The Salle; Tuesday Afternoon.

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While she had been planning to work with her Western sword lately, when Setsuna got to the salle, she realized she really hadn't been paying much attention to any of her swords lately. Too much of a focus on hand-to-hand combat. This lead her to almost immediately grab Yuunagi, and she set to working on her forms, thereputically going through them while trying to get all her thoughts in order. She usually found steel to be the best therepist.


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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna gave him a long, hard look, as if the statement to a sword's weakness was a personal insult. "A sword won't chip or shatter if you know how to use it properly..."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"It will if you're using it to try to hack apart a chromoly alloy skeleton with titanium reinforced joints." he said flatly.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Then it isn't doing a very good job of," Setsuna shuttered; such a distasteful word, "hacking, is it? Perhaps a sledgehammer would be a better tool for such base acts."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Yes, a sledgehammer will work better. Also, a foundry press works amazingly well. As does molten steel. Explosive rounds? Not so much."

John looks at the rebar and smiles a bit. "But enough about sword envy. How's things?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Fine," Setsuna responded in an oh-so-helpful and elaborative way. "How's things with you?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good, actually. You wanna get a practice sword and beat me with it a few times and pretend we're training?" he asked like a goof.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

John's apparant enjoyment at the suggestion disturbed Setsuna slightly. Okay, a lot. "I'd rather," she offered, "have the both of us grab one and I can maybe teach you a bit on refining your forms and style, like we've discussed before."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"So, we won't be sparring, and I can go home without welts? I like that plan better. Also. I have a pole in my room that is a plus one against aliens. I should show you. Friggin' great."

John seems to have forgotten that Setsuna was there and possibly saw John and his pole since he was just wearing alien goo in the ship.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna allowed a small smirk, mostly because the mention of the aliens almost sent a surge through her and Yuunagi. They had rather enjoyed slicing up those vermin. It made Setsuna sad to sheath Yuunagi and move toward the weapons locker. "'Kay, then, grab use two swords and we'll start."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John grabbed two swords, and assumed a neutral Tai Chi horse stance. Um. What was he supposed to do with both? He debated tossing one to her.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Yuunagi safely tucked into the locker with Daisuke and Eleanor, Setsuna wiped a little sweat off her hand on her skirt as she moved back over to John. She blinked at the pose. "Uh, John?" she said, and held out her hand a little expectantly.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

That's what he thought. He flipped the one practice sword around and presented the handle to her.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna was impressed; she expected him to toss it. Grinning a bit, she took the hilt and, after a moment to inspect his stance, fell into something she felt matched it well. "You perfer defensive or offensive today, John?" she asked.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Either or. Mix it up a bit?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna's head bobbed a bit. "Naturally. But to start out. Should I charge you, or would you like to take the initiative?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"I'll take defence. I'll need more work on it, as I'm probably going to get struck before I strike first."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna nodded. "Very well."

She took a second's pause, to draw in her breath, channel her chi, before charging forward toward John, a simple move, lunging slightly with the sword swooping downward toward his left shoulder, her left arm crossing over her to make the move.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John blocked the shot with both hands, one on the handle and one on the grip as he deflected the blow to her off side.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Good," Setsuna said. "Good for denfense, but terrible if you want to make an attack back." She quickly spun around to attack similarily on John's other side.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

He deflects her again to the other side, stepping inside the circle of her blade.
"I could have followed up with an elbow to the ribs or a kick, but that's not very swordy." He grins. "I'm used to fighting with a club, or a chair leg, or a rifle with a bayonet, not with a sword. It's bad form if I just hack off the other guy's sword hand and beat 'em up?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Bad form, yes," Setsuna grinned, turning again around her blade so that John was no longer on the inside of it, putting distance between them again without moving her sword. She pulled it back sharply, and went for a clean jab toward his side. "Although sometimes necissary."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John blocked it as he would with a club, with both hands at either end deflecting it down before thrusting out with his hilt hand to catch her in the solar plexus.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Good," Setsuna said, her hand quickly darting up to catch John's fist. "Good combination of hand-combat and weapon-combat, but try to block me with just one hand, John, and then turn it into an attack with your weapon." She pushed his arm forward and took a hop back, setting a quick stanse. "Can't do that if you're using both hands. Too slow."

She moved forward quickly thereafter, with a simple wing toward his side. Easy to block, easy to respond to.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John slapped her wing away in a move that would make a samurai proud and lunged forward, aiming for a deep thigh cut.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna quickly shifted out of the way of John's practise sword, moving around him slightly and giving him a whack on the back with hers, easily done from his lung. "Use your sword to block, John, not you hand, unless you don't actually prize that appendage!"