Post by vespertine on Mar 10, 2024 22:18:07 GMT -5
Place: DOJO compound, Skyline Blvd, San Bruno, ca.
Date/Time: 1:30AM
HA!
KAI!
HA YI!
YAAAAAA!!!!
(Vespertine is currently working on her Tae Kwon Do moves at her trainer's DOJO up on Skyline near San Bruno. In her hand is a northern temple bo staff which is good for using as a weapon in Tae Kwon Do because of it's fluiditiy. She twirls around the room hitting each dummy target as she goes by. Noone else is in the room with her. There are bay windows which give 120 degree views from the mountain top where her DOJO is which faces the Bay and we can see all the way to Hayward to Oakland across the 92 Bridge in Foster City to the central mountain that rises up in the middle of the San Bruno. On the other side we can see a thick heavy forest where the DOJO lies in the Santa Cruz mountain range....
... She does a one legged flip and comes down in a splits then strikes out at the target getting it just a little off center. She twirls up Eddie Guerrero style then strikes out into the air. A moment's pause. Then a swirl of motion.)
KAI!
HA YI!
YA!
(She spins and brings the bo staff down on the mat with a heavy thump. She stops, bows, puts the bo staff in his place on the wall and then gets out a rather intimidating razor sharp serrated katana blade. She goes over to a bucket and dips it into a liquid. Then gets into a fighting stance. She then starts and twirls in a dance of striking and flowing. She strikes out and literally cuts the head of a training dummy. In a twirl, she kicks the head up into the air and then swipes at it, cutting it completely in two. She goes by a pillar, sweeps along it and it sparks and it erupts into flames. Suddenly, as if on cue, the windows blacken and the shades go down leaving everything in pitch blach except for where her flaming sword is lighting the area around her. She moves and dances again.)
HA!
KI YA!
YA!
KAI HA!
(Slashes downward, from what we can see she cuts a training dummy in half. She jump kicks, does a spinning heel kick then lands on the mat arms akimbo. She moves a foot and twirls it, then jumps and strikes up striking the ceiling. She comes back down on one foot, then twirls around and does a one legged jump, takes the katana in both hands does a baseball strike at the dummer which cleaves it from chest cavicle up. She slowly comes up and starts spinning the flaming katana in a figure out. At it's fastest we actually see a flame of an 8 in the air. As she slows down, she goes around a pillar and puts the katana in another bucket whereupon the flame is extinguished. There is a moment's pause, and then the black window curtains open slowly. When she can see again. She goes to the stairs leading up and pushes a button on the wall. From the far side of the room, a door opens and a punching bag comes out and hangs from the ceiling. As this is going, she wraps her hands a little more then goes over to the bag and starts punching and kicking it.)
(Sweat pouring down her face, hair stringy, she stops, grabs her water bottle, then takes a few swigs. When she finishes, she goes back to the wall, pushes a button and the bag goes up. She consideres what to do for a second as, then goes to the middle of the training floor and gets into lotus position. She actually talks to herself as she does this.)
Not sure why I feel this way, like a loser but this can't last long. I'm good at what I do. I'm the best in this business.
(She thinks for a little bit as she does the different Yoga poses. Finally.... when she is done, she grabs her water bottle, to take a few swigs until two darkly dressed monks come into the room. They speak not a word to her but she seems to get the gist of what they want.)
Ves: Master Sun Yen wants to see me.
(One monk shakes his head, the other looks up.)
Ves: You mean our dark master wants to see me. (They nod) All right, gather the accoutrements for the ritual.
(They produce candles and put them on the floor on four sides. They light them as she puts her Yoga mat down and kneels up on it. They stand up, outen the lights and back into the darkness. From the smoke of the censor, the smoke wafts and drifts and then seems to turn into an ethereal figure with a dark hood.)
Figure (dark Buddha) Vespertine, I called you here for a reason.
Ves: Yes, master. How may I be of service.
(She bows her head and listens as he talks. After a while her consternation slowly turns into a wide smile as she listens intently to what it is he has to say. Maybe it's a plan, maybe an alliance, maybe a joke. With the dark buddha we never know. But when he reaches out to caress her face, a skeletal hand comes out of the robe and grips her chin to make her look at him.)