?" She changed the subject again quickly. "It sounds like it must have been rough." She looked at him out of the corner of her eye, half expecting to see him sprout horns or a tail, then looked away, giving herself a mental slap.
((I guess I lied...))
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:00 pm
"aye, I understand that you wish to have honor when you fight, but honor is for the arena, but when you are in combat in the wars...its all about surviving...and yes, it was somewhat rough, very painful, still is at times, but i have grown used to it, used to the ridicule, but then also there are people who respect me, those who fear me, people are crazy and have many feelings, most of which i have felt at one time or another..." he turns to look at her, looking down at her daggers and smiling, nice weapons, somewhat basic but very practical
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:11 pm
"Well, I suppose..." Ananda trailed off, thinking. "I see your point," she said at last. Then, she smiled teasingly. "People are crazy? Ah...Would you care to rephrase that a little? You're talking to 'people'." She crossed her arms and stared at him, trying to look serious. It failed, and she smiled widely. It was rare she could enjoy the company of a boy...or man, she supposed...this much, and she leaned back in her seat, relaxed. Seeing him inspecting her daggers, she pulled one out and handed it to him, hilt-first, gripping the blade carefully. "They're nothing special, but they work," she commented.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:38 pm
The first place Shun went into was the flame manipulatation room. He just walked in and sighed with relief as he saw he could set up his own dummy. So he used his favorite-a straw filled leather man with a painting of a target strait in the stomach. He started to warm up his hands by sending energy to them. As he felt the heat going from his hands to his bone sword he thought about why the bandits in the forest looked so familiar almost frustrated thinking so hardly about who they could've been. When a burst of flames had ignited on his weapon he stopped thinking about it and took a nice chop at the dummy but of course he dosen't have a zillion dummies so it was enchanted and every time he
chopped the piece would fade back for him to hopelessly swing at.
"Ahh what a life I have" he said with a sarcastic sigh.
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:21 pm
((You're not there yet, but you people are pretty close to one liners. This is just a friendly reminder. You're doing pretty well, but some crew might confuse the lengths, so try and lengthen as much as you can! Arigatou gozaimasu! ^^))
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