Camp Gym, Monday Evening

[demonbelthazor]

Feeling restless, Bel headed for the gym to work off some excess energy. He warmed up by abusing the punching bag, then picked up one of the wooden practice swords and began to practice some moves. Of course, it would be more fun to practice against a real opponent.


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[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter figured that he ought to get some real drilling time in today so he wandered into the gym as well. He nodded to Bel as he started his own warm up.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

After the Stickbug planning meeting, Tyler stopped in at the gym and started a weight circuit, nodding a greeting to Bel. "Hey."

[demonbelthazor]

Bel paused to watch Peter for a few minutes. "Care to spar?" he asked.

[demonbelthazor]

"How's it going?" Bel asked after he'd finished sparring with Peter.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter grinned. "With another swordsman? I'd love to. Till a time or until one calls out?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter raised his sword to Tyler in salute post-sparring with Bel. "Stickbug brother, we meet again."

[demonbelthazor]

"How's your stamina?" Bel asked with a grin of his own. "How long you think you can go?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'm not too concerned about it," Peter replied. "Let's see how it goes then."

He moved onto the mats, saluting Bel with his practice sword.

[demonbelthazor]

"Works for me," Bel said. He saluted Peter, then took a defensive stance. "Let's go."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter began circling to the left, moving slowly enough to encourage an attack. Watching Bel carefully, he cut in to Bel's left aiming a slash towards Bel's torso.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Not a bad day," Tyler said. "What about you?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Yep," Tyler said. "Nice form out there."

[demonbelthazor]

Bel swung his sword across his body, parrying the blow. He twisted his wrist and let the momentum carry the wooden blade toward Peter's right shoulder.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Peter said with a grin. "It's nice to have a sword in my hand again."

[demonbelthazor]

"Bored, mostly," Bel said. "No workshops today, nothing to do. So I came in here to get rid of some pent up energy."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter danced out of the way of Bel's strike as he brought his sword back to an attack position. With a grin, he closed again, attempting a lower strike at Bel's belly.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"That is something I should learn sometime," Tyler said.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler nodded. "So your cabin hasn't been in a prank war."

[demonbelthazor]

Bel stepped back, but not quickly enough, and the tip of the sword grazed his stomach. "Nice," he said, his estimation of Peter going up. He lunged forward again, going low, swiping at Peter's legs.

[demonbelthazor]

"Koala's been pretty peaceful," Bel said. "Kinda like...a koala, I guess." He grinned. "But it's been fun to watch the chaos in other cabins. Girls retaliate yet?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter saw the strike coming and decided he didn't quite have time to move completely out of the way. He moved into the shot slightly to deflect part of the blow and make sure it landed on his greaves (which he was only wearing in his mind), and, taking advantage of Bel's lowered weapon, aimed a strike directly at Bel's chest.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'll teach you anytime you like," Peter replied. "Sword drills can be relaxing and good practice to work through."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler shook his head. "They were in the library today reading and giggling. I'm nervous."

"Who's in koala with you?"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel raised his sword to parry and spun, arcing his sword toward the left side of Peter's torso. Pity that left his own left side wide open.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler nodded. "Maybe this weekend," he said, deciding swordwork was different from sparring. But the mun knows she won't have a ton of time this week.