After Months At Sea

[valter]

"Yeah, see? It is boring." Demi said with an impish look in his eyes. "Just sitting around, resting, sharpening the saw so to speak." He finished crafting a dagger, and then made several large cuts in his remaining two chunks of wood. "I'd much rather sharpen the mind and the blade. Here, catch." Demi said, tossing the sword hilt up towards Li'an, and the dagger towards Seven. For himself, he twirled two wooden kunai knives around in his hands. "Any one of you want to spar?" he asked with a grin in his eye.

[liandebark]

Li'an, who was childish in his own way, jumped on this idea immediately, "O' 'course love!" he said, grinning widely. Li'an had caught the sword hilt easily, twirling the wooden sword in his hands, "Wunnerful!" He said, happier just for the activity.

Seven was much more hesitant. Even in play fighting he reacted slow...he had several scars to prove it. But he wasn't about to back down either...he did have his pride to consider. he took the dagger, weighing it in his hands. Not bad...

[valter]

"Thanks." Demi said with a smirk under his mask, shifting to a more open stance and bouncing on his feet, still twirling his newly fashioned kunai knives. "So, it looks like a two against one sparring match? Excellent." Demi said with a gleam in his eye, finally gripping his knives so that the blade pointed behind him. "Remember, if you get hit in a vital point, you're out. Which one of you wants to go first?" Demi asked, considering the whole thing as a game.

[liandebark]

"Meh firs'!" Li'en said, the light in his eyes flashing in eagerness. He was watcing Demi however, ever watchful. He twirled the sword, then took a step forward and did a deadly under cut upwards towards the stomach area.

Seven stepped back slightly, he was still contemplating joining...he didn't like fighting much...but...it might be very good practice if nothing else.

[valter]

A step in that direction, arms positioned from the knees... Vertical upper cut. Demi thought, assessing the situation in a split second as he trained himself to do. He exhaled, leaping gently to the left and twisting his body so that he was parallel to the wooden sword as it whipped upwards, the gust from the sword indicating that it would have been a heavy blow.

"Nice try!" Demi said with an encouraging laugh, even as he rapidly finished his twist, aiming his right Kunai at Li'an's chest in a slashing motion; with dull points, stabbing was useless. Seven was just barely kept in his peripheral vision, one disadvantage of only using one eye.

[liandebark]

Li'an easily manuvered himself away from Demi's retalitory strike with a grin. "Aye ni'e try fer ya too!" He twirled his word, bringing it up to strike in a powerful downward thrust. Playing was a bit more rough with him.

Seven, being the sneaky little thing he was, slipped between them, his height making it ten times easier, and stabbed at Li'an, getting him in the stomach. Then he switched teh dagger in his hand to face Demi as he struck back towards him.

Li'an put a hand to his stomach with an 'Ouch!' and a pout as he realised he'd just lost.

[valter]

Demi had read Li'an movements again, anticipating a low thrust, and preparing to jump on the sword and bop Li'an on the forehead. He was just about to jump, only his toes were on the ground, when Seven slipped between them, and stabbed at Li'an. After scoring a hit, he directed another blow towards Demi. I can't move my weapons in time to block, can't jump out of the way... only one thing for it. he thought quickly, leaning all the way back until his hands touched the deck along with his feet, doing a backbridge and watching the dagger fwip above him.

Then, Demi kicked his legs up, doing a brief handstand, and pushed with his hands, effectively doing a backflip and getting himself temporarily out of striking range. "Tricky." Demi said, beaming. "This oughta be interestin'" he said, gripping his wooden kunai and planning.

[liandebark]

The dagger came back up, and over Seven's head to block the sword that came down at him. Well. This was a definate three way fight. He punched out at Li'en, slicing up past te sword while ducking it, and catching Li'an in the chest now as well.

"That's no' fair!" Li'an pouted. He had just been stabbed twice. He ahd thought for sure that Seven wasn't going to block, it had taken his friend quite a while to raise that dagger to defend himself.

While he was complaining Seven stood up and tapped him at the neck, raising an eyebrow. In a regular battle Seven knew he'd have no chance against Li'an. He turned to face Demi, this was shaping out to be a good thing.

Li'an didn't know if there was any rules, so he just simply pouted, waiting to see if he was able to rejoin or not.

[valter]

"Alright, after you've taken 3 hits, you're out." Demi announced, putting his left Kunai in his right hand and gripping them both between his knuckles. "Y'know Li'an, I thought ye'd do better than that. I have to give your first mate some credit." Demi said with a casual laugh, and then he was all business.

He dashed towards Seven, head low, knees heavily bent, his toes skimming over the woodwork. Once within range, he lashed out with a sweep kick, ducking under any strike aimed above his waist and using his momentum to make a full turn, slashing up with the kunai in his right fist as he straightened up.

[blackassassin]

Zihark came up from below decks, putting away his last kunai. It had apparently taken far longer to sharpen his weapons than he had thought. Sweeping his eyes over the decks, he saw Li'an, Demi, and someone he guessed to be first mate sparring. Glancing around for any extra wood, he found some blocks and began to carve them into weapons of his own. It would feel good to fight again, especially with Demi.

[liandebark]

(This has been moved to the Idaitokai board as 'Sparring (cont to After Months At Sea)' Thank you ^^)