Unfinished Business (Amilia)

[Ayen]

"Good finish your apple we've got work to do."

Sazan finished her apple and then picked up her scythe following Amilia. Resuming their training until the day's end.

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Tomorrow

Sazan came out to the training ground again. This time her scythe was strapped to her back and would be put down when training began as she wouldn't be using it this time. Coming to a stop, the Hybrid looked around for Amilia's whereabouts.

[.:Amilia:.]

The Following Day...

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Amilia was in the middle of tai chi moving her body in sync with the movements of her energy. She focused on her upper body movements more than her lower movements but formed altogether made her look like she was almost dancing with the flow of energy. Considering the time of day Vicknair and the rest of the Judgment Core were patrolling the city, she opted out of it in order to resume training with Sazan.

[Ayen]

Sazan spotted her and took a moment to simply observe her tai chi, admiring the beauty she saw in it before finally walking up to Amilia and clearing her throat to get her attention.

[.:Amilia:.]

Amilia finished her form and lowered her gaze to the ground. She was well aware Sazan was there before she cleared her throat, the purity of the power flowing through her allowed her to feel thing things around her just from the movements she had been doing moments ago. She bowed her body forward respecting the energies then turned around to face Sazan.

"Afternoon. Have you thought about yesterday at all?"

[Ayen]

"Afternoon. Have you thought about yesterday at all?"

“Everytime I reach for my weapon.”

Sazan came to a realization that she was dependent on her scythe, 11mm Blessing and her magic. During training with the mages she attempted to incorporate some of her own training in there, and use her body accordingly. Next thing she knew she was going for the 11mm and the realization of that got her caught off guard by one of the trainees and knocked back.

“I'm here to break the habit.”

[.:Amilia:.]

Amilia smiled slightly and motioned for Sazan to begin, "I will act on defense using only Tai Chi, I would like to test what you know of the Merjutsu hand to hand arts. If I am satisfied with what you know then I will not put you on your ass." A perfect response for a perfect learning experience. Amilia had learned Tai Chi from the elves it had been passed onto them from another who had entered this realm long ago. Tai Chi was a health exercise but it was also an art of combat.

[Ayen]

"I will act on defense using only Tai Chi, I would like to test what you know of the Merjutsu hand to hand arts. If I am satisfied with what you know then I will not put you on your ass."

Sazan nodded then went into the Thrityh stance, moving forward in a Yorn press and leading into some basic and precise Rah ulu Rah strikes.

[.:Amilia:.]

Swiftly Amilia moved blocking the first strike with her palm knocking it aside then followed by swiping the second strike with her other palm again to the opposite side she stepped hard and low driving her elbow into the abdominal area of Sazan in one motion.


(see the first 2 seconds of this video)

[Ayen]

As soon as her second hand was swiped away she anticipated Amilia's next move and positioned the forearm of the block hand to her abdominal to absorb the blow then pushed Amilia back measuring her distance and delivering a straight punch after taking a single step forward.

[.:Amilia:.]

Amilia rolled with the punch as it connecting taking less than half the power it would of normally put off, she still however saw the telegraph when she was pushed back and as the punch connected her right leg went up with a knee that led into a popping kick that would plant on Sazans chest. The kick wasn't special it as it wasn't even full power, it would certainly knock the wind out of someone at full power but it was mostly to stop the forward movement of Sazan and get that distance between the two. Once she was settled back in place with her right leg extended close to Sazan her body remained low to the ground with only her left arm in the direction of Sazan.

Her left leg was bent under her supporting her weight while her right arm rested behind her body level with her shoulders. She waited for the next movement.

[Ayen]

After being moved back Sazan closed in again to take back the distance this time leading into the V'dri Orn with her strikes, aiming for the pressure points in an attempt to numb the arms and legs of Amilia. It had became somewhat of a favorite to Sazan and now she had wished she led with it in her opening so she could have numbed the arms Amilia would have used to swipe hers away.

[.:Amilia:.]

Good she had learned more than Amilia had thought. The first strike came and she leaned further back on her hind leg ducking it then swiftly shifted the full momentum and weight to her right leg and danced swiftly to the right avoiding the attacks with precise movements akin to the typical movements of Tai Chi. She would end her movements abruptly and allowed Sazan to come in closer until the surprise of a psuedo Yorn Press came forward.

However it was a fake when she moved forward she simply rolled right after bringing her right arm straight up toward the gut of Sazan under her strikes.

[Ayen]

Sazan was getting better at being able to anticipate her opponent's next move. She didn't change stances at the Yorn Press and instead was already ready to lower her arms to deflect the shot to the gut and move into the Zotreth Harl to display the techniques she had learned by beating Amilia into the ground.

[.:Amilia:.]

It was rather important not to overly anticipate your opponent. Like water she simply laid back and began rolling her torso side to side letting Sazan hit the ground every time she tried hitting Amilia. A second later Amilia took a moment to catch one of Sazans punches the rolled with her taking her off her feet and to the ground.

She stood up and went back into her defense stance. Sazan was learning fast. It was good because most people had difficulty transitioning from sword to hands.

[Ayen]

Sazan hit the ground and rolled away from Amilia, grass and dirt attaching to her jacket as she stood up and slowly chose to close off that distance again, observing Amilia. She knew she couldn't just attack again and again if she wanted to get a hit in. She had to set her up.