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Post by pirateliz on Nov 24, 2007 21:31:58 GMT -5
Matsu watched her wearily as she talked. What was going to happen in the city? He didn't want to think of the possiblity that Geming might escape from the city, and if he did, who would protect Fenny? He wasn't going to stay there that long...just get rested and then head back home. Home to where there were real streets, and fire flakes. He just let out a soft sigh. "I'm sure Lotus City is large...he won't find us.."
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Post by TGM on Nov 24, 2007 22:07:08 GMT -5
"There will be others. Word will get around, even if I'm not staying very long." Fenny let her hands drop to her sides in despair. "I don't even know how to block a punch! What am I supposed to do with all this?" she finished vaguely, waving her hands frantically at the dunes as if to convey her worry better.
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Post by pirateliz on Nov 24, 2007 22:10:38 GMT -5
"Run the other way, like I should have." Matsu said blandly and looked at her. "If someone goes to punch you, duck then grip their forearm. Put your shoulder into their sternum and if your balance is in the right spot you can flip them." He moved his arm, as if to show her. "Shanju planned on being a close quarters combat teacher..he taught me everything he knew before he died."
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Post by TGM on Nov 24, 2007 22:20:12 GMT -5
Matsu's answer was a long string of physical explanations, some of which she understood, but alot of it she couldn't picture. Flipping someone? With her small stature? Fenny turned to look at him straight-on. "Show me." she said flatly.
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Post by pirateliz on Nov 24, 2007 22:37:57 GMT -5
Matsu cringed. "What?" He stared at her blankly. First off, teaching her would require a level of touching that Matsu certainly wasn't comfortable with, second of all...well, what if he touched her WRONG? A blush creeped across his face. "I can't." He stammered.
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Post by TGM on Nov 24, 2007 22:49:52 GMT -5
"Why not? You said your brother was really good and taught you everything. And I know nothing, and am in dire need of learning some of those things. And you owe me: I saved your life." Fenny pointed out, frowning. Why wouldn't Matsu want to help her?
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Post by darkblood_alchemist on Nov 24, 2007 22:51:59 GMT -5
Saiki ground her teeth silently, as she tried to come up with an answer. Finally, after a long moment, she sighed. "I don't know," she answered truthfully. It made her uncomfortable. Not just having to deal with a child for so long, but the idea of explaining the evils of the world to a child. It just wasn't what she did. And now she would have to deal with Abeni when they got inside the city as well. This isn't going to go well.
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Post by pirateliz on Nov 24, 2007 23:04:24 GMT -5
Abeni looked downcast, and nearly as if she would cry again. "Okay." She whispered and leaned against Saiki, wondering herself what would happen to her. She fully trusted that Saiki would take care of her, after all Geming told her to. But stilll...she had already been left behind once.
"I saved you from the shark worm, we're even on the saving lives things." Matsu looked away and let out a sigh. "Because, I cannot fight properly anymore, and Geming has two arms..I doubt he'd get that close to you anyway."
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Post by TGM on Nov 24, 2007 23:16:30 GMT -5
"Matsu." Fenny glared at him. "I've seen too many lives lost because I couldn't protect myself or the ones I loved. If you're gonna sit here and tell me you can help me, but you won't, I... I don't know if I can stand to speak to you." she folded her arms over the top of her knees and purposely looked away from him. "The sharkworm was a joint effort, anyway." she mumbled.
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Post by pirateliz on Nov 25, 2007 11:56:35 GMT -5
"Gypsies." He muttered under his breath, as if calling her a gypsy summed up the dramatics she was giving him. "I didn't want you to speak to me in the first place." He added quietly before standing up. Matsu rubbed his shoulder instinctivally, wincing at the pain. He looked disheveled, and dirty, not to mention he was still bloody. He looked down at Fenny and then let out another soft sigh. "I'll try and show you what I can, but only for a little while, I don't know how much longer I can stand up."
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Post by TGM on Nov 25, 2007 16:41:37 GMT -5
Fenny raised her eyebrows. He wanted to do it right now? He was still pretty chewed out from the fight. But then again, when else would they have time? In a matter of hours they'd be heading into the city. She smirked as his attempt to curse and insult her, and stood up. "Thanks. Just don't strain yourself." The last sentence came out a little too concerned. Fenny twitched her nose. "If you pass out I'm gonna be too small to carry you back to the sandsailor."
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Post by Atmos on Nov 25, 2007 22:08:55 GMT -5
"A back rub?" The thought alone eased Noa right away. "That sounds great." He sighed with a relieved tone. Noa didn't know what he'd do without Hati throughout this trip. It certainly wouldn't have been as bearable. But overall he would never imagine all the things that had happened to happen during the trip. Making friends (and enemies) in the desert was the last thing he would've guessed. Noa ambled along side Hati in a quick pace, finally finding a tent that seemed to have just been abandoned. He gestured Hati to toward the tent before plopping himself inside in a rather childish manner. A breif "Uph!" hitting the ground and a throb all around his body made Noa think he shouldn't of done that.
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Post by pirateliz on Nov 25, 2007 22:43:41 GMT -5
Hati rolled her eyes as he flumped on the ground. "You're going to hurt yourself more." She leaned on him and placed her hands on his back, carefully kneading into his knotted muscles. Just a few weeks ago she would have been doing this for some fat rich woman in the spa. But now she was here, almost to a city that she wasn't sure was really safe, and to top it all off she had lost almost all of the clothes she had brought with her. She sighed and dug into his back a little harder then she should have. "Sorry." She said quickly and then closed her eyes as she worked, wondering what was in her future. Thoughts of her childhood day dreams came up, getting married..having the perfect life, and being rich. Now those dreams took place within the walls of Lotus City, instead of the confines of Omashu. Even more disturbingly was that perfect Earthbender man that was rich and in the upper class was replaced by Noa. Noa the peasent..someone she never would have even associated with before this trip. She had known him for how long now? Not even long enough to say she knew him. Then again.....with the way he talked so much. Nevertheless he was in her daydreams of leading the perfect life. She carefully rubbed his back with her eyes still closed. "I love you Noa." She said, louder then she wanted, and still entirely lost in her daydream.
While Hati was confessing her love, Matsu was carefully stretching to make sure he could at least show Fenny a few simple moves. "Here, try and punch me." He said, he would start with that move.
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Post by TGM on Nov 25, 2007 23:40:54 GMT -5
Fenny hesitated, watching as Matsu finished stretching. "Punch you?" she asked incredulously. Fighting Matsu did not seem a good idea: afterall, he was still injured. But he looked serious about it. Fenny shrugged, and ran at him to punch him.
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Post by pirateliz on Nov 25, 2007 23:46:13 GMT -5
Matsu instinctivally ducked under her punch and then gripped her forearm in his hand, he twisted at the waist and brought his shoulder directly into her sternum. This would bring her off balance and then he stood as he yanked her over his shoulder. "See, when I hit you...that throws your opponot off balance, this gives you the advantage to throw them. Even if they're smaller then you, if you don't get them off balance you'll just end up pulling their arm."
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