Practical Training Begins!

[Rafael]

(Training for SP)

Rafael stood in the snow covered grass that had only a few days ago been lush and vibrant with the alluring emerald shade of green that he had loved from the moment of first finding this isolated mountain peak little more than a month ago. In that month much had happened even when compared to the standard of normal that Rafael had come to expect with his new life. Although it wasn't completely welcome the arrival of snow had started last week and at the moment the peak of the mountain was covered in a frosty winter grasp.

He was standing at the bottom section of the peak where the river that ran from the waterfall down to the other half of the mountain. It was the source of much amusement for Zadora until last week when it had frozen and since then remained that way. Although he had been gone for a few days, days that he quite frankly wished he could erase from his memory Rafael had done some good in the last month for his friends as well. Like finding and recruiting the wasp Lisa into the pack. She was . . . somewhere at the moment. Today though Rafael had decided that it would be best to pick up something that he had let go for far to long. He was going to do some instructing for Zadora on how to defend herself in close combat. That was why he was here waiting for her to arrive and from his position he could hear her coming now.

He knew that while he had taught her a brief moment about striking enemies with her upper body that was virtually all that she knew to his knowledge. At the moment if they were attacked once again like they had while they were on the move trying to find this new home Zadora was more than likely going to be defeated rather easily. Last time she fell back on her animal instincts which Rafael knew were reliable and powerful yet wouldn't always be enough. In order to make sure she would always be able to survive he'd have to make sure she learned how to keep herself safe and her enemies beaten.

[Zadora]

(Training for SP)

Since the winter season had come, she had been disliking it. The cold was making her heavier with the growing of her winter coat. And the cold weather wasn’t something she was liking at all. First, cold wasn’t her thing and the second was the river she had always enjoyed was frozen over. She couldn’t swim! No water to swim in. No. She could just walk over the frozen water. The was no fun It was frustrating with the cold season.

But Rafael was back and he had told her that he had wished to continue their training that had been long since prolonged. And he was waiting for her outside. She didn’t want to go outside and deal with the cold but she knew she had to learn to defend herself. Stepped from the cave, she keep her movement slow to get used to the cold before heading over to his side. Her body trembled at the cold. She glanced back at the entrance, silently wonder how Lolth was taking the cold.

“I hate the cold” She grumbled out with a shake over her head. Kicking at the snow that covered the coated the ground. Watching the white blank of snow become at tousled at her actions before lifting her head to look up to Rafael with a brow rose to him. Was he liking the change of weather? Or was like her. Hating the cold. But to her hate was such a short word for her dislike of the cold. She despised the cold.

[Rafael]

Rafael turned to watch as Zadora who had only left the comfort of the still moderately warm cave that throughout the majority of the time that they had all been living here Lolth had been claiming for the most part as her own. Rafael tended to sleep outside enjoying the view of the stars in the sky as opposed to the darkness that came with sleeping inside. However, since last week all of them had been sleeping in the cave since no one wanted to stay out in the cold all the time. Rafael was confident that his ability could keep him from remaining ill if he happened to get sick from it, but getting sick in the first place wasn't necessary or smart so sleeping in the cave was the only option.

He actually had plans for the cave that soon he''d start to work on, but for now teaching Zadora took priority. Based on her body motion he could tell that she wasn't happy and was obviously cold. She made her opinion even more obvious as she stated openly that she hated the cold and kicked the snow at her feet. "So do I Zadora. Training we must though. You remember what I teach you last time?" Rafael asked making sure that his sessions while minor to this point were still building blocks in Zadora's ability to defend herself. Although today he'd be teaching her further about what she'd need to know in a fight the fundamentals of fighting were essential and the longer she kept training in them the better off he knew she'd eventually be in a fight.

[Zadora]

Did they really have to train outside? They could train in the comfort of the warmth. She wasn’t used to the cold. This was horrible and it was making her frustrated. Her river was no longer usable. She turned her head to the snow covered river with a heated glance. When Rafael started to speak, agreeing with her about the cold. He didn’t like it as well. Something they had in common. She gave a nod of her head to him when he mentioned if she remembered what he had taught her the last time.

