Post by Delashano on May 22, 2015 18:55:27 GMT -5
Della let out a breath as she felt her personal training room come to life around her the metal panels on the wall glowing briefly before suddenly the world around her shifted taking her away from the Academy to somewhere else entirely by No’s whims. Not long after the world came into focus Della felt the familiar feeling of the world becoming a whole lot heavier as the gravity increased significantly, she had told No to push the gravity settings a bit higher today as while theoretically this training session might be shorter than her usual sessions it was best to acclimate to higher gravity settings as quickly as safely possible.
Flexing her limbs Della glanced around herself to get a view of where No had placed her, it at least for the moment appeared to be a fairly normal forested area of most likely Earth origin. A seemingly ‘normal’ environment had Della just a touch worried as the more normal the scenario appeared the more likely it was that No had something particularly outrageous planned for down the road or for an opponent. Today Della had requested as normal of a training session as No could concoct but in the past such requests had been fairly hit and miss in terms of actual normalcy.
Primarily the reason Della wanted things nice and simple for this session was because she was looking to test out a specific technique that she had been working to get under wraps but had until recently not had the time needed to put in the training to ensure that she had it down properly, she had read over and mentally picked apart the mechanics of the technique for quite some time but whenever she looked to take the opportunity to actually test it under combat conditions something always came up, she had declined to work it out while training with Akassa not long ago mostly for selfish reasons, she wanted to have it as something useful to use against her friend in there next spar and displaying it in an unfinished state would of course negate surprise it could have on her in its complete state.
Additionally Della knew it was perhaps a bit foolish of her to have taken so long to finish working out this technique, it was one she had obtained access to quite a while ago as the technique in question was one of the techniques of the Arena, specifically the Energy Net. Of the three techniques it had been the least immediately ‘necessary’ in Della’s mind when she had started working on learning the moves and somehow she had let it keep falling to the back as she worked, she had kept up with understanding the function and method of the technique, she knew that much about as well as she did the other two techniques. The big problem was a lack of effort placed into executing the technique properly.
Knowing how it was supposed to work, knowing how to produce it, these were important but JUST knowing was not enough, she needed to actually put what she knew into practice and ensure that the information she had had not been wrong, it would be far too dangerous to attempt to utilize such an unfinished technique against a real opponent, an incorrectly executed technique was potentially dangerous to everyone involved.
Sure Della was no stranger to using the heat of battle to produce a new technique or a variation of an existing technique but those situations still possessed the same risk it was simply a matter of deciding if the risk was worth it, against opponents like Akassa the answer was usually ‘yes’ one needed an edge against powerful opponents and what better to catch an opponent by surprise than utilizing a technique that not even you are sure will work properly. It was dangerous and stupid, but so long as it worked it did not matter.
But if she could have her techniques working before the battle then it was in her mind that much better, they were still just as unknown to the opponent but were far less dangerous to Della herself. The Energy Net in particular was something that Della found herself not particularly fond of the idea of simply hoping that it would work rather than knowing in a potentially important fight, that was what made the simulator perhaps one of her most favorite modern inventions it allowed Della the ability to test her strength against opponents of equal power without many of the normal risks of such confrontations, she could put her all into new techniques without the danger of actually killing her opponent as the images created by the simulator were not real beings but rather puppets controlled by No.
Della shifted her body on instinct as she heard the sound of something darting past the nearby trees in her direction her motion swift enough to avoid the sword that now embedded itself in a nearby tree, a quick expansion of her senses gave Della the information she needed, her opponent was moving quickly through the trees there power lowering rapidly as they attempted to disguise themselves, Della let out an amused chuckled as she rushed into the tree line after her opponent. No knew what technique she was looking to perfect and was evidently in the mind that the best way to practice the net was to force her to hunt down her opponent amusingly appropriate and with any luck this would be the extent of her friend’s ‘out there’ methods.
