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Training with Naigus chapter 1
"No Gwen you are putting too much enfaces on the first part of Ches's shield." Naigus yelled.
"I know I know you told me a thousand times." Gwen shouted back charging Naigus.
Naigus had a knife tip was sticking out of the top of her right hand. Naigus had been chosen to be Ches and Gwen's teacher when the two weapons had become partners. They have been working together for about a month but to Naigus's displeasure they weren't progressing much. They fought well but they weren't advancing each was using the weapon of the other like it was just a normal weapon. There was no wavelength involved in their fighting, and to top it off they weren't trying to fight beyond the basics.
"Come on Gwen communicate with your partner." Naigus said while yet again for the umpteenth time dodging one of Gwen's punches bouncing away.
Gwen looked into the curve of the inside of the shield to look at her partner. Ches just shrugged. Gwen sighed. "He isn't much help here!" Gwen shouted at Naigus who had disappeared into the trees
"Come on Ches you are the weapon you should know what is possible to do as a shield." Naigus shouted her position was undiscoverable. No matter how hard Gwen looked or listened she could not find even a hint of where Naigus lay waiting.
"That is an assassin's weapon for you." Gwen thought to herself
"Gwen lets switch." Ches spoke from within his shield. His form started to glow as he shifted from shield to human, Gwen did the reverse.
He was thinking about what Naigus had said, to think of an unconventional way to use the weapon in his hand. He took a closer look at the scythe in his hands taking in every detail, from the reversed blade to the chain connecting the top to the bottom. Taking a closer look he realized that the blade was made of obsidian.
It was then when Naigus struck, pulling back her arm preparing to leave a minor cut on his right shoulder. They were her students after all she didn't want to kill them. Ches instinctively transformed his right forearm and left arm letting go of the scythe with his left hand, he choked up on the pole bringing his right hand up to the base of the blade lining the pole up with the length of his forearm.
Naigus's blade connected with the pole of the scythe, and slid off to connect with the armored right shoulder. As it hit Ches's shoulder he turned allowing Naigus to sail past him. She quickly regained her footing and turned to face her students. Her eyes were wide with surprise she was sure that the attack would have hit. But then she smiled under the bandages over her face.
"Well done Ches. That was a… most odd way of deflecting an attack." Naigus praised her student
Ches looked down at his hand. He was as surprised as Naigus.
"So it's ok that I transformed my shoulder?" He questioned his teacher.
"Yes Ches. The way a weapon and meister fight is by working together, and since you two are both weapons then you should utilize that to your advantage." Naigus explained to her skeptical student. "That is enough training for today the sun is going down. Go home and celebrate your success." Naigus gave a short bow and started walking back to her home with Sid her meister.
Gwen was upset. She was upset that Ches had made a breakthrough before her. She was naturally competitive and didn't like to get second place. She told Ches after giving him a punch in the arm for a congratulation that she wanted to go for a walk and that she would be back home later. The boy said ok and walked on to their home.
He wasn't worried. Gwen often went off on her own for exercise or to work out. Plus he knew that if anyone tried to mess with her that they would be in for the surprise of their lives. He laughed as the image of two thugs wetting their pants in freight of his partner popped into his head. He pulled out his headphones and started on home.
Gwen had been jogging aimlessly around Death city for a while now trying to think of a creative way to use a shield as a weapon. Try as she might all that came to her mind was using it to hit stuff. She was a very direct kind of person. After jogging for an hour she gave up and just howled at the moon which seemed to be laughing at her. When Gwen finished her primal yell she looked around to find that she had wound up in front of the DWMA. She also found that she had startled Maka and Crona who seemed to be also coming to the DWMA from a walk around the city. Crona was cowering behind Maka from the roar to the heavens.
Gwen scratched her head awkwardly. "Sorry just a bit frustrated, I needed to let off some steam."
Crona relaxed noticeably, having realized that the toned girl's anger wasn't directed at him.
"What's bothering you?" Maka asked
Scratching her head Gwen answered. "Well Naigus has been telling me and Ches to think of some more creative ways to use each other as weapons. Ches just had a breakthrough today using both me and his armored shoulder to guard. The problem is I just can't think of any new way to use his shield form besides to punch stuff and block." She sighs. "I thought jogging might jog my mind into action. It usually worked back when I went to a normal high school."
Maka took her chin in her left thinking. Then Crona hesitantly piped up.
"Y-you could try the l-library. They h-have tons of books on different f-fighting styles." The shy boy quickly hid behind Maka afraid that Gwen would think his idea was stupid and hit him for it. Crona suddenly hunched over seemingly from pain.
"Hah! That's your big idea you dung head. Read books. What do you want to bore the cow to death?" Ragnarock had popped out of Crona's back and was now pushing on his abused head. Gwen visibly jumped surprised at the sudden appearance of the ill-tempered weapon.
"What the heck is that?" Gwen asked eyes wide.
"That" Maka said with a certain sharpness in her voice that made Ragnarock stop teasing Crona and look up. "Is Crona's weapon Ragnarock. He was melted down and used to replace Crona's blood by the witch Medusa."
Gwen shrugs she was starting to get used to the odd people of the DWMA. "Ok I guess I will try the library out it isn't like anything else is working."
Maka nods excitedly. Grabbing ahold of Crona's hand again Maka started off to the school.