The Gym - Early Sunday Morning

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Peter had gone to bed early so he wasn't particularly surprised that he woke up extra early in the morning.  

After changing into workout clothes, he headed down to the gym hoping to get a bit of swordwork done before meeting Susan in town.

Once in the gym, he made straight for 'his' practice sword and started moving through footwork drills as a warm up



OOC - open for all your gym-ly needs!

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Ranma bounds in at a run, holding his umbrella because if there's even clouds in the sky he wants to be cautious. He hadn't explored the gym much and he was happy to find a set of parallel bars. He's not unlike a monkey in his strangely overdeveloped balance and energy. He hoists himself up with one hand and ends up standing on tip to on one bar.

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Peter grinned at the other boy's obvious exuberance and bowed to him as he entered.

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For the first time he notices the other people in the room and he looks embarassed for being so eagar. This was the first time he'd noticed the bars. He hops down and waves to Peter.

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"Don't let me interrupt you," Peter said with a grin. "I'm Peter - just wanted to say hi."

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"Naw it's fine. I'm Ranma Saotome. You didn't interupt me." He has a habit of always saying his first and last name. Those darn Japanese honorifics. He grabs the nearest bar with one hand and lifts his feet up backwards to grip them onto the farther bar. He lets go with his hand and hold himself up with his feet. "My roomate's name is Peter too. It seems to be a common name."

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"Nice to meet you, Ranma Saotome," Peter said with a grin. "It's is a common name. I've been thinking of changing it to Jack." Peter winked. "Which one is your roommate - the other alliterative Peter or Griffin?"

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"Griffin. I'm not sure we're going to get along but so far nothing has caused us to fight. Jack isn't a good name. There's a Jack or two around here as well. I'd try something more strange." He's still holding himself there, straight and rigid, hanging off the ground.

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"He's not particularly impressed me either. Something about being rude to the ladies of the school rubs me the wrong way," Peter said with a massive understatement. "So Jack's out too? Maybe I should just keep embracing my radio nickname and assuming people can tell the difference."

Peter raised an eyebrow at the foot trick, "Are you naturally sticky or just your feet?"

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"I didn't pick him but I'll try to straighten the guy out."

He uses his legs to raise himself up and grab the other bar with his hands and raises himself into a hand stand of sorts on the bar, he looks smilingly st Peter from upside down and continues, "I say just make the other Peter's change their names. Why should you?"

"Oh and this is just boredom. You spend a good bulk of your life doing things like this and then you get the urge to do it in your down time without even thinking about it."

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"It's not your job to do so, you know. Though I suppose you do have to live with him," Peter shrugged.

"On one hand, Peter Parker was here first, and I think he's a good guy so it would hardly be fair to him. And the other one? He said he'd go by Lando for some reason."

"Now I'm curious," Peter laughed. "What have you been doing with your life that a good bulk of it has been hanging off bars by your feet?"

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"I could say I was a circus performer but that would be a lie. I'm a martial artist. A bit strange of a style. It's a lot of balancing, kicks and jumping. So... that's what I've been doing. You seem like a swordsman or something. I knew a swordsman once. He was an idiot."

That came out wrong.. "Er... That's not to say you're one."

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"That sounds interesting. You'll have to show me sometime. I never met anyone who used their feet in fighting before coming here."

"I hope you'll reserve judgement on my idiocy level until more than 5 minutes of conversation," he said with a wink. "And yes, swordsman. I do some boxing, but I'm not particularly good."

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"I'll show you if you want. It all has been feeling like party tricks lately because I haven't fought much, just run around and hanging off things. And don't worry about the judging anyway. I'll wait 6. But that's all you get."

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((Guhhh with consistant verb tense even... >.<;;))

((also.. I'm going to be off for an hour or two. be back later..))

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"I know the feeling. I'd definitely appreciate you showing me. And thank you, Your Worshipfulness," Peter said, sweeping Ranma a flowery bow, "for your great indulgence."

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"Ehh I make exceptions of 7 minutes for some. Only people who seem really worth it."

He cracks a smirk at this and flips off the bar landing elegantly near him.

"I'll show you my jumping skills right now if you want. Try and hit me with that sword."

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Peter grinned as well and took up an attack position. He trusted the boy to know his own skills, but he'd feel badly if Ranma ended up with a nasty bruise because he overestimated himself. So Peter stepped forward and swung a strike about the height of Ranma's ribcage. At maybe 1/2 speed.

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Ranma hops straight up, tucking his feet up into him and actually jumping over the swing. He could easily land ontop on the sword but he feared that Peter, not ready for the sudden added weight might drop the weapon.

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"Okay, are you made of rubber?" Peter asked after the bouncy display. "And I so can't believe I just asked that in all seriousness."

He took a second step forward and thrust directly at Ranma's collarbone at very near his full speed.

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Ranma ducks to the opposite side. His eyes are good and he's ready if he decides to swing at him again in sucession. He takes a moment to speak, "It's okay. It was after your 6 minutes so I won't count it against you."

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"And did I pass the idiot test? Even with my sword held against me?"

Peter stepped back, sword at his side. "So do you have special powers or is this a skill you've learned through study?"

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"Believe me that THAT is years worth of hard work. I lost more than just time practicing this stuff." He says thinking of his nearby umbrella.

"And if you insist on knowing I'd say you seem competent to me."

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With a flourish, Peter bowed. "I thank you. You don't seem too bad yourself. You must be good to have at one's side in a fight."

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"I tend to not be behind causes. It seems to have always been aimless training and isolated battles. I'm quite good at dodgeing it but I can't handle a sword at all. So that's worth some points for you."
He wonders a bit about ow nice and polite he's been lately. It's strange that he hasn't been yelling as much as he always did with his father. He guessed that no one had ruffled his feathers yet. The relatively calm and polite self he's been lately; it was a side of himself that he'd never really discovered.

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"But would you be behind the cause of defending the school? From what I've heard it seems to need defending on a regular basis."

He grinned, "I take points wherever I can. Comes from being a British schoolboy."