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Freya smiles and nods in approval. "Much better. The only thing I noticed is that you looked a bit off center. You need to work on your foot placement. The trick with that is to work to your own center of gravity and make sure it isn't going too far in one direction. If you're off balance, than you are more likely to fall over even if you avoid an attack."

Freya studies her young student closely; noticing that although she was most certainly interest in the lesson she is learning, there seems to be something else on her mind. Freya lowers her hand and asks, "Got something on your mind Trinity? Didja have a weird dream or something during your nap?"

She lets go of her form as she sees Freya put down her hand.

"Well, now that you mentioned it, yeah... I did have a dream... I think it was about my ancestor. Thing is it felt more than just a dream.

I saw her... I think... she looked like an older version of me with shorter hair... I could hear her every thought as she was running through the forest from bounty hunters. The bigger one of them grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up in mid air. She made them feel that they successfully caught her and that there was no way of escaping. She even tried to kick the guy but her foot was short of reach, which, I guess wasn't a real try for she knew that would happen... as soon as the rest of the group was there she shadow traveled through the darkness of her cloak and picked her target and came out with a kick to the big guy's neck bringing him down, it was then the other bounty hunters ran. She made sure it wasn't lethal hit... then I heard the bushes near her shift... and that's when I woke up.

I don't really remember hearing about her being hunted down or about being a criminal."

Freya's brow creases as she mulls over Trinity's dream. "My father used to say that dreaming of the exact events of an ancestor is a sign of a great bond to your bloodline. That if your ancestor was a person of strong character and strength, that you are destined for such greatness yourself. Maybe ancient Trinity's tales have gotten turned around in the sands of time, sort of like Robin Hood. Heck, she may have been an outlaw before she was a hero. But that's not important now, what is important is that I can do something that I didn't think you could handle before. After hearing that, I think you might be able to do it. I have to warn you first though. It's not going to be easy, and there is a slim chance that you might get hurt or worse. What do you think? Are you willing to risk it all to know everything I know about taijutsu?"

Lily released a sigh of frustration. She wished Annie would stop treating her like a child, after all Lily was older then Annie, she wasn't going to let Annie boss her around at the moment, it was a life or death situation, and Lily wasn't going to have Annie dieing on her because she was too stubborn to accept help. She took it upon herself to do what she felt needed to be done.

Closing her eyes once more, she was brought back to the doors that lead into the minds of those she had encountered. Lily already knew which ones needed to be opened, Annies and Lev's. She knew Annie wouldn't like it much, but she wouldn't see anything in Leviathan Cortez' mind, only Lily would... Lily was the link to their minds.

She opened both doors, and went back to the black room that held all the doors, standing right in between the doorways to both Lev's and Annie's mind. Her arms outstretched in both directions, wiring seeming to come out of Lilies hands, linking through both doors, linking Annie's mind to Lev's, but not Lev's to Annie's. Lily could see what both of them saw, Annie could see where Lev was and what he was planning on doing.

Though on the outside, Lily looked like she was peacefully sleeping. Slumped in the corner, covered by a fake tree. Her jacket pulled tightly around her, she knew Ero's would find her before too long, or so she hoped. Because there was still one threat to Lily that lurked around, and that was Alix. The man who saw her as property rather then a person.

Freya shakes her head and looks Trinity square in the eyes. "What I'm talking about isn't any sort of training. What I'm suggesting is a shadow link. Teshou and I found out that we can actually link our minds with someone else using our shadows. The process is much easier on a shadow wielder, because they can control it from their side as well. You can learn everything I know about hand to hand combat, which took me decades to master, in less than a week. This will be a test of sorts, because if you can do this then Teshou will be able to do the same thing for shadow manipulation. Y'know, like in the Matrix. I just give you what I already know and it is retained in your mind."

"But as I said earlier, there is an inherent risk in doing so. First, we both enter the shadow realm. Time there moves five times faster than it does here. This will expedite the training from a few months to a week. Then you'll have to enter my mind and experience all of my training, fights, and defeats. The power you have inherited from your ancestor, and the power given to you by the meteor, will make this much less hazardous for you. I just felt it would be fair to warn you."

She places her hands on Trinity's shoulders. "Look, I wouldn't tell you all this if I didn't think you could handle it. I can see the look in your eyes, you have a score to settle with that big electric b*****d right? I hate to say this, but I don't think he's going to wait years for you to get to mine and Teshou's level. I wont force you to do it if you don't want to, but I would strongly suggest that you consider it. I'll be with you every step of the way. It's my head after all. You wont be alone. Trust me." She gives Trinity a genuine toothy smile and a wink.

