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Post by Khongol Hackinemupp on Aug 26, 2005 15:26:14 GMT -5
Khongol kept to himself when he exercised. He could be found out by the tree he sat at his first day. Seemed to be his favorite place in the keep. He would swing that ax of his for hours. When he grew weary he had set up a wooden target for throwing practice. A good hard wood so not many could stick his throwing axes into it.
A couple days after joining he wanders down a new hallway today.
"Physical Training, by X.Come in here if you want intence training, I will train you in weapons, martial arts, without proper training you will be unable to defend yourself. Do not expect this to be easy, but it will be rewarding, if your not up to this than I suggest you turn back now."[/u]
"Hmm... May be worth checking out." He says. He scratched his bare, muscular chest a second. (He walks around the keep in nothing but his boots and kilt.) He opens the door and enters. "I am guessing you are "X". Anything here for a guy who preferrs two handed axes?"
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Post by Dedomi on Aug 26, 2005 23:32:33 GMT -5
Dedomi gasped for life itself. He clutched at his chest, and his feet almost slid against the ground. His legs felt like metal weights, anchoring him to the ground. If you could hear him, it sounded more like he was dieing than running. His gasps came as if they hurt him, split his side. He nearly tripped in exhaustion, his legs slowly giving out on him. Blackness appeared at the edges of his visions and his stomach churned, ready to relieve it's contents onto the ground.
He looked ahead and saw Calypso. He could almost see the look of confusion on Calypso's face as he approached. He lifted his hand and put two fingers in the air, and trudged on down the road.
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Calypso
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Post by Calypso on Aug 26, 2005 23:41:09 GMT -5
Calypso sat patiantly, knowing that the area was huge, and the distance immense, but he figured that he himself could do at least fifty, and he put Shimizu on 40, and so 20 should be no problem for someone who's not so fit, and just starting out... or maybe not. Calypso watched in confusion at Dedomi's passing. Was he ill? Dedomi held up two fingers. Two laps done, 18 more to go.
Calypso called out to him, "You do know that I required you to do this every morning. You may want to consider getting up earlier."
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Post by tommy21 on Aug 27, 2005 0:13:00 GMT -5
"Do you mind if I start here, with you?"
"Sure, why not, cook?" Tommy said as he smiled, thinking back to when Latias "declared" himself cook.
Tommy finished up doing curls with the bar. He had worked up a small sweat, although he was far from tired out. He thought he could continue with something else. He decided to do something a little more "upbeat". He thought about going out to run,... but he thought it was probably a little cold for that,... Then, an idea struck him. What if he could run inside? The part of his brain holding engineering suddenly went to work. He quickly apologized saying he had to go to Latias, and then grabbed his jacket and necklace and ran out the door-apparently suddenly strucken with the idea of the century.
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Post by Dedomi on Aug 27, 2005 2:07:45 GMT -5
Dedomi passed around the corner and started to laugh to himself. He must have seemed so weak and pathetic, he'd love to see the surprise on their face when he came around again looking right as rain, but still tired.
Dedomi jogged around the last corner, breathing hard, but not gasping as he was before. He jogged lightly around the corner and waved a number three at Calypso.
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Post by tommy21 on Aug 27, 2005 12:04:41 GMT -5
Tommy walked back in, this time a little more calmly. He had been in the portal room scribbling madly at a piece of parchment so as to get his idea down before it left him. He didn't actualy do anythign complicated with it yet, he just made sure he would not forget it by writing it down. He walked back over to where he and Latias and himself had been working. He decided that his "indoor running machine" would have to wait, he wanted to do a little more work in here. He spotted a few weights on a rack right near him and decided to do some lifting,...
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Post by shimizu on Aug 27, 2005 15:35:26 GMT -5
Shimizu smiled at his answer. "40? No problem. I might even pass Dedomi." he said as he watched the three fingers. He removed his long green jacket and got ready to run. He leaned forward, telling himself, 1... 2 ... 3! He started to run. He knew he'd have to do this with no walking, so he paced himself well. He ran by Calypso twice, calling, "ONE!" and then, "TWO!" he was just fine, unlike Dedomi, who he passed. Since he was in his prime, and naturally athletic, Shimizu wouldn't get tired until the thirtieth lap or so.
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Post by Sabian on Aug 27, 2005 15:48:49 GMT -5
Latias looked at Tommy, "No problem!" he exclaimed, "It's okay, you go do what you have to." Latias was still doing some curls, he started with a realtively reasonable weight. Latias' arms were skinny, no fat or muscle on them, so it was clear that he wasn't a fighter by nature. Latias worked out for a bit, when Tommy returned, "Oh, you're back!" his tail wagged back and forth, obviously happy to see hiim again, although it hadn't been that long.
Latias stopped doing curls and started looking for something else he could do. He found barbells, but decided those were too heavy for hiim, he'd have to wait a little to use them. Latias went over a bar that was hung from the ceiling. Latias grabbed a hold of it and began to do chin-ups.
