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"I don't have anything I don't miss, except the bullies...." Raven looked down and immediatly started braiding her hair in a tight braid. "Otherwise, my teachers and my family are really nice and kind."

Raven raised her eyebrow. This person doesn't know what a bully is? She thought with disbelief but instead said "A bully is a person who verbally or physically harrasses you, I've dealt with a bit of both types." Raven started braiding her hair in smaller braids and fell silent. She was realising some of the bigger braids to make the smaller ones. Raven painfully thought of the female bully that had pulled her hair and harassed her for months..... Brooke, was it? Raven hated that bully with a passion although their were others, they had never resorted to violence before Brooke. After Brooke, there were at least two others but Raven avoided them until she had to tell on them. ( Brooke is a real bully but I told on her biggrin though my parents don't know about anything other then her calling me bad names.)

"At least not my bullies are on the island but others, exercizing human cruelity might be here or might not be here." Raven told her "But I'm absolutely certain that moreau would bring a couple of bullies to the island for fun." Raven hands were in fists, proper fists because of her karate training. Raven opened her hands, circled them once until they were above her head then breathed out with her hands going down. "The bullies deserve it." Raven changed the subject. "So.... I took karate, I'm a blue belt, a belt from 1st degree black belt." Raven smiled and tryed to act cheerful again. "Would you like to see a kata? You'd probebly be good at a kata if you did one since some are as fluid as a dance."

"It's ok, Karate is a martial art, a way of fighting." Raven said "The belts are a way of telling how much you have learned, originally coming from a sorta gross way." Raven went into a front leaning stance and did a lunge punch to demonstrate. "I'm a blue belt which means I'm two belts away from knowing all the katas and basics I'm supposed to know." Raven quickly did her favorite kata Tai do, which was very fluid, naming the moves at the same time. "Eastern Dragon, Western dragon, crane, leopard, high leopard, tiger, southern dragon, lion, heaven and earth, ecipse, northern dragon, crossbolt, willow, door, something, monkey, old tiger." Raven smiled and bowed "That's a kata."

"Time yes because the slightest mistake ment another four or five classes before you could try again for a stripe." Raven said "The kata I did isn't a part of the normal katas but it's my favorite." Raven looked her over. "I think you could do a kata, if you dealt with it more as a dance then a fight." Raven said "I was doing it too fast, as though it were a fight when you could probebly d the kata slower"