Ascending Legends

[BookWyrm]

Dayn shifted back before scooping Arryn into his arms and standing up to spin her around before pulling her into a tight embrace. "I love you Arryn, fy llawenydd."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn laughed as Dayn spun her around, but nestled her head into the crook of his neck as he embraced her. "I love you too, mo chroi."

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn sat Arryn back on her feet before kissing her. "Lets get dressed and get to practice. We'll grab breakfast afterwards."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled and nodded, pulling out a pair of brown pants and a black longsleeve shirt from her pack, then picking a pair of black pants with a white shirt for Dayn.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn clothed himself again, making sure to put his ring back on as well, before walking towards the door when he noticed the rose laying on the dresser. "Now that we have some time to talk," he said as he turned back to Arryn, "Have you ever heard of someone making a rose from pure magic before?"

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn put her other necklaces on and her ring, then said, "Well, to my knowledge, it's supposed to be impossible to create matter from mana. When I make a shield, it is a solidified cross of concentrated mana and the air, or what's around it. I've heard of conjurations eventually gaining souls, but mana and matter are two different things. Of course, a conjuration is much different from matter. You can conjure a sword, but you can't make a sword." Arryn shrugged. "I've only ever heard of the ancients being able to do such things, but they needed a framework for that. So, really.... I don't know how you did that, especially since you're not an innate mage - not to my knowledge anyway, but if it were any of the normal kinds of magic I probably would have felt it when I healed you." Arryn walked over and wrapped her arms around him. "But we'll figure it out; it's not hurting us, so everything's okay." She had promised to help him stay open, had she not? If he started worrying about this, that may be a problem.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn smiled before hefting Arryn into his arms and holding her close as he laid his head against her neck. "I'm not worried, just a little curious. I'm not really sure how I did it either, or why it choose now to awaken whatever it was, but I'm not in pain or discomfort." He gently nuzzled against Arryn's neck before kissing her cheek. "We'll figure it out. On that I am certain."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled, very glad to see that Dayn wasn't worried. She pressed her head against his collarbone lovingly, content with the fact that he was okay.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn continued to nuzzle against Arryn in a loving way before chuckling quietly. "We are definitely going to be cuddling a lot more than we used to." He leaned in close to whisper in her ear. "I'm okay with that though."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled and kissed his cheek. "Mm. Me too."

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn leaned in and gave Arryn a long kiss on the lips before letting her back down so that he could take her hand and walk into their armory. They had manged to find two styled like a one handed sword and at least one styled in the shape of a bastard sword for Dayn to use. He grabbed one of the single handed swords and the bastard sword before leading Arryn outside to the practice area he had set up. "Make sure and stretch out first, but we'll start by working on the pell for a bit before going into drills. Just take it slow and steady, no need to burn out your arm and shoulder right from the start."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn stretched as she was told to, then set to swinging at the pell a few times. She didn't do all out, instead saving up her strength for the real practice. She wanted to get in as much work as she could.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn had finished stretching and set about warming up with some basic drills on the other side of the pell. He was mostly thinking in terms of footwork and angle and making sure his body was warm and loose. With each stroke he could feel his form falling into place, though he kept himself from tracking wholly back into his old style of combat. He'd been working on his own system to combine bits of his traditional fighting style with the more eclectic style Arryn used.

 

[Dragongal]

As they worked, Arryn commented, "Back when I trained, we just about never used a static target. That's not how it really works, after all. But I'm trusting you with this retraining, so, I'll follow your lead."

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn nodded his head slightly. "The only reason we are using this is to build up the strength in your arm. We always started out with pell work to help build up strength and to push for fatigue before we got to actual combat training. It forces you to push on and build on your strength and stamina as well as teaching you to fight while tired. Not to mention," Dayn brought the blade across before reaching up and taking a half-swording stance as he brought the pommel down to strike hard against the pell, causing a spiderweb of cracks to form as a chunk splintered from the strike. "When you have enough strength to shatter a pell, steel helmets or skulls come easy." Dayn looked over at Arryn and smiled.

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled and nodded. "Alright. Though strength is more your thing, flexibility and maneuverability is more of mine. But I understand." She continued whacking at the pell until her muscles felt warm and loose enough. She rolled her shoulders and looked to Dayn. "Well, love?"

 

[BookWyrm]

"I know love. I want to use the pell to strengthen your shoulder though." Dayn led them over to the side before posturing up. "Ease into it. We'll go slow and work our way into the speed." Dayn stepped forward into an overhead to start out. He knew Arryn would parry and counter, he just wanted to get her moving again.

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn parried easily, before going for a low counter swing. This was interesting. hitting a log wasn't. She knew she had to build strength, but it was still... boring. She'd gone through this all before, it was annoying that she had to do it again, a bit frustrating, but she had promised Dayn that she would go slow.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn parried, letting Arryn's blade slide down the length of his own and pushing it away before taking a step back and frowning. "Do you want to skip the fundamentals and jump right into free sparring and working out our technique?"

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled and nodded. "Yes, please."

 

[BookWyrm]

"Good. I was starting to get bored." Dayn pulled his wooden sword back up and flourished, spinning it around before lunging forward and swinging in an arc for Arryn's hip.

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled. It had been a long time, but she got a chance to perform one of her favorite moves. She stuck her sword into the ground, his wooden blade clashing against it as she slid forward on her knees. She brought her blade with her, and in a second, flourished it, tapping Dayn's stomach.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn smiled, looking down at Arryn as he leapt over the top of her and rolled across the ground. He spun around and flourished again before stepping into another lung, this time pushing forward into a mock stab before side stepping and bringing his sword around to catch the guard behind Arryn's knee to pull her off balance.

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn started to fall back, but managed to roll out of it before standing again. She smiled, taking a few steps forward before feigning a high swing and sliding forward on her shins. She was up and standing in a moment. She dropped her blade and grabbed his wrist, holding it to the side as she kissed him slowly. This was a move she'd never tried.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn hadn't been expecting such a technique, but he fell into the kiss with ease before dropping his own sword and wrapping his arm around to tangle his fingers in Arryn's hair. He gently turned his wrist and took Arryn's hand, rubbing his thumb along her palm to ease her grip before laying his hand against her hip and pulling her to him. He had never planned on going from combat to romance that quickly before, but he wasn't complaining now.