Private - Dawn and Dusk

_____It was seriously going to take a lot of time to adjust her avatar to her real world glory. Sweet dripped off her frame, weapon hanging loosely in her right hand as she panted and staggered to the shade to evade the mid afternoon sun pour heat down on her. The wind rarely reached her, but the chilling breeze was greatly enjoyed when it crossed and blew her black locks to the side, some covering her amber orange eyes as she reached for a sib from her canteen during her break.

_____Second day into the game and she had plans to spend it entirely on either training her muscles, or her mind as she shakily rose back up to her feet. Free hand reaching to pull her scarf up to get rid of some of the sweet across her face as she walked back to the cut down tree in the center of the clearing. Someone before her had done the top of the tree in and took it with them leaving part of the trunk and the stump for others, making it a good target for simple strike attacks.

_____Left hand reaching for the back side of her Naginata before her frame knelt lightly down and took a defensive leap backwards, her mind imagining a downward strike. Arms and frame leaning forward as she jabbed her weapon downward, slowly spinning it in a tight circle over the ground and pushing up with a heavy motion to send the invisible weapon into the air. Then her offence began as she slide forward across the grass, a precise lunge thrust into the growing hole of the target dummy.

_____A half fade back as she drew her weapon out and slightly twisted her wrist, a quick chop to the left side of the trunk and a fade right before another shallow chop into her target. Another twist of her wrist to the opposite direction as she struck with blade upward against her target, a slow fluid flow of her wrist moving to handle the blade down with a diagonal cut against her target before jumping back and moved her weapon to resting stance. The blade upward at her side as she exhaled and fall into the grass dropping her weapon.
@Aalam Abungu

 

The heat of the day was sweltering lying on the body like a blanket, inescapable and almost unendurable. The sweat is pouring off his body in small trickles on to the ground beneath it. Heat and discomfort, however, were some things that could be ignored with the proper focus. It was that focus that he was trying to attain he had only started training in this forest a few days ago. There was progress he was able to walk a bit quieter than when he had begun, but he was still a far way off. Every other step of so a rabbit would run from out a bush because he disturbed the leaves. He wasn’t nearly quiet enough, but he could hear something. A thumping that seemed to be echoing throughout the area in almost a pattern. Whatever it was, however, it bore investigating for if nothing else just to identify the sound.

Working his way towards the doing his best to muffle the sound of his footsteps keeping his body low to the ground. Moving half in the shadows of the trees both to avoid the sun and to lower his visibility it wasn’t his best, but he was getting closer to the source of the sound. Now he could tell that there was a pattern that seemed to be repeating itself over and over, with only the faintest pauses in each set. The sound was leading him to a cleaning; it appeared that it was human-made the forest just kind of stop at that area.

In the center was a girl with what seems to be a spear attacking a dummy with both precision and speed. She was handling such a large weapon with practiced ease. The fury that was unleashed upon the dummy was a surprise considering that it came from such a small frame. Watching her entire routine from the edge of the clearing avoiding a little of the heat in the shade of a large oak. He would have been content just to watch until he sees her fall into the ground. Running over to where she seemed to have fallen over stopping just a few feet away.


“You seemed to have over worked your body but that was an excellent display. But I wouldn’t suggest you do that in a fight until you build up your endurance or muscles, however.”

 

”Considering I have been at this since the crack of dawn with a hangover… I’d say getting to noon before I collapsed with almost no energy left is an achievement. Not yet where I want to be but better than before, and a stepping stone to the future.”

_____Kaedé spoke calmly enough as she remained laid down, mostly enjoying the colder grass then the standing up and working out option. Moving her head to see the person as she yawned lightly and tried to block the sun from her eyes. Free hand moving her shirt up a bit and her scarf to make sure he did not go looking where she did not want him to be. It was bad enough her sweet had made most of the white of her outfit see through.

”Anyways, what is your name, clearly you have been stalking me for some time to see my great progress made with combat. My name is… one moment…”

_____Kaedé struggled to get back up for a few moments, moving her weapon to rest on her back before she stood at attention, arms crossed behind her back and expression serious as could be. ”The great Kaedé Hoshi, though the game did not let me have such a long name so Kaedé Hoshi was what I got. Veteran of fighting with a Naginata and dual katana styles.” Kaedé did not have any swords on her but her weapon was present, even when she tossed it aside and fell back to the grass to relax some more.
@Aalam Abungu

 

Tilting his head slightly to the side as he listens to her explanation, it was precise but confusing. Moving to make sure sun was not directly behind him so she would be able to properly look at him. Appearing as something more than just a dark outline of the day, making sure he kept his eyes somewhere around her face. Women seemed to get upset when he didn’t look at them in the eyes. She was right however practiced did make perfect, that was a concept he could understand. Before he had come into this clearing he had been practicing his stealth walking to various degrees of effect.

