Practice (Open)

[Rowan T. Fury]

Rowan sighed as he looked around at the cage that surrounded him. He wished they could do without the cage but it wasn't possible when the world would freak out at the sight of a unsecured wild animal. And it was bad enough he'd have to walk around with a collar, leash and escort if he had to keep up the big cat charade.

He had to practice his routine as well as come up with a new idea. It had come to him in a dream last night and he was hoping it wouldn't get the circus into any trouble with the media or something. If anyone asked they would just have to make sure that they were clear about how 'safe' the routine was. Of course they still couldn't reveal that their lions and tigers were actually a mutant parading about. Close minded Gadjos.

With no one in the tent with him he went ahead and shed his clothes. It was easier this way then running around as a tiger in a tshirt after all. And before someone could catch a peek he tossed his clothes off to the side and transformed into a large siberian tiger. He moved with the grace and fluidity of the creature while he trotted around the ring. He was getting the feel of the muscles again and reminding himself that he had to move like a cat not a human in 'cat's clothing'.

He would start with practicing a few parts of the new routine he thought of. It required a lot of crouching and crawling along the ground. It was a routine that would be very dangerous in real circumstances but since he was the tiger, well then it wasn't dangerous at all. At least in most circumstances. He had been known to get a little out of hand if he had been in a transformed state for too long. His mind would start to turn more beastial and instinctive...he would just have to make sure that wouldn't happen.

[Naomi Decker "Fury"]

Walking into the main tent Naomi walked past the rows and rows of seats before stopping at the rail that seprated the audieance from the circus preformers. She had come here to practice her own routine in the place where she would actually preform it, it helped her when it came to the real show. But when she arrived she noticed someone was already using it. There was a large siberian tiger in the center of the ring, and by looking around the tent and seeing no one there meant that it had to be Rowan, since no other tiger would be left unattended or Rowan would go balistic.

Leaning against the rail he watched as one of her older brother figures worked on his routine, but soon grew bored. It wasn't exactly as exciting knowing that the tiger in front of her was a human instead of an actual animal and so she decided to have some fun with Rowan. “Here kitty, kitty, kitty.” She knew that this would most likely annoy Rowan a lot but she wasn't scared, he wouldn't actually hurt her, and if he did well she wasn't the circuses best escape artist for nothing.

[Rowan T. Fury]

An ear would twitch towards the familiar sound of his cousin's voice. Well if she wanted a 'kitty' he'd give it to her. Suddenly he turned and bolted towards the cage, he reared up to dig his claws into wire. A loud roar and growl was given while he snarled at her. He figured she knew who he was but he just wanted to make her jump. Whether he succeeded or not he plopped himself back to the ground and sauntered away on all four paws looking rather proud of himself.

He had to admit that it was fun scaring people in that manner, but he wouldn't actually hurt anyone. At least unless they came between him and his family. The world would be a dark day when and if something came for his family. His tail swished back and forth as he continued on with what he had planned. A stalking crouch was turned into a run and just as quickly turned into a nonchalant walking away. As if he had been stalking something and had been caught in the process. He practiced this a few times before he glanced over to notice Naomi was still there. Did she want something?

[Naomi Decker "Fury"]

Because Naomi was expecting Rowan to do something like that, in fact you could say she almost planned that he would do something like that, she didn't flinch when he appeared right I front of hear. She did go temporary deaf from it. Rubbing her ears she looked as he walked away with a smug look on his face, or as close to one as he could get to with him being a tiger and all.

Putting a hand over her mouth while she yawned acting like she was bored she addressed her oldest cousin. “Was that supposed to scare me? I bet that wouldn't scare a toddler.” It was a lie and they both knew it, Naomi was just extremely hard to scare which most people chalked up whatever had happened to her in the past even though no one knew for sure since she never talked about it. Plus she just wanted to wipe that look off his face. Taking out a container Naomi popped the top off and poured a couple of sugar cubes into her hand before she put the whole hand full into her mouth.

[Rowan T. Fury]

The rounded eats atop his large feline head lowered. She knew just how to ruin his fun didn't she? He thought for a second or two a few ways he could get her in trouble. Just to get her back for that comment. But the only ways he could think of could really get the circus in trouble. She was just lucky he was as responsible as he was.

He supposed the real question was; what did she want? He doubted that she wanted to just watch him rehearse his routine. And he could only assume she had intended to practice herself and he had beaten her to it. The thought had made him smirk in a cat like manner before he continued on with his work. The sneak runs continued until he thought he had it down enough. He had to make sure he hit each imanginary mark or else he might accidentally run into his 'trainer'.

