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Willow stood there watching the kid and reading him." Well his name is Ron and he is the son of Ares"she thought. "Ron come here I want to try something on you". Willow blushed as the boy looked up in surprise, but she stood firm, as tall as her four feet eleven inches would let her. As he walked toward her she broke the circle and placed her sword on the ground next to her, hilt up. Once he was standing in front of her she drew the power of Hectate and told him " your pretty good at Wing Chun and I understand that it is a form Karate, but I want to try something". She motioned to hold his hand out infront of her curled into fists. Willow held her staff (wich was complete cesetial bronze coated with silver and had a beatiful ice blue gem at the top) in one hand and held her free hand over Ron's fists."You have heard that spellcaster's or mages as other people call us can cast spells and are only used for bad right?" She paused and continued on, "Well not only can we cast spells, but we can enhance yours or our weapons or whatever you fight with". She glanced up at him letting it sink in that she wasn't some 12 year old girl that can't do anything ,but that she was the daughter of Hectate, goddess of magic. "So what I need you to do is consentrate on me and think about becoming one with the frost" Willow closed her eyes and consentrated on Ron's hands and arms as her hand glowed a frosty blue. Willow could feel Ron's mind at that he was working with her, but not for long. His demons hated that someone was in his mind and they instantly moved to block his mind. Willow cried out in surprise and boke her consentration and whe was pushed away by his demons. Willow stood there panting hard her pale ice blue eyes wider with fear and paler than before. She swayed once, her eyes fluttered and she started falling to the ground unconcous.

Willow's eyes fluttered open and stared at Ron with scared eyes. "I'm so sorry Ron!" she cried, very close to tears. Willow tried to sit up but spots danced in front of her eyes and the arena swam in and out of focus. "I didn't mean to do that, and I should of asked you first" she felt a tear run down her cheek. Slowly Willow stood up and leaned heavily on her staff, breathing hard and her auburn hair drenched sweat. Willow took a shaky step toward the exit of the arena not caring if anyone was following her to help her."I can't do this anymore" she creid and stumbled a few steps and fell to her knees. "I'm sorry I bothered you Ron" she mumbled as she shakily rose to her feet, looking very pale. Willow took a couple more shaky steps and and collapsed again unconcous at the entrance of the arena, her energy drained.
(( hehe...... sweatdrop sorry bout that, willow didn't really mean to, she just never really had any friends and she wants someone to connect to,basically a friend or a boy friend, but she is so very shy. and thanks again I'll try to remember that next time. :3 ))

Cole walked into the arena, he could see other kids training." I think I'll start by myself," he thought. Cole removed his hands from his pockets, the rings on his hands vibrated as he brought them closer together. He slammed them together and a bright red light shined from the eyes of the Lion and Bull rings. Suddenly, the gauntlets appeared on his hands and went up to his elbows. The Raging Lion on the right, and the Charging Bull on the left. Cole noticed dummies in front of a boulder, he charged them as fast as he could. He through a right punch threw one dummy's head, hitting the boulder, which cracked in half. He threw a round house kick into the center of another dummy which caused it to fall to the ground. Cole walked up to the dummy, and slammed his left fist into the center of it, causing the ground to crack. Steam shot out of the Bulls head on impact. Cole stood up, "Its not enough."

Ikari looked over at her sister. "you know he can't hear you over the clanging of weapons. its too loud" she said somewhat covering her ears. "what's was the point coming here when everyone is busy training?" she thought.

Cole was startled by the voice he heard in his head, he swiftly looked around and noticed Willow waving at him. "Hey," Cole replied in his head. The gauntlets shined on his fists, he swiftly threw a right hook into a dummy that was behind him. Sending it flying, it slammed against the wall with a loud thud, as he turned to face Willow who was with another girl.

Willow nudged her sister foreword and smiled, " hey Cole, this Ikari, my older half-sis." Willow waved and snuck away heading to the camp fire to meet Ron.

Cole was a little confused at what just happened,but he paid it no attention, the only thing on his mind was getting stronger. He had to be able to protect people, he needed it, it was a surge through his body that kept telling him to train, to be the strongest so no one would get hurt. As Cole continued to train it dawned on him, "what if I hurt people, what if I become responsible for suffering?" It hit him hard, he had to leave the arena and think. "Perhaps time by the camp fire will help me," he thought as he headed there.