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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:41 pm
The gym wasn't the only place she went for sparring or fighting. Before the gym had even opened, Levi made sure to join the fitness club. It had been highly recommended to her by Lizzy and the ghoul could now easily see why. The place had loads of things to kick and practice dodges with and just really run with. It was easy to run, jump and practice outside, but fiddling with the machines was something she could only do here.
The treadmill was nearly something she could understand. At least she got it to work now without it spurting into max speed on her randomly. She'd worked up quite a sweat and decided to use another new find within the fitness club area to ease out those tingling muscles: the sauna.
Shedding her now grossly sweat-riddled clothes, Levi dipped into the waters with her pile of new clothes and something else not too far behind.
She should really start thinking about that Acting homework...
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:28 pm
He knew he wasn't supposed to use the equipment alone in the first place, but he'd done so before and no one seemed to care. After a good run of punching sentient beings over the last few days, West was not particular about what he punched today. He had decided to revisit the fitness club's array of punchable things instead of heading to the gym. But first, machines.
The demon had been jogging regularly since the paintball tournament, so he bypassed the treadmills and made straight for a... stair climber? West didn't quite know what the thing was, but it worked, and once he got started he could definitely feel the burn, so to speak. Too bad that didn't make the repetitious exercise any less boring.
He reached in the pocket of the jacket he had draped over the machine in front of him, pulling out the little film canister he had been carting around with him since the end of his acting class. How in the hell was he supposed to scare someone with this?
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:00 am
The bonus thing about this sauna? It helped relax her venom glands. The darn things had been getting somewhat swollen lately and/or acting up while she was in her room or fighting others via the gym. Submerging herself right up to her chin, she closed her eyes as white ears flickered down. Definitely relaxing~
It was best not to linger for too long, however. The ghoul knew some would sneak into the fitness room for use without a partner and had done so a few times herself, but she didn't want to push her luck either. Toweling up (under normal circumstances she wouldn't bother, but Levi knew this room to be co-ed), she knelt by her pile of clothes and the glow-in-the-dark face paint tube she'd acquired for that Acting homework assignment. Twirling it over, she considered what sort of thing to paint that could potentially scare humans.
Clothes coming on in no time, Levi took her sweaty workout clothes, shoving them into her canvas bag left inside a washroom stall there are lockers, you know, Levi.
She took the slightly used towel to hair, rustling it about carelessly while making her way over to the mirrors, thunking the bag over the counter. She let the towel sit on her shoulders while peering into her reflection, tilting her head this way and that.
What was a good image to use? Tatzels were scary, she thought, but that wasn't something she could easily draw on her face. hmm...
Levi's first mistake? Catering to scaring a human when she'd likely need to pick out one of her peers.
She hadn't yet considered the who of scaring with this face paint.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:32 pm
Step.
Film. Canister.
Step.
With beans.
Step. Step. Step. Step. Step. Step. Step. Step. Step. Step.
West shook his scary scary scare tool forcefully, smirking at the cacophonous rattle that issued from it. That might scare a scareling, but he was going for classmates here. To be honest, the only thing he could think to do with the beans would be to pour them down someone's throat and try to choke them. That would scare them, right? Really, were there any other options?
He could use the canister as a hat for an irate monkey, then throw the monkey at another student.
He could draw a face on it and throw it at someone.
He could fly right above somebody and hurl each individual bean at the back of his head. Like torture!
Why did all of his ideas involve throwing things?
The demon stopped the stair climber and stepped off, remaining still for a moment while his legs readjusted to solid ground. He sighed. So much for this place assuaging his boredom.
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:29 pm
Patting and smoothing out the cream-like stuff on her face with some sort of... strategy... she didn't hear the machine being activated. What Levi's fuzzy white ears did pick up on was the rattling or shaking of something like tiny bits of bone in a jar. Not that she'd know what that sounded like or anything...
Whatever this sound was, it was obviously caused by something. Something which possibly needed to be investigated? Yes.
