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Post by Salki on Dec 9, 2011 13:27:46 GMT -5
She laughed happily as she pushed aside the branches and greenery to let Bezzy get out of their training section before following her. She planned on returning the next day. Ideas of making Bezzy a star in contests and battles alike were fresh in her mind. ~~~ Well that had been the plan atleast. The next day she got sidetracked and visited Alloysius, one of her friends who had came to the world by her word. He still hadn't been able to get himself a fiero-he seemed pretty graumpy and not himself though. He was most likely going through some technology withdrawel. He had brought lots of batteries though so his camera should be fine for a while. Meanwhile Salki couldn't shut up, blabbing all her excitement to her old friend. Generally he seemed-or acted, interested atleast. The day turned into a rest day because Bezzy seemed distracted by something, almost worried. She couldn't figure out what was getting to her.
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Post by Salki on Dec 9, 2011 13:33:28 GMT -5
And then the next day it stormed. Huge booming clouds flashed across the sky. For this dismal day though Salki still managed some good. She petted and brushed her fiero until her fur was as soft and smooth as velvet-if not even softer. She almost looked contest ready even...Throughout the day she also enhanced her understanding for sit, seeing her reaction time grow less and less. She realized that maybe she might not need to train in the meadow.
Most of that day the fiero had her ears pressed back against her head as she listened to the small smacks of raindrops against the window. She disliked storms. They worried her something awful even despite being by the warm, comforting fireplace in the cabin. She had felt it coming, felt it in her paws as they walked home from the older boy's home. Today wasn't completely bad though-her fur felt so lighy, breezy and glossy since Salki brushed all the tangles and loose fur away.
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Post by Salki on Jan 7, 2012 16:41:15 GMT -5
Salki meanwhile was working on something in the early evening. She felt a need to teach her fiero an attack or two. She pulled out an extra odd piece of wood that was left over from the house. It was a softer, pliable wood somewhat like balsa wood that hadn't been very good for building the walls-but it might be just the trick for some basic training.
"Bezzy, come here girl!" She said as she lugged out the plank of wood into the living room and leaned it against the wall. The sandy brown fiero tore her gaze away from the dismal scene outside and obediently crossed the room to her, tilting her head in a confused way at the wood. "I want you to scratch this okay? Don't try too hard, just a nice little scratch, but this is soft so you'll see a dent if you do anyway...."
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Post by Salki on Jan 7, 2012 19:54:49 GMT -5
Rompecombezas had to stare at her trainer for a moment or two. She wanted her to scratch the board? Not to get her wrong, she was thrilled they were moving on from the usual tricks but...this? Why? She stepped toward the board, flexing her paw and feeling each little muscle in it. She wanted her to scratch this board and really she knew there must be a reason for it. There was really no point in delaying it, she had tried to understand a trick at first befoe this and nothing came of it. Though she kept thinking it would make much more sense to scratch something alive then this inaminent wood... So she let herself lift her paw and let it rest on the board before pulling it back and scratching the board slowly. She saw the instant result of her action as she saw the few small marks from her claws.
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Post by Salki on Jan 7, 2012 20:28:14 GMT -5
Salki waited patiently as her fiero processed the command. She smiled happily as she let her claws carve lightly into the wood, nodding lightly at the little scritch marks left. "Great! Now that's called a scrape in training...This is going to be the first step into you getting a leg-up in battle. Even if it wouldn't make too much damage, it'll do something when used with speed and in creative ways." She paused, feeling like some coach in a sports movie. "Especially if you get your opponent when you or they are moving. Do you understand so far?" She asked and gave a tail wag as she could see total understanding in her features. "Can you scrape the wood again? And try to do it faster..."
Bezzy nodded hard, her ears perked. She looked at the board again and let her claws swipe over it, adding another set of clawmarks next to the previous set.
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Post by Salki on Jan 7, 2012 21:22:33 GMT -5
"Good girl Bezzy...!" She smiled at how well this was going. To illustrate her earlier point, she walked to the doorway to the kitchen, clapping her hands to get Bezzy to come over. "Sit." She said and her fiero sat down instantly. "Hold on now, okay..." She said carefully as she walked back to the spot and lifted the board, holding it just above the ground. "When I say 'scrape', you run over here and do it to the board again."
