(Announcer voice) In this episode of P.o.a.G.S. Yoshi will crash into
trees, be eaten by eggs, and fall off cliffs! All this and much, much more
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Chapter 9: Training Day
"You may ask me questions now if you want, I will not tolerate any later" Yosher spoke in a bit of a harsh tone.
"How come you have two identities and how come you don't seem nearly crippled without the cane?" Yoshi questioned
"It keeps people from finding out who I really am, lets just say I killed some people in the past and I would like to forget about it. The other answer is that few suspect one is a combat trainer such as I when one walks with a cane." Yosher answered a bit annoyed.
"Why are you called the New Trainer?"
"Aren't I your new trainer?"
"Okay, are you like this when nobody is around?"
"Only when I am training someone."
"What exactly will you teach me?"
Yosher paused for a moment "There is the question I wanted you to ask. You will be learning a type of art and training method known as Yoshindo, an art only able to be practiced by Yoshies. It involves your arms, legs, tail, head, and tongue. Since mastering the art takes over twenty years, we will mostly focus on exercises rather than techniques, but you will train for six hours a day, starting today."
Yoshi was about to ask something else when he was cut off by Yosher. "Well how come-"
"NO MORE QUESTIONS!!" Yosher yelled. Yoshi did not speak.
"You will also refer to me as Master Yosher or Sir understand?"
"Yes Master Yosher" Yoshi quickly said.
"Good, your training starts now."
The two Yoshies were standing outside and on the beach, away from the rest of the village.
"You are to run around the Island whi-" Yosher started
"Around the Island?! That is over-" Yoshi exclaimed but was cut short
"YOSHI PUSH UP POSITION NOW!!!" Yosher shouted at the top of his lungs. Yoshi quickly went into a pushup position.
"You asked a question out of order, you questioned my training methods, you raised your voice to me, and most importantly, you did not refer to me as Master Yosher or Sir!!! Yosher shouted. "That was your freebie chance, break any of those again and you will regret it!!.
"Yes Master Yosher!" Yoshi said shouting.
"Get up, run around the island and do not let me beat you understand!" Yosher ordered
"Yes Sir!!" Yoshi shouted, got up and ran as fast as he could. About an hour into running he was about halfway around the island, when he heard a pit pat sound behind him, he turn and saw Yosher running in a way that seemed impossible for a sixty-five year old. He was leaning back, his hands behind his back and he was lifting his knees with every step he took as he ran. Them being on the sand made it even more amazing as he came behind caught up and ran past Yoshi. Yoshi was out of breath and walked the final stretch. He saw Yosher lying in the sand.
"Where were you? I have been waiting ten minutes!" Yosher said irritated.
"Sorry Gasp Sir Gasp I got tired Gasp"
"Well I hope you are not too tired for your next training, follow" Yosher walked into the jungle area, Yoshi followed still gasping for air.
The two Yoshies came to a clearing were two rows of trees were growing.
"This will train your agility, watch as I do it." With that Yosher ran then hopped forward to one of the trees put his foot out and bounced on the side of the tree's trunk to another repeating the maneuver from tree to tree ten times.
"Now you do it" Yosher shouted across the area.
"Yes sir!" Yoshi shouted he did nearly the exact same thing at the first tree that Yosher did, only a bit sloppier, fumbled at the second tree, and smacked head first into the third three. He just waited on the ground for Yosher's comment,
"What is the use of going into things head first if you only wind up hurt!?" and there it was." Get up and do it again!" Yoshi repeated the process about ten times, only clearing the third and smacking into the fourth on his fifth and eighth try. Yosher grew irritated and decided to get the next phase of training over with. They climbed up a Mountain to about forty feet when they came to an edge of the cliff. There was a large boulder with a very long purple rubbery rope tied to it. Yosher tied the rope to Yoshi's waist. When he finished they were near the edge of the cliff Yosher looked out towards the distant hills and said
"This phase will train your endurance and stamina, some pupils who trained in this method say this is fun"
What exactly are we doing Sir?" Yoshi asked. Yosher stepped in front of Yoshi and said
"Rock climbing"
"Really Sir?" Yoshi said excitedly
"..no" with that he kicked Yoshi off the cliff
Yoshi fell, he was too surprised too scream, he was about ten feet from the ground when he felt tension on the cord, and it slowed him down, but not enough and he hit the ground. He was conscious but could not move. A couple minutes later, he saw Yosher standing right next to him.