He stayed squatting on the ground as she struggled to his feet looking up at her as she made it up. She was exhausted that was plain to see from the way she struggled it would have been better for her to just introduce herself on the ground. There was no reason for the extra effort.

She called herself “The Great” Kaede Hoshi causing him to raise an eyebrow in slight disbelief it was only noticeable if one was looking closely. Until her legs seem to give out again and she dropped back onto the ground to laid down. “Well, then Miss Kaede was it… you seemed to have completely exhausted yourself in the middle of your practice. Training until the middle of the day since the crack of dawn with no breaks sound terrible. Also, I was not stalking you I do not know where you have been I I nor do I care really. I came to investigate because of how loud your training was thought there would be something interesting to see. I seemed to have been right to an extent.” Dropping down on the grass beside of her folding his legs in the lotus position. “You are barely able to stand up right now what if someone comes to rob you, there would be no stopping them. Pushing yourself is admirable but pushing yourself to over exhaustion is foolish, so is drinking until you have a hanger over. That much should be apparent. So I will sit until here until you can stand ......by the way the name is Aalam. Aalam Abungu, however, I am no great just a man.”

@Kaede Hoshi

 

____Kaedé would look over before clicking her tongue at the person. ”I still have about ten energy, I just need one good strike and they would be killed. Not to mention because of the way the game is set up you can’t take from another player's inventory tab.” Moving to make it better to relax as she watched her energy bar slowly start to recover, it was not the fastest thing in the world but it was faster then standing around and waiting for it.

”You talk way too much, meaning you likely think too much. Stop it… Live in the moment or it will pass you by and yull suffer countless ‘what if’ or ‘if only’ or ‘if I had’ moments till it kills you.”

_____Kaedé Spoke blandly as she seemed to give some advice to the male who she was not exactly happy to have watching over her. She was a fighting, if someone tried she would feel better going down fighting her own battle then some random person fighting it for her. At the same time it allowed her to relax a bit better knowing worst case someone had her back, not like she had any plans to show that as she closed her eyes and tried to doze off into a light sleep to further recover her energy at a better rate.

_____There was the option of just setting her character to sleep, but that also had an entire list of issues with her and the fact she did not know the person beside her. Eye opening faintly to look at him before she spoke. ”How do I know you ain’t one of those robbers you mentioned, or something worse like a rapist? Surely a girl you can see the skin of under her clothes got your little soldier at attention?~” Slowly moving her hand to pull down her shirt to try and get some reaction, a grin across her face in the process. Her other hand pressing her shirt down so it would soak some sweet and reveal her skin beneath, she was a weird one.
@Aalam Abungu

 

Aalam looked at her out of the corner of his eye doing his best to keep his face in a neutral position even as she someone seemed to try and look down at him from her position on the floor. She sounded upset for some reason or another it might be pride, he had just questioned her ability to take care of herself after all. It needs to be said, however, “Furthering my point you kill the first man but you would not be able to fight the second.”

Turning his head to look at her fully keeping his eyes fixed on her face. Yes, it seemed pride was a strong emotion with her. A few seconds to think ahead might be the only difference from being alive the next day and being buried in the ground. That was a simple fact of life one that he had learned well after all the time had spent in the woods. She might not have seemed to find his company pleasant but that was fine as well. He would be there until she was able to get up again just because something was unpleasant doesn’t mean it’s not necessary. “Hmmm, I talk when it is necessary, fail to plan is to plan to fail that is a truth of life. To live everything by the chance will lead to a death you might have been able to avoid.”

Aalam looked at her as she pulled down her shirt slightly teasing the figure underneath, the sweat making the clothes partly transparent. His eyes traveled down the length of her body, taking notice of the curves that were revealed. “You do seem to have a wonderful body with pleasant curves that are a fact of this moment. Nothing I say will make that untrue and you do not know me to at all. I could be that robber or rapist that is true.” His eyes moving back towards her face with a more noticeable blush present even if his voice was still kept neutral. “However I am not and I have no wish to be, whatever my soldier does will be my own concern.”

@Kaede Hoshi

 

______The man had officially gone from maybe someone to mess with to officially not worth it. She was not going to spend time with someone who spoke so much and overall seems like a watcher, and considering he was watching over her only proved that point. She was just about helpless pray and he chose to sit idle beside her, he was almost like she once was before her life was flipped around and one day he would get his bitch slap from karma and realize everything she had said to be true about overthinking things.

”You can leave, I don’t need someone watching over me and I sure as hell don’t want to listen to another one of your lectures to simple reply questions.”

