Coliseum Commotion[Kenny/Skadi]

The shutmon knew who was fighting right now, of course she had seen the schedule and knew that they were trying to fight for real this time around. By the roar of the crowd from above she figured it was going fairly well. Each hit was punctuated with a roar of the crowd as they no doubt enjoyed the spectacle; the heavier motions were easier to keep track of even from down her and she'd wince as eventually she figured the Vajramon had won, what with the heavy stomping and trotting of the large digimon.

This sort of place was the cheerful fighting sort, no hard feelings unless you brought them with you. The fighters would be quick to retreat to their respective lockers and with any luck would be back in their homes without much issue. The shutmon flicked her ears as she could hear a few people coming her way. Noting the grouping of individuals none of them looked like fighters and she'd let out a soft sigh. Shaking her head she'd simply return to her book, flipping through it.

It'd be a good bit before she heard herself be referenced to. Her ears flicking and her icy eyes sliding off of her book. The shutmon looking up to see who it was. There wasn't much of a reason to come and talk to her, she wasn't famous and even with all the side long glances she got from various individuals well... Someone referencing her by name was a good indicator of what was to come.

A human and their digimon, the latter of the two being some kind of goat? She wasn't super sure but the shutmon snapped her book shut after making sure to note what page she was on. It was a rather sizable novel and she wasn't about to page through rapidly to try to find where she was later.

"Geheh! Evening you two!"

The shutmon gave them a small greeting, returning the wave with the hand not holding the book. She'd quickly store the book in her infini storage as they approached. Flicking her ears as they confirmed what she had anticipated when she heard her name the first time around. Skadi and kenny. A pair of individuals that had signed up for her training.

[ccolor=lightblue]"Mmm. So I expected when I heard you just a bit ago!"[/color]

The shutmon's visage cracked into a wide grin and she'd stand up, the wolf practically unfolding to her natural eight foot height. She'd reach down to offer a hand to the human for a shake before bending her knees a little more to do the same for skadi.

"Fraid I don't know who Valt is, still workin' on learnin big names if he's one of em. And trust me, this sort of training isn't the time killing sort, I'll make sure you're well and ready by the end of it. I don't do half assed training after all!"

The shutmon chuckled lightly and gestured for the two to follow her, her tail swishing to either side. She had never actually really interacted with a tamer before, at least not in the proper venue of actually chatting it up with them!

"I presume that it's just skadi I'll be working with tonight? I know that humans sometimes like joinin into fights and what not so I have to ask."

If it was just skadi this was going to be a little easier. The shutmon padded along and would guide the two to a locker room where they could freshen up and get ready for the training if they needed it. There was even some food lain out in a waiting room as it wasn't quite time yet. The shutmon not knowing that they had already ate and was already helping herself to a heaping helping herself.

"So what sort of training are yah looking for? What level? Right now I can provide up to ultimate, though maybe if you push me hard enough maybe I'll manage mega for once."

The shutmon chuckled and shook her head, that big grin growing even wider. She seemed rather cheerful and with a turn her cloak swept around to her side. Resting easy once she had taken steps to sit down, pulling the chair out with a foot and taking a seat halfway on it. She'd have to fiddle with her arm blades to shorten them down a bit before she could set on eating. She'd talk between gulps of her drink and mouthfuls of her food.

"See normally I do this whole figurin' out thing for folks in our fights, see how their energy control is and how familiar they are with forms. Or at least that's how I did it before, I've never actually trained anyone so ya'd be my first-"

The shutmon paused after a moment and gave a wave to a passing coliseum member who just returned it with a lazy wave of their own. There were quite a few fighters here for the sheer enjoyment of it and some were contractually obligated to do so. Silence thankfully wasn't one of them else she'd be forced to stay around...

"-But don't worry, I've taken courses. N we'll only go as far as yer comfortable. And mind yah, I use a lot of weapons, swords, bows, whatever n whatnot. So you'll be hard pressed not to get some kind of damage somewhere. Got a list of stuff you wanna do or some kind of goal yah have in mind? Long or short term is fine!"

The wolfish grin on silence's face only ended up getting wider and wider as she listened to the others. The shutmon honestly was rather excited herself, as this would be her first real training session where she was providing rather than receiving and well... She just couldn't wait to see what the other could do really. She had never seen the type of digimon that Skadi was, so she was working in the dark here in terms of what would be good for them.

