Archery Workshop #1, 5/23, Danger Shop, Afternoon

[deadly_little]

As the students entered the Danger Shop, set up like a standard classroom for today, they were greeted by a diminutive, black-and-white Japanese girl in a silk robe, perched on a corner of the teacher's desk munching on a chocolate chip cookie. Next to her were a stack of handouts, a sign-in sheet, and a tray of assorted cookies from Jeff, God of Biscuits.

Written on the board behind the desk was, Sign in. Take a handout and a cookie. Direct any questions to the instructor. Behave. Or else.

Miho studied her students with a critical eye, trying to determine which of them were most likely to shoot one of their classmates by accident or try to take more than one cookie.

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Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn read the handouts carefully, almost surprised that there were real rules and guidelines to this kind of thing.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy leaned over and whispered, "When do we get to shoot stuff?"

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Maybe the next class?" Dawn whispered back.

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy slumped down in her seat and pouted. "But I wanted to shoot things now."

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Why does that not shock...I mean, I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason we have to wait," Dawn said, glancing at Miho.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy folded her arms over her chest and kept pouting while Dawn talked to Dean.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"You could always ask the teacher--" Then Parker paused, as Molly did just that.

If she looked sad that there was no Molly-Miho showdown, it's probably your imagination.

"Or not."

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Aww maaan," Buffy whined. "I wore special sneakers for archery-ness too."

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker checked out the sneakers. "Very ninja. Do you want to complain to the teacher about it? I'll stay right here."

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Do you think the archery rules apply to outside of class, too?" Dawn asked, trying to figure out how much trouble she'd get into for shooting arrows into Stickbugs. "We could call it practice..."

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy brightened. "If I had a better aim, we could shoot arrows through their clothing so they got stuck in, like, trees or cabin walls or something."

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You could be like William Tell, but without the apple!" Dawn thought for a minute. "Oooorr...we could get revenge on them."

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean plopped down in a seat near Dawn, grinned at her, then glanced through the handout.

He didn't see anything that didn't make sense or that didn't match up pretty well with the rules Dad had always had when training them: take care of your weapon, don't horse around with them, and don't shoot your brother.

Finished reading, he looked up and around, but there didn't seem to be any next step.

Maybe he was missing something. He leaned over and asked Dawn, "Is this all we're doing today?"

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Maybe?" Dawn whispered back, wondering what about her clothing choices for the day made other people think she knew what was going on.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Well that kinda sucks." Dean looked at his watch and fidgeted, wondering how long this class was. Too long, if this was all they were expected to do. He glanced over at Miho again and decided he wasn't going to ask, just in case this was some kind of weird Ninja patience exercise or something.

"How'd the morning workshop go?" he asked Dawn.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"No one died yet, though the scene's still being played," Dawn said proudly. "Okay, that was helped considerably by the fact that they weren't real people, but that's not the point. And Jamie Madrox had bandage issues."

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Not dying is good." He frowned slightly. "How do you have bandage issues?"

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure," Dawn said, still a bit grumpy at Jamie. "But I'd have choked him with them after this morning. Did you hear what he and his psycho bunkmates did?"

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean nodded. "Hard to miss all that mad quacking you girls had to endure." He grinned. "And the birds were making a lot of noise too."

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"You want to ask Miho and find out for sure?" Parker suggested, her smile very slightly evil.

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean glanced at Miho then back at Parker. "You just want to see me get ninjafied."

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Duh." Parker looked up from her handout with a grin. "But she might not kill you right away, you know. She might answer the question, *then* kill you."

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"The relavent part of that sentence being 'kill you'," Dean pointed out.

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"True. But never mind. I think Sam's going to ask. If she kills him first, then we won't have to worry about you." Parker grinned at him.

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean looked over at his brother, but Sam didn't seem like he was about to do anything particularly stupid, at least right that second. "Sammy's brighter than that," he told Parker with as much confidence as he could project.