fandomhighdorms | Gym, 5:00 PM FHT

Paige walked in, and smiled when she saw Pip, "Thanks for doing this, it's kinda just become even more important, my sister just got attacked."

Pip stops shadow boxing when he sees Paige enter. His eye widens. "What happened?"

She shook her head, "I'm not meant to tell, she just...got attacked, it was why I wasn't at the dance, I had to go make sure she was okay. But as you can imagine I'm kinda eager to be able to protect himself now, just in case it's me next," or again in Paige's case

Pip stares at her for a few moments, then glances around the gym to make sure it's completely clear. He walks over to the gym doors and checks the hallway. Having seen that it was clear, he shuts the gym doors and walks over to Paige and gets as close as he can without being overly imposing.

He speaks as he does this.

"Paige, I understand about secrets. Believe me, I do. Everyone here at Fandom High has secrets. Whether it's my roommate and his mechanical gifts from a secret orginzation or the secrets of the vampires downtstairs or the vampire hunter across the hall or even deep, painful memories that because secrets not because anyone can be hurt by them but because they are too painful for the person to talk about, everyone has secrets here at Fandom High. I mean, look at our Principal. His name is Smith. First name? None. Just Smith. But I need to to be honest with me now, Paige. Flat out, completely bluntly perfectly honest. I need to know exactly what I'm training you to fight, because otherwise I might be teaching stuff that won't help. Stuff that's useless. Stuff that could get you killed. You're going to have to be perfectly honest with me, or I can't help you."

He stands in front of her and crosses his arms. "I don't want to live knowing that I might very well have your blood on my hands because I didn't teach you right."

She closes her eyes for a moment then looks up at and nods, "Demons, she was attacked by demons, they threw a fireball at her and...it's happened to me too, we've been attacked for being witches and-and it's my destiny," she says starting to cry now "I have to kill demons when I leave here, I don;t have any option and I'm scared Pip I'm really scared."

She takes a deep breath and wipes away the tears, "you can't tell anyone what I just told you, no one's meant to know, my sisters'd kill me if they found out, but you can help me right?"

Pip sighs, grabs her shoulders and pulls her gently in for a hug. "It's alright. You have every right to be scared. It's a tough destiny. One that I don't envy." After the week he's had, he's just about willing to accet any news he might hear. "And don't worry, your secret is safe with me." He lets her go and pats her shoulder. Tapping his eyepatch, he says, "I know all about secrets. And don't you worry your pretty head. We're doing to make those demons afraid of you." He turns around and walks back. He pulls out some practice gloves and tosses them over to Paige. "So tell me about these... combatants. What kind of abillities would we be talking about?"

Paige returns the hug, she's wanted to tell him before, but she'd be too afraid, Sawyer knew but she didn't think he quite understood exactly how serious it was.

She smiles up at him, "you have no idea how glad I am to be able to tell you Pip, I wanted to, I just wasn't sure I should. I trust you though, and believe me I don't trust many people that much."

She catches the gloves easily and pulls them on quickly, "the one's I've heard about so far have just had the ability to conjure fireballs I think and they can move themselves, kinda like I can, so in theory I could be suddenly cornered by one, out of no where," she frowned, she knew her magic could only help her so much.

Pip nods. "Good. We can do something then. Oh, and about your call. I do know about knife fighting, but I'm teaching you guns anyway. I don't know how much use they'll be against these demons, but it never hurts. 'Sides, there's enough evil humans out in the world who might try to hurt ya. And even if bullets don't kill them? Studies have shown that getting shot in the face is pretty damn distractiong."

He laces up his own gloves.

"First things first, you and I are going to do a little spar. I'm gonna go real easy on ya, but I want to see how you move, what you know, how you think in a fight."

Paige smirks, "I'm not planning on shooting human, evil or otherwise, but I'm guessing the same goes for demons really with being shot in face, it's got to at least slow them down."

"I don't really know how to fight, but well I dance so I'm guessing that'll be helpful for my movement." she takes a deep breath and holds her hands up like she's seen on the TV, she figured hitting hard and fast would be the best idea.