Darting between trees Della began focusing her energy into her right hand forming an orb as she drew closer to the still waning power signature occasionally catching glimpses of a figure clad in dark clothing, every time Della got too close to them however there power signature expanded rapidly and they took off like a missile darting through the trees with frustrating ease, but while they were able to evade her for the most part this was ultimately not the worst scenario as it gave her time to manifest the technique properly as the more Della pursued her target the more defined the orb became shifting from just a plain energy orb to having the rough appearance of tightly wound ball of string. This was the easiest form that Della had created in her mind to utilize the Energy Net without hindering her mobility, the ‘best’ method was technically to simply fully form the net and project it like that but this method while taking a bit more focus would ultimately be more effective at least in theory.
A few more blades zipped past Della as her opponent let their power rise again once more taking a sudden burst of speed though taking a brief moment to twist and throw the knives, Della ducked and weaved between the weapons and without any warning for her opponent took a sudden burst of speed of her own activating her shunpo to allow her to move far faster than her opponent could perceive, Della darted through the trees and stopped once she was a few feet ahead of her opponent pointing her hand with her palm facing the figure she let loose the Energy Net in its spherical form, the orb darted forward out of her palm making it a foot away from Della before expanding outward in every direction swiftly changing from an orb to a fully-fledged net of energy blowing a brilliant fiery red it made a beeline for the figure who noticed too late what Della had done.
The figure tried its best to spin on its heels and take off in the other direction but the speed of the net and its forward momentum proved just a bit too much as just as it twisted its body around and took its first step in the other direction the Energy Net slammed directly into its back firmly wrapping itself around Della’s opponent and inciting an immediate struggle and angry growl of frustration as they began a feeble attempt to continue their escape. With a grin Della darted forward again landing a powerful kick to the middle of her opponents back sending them stumbling forward tripping over their own bound legs. With a word Della caused the point of impact of her kick to explode vaporizing the opponent “Nice job Del, maybe I should have made it a bit stronger” No said over the comm earning a shrug from Della “This session is not really about the fight, but when we run through this a few more times an increase in overall power would not be bad, before the end of the day I’d like to give a try on properly landing the net on someone roughly my power though.” Della said as the forest blurred around her “Will do! sending you to a new area now Del!” No said enthusiastically
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Technique Obtained: Energy Net (Academy Master Technique)
Flexing her limbs Della glanced around herself to get a view of where No had placed her, it at least for the moment appeared to be a fairly normal forested area of most likely Earth origin. A seemingly ‘normal’ environment had Della just a touch worried as the more normal the scenario appeared the more likely it was that No had something particularly outrageous planned for down the road or for an opponent. Today Della had requested as normal of a training session as No could concoct but in the past such requests had been fairly hit and miss in terms of actual normalcy.
Primarily the reason Della wanted things nice and simple for this session was because she was looking to test out a specific technique that she had been working to get under wraps but had until recently not had the time needed to put in the training to ensure that she had it down properly, she had read over and mentally picked apart the mechanics of the technique for quite some time but whenever she looked to take the opportunity to actually test it under combat conditions something always came up, she had declined to work it out while training with Akassa not long ago mostly for selfish reasons, she wanted to have it as something useful to use against her friend in there next spar and displaying it in an unfinished state would of course negate surprise it could have on her in its complete state.
Additionally Della knew it was perhaps a bit foolish of her to have taken so long to finish working out this technique, it was one she had obtained access to quite a while ago as the technique in question was one of the techniques of the Arena, specifically the Energy Net. Of the three techniques it had been the least immediately ‘necessary’ in Della’s mind when she had started working on learning the moves and somehow she had let it keep falling to the back as she worked, she had kept up with understanding the function and method of the technique, she knew that much about as well as she did the other two techniques. The big problem was a lack of effort placed into executing the technique properly.
Knowing how it was supposed to work, knowing how to produce it, these were important but JUST knowing was not enough, she needed to actually put what she knew into practice and ensure that the information she had had not been wrong, it would be far too dangerous to attempt to utilize such an unfinished technique against a real opponent, an incorrectly executed technique was potentially dangerous to everyone involved.