She quietly snuck over to overview the whole of the gym then...
...and a grin widened across her face.
Target acquired?
Yep
Keeping low and out of sight behind various tools and mounds of mats, the tatzel found the switch for the lights... and turned them off. As soon as she did this, she realized there was a glow to her face and crept behind some mats again to avoid being seen. She spent her time behind the mats trying to devise a smart plan for this, listening in to her prey's actions to keep an idea of his whereabouts in this pitch black room.
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:39 am
He reached for his jacket again, intending to sling it over his arm and head back to his dorm, when the lights snapped off. What in the--
West abandoned the stair climber and began to slowly inch in the direction where he thought he remembered the light switch was located. Had this been a power failure, or was someone trying to trick him? Was it a Hunter? He clutched his bean canister and kept moving.
Eventually, after about forty seconds of wall-hugging, the demon ventured out into the room, taking more confident steps into the darkness. He didn't bother to listen for signs that his enemy was close. If they attacked him, he would fight back. It was this misplaced confidence that led him to stumble. One second he was marching forward... the next he was submerged in water.
Splash suckah!
"AAarhh!" West sputtered once his head was above the surface again. Where was he?
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:27 pm
Her ears were her guide at that point. The splashing and sounds of something being attacked by water led her back in the direction she came from. Was he in the sauna? Good, the boil was already shocked- time to add to the horror! at the mouth of the entry to where the sauna was, Levi pounced in, estimating a distance based on the sounds of water so she wouldn't bump into him by mistake. Not that it mattered, but she held her hands up like claws and made a ferocious sound to match her equally ferocious face paint job. SCREEEEEEECH~!!! Two dots on her cheeks and a design outlines across her mouth and lips marked the figure she chose to scare humans with. It was a bat. One large and more prominent bat followed by two in a distance for effect. Bats were pretty cute; humans hated cute things, right? She believed so.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:03 pm
West heard nothing but the drippy slosh of the water lapping around him and pouring from his clothes as he stood up and began to move toward freedom. He was so getting the hell out of this place and he was so doing it right now. He had finally figured out where he was and he was lifting his leg to climb out when...
What in flaming Jack's panties was that noise?
"HEY! What the--" He brought his arms up when he saw something coming toward him, and he smacked the glowing menace, the film canister in his hand popping open and spilling millions thousands hundreds at least ninety hard spherical beans all over his attacker. Bean slap fight. Go Amityville.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:25 pm
C-C-C-combo~!!!
She got a nice unseen shot to the fact coupled by tiny things hitting her as she lost her footing. When the contact was maybe, she let out a yelp in both surprise and pain. She would've caught her footing via tail interjecting but- those beans. She comically slipped up and fell butt first to the ground anyways.
That was when a hiss came out.
mrewhiissss~ Under the protection of the dark, she rubbed at her sore bottom for a moment, face paint brushed across one cheek from the blow.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:48 pm
Well, crap! Those beans had been for class. Now what was he supposed to do?
"Who th'ell is that?" he semi-shouted. No, his voice was not shrill. West climbed the rest of the way out of his watery prison, but remained motionless in the open space he found himself in as his clothing continued to drip. "An' were y'scared? Since y'wasted my beans'n everythin'."
He thought that hiss sounded familiar. The demon's eyes narrowed in the dark.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:46 am
He didn't know it was her, obviously. Otherwise, he wouldn't have needed to ask. The answer was yes no. The drippings falling to the floor were amplified by the open space and she became alerted to his movements. Get up, get up! Scrambling up from the floor, she answered rather defensively. It had just caught her off guard and she wasn't able to think of anything clever to rebuttal with. N-no! W-WAS NOT! Apparently, she'd understood his question to be more of an accusation.
Rather than revealing herself by name, she speedily snuck off to the side, remembering visually what things looked liked near/around the light switch so she could feel her way back.
CLICK!
And then there was light.
