|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:34 am
Kim walked a few blocks and went to the subway...she switched her clip loads in her Glocs to silver nitrate rounds just in case and went down to the platform. There was still commuters of a sort heading home or going somewhere they as yet knew.
Kim just hoped everything went quietly...
(exit to subway)
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:46 am
Kathryn moved almost drunkenly through the crowds on the side walk, going the opposite way as most people went to parties or to their homes. The noise was defaning to her, though hardly anyone in the crowd spoke. Damn that ********. I swear, when I find him I'll shoot off his balls and kill him in the most painful way I can think of. She stumbled into an alley way, trying to get away from the opressing noise. Shut up! Just shut up and leave me alone!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:22 pm
It was this weekend that the contractors came in and started the renovations starting with the electircal wiring and plumbing and the new
Boiler heating untit. The tenents were a bit confused at first but as the projects moved on they got excited that the place was getting fixed up instead of cosmetic make over. The first floor was the major concern at present to get the projects done and Kim was sparring no expense for the place being done; she had two shifts one for the day and one for the nite
with a bonus if the job was done in a timely fashion and passed inspection.
In the meantime Kim went to China Town to find Master Po' Mei to aid her in learn to center one's Chi and to learn how to focus one's mind to achieve
one's goal. It took her several hours to find Po' Mei's address and Kim went there and petitioned to see Master Po' Mei... she waited calmly while the servant went to speak with his master. "You may come in." was all that
the servant said as he led Kim thru a twisting maze to the home of Po' Mei
Kim gazed in awe at his home simple but beautiful in it's simplicity. a student stepped out of Po' Mei's house and came to stand before Kim..
"What is it you want of Po' Mei..he is a very busy man." Kim said "I wish to
learn from him that I may better focus my skills and especially the mind
thru discipline." The student suddenly attacked Kim with blinding speed
and it was barely blocked by her....Kim fought back using her (Wing Chun)
style to keep him from get out of her range and use his most potent
skilles.for she recognize the student 's style as (Dragon Fist). Quickly he went to (Mantis) style and Kim automatically went to (Eagle Claw) and they
whirled around the front of the house in a deadly dance because Kim realized shortly that this student was not playing around.
"Enough" said a voice and the elderly man standing before the house commanded that both student and Kim stopped. "What do you wish of me?"
asked Po' Mei your fighting skills are superb. Kim responded "I wish to/ need to study about the chi and discipline of the mind if I'm to survive.
Let me show you about myself and Kim let her eyes go black and her fangs grow; basically showing him that she was a vampire. The student stepped back but Po' Mei didn't show any emotion at all. "With your training
I seek to be able to perform abilities that will aid myself and protect people from my hunger and maybe allow me to co-exist with humans as I
once did.
"Show me what you have learned." With that Kim showed Po' Mei what she could do and he looked at Kim "very well I will teach you, but you must feed only when I say you may and you can not kill." Kim dropped to one knee and bowed.."Thank you teacher." You will also live here until I say you can go out amongst the humans...these are my terms .. "I will have to get my belongings teacher and leave instructions to those who presently work for me. Po' Mei nodded and said "Do so for we start your training
tomorrow."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:48 pm
Kim left Po' Mei's home and hurriedly went back to her home and packed
the things she would need for her studies plus clothing. And she made it clear with the contractors that the job was to continue in her abscence and that her lawyer would pay them the balance when the work was complete
and passed inspection.
Kim then took the taxi back to China Town and made her way back to Po' Mei's home and was given a room to call her own...special curtains were put in place to block the sunlight from entering during the day. "Be ready to start your training first thing in the morning." the student said and Kim nodded and thanked him. She rolled out the futon there and covered herself with blankets and fell asleep.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:05 pm
Kathryn sat down in the alley, curled up and in a daze. The voices wouldn't stop and she was sure that she was going insane. What the ******** was going on?! She was so weak and breathing was hard. Oh God, why wasn't someone helping her? "Why..." she managed to whisper, holding her knees to her chest and gasping for air. What was going on with her?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:15 pm
Kim was woken up that morning and was shocked to see it was daylight..
the student,she had fought, brought a blanket and covered Kim up and led her to a darkened room lit by only candle light and the aroma of herbs and incence. There upon a dias sat Po' Mei and both her and the student bowed to show respect and following the student's lead went into the lotus
position and waited.