“Striking.” She spoke as she cocked her head to the side. She couldn't stop the frustrated tone in her voice. She tried to hide it with the slight excitement of what he was gonna teach her. What was he gonna teach her? Maybe he would keep it moderate so she could keep frustration at bay. She didn’t want to be frustrated anymore than she already was. Nor did she want to take it out on him “What are you gonna teach me today?” She asked as she shifted on her feet.

The snow was making the pads of her feet freeze. Every time she moved after standing in place for so long, it was like little painful pricks to the sensitive pads. "Do we really have to practice outside?" She asked as she looked between him and the snowy blanket that covered the ground. Her liquid gold like eyed narrowed snowy sheet before huffing once more and turned to face Rafael. Patting the snow down until it was packed under her feet. No loose snow falling on top of her paws.

[Rafael]

Rafael was watching Zadora like he typically did or rather like he tended to do when he was serious. Although Rafael wasn't the most confident guy when it came to females in fact he was don't right shy towards them when he actually had to speak to them in any manner pertaining to their gender. He hadn't ever had a female friend prior to Zadora, Lolth and now Lisa. Suddenly he was surrounded by them and they were all nice. When he gazed at Zadora though half the time it was from an absent minded association with how attractive she was and the other half was like right now when he was acting as the leader of their small group.

Zadora remembered what he had taught her last time or at least the word for it which meant she more than likely remembered the brief lesson he had taught her about striking quick at important fragile spots of the body. Zadora was constantly moving her feet every few moments until he noticed that suddenly the sound of such movements stopped. He realized a moment prior to her question that Zadora was feeling the cold perhaps even more than her. After she asked if they really had to practice outside Rafael gave her a wide grin. "The more you want to go inside the more I know you'll pay attention. Besides not enough room inside cave right now."

When she asked what she's be learning today Rafael grinned widely looking almost like a shadow with big white fangs. "Today you learn how to dodge." Rafael said to Zadora and then just like that rafael's right arm seemed to leap forward as he jabbed at zadora's forehead. He knew she was far superior to him when it came down to it, but he had far more combat experience. Zadora would have to learn how to dodge Rafael even if he was slower than her so that in the future against does who might be able to match her speed she'd still remain untouchable

[Zadora]

She could feel the fur on her feet mat down from the snow melting against her heated skin of her feet. It made her more noticeable about the cold. She huffed softly more to herself then anything else. Watching the white cloud appear before her at her huff before diminishing like it was never there. She glanced around with detest with the snow presences. How she wished it would just disappearance bring back the warm weather.

She looked back up towards him. Her head cocked back to actually look up at his face. She was still surprised with the fact that he possessed no pupils in his eyes. She felt herself staring into his eyes. Surprisingly she liked the color of his eyes. It was like a mix of her fur colors. Gray. She didn't know why she liked the color but she did. She shook her head as she realized that she was staring and turned her head down slightly as he started to speak.

She could see the logic in his words but she still didn't like it. She still wanted to go inside where it was warm. Where she could be dry, which surprised her with her always wanting to swim. She was detesting the thought of getting wet. Despite the lack of space. Meanly with all of them fairly large. Rafael the most, took up quiet a bit of space.. But she was thankful, none of the spiders that Lolth seem to care for weren't near her, never touched her.

When he spoke of what she was learning her brow rose. Dodging? She lifted her head to question him when he jabbed at her forehead. Head head tipped back with eyes wide as his fingers making contact with her furred head. She moved to shift her body into a better position for her footing. One where she wouldn’t stumble back. Right foot placed firmly before her with the other bent at the knee behind her. She was ready to avoid his next one.

[Rafael]

Rafael watched as Zadora leaned back and shifted her body moving so fast that she appeared more like a blur than a solid being. "How's this possible! She's gotten even faster!" thought Rafael as he watched Zadora backed stepped away from his arm and got into the fighting stance that he had taught her during their last lesson. It was good to see that she was quick to see his surprise attack coming enough that she could put some distance between the both of them and keep his punching from inflicting any real damage on her. It showed that she was taking this seriously and that in time she might even rival him. Rafael now moved towards Zadora who was on his right side.