Pip nods and raises his own guard. "Good start, but too TV. We'll talk about your stance later. Right now I want you to come at me with all that you've got. Don't worry about not hurting me. Just attack.

She nods and moves her feet apart so she has a steadier base and pulls her left fist back and aims a punch at his right shoulder with her ful weight behind it, unfortunately Paige's full weight isn't much.

Pip dogdges to the sides slightly, letting the punch go past him and throws out a quick light jab of his own at Paige's torso, just to see how she'll react.

Paige reacts how she'd react if this was real she goes "ow!" as it hits and less than a second later aims another punch right at his stomach followed by another.

Pip blocks one punch and lets the other connect to see how much force is behind it. He grunts, then puts his hands up and starts to bounce on the balls of his feet. "Alright, let's see what you've got in the way of kicks," he says.

She nods and looks down at her big stompy boots.

"Erm I dunno why I wore these, I could probably cause some serious damage with them, want me to go change them? I can orb to the attic and be back in two minutes."

Pip grins, still bouncing on the balls of his feet. "You could cause damage with them? EXCELLENT. That's what we're looking for. But no, you don't get that advantage of going home and chaning clothes in a fight. Kick the things off. I wanna see what you can do sans shoe before we move up to those heavy things. 'Sides, they'd probably slow down a kick so much I could be halfway to France before they reached me."

He's really excited. Totally in his element right now.

Kicked the shoes off wasn't much of an option, it was more like spend ten minutes lacing them then pulling off. So Paige bent down and did this orbing them to the other side of the room and blushing at the fact her toe nails were painted deep red.

She was pretty sure she was about to break her foot doing this, but never mine.

She didn't kick straight out but rather in more of a curve to kick the side rather than front of his leg. She didn't put that much force into it though cos well she didn't want a broken foot!

Pip, of course, had no intention of letting Paige break her foot. Mostly because he never had any intention of letting Paige hit him at all. Doodging the kick, he nodded to himself. "Hmm, a little nervous on the kick, we'll have to work on that." He drops his guard and moves out of his fighting crouch. "Alright, I think I've seen enough for now. Tonight I'm only going to give you one actual phsycial lesson, but it's one of the most important phsycial lessons there is. Gloves off."

"I didn't want to hurt myself," she said feebily, hopefully she'd not worry about hurting a demon with her big boots.

She unlaces the gloves and pulls them off throwing them onto the floor, "Okay I'm ready," she tells him feeling only a little nervous

Pip nods. "Well, I'll be teaching how to kick and not hurt yourself, so no worries there." He unlaces his own gloves and tosses them to the side. "Now, Paige. In a close combat fight, gravity is one of the biggest factors. Gravity is your friend and your foe. If you're going to do much grappling or throws, you need to know about gravity. If you're going to do a split kick, you need to know about gravity. And, if you're going to fall, and everyone does, you need to know about gravity."

He suddenly falls backwards, hitting the pads with a loud slapping noise. "Did you see what I did?" he asks from the mat.

Paige looked down at him, "I'm guessing you want something more specific than you fell right?" she wrinkles her nose as she thinks, "erm you let yourself fall, you didn't tense up cos that's when injuries happen?" she suggests

"That's important, yes," Pip says. He leaps to his feet. "But I'm looking for something else. Watch again."

He falls backwards and slaps the ground at his side with his hands at the instant of impact.

"See it that time?"

She chews her lip and she tries to work it out, "you broke your fall with your hands?"

Pip points up at her. "Bingo! I broke the fall with my hands. This move is in almost every martial art. It's called a breakfall, and it's very important. That's why it's pretty much everything. You loosen the muscles of the rest of your body and break the fall with your hands. Hit at the moment of impact." He leaps up. "Care to try it yourself?"

Paige nods slowly and goes over to the mat, she takes a couple of deep breaths and lets herself fall, unfortunately her fear instinct kicks in and she involuntarily orbs out and ends up back where she started from.

She looks at Pip and blushes 'oppsey."