Po' Mei had both Kim and the other student named Cho breath slowly in a rythm to clear thier 'Chakkras' and open the energy flow thru out thier bodies. Kim had a particularly hard time doing so and the harder she tried
the harder it became...Po' Mei noticed this and said. "Do not try just let it flow and 'guide' the energy to the points of the body. Kim relaxed and tried to follow his direction and it worked to a point she could feel the energy flowing but still had some trouble with just guiding the energy, but she made a little progress. Next came the katas designed not for combat but originally but to move the energy flows thru the Acupuncture points based on the time of day..." to master these katas a person may heal, paralyze, cause pain or kill by striking the proper points." Cho practiced for 8 hours straight and then left while Po' Mei kept Kim there a total of 16 hours. Afterwhich he stopped her and said "Rest now ..your meal is in your
room we shall begin again in the morning."
Kim went back to her room and found it lit with candles and a bowl of what could only be blood(not human) but blood none- the-less. There also was a book with blank pages and a quill and ink along with her college books.
Kim drank the blood and then tended to her college courses. She later figured the the blank book was for her to put down the various techniques
she was learning and how they worked for her..writing it was no problem but drawing was something else again..she was not a great artist. After this
was all done she figured she would have 4 hours of sleep left to her.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:23 am
Slowly, Kerrigan emerged from Hunters. She was bundled up in a fitted black jacket, a green scarf wrapped around her neck with matching gloved, her black pants extended down to cover her black heeled boots. Her black and red curls were pulled away from her face in a loose and yet elegant bun as she turned the corner, walking down the sidewalk. Christmas was always a tough time for her since she had been turned. For some reason this was the time of the year that she wished she was human more than any other time. Shivering slightly underneath her ensemble she shoved her way through the crowded streets. Once again it was that time of year that she began to dread the most...Christmas shopping.
All around her she saw the people bustling by her with packages and bags, young couples holding hands as they teased each other with the whole "i got you something cool but I am not going to tell you what it is" game. While it had been cute in her youth, now she just found it annoying. Shoving her hands deeper in her pockets, she rounded the corner, a sigh escaping her in the form of a burst of white steam from her lips. Things just did not seem right for this time of the year. She was not sure what to think since the whole thing with the tape had happened. On the one side, she did not really care what Will had done in Mauser's building. She had murderes just as many that night. Hell, she was the one that brought the whole building down. However, she also was not sure that a man who cannot control his powers as well as most could be trusted in times where the immortals were getting more bold, and the humans were getting more vulnerable.
Running a gloved hand back through her hair, another sigh escaped her. She needed some place alone to think. Somewhere that she knew no one would be...a place that was abandoned even. Well...what better place to try and understand the conflict with Will than the ruins of where it had happened. Popping the collar of her jacket up to try and block some of the cold wind that was flowing through the streets, she turned, changing her couse for the remains of Archangel Enterprises.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:30 am
Kim was awakened 4 hours later and got dressed and cleaned up then waited for Cho to lead her to the room; there in the room were two life sized wooden dummies with plastic tubing and small ball bearings inside the tubing.. They went thru the breathing exercises and Kim did a bit better than yesterday... after that came the katas and then the work of learning the the 'Acupunture' points to cause certain effcts... again Cho spent only 8 hrs while Kim spent 16 and and then she was released for the remainder of the day.. Kim spent her time carefully writing and drawing the lesson she had learned for the day..that being done went to sleep.
The next day was like the first and Kim could actually feel her chi moveing thru her body guided thier by her subconscious and it was a tingling sesnsation to her.. The difference being today she was the practice dummy
for Cho and she learned why...he was much more skilled in theses arts than she was and the master was trying to train her up to Cho's level or as close as he could. Cho with his techniques paralized her various limbs
and an attack that would kill an ordinary person but it just cost Kim excruating pain as she fought to regain her breath. By doing this for 16 hours Kim learned the the effect of the strikes changed with the time of day...Kim was glad she had total recall so she remembered what had happen and could duplicate the techniques. The next day after the exercises it was Kim's turn and she struck Cho like she had done to her except for the killing blow, that she did on the practice dummy.
