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Post by Arthur on Feb 1, 2012 7:22:38 GMT -8
Having his instructor rushing at him was the last thing Arthur had expected to happen. The young shapeshifter let a cry of fear escape him, and before he knew it his body reacted in kind. Before long his shape had changed and there was a squirrel once more. Arthur cursed silently. Why did that always have to happen? Well, he didn't have much of a choice beyond just rolling with it. Arthur gripped the blade in his mouth and scampered away as fast as his little squirrel body could carry him. He ran right toward a tree and tried to climb up as quickly as he could. The problem was that his blade was weighing him down. He couldn't climb.
That's it. You're doomed!
...Maybe not. One tiny thought at the back of his mind told him that maybe he still had a chance. Even in squirrel form. ...That part of him was also the insane part that had no problem with him risking his life to train. It was safe to say the rest of Arthur was not thrilled by the idea of trying to use his weapon as a squirrel. However, it didn't look like he had much of a choice. Arthur gulped and lifted the blade as best he could with his mouth. It wasn't an easy task, given how heavy it had become, but he thought maybe he could succeed. And yet, he couldn't bring himself to go forward. Attacking a dummy was one thing. Attacking another human being was entirely another.
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Post by sakura on Feb 1, 2012 23:32:40 GMT -8
Sakura screeched to a halt and stared down at the squirrel. "You have got to be kidding me." she muttered. "While i do give you some credit for thinking on your toes, that's not going to be enough, what if you were fighting a werewolf?" she asked. "He would eat you alive."
She shook her head, wondering why she even bothered to try to teach this kid anything at all. "Why don't we take a break, i'm getting hungry.'
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Post by Arthur on Feb 2, 2012 7:58:14 GMT -8
Thinking? He hadn't been thinking at all, really. "S-Sorry. My body just... reacted." Arthur said. A shapeshifter that relied on impulse more than anything. Or... just a shapeshifted that let his body do the thinking for him. He wanted to point out that he did indeed have a werewolf friend, namely Astrid, but he hadn't seen her around in a while and hadn't even really gotten much of a chance to interact with her beyond their first meeting. For all he knew, Astrid had probably forgotten all about him. Arthur let the blade rest in front of him and brought one paw to his forehead before shaking his head a little. He wasn't ever going to get anywhere if he kept letting his body do the shifting before his mind could even register it.
"You... you startled me, that's all. I didn't expect you to actually try and attack me." Arthur said. No one had ever tried that before. Never training with anyone had led him to believe that all he would have to do would be attack the training dummy. That was all he'd ever seen Kay do, after all. At length, though, he decided to give up his argument. Sakura probably wasn't all that interested in what he had to say, anyway. "I guess a break wouldn't be too bad." he said. Now that he thought about it, he was getting kind of hungry. Food would have been good right then.
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Post by sakura on Feb 3, 2012 22:20:12 GMT -8
"You have to expect the unexpected on the battlefield, your opponent is not going to come up to you and start shaking your hand and asking you for coffee or the weather." Sakura replied. "The element of surprise could be your strongest friend or the very thing that causes you to fall on the field."
The red head walked out from behind a tree and held out a bag of apples and a few other foods. "Knock yourself out, there's plenty here." she said before taking a bottle of strange red liquid out and pressing to her lips. She was hoping the boy wasn't too squimish for if she hadn't had her blood right now, then things would turn out to be worse than imagined.
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Post by Arthur on Feb 4, 2012 9:35:48 GMT -8
"I know that. It's just... I guess I haven't really thought much about fighting before now. I still don't really have a handle on keeping one form over another. It just never occurred to me that I'd have to fight sooner or later" Arthur admitted. It certainly didn't help that his body seemed to be the one in charge rather than his own thoughts in relation to the matter. Before it hadn't bothered him. His body would change and he would try to fight it, but it hadn't proven to be a huge hindrance before. Now, though, it was looking like it would be a problem. Hell, his shapeshifting had almost gotten him into trouble when he'd first met Astrid because he'd been stuck in squirrel form. Just like he was right then. Arthur placed one paw on the nearest apple and rolled it closer to him, only to have his body revert back to human form without much of a problem.
"But I guess you wouldn't know about not having a handle on your powers." Arthur guessed. Sakura seemed to have things completely under control on her end. Arthur almost envied that. He wished he had some idea of what he was doing. He bit into his apple and contemplated what to say next as he chewed. Why was she teaching him, anyway? She was of an entirely different class from him. It made no sense. Still, she was proving to at least be willing to do so. If she weren't she would have given up ages ago, right? Hell, Arthur thought she would have given up after his first failed attempt with the blade.
"My body just changes whenever it pleases. Sometimes I just get stuck. I don't know... maybe I just ended up with the wrong sort of powers. I wish I hadn't gotten any at all sometimes." he admitted. But what would Sakura know about that? Why was he even bothering to admit that much? He barely knew her. It was just coming out of the blue... wasn't it? His admitting all this. She certainly hadn't asked to hear about it. "I guess I'm just not much of a shapeshifter... or a fighter. Even if I did learn, I doubt I'd be able to actually hurt anyone." he said.
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Post by sakura on Feb 5, 2012 21:53:33 GMT -8
Biting her lip, Sakura managed to look up at Arthur again. "To be honest, i don't have control over my powers. If i do, it is because i force myself to be in control. It's kind of a pain." she placed one leg over her knee before taking another sip of blood. "I mean, you're lucky, you don't have to deal with wanting to feast on blood. At least you have some control."
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Post by Arthur on Feb 20, 2012 13:55:18 GMT -8
"N-No... I really don't." Arthur admitted. He had been fortunate to become unstuck so easily this time. Most of the time Arthur struggled to keep himself from shifting to an entirely different form. Sometimes it happened when he wasn't even thinking, while other times his emotions seemed to have a key in his transformations. "It's sort of... based on luck, I guess. This time I got lucky and shifted back to human form without having to struggle too much. Most of the time I get stuck and can't get unstuck until a few hours later. More than that if I'm unlucky." he explained.
"Sometimes I wonder why I was dealt this ability. I can barely do anything with it, and I'm no fighter... I guess it's just bad luck." he said. He realized he had begun to ramble a bit and sheepishly brought his hand to the back of his neck. "Sorry... you probably don't want to hear me ramble so uselessly." Arthur murmured.
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Post by sakura on Feb 26, 2012 20:39:58 GMT -8
she laughed, for the first time in what seemed like forever. "Believe me kid, if powers were based on luck then I was cursed with the ability to suck out people's blood. I had other dreams to think about, and i sometimes wish i wasn't stuck like this. I want to be something else entirely." she said. "as for your rambling, i have heard worse."
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