Training and memories don't mix. (Free to join)

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Ashley woke from her sleep with a start as memories of her past came back to haunt her dreams. Putting her hand on her chest she breathed heavily for a moment before turning slightly sitting on her bed with her arms around her knees. Her parachute like arms concealing most of her body like warm blanket around someone in front of a fireplace.  Sitting there in her home with only the moonlight shinning through the window illuminating her home tears came to her eyes as she sat there looking up at the moon noticing it was only around 9pm.  After awhile she dried her eyes and thought about her dream. She dreamed about her family and her fiance and what had happen after the war start. Softly she got up from her bed grabbing her cloths and walked out of her house slamming the door as she left drawing a few eyes her way as she made her way to the training grounds. 

She noticed she was being watched as she walked but didn't care. She was to angry with herself over her past and all she could think of was getting back at one person and taking out her anger on some of the training ground equipment. It didn't take her long to make her way to the doors and walked inside. She breathed out as she looked around for any sine that someone else was there. After a bit she walked into the training area looking around once more for anyone around as she walked towards a punching bag strung up and ready for use carrying a towel with her. She looked it over seeing it had been used extensively by the others and knew it should do nicely to blow off some steam.  She tossed her towel aside taking another chance to look around to make sure she wasn't being watched then started her workout with a quick low punch making the bag jiggle on its chain the followed up with a few side kicks.

"Haa! Hiii ya!" sounds sounded through the grounds as she continued her assault stopping her attack only long enough to weave and bob then strike the bag with a combination of punches and knee strikes. After that she started to smile as she struck the bag.

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Walking into the training grounds with a bag Antoine takes a look around the area checking to see if there are anyone around and picking a spot to practice his sword stabs. Finding a spot for him Antone moves towards a dummy that seen better days. " Hello there." He said toward Ashley while heading toward his target.  Getting his saber out from it's holster he does a few stabbing motions to the dummy, hoping to improve his skills with the saber that he had since he was a child. Antione knew he had to get better in combat in order to be useful to the group if he ever planned on seeing his father once more. That was one of the main drives and reason he became a freedom fighter.

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Ashley kicked the the training bag a few more times before she heard someone greet her making her stop her next kick mid way and stop a moment to look at who it was. Once she noticed it was Antoine she gave him a cold solitary stare but nodded to him as she relaxed herself then walked over to her towel drying her forehead and took a moment to get some water. As she walked away to go get some she paused a moment to watch him take a few stabs at before moving on and picked up a bottle of water then walked back to her spot. She waited a moment watching him before throwing her arms out making her membrane parachutes poof out making a noticeable woof! sound followed with a sigh from her. 

After a moment waiting for him to pause she asked. "Hear to work on the basics?" She said using her hand to brush a strand of her hair back into place. 

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Antoine stopped for a moment in order to answer the woman question," Oui" He said in his native french langauge, "I thought it would be better to werk on ze basic for now." He added, " I don't wat to see anyvons getting hurt and not being able to do anyzing about it because of mon skills aren't how you say...good enough. What about you, what bring you here?" 

While Antoine was answering his questioning a dog walked into the training ground with his bag looking bissful at seeing what he calls his home away from home. "How I miss you training grounds." Jeremy said. "Let's me see.. I worked on upperbody strengh, so I now need to work my carido and lower body strengh." He  looked around for a spot and soon headed to one, placing his bag afterwards and started streching as a warm up "Let's see if I could get this body warmed up in a couple of seconds."

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Ashley stood there watching him a moment. He sounded odd to her but she knew better then to make fun of how he spoke. She knew a little of his backgrounds. When he asked her about why she was there she replayed. "Anger" She said and walked around the training bag and looked back to him.  "Sometimes it feels good to hit something and think about a training bag being the fat man himself." She said to him and suddenly kneed the bag then looked back to him. "But all so the basics."  She said to him with not an angry look but of acknowledging him then she noticed someone else walking into the training grounds.

She watched him moved over to spot with interest. He seemed like a cheerful sort and was interested in watching him. She looked back at Antoine.  "Someday all of our hard work will pay off Antoine." She said to him and started stretching her arms with her parachutes stretching as well.  "Think ill do some climbing next." She said to herself.

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Antoine showed a confused look for a quick second wondering why she fights for Anger but then it disappeared and was replaced upon hearing more of her reasons. "I guess it would be good to visualize ze enemy as something for training purposes." Responding to Ashley reasons before hearing her speak again. "I hope so too." He said, "If all of this training can help us get our loved ones back then so be it.." He could help but think about his father when he said that and hoped that he was still alive somewhere. "You be careful climbing now." He said as he went back to his stabbing drills.

