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RP:
Pearl: After Pearl wakes up, she stretches, then gets out of bed and changes into her CHB t-shirt and a pair of jean shorts. She wonders if James has started his workout yet. If not, she may join him. She walks over to his room and quietly knocks on the door (so she won't disturb his roomates).

James: Busy and worried about being late for his workout, James quickly put on a white tank top on followed by electric blue Adidas running shorts and white Nike tennis shoes with a deep blue check on the side. After dressing up, he heard some knowcking on his door. Why would somebody knock at 5:36 am? James decided to find out. Not opening the door just yet, he asked in his raspy morning voice: "Who is it?"

Pearl: "Hey, um James?" She asks quietly. "It's me, Pearl. I was wondering...can I maybe come work out with you?" She hopes it would be okay. Lately, it has seemed that after almost a year, the camp training has gotten easier, and she'd like to continue getting stronger.

James: He opened the door only to find Pearl. James had his sportsbag hung over his left shoulder. "O....kay? I first take my jog though, so I can warm up. 5 miles sound ok with you?" the son of Poseidon arched a wary eyebrow at his sister.

Pearl: "Yeah, that's fine!" Pearl says. She had always been a pretty athletic kid, and she had gotten a lot stronger and faster because of camp. "Where are we going?"

James: "Not anywhere in particular. My track is set around all camp and includes a small fraction of the forest."

Pearl: "Okay, sounds good. Shall we?" She asked, and they left the cabin. She began to jog at a moderate pace, keeping up with James. Not many people were up just now, so the camp was pretty quiet.

James: He jogged at the same pace as Pearl did, gradually speeding up as they went past several cabins."So... Why did you suddenly want to come over and train with me?"

Pearl: "Suddenly? I don't know...I need the exercise, and until yesterday, I didn't know you did this every day." She explains. "I want to stay in shape, should I ever get to go on a quest," she laughs.

James: "Sounds logical." he sped up a notch "Actually, after this, I normally go to the gym and start with the heavy weights and the typical benchpressing, but sinceyou are here, I thought, maybe you'd like to fight. You know? As in the training arena. Since I normally don't have company, I don't get to practice a lot on my fighting in real life."

Pearl: She sped up until she was running even with him. "Yeah, fighting would be good," she says. "I'm not so bad with a sword, but it's always nice to practice!" Then she laughs. "You're going down, bro."

James: "Probably," he starts "But I really wouldn't mind it... You see, I like to define my own terms of victory. I may lose everything but still feel like a winner if I did something worthy of an actual winner. I am not really sure if that makes sense."

Pearl: "Yeah, I see what you mean. But you know I was just teasing you," she says as they begin the part of their jog that goes through the forest. "But wow, James, that was poetic. You sure you're not a child of Apollo?" She teases.

James: He laughed and continued increasing the speed until he was actually on a mild run. "If children of Apollo have the ability to control water, then there is a big possibility to that. I have a deep fondness for music and I even play the guitar, piano and violin. I can also sing, but my voice comes out as that of a maimed cat. But I still like singing. So far, I have only written 4 songs, which is a pity, since I would like to write more, but it's quite time-comsuming."

Pearl: She again sped up, keeping pace with him. "Hey, I can't do any of those other things, but I'm pretty good at singing, or so I've been told," she says, "maybe I could sing some of your songs sometimes?" She asks.

James: "Oh uhmmmm... I am kind of shy about them,so technically I'm the only one that knows those songs by now. But, we'll see what we van do." After saying this, he continued running and in a few minutes, James was already sprinting at full speed, maintaining his breathing calm and even.

Pearl "Hey, it's fine to be shy! I just thought it might be fun." She smiles, but then sees him sprint ahead. She runs, getting faster and faster, until she's sprinting too. They emerge from the forest, running back out into the camp.

James: "Only one and a half miles to go!" he said excited. He was already forming beads of sweat around his forehead, back and chest.

Pearl: "Wow, that went by pretty fast!" She says, wiping sweat off of her forehead. "We can keep it up!" She slows down just he slightest bit, bringing it down from a sprint to a run, so she has energy to sprint at the end.

James: Nodding, he continued sprinting for a long time "A quarter of a mile!" After saying this, he used all of his energy left to sprint as fast as he could.

Pearl: Pearl nodded as he said that, and then she sprinted as fast as she could, catching up to James and using all of her remaining strength. They finish, and she slows to a walk, catching her breath.

James: Smiling, James slowed down too, walking next to Pearl as his chest inflated and deflated as the aire came in and out of his lungs. He wasn't breathing heavily, however, he was panting slightly. "You doing okay?"