"The objective is to land and get up within five seconds, the cord is to ensure that the drop does not kill you but gives nearly full force of the impact. I can wait ten minutes before we have to move on. Oh, and about what I said earlier about other students saying this was fun, I got it backwards, I think that it is fun to push people off cliffs.
"Ughhhhhh" Yoshi moaned
"Oh, you are still conscious, well that means that you only need seven minutes before we have to move on" They were back in the main training building. Yosher spoke like he usually did stern and harsh.
"We will now train in a new technique, this technique requires you to be able to cover yourself in an eggshell, and roll around at high speed, this technique is called the Egg Roll." With that he turned into an egg and was well, rolling around at high speed. He proceeded to knock Yoshi over a couple of times before breaking out of the egg. "Now you enact it!" He ordered.
"uhhhh.Sir?" Yoshi asked under the glare that said this better be good or I will kill you from Yosher. "What?!"
"How exactly am I supposed to turn myself into an egg, and see for all that matter Sir?"
"Yoshi, you know the technique egg toss don't you?"
"Yes I do Sir" Yoshi acknowledged, the egg toss was when a Yoshi would take an egg they created and throw it creating a small explosion, sort of like a firework would explode. Only Yoshi was one of few yoshies that could actually create one of these eggs out of thin air, it is hard to explain how they do so, we'll just leave at either energy or magic. Yosher then continued to explain the anatomy of the attack.
"Well first you must make a small hop, then just imagine creating one not in your hand but around your body, when in the egg you should still be in the air and your hands in front of you in against the egg shell, still in the air you push the egg under you as if you were jumping over an elevated log, now the spin should last a while if done correctly in under about one second. How you are able to see works like this, being at the center of a small rapidly spinning object can create a type of friction that holds you in place at the center, you can call it floating if you want. The ability to see is replaced by what I call awareness, since all this spinning energy and friction is around you ones brain is affected by the energy causing it to become more aware of ones surroundings, almost like a psychic but not exactly. Although, this awareness is not as good as seeing with your eyes, so be sure not to be lured by opponents that may trick you to rolling off cliffs. Do you understand now?"
Yoshi was nearly asleep when Yosher finished that long explanation. "Huh? Oh yes Sir!"
"Good than do it, NOW!"
"Yes Sir!" Yoshi shouted, surprised. He hopped up, imagined the egg appearing around him instead of his hand, and instantly and egg appeared around him making a pop sound, but he did not roll it in the air like he was supposed to.
"Hey that was easy!" came a muffled voice from inside the egg. "But I still don't see anything, hey I'm stuck! aughh help! I've been eaten by my own egg!
"Idiot, get out now before I decide to play a game of soccer while you are still in there!" Yosher commanded. They exited the building after Yoshi got out of the egg that he trapped himself in, and traveled up the mountain only a different path. When they got to an area where they were in a cave high over a lake Yosher stopped.
"This training method will train your flutter jump ability, I expect you already know how to perform the flutter jump?" Yosher asked
"Yes Sir!" Yoshi replied. Nearly all yoshies were familiar with the flutter jump, when a yeti would jump if the yoshi focused hard enough and ran in place, the Yoshi would actually be able to run up air as if it were steps, but it is hard to keep in a state of air walking and it can only be held for a couple of seconds.
"Good, now watch." With this Yosher jumped out of the cave like Yoshi expected but instead of flutter jumping across the lake or back to the cave like Yoshi expected, Yosher flutter jumped up and over the top of the cave. Yoshi heard something land on top of the cave roof.
