Self Defense and Kickassery for Dummies; Thursday Fifth Period [2ndst. Class]

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

One by one the students would be dropping by on their nicely simulated dojo, only to find Faith already there, stretching. Well, at least it was better than to be greeted by a completely uninterested glance. This time as well she kept it quiet until the time for her class actually started as well. Being as unresourceful as she was with words, she wasn't about to misuse the few ones she had prepared beforehand. Still, each student would get a small nod as a greeting, and then ordered to sit quietly on the tatami -no chairs this time, but the padded floor was pretty comfortable-, or to stretch as well; as long as they remained silent, it was fine for her.

Once the time for the class to start actually arrived, she got the group sitting in the tatami, and cleared her throat.

"And now it's time for class number two; I expect you have been training all this time."

She didn't, actually, but it was fun to make them feel guilty.

"Last time we got into the basics, and saw our first kata; hard isn't it? At least for those without experience, the approach was probably a pain in the ass." Faith smirked. "That was the idea; that kata isn't the first or the easier that there is; actually, it's a pretty long one, considering most katas last less than a minute." Oh Faith, you were such a bad, bad person. "Anyway, this second class was thought to be focused entirely on learning a new kata, but come on, you didn't sign into this class to do the same stuff all the time. So, while we will be seeing another kata indeed, and I promise this one will be far more accessible, I'll also test your overall fighting skills; one by one I'll be having a one-on-one with you." Malicious smiles ensued here as Faith walked around the group. "This won't be a real fight, and I'll be letting you land some attacks on me, actually, but this will serve for me to be able to point your weak spots, so you can keep them in mind if you ever need to defend yourselves."

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One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Ping in, and she'll kick your ass test your strengths.

Re: One on One with Faith

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully stepped up, stance set, and tensed up, waiting for an attack.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Faith walked towards Scully stopping in front of her. "Alright, so," She placed her right hand over the woman's left shoulder. "Dark street, late at night, I grab your shoulder. Tag, you are it~"

Re: One on One with Faith

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully slammed her elbow back, not as effectively as she once would have, and tried to stomp on Faith's foot at the same time, hard. The mental reflexes were there, even if the body's were no where near as directed.

Re: One on One with Faith

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda was not afraid to get her ass kicked a little. All for a good cause right?

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Faith motioned Leda to come at her. "Gimme your best shot." So much for being professional.

Re: One on One with Faith

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda came forward. Her experience with fighting was mostly with knives, magic, or just trying to escape. Her stance probably reflected the knife fighting bit.

She opened with a kick at Faith's sternum.

Re: One on One with Faith

[ostianbelle.livejournal.com]

Yes, Asuna was here. If she was going to keep her word to Negi she was going to have to step up to every challenge.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Oh, what the hell.

Faith rushed at Asuna, jumping when she was a few feet from her. "Cover yourself", managed to say as she delivered a kick right at her face; she was restraining much of her strength, but the momentum was enough to do some damage.

Re: One on One with Faith

[ostianbelle.livejournal.com]

Since kicking was Asuna's favorite move, it was a surprise to have to face it. She did manage, barely in time to raise her arms to block Faith's kick, if she timed it right she could hold Faith's leg and maybe throw her off.

Re: One on One with Faith

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

What, pass up a chance for this spar? What did you think she was, crazy? Don't answer that.

Kennedy practically bounced toward the sparring area, but she was all business once she entered it, hands loosely curled and up in guard position. "Every freaking day," she said by way of answering Faith's earlier comment about training every day. If there was a distinct undercurrent of duh there, well... duh.

Sparring someone who had a pretty good idea of how an older and better version of her fought. This would go so well, wouldn't it?

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

The main course already? Faith got into a semi-defensive position, just for the heck of it, and slowly closed the distance, circling Kennedy as she did so. Without Slayer powers, Kennedy had lost an edge that might have been more than enough to put Faith down, but as it was, teacher dearest wasn't about to leave the TA surprise her.

"I heard Tara was sending birthday invitations the other day." And then she threw a moderately strong punch at Kennedy's ribs; she tried to put only enough power to make the girl flinch; it would be a shame if she managed to hit her and broke her ribs, after all.

Re: One on One with Faith

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Kennedy without Slayer powers was never going to get the edge on Faith, but actually pointing this out to her might not do any good. A hit to the ribs might, though; instinct and reflexes without the speed weren't enough to get her out of the way in time, and yeah, there was flinching despite her best efforts to pretend there wasn't.

"Yep." She came back with the fastest (still not fast enough) right cross to Faith's jaw that she could manage. "Today's the day, party's tomorrow."

Re: One on One with Faith

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was going to be fun!

Alice might even refrain from cheating and using her ability to see what moves Faith would make. Might.

She still had a little grudge against the woman for the whole monster-hunting thing. But only a little.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Pale, graceful, largely more mysterious than most of the class together. Faith had been waiting for a chance to have a word with Alice without sounding completely rude. But wait, she might sound rude anyway.

"Before we get into anything, I would like to know what I'm dealing with here. You are no dummy no matter how way I look at it." Yes, this was Faith being cautious; it meant she was having second thoughts about not bringing some stakes with her.

Re: One on One with Faith

[aliceseesthings.livejournal.com]

Alice was used to rude. She'd spent time around Jacob, remember?

"Not human," Alice replied with a peaceful smile. "But not bad, either."

Re: One on One with Faith

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Holding herself loosely, Dru waited for Faith's first move.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Faith didn't lose time with this one, as she had claimed to hunt vampires and what not. So it was a punch to the chest. Fast but always measured to cause the minimal damage. The fact Faith hadn't even allowed Dru to prevent it by saying anything was, from Faith's point of view, part of the "test".

Re: One on One with Faith

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Technically they'd never hunted vampires, and in fact had kept as far away from them as they could. Her dad never wanted a vamp to find out that Dru existed because that would have been bad bad news.

Dru'd been watching Faith's movements and had tried to duck out. Tried being the operative word. She stumbled back a few steps before finding her balance again. "I'm unarmed and you've got slayer speed and strength working for you. This is the part where my dad would have said get the hell out of Dodge and fight another day."

Not that Dru was going to do that. It sort of defeated the purpose of the class after all.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notmyownage]

And now Claudia was convinced she was about to die.

Yeah, she clearly had about zero experience with this stuff.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

"...You really wanna do this?"

Faith was concerned, really.

Re: One on One with Faith

[dontvotemeout]

Jason wasn't sure if there was any outcome of this exercise that wouldn't suck, and it took a second for him to get past the idea of fighting a teacher - and a girl - and realize that half-assing his efforts wouldn't help, and he needed to give this his best shot.

"Try not to break anything, will you?" he said, starting off in a defensive position.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

"I can't promise anything...but come on, what would you do if you really had to fight me? Let's say I come for you..." And so she did, stopping in front of him. "And hurt you." Which was followed by a simple poke on his forehead. "Put a lock on me, will ya?"

Re: One on One with Faith

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire had no doubt that Faith could kick her ass but she was excited to learn from her anyway.

She stepped up when it was her turn and fell into an easy ready stance.

Re: One on One with Faith

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Someone looked like she had picked some skills. Grinning, Faith charged at Claire. Charged, as in running really fast with all the intention to collide with the girl, and most likely take her down.