Nick hissed in pain as Asher struck his shoulder, though he quickly changed his plan up a bit. Asher's strength was something to take into account, as there was the possibility of serious injury if he left it to attack Asher himself. Driving up with his sword, he tried disarming Asher, though, at the same time, the grip on his sword wasn't as strong as usually. While the wound was in his other shoulder, even Nick wasn't immune to pain.
He could figure where Asher was going at with this, but he wasn't afraid of it. He was physically weak when it came to brute force, but he had other tricks up his sleeve.
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Cecilia scowled a little at that. "Get closer to people to learn? I suppose I'm not too opposed to the idea," she replied bitterly after a moment. Of course her only plan was to get somebody to teach her, and not to make friends. She'd done it before with her singing, acting and dancing teachers. Make them believe that you can stand them, and they help you with anything you want. "So, which people in particular should be needed?"
"Mkay." Ben agreed, wanting to go back out and look as well. He figured Joshua would want to pick where they looked, seeing as he probably knew where Manami liked to go. "Where should we start?" He asked, giving him a friendly pat on the back. before glancing over to meet his eyes.
"Same here, it would be amazing to see who would win." Prue said with a smile as it would be fun trying to avoid getting hit by a mallet but also 'defeating' this crazy girl as she saw the training arena already had campers sparring which she took notice of her two brothers or rather the elder one fighting with Asher and even Satoru Yukimori who was her adopted cousin talking with her friend Alex- could she call him a friend? Yes. "No shortage of sparring partners though the question is where to start."
"Then I wish you good luck with that." Nathan said with a grin coming on his face as he looked at the Zeus camper once they reached the area which he was hoping to chat with her some time soon as he ran his hand though his hair, "Just pick someone that currently isn't sparring or talking." ----
Satoru nodded though any monster in general that wanted to squish him, eat him or kill him always terrified the boy and jumping from one house to the next didn't help at all especially when they thought he was cursed which only made the boy much more reserved and spending his time alone with books, "Alright, that sounds like a plan.... What kind of monsters are they?" He asked with curiosity once again heard as he sat down across from the camper and looking up to him like he was a teacher.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Roses are red, Zen's hearts are gray. I am not Rika, Does Jumin Han is gay?
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Serena noticed the uncomfortable look on the girl's face and eased up a little. "Yeah, sure. Just tell me if I need to lighten it." She shifted the sword in her hand, so she would be able to fight against Katie's rapier. They were both very different swords, but could still manage against eachother. "Whenever you're ready." She called out.
Joshua opened his mouth, then closed it again seconds later, grinning. "I'm not sure," he started sheepishly. "The forest, maybe? I mean, Manami wasn't seen again after the game." It was just a guess, but he couldn't imagine where else to search. Though, seconds later, another idea came to him. "We could also look down the road to the camp a bit? I'm not sure why she would be there, but who knows."
Lucia hummed thoughtfully at that. "Yeah, but I can't just choose," she replied. "There are so many people that I could fight!" She took a step forward, eyes gleaming as she put her hand to her sword. "Help me decide!" she added lightly with a laugh.
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"Different ones, really," Alex replied after a second of watching the battle unfold. He really had to scold Asher and Nick for fighting that harshly, because wounds like the one Nick had really weren't necessary. He looked back over at Satoru with a grin. "Harpies and other weaker monsters for the most part, but I've been attacked by a giant scorpion there before as well. However, those usually don't live in the forest, so don't worry too much."
Katie nodded slowly, then gave a test strike with her rapier. With satisfaction she noted that she wasn't out of shape yet. Pushing a strand of her hair out of her eyes, she took a deep breath, then waited for a bit longer.
After a few seconds, Katie suddenly lunged forward, dashing towards Serena before striking towards her chest. She wasn't expecting it to hit, but she was hoping still.
Ben shrugged, running a quick hand through his hair. "Even if it's unlikely, we might as well look." He said, shifting his weight from one foot to another. He wasn't sure that the small amount of information on her disappearance really pointed to the forest, seeing as it was uncertain, so he figured looking wherever they could was a decent idea. "Wanna head to the road first?"
"Then why don't we spar?" Nathan asked the Zeus camper with a smile on his face before taking off his necklace which transformed into its sword form that was pretty shiny from keeping it clean and polished- he didn't mind dirt but he knew that not keeping your weapons in checked or clean could break when in a fight that could result in people dying if against a monster for example.
"I'll see you both later then," Prue said to the two of them as she had the feeling that the two wanted to talk to one another but couldn't with her here, besides she wanted to learn from her brother about control of their powers which she was excited about as she started to walk towards her younger brother to sit on the sidelines until the fight between Nick and Asher was over with.
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"My first instinct when I see a monster is to run away, which I normally did until i met my adopted-cousin." Satoru said since monsters from the two countries were different in both appearance and abilities but both kinds did try to kill him so he didn't pay much attention to those details, he looked over at the fight between a Hades camper Nick and an Apollo camper who Alex kept looking at as he did see the tall figure of said-cousin Prue who was currently watching the fight.
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
(Does Jumin Han is gay is literally my favorite meme this is how far MM has taken over my life.)
At that moment, Asher purposefully let go of his own weapon. He was hoping the surprise would give him the surprise he needed to tackle him down. Of course, he was also likely to get struck by Nick during this attack, leaving himself open.
"Well Nathan might be able to help he's nice and patient. Plus he's counselor for a reason." She answered thoughtfully, though she couldn't help but send a little sorry in her head to their half-brother as Cecilia was difficult to deal with.
Joshua nodded, pulling his shoulder off Ben. "Yeah, let's check there first," he agreed with a nod. It was time to get serious again. Or at least a bit more. He really hoped that they would end up finding Manami, but he knew that the chances were slim if what they had talked about at the counselor meeting was true.