"Now you try!" he heard Yosher shout. Yoshi jumped out of the cave, turned around in mid air, focused as hard as he could, and fluttered back towards the mountain. He missed the top though and grabbed the lip of the cave before he could fall into the icy waters of the lake below. Yoshi pulled himself up and looked down, he was about twenty or thirty feet above the lake.
"What are you waiting for!?" Yosher shouted from the roof of the cave. "Try again!"
Yoshi attempted it two more times, each resulting the same way as the first attempt, but on the third he figured out he had to turn as he jumped out of the cave, he fluttered too the top of the cave where Yosher was waiting.
"I want to see you do it again" Yosher said
"Yes Sir!" Yoshi shouted, disappointed that that was all he got for actually completing a training phase. He climbed down to the cave and did the jump again, he could see the top of the cave and it looked like he was going to make it again. that is. until he saw Yosher throw the rock at his head. The rock conked him on the head and Yoshi lost his focus and fell into the cold water below. The water was very cold, as he surfaced the water he heard Yosher shout down to him.
"Any yoshi can flutter jump, mastering it though requires one to focus so hard that they can still stay focused and not be distracted by pain, this will come in handy if you are for whatever reason fighting an opponent above the ground on a platform or ledge, if you fall off, your enemy will usually do everything in their power to keep you off. Remember this, it will come in handy one day. Climb back up and try again NOW!"
"Blebsh Sbshlr!" Yoshi tried to shout but his mouth was in the water. Yosher did have a good point. Yoshi remembered how his fight with Samus went in the first tournament, he was knocked off the platform and as he was returning to the edge she shot a powerful charge shot at him, sealing his defeat. Yoshi attempted the maneuver about four times, each time being pegged in the head with a rock and falling into the water. Yosher finally grew tired and decided to go back to head back to the main training building for the final training methods. The final training sessions of the day included accuracy and power training on the dummy, which Yoshi performed very well in, and an introduction into "multiple opponent fighting techniques" It was around three o-clock when training ended and Yoshi was practically dead. "Do you have any questions before we end today Yoshi?" Yosher asked still sounding strict, irritated, and harsh.
"Yes I do Sir" Yoshi had only one question that he could think of, he was going to ask him that morning but Yosher rudely ordered him to stop asking questions,
"You told me earlier that you did not like having your training interrupted, but you weren't even here, how did I interrupt your training Sir?"
"Who said that I wasn't training? I was training my cooking techniques!" Yosher said with a smirk on his face. Yoshi only stared back at Yosher, his head than seemed like it was two heavy for his neck and he cocked his head to his left, his own non-speaking way of saying "What the hell?!"
"Well, this ends training for the day, but we still have six months ahead of us." They both then proceeded out of the training building. Yoshi put his shoes back on and Yosher did the same, but he also grabbed his walking stick and hunched over and appeared nearly crippled again.
"Do me a favor Yoshi," Yosher began, his voice and face calm and kind again, "don't tell anyone that I am training you, it would draw attention to me I rather would not have, just say you've been training yourself, and just refer to me as Yosher please."
"I understand" Yoshi responded.
"Good, than I will see you tomorrow." Yosher than began walking back to his restaurant, Yoshi was also heading home but he took a shorter path through the jungle. When Yoshi got back home he ate a snack and slept for the rest of the day. Yoshi wondered if he would have been better off training on his own.
Well, I've noticed that I haven't got too many reviews yet, that's okay, its still early. But I did notice that I was not accepting anonymous reviews on my stats screen, so I fixed that, and if you did try to send me an anonymous review earlier, do try and send it again with anymore you would have sent me, I think you can do it now, but if not try again tomorrow, for all reviews are appreciated. (You can now breathe) I have a lot of editing to do on the next chapter for it is far too confusing, and if the story is already confusing (plot hole wise) then my life long mission is a failure. Just kidding. Oh, you knew I was kidding? Then my life long mission is a failure! More soon to come.