_____Kaedé would slowly raise her hand to start shooing @Aalam Abungu away from her resting and training area. There was no reason for a stranger to worry about her, and much less stay if that person clearly did not want the aid. Now if he lost his soldier, grew some breast, and maybe was an attractive women Kaedé would ‘try’ to deal with the long windedness and enjoy the company. But that was not going to happy with him over her shoulder like he was, so she would keep waving her hand until she was allowed to rest in peace with her energy bar refilled.

 

Aalam tilted his head to look at her he could tell by that tone she didn’t wish to form his company, and possibly would have loved from him to jump off the nearest cliff. That could be expected she seemed to love living everything up to chance to dive in head first without thought of what came after. He could understand the drive to live life like that to make the most of every moment; it was a drive that was admirable to see in anyone really. However, he would not just barrel through life as he was told there is a time for everything. A time to chase the sun and a time to rest with the moon, However, if she really wanted to be rid of him it would be respectable to listen to her and do as she wishes.

He started to get and dust himself off then a thought occurred to him, that yes it would respectful to leave her alone. However, she is still quite drained from her session that she had just previously engaged with if someone wanted to attack her she would have little ability to help herself. So he dropped back on the floor his legs folding back into the lotus position. Staring at the trees that surrounded the clearing, watching how the wind shook the leaves and changed the shape of the shadows. “I will wait when you can fight again then I will leave you be until then I shall stay seated, whatever happens, because of that happens.” Feeling a light breeze blow playing with his hair but cooling him down all the same, but there was a bit of pride in his posture. Something that was not hidden if anyone was to look at him.

 

_____Being persistent seemed to be the only good thing about the boy as he chose to sit back down until she could move again. Growling fairly loudly she rolled over to her side and ignored him. Her mind blaming this once more on fate trying to piss her off and that was the end of her thinking as she dozed into a light nap. She did not seem to snore or give any indication she was asleep, but seemed more at ease over the matter as her mind drifted.

_____She would stay rather motionless for what seemed like fifteen minutes unless he tried something, but after that she slowly rose and stretched her arms yawning. Sleeping in the forest was not exactly something she hadn't done while in the real world, few times after she drank she would wake up under a tree or in one. Turning to see if the male was still there, before clicking her tongue if he was. Taking her weapon and rising to her feet as she kept stretching slowly.

”You can leave now, unless you plan to watch more and risk getting cut.”

______Kaedé slowly spun her weapon around her frame, thankfully it did not take much energy to do the task, at random however she quickly thrust the weapon towards @Aalam Abungu stopping just short of his neck if he did not move, holding the weapon there for a few moments before she stood down and sheathed her weapon. Walking to the shade and sitting down to get a drink before attempting to do some training of her mind and entered a meditation pose.

 

He looked over at her she still didn’t like him, but she was able to rest comfortably if for no other reason but to ignore him. Even to the point of turning her back on him with a growl, raising an eyebrow slightly at her display. Saying nothing however instead choosing to ignore the fact that she would prefer him to jump into a ditch. Turning his attention back to the trees that lined the clearing letting his eyes wander around the clearing looking for what did not belong. He could at least practice his attention to details as he waited for her to wake up. Activating interstation mode for a little to see what all details he could pull out from the environment.

Aalam looked down the length of the blade up to the hand that held it was straight and steady. She was able to maintain it and keep it from shaking that was good before it was suddenly removed as soon as it was placed there. In a few seconds, it had been put alway, his eyebrow rising slightly at her display. It was meant both to threaten him and prove that she could take care of herself and his help was again no longer wanted. However now it was no longer needed, and if it was not necessary, then he had no reason to continue to annoy her.

Pushing himself to his feet brushing a few stray blades of grass from his pants walking to the edge of the clearing stopping just before the edge. “There is a fresh water stream about little ways north-west of your training dummy. I suggest you get some use of it I wish you the best.” Leaving the clearing and heading back to what he planned to that day.

@Kaede Hoshi

 

_____Kaedé would do no such thing as wash herself off or drink from some stream, sure she was odd but she had some class. Unless a hot girl was asking her… or there was a mermaid in the water… Ok she had a few issues but that beside the point as she overlooked her training dummy and chose to carve a face and target for her to attack. Once she was sure the male was far enough away from her she would open her UI to begin signing out.

_____Sure she wanted to train the whole day but after dealing with someone she did not like she needed to swing a real sword, or call one of her butt buddies for a quick little session before jumping back to her training. Not to mention it would give her character time to recover more energy while she was signed out so two birds with one stone as she vanished into the light and awoke back in the human world.

~Kaedé Hoshi exit~​

 

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