With a small frown that cleared up in the matter of seconds, Joshua began walking.
Lucia grinned, taking a step backwards before drawing her sword. Like Nathan, she kept it clean, simply so that it'd stay strong and sharp. She didn't really need a shiny sword, but it had its advantages to have one. "Alright, but he warned, I've improved!" she called to him, almost buzzing with excitement at this point. The Zeus camper took one last look at the other fighting campers, then charged at Nathan, swinging her sword at him.
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"Well, it's surely not wrong to do," Alex replied lightly, sheathing his sword. "I used to be very afraid of them when I was younger, too, but if you know what you're dealing with, it takes the fear a little. At least for me." While it sometimes made him actually afraid of monsters because he knew what they could do, it also gave him confidence. He knew what he was dealing with, so he could work on plans to defeat the monster. That was how Alex backed up his opinion that reading up on monsters was important.
Nick's eyes widened a little when Asher dropped his weapon, but he quickly changed up his attack so as to not hurt him seriously. He quickly spun his blade away, attacking with the hilt again. His moment of hesitation while doing so could be used against him, though. While Nick started fighting with tricks as well when his opponents did, he didn't want to purposely hurt some other camper if he could help it.
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Cecilia nodded slowly, twirling a strand of her hair between her fingers. "And where may I find him?" she added, raising an eyebrow. "I'd like to not die of boredom." Her tone was overly polite, but not as overly sweet as it was whenever Asher was around.
Ben began walking as well, although statistics were flying through his mind. After 12 hours of being gone, the chances of being found or returned home safely are cut in half. He knew they were demigods, so it was different, but thoughts like that haunted him. "Think there's any clues to where she went?" He asked quietly, clearing his head.
Citrine (I wasn't sure what to write, so I added a scary statistic xD)
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That's where they were different, with Asher taking this out of pride, he wasn't afraid of hurting someone or getting hurt. He felt his body collide with the hilt and then Nick. That definitely hurt, and them going to the ground wasn't going to be pretty either.
"Is he stupid?" Oliver muttered to himself, Asher was going to feel that in the morning yet he was charging in blindly. It wasn't like the training he was doing, these two were actually going at it and not as an easy training session.
"How about you go around and ask, try and make some friends~" Marinette used a similar tone that the other girl was using. It was almost teasing, considering how badly she got along with others.
Nathan smirked a bit as he let the sword rest in his hand, "Same goes for me!" He called back before swinging his weapon to block the attack which he considered trying out his charmspeak with him being quite good at it now then years ago but he rarely used it on sparring oppents.
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Satoru listened which he knew that if he wanted to know anything was to go see the Athena camper or any older camper in general really, as he had his weapon in its pen form and in the boy's front pocket of the orange camp shirt. "Is it true that the fleece- that protects us from monsters here- was stolen last year?" Of course his cousin told him all about this since getting kidnapped by a minor goddess was a pretty major deal to his parents or well his mother really who wanted to know every.single.detail. About it den if it was three in the morning.
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"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
"Well, none that we've found so far," Joshua replied with a small frown. "I hate to say it, but I doubt that we'll find any clues." Whatever had taken Manami, they had been quick, not to mention, he couldn't imagine that there had been a fight. A fight left clues, no matter how good one tried to clean the scene up. That thought at least made him relax a bit more as he stepped down onto the road.
Squinting his eyes, he stared down the road, but he couldn't see anything. Still he said, "Let's walk down the road a bit?"
Nick had the air quite literally knocked out of his lungs when they collided and he hit the ground. Somewhere along the lines of landing, he has injured his elbows and arms, as he wasn't wearing his jacket anymore. Honestly, the main reason why he had to take a second to breathe was because Asher had landed on top of him.
Acting quickly, Nick kicked out, then rolled out as fast as he could from under Asher to put more space between them. He didn't really like brawls, but hey, he wasn't going to try getting his sword back - that would just be too distracting.
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Cecilia scowled at that with a huff, crossing her arms. "Fine," she replied after a moment. "But don't think I'm going to like it." Deciding that Marinette wasn't going to be helpful right now, Cecillia got up and walked away. She wasn't sure where to look, but figured that at least somebody had to be sparring, even if it was that blonde girl she'd seen yesterday.
Lucia grinned when Nathan blocked her blow, then began applying more pressure to it, trying to break through the block. A move she'd seen Asher use a lot, but she knew that she could only use it because she was around as strong as him. She wanted to see where it'd go, but wasn't truly expecting to get the upper hand with that move.
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"Yeah, that's true," Alex replied. "Prue and Percy got kidnapped as well. It was quite the eventful week, really. Monsters were attacking the camp as well." He paused, trying to decide whether to mention it or not. "I ended up in the infirmary because I played human shield and got broken ribs." Alex laughed a little when telling that story. It hadn't been a nice event, but he could laugh about it just fine now.
"Yeah, sure." Ben agreed, also trying to scope out the area best he could. He didn't really doubt what Joshua said about not being able to find clues, although he hoped it would happen despite the odds. He listened around, but he couldn't hear much more than their footsteps lightly hitting the pavement.
Citrine (also, considering changing Riley's name to Ruthie. I'm finally 100% fed up with the fact that she has my name xD)
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Nathan applied slightly more pressure into the block to keep from getting pushed away as he grinned a bit since he watched and learned from sparring with certain campers that he knew used this kind of method, "I take it your trying out a new style?"
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Satoru nodded with him looking at the camper, "A human shield? What happend?" He asked since the kid didn't like monsters at all but when it came down to stories of fighting with them and the good guy winning then that was when he liked it- also this was more real compared to the Heros of myth like Hercules for example.
((Chevy, Henry and Prue are up for interaction/ Prue only watching Nick & Asher's fight))
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”