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Shooting Range, Tuesday evening

Momoko was at the shooting range again; this time she was waiting on Lion-o. She was ready to learn how to shoot a gun and this time Rikku was gonna be there to help teach them! Yay for Big Sibs!

The only reason Momoko wasn't bouncing in place was that she was bouncing to and from the door waiting for Rikku and Lion-o to show up.

[Range is open: Momoko is waiting for Lion-o and Rikku, but there's room for other people in here, from what I can see]

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Lion-o was grinning from ear-to-ear as he entered the shooting range. "I'm glad you found someone who can help us learn how to shoot!" he said.

"Yep! Rikku is way cool! She works in the Weapons store in town and she makes armor and she has her own gun and she can build and fix robots and she's really really cool and super nice!" Momoko may be just a bit biased. "And she didn't laugh when I said it felt weird to try to shoot with no training."

"I thought about going to that store and asking if they could show me, but I wasn't sure if they'd tell me that kids weren't allowed," said Lion-o. "I'm sure that's what Panthro would have told me if I asked for help with a weapon back home."

"Well, we have a very good reason for learning, so I think that they would rather teach us than let us try on our own. But yeah. I'm glad I have Rikku as my big sister! She knows about everything!"

"We have some laser weapons at home, but nothing similar to the projectile-weapons we used in class," said Lion-o, pulling out safety gear for both of them. "It will be good for me to learn something that they don't know about at home."

Rikku peered into the range, looking for -- yup! The little sib. "Hiya," she grinned. "Brought my Glock. I don't use it enough, I end up throwing bombs or just slashing with one of my claws, you know? So! How do we wanna do this?"

Momoko was just putting on the glasses from last time - PINK ONES!! - when she heard Rikku. "Rikku, hiii!" She waved her over. "Look we know where the glasses and stuff are! Yay us! But that's really it. Do you know Lion-o? He's from Thundera and he's in my hunting class." She bounced. Everyone was here!

"Lion-o? This is my super sis, Rikku!"

"Hi Rikku! Thanks for helping us," said Lion-o. He was nearly as bouncy as Momoko.

"No problem! Hiya to you, too." They could all be bouncy. Hopefully no one had any sugar. "I never took hunting, but Mr. Winchester taught us how to fix cars, which rocked. Glasses?"

Rikku didn't know people had safety restrictions, for playing with weapons.

"When we came here last time we saw the sign that said you had to wear eye and ear protection. We rooted around until we found these. I tooold you we had no idea what we were doing." Momoko laughed. "I've only seen guns used on tv! But Mr Winchester seems nice, and I don't want to look bad in class and it never hurts to know how to use a weapon, even if it's not your weapon of choice."

"And all my training has been with swords. I haven't used guns before, and Mr. Winchester suggested that it would be good for me to learn," added Lion-o.

"Ear protection?" Rikku was going to stare at the glasses and ear plugs. "Really? How are they thinking you're gonna get hit in the ears?"

Cluemeter reading: 0.

"Guns are handy because then you've got range," she explained. "I mean, swords and claws are great, but then you have to get up close to use them, which means you'd better be fast or you'd better be able to take a hit. Bombs are good for range, too, but they're way harder to keep to a controlled area."

She pulled her Glock out, frowning at the glasses and ear plugs. "I probably should, huh? Safety and ... whatever?"

"I use a yo-yo so I'm used to distance fighting, but not too distant even though I have a really long string. It kind of changes length as I need it. But I am always attached to it, so it's not as good as can be." She frowned. "On the other hand - it's hard to really accidentally hurt people with. So that's nice."

"We have some laser weapons at home, but they don't shoot salt like we were using in class," said Lion-o. "And the sword is only handy in close quarters, but I'd rather not get that close to a ghost."

"A yo-yo?" Rikku grinned. "Seriously? That's pretty sweet. I knew someone who used a blitz ball, just added some spikes on it, and he'd bounce it off fiends' heads. You guys are shooting salt?"

She was missing something, here. In the meantime, she was going to hold out her Glock.

"Okay. Uh. Here's something important? The safety. That's ... you wanna keep that flipped on, so that if you bump the gun while you're not aiming it to fire, it doesn't just go off. I mean. You shouldn't bump guns anyway, but this is ... a safety measure."

Hence the name.

Momoko peered at the gun in Rikku's hand. "Yeah - salt's a protection against evil spirits here. It is in my world, too, but we don't shoot it from guns. Well we could, but that would be a bit weird. It's easier to just toss it from a bucket than to actually put the salt into a bullet and then load the bullet into a gun and the shoot the evil spirit."

She pointed. "So that stops you from being able to shoot? When you want to shoot you have to switch it back? Got it."

Lion-o also took a closer look. "Safety, good. Guns going off accidentally, bad."

"I'll ... remember the salt thing," Rikku nodded. "Regular salt? Seriously? Like, the kind you put on fries?"

"Yeah, it can be that simple. There're other things too, like water and stones and ofuda - which are like mini written prayers - and more. It all depends on what you're facing. Even just words, depending on who you are. I'm not trained in any spirit fighting back home - that's temple work, but a basic is salt, everybody knows to use it."

Momoko shook her head. "I'm glad I'm learning it's the same here, but who knew I'd need to put salt into a bullet?"

"Salt and iron are supposed to disrupt ghosts," said Lion-o. "Not that I've dealt with a lot of ghosts before. But bullets should be more useful when I'm up against Plundarr mutants at home."

Rikku shook her head. "Our ... dead aren't like yours," she said, shrugging. "I mean, you don't have Summoners, here, you know? It's ... a long story."

She pulled the magazine out, explaining how to load and unload the gun, and gave a quick onceover of all the useful bits. Not that there were many, but still, she liked talking about her Glock.

Okay. None of this looked like the parts she'd seen on the shotgun so Momoko watched careful as Rikku explained; Momoko was slowly able to make connections back to what they'd been shown in class.

"I think... I'm actually understanding this. It's really a lot simpler than I thought."

Edited 2008-10-01 05:35 (UTC)

"You bet it is," Rikku said cheerfully. She held the handgun out to her little sib. "You want to try it? It doesn't bite or anything. Honest."

"Okay! Like this, right? And here's the safety. It's... on, right?" She took the gun and looked closely at it for a moment. Pointed away from anyone, of course, she wasn't TOTALLY new to holding weapons.

"I think, on the shotgun we had in class, I think this was over here. And when we loaded it, it wasn't a magazine, but the cartridges went here." She shifted the gun and looked up. "Does that sound right? Even though it's a bit different, it should still act similar, right? When we shoot, I mean?"

"Very similar," Rikku grinned. "Less of a kick. That bit's nice. Some of those shotguns just nail you in the shoulder."

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