Early the next morning before the sun had even risen Aku is awoken by a loud knock on the door, slightly groggy Aku walks to the only to find Kendo stood there with the Gibbs the guard who he got the quest from the day before.
“morning, sonny, as I said last night id sort you trainer out and as its Gibbs fault you got involved with us I’ve decided he should take responsibility,” Kendo says before abruptly leaving the pair.
“Now that that old bastard has gone, let us go get some breakfast and ill explain what we.. You’re going to do.”
“I thought I was going to learn how to use a spear?”
“Don’t you worry your little cotton socks about that, I’ll tell you what’s going to happen whilst we eat,” Gibbs reassures as he starts walking down to the bar.
Once the pair had got seated downstairs and ordered their food Gibbs began to explain what was going to happen, ”As I think you’ve noticed already I don’t use a spear,” he says placing his hand on the scimitar by his waist.
“Yes I was wondering about that, I’m guessing you’re not going to be the one teaching me how to use a spear?”
“Aye lad, I knew you were smart that’s why I decided to give you that letter,” he says puffing his jest out proudly not know that Aku already knew he wasn’t supposed to have that letter.
Deciding not to burst his bubble Aku askes, “so who is going to?”
“you’ll training with the new recruits, but before that I'm going to train you up a little, as you are right now you’d be destroyed y the average child, being a level 1 Outlander after all.”
Slightly miffed by the comment Aku quips, “then why’d you give me such an important letter then?”
“Cough.. well.. um, that’s it, that’s because I saw promise in you lad, I can see it in your eyes that you’ll do great things given a little time, Gibbs says trying to hide his embarrassment.
Enjoying the forced praise of the embarrassed Gibbs Aku chuckles lightly and says, “I wouldn’t want to let your expectations down, when do we get started?”
“Eat your breakfast,” Gibbs grumbles, slightly annoyed at Akus sarcastic remark.
After the pair had finished their breakfasts they made their way to the training area of the guards, a small sandy courtyard, with weights, targets and mock weapons tidily packed away in various corners of the yard. As Aku stood there inspecting the contents of the yard, Gibbs had wondered off to the weights and begins sifting through them looking for something.
“Here catch,” Gibbs says tossing Aku a set of the lightest strap on weights he could find.
Caught slightly off guard by the objects suddenly flying towards him, Aku tries to catch the various projectiles much to his detriments. Managing to catch the smaller pieces, his unblemished record as a weight catching champion was abruptly ended by the dreaded breast piece. Like a meteor the worn out flying saucer flew straight at him, taking his feet from under him and his back into the floor with a fud.
“Hahaha, need a hand up there?
“No I’m fine,” Aku groaned, picking himself up of the ground.
Just as Aku had started dusting himself, Gibbs calls, “I wouldn’t bother dusting yourself off kid you’re in a desert about to train.”
“Force of habit, sorry.”
“Outlanders are weird,” Sighs Gibbs, “put them on and assume horse stance,” his voice suddenly becoming less chipper.
Assuming horse stance Aku, stanced, stanced and stanced some more. His whole body trembling, truth be told, all in all his only been at this for around 20 minutes, but his level 1 stats, lack of real life trained and the fact that Gibbs hasn’t said a word him made this training seem like it had been going on forever not to mention the fact that the sun had only just risen, the cold morning air only just starting to warm up.
As his muscles began to tremble viciously, not wanting to let his inferiority complex down, Aku adjusted his stance until he found a slightly more comfortable position.
New passive ability: Center of gravity level 1
can you imagine not having a centre of gravity? you'd just be falling over constantly, thankfully you've found yours and you be able to find it more easily in all situations.
Rank:F
At level 1 you have a slightly better sense balance.
Finding his new position a lot more comfortable he proceeded to squat there for a while longer after all that ’s the only thing he could do earning himself another new stat, whilst he’s at it.
New stat: Endurance Endurance +1
‘I should really look into what these stats actually do,’ Aku thought to himself before Gibbs, finally spoke to him again, “Alright, now give me 10 laps of the yard.”
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Doing as he’s told Aku proceeds to run around the hall gang a point in endurance, strength and coordination as he ran sufficed to say running 10 laps around anything can be difficult especially with weights strapped all over your body, especially after an hour of horse stance with those weights on.
The training went on like this for a while Gibbs ordering him to do these basic stances followed by cardio, all along Aku earning a couple of stat points, surprisingly halfway through the second set of exercises Aku managed to level up his centre of gravity passive, just like the description said it was slightly easier to find his centre, enabling him to carry on a little longer than he would normally be capable of, thankfully Gibbs had allowed him to rest in-between sets, but even that has its limits halfway through the 3rd set Aku collapsed to the ground with an almighty fud,
“You alright lad?”