The next day he had Kim and Cho spar full contact and Kim was hard pressed to keep him off her then she heard Po' Mei tell her to let go and let the energy flow.. Kim tried and she paid for it by recieving several hard blows which could great pain...but at the end of the match, which lasted a full 30 minutes Kim was beginning to get the hang of it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:55 am
Over the course of the month Kim practiced 16 hours a day except when Po' Mei allowed her to go to college to take her finals and she scored A- to
A+ on all her tests. The girls went out and celebrated and some were curious as to why they hadn't see Kim in awhile. Kim explained hat she was training in her martial arts techniques and it consumd a great amount of time and she wouldn't be taking any classes next semester. Kim stayed with the girls at a club til 2am and then left to get back to the house and get some sleep.
Next came the quivering palm technique and Kim excelled in it since it had part of her original training but she felt the improvement by centering and then let the Chi move to her striking hand. She by know knew the Acupuncture points and what times of day they changed... she also trained to toughen up her finger that she could use them to do the strikes with them. Her progress was coming along very well and by the end of the month she was almost the equal to Cho, who still could put her in her place
...but for Kim it hardly matter.
Now that she had mastered for the most part the beginings Po' Mei started to teach how one could dampen one's Chi and there-by thier aura to a point it could not be seen and to sense anothers aura and its' power. Kim was up practicing 20 hours a day practicing all that Po' Mei had shown her.
Now Kim only had to have a formalized class of 8 hour but still she practiced for 16 and she became able to levittate herself off the floor and hold it for 30 minutes.. he psyhic shield becam stronger in that she still couldn't stop AP rounds but slow them significantly down...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:56 am
Kim sat in the Lotus positionand let the energy flow to her 'third' eye and let her chi flow out and act as an antena and found out she could pick up more than surface thoughts now though most of the time it was a snipet here and there..she was making progress. This was intense in that also she
needed to eat less often (about every third day) before her hunger began
to make her antsy...then PO' Mei let her have blood but had found out this was a stop gap...she needed psyhic energy to properly feed. So Po 'Mei let
Kim hunt with the vow of not taking a life..to which she took.
Kim hunted only the gang members that were causing the most trouble for the people in the area... gang related violence became much lower and
the people were grateful to whoever thier benefactor was. Kim wondered what the people would think if they knew the truth about the benefactor.
Wit Kim making good progress Po' Mei let her go out into the community and to the hotel she called home to see how the work was progressing while she had been away. The new heating system was in and working on
the 1st thru 3rd floors as was the new plumbing...The new UV filtered bullet
proof glass windows had been installed. Satisfied that things were going well she went to Dante's Inferno for a little reality check of sorts and the people she knew there were glad to see her except for the fact she wasn't in the proper clothes. Kim only stayed a hour then it was back to Master Po' Mei.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:10 pm
Yanni'n sheilded her strange ensnaring crystal-glass blue eyes with sunglasses before going out into the city.
((Enter City))
Her black over coat and blood red scarf flowed as the wind pushed against it as well as her pale skin and the braids that dangled from her swirled hair into a bun.
The wind was very cold as was the weather looked, the clouds were placed in such a thick layer that it looked like it was going to snow.Yanni'n loved cloudy days; for reasons unknown to her, the depressing weather made her somewhat happy and comforted by the blanket of gray skies above. And i filled her with an uncommon joy to go outside and just enjoy it being gray and depressing.
The city sidewalks were crowded like it always were, the cabs were uncountable as always, and who could forget the constant honking. But when you live in New York it doesn't really bother you.
As Yanni'n made her way to the shopping centers and browsed at the merchendaise in the windows as she passed by, she noticed a few familiar faces that seemed to stick out as she walked by the open doors of the shops. They were all very crowded and according to her 'dreadful seasons of the year' calender they were all christmas shopping.
