Hand to Hand Combat

[artemis]

Rhyme stood in the Danger Room trying to get better at his hand to hand combat as he tested the limits of the rooms sound proofing. In the corner his iPod was plugged into the wall through a jack and his music was literally blasting from the speakers.

His leather coat was off also thrown in a corner and he had a Bon Jovi band t-shirt on. His forehead and arms were damp from the workout so far. His arms, legs, and eyes were glowing with yellow energy where upon close inspection would be found to be ribbons of musical script.

The room buzzed with a slight feel of energy as the entire room was held within a very small field of control. Nothing was being changed but with the free energy of the music playing he felt might as well kill two birds and train keeping fields up longer and without as much active focus.

The Danger Room wasn’t on a high setting since his hand to hand combat skills were lacking to say the least. With the concentration it took to keep anything he did active he was better ranged. He could create things to throw and control their path easily and throw balls of energy but if someone could close the gap and get to him, he could do very little to actually get away.

Simple robots with wooden limbs came in waves. Rhyme was getting better at dodging them but was still getting smacked around decently. His hits though were strong since the ribbons around his arms and legs gave him increased speed and power. He had no real muscle mass but with the ribbons up he could hit nearly as hard as Logan without the metal skeleton behind the punch.

[vampira]

The creature known only as Vampira opened the heavy doors and jerked as the unbarably loud music hit her ears and har to cover her cat ears. She was in her catlike forarm true lesf, wearing combat boots, black short scirt and a black tanktop, she looked at Rhyme and motioned for him to lower the music a bit. She then walked over to the wall an a hidden touch screen and tarted pushing some programs... a nice forest setting would be nice for now. or if he wanted it, it could be changed later. She also motioned for him to stant in the middle of the room. She was done programming: a nive very humid and hot jungle setting... it would make it harder for him to concentrate and over time, get him better. She watched as the room changed into the jungle and then walked over to him. She looked into his eyes to make sure that he was paying attention. She motiones around and then motioned a way that this was what there training would be like for now. She then opened her side gad and took out a combat knife and without hesitation, she have it to him. and then took off the bag and tossed it a few feet away and then stepped backwards. She poined to him and then herself in a way that he would looked at his own body and then her own. She then toined to his weaker spots... his mannhood, knees, neck, touched his waj then pointed to his ear and touched his ribs and then his wrist, asn after that pointed to her own ears, swayed he tail so it would be seen and then at the knife. She way motioning to there weakspots and that every mutant had weak stops. Hoping that he understood, she motioned for him to attack as she stepped back.

[artemis]

Rhyme waved his hand toward his iPod and the sound dramatically reduced. The gesture was done instinctually when he noticed the sound level pained her and it took very little energy since the reality of his iPod was extremely used to being manipulated in ways that changed what was playing and the volume.

The yellow in his eyes flashed much brighter for a quick moment as he watched the knife travel in slow motion to him and he grabbed it on the hilt which surprised him somewhat though also saddened that he needed to pump up his vision to catch it.

When she showed him the weak points of a normal body he took the blade and blew on it. When he did the local reality around the blade shifted slightly but noticeably at least to him and other reality changes. After he blew on it the blade was completely dull. It could easily be returned to an even sharper state but right now with how new he was, he didn’t want to hurt his random teacher.

This was sort of usual for him at this point. The Mansion always had people coming in and out and if this strange cat like mutant was willing to give him so actual combat practice he would gladly take it.

As the air grew humid he was tempted to alter it back to his liking but resisted. He never tested his will against the Danger Room and didn’t want to worry about it now or end up breaking it by making it overwork itself.

‘Here we go’ he thought to himself and he swallowed hard.

He took a few steps back and then sprinted toward the cat women as the ribbons in his legs glowed brighter and the ribbons in the arm wielding the knife extended down around the hilt of the blade and his hand. Even if he opened his hand or she forced it open, the blade would not leave his hand.

With the ribbons on his legs glowing he ran at the speed of an Olympic athlete which was much faster than someone as slim and non-muscular as him would appear to be able to run.

Since she gestured to ribs he tried a clumsy strike at her rib cage and if that was blocked which he expected it would be he would attempt an open palm strike to her abdomen to give him a bit of distance to strike again with the knife. This was going to be harder than fighting a normal person since hand to hand with a person with four arms automatically puts the two armed person at a disadvantage.

