The First Notch

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Sitting on the ledge of the roof Asmoskon with his head turned to the right gazed down at the street below. This was a decent place for a bit of training, away from the eyes of most below. Positioned four stories up off the street only those in a building several blocks away would be able to spot them. The only exception would be if someone else on one of the other nearby buildings also happened to go to the roof. It wasn’t impossible although they wouldn’t really see anything anyway so there wasn’t anything to hide.

Everything moving down there was the same as it had always been, Asmoskon could remember years ago now looking down the exact same way he was now looking at the ignorant going about their lives. It wasn’t something he wanted, but he could understand why someone would want to just live in ignorance away from the dangers of the spiritual influences. Of course, there were still dangers, but standing down a random mugger was something Asmoskon felt couldn’t compare to the sight of a Hollow. His thoughts drifted off for several minutes though tracing back his memories.

That’s when he felt it, the sensation that had been lost for so long, a smile was on his face. The memory that brought forth the emotion of joy, the first time he’d met his best friend. Kazura had met him on a rooftop. The high school in fact while he’d been eating his lunch, his legs off the ledge while he sat almost the same way as he was now. “I really need to visit if I’m getting sentimental.” Asmoskon sighed to himself knowing that once he went to see Kazura he’d have a good deal of explaining to do. Now though he just had to hope Uli would get here soon so he couldn’t continue to have his memories stampede all over him.

This was going to be a strange one though, it'd been some time since he really took on a student. One that he would train more than just past the basics or help refine what they already knew. He'd had some of them in the past, but his luck seemed to rub off on all of them leaving him with nothing. This time he just had to hope that things would be different. He had two students now in the blink of an eye and this time he was determined to train both of them enough they could do more than just survive but thrive in the war against those that wanted to wipe them out.

[Uli Babler]

Just as Asmo was getting lost in his memory, Uli's foot would collide with the door to the roof, carrying a bucket of fried chicken in his left gloved arm and his right gloved hand would be holding a fried chicken leg, chewing away at it as he stomped out and onto the rooftop. He was smiling and thinking about how lucky he had been as he came upon this delicious bucket from the back seat of a delivery driver's car on his way to the building. 'It's not really stealing if they never knew you took it...' Uli giggled to himself as he thought upon the actions he had taken to acquire the meal. When he saw Asmoskon looking like a brooding dark knight that shall not be named looking over the streets below, Uli swallowed his bite and walked forward.

"Heya, sensei. That's what you want me to call you right? You want some chicken?" Uli grinned gleefully, holding out a fresh drumstick of succulent and hot chicken with his black leather gloved right hand. Food was always important for training in Uli's mind. Fighting around on an empty stomach was a terrible idea and Uli's wasn't in the business of bad ideas. He was however in the shadier side of business these days and he knew he'd have to get stronger if he didn't want the snot kicked out of him. And that's why he agreed to Asmoskon's invitation to train that evening.

[Eleonora Schmidt]

As Eleonora walked towards the building she was suppose to meet with her "sensei" she couldn't help but to be lost in thought, focus on how much things have change since she decided to walk this path and how much things will change now that there's a Quincy ready to teach her, normally she would be like a little girl excited and dashing towards the building but right now she can't help to be nervous as this might truly be the point of no return on her path.

Once she reach the building and went to the roof the blonde would not only see her sensei but another person, hopefully another student because as people say "the more the merrier" but also just knowing there's other Quincies out there that she can call friends is a really nice and reassuring thought.

"Greetings, sorry if I'm late I had somethings to take care of" Eleonora would say with a half smile trying to hide how nervous she was. "My name is Eleonora Schmidt, pleased to meet you" she would introduce herself to the other person with a small bow.

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Almost lost in his thoughts about his life, then just like the slamming of the door to the roof Asmoskon’s attention was sprung by one of his newest students. Uli, the overly enthusiastic of the students arrived first, something that was to be expected. What he hadn’t expected was Uli to come on the roof with a bucket full of fried chicken. He was munching down like some high school kid that wasn’t thinking about anything other than his stomach. “So this is why teachers always look aggravated.”

“No, I'm fine, Uli. Make sure you finish up before we actually start practice. Next time pick something with less grease.” Asmoskon in all honesty didn’t really care if Uli or Eleonora called him Sensei. It was something he hadn’t been called in the last few years when he was someone else. If they chose to call him that it would hopefully be when he earned the honor of it. He didn’t have to wait long for Eleonora to arrive, coming up the steps just after Uli. “Everything is fine Eleonora. You can get to know one another while Uli finishes his food. After that, I'll begin today’s lesson.”

[Uli Babler]

Uli continued to eat and nod as Asmoskon spoke, chewing cheerily on the mouthwatering meat of the chicken. Uli honestly didn't mind the grease of this food as his entire body was currently covered in leather, with the exception of his head. Thus his gloved fingers weren't irritated by the slimy texture of the grease slipping off the chicken in question. Uli took another bite and held out the bucket to the other student to arrive and spoke, with a mouthful of chicken, "Hey there. I'm Uli. Wanna piece?" He swallowed after speaking and grinned widely, his eyes almost closing at the size of his grin.

When he finished the piece in his hand, Uli tossed the chicken bone aside and, after offering a piece to his fellow student, he would set that aside as well. He would then take his time wiping his gloves off on the ground of the roof, making sure to throughly allow his gloved finger to become dry of the grease on them. After finishing cleaning his gloves off Uli would begin to stretch, making sure to focus on his back and really lean backwards into a bridge pose so as to limber himself up. "So big news! I can finally make a bow! It took awhile but I think I've got shape really nailed down. Not exactly what I thought it would look like either but take what you can get, right?!"

[Eleonora Schmidt]

Eleonora smiled at Uli's offer but she politely reject it, not that she wouldn't mind have something to eat but food before training doesn't sound like a good combination, she raised an eyebrow when Uli said he finally was able to summon his bow as that indicate her that they were around the same range of abilities which help her ease up. "That makes two of us then! When I first met the sensei I just manage to make a bow out of reishi, now I can properly summon it!"

The blonde would take a deep breath and extend her left arm and as the reishi particles started to gather they took the form of a Curve bow, in a quick flash her bow would be fully summoned taking a metallic dark blue tone with a size of roughly sixty six inches. "I haven't done much practice outside of shooting a couple of arrows with it, but it feels really nice to finally being able to call it on my own, makes me look a bit more experienced than what I'm actually" she let out a small chuckle.