5th period, Gym

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Pip leaned against the door of the gym, his workout clothes on. He glanced at his watch and tapped his foot impatiently.

He seemed to be waiting for something.

[[OOC: Open to all who needs use the gym. Pip's here for a fight, though.]]

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((ooc: It's a very good thing I hit refresh *twice* right before going to update. ;))

"Pip!" Alanna came into the gym, Faithful happily on her shoulder. "A few minutes to warm up?"

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[[OOC: That would've been awkward indeed. We would have had to fight over who gets to start the fight post. Or something.]]

"Sure," Pip said as he started stretching. "Any particular rules you want to abide by?"

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"Unconciousness leads to end of match? That, and turning purple." Comprehension dawned on Alanna's face. "Not fencing I'm going to assume? No weapons at all?"

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"Sounds good to me. And since I lack a sword of my own, the only thing I'd be able to match with are my combat knives. And I think that the administration would frown on combat knife on sword combat between students." He pulled on a pair of yellow gloves.

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Faithful chuckled evil and muttered to Alanna. "Sometimes, you shock me in your stupidity." To Pip, it would have sounded like a lot of mewling. Alanna glared.

"Great. I'm actually much better at sword fightning then wrestling and somehow didn't realize that the no weapons ban applies to you." She shook her head and unbuckled Lightning. Faithful curled up on top of the sword, just asking someone to try to steal it.

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"The weapon ban doesn't apply to you?" Pip asked. "How did you pull that off? I know Walter keeps his wires on account of his height."

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"I told you, ex-Security Officer. Plus, uh, not a good idea to separate us. And height? Heh, that's not what he told me." Alanna carefully filed away that bit of information. Alanna glanced at Pip and mentally sighed. He was taller than her, by a lot, and probably had a lot more training hand-to-hand. Then again, she was probably faster. I'm screwed

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Pip smirked. "Oh really? What did he tell you?" he said as he dropped into a fighting crouch. This should be interesting.

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"Something about needing to train a lot." Alanna fell into a similiar crouch and fixed a warry eye to Pip's torso.

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Pip grinned. "Somehow, I'm less than shocked. Go ahead. Ladies first."

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Alanna's left foot shot out, aimed neatly at Pip's right knee. Expecting him to avoid that, her right first went flying towards his head.

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Pip, unfortunately, was no longer where had been standing. He's rolled to the side and kicked out one of his long legs in an attempt to sweep Alanna's leg out from under her.

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Stupid, stupid, stupid Went the chant in Alanna's head as she fell to the floor. The instant she felt her palms hit the mat, she rolled away from Pip and on to her knees.

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As Alanna rolled, Pip moved to regain his balance. He came to his feet and and launched forward, trying to tackle Alanna.

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Seeing Pip move, Alanna, still on her knees, swung her arms behind her head and swung her legs up into a hand-stand and then quickly dropped back down to a full-upright standing position. If she managed to hit something on her way there, go her.

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Pip angled downward and turned his tackle into a roll. He could feel her legs scrape his back, but ignored them. As he rolled, he twisted a little, got his arms under him and pushed up into a donkey kick at Alanna's torso.

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Alanna grabbed at Pip's legs and shoved with all her strength. And wound up flying backwards on to her butt.

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Pip rolled, slid across the mat, and righted himself. He laughed as he threw his braid back around his neck. "Great! Haven't had a good spar since I got here!" He dropped back into a fighting crouch, this one subtley different from the one he had been in before.

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"Wonderful." Alanna grunted and scrambled back to her feet. "Glad one of us is having fun." The smirk on her lips put the lie to her words. She went back to carefully watching Pip's body for hints of movement.

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Pip started to circle Alanna, studying her, trying to figure out exactly how she moved when she fought.

Fight smarter.

If his grandfather had taught him anything? It was that.

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Alanna faked a punch with her left fist at Pip's head and quickly spun around to aim her right fist at his stomach.

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The woman was suprisingly fast. She was no Walter, but she had some speed on her. Rather than take the risk that she switch feints on him, he moved both of his arms to block the punches and aimed a quick kick at her right knee.

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Alanna tried to move out of Pip's way, but instead wound up getting his foot to her knee. She rapidly blinked to clear her vision and transferred her weight to her left foot and kicked out with the now aching right one.

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Pip was thrown off balance by the kick and fell backwards. He hit the ground and rolled backwards to his feet.

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Alanna settled into a crouch, waiting for Pip to get closer.

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Pip darts in, going for a jab at Alanna's head.

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Alanna brough her right arm in front of her face and felt Pip's fist connect with it. Ooooooow. Her left fist went for Pip's stomach.

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[[OOC: Narrative law of causality. *is about to crash hard*]]

Pip grunted and tensed his muscles up as Alanna's punch hit him in the gut. He had managed to defelect it a little bit, but not by much. He darted back, out of her range, and planned out his next move.

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((ooc: Gr...argh. Lj just sent me the notif. FTB and say that the whole thing ended some time later with them out of breath and Pip pinning Alanna to the floor?))

Alanna grinned and flexed her right arm. It was definetly getting numb now, thankfully she could use both equally.

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[[OOC: Works for me.]]

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((ooc: Four more days, and hell is over. Owe you a full fight then. :)))