How he moved slightly different then his typical movements. At the moment he spun on the snow with his left foot while he brought his right foot up and then planted it down in front of Zadora actually stomping on her foot preventing her from getting away. Rafael would begin to swing his arms forward first his right then his left in quick succession attempting to bash his forearm into the side of Zadora's shoulders. He put enough force into his swings that if Zadora got hit she'd be bashed to the side, but not enough to send to down onto the grass.

[Zadora]

She stood there. Waiting to see what he was to come up with to hit her. He had seemed to pause not moving for the moment after she had moved away from him. She felt no difference until the snow shifted and his foot was planted down on hers. Her eyes widen as she tried to remove her foot. She knew compared to who is stronger that Rafael was the stronger one and he outweighed her as well. Her head turned down to look at his foot planted on hers.

She can’t move. This was starting to frustrate her. She wanted to move away from him. At the corner of her eyes, she saw movement. Her arms raising, blocking his right arm. It took all of her focus that she didn’t notice the left arm until it hit her. She bit her tongue at the contact of his forearm hitting her side of her head. She snapped her head to look at him. Her eyes narrowing towards him. She wasn’t expecting him to actually hit her. And hard to. She moved her left foot. Stepped forwards as her free arm shot out to push him away. Her claws extended intended to cut him with the shove. Though she didn’t seem to notice that her claws were out. He just made her angry that he actually hit her.

[Rafael]

Rafael could see the frustration in Zadora's eyes as they narrowed at him after he delivered the quick bash against her face with his forearm. He hadn't hit her hard enough to knock her down or cause any serious damage to her head, but he hasn't held back enough that she wouldn't be feeling some pain. Now as she extended out her hand towards him in a blur of motion Rafael had to do what he had been planning since yesterday when he first me e the decision to start her training once again. He felt Zadora's claw rip into his skin as she pushed. It was like someone just decided to push him away with knives.

He had to bite down on his lower lip to keep him from shouting in pain. A bit of blood dripped from his lip as much more flowed from the fresh wound down his fur. Continuing through with his plan Rafael brought his right elbow across positioned to bash Zadora across her left cheek bone with enough force that it would most certainly break skin and bruise while probably knocking her off her feet. Rafael pulled up on his right foot to make sure that Zadora would fall to the snow at which point he's bring his right foot back and then kick her in the stomach if she didn't focus and get back up to her feet in time.

[Zadora]

She wasn’t expecting him to bleeds her eyes widened at the sight of the blood dripping down from his wounds that she had caused him. Her ears flicked back at the sight of the red liquid that was oozing from the wound she had just created. Too concerned for the wound that she didn’t see his elbow until it hit her crossed her cheek. Pain exploded across her cheek and a sense of hotness flaring up at the area. Over the hotness was a sense of coldness. The force had her tumbled backwards.

Her paw came up, touching her cheeks. A wet feeling spread against her pads as she caressed her burning cheek before pulling her hand back to look at it. Bright red liquid stood out on her black paw and even more so on her white fur. And when his foot lifted off her, she fell. Landing hard on her rear. The snow busted up around her, covering her. Her arms had been extended, crossed over her unknowingly blocking his foot.

Her arms started to throb painfully at the force he had kicked her with that was what she assumed meant for her stomach judging by where his foot landed on her crossed arms. A painful growl rumbled deep in her chest as she looked up to him. This was not training! It was like he was beating her up! “You can at least hold back when your training me Rafael!” She snapped. Now she didn’t feel bad about his wounds that she caused him.