[vampira]

Vampira watched as he ran towards her, she was actually surptised at his speed but did not really understand what the energy lines on his hands and lets where for. She alowed herseld to be punched in the ribs, without any intension of mooveing. She showed no sound of pain and in an instant also took hold of his wrists and looked him in the eye whth a small smile and then playfully kicked him in the ancke, just so it would hurt a bit.
She then let to of him and without waiting she sent a chop towards his neck and also a kick towards his legs, wanting to trip him. She did not want this sessions to be an active combat... but mure like a teacher and learning student training thing, In the few day that she has been at the mansion she still only remembers some combat moves... nothing else.
She then made a crouch neck to him and picked up some dirt and a fist sides rock while she motioned around and then patted the ground and the nearby firn. She struggeled to say a word that would give him more idea and finally uttered it.
" Nature. " She uttered with great effort and her voice sounded like some evil male demon. She tossed the rock and the dirt gently into the air, alloweing it to fall and then looked at him, hoping he understood to try an use his sourondings.

[artemis]

He was surprised when he struck her ribs but was not surprised when he found himself lying on the ground from a trip. He let out a squeak like gasp when she struck his ankle and an oomph when he landed.

“Oww” he said with a smile as he pushed himself back up.

He flinched when he heard her speak though not because for the reason most thought. The human voice had so many levels and could say so much. He had only just started to learn what the different changes meant but even with that limited knowledge he felt that something was deeply wrong. His heart ached wanting to help her but without knowing the how or why of her difficulty speaking he would have to brute force his way into it and he couldn’t spare the energy during a combat practice to do so. He had a song that could work too if it was emotional based though physical or mental would be trickier. And without communicating with her more he wouldn’t even know if it was safe to let her talk. Mutations and baggage seemed to be common traveling partners and who know what it could release.

“I understand, sometimes it’s hard to figure out what is best to do. Most need to use what is around them, I can make what is around me what I need.

He gestured toward the rock and dirt in the air and they froze in mid-air floating their as the ribbons around him dimmed dramatically. He then spun his wrist and the rock and dirt dissolved into very fine sand. He then clenched a fist and it turned into a solid chunk of sandstone before falling to the ground in a plunk.

It was hard to explain to a new person how his power worked since he barely understood it himself. When he felt music and sometimes even when he didn’t, his body felt this rush and with a bit of willpower, the world around him just became what he wanted it be. And it would take over an hour to explain all the little things that make things easier or harder to change.

[vampira]

She smiled wiely at his reaction to her kicking his anckle and then cound not help grinning when he landed. She then looked at what he was doin to the rock and the dirt... and then grew wies and and smiling when sandstone hut the ground. She then motioned for him to get ready again as she pulled him up from the floor with ease. when turning around her tail accedently brushed againt his hand, making her tail move away as instinctivly. She then turned around and sent a light jabbing to a paint on the neck and a light punch to his gut. She then clapped twice and movement was heard not far from them and closeing in fast.
A few seconds later douzens or armed troops came into sight with melee weapons and stood there for a second. Vampira was kind of intimidated but had somekind of memory avout a simular situation. She pulled Rhyme closer and motioned him to pay attension. She nce again oiunted a few places. The eyes, the manhood, the head, the wrists, the gut, and the knees, and in the same time poited to his knife and then preformed an elegant dance move.
" Keep... mooveing. " She uttered, straining for the words to come out. She then clapped once and the troops started walking towards then one or two at a time.

[artemis]

Rhyme went to throw the knife when he first saw the robots appear. He got as far as raising it above his head before he lowered his arm shaking his head with a frown. Long range was not what he was training. He could easily peg all of these robots with knives or other items but that taught him nothing.

“Moving I can do.” He said with a wink as he waved his hand again this time in a more complex motion. It starting going straight horizontal with his shoulder and then raised sharply going straight above his head. The first motion shifted the song to a very unique and odd song. It was an old DDR song, Stamp on the Ground

On the second motion of his arm he let the knife drop its blade sticking into the ground and a branch flew from a tree turning itself into a rough quarterstaff. After he was finished the ribbons on his feet went from tight on his legs to more loosely wrapped, it looked as if he had slinkys around his legs. When he held the quarterstaff the same thing occurred as with the knife, ribbons wrapped around it as to not let him be disarmed.

