fandomhigh | Self Defense and Kickassery for Dummies; Thursday Fifth Period [7th. Class]

Usually, the students would enter the Danger Shop just to find Faith doing whatever she was doing, keeping to herself in silence until the actual class started. Usually, they would listen to her talking about a self defense fighting style, see her beating a guy without abusing of her Slayer powers, or just being told to fight here and run there.

This time it was different.

As the students entered they would find themselves in a big arena, somehow reminiscent of the roman Colosseum. The difference was that the arena itself was separated in a number of platforms, all of them floating around.

And there was a huge crowd roaring and cheering everyone on the stands.

"Last class kiddos", said Faith, who was dressed like she would dress every day if she didn't have to teach, cracking her knuckles and smirking a little too much. "Today we put on the arena what we learned all this time. You can fight against one of your classmates, against one of the pretty gladiators I've prepared, or against me. However, all bets are off, nobody is holding back here, no hard feelings later." She was still going to hold back, admittedly, but they didn't need to know that.

A number of light circles appeared on the ground, one for each student. "So make your choice and step in." She turned, but stopped, turning her head back with a grin. "And if you don't step in the circle, you'll have to deal with some pretty little pets that will be released in the arena." Suffice to say, she was going to love this class.

[OOC: ~~Incoming~~ OCD, ~~wait for it~~ IT'S UUUUUUUUP!!]

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Ready to rumble for the last time!

Fight a classmate? A Gladiator? A unknown creature on the arena?

....Faith!?

For the ones that went up!

And for the sake of clarifying:

If you want to fight in the platforms, please ping here, so I can throw something or someone at you, thanks~

Edited 2010-06-24 15:17 (UTC)

For the ones that stayed!

She will not admit she likes you all, guys.

When they ping in! ~~Last class and I demand OCDness, I know~~

For your battle modding needs!

Thanks everyone for bearing with me all these weeks, you have been awesome every time.

Dana Scully

Scully grimaced. No, she wasn't fighting Faith again.

"A gladiator?" ... what the hell. "Bring it."

Kennedy

...oh, come on, you had to ask? Numerous past ass-kickings aside, Kennedy wasn't gonna fight some Danger Shop creature when she could throw down with a Slayer.

The girl was nothing if not maddeningly stubborn sometimes.

SIGH, I can't stop her from wanting to spar Faith. Like ever.

Oh, man, Kennedy was going to miss this class... and just might be planning to make sure she ~~pestered~~ checked in with Faith regularly afterward, anyway.

She looked a little sulky at this being the last class, but still willing to help anyone with whatever. Well. Some value of 'whatever,' anyway. ~~Without stealing Squall's schtick.~~

It's not possible. It's one of the unwritten rules of Fandom, Life, and Everything that they need to keep sparring until Kennedy beats her.

That would probably end with Faith beating her right after, but you get my point.

That said, this time Kennedy could have a momentarily moment of Awesome and get the upper hand? While I don't have any issue on putting her down (again and again, heh), I'm also not a fan of winning every fight, or at least, not without some suffering

HA! Make her pay for that moment of awesome, big time. I'm all for that. :D

Kennedy jumped lightly up onto one of the platforms (maybe showing off a little bit) and bounced impatiently from one foot to the other as she found her stance and waited for Faith.

You know, nobody should really be this eager to get beat up on regularly, and yet.

Maybe it was being perfectly fine (if, you know, still possessed of a slightly more-ravenous-than-usual appetite) days after getting her ass kicked a lot in Ebou Dar. Maybe it was just Kennedy being Kennedy.

Either way she headed up to Faith with her usual nonchalant, confident air and chucked a thumb toward one of the platforms. "One more time for the road, right?"

That... probably should have sounded more like a request, and less like an expectation, but she was already heading towards the platform (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/2516452.html?thread=162419940&format=light#t162419940).

Well, is she put it in such a way...

"As you wish, honey." One for the road huh? She might need that anyway.

Faith hopped in as well, and without further talk or advice leaped at Kennedy, flying kick as her opening action.

And while she looked decidedly serious to beat up the Potential, she was taking care of still holding herself; some day, if there was a God, they would be able to punch each other properly, and not as teacher and student, if possible.

Kate Gregson

Well, after this class term was over...

Kennedy was a little more prepared for an attack without preamble this time; last weekend was still pretty fresh in her mind, and she started to twist sideways to dodge the kick, but just a hair too slowly, and took it on the shoulderblade.

Ow. Thank God, or whoever, for slightly creeptastic magical healing, man, or she'd be regretting this already.

She staggered back a step but came back swinging anyway, gritting her teeth as she arced a hard punch (with her good arm, which was thankfully her right one) somewhere in the general vicinity of Faith's face.

It was a fortutnate surprise that Kennedy had managed to almost avoid the kick; she was getting faster, Faith noted, and more battle ready than before.

Getting a fist dead center on her face without any chance of avoiding it was not so fortunate though. She was also punching harder? Not enough to bruise her, but the attempt was there, loud and clear.

Faith did her best to just follow the motion of the punch and then literally bounce back, leg up again, this time going for Kennedy's chest.

Edited 2010-06-24 16:53 (UTC)

Alex Russo

Well, she'd just gone off kind of stupidly and gotten in a couple of huge fights in another world, and she was a pretty quick learner. It helped, in its inadvisable way. And she'd almost avoided the kick, yeah, but she'd have a nice fresh bruise there to show for it, and be aching for a while; she already was, actually, and Kennedy had to shake her left arm out hard.

This time Kennedy didn't attempt to dodge out of the way-- she let the kick connect, hoping to time her backwards lean enough to minimize the impact but still put her in a good position to reach in as quickly as she could and grab at Faith's ankle.

Oh, she didn't try to avoid the kick, that would be so very like Kennedy being stubborn...if she hadn't managed to minimize the damage. Damn, when had Faith started to underestimate this girl? Even if she was still getting hit, Kennedy was taking her in her own rhythm, which could be partially because Faith was allowing so, but also a good deal of skill coming from Kennedy. More and more she saw the future Slayer she would be...

And seriously, stop daydreaming, someone is pulling your ankle. But oops, too late, Faith tripped and hit the floor, hard. Everything became messy for a moment.

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Self Defense and Kickassery for Dummies; Thursday Fifth Period [7th. Class]

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