Not to be Underestimated

Penelope giggled a little when Cadpig nipped her, then the dal nodded enthusiastically. "Okay, Cadpig!", she barked while withdrawing away from Cadpig. Penelope went through her sister's advice within her head. Pin point weakness. No mercy.
Penelope felt a little unsure about the last part. No mercy? But wouldn't that be kind of cruel? Maybe not. Well, Penelope sure didn't see herself killing anyone, but maybe, if it was up to her life, as Cadpig said... No one would show mercy to her, so why should she?
"Okay, attack", she grinned to Cadpig, forgetting all thoughts and just focused on the training.

Apr 20, 2012 12:55:13 GMT -5 Patches said:

"Whoops... sorry!" Patches called. He'd gotten so occupied with having fun that he'd forgotten to try and take things seriously. But they could worry about that later. Now he had to get back to business. Patches had only just gotten to his paws again before Crescent tried to barrel into him. This time, though, he seemed to be a bit more prepared. It at least appeared that way, as he stepped to the side just in time to avoid the leap. This did give him an idea, though. He'd try his tactic he had used before, but this time not give any warning. That way, he could surprise her!

Patches crouched down for a moment, contemplating his move, before finally springing into action again. He leaped at Crescent in an attempt to try and pin her. It did look a bit unrefined, but it was an attempt at taking the training session seriously. That was what counted.

"AHHHH! PATCHES!" She was giggling as he pinned her, even snorting a few times. She struggled under his weight, looking off to the side and staring as a bug crawled beside her. She licked it and then got an idea. She licked Patches' chest and tried to tickle him. Tickling would work against a villain, right?

(I'm sorry these posts are so Short Patches XP)

Apr 23, 2012 12:17:13 GMT -5 Penelope said:

Penelope giggled a little when Cadpig nipped her, then the dal nodded enthusiastically. "Okay, Cadpig!", she barked while withdrawing away from Cadpig. Penelope went through her sister's advice within her head. Pin point weakness. No mercy.
Penelope felt a little unsure about the last part. No mercy? But wouldn't that be kind of cruel? Maybe not. Well, Penelope sure didn't see herself killing anyone, but maybe, if it was up to her life, as Cadpig said... No one would show mercy to her, so why should she?
"Okay, attack", she grinned to Cadpig, forgetting all thoughts and just focused on the training.

Cadpig smiles at Penelope she seemed to be getting it. "When it's training with someone here of course you're supposed to show a little mercy. I mean here we're just training. But, on the battlefield. It's Kill or be killed. If there's a way out of it by not killing anyone. Then take that route. But, your life is much more important then any stupid Outlander's if anyone is ready to fight you to the death. You need to be ready to fight them. Cause they are villains, "Remorse" "Sympathy" and "Mercy" are 3 words that most of them probably don't know . "Cadpig said getting up and getting into a play bow with a playful growl ready to playfully pounce on Penelope.

Apr 19, 2012 15:07:44 GMT -5 Strike said:

Strike like all ways focused his eye sit on like laze beam on his opponent. He was not sure what to expect from Partner but given from he had seen Strike was not exactly expecting anything great but still older Dalmatian might surprise him.

Partner lunged forward all his movements indicating that was he going to aim for Strike's right foreleg, the attack was no different any of the other typical lunges he had dodged so this would be pretty easy to avoided. Strike quickly steeped to one side to doge the attack.... Only have his left shoulder run straight into Partner's jaw. So it seemed Partner had pulled of pretty convincing feint move, nice. "Well done Partner I'm impressed" the burnt puppy said with a encouraging smile on his face, Strike proceed to force the older male off him with a light shove of his paw.

Partner wasn't sure if the other male was trying to be condescending or not, but it certainly came across that way. He might have honestly been impressed, of course, but Strike's manner in general made in ridiculously hard to tell, and after a moment, Partner just gave up trying to figure it out. Right now, the important thing was that he had a competent sparring partner, unlike, say Crescent, who he could see tickling - of all things, ticking - his brother, so he could put up with Strike long enough to achieve something.

Deciding to pretend that Strike must have been sincere - if nothing else, Partner would keep his cool longer that way - the older pup muttered a quick "thanks" at the potential compliment, before retreating a couple of paces to face Strike again. Assuming that the younger male would probably want to test his reactions to an attack next, Partner made no initial move, but remained tensed, ready - he hoped - to dodge any attack Strike might throw his way.

So Partner wanted to practice his dogging, that was perfectly fine with Strike. The burnt puppy could tell that Partner was just as confused by him as everyone else but, like all ways he pretended not to notice and choose to focuses on the task at hand. Strike with out wasting any more time charred forward trying to knock the older male to the ground.

"Oof!"