Meanwhile Jeremy had just finished his warms and now was getting himself ready for his cardio training, he headed over to one side of the training grounds and gotten himself in position. "Okay...." He said taking a deep breath. "One...Two...THREE!!!." He jogged straight away intending to do so for a couple of times. He looked over to the others watching what they were going while jogging then focusing back on his cardio.

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She nodded to him. "Getting our loved ones back is one of the best outcomes in this war we could wish for but for some of us who no longer have loved ones seeing the fat man gone for good is all we have." She said walked away but looked over her shoulders when he mentioned being careful. She nodded again and held out her arms showing off her fur covered membranes. "Falling is part of my life but having these soft furry things help." She said then walked off towards a large support beam. As she walked she kept her eye on the energetic canine jogging with interest.  After a moment she made her way to the pole putting her hand on it and looked at the canine again before getting a firm grip on it and using her upper and lower body strength quickly clime up the pole.

Once she reached the top she put one hand then the other on a cross beam gripping tightly then swung her leg onto it and then shifted her body up on top of the cross beam. she stood there a moment the ran along the beam till she made her way right over the canines running path and sat down to watch him. Climbing at the moment didn't really interest her as much as he did at the moment. She wasn't to high up but high enough that she could do a flying strike on the training bag if she wanted and looked that way a moment then back to watching him.

"Is jogging the only thing hes good at?" She said to herself but she knew there had to be more to him beside being enthusiastic and a good jogger. 

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Hearing Ashely speaks about her membranes made Antoine reply "Good to know that." He said smiling " Let's just hope you don't have to use zem anytime soon." He added. Seeing her head to the support beam he went back to his own business and continued his stabbing on the dummy. 

Meanwhile, Jeremy was finishing up with his running and stopped near his bag "Ahh..." He breathes in and out feeling the pain from his leg coming in play. " That was some good running.. now to let's do some push ups!!" He said getting down on the ground, while he wanted to focus on his lower body strength today, he just didn't feel right leaving out his upper body. Getting himself into push up position, he takes a few deep breaths before starting from the ground.

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( Lookout below! XD Hope Jeremy likes how fuzzy soft her winged arms are.  )

From above Ashley kept her eye on him watching him go from running to simple push ups. She looked over at Antoine then back down at him. "Lest hes dedicated." She said to her and stood up on the beam she was sitting on and walked over and around a few cross supports hanging dangerously out as she made her way around them then move to a better spot to watch him. She looked around spotting another beam nearby and quickly looked down at him then back to the beam seeing that it was directly above him then suddenly made a jump for it. But as she easily made the jump to grad onto the beam her hands touched a slick wet spot causing her to lose her grip on the beam and fall backwards. "Dam!" She blurted out as she fell throwing her arms out using her winged arms to greatly slow her decent.

She knew that it wasn't going to be a smooth landing given her angle she was falling but as she fell she inadvertently landed on the canine she had been spying on. Thankfully her winged arms slowed her decent enough that she landed on him with the force of no more then someone forcefully pushing someone down but it was still enough to make her gasp for air as she landed. She laid there a moment looking up at the beam she fell from. She didn't know it at the time but one of her parachutes was covering the canines head. 

 

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Jeremy didn't 't see Ashley coming down from above and was surprised beyond belief. "What the heck!!!" He yelled not being able to see anything and tries his best to move out of the way in order to see. Getting the parachutes off his head allowed Jeremy to see Ashley's face.

"Are you two ok?" Jeremy turned to see Antoine near him walking him "I didn't see everything but I did hear her falling on you." Jeremy checked himself to see if there was anything missing and got up. "I seem to be okay. Don't know about her however." 

"Are you okay Ashley?" Antoine asked her.

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Ashley looked at him stunned a moment after he had managed to crawl out from under her larger then most arm. She laid on her back looking back at him then quickly sat up holding one of her arms up hiding part of her body behind it.. She turned her head and looked at Antoine when he spoke then Jeremy. She looked at both of them once more and got up to her knees. "I'm all right." She finally said and looked up at the beam above her. "I would of been fine if the beams in this place where checked more often." She pointed upwards to the beam.

"That beam was wet and starting to rot so i couldn't get a good grip on it." She said feeling more then just a bit embarrassed. Finally after a moment she looked at Jeremy. "I'm....sorry for landing on you like that." She said standing up brushing her membrane like arms off then offered him a hand up.