Chapter 9: Training Day
"You may ask me questions now if you want, I will not tolerate any later" Yosher spoke in a bit of a harsh tone.
"How come you have two identities and how come you don't seem nearly crippled without the cane?" Yoshi questioned
"It keeps people from finding out who I really am, lets just say I killed some people in the past and I would like to forget about it. The other answer is that few suspect one is a combat trainer such as I when one walks with a cane." Yosher answered a bit annoyed.
"Why are you called the New Trainer?"
"Aren't I your new trainer?"
"Okay, are you like this when nobody is around?"
"Only when I am training someone."
"What exactly will you teach me?"
Yosher paused for a moment "There is the question I wanted you to ask. You will be learning a type of art and training method known as Yoshindo, an art only able to be practiced by Yoshies. It involves your arms, legs, tail, head, and tongue. Since mastering the art takes over twenty years, we will mostly focus on exercises rather than techniques, but you will train for six hours a day, starting today."
Yoshi was about to ask something else when he was cut off by Yosher. "Well how come-"
"NO MORE QUESTIONS!!" Yosher yelled. Yoshi did not speak.
"You will also refer to me as Master Yosher or Sir understand?"
"Yes Master Yosher" Yoshi quickly said.
"Good, your training starts now."
The two Yoshies were standing outside and on the beach, away from the rest of the village.
"You are to run around the Island whi-" Yosher started
"Around the Island?! That is over-" Yoshi exclaimed but was cut short
"YOSHI PUSH UP POSITION NOW!!!" Yosher shouted at the top of his lungs. Yoshi quickly went into a pushup position.
"You asked a question out of order, you questioned my training methods, you raised your voice to me, and most importantly, you did not refer to me as Master Yosher or Sir!!! Yosher shouted. "That was your freebie chance, break any of those again and you will regret it!!.
"Yes Master Yosher!" Yoshi said shouting.
"Get up, run around the island and do not let me beat you understand!" Yosher ordered
"Yes Sir!!" Yoshi shouted, got up and ran as fast as he could. About an hour into running he was about halfway around the island, when he heard a pit pat sound behind him, he turn and saw Yosher running in a way that seemed impossible for a sixty-five year old. He was leaning back, his hands behind his back and he was lifting his knees with every step he took as he ran. Them being on the sand made it even more amazing as he came behind caught up and ran past Yoshi. Yoshi was out of breath and walked the final stretch. He saw Yosher lying in the sand.
"Where were you? I have been waiting ten minutes!" Yosher said irritated.
"Sorry Gasp Sir Gasp I got tired Gasp"
"Well I hope you are not too tired for your next training, follow" Yosher walked into the jungle area, Yoshi followed still gasping for air.
The two Yoshies came to a clearing were two rows of trees were growing.
"This will train your agility, watch as I do it." With that Yosher ran then hopped forward to one of the trees put his foot out and bounced on the side of the tree's trunk to another repeating the maneuver from tree to tree ten times.
"Now you do it" Yosher shouted across the area.
"Yes sir!" Yoshi shouted he did nearly the exact same thing at the first tree that Yosher did, only a bit sloppier, fumbled at the second tree, and smacked head first into the third three. He just waited on the ground for Yosher's comment,
"What is the use of going into things head first if you only wind up hurt!?" and there it was." Get up and do it again!" Yoshi repeated the process about ten times, only clearing the third and smacking into the fourth on his fifth and eighth try. Yosher grew irritated and decided to get the next phase of training over with. They climbed up a Mountain to about forty feet when they came to an edge of the cliff. There was a large boulder with a very long purple rubbery rope tied to it. Yosher tied the rope to Yoshi's waist. When he finished they were near the edge of the cliff Yosher looked out towards the distant hills and said
"This phase will train your endurance and stamina, some pupils who trained in this method say this is fun"
What exactly are we doing Sir?" Yoshi asked. Yosher stepped in front of Yoshi and said
"Rock climbing"
"Really Sir?" Yoshi said excitedly
"..no" with that he kicked Yoshi off the cliff
Yoshi fell, he was too surprised too scream, he was about ten feet from the ground when he felt tension on the cord, and it slowed him down, but not enough and he hit the ground. He was conscious but could not move. A couple minutes later, he saw Yosher standing right next to him.