“What do you think?” Aku asked sarcastically.
“You did well not many level 1’s could do what you just did, but that’s probably something to do with most of them being children, hahaha.”
“Thanks, that really makes me feel good about myself,” Aku huffs, still trying to catch is breath from the running.
“Tell ya what, you wait here and I’ll get us some lunch, afterwards ill teach you a little hand to hand combat before I have to leave for my shift.”
With Gibbs leaving, Aku decides it’s about time he looks at his stats.
Name: Aku
Race: Scythian
Level: 1
Physical status: Healthy
Mental status: Healthy
energy status: Full
Strength: 10
Perception: 11
Intellect: 10
Durability: 10
Willpower:11
Agility: 11
Coordination: 11
Wisdom: 11
Luck: 15
Endurance:11
Active Passive
Actives
Power attack lvl1
Flame lvl1
Stunning gaze lvl1
Passives
Follow your heart lvl1
Centre of gravity lvl2
“Here eat up were starting when you’ve finished,” Gibbs says handing Aku a sandwich
Hey Gibbs, how’s hand to hand going to help me with a spear?”
“How do your feet help you to walk?” Gibbs quips, “put it this way being able to fight without a weapon will make it easier to fight without one and helps you understand how your body moves in general.”
The two continue to talk for a few minutes after they’d finished eating, ”Are you ready?”
“Yeah let me take these off.”
“Leave them on, you’ll improve faster wearing them.
Positioning themselves a few paces apart eyes glowing with a thirst for battle, one a cold blooded veteran forced into training a new puppy, the other a level 1 noob just trying to prove he's more than a pretty face. Assuming a standard fighting stance, dominant hand close to his chest his left slightly extended ready to strike at any moment. Examining Gibbs, attempting to find an opening to attack also none could be found, even though he hadn’t even taken a stance the pressure he emitted was immense.
“If you’re not going to attack then don’t blame me for being rude, ”Gibbs says as he suddenly appears by Aku’s flank delivering a swift blow to his shoulder sending Aku flying in the opposite direction, “rule 1 no stance is better than a stance in battle, there too restrictive, be like water my friend.”
Leaping back towards Gibbs with newfound vigour, taking a deep step in twisting his whole body from his foot to his waist, taking his shoulder and fist along with the rotational flow Aku throughs an almighty hook towards Gibbs' face. Easily deflected by Gibbs, he threw a barrage of punches all missing the slippery Scythirian every time.
Getting annoyed at his inaptitude Aku proceeds to put is all into attacking the cheeky bastard, mixing in a couple of straights, uppercuts and kicks into the mix, Gibbs praising the Aku for utilising more techniques to attack him, however, that just spurred Aku on more, perceiving his kindness as mockery.
“you old goat, take this,” Aku shouts as he activates his skill power attack, feeling the entirety of his strength pulsating through his body, spreading from his heart, like a furnace, heat flooding his system, empowering a vicious right cross aimed straight at Gibbs’ face. The G that he is Gibbs calmly sidesteps the blow, grabbing the wrist that just flew past his face a mock 1 speeds, he uses the momentum to flip Aku on his back.
“Rule 2, never lose your cool, rule 3, only use your finisher when you’re sure it will actually finish the battle. His especially power blow at your level of mastery, you’ll be incapacitated for a half an hour.”
You have overtaxed your body
30 minutes till you can move again
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“Yeah… sorry about that It just got on my nerves how easily you deflected all my blows.”
“That’s to be expected, its ok to be weak, what isn’t acceptable is staying week… saying that we're gonna have to finish for today got guard duty soon, meet me here the same time tomorrow.”
“That’s fine with me, I have plans later anyway.”
“Aww my little boy is finally growing up, you make me so proud.”
“Stop being an arse.”
“I'll tell you what if you can land just one blow on me within the next week, ill stop poking fin at you?”
“Deal, prepare yourself for a world of hurt the likes of which has never been seen.”
“Weird flex but ok… by the way, don’t take the weights off,” Gibbs says as he walks to his shift leaving the pile of Aku on the floor as he checks the results of his training, surprisingly he’d managed to earn 2 points in everything but intellect, wisdom and luck and even a new skill.
New skill: beginner hand to hand(Brawling/unrefined) Level 1: Un-fusable
Who needs weapons?
Rank:F
At level 1 you'll have slightly better control of your appendages and are able to channel more power behind each blow.
New quest: hit Gibbs Gibbs has challenged you to land a blow on him, you have 5 days to accomplish this task. rewards and penalties
- Rewards vary on time is taken.
- upon failure, Gibbs will lose some respect for you.