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Post by tommy21 on Aug 27, 2005 16:01:04 GMT -5
"Oh, you're back!"
Tommy chuckled as he saw Latias light up.
"Yep, I'm back."
Tommy continued with what he was doing for a little longer as he saw Latias walk over to a bar set high up on a wall and start to do chin-ups. Tommy thought that he must be either very strong, or very light in order to be able to pull himself up above the bar like that. He decided he might try it later, he stuck to lifting for alittle while longer. As he did he went bacl over the things that had been happening so terribly fast the past few days. The black ninja, "X" who came in a disposed of him, the things both of them had said, and Kenja getting hurt,...
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Post by Dedomi on Aug 27, 2005 19:21:28 GMT -5
On his final lap, Calypso could see Dedomi performing the same act he had before of sliding his feet forward foot by foot, clutching at his chest. However, this time it was a real presentation. Dedomi felt like his chest was going to explode, his side pinched him and he felt like he was going to die of exhaustion. As he neared the finish, he saw a bucket of water, whether or not it was for him, Dedomi picked up his pace and dunked his head under the water. The water level dropped several inches before Dedomi finally stopped and walked around, his breathing coming in deep gasps.
"Hopefully that's easier tommorow."
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Post by tommy21 on Aug 27, 2005 21:46:07 GMT -5
After he had sufficiently worked up a good sweat and was confident that he would ache well tomorrow morning, Tommy put the weights back on the rack. He decided that that was enough muscle-buiding for himself. He looked around and found a wooden sword. It would be perfect for a little practicing on a post or other sort of dummy. He picked up a large dummy that stood on a post and placed him on the ground around the area he had been working out this entire time. He then picked up the wooden sword and started going at it from different approaches,...
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Post by Khongol Hackinemupp on Aug 28, 2005 0:46:21 GMT -5
Khongol looks at the silent X and shrugs. 'I have no time for this.' he thinks So he goes over to the weights... and decides they appear to be a bit light. To gain muscle strength you need more weight... endurance is less weight more reps. So he takes a long staff and goes to an open dummy... the cracks that resounded from it were fierce.
After about five minutes of wailing on the dummy... and beating the stuffing out of it (literally) he thinks with a scoff, 'I'm not even breaking a sweat...' He sees the chin up bar that Latias is working on and has a funny thought.
He crouches and grabs the bar next to the fox-boy and mimics him pulling himself up. When they finally meet each other's eye, Khongol raises his eyebows a few times fast and looks at his knees. He's not even standing straight.
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Post by tommy21 on Aug 28, 2005 2:18:18 GMT -5
Tommy kept going at the dummy for awhile. He wasn't going too hard and he found himself eventually starting to breaking through the cloth holding the dummy together. After awhile some of the cotton on the inside started to fall out. He figured now was the right time to stop. He figured that it must be built for people still learning to use a sword and didn't have alot of strength behind their blows. He turned from the dummy to see another one fo the clan members going at another dummy like a mad man, practically emptying out the dummy he was working on. He seemed incredibly strong to Tommy. He then watched as the other guy walked over to the chin-up bar and started to doing them incredibly fast,...
Tommy cleaned up the dummy he had been working on and decided it was time for himself to try out the chin-up bar himself. He walked over at grasped one of the bars near Latias,...
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Post by Sabian on Aug 29, 2005 12:43:15 GMT -5
Latias was doing the chin ups, realitively fast. He definately wasn't strong, that was for sure. Latias was extremely light. Latias watched Khongol beat the stuffing out of the dummy, "WOW!" he called, still doing his chin ups, "You ARE superpowerful!" Then Khongol joined him. Latias watched him for a bit, still going up and down. He's fast... Khongol motioned towards his knees. Latias looked donw and saw that Khongol was only bending his knees, he wasn't even hanging. He was just moving up and down.
A small grin came over Latias' face, but that didn't last long. Since Latias has over active emotions, he began laughing hard. He fell off his bar and lay on the floor, clutching his stomach, laughing like that was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. He laughed for a good ten minutes, by the time he could breathe again. Latias sat up, wiping tears from his eyes, still snickering.
He then climbed back on to the bar and continued. Tommy then joined. Latias looked at him, and then motioned toward Khongol, still laughing slightly.
OOC:Very funny Khongol!
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Post by Khongol Hackinemupp on Aug 29, 2005 13:32:35 GMT -5
Khongol grins at those you are watching. Apparently he is becoming the "class clown". So he step away fromt he chin up bar. "No good for me if I'm taller then it is."
So he finds a large sack (about as tall as Latias is) and makes sure it is empty. He slings it over his bare shoulder and walks out. About half an hour later he returns with the bag... which is apparently filled with dirt, since his hands were covered with soil. He hangs it from the ceiling and begins to punch the bag. Hard. Seeing that it may not be wisest to test the bag's strength that way (remember the dummy?) he goes for speed. Not amazingly fast... but better than average.
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