Self Defense Classes [ Open Log ]

[savior_n_black]

Who; Ichigo, Madsen, Max, and YOU!
What; Self Defense classes
When; Daytime
Where; Dalton Academy
Warnings; Cursing? ( to be edited if needed )

[ As promised, here's Ichigo. It's early afternoon, but he's spent a little time looking through Blaine's Place of Solace for a suitable space. And, finding a large, open room with only a few desks to

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[failatskypirate]

[Unfortunately, Cou was pretty bad at the whole planning ahead thing. So just on a whim he'd been perusing the Dalton Academy, looking around for things of interest. Or at least that was how it started. With realizing that there was some pretty interesting stuff worth learning out there, he'd found himself paying an impromtu visit to the office and enrolled for classes.

So now he's checking out his current prospect, something he thought he'd look into because he's been made quite aware that without his partner, he's next to useless in a scrap. Appropriately dressed according to the note on the schedule he'd loaded onto his PORTAL, he casually walks into the room and gives it a quick study before giving his new teacher a casual wave as a greeting.]

Uh, is this the self-defense class?

[savior_n_black]

[ With a couple people already poking around, Ichigo is almost surprised more haven't shown up. ]

Yeah. Hi, what's your name?

[ Checking against his list! Don't worry, it's just so he can keep who is who straight. Ichigo isn't so good with names. ]

[failatskypirate]

Cou. Good to meet ya.

[He offers his hand to shake.]

[savior_n_black]

[ Not really used to this, so Ichigo might be squeezing too hard when he returns it. ]

Cool. So, we're making up class levels - just so people aren't re-learning the same stuff over, and over. Do you have any experience, or training, or anything?

[failatskypirate]

[It's fine. His teacher's got a firmer grip than he expects, but it's not too much worse than Rasati. Either way, he's not make any deal of it.]

Plenty of experience. I'm an air pirate on vacation as a body guard where I'm from... just I can't do anything really cool without my partner.

[savior_n_black]

Alright.

[ Setting his PORTAL down, he straightens back up, holding his arms loosely out to his sides. ]

Hit me. Come on, give me your best shot.

You have no idea how much this amuses me.

[failatskypirate]

[It was an odd request, but then... this was a self-defense course. Odds were, either the teacher was several levels of shonen super power above him when he was reacted with Ren exceptionally strong or just had a defensive maneuver in mind already.]

My best shot, huh?

[Still, Cou's looking to impress -he can't be blamed for being a little bit of a show off. It just comes naturally to him.

He starts by cracking his knuckles and getting that cocky grin on his face. Then the way he shifts from just standing there into a fighting stance says his talk of experience at least isn't a bluff. In a moment he throws a pretty hard straight punch aimed center for his teacher's chest... partly wondering if the next part was going to be where he gets flipped over the guy's shoulder and onto the mat.]

lol, sorry for slowness, though o/;;

[savior_n_black]

[ Ichigo doesn't do anything so dramatic as flip Cou over his shoulder. In fact, he only moves to the side - granted it's faster than most human eyes can follow, just by simple nature of shunpo ( 'Flash Step' ) but still - and snaps one hand out to grab Cou's wrist, so the guy wouldn't stumble without a target for resistance. ]

...So, you know how to throw a punch. There's three different classes, really. Max is taking on the "Advanced" classes, with me, or Madsen helping out when needed. Madsen is looking after the "Intermediates"; people who know a little about fighting. Me, though, I'm looking after the Beginners. The ones that haven't the first clue about how to throw a punch, or even get out of a choke hold.

But, I got a question. If you already knew some stuff, what are you hoping to learn from us?

Don't worry about it, it's been a killer weekend here

[failatskypirate]

[When Ichigo seems to vanish for that split second, he blinks registering his new position almost the instant he completes his shunpo. It's enough to leave a guy like Cou looking entirely dumbfounded for a moment. And then there's the feel that his wrist just got caught... whoever this guy was, he was doubtlessly good.

And then there was that question, but it's one that he actually was ready to answer.]

I guess the best way to put it is to stop being so useless when stuff happens and things go really wrong. Like the kind really wrong that ends in us having to fight if we wanna get out or get some one else out alive.

[He pauses a moment, trying to think of the best way to explain things. But Ichigo, as always, seems to be giving off that nice guy vibe and it's probably why the blond is talking to him about this.]Okay, this is gonna sound weird, but it'll sorta make sense when I'm done. Where I'm from, I usually fight with a partner. She's a little shorter than me, falls asleep a lot -anyway, she turns into a sword. And when she's

[savior_n_black]

[ Letting go of Cou's wrist, Ichigo sighs, and steps back enough to let the other guy have his space. ]

I didn't go with either underwater team - mostly because at the time, a lot was happening all at once for me. But, turns out, that psycho from under the sea was responsible for kidnapping a bunch of people - right after those mist-things had hold of everyone.

Anyway, that's not the point.

I know what that's like though, man. I was exactly where you are once. But, here's the thing; wanting to be useful is cool. But, just because other people around you are stronger doesn't mean you are useless. I'll stick you in the "Intermediate" class, Madsen is smart, and strong. She'll sort you out.

[ Ichigo has always been able to go toe, to toe with strong people. As long as he pushed, his power would answer - so to him? Being useless is awful, but being pitied by his friends was even worse. ]

[failatskypirate]

[He nods in reply. Admittedly, that'd been eating at him a little, but it was something he more or less accepted wasn't so much his fault as it was the doctor in question's fault for being a few bulkheads short of an airship. He wasn't thrilled by any stretch that he'd helped get that lunatic out from beneath the water, but no one really knew that he was just that far gone.

Ichigo's words don't fall on deaf ears; it's modestly comforting to the pirate, but doesn't change his resolve to want to improve himself. After all, what if the next time things got serious, one of his new friends here was in trouble or if someone else from his world showed up. It's the sort of thing he wouldn't want to sit on the sidelines for.]

I know, I still wanna make a difference though. But yeah, that sounds fine by me. Thanks.

[This is about where Cou will offer his fist for bro-fist.]