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Tabby was amazed her opponent could take so much punishment and still be moving. Something was weird about him. Tabby ran at him again, pulling her arm back for another heavy punch, though she didnt intend on punching.

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Dante felt his knee connect with her shoulder and smiled, before his eyes widened when he saw her foot coming. No matter how unfair it was, he really didn't want another broken bone. He used air trick while he was still in mid air, seeming to teleport about ten feet away from her. "Alright, you've got the stage down. Now it's time to learn aa skill or two from the stage. The wavering fist and iron trap techniques. For the wavering fist technique you simply wave your undominant hand before punching with your dominant hand. This should send me skidding backwards, and if i wasn't prepared it should knock me flat on my a**. The second skill clench is basically a nearly impossible to escape from grab at your target's throat or arm or whatever the hell you wanna grab." Dante explained both of the techniques, reading them directly from the scroll.
((1 post for wavering fist and... im too tired to do the math for iron trap.))

Wavering Fist- E
The user from their stance, waves their off hand, quickly following with a direct fist to the opponents body. This is a quick and effective movement, as it will knock an enemy off balance if braced, and if unbarred usually sends them tumbling.

Iron Trap- D
The student grabs the opponent by the throat or another limb, performing a sort of death grip. From here, they will clamp on as long as the student has the strength to carry on (5 pts per post).

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I will not bow, I will not break

Go ahead and bite me...I swear I wont fight back but you'll be the one in pain

Lillith moved calmly towards the scrolls interested in just what was present to learn, she was hoping there was a scroll on Dim Mak as it was the style her mother had been fond of and often used against their father when he got out of hand like her brother. She knew Liam also had an interest in it though his was more to satisfy the sadist in him than to possess a skill able to disable opponents without killing. She shook her head as she considered just how much they were like yin and yang yet she couldn’t help loving her other half all the same.

(Dim Mak 1/5 Lillith)

Liam for his part shadowed his sister once he heard their were scrolls for fighting located in the area, they had discussed it many a late night and while she was well suited to martial arts in general he knew that at best he could spend his entire life mastering just a single style but would need to rely on weapons while she seemed to absorb techniques and movements like a sponge. He shook his head at the quirks of fate that had made her kinder and stronger and him more outgoing and cruel. With a shrug he followed her and moved as one to grasp the Dim Mak scroll.

(Dim Mak 1/5 Liam)

Lillith usually deferred to her brother in public but in the case of a martial arts scroll she gave him a sharp glance before nodding and moving at his side to sit as she grasped the left side of the scroll and he grasped the right. They unrolled it with what could be considered super natural or preternatural unity as their eyes skimmed the scroll as one before a quirk of her eyebrow indicated that she was surprised at how the training for it would start and a knitting of his brows indicated confusion.

(2/5 Liam)

With a nod Lillith turned to her brother and began explaining it to her brother mentally instead of verbally, Okay so basically the first step is to meditate and increase our awareness of energy so that we can choose to sense other’s energy and by extension learn how to manipulate it and turn it against them. So to begin with close your eyes and meditate with me. I don’t think it will take us long if we meditate together because I can shift our energy until you’re conscious of it. You might even say it’s a style that suits us.

(2/5 Lillith)

Liam took a breath as he faced his sister and scooted forward as they had when they were smaller and in punishment together. He sat cross legged so that their knees just touched and placed his ands in the open space between their feet while waiting for his sister to place her hands in his. The simple contact of their knees was enough to make him feel well and send energy pulsing full circuit from him to her and back without the weakening that usually occurred when they were not in contact.

(3/5 Liam)

Lillith felt the energy strengthen in her body as his knees touched hers and smiled slightly at her twin as she placed her hands in his and began breathing deeply allowing the energy to simply flow between them like the tide. It was a rhythmic ebb and flow that moved from one to the other and sometimes to both and back like a ripple in a bucket raising her awareness and strengthening their already powerful bond. She focused on this flow to allow her mind to direct her sub consciousness to a higher level and bring forth the latent awareness of energy she sought to grasp.

(3/5 Lillith)

Deciding to try a slightly different approach, Lillith created the image of an endless pool in her mind and opening her eyes half way while meditating made mental notes on were everybody was around her before closing them again. As her eyes closed she pictured her awareness as the endless pool and her energy as a drop above it falling into it’s center and creating a ripple outwards that would roll over the people and bounce back towards her or keep rolling outwards until it faded away. As she practiced this image training her breathing deepened still further to just two breaths a minute.

(4/5 Lillith)

Liam for his part was struggling with extending his awareness and so instead spiraled it inwards towards his center though he had never enjoyed meditation he was not incapable of doing it for brief periods especially if the reward outweighed his natural urge to move. With a slight frown he felt his own energy flowing in his body and then heading to his sister and flowing through her before fluctuating back to him once more. He focused on that energy and pushed his mind roughly into the flow following it as it swirled through his body and passed through numerous nodes before reaching hers.

(4/5 Liam)

He nearly lost his concentration simply from the rush of flowing through the complex network of the body like white water rapids and noticed that there were many swirls and eddies that could be explained best as clusters or centers. It was not an immediate connection from him but as he flowed along his sister’s arms and into her torso he recognized that a number of the points were along the meridian which she had once told him held some of the most painful yet easily targeted pressure points. He was eager to share what he had learned with Lillith but first they had agreed to meditate to learn a skill.

