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Once in the public training area, he found himself a punching bag. He removed any excess weight, storing it a neat pile on a nearby area of the floor.

He gave the punching bag a hard push to start it swing and then proceeded to wail on it with relentless force. Paying no attention to proper pacing or limitations, he continued a barrage of kicks and punches that sent the punching bag in all different directions. If it came at him, he didn't dodge it but instead, punched or kicked it back in another direction.

He kept pushing himself like this because he had to. The only thing he knew how to do was survive and that meant adapting. To adapt he would have to become strong. To do that, he had to train.

Nayru totally lost track of why they came, as her eyes wandered aroud the room and hallway. ".... so many weapons..." she said gitty, then started running around in circles, looking at everything.

"Woooowww.....", then slapping herself in the face to get back to reality and turned to Joy with a determined and serious look. "No.. I must stay focused! This is the perfect room to learn how to control myself."

Nayru ran over to a wall that had ninja weapons on it and picked a shuriken off the wall and showed it to Joy with a smile, giving one to her. "This is a shuriken, a throwing dagger used by ninja!" she then pointed at a punching back off to the side. "Try to throw it at that bag there"

Nayru blinked at how Joy threw the dagger and how fast it was throw with presion.

She then jumping in the air cheering loudly for Joy. "Woooooow!!! That was sooo good Joy!! Such a unique technique will do wonderings on the battlefield!" she said excitement, "Doing that could really help in bad situations! I'll have to teach myself to do that one day when I become #1 ninja!"

Nayru runs back to the wall and grabs a kunai off it, then runs back to Joy. "This is another ninja weapon, a Kunai dagger!" she said with spirit, then put it in Joy's hand so that Joy didnt hold it incorrectly to cut herself.

"You hold it like this Joy~" she said giggling to herself as she realized that she had become a teacher, as she cupped Joy's hand over the handle, so the dagger was pointing out away from her to the left. "This one of the most important weapons that ninja use!" she said proudly, "You use it as both a dagger and a throwing dagger! Double use!"

Nayru looked around over her glasses for a training target. Her eyes came across a heavy and thick medicine ball, the spouting "Ah-ha! A target!". She pranced over to the ball and bent down to lift it, then struggled to lift it off the ground with red cheeks. Making grunting noises as she lifted it to a weight lifting bench, she finally got it steady on the bench. "Whew..." she sighed, then turned to Joy. "Okie, now lets see if you can knock it off the side of the bench by throwing it in the correct place with enough force!" she said with a happy smile and a clap.

While in meditation, he did his best to concentrate only on his breathing. Whatever surrounded him did not matter. He needed to clear his mind and learn to concentrate on the here and now.

He sat completely still and took deep breaths. This helped him relax a bit which felt goood to him. Nothing he tried before had accomplished this task.

Acid approached the training hall..... it was one of the few places he hadn't ventured to yet. Now one might wonder why not? Everyone needs to train or they become weak, but Acid was obviously different. The constant stream of electricity that ran through his continuesly worked his muscles keeping them in perfect pristine condition. He stepped through the arc of the doorway and into darkness. Although his atire was mainly black Acid was easy to pick out, his body seemed to reflect the darkness around making him perfectly visible as if he had a white boarder line. He moved through the room his eyes glowing to compensate for the darkness, as he scanned his eyes rested on the solitary Maru...

Acid stopped, this was close enough. He didn't really know Maru and wasn't about to drop all of his inhibitions. "We'll hello, I see you've made a complete recovery from your wounds... I guess thats a good thing." Acid shifted his weight as he reached into his coat pocket and withdrew a long tightly wrapped cigarello. He placed it softly inbetween his lips and flipped open his silver zippo letting the flame warm the tip as he inhaled. The first puff of smoke was a baby blue and it lit the room faintly as it hovered around crackaling softly in the cool air. Acid smiled coyly at Maru his eyes boring into the man as if trying to read his mind. "I'm listening."

"Thus far?" Acid smoothed his left eyebrow " Thus far I require more information.. such as, who are your superiors and how exactly do they wish to see more of my abilities?" Acid took another pull on his cig sending forth a rush of now magenta smoke, the rolled and dipped and churned over itself as it floated weightless in the air. The atmosphere in the room could have been cut into several small pieces with a severely sharp blade.... As this thought passed through his mind Acid understood why a group of eccentrics might want him to join them...