Roleplay:Main Forum/General/Xax and Duke's RP

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."

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

Duke: Okay! Sorry, I was asleep