"Some people just are naturally excitable, nothing really to worry about~"

The shutmon let out a small chuckle, shaking her head and found her brows raising a bit at seeing the digimodify cards. She had some of her own and with a swipe of her hand across her forearm she'd bring up her own 'deck' of cards. They were more integrated in her system than actually being physical cards like the human.

"Just don't forget that some mon's don't need humans to use cards. It's a nasty surprise I'll tell you that. And even without the cards you're not useless. Think of it this way, your mon's fighting. You're watching because that's really all you can do, but... Well now you notice something that's off about your opponent, or some sort of gap in their defenses. Use the stronger part of your body kid."

The shutmon tapped at her head and gave the young man a small wink. You had to use everything in your arsenal, not just your body. Some mons couldn't think well in a fight or were too into it to notice little stuff.

While the shutmon scarfed down her food she'd of course flick her ears so she could listen to what the others had to say. Skadi had just reached ultimate and unlike the shutmon needed to start practicing in it. The shutmon hummed a little bit; drumming her fingers on the table as she chewed. Finishing what she had in her mouth before drenching her gullet in a swath of water. She'd let out a small content sigh and scratch at her cheek.

Her ears flicked and she'd ponder what skadi had to say. So she wanted to be a true hero to protect the ones she loved? Not to mention those on her team. The shutmon tutted gently and shifted back, rubbing at her snout thoughtfully. She'd let them talk, watching the two interact. They certainly were very close, friendly with one another and shared the same sort of mental gait. It'd make it easy to get them in the same line of thinking and training.

"No worries on that part there Kenny. Well suffice to say, wanting to be a true hero and being a true hero is... Well quite a step. You don't just become one over night. There's expectations that everyone has of you or of your tamer that sometimes you can't meet."

There was a small pause, the shutmon's voice grew rather soft and she'd reach out to give the both of them a gentle rub on the top of the head.

"A true hero, in all their glory all their guts. Finds the few moments where other people would step back and step forward. In leaps, bounds and so on. It's a good goal to have but don't forget how hard it is to work up to that."

Then of course Kenny brought up the fact that her ultimate used a great sword and the shutmon couldn't help but grin as she pulled her own two handed weapon off of her back. Setting it down on the table for the both of them to see. It was a giant blade with two handles, it could even split along a seam if she so wished.

"Well then we'll start off in a real easy bit, sword against sword. Get yah used to swinging around the darned thing."

The shutmon seemed done with her meal and stood up, if the two wanted to look over her sword they had the option to for a few moments before the shutmon put it back onto her back. The blade hiding quite well in her cloak's undercarriage. Other than that the shutmon had two sheathed forearm-blades and both of them thankfully were much smaller when not in immediate combat. But that did raise the question of what else did the shutmon have in her arsenal?

"We're gonna go upstairs a lil early. Knuckleheads that had the slot before us didn't show and we're gonna make good use of it."

The shutmon would gesture for skadi and kenny to follow her, taking the both of them back the way they came...

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And right into the arena proper, there were far fewer people than before. But a few soft murmers and a low mumble of those that were there could easily remind everyone that they were alone. The shutmon tapped a few buttons on the entry of the coliseum's arena proper. The battle scars from the last group being washed away with the automated system, giving them a clear battlefield.

"C'mon guys it takes like three seconds for this stuff to work... you could at least tidy up geheh."

The shutmon let out a rolling chuckle and trotted out onto the field, she felt the eyes of a few on her. Maybe they knew her past iteration and maybe they didn't, regardless every fight that took place here was one that mattered to someone somewhere. The shutmon gave a few stretches, planting her sword in the ground so she could lean back and forward with ease. Not wishing to cut herself by mistake somewhere and give her 'trainee' a leg up when she was supposed to be teaching someone.

"Take your ultimate form slowly. Work up through champion, then to ultimate. Warp digivolving is very strenuous even on the hardiest mons and should only really be used in emergencies. Since this ain't one well, we have the wonderful opportunity for it."

The shutmon leaned on her sword, letting it sink in the ground a little bit as she stared at the two. She had a few thoughts of what she was going to see. Most mons had a pretty simular line to their rookie but... That's where most mons and herself seemed to vary. She also had a hunch about how tamer and their digimon's relationships both inside and out of the battle.