"The objective is to land and get up within five seconds, the cord is to ensure that the drop does not kill you but gives nearly full force of the impact. I can wait ten minutes before we have to move on. Oh, and about what I said earlier about other students saying this was fun, I got it backwards, I think that it is fun to push people off cliffs.
"Ughhhhhh" Yoshi moaned
"Oh, you are still conscious, well that means that you only need seven minutes before we have to move on" They were back in the main training building. Yosher spoke like he usually did stern and harsh.
"We will now train in a new technique, this technique requires you to be able to cover yourself in an eggshell, and roll around at high speed, this technique is called the Egg Roll." With that he turned into an egg and was well, rolling around at high speed. He proceeded to knock Yoshi over a couple of times before breaking out of the egg. "Now you enact it!" He ordered.
"uhhhh.Sir?" Yoshi asked under the glare that said this better be good or I will kill you from Yosher. "What?!"
"How exactly am I supposed to turn myself into an egg, and see for all that matter Sir?"
"Yoshi, you know the technique egg toss don't you?"
"Yes I do Sir" Yoshi acknowledged, the egg toss was when a Yoshi would take an egg they created and throw it creating a small explosion, sort of like a firework would explode. Only Yoshi was one of few yoshies that could actually create one of these eggs out of thin air, it is hard to explain how they do so, we'll just leave at either energy or magic. Yosher then continued to explain the anatomy of the attack.
"Well first you must make a small hop, then just imagine creating one not in your hand but around your body, when in the egg you should still be in the air and your hands in front of you in against the egg shell, still in the air you push the egg under you as if you were jumping over an elevated log, now the spin should last a while if done correctly in under about one second. How you are able to see works like this, being at the center of a small rapidly spinning object can create a type of friction that holds you in place at the center, you can call it floating if you want. The ability to see is replaced by what I call awareness, since all this spinning energy and friction is around you ones brain is affected by the energy causing it to become more aware of ones surroundings, almost like a psychic but not exactly. Although, this awareness is not as good as seeing with your eyes, so be sure not to be lured by opponents that may trick you to rolling off cliffs. Do you understand now?"
Yoshi was nearly asleep when Yosher finished that long explanation. "Huh? Oh yes Sir!"
"Good than do it, NOW!"
"Yes Sir!" Yoshi shouted, surprised. He hopped up, imagined the egg appearing around him instead of his hand, and instantly and egg appeared around him making a pop sound, but he did not roll it in the air like he was supposed to.
"Hey that was easy!" came a muffled voice from inside the egg. "But I still don't see anything, hey I'm stuck! aughh help! I've been eaten by my own egg!
"Idiot, get out now before I decide to play a game of soccer while you are still in there!" Yosher commanded. They exited the building after Yoshi got out of the egg that he trapped himself in, and traveled up the mountain only a different path. When they got to an area where they were in a cave high over a lake Yosher stopped.
"This training method will train your flutter jump ability, I expect you already know how to perform the flutter jump?" Yosher asked
"Yes Sir!" Yoshi replied. Nearly all yoshies were familiar with the flutter jump, when a yeti would jump if the yoshi focused hard enough and ran in place, the Yoshi would actually be able to run up air as if it were steps, but it is hard to keep in a state of air walking and it can only be held for a couple of seconds.
"Good, now watch." With this Yosher jumped out of the cave like Yoshi expected but instead of flutter jumping across the lake or back to the cave like Yoshi expected, Yosher flutter jumped up and over the top of the cave. Yoshi heard something land on top of the cave roof.
