As Dead as Rachmaninoff [Training | R | Wycliff and Gail]

[Wycliff]

Wycliff shook his head as he saw her slam her foot down on the air. While it appeared to work for her given she didn't fall to the sand right away he knew that it shouldn't be so forced. He kept quiet as she continued to walk on the air by forcing her way. As he continued to watch he felt a soft breeze come off of the ocean. The sunshine wasn't too bright that it was burning and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky today. This was a great day to spend at the beach, he wasn't regretting that he had skipped out on work to come to the beach today.

Today was a good day, without noticing it he closed his own eyes and started to drift off a bit. However he didn't get too far along before he heard her pipe up and say she figured it out. His eyes opened up, looking at her. He had been lucky his sunglasses had been covering his eyes or else he had a feeling he wouldn't hear the end of it. He had missed the first few words she had said, but by luck he had been able to catch the rest of what she said.

“Ya looks like ya did. But ya too forceful with it. Walking on the air should be something that just happens when ya need it to. Guess that comes with time though. Good job Gail.” He smiled at her and raised a thumbs up at her before getting closer to embrace her. His arms wrapped around her for a moment while he pondered on what to do for the next step of her training. There were a few things that he could teach her, but he didn't know if humans could even use kido. He sure as hell had no idea, but maybe that could be for another date.

Pulling away from the hug he knew what was next. “Alright lets see how high ya can maintain the air ground.” Taking a few steps backwards he rose in the air to about a foot off of the ground. He was still close enough that he could extend out his arm to her for her to hold onto his hand. He waited for her to take his hand before he spoke again to her.“We going to walk up in the air over the ocean. I'll be by ya just in case ya fall. So don't worry ok.” She wouldn't need to worry about the pace as he would just match her's as she walked.

(OOC: Sorry for taking so long to respond been in a posting funk for a bit, but it looks like i'm out of it.)

[Gail Belrose]

All in all, it had been a pretty good day for Gail. She had figured out the air ground walking thing pretty easily. Honestly, if all it took to learn how to almost-fly was one face plant, she could accept that pretty easily. At Wycliff’s instruction, she had then progressed on to using air ground far higher off the ground. He had taken her up over the ocean, but the process was no different. She was a scientist, and she had figured out the conditions she needed to recreate. It didn’t matter whether she was five feet of the ground or five hundred feet.

Without making a big deal of it, she took a few steps away from Wycliff up in the sky and turned to face him. ”No big deal. It’s all the same really, but thanks for the support either way.” Even though it wasn’t any more challenging than the first go of it, she did appreciate the gesture from Wycliff. Even if he was a bit of a… well.. there wasn’t really any better way to say it than “he was a guy.” Either way, male tendencies aside, he was still rather sweet, and that wasn’t lost on Gail.

Having proven that she could maintain air ground just fine, Gail headed back down towards the beach. Though she didn’t think she was in any major danger from using Air Ground, she also didn’t see a great reason to stay up there when she could be on solid ground. It was all still a bit new to her, and that meant she was still far more comfortable doing things the “normal” way. Once back on solid ground, assuming that Wycliff followed, she spoke to him once more. ”Well, I think I’ve got that covered pretty well, and honestly I think that’s all I got in me for today.”

She spoke truthfully, as she honestly didn’t feel up to trying anything else. Her first use of reiatsu in her life had left her feeling strangely drained, even if it was an incredibly minor feat in the grand scheme of things. ”Given all the weird shit in the last 24 hours, I kinda just want to kick back in familiar surroundings and go back to normal life a bit. Being attacked by a hollow was enough ‘fun’ for one day, and I’ve had plenty more than that since. Can ya take me home?” Annoying though it was, she did have to ask. It wasn’t like she could get from Brazil back to Japan easily after all.

[Wycliff]

As he watched Gail get better antiquated with walking on reiatsu he smiled. It was seeming like she was getting the hang of doing it with great ease. He simply followed as she walked back down to the beach. To him it seemed as if she was happy with what she had just learned to do, which meant that he was happy with what he had taught her. After all the only reason he was teaching her this was to help train her, well that and the promise of what she had offered if he did teach her, but that was really just an added benefit and not the main goal of this whole thing.

Upon reaching the beach he heard some news from her that he really didn't like exactly, but he wasn't going to complain too much about it. Yea he was upset that she was tired, but only because they had just gotten to the beach and it was a perfect day to spend there laying around and having fun. While the time they had spent was fun, he really didn't want it to end, but he wasn't one to force a good time on someone else if they really were tired. “Alright I got ya. I'll take ya home Gail maybe after a nap we can make good on that promise?” He smiled at her and winked before stepping back over to his stuff.

“Let me pack up and then we'll go back.” This place was Wycliff's little secret beach, but he wasn't going to leave his stuff all over it. No, he didn't want to leave anything behind because it would eventually end up as trash. Trash somewhere in the world, not something that he would want to be held accountable for. He quickly moved to put away his towel and the one Gail had borrowed to lay down on as well as a few other things that had been scattered around while they had, had their fun before. It didn't take very long to find everything, everything but the shirt he had taken off before. As he looked around more he found it floating in the ocean.

With a heavy sigh he dropped his bag and slowly walked over to the shoreline. “Be back in a second, need my shirt babe.” Stepping out into the ocean he wondered about what was going on in London at the moment. It had been a while since he had ventured over to his home country. He didn't miss it at all, but he still had to wonder what was going on there. It had been a part of him for so long that he wondered if they had so many people with spiritual powers like they did in Karakura. His thoughts lasted for only a moment before he grabbed the shirt and made his way back to the beach.

With his things safely tucked away in his beach bag he walked back over to Gail wrapping his arm around her waist and smiled. “Ready to go home my lovely lady?” He had to do a little bit of flirting before heading back to Karakura with her. With his arm wrapped around her a gate opened up before them. He lead her through the gate and back to Karakura town. The trip was rather short, with the gate opening up in her home. “Thought it would be better for ya to not have to walk around town in a bikini.”

He let go of her but not before giving her a final kiss on the cheek. “That was for the fun day today Gail. Ya got my number, call me when you're all rested and ya want to learn more. Or if ya want to take me up on the offer to go to Hawaii this weekend.” With his goodbye said, he himself walked back into the still open portal and went back to the barracks to go take a nap and slack off on any other chores he has. As he walked through the gate he couldn't help but feel excited for the next time he would hang out with Gail, after all it was fun to meet someone who wanted to talk and hang rather than fight.

[Amagai Kuchiki]

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