"No cards until I say so either, this is training. Cards are for emergencies just like warp digivolving. If you need to stop at any point just lemme know and we can take a breather. All right? Stuff like that can easily become a crutch for you when your own body would easily suffice."

The reaction to the fact that silence could use cards brought an earnest snicker from the wolf. She'd waggle a little finger at the pair of them, giving a big ol grin at the two. They needed to know this sort of information so that they wouldn't be caught unawares of someone in the same position later on. Suffice to say powerful enough digimon often didn't use cards but they were just tools for work in most cases.

"Heh. Yeah, though my sleeves are a bit tighter than most it feels."

The shutmon shifted slightly and stretched, she was feeling pretty relaxed about all of this and was picking up bits of information about the two here or there just from their interactions. A very healthy tamer and mon relationship that had quite a bit of long term potential. She was kind of jealous in that regard; she honestly wondered how she would work with a human if at all...

"Just remember, if you need to stop we can all right?"

The shutmon noted the reaction from her pat, maybe humans didn't like that all too much? That or perhaps the fact her hands were so big that it basically engulfed the human's head with it? Jeez the size difference alone made her worry about how humans managed to even be safe around digimon!

"Oh please it's not that sharp. Well. Actually, it might be if you're a vaccine. For me it's not too bad?"

Silence raised a small brow and ran her thumb along the blades edge. For something that 'wasn't that sharp' it drew a little bit of blood from that action alone. The shutmon must of kept her equipment well maintained; not to an extreme but certainly to the point of where her arsenal was nothing to laugh at. The shutmon sucked on her thumb for a moment and snorted lightly.

"Oh you'll get the chance to see what it's like!"

Another chuckle and they would be on their way...

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"Well considering how often this place gets used they needed something quick and efficent. Can't really blame them for an automated system like that.

The shutmon noted that the tamer seemed disappointed in the fact he wasn't going to be using cards right away. She knew that the cards could act as a crutch and without a strong baseline to work with most people would use them rather than their own techniques when they could suffice. The shutmon stretched, cracking her back as she let the other mon digivolve. There was no point in leaping into the fray against something nearly twenty times weaker than the current form she was keeping. Rookies fighting against ultimates were rare and usually the former would need a severe number advantage...

"Oh trust me hon, you don't need to make me proud."

The shutmon pulled her sword out of the ground, spinning it around in one hand as she looked over what she was given as an opponent. A quadraped sheep with horns by the looks of it? She had to admit to herself that even in champion skadi kept the same bubbly vibe. It'd be offsetting to those that took fighting a bit more seriously. Her ears would flick forward as that bleat blasted across the stadium.

"Mmm. All right."

The shutmon didn't waste any time getting started, with one smooth motion she'd leap forward. Her hand with her sword spinning it in such a manner that it easily slipped up and out of her hand making the sword tumble upwards in a controlled manner. The sword itself would be in the air by the time that silence was in front of the champion. In an equally as smooth motion she'd make a good swipe at Skadi with one of her wrist blades.

Keeping that same momentum the shutmon kicked up and over the the canandenmon. Almost parallel with her sword in positioning for a split second. After that? Well she'd have to use one hand to catch her sword while the other kept her from slamming her head on the ground; allowing the shutmon to continue her momentum for another few feet up until her own feet landed back on the ground. The shutmon's flip had put her firmly between skadi and kenny as was the intention. Did skadi have any attacks that would make this a problem for her? Or perhaps she would become a touch more defensive now that her opponent was closer to her tamer? That aside silence had two questions that she wanted to ask the two, but in the heat of battle she hoped that they would shorten the explanations. As she would when they were done answering...

"How often do you fight? Whats the worst fight you two have ever been in?"

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Log:
-Silence does some fancy flips n shit while making a basic attack against skadi. She seems quite relaxed.

Passives:

Her actions yielded the sort of results that she wanted to see, Skadi was quick enough on her feet to avoid the shutmon's blade for the most part. The shutmon flicked her blade and cleaned off the small amount of fluff that was clinging to it, that fur must of been resistant to some sort of physical attacks for only so much to get cut off. But with her strength against vaccine types... Was skadi the sort that was vaccine? That'd make things interesting.

