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Yawgmoth's grin only widened at her pain. The thought of just....hitting her while no one was around and saying it was a training accident was almost too tempting buuut, he'd made a bet and he'd lost. He could at least man up to that. Come to think of. She vanished. Cursing under his breath. "Stupid girl. Forgot to name her price. She did win after all" he said scratching his chin. Gathering her clothes he put his shoes and shirt back on after dusting them off. "Wonder what she'll ask for? Probably nothing we'd like to do. No matter. A deal is a deal." he said to himself with a wicked laughter as his laughter continued it sounded like he was drowning or rather, laughing under water. It was at this point that his body degraded into liquid and the laughter ceased. The pile of black oil like liquid darted off in some random direction and vanished from sight after a few seconds.

rook had taken little notice of of yawgmoth's and ziven's scrap and was only conserned on weather or not yawgmoth was going to attack him but he begane to notice something about the lightning giant,it was giveing off an eletrical energy that was more elemental than convetional.rook swung wth his sword but not hitting the giant instead the beast was drawn to it and mearly became a wave of lightning stuck to his sword,rook decided to store this energy for later use.the voice came back yes,this is what we were testing,your elemental abilities were sometjing we had to be sure of.well here is your gift a glowing ball of energy appeard infront of rook grab it said the voice.rook grabbed the ball and suddenly felt a surge of pain"arrrrrrrrrrrrggggghh!!"he yelled out in pain,falling o his knees.(new abilitiey learnd:enrgy beam,explanation in bio) dont disappoint us dragon,you know what you can do now.said the voice.rook stood up and looked at his hands,two balls of energy formed"cool"he said looking at the energy.then he mearly brought up targets and began shooting.

Yawgmoth's form came walking from a distance. He continued his motion until he found a suitable tree to lean against which he did. Crossing his arms over his chest and closing his crimson eyes he waited for the girl to show so he could pay his debt back. He was hoping no wandering eyes were around for he was about to divulge the secrets of his movement to someone and he'd only promised her, not the rest of the place. Making up his mind he decided if too many people were watching he'd just take her to the planar void he controlled and manipulate the reality there to simulate these same grounds, only without the bother of other living things. Though those thoughts of taking her to the void soon turned perverse and he shook his head. "Bah. We can't do that. We would end up doing something that make Aliator hate us." he said dismissing the idea as he mumbled to himself. Hopefully she'd just show up while everyone was gone.

Yawgmoth's eyes opened at the sound of the pop. Looking her over once he uncrossed his arms and stood up from the tree. "Did you practice as we asked? You should have the timing of your own legs down before we go into any further explanation. That is the first and most basic step to this. Difficult to master but the reward for someone of your build will be great. You will be faster than us because you are lighter." he said flatly awaiting her answer.

"Firm enough foundation. But to pull it off your timing must be exact, down to the finest moment. With work it will not be as difficult as we make it sound. Now then, we're going to demonstrate. Slowly. It's going to look odd but watch our legs carefully. Very carefully." Yawgmoth said reaching down and rolling up his pant legs so they were above his knees. He began to walk forward. Each step however denting the ground. She could see the way in which his leg muscles contracted from the tension and the moment the ball of his foot hit the ground he unleashed the tension and slammed his heel down at the same time causing the force to bend the earth beneath his feet inward. He walked a mere ten steps. "See? Part two of this lesson. The moment you release the force you must slam your heel into the ground and using the force to push you forward. The force should be all you can put into your legs. Even the man who taught this to us, you've met him, can dent the ground. His leg muscles aren't half as large as ours are. It is not size. It is muscle control that is key." He explained. "Try to dent the ground using these two things, just walk at first. Like we just did. Then we'll move up to a slight jog. Once you can jog and leave dents in the ground. We'll move on to the next step."

Yawgmoth paused. "Not bad. Small marks in the ground already, believe it or not we didn't expect you to dent the ground at all for a bit. You do learn fast. Pause for a moment. We're still on the walking this way part. Your dents in the dirt aren't large enough to move onto jogging yet. Let us explain a little tip, have you ever noticed how we bounce in place at the beginning of most of our fights and then we suddenly vanish from the normal eye sight spectrum? Sure you have. We did this to you just the other night. The bouncing in place is our way of keeping track of our muscle tension. We tense and release with each bounce and get ready to spring into the run. So. Why don't you give it a shot. Bounce a little in place as you've seen us do, as you do repeat the same process we've been saying, tense, release at the point of contact. When you feel you're ready take a step forward and continue to walk forward. Consider the jumping in place a warm up, that even we, a master of this technique, do every time. Go on, give it a try." Yawgmoth explained stepping back a little bit and waiting for her to give it a shot.

Yawgmoth sighed for a moment watching. "Now then, perhaps we should explain further. The dents you make will not be as large as ours are, ever. This is simply because we are a larger creature than you. Therefore we weigh more and we exert more pressure onto the ground. This weight is also why you will be faster if we both ran with this technique at top speed. Because you weigh less you have far less wind resistance than we do, making you cut through air faster. Your progress is grand though. The dents you've already made should suffice. Now then. Once more. Observe, and then attempt yourself. We're going to jog now." Yawgmoth bounced in place a little. "Start with the few bounces and just jog lightly. It will be much harder than walking because your feet will touch the ground more rapidly and you will have to tense and release your leg muscles at a much much faster rater than walking. When you've mastered the job there is but one more trick to learn before you can run. And then when you can run. All that is left to do is practice the technique running to improve your control. Because we will be honest, when you learn to run like this it will probably only be in one direction at a time. To turn on a dime and dodge and move easier while running with this technique takes no extra steps, just practice as you know your own body and how quickly you will be able to turn. We also predict, that because of your lighter frame and agility you will be able to turn sharper angles while running than we will with much less risk. Remember the other night when you hit us? We had to go from stand still to running left. This put a significant strain on our left ankle from having to turn to sharp. For your body type, this won't be but a minor bother. Sure your ankle might ache for a moment but you should not risk breaking it like we did. Our weight is greater and because we exert more pressure on the ground we also do the same to our bones. Turning sharply adds an angle to that pressure which is dangerous territory. So even you will have to be careful not to turn too sharp until you're comfortable with moving at that pace in different directions or you will snap an ankle bone. Now then. Enough rambling. Let's try jogging" He said as he continued to bounce lightly in place and upon his foot hitting the ground he broke into a light jog moving a little faster than running, denting the ground a little deeper this time because of the speed and the pressure. Which is what he expected her to do with practice. This would probably take a little longer to learn than the walk because of how rapidly her feet would be touching the ground and going up and repeating the cycle of motion.

Yawgmoth stopped his own motion and watched her from a slight distance she kept stopping. Crossing his arms over his chest he decided to simply rest. Despite how fast she learned he didn't think she was going to get passed this step in the learning of this technique as quickly as the others. This took the control learned in the first two steps and applied it to swift motion. Not as swift as running but it was one step towards the finality of it all.