The effect was linked to the song he chose. It would slow his speed back to his normal, average speed but let him jump to incredible heights and stick to vertical surfaces. He could have moved like she did but to make him that light on his feet it would take soft flowing song that was really useless for fighting. Even if the song wasn’t used directly the beat would flood him with energy.

By the time he got his changes made a few of the robots got close. Right before they got to him he jumped about 20 feet into the air at a high speed. Then he came flying down with the staff held in both hands and smashed in one robots head before lifting and sweeping hitting the crippled robot like a baseball sending into the one adjacent to it. He then jumped at an angle doing a flip he landed with his feet on the trunk of a tree and pushed off. He did a flip each time he jumped from tree to tree to keep himself moving and to make sure his feet landed first on the trunk.

If he ended up passing a robot he we take a swing at it using the staff more like a bat then a quarterstaff. The one time he did use the quarterstaff somewhat correctly was when he was about to fly right into Vampyra he shoved it into the ground to propel the arc of his flip higher which sent him up and over the women.

[vampira]

She watched him in action occasionally useing her habds to shove the enemy backwards, buying her student enugh time to react. She olso watched as he used his staff an stadbbed one of there enemy in the head. As the blood splatted on her she stopped and looked at her blooded hands. She suddenly froze. Vampira remembered a situation EXACTLY like that... suddenly she had an unbarable pain in her head and ears and fell to her knees, screaming. She saw that was in a wintered forest and was figting Weapon X agent... she rememberd that... the figher that was mercilessly massacering them was not somebody else... it was HER! She then was in another situation she was being cornered by an animal... a wolverine. As she looked into the eyes of the raw fury ,something inside of her snapped... she wanted to just rip it apart in fury... she let out a snarl and ran towards it.
In a second Vampira's eyes shot open and was back in the DR. She felt a sting in her arm... and then her eyes went from yellow to fully black. She let out a yell as her sould was filled with rage and anger and limitless courage. She let out a sream that resembled Brian of AC/DC singing. She then ran at the nearest troop and without a touch slashed at his neck, and then with the same motion kicked another one in both knees, breaking them.

[artemis]

Rhyme halted himself when he heard Vampyra let out a primal yell. It chilled him to the core since he knew a lot about mental baggage, about not knowing parts of your own past and about having a part of you that is well, evil.

As she tore into the robots with such savagery he scowled shoving his eyebrows together. Something was wrong, this had to stop. He wasn’t sure if she was okay or if she was even in control. She resembled Logan when he was having a flashback or a moment.

With his determination turning his will into an iron wall his eyes glowed a brilliant yellow as the ribbons around him turned so dim they could barely be seen.

He slammed his hand onto the ground and a shockwave of yellow energy erupted as he brute forced a law nature change within his domain of effect, which just happened to be the danger room.

“I, Rhyme Enturi, master of this local reality enact a change. Within my control Copper shall no longer conduct electricity.”

He didn’t need to voice his mental command but he figured hearing his voice might help. With the change made he was glad that he lucked out on his short sightedness. If the lights were not inset into the walls he would have plunged them into darkness. Thankfully only the robots shut down as they were unable to function without electricity.

“Snap out of it girl.” He said realizing he didn’t know her name.

[vampira]

She did not really relieze what happened to the enemy, all she was it that they all fell to the ground, she glared around looking for another agent, wanting another agent to tear apart. Vampira finally managed to regain controll and looked at Rhyme. She she shook her head and wondered what was that crazy rage thing that happened to her just now. She finally looked at him in a slightly ashamed way but motined for him that the situation was okay. She then motioned around herself and uttered with great difficulty. " You... want... more... locations? " She stained herself and then looked around the room, and thought about the new situation he would put the guy in, and then turned to him.
" I am... Vampira... you? " She forced the words out of herself and then smiled slightly. She hoped that she was not too wierd for him. She gently swayed her tail as she waitid for his desision to continue. She tought that he was pretty cute, but did not show any sins of it, only the way she stodied him could give her away. She then changed her mind about making it his choice to continue and then went over to the the built in control pael and started touching the screen again. She would test him in cold and hard rain this time, agains a group of thugs. She walked over the him and clapped twice, and watches as the room formed an urban area in a nice and hard rainfall. She looked at the thugs that where walking towards them.