Pearl: She smiles. "Yep! I'm not as weak as I look, you know," she says. "Ready to head down to the sword fighting arena?

James: "Who ever said we were going to the sword fighting arena, huh?" James wiggled his eyebrows playfully as he placed his hands on his hips.

Pearl: "Hmm, well where were you planning on going?" She asks, taking the hairpin out of her hair, pressing the center, and then twirling around the bronze sword that emerged.

James: "To any arena so long as it wasn't the normal sworss arena. Maybe the water arena?" Getting out two identical scallop shells from his pockets, one in each hand, he pressed them as balled his hands into fists and two twin sai appeared. The middle blade in each one was longer than normal, almost as long as a sword. He threw the right one in the air, making it twirl as it fell, before catching it cleanly with the same hand.

Pearl: "Mm, alright, why not?" She asks, flipping her sword up onto the air and catching it with her other hand. "It will be fun," she says, smiling. She raises her eyebrow at him. "Are you sure you can handle me?"

James: "I would ask you the same thing, but apparently your ego is apparently bigger than your sword. And that already replied my question by itself..." He shrugged whilst smirking.

Pearl: "Alright, I see how it is. Let's just take it out in the arena," she says, smirking right back at him. They head into the water arena, and prepare for a fight.

James: "Okay. No armor, no cheating. Powers allowed and same goes for weapons. Deal?"

Pearl: "Deal." She shakes his hand on it. "Okay, ready? BEGIN!" She shouts.

James: "Wait, wait. We gotta separate. You go to the opposite end and I stay here."

Pearl: "Okay, fine," she says as she moves to the other end of the arena. "Ever the gentleman, making me move." She teases.

James: "I'm ready when you are, sis. You can make the regressive count."

Pearl: She grips the hilt of her sword, getting ready, then calls out, "THREE! TWO! ONE! GO!" And the fight begins.

James: He started running towards Pearl, both Sai in each hand. Not letting out a battle cry but surely shooting knives with his eyes, in other words, giving his death glare.

Pearl: She sees James charging, and, knowing how strong and fast he is, she knows he will have a lot of momentum. She waits for him to get near her, then she ducks under his outstretched arms, sprints, and then dives into the water

James: Noticing how she dived behind him in the water, James jumped backwards, landed backfirst, but then stood up. When he notcied where Pearl was, James opened the water way towards her, separating rhe water with his powers before throwing his left sai, aiming at her thigh.

Pearl: She saw the blade coming and moved some water in front of her, forming a shield. She wasn't quite fast enough, so she got nicked on the leg, but it wasn't a serious injury. And before James could think about it, she grabbed his blade off the arena floor. She threw it right back at him, this time aimed at his upper right arm.

James: He barely sidestepped (or sideswam?), however, he did it a split-second too late, and the sword grazed a fair piece of his shoulder. Wincing in pain, he let the adrenaline rush in and fought the water on Pearl's shield, not disabling it, but weakening it. After doing, so, he threw himself over Pearl, almost like a tackle, as he would be (hopefully) falling shoulder first on Pearl's stomach.

Pearl: She saw him diving and threw her hands up, pushing him away a bit. It didn't stop him, but it did take away some force of the blow. Pearl grunted as he hit her stomach, but she wrapped her arms around him, forcing the water to fall in on them, then she flipped on top of him while they were swimming. She attempted to hit his injured shoulder, knowing that would give her time to formulate another attack.

James: Pearl does hit his shoulder and some blood drips out of it, dissolving in the water after some time, but this only seems to get more adrenaline rush in to the son of Poseidon. Making the water bring his thrown sai back into his hand, he used both of them to poke at Pearl's hips, which would make her back away if he did it correctly (and probably make some minor cuts there too).

Pearl: She jumps back as the twin blades prick her hips, drawing little beads of blood. She then uses a jet of water to shoot her up onto a higher piece of dry ground, making James have to come after her and leaving her a little bit of time to regroup and prepare.

James: James stood up gingerly and made his posture into that of combat. He looked at Pearl and smirked. HE shot a large blast of water at a high pressure. Probably enought to knock her down and hopefully give him time to get to her before she recovered.

Pearl: She stepped aside, attempting to dodge the water. She missed the full blast, so she wasn't knocked over, but she did get enough water to push her back a step, and she wasted time having to regain her balance and resume her defensive fighting stance. By the time she was ready, James was almost upon her.

James: When he is near her, he tries to make a small earthquake in order for him to actually bring her tumbling down this time. If she did, then James would stop the earthquake right then just to make sure not to loose to much energy while doing so. He felt his heartbeat pulsing through the open wound in his shoulder, but he tried to ignore it.

