Hercule City Dojo

[Issilude]

4.
Issilude flew over to the man. "Excuse me, sir?"

The man turned, and stared at the cloud. "What in tarnation?"

[Issilude]

"It's called a nimbus, I believe?" Issilude asked, looking down at the cloud himself. The front of the cloud nodded up and down and Issilude looked back at the man, who was gaping. "Yeah, a nimbus."

[Issilude]

6.
The man simply stared for a while, ignoring Issilude's attempts to get his attention. "Hello, sir? Um sir, are you alright? Hello? Anybody home?"

[Issilude]

7.
Issilude crossed his arms and frowned. "Darn, I think I broke him. And I really wanted to learn that trick too."

[Issilude]

"Actually, I'm the one who broke him, kid." Issilude turned to see the other man, the one the first man had stopped, standing there, arm extended. "Is this the trick you were wanting to learn? The Psychic Halt?"

[Issilude]

9.
Issilude nodded. "Yeah, the stoppy trick. That's it." The man laughed at 'stoppy trick' and lowered his arm. His opponent shook his head and glared back at him. "That was cheap, Gregory."

[Issilude]

10.
The other man, Gregory, tched. "That moves cheap period, Anzel, you know that."

"Still, we agreed not to attack each other from behind."

Issilude's head turned to follow the argument.

[Issilude]

11.
"But I didn't attack you." Gregory defended.

"You used and attack on me, that means you attacked!" Anzel countered.

Is it really this important? Issilude wondered.

[Issilude]

12.
"No, I used a technique on you, they're different."

"How are they different?"

"I didn't hurt you, did I?"

[Issilude]

13.
"You could have."

"But I didn't." Gregory said, annoyed. "And that's the difference."

[Issilude]

14.
Issilude shook his head as he watched the fight continue. "But you made an agressive move against me, that means it's an attack!" Anzel shouted.

"But I didn't harm, nor try to harm you, so it wasn't."

[Issilude]

15.
The fighting between the two continued for about twenty more minutes. At first, Issilude was entertained, but after hearing the same arguements over and over, he got bored. They're arguing in circles.

[Issilude]

16.
After watching the two for twenty minutes, Issilude turned and floated away. He stopped another fighter, and asked him, "Excuse me, sir, do you know how to use Psychich Halt?"

[Issilude]

17.
The fighter nodded. "Sure do, why? You want to learn it?"

Issilude nodded. "If you would teach me."

[Issilude]

18.
The fighter nodded. "I sure would. Just let me find a target..." He walked off, returning a few minutes later with a frisbee.

[Issilude]

19.
"Now, what you have to do is wrap your ki around the object you want to stop, understand?" Issilude nodded. "Alright, let's try it."

[Issilude]

20.
The fighter threw the frisbee and Issilude reached out his hand. The frisbee didn't stop and the fighter shrugged. "Guess you don't have it. We'll try again."

"Why?" Issilude asked, as he smirked at the two frozen fighters from before. "I'd say I did pretty well."

[Issilude]

1.
The fighter laughed at the two other fighters, who were struggling to finish their match. "Yeah, I'd say you've got it. You're a pretty fast learner, kid."

Issilude beamed. "Thanks."

[Issilude]

2.
The fighter stuck out his hand. "The name's Graden, kid, what's yours."

Issilude shook Graden's hand as he answered. "Issilude Valience, sir."

[Issilude]

3.
Graden chuckled. "Cut the sir, kid, it makes me feel old. Now, there anything else you want me to teach you? Something a bit more offensive?"

Issilude hmm'd in thought.

[Issilude]

4.
"Well, uh, no, not really. But I do want to learn something, I just don't know what." Issilude said, a bit shyly.

Graden nodded. "Alright, then I'll show you a few techniques and you tell me which you like, alright?"

[Issilude]

5.
Issilude nodded. "Alright, thanks, Graden."

Graden waved it off. "Don't mention it, I get payed by the session."

[Issilude]

6.
Issilude tilted his head in confusion at that last comment, but ignored it in favor of Graden's display. "Alright, I'll start with one of my favorites." He ran at one of the training dummies, leaping into the air and kicking it in the head, releasing a burst of ki. "Dynamite Kick!"

[Issilude]

7.
Issilude raised his hand. "Uh, could you stick to distance attacks, please?"

Graden shrugged. "Well, that cuts out half of my attack, but if that's your style..."

[Issilude]

8.
Graden adjusted his stance for his next demonstration, feet apart, hands folded together over his head. "You should like this one." Green ki gathered into a ball in his hands, which he thrust forward. The ki was released in a powerful beam that headed straight towards another dummy.

Issilude frowned. "Eh, looks too simple."

[Issilude]

9.
Graden sighed. "Well then, how about this?" Issilude watched him form a small, but growing, green disk of ki over his left palm.

[Issilude]

10.
Once the disk was the right size, he tossed it at yet another dummy. The disk cut straight through, sending one half of the wooden dummy to the floor. Issilude shook his head. "Good, but I don't like it."

[Issilude]

11.
"Picky kid, aren't ya?" Graden said with a sigh. "Let's see, what about these?" Graden's eyes glowed for a moment before two thin lasers shot from them. They pierced into the torso of the dummy.

Issilude shook his head. "Nice, but I don't really like it."

[Issilude]

12.
Graden sighed. "Well, this is the last technique I can show you, unless you repeal your physical attack ban?" Issilude shook his head. "Alright."

[Issilude]

13.
Graden brought both hands forward, forming a small ball of ki in front of each palm. "Hey Issilude, go get that frisbee and toss it in front of me, alright?"

"Okay!" Issilude said before jumping off the nimbus and running towards the discarded frisbee.