[Rafael]

Although this was training as Rafael felt the resistance of Zadora's chin against his elbow it brought a dark feeling of sadness and regret at what he had just done to her. Although he felt what he did Rafael had to force the emotion down deep smothering it until finally it could no longer dampen his mood and could prevent him from giving Zadora the training that she truly needed in order to survive in this new world. His chest felt much the same heat sensation that Zadora was feeling across her face at the moment although until Zadora, Rafael could push the pain down similar to how he did the darkness that he felt towards himself for needing to do what he was towards Zadora.

Although he was physically stronger than Zadora he knew that she surpassed him many times over when it came to physical speed. The mere fact that she had been able to defend herself from his kick was enough proof if she learned how to fight at the same level as Rafael himself than perhaps she would be the one defending him the next time they were attacked by something stronger than either of them alone. Rafael stood his ground as Zadora starred up at him angrily growling at him making it very apparent that she wasn't happy with how the training was going now. Rafael stopped and allowed her to speak, but when she was done Rafael stepped forward as fast as he could within a moment getting inside of her guard.

Rafael would raise his right knee just as he got to Zadora with every intention of hitting her right in her chest with enough force that she'd be sent flying backwards across the snow covered ground at least ten feet. Whether or not Zadora managed to block. evade or get hit and sent back flying made no difference with what would happen next. Standing there Rafael would stare at Zadora his eyes telling her that he was serious now. "I can't afford to hold back anymore than I already am against you Zadora. What's going to happen if the next time we're attacked I'm not strong enough to defeat our enemy. I wasn't strong enough last time nor the time before that and only because of luck am I still alive. It's my job to protect both you and Lolth and make sure that you both become strong enough to defend yourselves in danger. What will happen if you're attacked when you're out hunting? You'll DIE! I don't want you to die! SO GET UP!"

[Zadora]

Zadora didn't like how he was teaching her. This was only supposed to be training! She keep her narrowed eyes on his large form. He stood towering over her well she was sitting with her arms crossed over her. He had stood there listening to her snap at him. She scotched herself away slightly as he stepped into her space. Why was he in her space? She knew of his strength. She needed distance to get away from what ever was he was planning.

Her eyes turned from his face to his legs. She watched as he lifted his knee. The motion he was making was easy to follow. Before his leg made its decease towards her, she rolled out of the way of his kick. The snow slicking to her fur made her shake herself as she came to a kneeling position just a few feet from him. She was panting. Maybe from angry with his treatment? She lifted her head to look at him as he started speaking to her.

As he spoke, she felt herself shiver. An odd sensation running across her fur. She felt like her skin was alive, like it alive and it wants to run. Like electricity is running up and down her spine. She shook her head. This has to be the cold that was making her feet this way. She pushed aside the odd sensation to focus on Rafael. She listened to his finishing words. She bit back a growl even though she understood his words.

She pushed herself up onto her feet as she watched him. "It does not give you the right to do that Rafael. Its like you're only Fueling my irritation. This is only training." She growled out. She moved herself into her stance. Right foot placed firmly before her with the other bent at the knee behind her. She lowered herself slightly as she extended one arm out in front of her and the other closer to her body, bent at the elbow. Claws extended, ready to attack if needed.

[Rafael]

It was clear that Zadora wasn't in the best of moods with the way that Rafael was teaching her. In truth he had been expecting this kind of reaction or at least one that wasn't going to be grateful or accepting towards the training. He had been the same way at first, but this was how he had been taught while he had been human and in truth it was the only way that he knew how to teach her. Everything that he had been taught as far as how to fight and why the training was so hard had been beaten into him and it all made sense. It lived through him now after coming so close to death more than a few times. It had saved him even if he had nearly died and he couldn't bear the idea of either Zadora or Lolth dying if he could prevent it even a little. If that meant that he would have to make them hate him for a little bit or push them further than they were welcome to accepting than he would gladly accept the resentment if it meant they could survive even a moment longer.

Seeing that Zadora possessed the raw speed that meant she could evade his attack furthered his belief that if she received proper training and really took it seriously like him she could eventually rival him or perhaps even surpass him and become the strongest of their group. In order to become that strong though he'd have to keep pushing her even if that anger in her eyes grew into contept and eventually hatred. If it meant that she could survive against the Shinigami he'd gladly accept her hatred. Her anger felt almost hot in the air just based on how she was panting and starring at him. He never really had any friends and now that the first one he had ever really gotten was looking at him like this it felt like a pressure pushing now on his ideals.