Pearl: She feels the earth rumbling and leans forward, trying to stabilize herself. She ends up falling to her knees, her sword raised to protect herself as she attempts to scramble up quickly.

James: Noticing her smart protective move, James is so soaked in water that he doesnpt notice how sweaty he actually is. When she stands up, he tries to densify all the water inside his right arm enough to make the mass larger. He feels it weighing more and using the momentum he manages to swing his now heavy elbow towards Pearl's stomach. If the blow did connect, it would get the air out of her and leave her possibly stunned. If it didn't, then the weight of it would send him tumbling down to the ground.

Pearl: Still trying to get up, she sees James's arm coming in for a hit. She leans back, trying to avoid it, but loses her balance and falls over, getting barely clipped in the stomach as she does so. She lands on her right elbow on the hard ground and a sharp pain flares up, making it harder for her to pull the sword up and attempt to protect herself.

James: As he barely touched Pearl, he almost tumbles down, but succeedes to regain his balance after some time. Looking at Pearl in her eyes, he squirts another portion of water at her face, this time, just to annoy her, but still possibly hurt her.

Pearl: She laughs and spits out the water, then gets up and wraps her arms around his neck in a hug. "That was a good fight, James," she says, smiling. "I had a lot of fun."

James: "Are we stopping here?" he keeps his guard up, just in case she is trying to trick him.

Pearl: "Would I ever lie to you?" She asks with false sweetness, batting her eyelashes. Then she breaks out in laughter as she attempts to push him in the water, and dives in before she looks if he's even fallen or not. She comes up laughing.

James: Thanks to him keeping his guard of, he fell but not badly, just buttfirst before standing up again and looking at his sister. "You are crazy, and I am sure you are aware of that."

Pearl: She laughs again. "I am definitely aware," she says, willing herself wet for one second, just long enough for her to give James a cold hug. Dry again, she asks, "So, what should we do next?"

James: "I don't know, really. Any ideas?"

Pearl: "Hmm, I don't know. If you're done working out, we could maybe go find Kyle and see what he's up to?"

James: "Kyle? He must be shopping in the mall. Not interesting to me but he seems to have a passion for fashion."

Pearl: "Ooh, the mall!" Pearl exclaims, "Let's go!" She smirks at him. "Of you won't go with me, I'm gonna hold your eyes open and force you to watch High School musical with me."

James: "Good idea! I'd rather watch HSM than go to the mall. I0ve never watched it so it would be a new experience."

Pearl: "Really? Well let's get back to the cabin now, I've got my DVD and a DVD player. But fair warning, I will be singing along to all the songs. So I guess you can decide whether I'm any good or not," she laughs. "But, um, just in case, maybe you should have earplugs," she says, still laughing.

James: James got some ear plugs out of his pocket and put them on "Lets just say that I am always ready..."}}

Pearl: "Alright, alright, I get the point. You can put them back now, until you absolutely need them," she smiles. They head back to the Poseidon cabin, and Pearl opens her door and waves James into the room while she fishes out the HSM DVD and player from all her stuff. "Oh, and if you want to text Kyle, let him know we are watching," she laughs. "Maybe he will want to join, and hear my wonderful singing as well."

James: " I am almost sure he will deny to come over...."

Pearl: "Well, it's always nice to be asked, and maybe he'll surprise you!" she says as she boots up the DVD player and inserts HSM.

Kyle Kyle entered Pearl's room and looked at her "Girl say what?"

Pearl: Pearl laughs and answers, "James and I were just about to watch High School Musical. Care to join?"

Pearl: She returns the kisses on each of his cheeks by way of greeting, then she says, "Great! We'd love to have you. You two can sit on my bed while I finishe getting this DVD set up."

Kyle: Nodding, Kyle sat next to James and hugged him. James hugged back "Almost done?"}}

Pearl: "Yeah, all ready," she says, pressing the play button.

James They start watchhing the movie and James hugs Pearl by wrapping an arm around her shoulders.

Pearl: She leans into his hug, with her head on his shoulder. She rests her other arm across Kyle's shoulders, not wanting him to feel excluded. When the first song comes on, Pearl busts out singing "It's the start of something new, it feels so right to be here with you!"

James: "Okay. Time for these lil' suckers." James got out his earplugs and put them on before handing Kyle a pair two.

Kyle: He mouthed a danke to James before putting them on.

OOC:
Xax: You post first? Pwease? ^.^

Duke: Okay! Sorry, I was asleep

Duke: Let me know if I get a bit too OP here. I'm a little rusty on rping fights, I haven't done one in a long time. Sorry!

Duke: Thanks so much! :) Good night!

Xax: Good night to you too! Posted btw.