Okay, so he hadn't been anywhere near as ready as he'd thought, and Partner was bowled over by the younger pup's blow. He went down, and unintentionally rolled once before coming to rest on his back with all four legs flailing idiotically up into the air. Quickly scrambling to his paws and hoping Patches' hadn't seen him lying on his back like that - the dark-eared pup doubted he'd hear the end of that if he had - Partner hurridly shook some loose dust from his fur and straightened his collar before facing Strike again.

"Dodging's not my strong suit," he explained belatedly, this time eyeing Strike more carefully, trying to pick up some sort of hint to indicate when the other male was going to move. "I probably just need more practice...?"

Apr 25, 2012 10:17:46 GMT -5 Crescent said:

"AHHHH! PATCHES!" She was giggling as he pinned her, even snorting a few times. She struggled under his weight, looking off to the side and staring as a bug crawled beside her. She licked it and then got an idea. She licked Patches' chest and tried to tickle him. Tickling would work against a villain, right?

(I'm sorry these posts are so Short Patches XP)

(ooc: No problem! Mine have been kind of short, too. Shorter than I'd like, anyway.)

"Ah! N-No, s-stop! I'm ti-ticklish!" Patches laughed. The amount of seriousness they had started out with went back down to zero by that point as he tried to wriggle away from Crescent so that he could try to make a counterstrike of sorts. Despite his attempt, though, it ended up with him just looking rather doofy as he wiggled back and forth on his back with his paws going up and down a bit. His attempt at moving had been a complete and utter failure.

"U-Uncle! Uncle!"

Strike attacked made contact with Partner, knocking the older male to ground. Strike choose not to make any comments about what after Partner fell, partly to not damage his sparring partner's confidence but manly because this sort of thing remind Strike off his own far share of embarrassing moments, when he first trained. The burnt pup nodded in agreement when Partner's with comment and lunged forward this time trying to pin the older male with his paws.

"ugh look at all the spots..." the lion mused to himself as he walks towards the group of dalmations. "Hey fellas" he greets the group a smile on his lips and underneath them razor sharp fangs which rip out chunks of meat on a daily baseis. Mega looks around the group "is there anyone that would like to spar with me?"

This time, Partner was - a little - more prepared. As soon as he saw Strike start to move, the dark-eared male retreated, backpedalling as fast as he could to get out of the way of his opponent's attack. He was only partially successful, as instead of landing at a place where they could completely pin him, Strike's paws instead came down atop his head, slamming Partner's muzzle straight into the dirt hard enough to rattle his teeth. Letting out a pained groan, Partner didn't make any immediate attempt to get up, just lying where he was until the throbbing in his jaw had subsided some.

"I am so bad at this," he muttered.

Strike looked down at Partner unable stop a sad sympathetic smile from appearing on his face. He knew Partner was not very good fighter but Strike never that older male need help that badly. The burnt puppy grabbed Partner's paw and pulled him back up, "hey, look on the bright side at least you are doing better then when I started training ."

Scat Cat strolled towards the melee, stepping rhythmically and scatting under his breath. He looked around the sea of spots and his yellow eyes widened in curiosity. He strutted over to Mega, and casually stood on his back paws, leaning on Mega's left foreleg with his elbow.

"Say, now," he said, looking up to the lion. "What's goin' on here, then? A trainin' session? Sounds good to me, but I'm gonna get dizzy, seein' all these spots!" He chuckled, and tipped his bowler hat to Mega. "The name's Scat Cat, brother."

"Thanks... I think." Partner shook his head and massaged his jaw with a paw, making sure it still felt as though it were attatched. He'd never had much practice at fighting, in all honesty. He'd picked up a few tricks here and there the times when he'd snuck out of the pet shop at night and wandered the streets, but he hadn't ever really had to ever use them until now, and of course, it was showing rather obviously.

"Are you going to give me any hints how to get better at this?" he asked Strike a touch irritably, "or is your plan to just keep beating me up until I get it right?"

Penelope nodded and tried to remember - villains give no remorse, sympathy or mercy - and got ready to tolerate Cadpig's hit, but the other dal's attack was enough to knock Penelope over to the ground. The puppy coughed once and got up to her feet, with an apologetic smirk. "I guess you're a lot stronger than-" she started to say, but when Mega arrived at the training grounds, the little dal turned around and stared at the big feline in wonder.
"...Oh wow." Penelope said with wide eyes and glanced at Cadpig to be sure this big fellow was indeed a hero. The puppy flinched when she saw the lion's fangs when he licked his lips. The fangs were huge and sharp!

"Well I do have one piece of advice, you see when dogging agility and coordination are very very very important and well you are kind of well not clumsy, but are defiantly lacking in those departments so maybe you should try working on both, with a few simple excess." Strike then proceed to give Partner a demonstration by lifting three of his legs off the ground and supported his entire body using only one leg for tow minutes. "So what do we now?"