(5/5 Liam)

With a slight shifting of her awareness as she sensed Liam’s mind quickening with an epiphany she felt an echo along her own senses that suggested she was very close to the skill but something was missing. With a deft twist of her mind she merged with her brother’s thought flow and immediately saw that as usual they took opposite approaches to the same task. While she had looked outward he had looked inwards and it was the combination of information shared between them in an instant that would complete the rest of the puzzle to develop a Chi sense.

(5/5 Lillith)

Lillith’s mind flowed back to her own body as she used the way energy flowed within their bodies as a template for what she was searching for outside the body and then allowed her energy itself to flow outwards looking for the swirls of others that would indicate her own energy being disrupted by the natural energy of others or diverted away. As she reordered her thinking and mental image for the task she focused her energy with her breathing and let it flow steadily through her body flickering to her brother as she exhaled and drawing to her as she inhaled.

(Chi Sense 1/4 Lillith)

With another slow breath she let her energy coil outwards and ping against the surroundings but frowned as she realized that there was too much latent energy to simply allow her energy to flow outwards and back. With a slow breath she shifted her awareness and pushed her energy outwards in minute amounts changing the image to a spider web that would only ‘stick’ to other sources of energy and would cocoon them to match the intensity of the energy they were releasing. Her mind flowed steadily along this imaginary path until she was ready to try it for herself.

(2/4 Lillith)

With a slow push outwards she spread her spider web outwards not just in front of her but around her and even above and below seeking sources of energy and reacting to them by making them shine to her mind. Slowly they appeared first one then another and finally two’s and threes began appearing as her awareness reacted with the energies of other trainees and teachers. With a slight shudder she could feel that there was something else beyond this simple application like a deeper awareness that she just needed to tap into and she would finally see the world as the skill described.

(3/4 Lillith)

With a shudder Liam could feel his sister accelerating along some unknown course though his own energy flowed in time with hers as it was shared and he could feel a certain awareness forming out of it yet was unable so far to find a mechanism to let him tap into an external awareness. He was very aware of his own energy and his sisters but there was something like a shell around his mind that made it so everything outside was simply that, outside. It lacked rhyme or reason with him but he sought to break through the shell and pursue his sister’s path.

(Chi Sense 1/4 Liam)

Slowly he turned inwards instead of outwards and searched for echoes of his energy resonating with others but could find nothing other than the natural back and forth of the life force he shared with his sister. There was no one else in his awareness beyond the two of them and to a degree he could recognize his own hand. Despite seeming outgoing while his sister was introspective he knew that she was naturally more open to others and he simply used his social personality as a tool to hide that he only trusted his sister even as he acted like there were many friends in his life.

(2/4 Liam)

With a deep sigh he delved deeper into his feelings and realized that part of him did not want there to be any energy other than his sister’s in his perception and he ruthlessly crushed that pathetic sentiment before focusing on the meditation once more while he forced himself to look outwards instead of inwards. It was what he did mentally all the time and now he just had to do it in a different metaphysical sense. With another deep breath he delved outwards in a straight line past his sister to whatever or whoever lay beyond not really understanding the full degree of what he had read about.

(3/4 Liam)



As the energy flowed she felt her mind shifting in how it perceived the world itself and her breathing channeled the energy into an actual awareness that as she opened her eyes showed her a field of isolated and flowing energies as people training stood out in sharp contrast to her in a manner they had not with her normal vision. It was an amazing sight yet she could feel that Liam still did not fully understand and with a twist of her awareness of him showed him what she saw and directed his senses in how to do it as well.

(4/4 Lillith)

Liam’s frown smoothed away as he saw through his sister’s eyes and felt her guiding his mind, with a slight nod he relaxed and let his body and mind follow hers so that his breathing synchronized with Lillith’s and his mind opened up and followed the flows of energy into a higher level of awareness looking outwards and winding down until he was able to open his eyes and see the flows of energy just as easily as his sister who sat smiling across from him. It was odd but something about how Lillith guided him made the energy into a semi transparent field so that he could still perceive her actual appearance through the energy.

(Liam 4/4)

((If any of you have seen Jackie chan's movies he sometimes boxes and will use a wink or a shake of one hand to draw an opponents attention to one side of his body then start attacking with the other. Like snapping the fingers on your left hand and throwing a right hook in the blind spot.))

Liam shook his head as he stretched before standing and looking around, he patted the gun at his side and said to the people gathered in general, Hey anyone know where the armory is? I'm interested in finding a good melee weapon because honestly I'm too pretty to throw down in hand to hand but I need a back up in case I run out of ammo. As he spoke he turned with his hands spread as though welcoming advice from anyone that knew.

((I'll hold off from going more into the hand to hand until I hear back from Fenrir and I'll just edit that last post if I need to after he responds. For now though need to get a whip sword and go train my bloodline moves in hellgrind.))

Lillith stood behind her brother and simply tugged on his sleeve to lead him away from the training grounds and back towards the armory they had passed on their way in. His over excitement about arriving had as usual made him oblivious to everything they had passed and so it was up to her to catch the details he missed.

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I am the Reaper that chills your soul...
...ready to take it when you seem whole.