The first thing Levi noticed when looking back at West was his still-stuck-in-the-dark glaring expression. Geeze- even in tha dark ya got that look, eh? The ghoul glared right back, now computing what had just occurred again. Think I got'cha good. A sly smirk was added to her expression then and Levi crossed her arms, looking the wet demon over.
She doubted wrath demons were afraid of the dark, but he somehow managed to fall into the sauna it seemed. Clothes clung to his form, but rather than gawking, the tatzel moved to pick something else up. A towel; Levi gently flung one of the fitness club towels overhand to West fresh and unused from the pile offered to members for use at the sauna. 'ere. Dry off. You'll leave 'a suspicious trail if ya' leave like that.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:17 pm
It was true, he hadn't known who had glowfaced him, at least not until he had heard her speak. Damn straight his frowning scowl was still present when the lights flickered on; if anything, it was more pronounced. Levi.
"Y'got somethin'," he grumbled. "But it wasn't me. I wasn't scared. If anythin' I was... startled, but no more'n you were at m'beans." The towel she threw was caught without comment, and as he began to dry off he made an effort to calm down. Most of this fiasco had been his own damn fault... well, no. She had been the one to turn the lights off, and he was willing to bet his tail that she had known he was alone in the room before she had done it.
"Whassat on yer face then?" he asked, rubbing at a bare portion of his arm. "Looks like a rabid gnome takin' a crap."
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:29 pm
She let his remark about being saved or not go- if she denied it again, it would look like a lie anyways, and he certainly wasn't going to fess up to that crackle voice back in the dark.
She was just going to write for her assignment accordingly.
Levi visibly pouted at his mistaken (or smartass) observation of her batalicious design. It's BATS, dangit! She barked a response back, quite adamant that he was mistaken about her drawings. Well, with that gooey paste, it was a pretty good rendition of a bat and other bats to convey a depth of field. Or (most likely) she was just sure it was a good bat picture.
Taking a towel for herself, she crouched down by the sauna, dipping a corner in to wet it and wiped away at her face. It was, at least, pretty easy to take off. She fluffed at her face with the dry portion of the towel before crouching to dry out the flecks of water left behind by West's rampaging in the dark. She wiped right up to the point where she was behind him.
The ghoul hadn't meant to stay there long and his problem was hers in this case; if she hadn't closed the lights, he likely wouldn't have fallen in. Probably. They could've said they were there together but... that wouldn't explain why West was soaked and why there were puddles of water left everywhere.
Standing back up she moved to throw the used towel in a bin. There- now no ones tha'wiser, boil. She tilted her head now, looking West over from head to toe. The end of her tail flickering at his calf, noting just how wet he really was. ...eh... ya gonna be alright like that? Do I gotta follow ya out with'a nother towel? Her brows straightened into a line but her lips remained in a smirk. It was half jokingly said and half truth.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:14 pm
He shook his head at her outburst. That was not "some bats." Gnome. Taking a crap.
When she began industriously wiping up all of the spilled water, West could do nothing more than watch. What did she think she was doing? Water evaporated, right? As far as he knew there wasn't some sort of Forever Moist shielding on the fitness room, was there?
"Tha's gonna go away y'know," he said. "On its own. Does water not go 'way where yer from?" He took a step toward the door, dripping all over her hard work. "I'm jus' gonna... leave it. You can follow me if y'want. Just t'mop up." Despite the fact that he was quite soaked and had no idea how he was going to do his homework, West still grinned.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:35 pm
When yer leaving' it in puddles 'round like that, it ain't gonna just get soaked up in'tha floor, West. Sighing, the ghoul's ears stood up straight at hearing him step again. He'd...still just leave life that? Oh no... no, she wasn't going to be the last one in there.
If yer goin' ... I'll do ya one better than following'!
She crouched and leaped for the door, grabbing and the handle first, flinging the door open and disappearing down the hallway.
Homework: mission complete
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