Lev had known the shadow wielder had been lurking, like a little rat, sniffing about the concrete walls of manors and bigot's homes, scrambling for cheese. Lev almost laughed at this, his thoughts so quick he needn't even time to wonder, to prod at possibility.
The shadow blade would touch nothing, Lev giving a curt, albeit pre-planned side step, then a hop backward. Eye to eye with this man, this foolish man, Lev would then fill him with enough volts to power the city of Chicago for a year. If that man wasn't dead by that strike, Lev pondered, stepping away without even looking back at the man, then I might as well give up..
At this, Lev laughed, alot, and loudly, until the building shook again, the foundation beginning to shift.
Suddenly, Rocks would scream up and around Lev, ripping the lobby floor to shreds. Leviathan whipped around, dissipating then reappearing outside of the prison.
Blitz cursed, suddenly clapping his hands again. Lev sighed, simply fading through the physical bond of boulders and rocks Blitz aimed to crush him with. "Oh Blitz.." Lev shook his wavering facial features, a resemblance of a smirk haunting his static expression...
Blitz gulped, then clapped his hands again.
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Rod snarled, snapping at air, nothing there. Kicking the ground, the swift and surely man grunted and cursed, outside and hating it. It seemed all the action had returned to his original battleground, the hospital. Rod rubbed at his steel brow, breathing heavily outward..
"Lev's in there.." Rod whispered to himself, suddenly seeing something flash off and into the building.
It was Eros.
Rod then lost his mind, anger clotting his decision making. He would kill that little b*****d before the day was done.
Or so he thought..
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Eros sped and shattered through the glass double doors, immediately landing near Lily. Eros thought faster then he truly thought, thinking Lily's current positioning and current state were caused by injury, himself growing quickly upset as he shook her..
Then it dawned on him. Crouching low and pulling the tree closer, Eros sat next to Lily. Closing his eyes, Eros would push his mind, push until-
"Little ******** had grabbed Lily and shot down the hall before even opening his eyes, barely dodging Rod's deathblow, Rod's dagger tipped tail slicing nothing but air. Eros fired down another hall, the bulk of Lily's added weight slowing him considerably. Finding the stairs, Eros would rocket up and around two flights, slicing his way into a hospital room that appeared empty..

Annie sighed, still feeling the presence of Lily in her mind, she figured if she wanted she probably could force the girl out, but then again that would no doubt cause Lily to try to do something even more reckless. Perhaps it would be best to deal with having her mind connected by Lily's with Leviathan, though she found it odd as Leviathan's murky thoughts and intentions came to her own mind, that Leviathan seemed to be ignorant of the connection- either Lily was a powerful psychic to be reckoned with or Leviathan didn't spend enough time thinking and building enough character to notice.

As she glanced around she felt the ground shake and smelt the frying of electricity- she didn't need the connection by Lily to let her know that was where she would find Leviathan and most likely Blitz too. Turning the corner she saw Blitz trying to go up against Lev. Biting her lip she reached out and placed a hand on Blitz's shoulder, half of her clear hand slipping through his shoulder, she quickly pulled her hand up and said quickly, "Blitz... stop. You're only going to get yourself killed."

Stepping in front of Blitz she raise her hands, pipes from the water system bursting where they hadn't already burst. She narrowed her eyes at Leviathan and said with a wry smile on her liquid face, her body was slowly beginning to gather dust which proceeded to swirl in the liquid form she was in. She would have changed back into her normal form ages ago if she wasn't afraid of what would happen if she did. "I guess acid won't stop you," she said. "Makes me feel kind of useless. And being able to control water isn't going to help, either, is it?"

She massaged her forehead trying to discern Leviathan's thoughts using Lily's connection- trying to find reason for his actions. It would be a lot easier to stop him or confine him if she know the man's reasoning- frowning she added to herself, '...if he can still be considered a man. Wait... if he's not a man then that means I'm probably past the human stage too...'

Sighing she stood her ground staring at Leviathan waiting for his next move. The 'water' spraying from the hospital's pipes instead of having merely a dramatic effect on the scene or giving Leviathan the advantage, instead was silicone oil-soaking everything in a steady rain of the liquid nonconductor. Granted that little of silicone oil randomly spraying wasn't going to do much good, but it was at the ready for when Annie was ready to strike against him.