Sure Della was no stranger to using the heat of battle to produce a new technique or a variation of an existing technique but those situations still possessed the same risk it was simply a matter of deciding if the risk was worth it, against opponents like Akassa the answer was usually ‘yes’ one needed an edge against powerful opponents and what better to catch an opponent by surprise than utilizing a technique that not even you are sure will work properly. It was dangerous and stupid, but so long as it worked it did not matter.
But if she could have her techniques working before the battle then it was in her mind that much better, they were still just as unknown to the opponent but were far less dangerous to Della herself. The Energy Net in particular was something that Della found herself not particularly fond of the idea of simply hoping that it would work rather than knowing in a potentially important fight, that was what made the simulator perhaps one of her most favorite modern inventions it allowed Della the ability to test her strength against opponents of equal power without many of the normal risks of such confrontations, she could put her all into new techniques without the danger of actually killing her opponent as the images created by the simulator were not real beings but rather puppets controlled by No.
Della shifted her body on instinct as she heard the sound of something darting past the nearby trees in her direction her motion swift enough to avoid the sword that now embedded itself in a nearby tree, a quick expansion of her senses gave Della the information she needed, her opponent was moving quickly through the trees there power lowering rapidly as they attempted to disguise themselves, Della let out an amused chuckled as she rushed into the tree line after her opponent. No knew what technique she was looking to perfect and was evidently in the mind that the best way to practice the net was to force her to hunt down her opponent amusingly appropriate and with any luck this would be the extent of her friend’s ‘out there’ methods.
Darting between trees Della began focusing her energy into her right hand forming an orb as she drew closer to the still waning power signature occasionally catching glimpses of a figure clad in dark clothing, every time Della got too close to them however there power signature expanded rapidly and they took off like a missile darting through the trees with frustrating ease, but while they were able to evade her for the most part this was ultimately not the worst scenario as it gave her time to manifest the technique properly as the more Della pursued her target the more defined the orb became shifting from just a plain energy orb to having the rough appearance of tightly wound ball of string. This was the easiest form that Della had created in her mind to utilize the Energy Net without hindering her mobility, the ‘best’ method was technically to simply fully form the net and project it like that but this method while taking a bit more focus would ultimately be more effective at least in theory.
A few more blades zipped past Della as her opponent let their power rise again once more taking a sudden burst of speed though taking a brief moment to twist and throw the knives, Della ducked and weaved between the weapons and without any warning for her opponent took a sudden burst of speed of her own activating her shunpo to allow her to move far faster than her opponent could perceive, Della darted through the trees and stopped once she was a few feet ahead of her opponent pointing her hand with her palm facing the figure she let loose the Energy Net in its spherical form, the orb darted forward out of her palm making it a foot away from Della before expanding outward in every direction swiftly changing from an orb to a fully-fledged net of energy blowing a brilliant fiery red it made a beeline for the figure who noticed too late what Della had done.
The figure tried its best to spin on its heels and take off in the other direction but the speed of the net and its forward momentum proved just a bit too much as just as it twisted its body around and took its first step in the other direction the Energy Net slammed directly into its back firmly wrapping itself around Della’s opponent and inciting an immediate struggle and angry growl of frustration as they began a feeble attempt to continue their escape. With a grin Della darted forward again landing a powerful kick to the middle of her opponents back sending them stumbling forward tripping over their own bound legs. With a word Della caused the point of impact of her kick to explode vaporizing the opponent “Nice job Del, maybe I should have made it a bit stronger” No said over the comm earning a shrug from Della “This session is not really about the fight, but when we run through this a few more times an increase in overall power would not be bad, before the end of the day I’d like to give a try on properly landing the net on someone roughly my power though.” Della said as the forest blurred around her “Will do! sending you to a new area now Del!” No said enthusiastically
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Technique Obtained: Energy Net (Academy Master Technique)