Not anytime soon. she thought to herself as she passed the windows. What she couldn't understand was why eveyone was inside shopping and continuing boring habits when they should be out and enjoying such nice and calming weather.
A large gust of wind had just then, brushed through a large crowd knocking many over and sent many hats papers and scarves flyin and oddly rushed towards central park.
She suddenly got the strangest feeling in the pit of her stomach and continued to walk about the streets. Thinking hard and long.
They wouldn't attack in broad day light and there are to many people people at this time for them to hunt, that would cause a riot. Hmm... something tells me i should investigate. Then again that something was never right.
Yanni'n knew it was the wrong thing to do to turn away from suspicion, but she decided she would head back to and see what the others were up to before she came back to investigate.
((Exit City))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:12 pm
Edith was wreckless as ever, not bothering to slow down her driving speed even though it had snowed. She was confident in her driving skills, perhaps a little too confident, but so long as she did not crash she was good. The car skidded and she ran a few lights, but so did everyone, didn't they? As she drove she had popped on her mp3 player, currently listening to 'Fork in the Road' by Atreyu. She'd always liked loud songs and right now she needed something loud to keep her mind off of everything else.
She did not like thinking about everything, about the past, about the future, what was to come. It just made her feel sick somehow and she did not feel like dealing with her feelings right now. Her song had just finished and was now shuffling to another random song and as it was she heard a Christmas ad and was reminded just how close Christmas was. God, she had not started shopping at all. She hated shopping. Too many people. No, it wasn't the people that bothered her, it was the fact that she could never figure out what people wanted.
Though still getting used to the city, Edith knew her way around pretty well and as soon as she saw an ice cream shop, she stopped the car and popped right on in. The people currently on their shift looked at her a little funny as it was so cold outside and most people did not want ice cream when it was so cold out. Edith merely smiled, brought out her wallet, plopped down a twenty and said, "I'd like two large chocolate icecream cones please, double scoop."
The people on the other side of the counter were almost insant at getting what she had asked for and her change came to her about two seconds later. "Thanks," she said with a smile and wave. She then proceeded to walk out of the store and rejoin Tokeru in the car.
She walked around to her side of the car and got in. "Hey," she called to Tokeru, shoving his icecream in front of his nose, then shoving it into his nose when he did not wake up, "get up. Ice cream's here in case you did not register me shoving it into your nose." She chuckled and waited for Tokeru to get up, wondering how long it would take.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:19 pm
Tokeru almost jumped out of his seat at the feeling of cold ice-cream in his nose. He almost attacked the ice-cream cone, when he realized what it was, and when he realized who was holding it.
He looked at edith as if she was insane. "Please" he said while wiping the ice-cream off his nose "Never do that again. It's one thing to be woken up by a kiss, or a tiger licking your face, it's quite another to be woken up by having and ICE CREAM CONE, stuck into your nose."
Without another word, he took is and started eating it, thanking her in mid-bite for the cone.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:26 pm
Tokeru had done it, and it had made her burst out laughing. The look on his face when he responded to the cold cream shoved against his nose had made her burst out laughing, it had been too much, too funny for her to handle. "Oh my God! You should have seen your face! You looked so ******** funny! Oh no... Oh my... Whoo! Calm down here Edith!"
She watched him as he ate his cone, practically finished it already. Watching Tokeru eat his icecream cone reminded her of when she was a kid and how much she had loved icecream. Her favorite had been chocolate, hell, it still was. And when she had been a kid she had gone into an icecream eating contest with some of her friends and had emerged victorious from them all. She was a bottomless pit when it came to icecream, unless it was tiger tiger, she hated that stuff.
"You're welcome," she answered, able to define his thanks though it was muffled by him having the icecream cone so close and him having icecream in his mouth, "for the icecream. I would say I hope that you were enjoying it but it's pretty evident that you are." She smiled then offered him the second cone. "Here," she said with a nod of her head, "take this. I thought you might want another one."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:22 pm
Tokeru grabbed the cone, and in revenge, stuffed it in her face.
"HA, how do YOU like that missy."
He then quickly ate the rest of the cone while she was still stunned of being attacked by him, and before she could get revenge on him.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