Then she tries again this time paying attention to not orbing then anything else, in the split second she's aware she's falling she readies herself and relaxes moving her hands slightly behind her and landing with a slap much as Pip had done.

((and I must flee to bed :( either finish off tomorrow or end after your next reply?))

Pip nods. "Interesting trick. Theoretically, since you can do that, you don't need to breakfall. But sometimes it pays to fall. Maybe get down away from the fire. Good job, though. Excellent first attempt."

He glances down at his watch. "How you feeling? Do you want to continue, or shall we reschedule?"

[[OOC: 'sup to you. I'm fine doing this and the bouncy ball madness thread.]]

Paige blushes, "It's not really meant to happen like that, I should be able to control it more, so in a fight I'd probably not have time to decide to orb." she explains.

"I'm feeling okay, if there's something else you think I need to know, that'd be cool."

Pip nods. "Well, there is one thing I want to check first, see it's easy being able to do a breakfall under you're own power, but," he said as he suddenly rushed forward, displaying suprising speed. He hooked his leg around behind Paige and shoved.

Paige eyes went wide and she yelled out as she fell, she did however remember to relax and let her hands break her fall.

She looked up at him from the mat, "I really should've known that was coming shouldn't I?"

Pip reached a hand out to help her up. "Well, if you had than there really wouldn't have been much of a point to me doing it, but yes. You probably should've guessed that I was going to do that. And you did quite well, by the way. I had to knock Cameron down by suprise two or three times before he got it."

Paige smiles as she pulls herself up with Pip's help, "I'm guessing Cam was better with the actual fighting stuff though right?"

She sighs, "There are vanquishing potions, it's just, well I don't think my sisters trust me much with magic and I can't really rely on aving the right one with me at the time,"

She was pretty sure she'd be dead in a few years, but if she could just last long enough to show a few demons not mess with the Charmed Ones she'd be happy, well happy-ish at least.

"Well, he was, yes. But he's been sparring with Aeryn. Who I think might be even better at hand-to-hand than me, but that's only going on rumor."

He nodded. "No, you really can't. From the sounds of it, magic is a weapon, just like any other weaopn. You need to have it, you neet to have it ready, and you need to have it loaded for it to be of any use. And you can never count on that being the case. It's why this stuff is so important."

Out of nowhere, Pip suddenly dashes forward and trips Paige up again.

This time Paige doesn't land quite so well, she relaxes but doesn have chance to break her fall with her hands. "Owww!"

She orbs back up and looks at him rubbing her back, "damn it Pip!"

Pip shrugs. "Just checking. Good on the relaxation, not so good on the breaking of the fall. You can't always count on being able to see what's coming. I'm gonna make you fast, if nothing else. Speed counts for most in a fight."

He scratched his nose. "I think we've done enough for today. You want to meet again some time?"

Paige nods, "Yeah I guess I shold count myself lucky I knew you were even here, I'm thinking I might not be able to count on that with the demons."

"Yeah I do if you're not too busy, I mean, I don't have any evening classes so whenever you're free I guess." she pauses, "but I did promise Geoff I'd be able to work in his shop at least one night a week."

Pip nods. "Well, I've got one or two evening classes. One is Music of the Multiverse and one is, funnily enough, Tactics of War. I'm also working with Cam and maybe one other person. Maybe it would be a good idea if we set up regulrly scheduled training sessions?"

"Yeah that might be a good idea, how'd Mondays and Thursdays suit you? That why I can spend time with Sawyer and do the stuff at the clinic and work for Geoff too,"

Well, I've got class on Monday seventh period, but we can just work before then. Thursday's a bit of a problem, though. I've got classes six and seventh periods. How about, say, Wednesday?"

"Sure Wednesday's fine, like I said I don't have any evening classes, so other than than work I'm pretty much free. So five on Mondays and Wednesday's then?"

"Sounds great," Pip says, lighting up a cigarette. "Come dressed in comfortable workout clothes. And leave the boots behind."

Paige laughed a little, "sure I probably have somethiung a bit more, appropriate, I'll see you again on Wednesday then and I really appreciate this Pip, thank you."

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