The shutmon spun her two handed blade around lazily, she felt rather relaxed in this fight and it was nice. She wanted to see what skadi could do so she knew where to improve the mountainous sheep type mon's fighting style. The brief conversation was to lul the both of them in thinking that she was wide open; suffice to say she wasn't leaving herself open. She was just taking it at her pace and from what she heard about her previous iteration the pace was important. Setting it for both of them would be important.

"Hmm. I take it he's good at training stuff too, results are important but you can't forget that we digimon also live and breath combat. If she's picking up the techniques he's placing she's a good learner."

Silence's ear flicked when she heard the scraping of that hoof, there was a small smile that spread across her lips and she'd waggle a finger at the human.

"I am curious what you do when a fight breaks out, do you take cover or stand about?"

The shutmon shifted on her feet and there was a moment that her leather pants seemed to almost flex to the point of breaking before the shutmon kicked off the ground. Sure she wasn't fast enough to completely dodge Skadi's attack, her entire thing wasn't speed. It was hitting really god damn hard. The shutmon however used the momentum from Skadi's hit to tumble her through the air. Kicking off at a few points to adjust her trajectory before landing with grace on the ground. Noting that yes indeed, the ram had managed to bust through the armor of her leg. A nasty gash in one of them. She'd wipe a finger across it with a small tut.

"Bruiser type then... Hmm."

The shutmon considered briefly what she could do and gave a small shrug. She'd trace a finger along the blade and spin it around again, her eyes watching skadi carefully as though she was gauging what the other would do. She had been taking the both of them seriously from the start but she really wanted to see what they could do.

"Tell me. How long have you two been working with one another?"

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Log:
-Skadi's attack grazes silence, damaging one of her legs.
-Silence has deigned to observe Skadi rather than make an attack; though she seems to be considering something...

Passive:

The answers that kenny gave silence made the shutmon pause for a second. So he wanted to keep close to his partner just in case while also being at a reasonable distance from her. Made sense. The shutmon rubbed her chin thoughtfully as she shifted her weight from leg to leg, getting a feel for how bad the damage that skadi dealt to her was.

"It's probably too early for me to say this, but if you ever get the chance or ability to biomerge that is far safer in terms of combat even if you're fighting at a higher level 'together'. Though I've been told data bleed is a issue if you do it too much..."

The shutmon's ears flicked a few times as her question prompted another good response. The shutmon was hardly distracted and was spinning her sword around, studying the smaller champion. So far they showed all the signs of being a good close quarters combatant. Usually close quarters combatants had a few ranged abilities to help balance them out, like agumon or gabumon having their ranged fire or ice moves. So what was the sort of thing that Silence had to watch for with Skadi? She was a stocky little thing and seeing the motion of the powerful stomp silence had her answer.

"I'm not distracted. Just gathering information."

Her reaction time was marvelous, just as the spire rose out of the ground the shutmon's blade moved with precision. Slicing off a neat portion of the pointed rock. It still slammed into her and sent the shutmon up into the air. But it was a controlled movement as she used the momentum from the spire to put her into the air.

The shutmon drew in a deep breath finding that the energy in her gullet was blaring through her nostrils and cracks in her mouth. After a second or so her mouth would gape open and the light that followed suit condensed and lanced forward. Even if her beam didn't strike skadi directly she'd have to deal with a sizable explosion and the explosions that peppered around the first. It was a nasty attack, one that had the chance of dealing a lot of damage if one was too slow or too cocky.

The shutmon would land back onto the ground with another wince and eyed her leg. Yeah that wasn't going to be nice if she couldn't fix it but... The other forms wouldn't handle so well against a champion that could do stuff like this. Kyukimon was fast but fragile and meicrackmon... Well she was here to train someone. Not to kill them.

"Look I'm used to fighting all the time and I chat even while fighting enemies. Though if I'm really serious and really want to fuck up someone's day... The name's silence for a reason. Instead here I am training a sweet human and their adorable little partner."

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Log:
-Silence uses her sword to cut the top of the spire, avoiding getting punctured by it but still taking blunt force instead.
-Silence uses buster beam while in the air. Centered on skadi.

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BB: [0/3]

She knew from an instant that the two of them had never heard of this powerful thing. In fact kenny's reaction that she was able to gleam from the young man lead her to believe that there was much that the two needed to be told about. Things that they could use to learn and engage in down the line. The shutmon shifted from one foot to the other, gently tapping at where her leg had been grazed earlier.

