010 [Action, OTA] Evening training

[shops_a_lot]

[Bulla's in the Training Center getting in a good workout. Rather than focusing on strength, today her focus is on speed and endurance. They're both useful for combat, and much less hazardous than her previous regiment of seeing how far she could launch grats with punches or kicks

Comments

[worthyheir]

[Damian is working on getting out the pent-up frustration from meeting Drake out in the most effective way he can think of--beating the crap out of things until they drop.

After landing a spinning kick to some unfortunate creatures head, he lands incorrectly and winds up staggering backwards a few steps--and right into Bulla.]

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[It throws Bulla's groove off and startles her, but she manages to hold in the urge to have her arms flail out. Instead, she catches the boy, then takes a couple of steps back.]

Careful, there! You're not hurt, are you?

[worthyheir]

I'm fine. [Steps out of her way.] What are you doing, running around like a maniac? You're going to get hurt.

[shops_a_lot]

I'm working on my speed and endurance. I've worked on my strength plenty, but I'm going to need to be able to run for a long time and might have to fight random monsters while on a mission...

[She shrugs and smiles.]

It's pretty hard to hurt me.

[worthyheir]

What, are you an alien or something? [Damians brain: hard to hurt = Superman = alien.]

[shops_a_lot]

You're half right. I'm half human, half saiyan.

[worthyheir]

I've never heard of a "Saiyan" before. [Mumbles.] Though I suppose that explains the blue hair...

[shops_a_lot]

[Bulla's rather amused by that, although it's not fair to the boy if she doesn't explain.]

Actually...some humans have hair this colour in my world. My dad's the Saiyan and his hair is black. Saiyans are really strong and can take a lot of damage.

[worthyheir]

Naturally?

And Saiyans don't shoot laser beams out of their eyes, do they?

[shops_a_lot]

Um...no.

[She blinks a little at such a specific guess. Maybe the only aliens the boy had ever met did that?]

Saiyans can use chi blasts and use chi to fly, although a few human martial artists can do that, too.

[worthyheir]

I've had several tutors that taught me about chi, and I'm fairly certain you cannot use it to fly. [Though if you could, that would be pretty cool in his book.]

[shops_a_lot]

Well, you have to have a lot of it to use that technique, but it's possible.

[She takes a very thorough look around to make sure the boy is the only other person here right now, focuses her chi, and flies a small circle around him before landing.]

See?

[worthyheir]

[Watches her with interest. Oh. It looks the same as when Superman or Supergirl flies.] Is that supposed to prove to me it's the use of chi? How do I know it's not a part of your alien physiology?

[shops_a_lot]

I guess there is no real way to prove it to you since none of the humans from my world who can do the exact same thing are here.

[She pauses.]

Well, I can channel chi around my body...but that would prove I can use chi more than it would prove that the flying was because of chi.

[worthyheir]

That was disappointing. Here I thought I could possibly fly.

[shops_a_lot]

Are you able to use chi at all?

[She tilts her head curiously.]

If you can use chi you might be able to learn to fly with training. But it does take a lot of chi and focus.

[She tries to think of something easier, and generates a small ball of chi about the size of a jawbreaker candy in the palm of her hand. It lets off a faint white glow.]

Can you do something like this? If you can, I could probably teach you how to fly at least a little bit.