"Now you try!" he heard Yosher shout. Yoshi jumped out of the cave, turned around in mid air, focused as hard as he could, and fluttered back towards the mountain. He missed the top though and grabbed the lip of the cave before he could fall into the icy waters of the lake below. Yoshi pulled himself up and looked down, he was about twenty or thirty feet above the lake.
"What are you waiting for!?" Yosher shouted from the roof of the cave. "Try again!"
Yoshi attempted it two more times, each resulting the same way as the first attempt, but on the third he figured out he had to turn as he jumped out of the cave, he fluttered too the top of the cave where Yosher was waiting.
"I want to see you do it again" Yosher said
"Yes Sir!" Yoshi shouted, disappointed that that was all he got for actually completing a training phase. He climbed down to the cave and did the jump again, he could see the top of the cave and it looked like he was going to make it again. that is. until he saw Yosher throw the rock at his head. The rock conked him on the head and Yoshi lost his focus and fell into the cold water below. The water was very cold, as he surfaced the water he heard Yosher shout down to him.
"Any yoshi can flutter jump, mastering it though requires one to focus so hard that they can still stay focused and not be distracted by pain, this will come in handy if you are for whatever reason fighting an opponent above the ground on a platform or ledge, if you fall off, your enemy will usually do everything in their power to keep you off. Remember this, it will come in handy one day. Climb back up and try again NOW!"
"Blebsh Sbshlr!" Yoshi tried to shout but his mouth was in the water. Yosher did have a good point. Yoshi remembered how his fight with Samus went in the first tournament, he was knocked off the platform and as he was returning to the edge she shot a powerful charge shot at him, sealing his defeat. Yoshi attempted the maneuver about four times, each time being pegged in the head with a rock and falling into the water. Yosher finally grew tired and decided to go back to head back to the main training building for the final training methods. The final training sessions of the day included accuracy and power training on the dummy, which Yoshi performed very well in, and an introduction into "multiple opponent fighting techniques" It was around three o-clock when training ended and Yoshi was practically dead. "Do you have any questions before we end today Yoshi?" Yosher asked still sounding strict, irritated, and harsh.
"Yes I do Sir" Yoshi had only one question that he could think of, he was going to ask him that morning but Yosher rudely ordered him to stop asking questions,
"You told me earlier that you did not like having your training interrupted, but you weren't even here, how did I interrupt your training Sir?"
"Who said that I wasn't training? I was training my cooking techniques!" Yosher said with a smirk on his face. Yoshi only stared back at Yosher, his head than seemed like it was two heavy for his neck and he cocked his head to his left, his own non-speaking way of saying "What the hell?!"
"Well, this ends training for the day, but we still have six months ahead of us." They both then proceeded out of the training building. Yoshi put his shoes back on and Yosher did the same, but he also grabbed his walking stick and hunched over and appeared nearly crippled again.
"Do me a favor Yoshi," Yosher began, his voice and face calm and kind again, "don't tell anyone that I am training you, it would draw attention to me I rather would not have, just say you've been training yourself, and just refer to me as Yosher please."
"I understand" Yoshi responded.
"Good, than I will see you tomorrow." Yosher than began walking back to his restaurant, Yoshi was also heading home but he took a shorter path through the jungle. When Yoshi got back home he ate a snack and slept for the rest of the day. Yoshi wondered if he would have been better off training on his own.
Well, I've noticed that I haven't got too many reviews yet, that's okay, its still early. But I did notice that I was not accepting anonymous reviews on my stats screen, so I fixed that, and if you did try to send me an anonymous review earlier, do try and send it again with anymore you would have sent me, I think you can do it now, but if not try again tomorrow, for all reviews are appreciated. (You can now breathe) I have a lot of editing to do on the next chapter for it is far too confusing, and if the story is already confusing (plot hole wise) then my life long mission is a failure. Just kidding. Oh, you knew I was kidding? Then my life long mission is a failure! More soon to come.