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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2011 8:25:23 GMT -5
Shade rolled her shoulders a bit, returning the grin. "I guess I bumped myself at the walls a few times," and some of that didn´t look gracious, but you didn´t see that, she added in thought, "but that wasn´t too bad. This thing takes quite some of it. Now I know why you never get any bruises when I smack you." A playful reference to little fights during training when he would make her defend herself against him. Now and then she would be able to deliber a punch that would surely leave a bruise. But not with the costume.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2011 14:25:49 GMT -5
"Ya should smack me in de nose," Gambit suggested generously, "an' of course sans le costume." He walked around her, studying the marks and scratches.
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2011 14:50:40 GMT -5
Shade followed him with her eyes. "Another time," she said, giving him a wink. "when you´re not expecting it. She allowed him to circle her like that, thinking about dropping a remark of feeling quite like a model displaying some stylish new outfit today, but didn´t, thinking that there were just two ways right now: verbal banter or physical.
When he had given her outfit a thorough look-over, she vanished, did a quick step to the side and boxed his upper right arm and hopped back, trying to get out of reach quickly. He, too, was wearing his costume of course and wouldn´t get hurt by the punch, but it was a challange.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 11, 2011 16:12:05 GMT -5
Gambit threw his hand up, a trained reflex that worked faster than his conscious thought to catch the hitting fist. He grazed the edge of her hand, remaining emotionless. "Feelin' like playin' catch?" he asked, swinging his bo staff across to hit her below the knees if she was standing where he thought she was standing. If she provoked him for some beating, some beating she would get, then.
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Post by Shade on Jul 11, 2011 16:27:08 GMT -5
As usual, his reation was incredibly fast and she was more or less knocked off her feet by the bo staff. She had expected something like this and jumped, but that jump came a little late, so the staff caught one of her legs and made her fall. Using her arms to support herself, she rolled herself off and got to her feet again, rather fast, but not too elegantly, before doing a leap to the side and a few steps away from his reach, light on her feet.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 12, 2011 14:33:09 GMT -5
Gambit played with her for a while until he was reminded of the task he'd set for her before coming down to the ground. Stepping back and putting away the bo staff, he said, "Awright, 'nough games, back up dere an' down here."
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Post by Shade on Jul 12, 2011 14:46:44 GMT -5
Shade had gotten a few punches and as she let her powers slip was rubbing her right upper arm from a smack she had receiverd from Gambit´s bo staff, but she didn´t whine about it, quite the contrary. He was still a lot faster, a lot stronger, a lot more of an experienced athlete and fighter than her, but she noticed she was getting faster. That didn´t save her from punches, but it meant she was not getting quite as many as she had used to get and the slightly fierce glimmer in her eyes clearly showed she was feeling at least a bit accomplished.
Even though...well, she would still have to learn to use her energies better, because right now she was panting. She took a few moments to calm her breath a bit, then pulled herself up on the box she had been jumping down from earlier and started to climb up again. She knew the place a bit better by now and at least didn´t have to hop down where things were sometimes deeper or more shaky than expected, but this was taking more power. However, she pulled herself together and steadily made her way up.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 12, 2011 16:11:46 GMT -5
Gambit waited for her downstairs, marking her first time and re-setting the timer for her second run.
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Post by Shade on Jul 13, 2011 7:43:57 GMT -5
I shouldn´t have started grappling with him, Shade thought on her way up. Next time, Shadey, save your energy. It worked all right, but as she made her way up the shaft again, she knew that she might have been faster if she had not picked a fight. Up took her longer than down, but the way down she knew, so she might have been a bit faster this time than the time before. When she hopped down next to Gambit again, her breath was going considerably faster but she didn´t show it.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 13, 2011 15:05:43 GMT -5
"It's better," Gambit remarked, noting her time. "Alors, Gambit thought he'd give ya another run but guess de costume've had enough. We can return. Whad'ya say?"
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Post by Shade on Jul 14, 2011 1:05:40 GMT -5
Shade felt the urge to rub her upper thigh which she had bumped a little harder on a corner on her way down but didn´t. Without the costume this would have hurt more, seemed like the thing held back quite a bit.
What he said sounded like a good idea, but something had woken her competitiveness. "How much bettter was that just now?" she asked, instead of directly answering his question.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 14, 2011 14:59:01 GMT -5
"A few seconds," Gambit shrugged. "Really ain't no point in exact numbers 'ere, chere, trust me, not 'cause I'm bein' gentle, dere just totally no point." He extended his arm to the side, welcoming her to walk back towards the spot where the car was parked behind the fence.
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Post by Shade on Jul 15, 2011 3:40:22 GMT -5
Shade moved her arm behind his back as they made their way back. "Well, with all the bruises and all the exhaustion I had in the last few weeks, I wouldn´t expect ´gentle´so I guess the costume has been tested and found good already?"
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Post by Gambit on Jul 15, 2011 15:04:59 GMT -5
"It was found de way I expected it to," Gambit replied. "Dis is good, non?"
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Post by Shade on Jul 16, 2011 2:48:48 GMT -5
"It is, yes," Shade said as they reached the fense. She was a bit tired now and her attempt to get over the fence was a bit less graceful than it had been when they had arrived. "So as soon as it´s completely finished with colour and all, we can go for some real training?"
She had been wondering about something, something he had said about her powers. Stealth. She was unaware of it but she had been using it in that illusion where she had been on the escape together with Morph. However, it had been intriguing her ever since Gambit had told her about it. Stealth as in he would not be able to hear her. That might give her quite some better chances. She should really try that some time even though she had no idea how it worked.
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