Bezzy watched her and tried to imagine the board being another fiero. They were battling in the arena, and Salki was cheering her on from behind her, the other trainer doing the same for her adversary. She avoids an attack and the other fiero braces himself as he knows that she is about to strike and- "Scrape!" She was off her rump in a moment, her tail furrowed out as she jumped over and scratched the board again.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 0:44:08 GMT -5
The girl gave a small 'oomph' as her fiero made the board kinda smack against her ankles with the scrape. She knew she'd definatly have bruises later with her easy tendency to be bruised by the most ridiculous things. She was pleased that Rompecombezas was catching on so quickly and she looked at the longer claw swipes indented further into the wood.
"Very good, and that's scrape! I think that's good enough for today..." She said as she set the board back against the wall. She pet and rubbed behid her ear happily. "We'll be back to the usual training tomorrow, okay?" She said as she finally stopped and walked into the kitchen.
Bezzy gave a bark at her words and rubbed against her hand in bliss then watched as she saw her walk into the other room. She instantly started to lick and clean off her paw, nibbling her claws lightly from the unusual work she was doing. She felt proud of their progress and she was sure she'd get used to more rigorous attacks and such-suddenly her ears perked as she was called for. She scurried into the kitchen to receive her prize, a cookie from the work.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 15:04:48 GMT -5
The next morning the storm had passed as soon as it had struck. Dew stuck on each blade of grass as they walked to the meadow. The fur on Bezzy's sides were soon slicked down with dampness. She gave a little shudder in uncomfortableness. It was somewhat early in the morning and the sun hadn't started giving off it's warmth yet. She felt almost as if all of Salki's getle grooming had been for nothing-it was going to get spiked out when it did dry. Though she didn't mind the looks, she did mind the feeling of being a porqupine.
Salki was chattering away happily, not noticing this with her excitement. "So while the memory of scrape is fresh in your mind from last night, I thought we'd start today on the next level of the attack with your claws." She said to her fiero was she lugged the shoddily made block of wood in through the bushes. She set it down in the meadow. "I want you to scrape this, girl but use more power okay...?"
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 15:05:20 GMT -5
Bezzy blinked at her and nodded, feeling that this made sense. She lifted her paw and swiped her claws over the wood, instantly feeling a difference. This wasn't the soft wood from the previous day. It was harder to make a mark as after she drew her paw back, there was no mark made at all. She looked up at Salki with this realization.
"Yep, that's right..." She said, reading her fiero's body language. "Like I said, you need to scrape harder and that's called a scratch. Who knows when you'll be challenged by a much tougher opponent then you are, you need to be able to hit them with a good attack so they won't overwhelm you...I taught you jump earlier so you can dodge, yes but we can't just be defensive, right, right?"
Bezzy nodded hard, her tail flicking back and forth. She didn't want to be beaten, she wanted to come up as a winner. She'd be mortified if she lost under Salki's instruction, she wanted to make her proud.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 15:05:35 GMT -5
"Okay so when I say scratch, do that harder scrape I've been talking about..." Salki said, smiling at the determined look that crossed her green and brown eyes. Her brown ears perked as she watched her take a moment to nom off the loose blades of grass from her claws before stretching.
She twitched her ears as she looked to the box again, acting like a puppy with a bug or a leaf, her tail fluffed in the air excitedly. In a moment she bounded forward, her paw clipping the box's side. This time she saw that her attack had made an affect on the box. There was a neat, even scratch mark. She turned and looked at Salki with a bark as if she was saying 'Was that what you meant?!'
The trainer clapped her hands as she saw the markings that made her think of a wolf's territory marks.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 15:38:48 GMT -5
"That's right girl! Just like that, scratch..." Salki grinned at how fast Bezzy was picking up on this. Maybe she should have started with the attacks, the tricks caused more confusion at first but the fiero seemed to know what these were for, they had a rather obvious purpose to them. She was sure with another good attack or so utilized with jump she'd be able to hold more then just her own in battles. "Okay now...let's make sure you can do it in motion." She called her over to the side again like the prior night. "Sit."