A few minutes later he realized that she just wasn't going away. Well if she wanted the ring so bad he guessed that she could use it. He couldn't help the growl as he had sauntered over to his things. Luckily for him he also made sure to bring a towel just incase he had an audience. He used his teeth to pick up the towel before transforming back into his human form. If she had been looking Naomi would get a good glimpse of his naked rear before that towel was quickly wrapped around his waist. Rowan turned then to smirk over at Naomi, "If ye want the ring so bad ye can have it." He was more confident about his part in the circus anyway, he had been doing it for so long. If the girls needed practice who was he to stop them? The last thing he needed was someone to get injured.

[Naomi Decker "Fury"]

Naomi just continued to watch him pondering how he was going to respond to her smart ass responses. Yes she knew she was a smart ass but just because she realized that didn't mean that she was going to change. Walking back toward the seats she took one near the center and continued to watch his routine. She had to admit that this one was impressive and that was saying something since she had been around them for the past six years.

When Rowan walked over to grab the towel he had brought she immeasurably looked away having a pretty good idea of what he was going to do. When he started to talk to her she knew it was safe to look. Just by the smirk on his face she knew that he thought he was more competent in his routine then the she was in hers. Standing up Naomi flicked her long brown hair bind her shoulder before focusing her gaze back to her oldest cousin with a smirk that could rival his.

Making her way to the center of the ring she walked up to where Rowan was standing. “If you stay for a little bit longer I'll show you what a real performance looks like.” She then started making her way to the back where all of her equipment was located. After gathering the various tools she would need she made her way to the center of the ring. She was now dressed in light grey sweat pants and a dark purple tank top.

As she passed Rowan she threw him a stop watch. “Time me.” She then turned around and started getting ready by warping the chains around her arms, the scars on her back clearly visable. After she had the chains secured she walked over to the tank. Once she reached the door she turned back to face Rowan. “Hey could you shut the door and turn on the water please?”

[Rowan T. Fury]

"Ye think swimming around in a tank and rigging some locks are more impressive?" He smirked to her as he caught the stop watch. Sure he'd play along and see her routine. It wasn't often that he was able to see the other's shows. He was always busy with his own set up or making sure everything else went the way it was supposed to.

He didn't respond when she asked for him to close the door. He did it of course but he didn't need to say anything. He closed her in and then flipped the water on.

He took an extra moment to grab his clothes and head over to the bleachers. He sat down and leaned back to have his elbows rest upon the seats behind him. "Ye got thirty seconds!" He smirked and started up the watch whether she was ready or not.

[Naomi Decker "Fury"]

Looking back at Rowan Naomi gave him a shurg and a look that made it look like that what he just said didn't bother, and to be honest it didn't. “It's a lot more impressive then relying on your power for your routine.” It was true to Naomi's routine had nothing to do with her mutant powers which, in her opiion, was a lot more impersive then someone who just used there powers to try and make it look impresive.

Naomi took a deep breath as soon as she heard him close the door and the water start filling the tank. She had three minuets before the tank was filled with water and her best record for escape in this routine was sixty seconds. When she heard Rowan say she had thirty seconds she shot him a glare, he knew full well that she most likley couldn't get out of there in thirty seconds.

Determind to prove him wrong Naomi began the process of organising the chains to make it easier to escape from while the space was rapidly filling up with water.

After a few seconds Naomi was free, though almost throughly soaked from the waist down, and she looked up to where eRowan was sitting watching her and by the look on his face she didn't do it in thirty seconds. In fact looking at the watch she noticed that she was ten seconds over, damn.

[Rowan T. Fury]

Rowan watched as she worked. He had to admit to himself that she was pretty good. He knew her best time was sixty seconds and he had planned his comment as a challenge. And what did she do? She met it..for the most part. It didn't matter that she made the thirty seconds, what mattered was that she beat her record.

He rose up to his feet and walked over to her to hand her the stop watch. "That was impressive, I have ta admit." He smiled to her and patted her on the shoulder. "Ye beat yer record and that is somethin to be proud of." It was part of his job to be supportive too. What wasn't his job really? He was in line to inherit the circus after all, and really his parents just managed the finances and he heard about them and worked on everything else.

He didn't mind though, it seemed to come naturally to him and he in some odd way enjoyed the pressure. "Ah'm sure if ye keep practicing whatever it was ye just did then ye'll get thirty seconds."