A champion giving a ultimate such trouble was unheard of, but while ultimates clearly were out of a class of champions normally the shutmon wasn't dedicating herself to winning. She was trying to understand what her trainee was like, the sort of things that were good for them. What they struggled against.

The makeshift platform and the beam attack were two things that came with a reaction time that was well practiced. Well observed. Her prior iteration had been in a long strenuous war effort in all told if you thought about it. The D-reapers. The spires. The wisemon. And she ended up dying from the lattermosts intervention. Even during her dying hours she had chosen to fight and give it her all against insurmountable odds.

That's the sort of fire that silence was looking for in those that she trained, the sort of fire that she could expect. What she didn't expect was the inferno that was in front of her. The bleeding passion that she could feel from skadi. Her heart and soul was open to silence and the shutmon span her sword around. Staring quietly at the ewe as she considered her attack.

Special attacks were hard to deal with, physical attacks made little in the way of dents. The shutmon hummed to herself and tilted her head as the two of them talked to one another. Kenny calling out to his partner to see if she was okay, if skadi needed a moment to breathe the shutmon would give it to her. Shifting her stance slightly when the other claimed to just get started.

She'd feel those wolfman's eyes staring right at her, the fire and heart of the shutmon reaching out. She could feel that skadi was wanting to go further beyond the form she kept, she wanted to fight. She wanted to go up against this shutmon. She didn't just come here to train. No she came here to learn about herself and those around her.

Her kind words had thrown them off their groove and silence's ears flicked. The young man covering his face and the stuttering emotion from Skadi made her realize that there was another thing they needed to practice. She was able to push past it with her heart and force herself to move forward. To focus on what was in hand. Silence wasn't going to take this moment to attack her. That would be scummy and silence wasn't the sort to make that sort of opening. Something she needed to-

Silence blinked a bit as the ear splitting bleat's shockwaves approached her. She felt her ears tremble and the shutmon clasped her hands around them as she felt the shockwaves hit her. The wolf cringed a bit as she felt her eardrums shudder and she could even feel a bit of dribble of blood rolling out of her ears.

"Holy hell that's loud..."

The shutmon took a step only to find that her balance was off and she'd stumble a bit. Slapping her face to get herself together. Gritting her teeth she'd grip onto her sword and with a single simple motion the sword flipped into a dual edged staff-like variant for all of a moment. Silence would then draw in her breath and gently breathe across it's surface.

The dual ended sword staff shuddered and shifted as ice grew around it in great swaths; pumping out a small ring of cold around her as it came into being. With a simple motion the shutmon nocked an arrow of the same kind that the bow was made of before leveling it at Skadi. The bow having to be turned on it's side thanks to the sheer size of it.

"Your physical nature makes you open to special attacks. You have attacks that make up for this but for a opponent that are mostly ranged or special attacks with evasive means would make it difficult for you. Your goal during fights like that is to give people no quarter. No room to maneuver. Cut off what it means to 'escape'. Create your ring and make your enemy play by your rules."

The shutmon let loose a single arrow, it was a test of reflexes for skadi. It was a rather fast projectile in itself, nothing compared to the beam attack but there was a devious hint to the arrow if it'd strike the ewe. They'd feel that seeping cold into their body; the absolute frigid nature of the Shutmon's power making it clear that skadi was up against a northerner much like herself!

"Kenny is your responsibility. No one elses. I've run into pairings before that the digimon didn't like the tamer that they had. Only to find the mon later on in pieces because they couldn't protect them. I don't know if you've had to deal with that sort of thing before. I don't know what sort of experiences you've had. But it's the worst thing to see. The worst failure to feel."

Her eyes flicked to kenny, there was a softness in them that ill fitted the battle that was ongoing here before they shifted back to Skadi. A small but somewhat cheerful smile splitting her face.

"His love is your power. Your love is his power. Your emotions and the form you take is the catalyst for change. For greatness. For the places and people you meet. Doesn't that feel good? To know you can do what you believe in? What you want?"

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Log:
-Silence gives Skadi and kenny the time they need to throw off her words.
-Silence takes battlecry, disorientating her and costing her her movement action.
-Silence uses Invoke the mausoleum and launches a single arrow at Skadi.

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