Bezzy sat quickly, watching her grab the box and tilting her head as she pulled a hook attached to a rope from inside. Salki twined the hook to the ropes tied around the box and carried the whole apparatus to a tree in the middle of the meadow, reaching up and securing it around a thick branch, leaving it hanging off the ground. She stepped back and waved her hand at the box. "Scratch!"
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 19:09:54 GMT -5
She stared at her for a moment. What was this? Why was the box, her target now in the air at about the level of her trainer's head? Suddenly her imagination took over. Her opponent was now about to pounce her, mouth open about to bite down on her leg or even her neck. She has no time to dodge it, she must act. She bounds off, her eyes locked on the box. The fiero wasn't going to catch her by surprise, oh hell no. She had this. When she was right before the box, her powerful hind legs propelled her into the air. She missed her target, the side and ended up scratching the bottom of the box. She didn't stick her landing and tumbled in the grass lightly.
"Great job girl....! You do know that the belly's the most vulnerable part, don't you?" She asked as she came over, praising her greatly. No it hadn't been perfect but it had been a great show of her willpower and strength. She gave Bezzy a piece of jerky as she walked to the side, getting the box down and digging into it for another something she brought.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 21:53:35 GMT -5
She knew exactly what she wanted to train Bezzy next. She was probably getting bored with the usual claw exclusive attacks. She'd get her updated to claw and even maybe slash later. As she fumbled with the props she had planned she spoke to her fiero. "Okay girl, there's gonna be times you'll need more then your claws...You are equipped with another weapon naturally though so you know what that is...?" She asked as if her fiero was a student who could answer her. Thankfully she didn't really think that as she finally turned around, assuming Bezzy would have said the right answer. "That's right, your teeth!" In her hands she was holding a bone she'd come across in the woods. She wasn't sure what it had come from, possibly it might have been from a deer. She stepped back to her fiero and held the bone out to her. "I want you to chew on this, alright?"
Bezzy blinked at the bare bone she was offered. She leaned forward, giving it a tentative sniff. It was old, she knew that from just the look of it and she didn't quite recognize any scent-perhaps some bird? Finally she put her teeth around it and gave it a tentative chewing.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 22:13:04 GMT -5
"Good job!" She said, noting her fiero's initial apprehension. She understood though, it was just another metaphorical item she was using. She thought she would feel more comfortable chewing on a bone though and not something that was inaminate and had never been alive at all like a stick. "Okay that's called a nibble. You're not gonna leave much damage, it's like a scrape in that way but you could catch your opponent's by surprise by suddenly grabbin their leg and nibbling it right?" Her fiero tilted her head then nodded as she processed the description. "So, the usual drill, I say nibble, you do so." She paused, this time holding the boen at each side so she could grab ahold of the middle. "Nibble."
At her word, Bezzy stepped forward and grabbed the bone, nibbling on it as if she were a dog with a chewtoy. Or...a strong wild fiero with the bone of her prey, taking the bits of tendon off it. Yes. That one was more favorable to her.
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Post by Salki on Jan 8, 2012 22:33:55 GMT -5
Suddenly Salki began to pull it away. She continued to nom on it, giving a small growl even as she tried to keep on doing it.
"The opponent isn't gonna just let you chew on them! You're gonna have to fight for the chance to even..." She said as she finally yanked the bone away from Bezzy's stubborn clutch. She began to run backward "Come on! Nibble!" She held the bone out for her, instantly getting a response as the fiero barked playfully and began to run after her.
Of course she knew that she'd have to fight to attack. She ran after her, keeping her eyes on the target. She felt the adrenaline run through her as she tried to get at it again, bounding forward. Her speed had obviously grown since the last time they had played like this however. For soon she had jutted her head out, grabbing the bone and taking it from Salki, nibbling on it in victory, her tail flicking back and forth.
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