She screamed at him after he had finished talking, but as she got into her fighting stance one that Rafael could see was more natural for her he saw something else. Her fur looked a little different, but beyond that it was her eyes. It looked like light itself was running off of them almost like lightning. "Could she have just activated her ability?" Rafael thought to himself as he saw her eyes knowing that his own eyes changed color when his ability was activated thanks to Zadora's input about it. Even if she had he knew nothing about it and he believed she didn't either. If this had just happened because he was pushing her then his training was working whether she liked it or not. "Then show me you don't need tough training!"

[Zadora]

Her fur keep its odd feeling. She didn't like it. Like it was dancing across her skin. Like it was ruffled. It was a feeling she wanted to pass it off as the cold but she had a feeling it was something different. Her foot sliding back as she slide into a lower stance. Her ears swiveled and pinned backwards. She was preparing herself for him. But he made no move towards her. What was he planning? Did he have a plan or was he waiting on something?

She wasn't sure and she wasn't gonna press her luck with him. No. She had to think of something. She knew she could get him with her speed. But she knew speed along wasn't gonna help her. And she knew that he had the Superior strength between the two of them.'Come on Zadora! Think!' She thought as she stared at him. She turned her glaze to the cut on his chest. A feeling of regret washed though her before it was overpowered with the feeling of frustration plus the odd feeling of her fur dancing.

She looked between the two of them. Three feet between them. Its a good distanced between for her. Only two steps. She took the chance.. She took those two steps quickly. She crossed it in a mere second before her hand rose up sharply and let her hand fall. A quick slash directed back towards his chest. This one going opposite of the one already on his chest. She had a different feeling. When she was moving, she felt like there was some type of small build up.

The feeling almost had her lose her concentration on her objection. Getting back at Rafael for what he had done to her. Her eyes focused on her target. She pushed aside all the odd feels to let only frustration to over come all. To take it out on her panther friends. Since he had pushed her buttons and even hurt her for training. It was only fair to her that she took it out on him. Since it was training, she could take her frustration out on him. Right?


OOC
Shock Charge=96

[Rafael]

Watching Zadora for any signs of attack from her was something that felt different than what Rafael typically felt when facing off against opponents. Knowing when he watched an opponent whether it be their fighting style of movements in general it was calming or exciting, but right now it felt sorrowful. It was actually saddening to see her like this because of the actions that he had done towards her in the hopes that she could get strong enough to protect herself. Although the sight of lightning coursing off of her eyes gave Rafael hope that perhaps he had been right with his method of training and now she was stronger for it even though they had only just started.

That was when the idea rushed across his mind. Perhaps she had awakened her power from her anger and frustration. He didn't have any further time to think about it as she started to move and as she did Rafael realized that she wasn't holding back. He had only seen her fight seriously once and that had been in a life and death situation against the insect beast that had attacked all three of them. She rushed in towards him and Rafael only had a moment to react pushing off the ground with his left foot in order to put distance between the both of them. As he moved backwards he saw her slash out at him with her claws and raised his right leg in response. In the following moment her claws slashed across his shin just below the knee.

The four claw marks that dug through his fur and flesh causing blood to seep out from within him were painful, but more than that Rafael felt a hot sting of pain from the wounds that wasn't like a knife. It reminded him of when the Shinigami had casted lightning from her hand that had pierced through his shoulder. His leg was numb yet at the same time it felt like tiny little shards were being dragged across it. Whatever power Zadora possessed it was clear to Rafael now that she had definitely awakened it. His left foot would touch the ground a moment later slipping slightly due to the snow, but Rafael with his strength pushed off the ground rushing Zadora with every intention of slamming his shin and knee into her torso with approximately 150 strength. Although he was still holding back the majority of his strength he needed to show Zadora that her speed wouldn't always be enough.