Only Way is Up. [open, bendytimed before Tapestry]

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( OOC: As well as a couple days after this log. )

After the failed attempt with Xtreme, at least in her eyes, Hoshi wondered what could be wrong with her unable to sustain the henshin for as long as she could with the other forms. Although, on one of the days where she busied herself around Stacy, she came upon the answer. Of course it had to be that! Her endurance and stamina waned because she went without a good beyblade match in months.

Sure, she trained during the mornings as well as a little bit at night, but without some good old fashioned beyblading, which was high intensity and fast paced all on its' own, she wouldn't be in her tip top shape that she normally would be.

And so, that's what led her to the Sensoriums once more. It wouldn't have the same effect as it would back home, but she would try her best to replicate it.

The walls dissipated for an arena, just like the one she found here on Stacy, but instead of just one opponent, she was up against three beybladers. Then, with a swift movement, she grabbed both her beyblade out of its' pouch and her launcher, setting the two of them up. She stood with her beyblade with the tip pointed up to the ceiling, her legs spread out. After a three second countdown, all of the beybladers released their respective beyblades into the dish, ready to give it their all.

"You can do it, Seraphiel! Show them what for!" she called out, ready to get her game backto where it was normally.

Care to watch or ask what she's doing?

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"Dude, now that's definitely cool!" Okay, so she may have been more of a vehicle fan than she thought she was.

"Oh! I'm Hikari Hoshi, last name, first. Nice to meet you!"

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"Maridian Gladespring," he said with a grand bow. "Sin'dorei, Blood Knight, Crusader, Kingslayer, and so on and so forth. A pleasure to meet you!"

He offered her a controller as well as another steam tonk popped out for her to use. Handy things, these sensoriums.

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"You've got quite a resume," Hoshi commented, chuckling at the bow. She returned it with a bow of her own, out of respect.

She took the controller, watching the steam tonk pop out. "How do you move it, Maridian?"

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"The left lever makes it go forwards if you push it up, backwards if you push it back. The right lever makes you turn left or right, but if you hold the button on the back it'll strafe instead. The top right button is the cannon, the top left one is the mortar, and if you push them both at once it drops a mine."

He demonstrated each of these in turn with his own, zipping the tonk around her as it fired its guns.

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"Ah, all right," Hoshi said, watching the demonstration. She jumped back when the tonk started to fire at her, using the left lever to make her own go forwards while using the right lever to make it go straight for Maridian's tonk.

She pushed the top right button to fire the cannon at his tonk, watching to see what he'd do in retaliation.

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His response was to strafe sideways to avoid further fire, then reverse! A mine popped out of the tonk as it wheeled backwards to discourage her fire. They reversed slower than they went forwards, but it continued to fire its canon occasionally to further discourage her.

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Oh no, you don't, thought Hoshi as she tried to keep up with the controls, moving her tonk over to the side to avoid getting hit. She then followed up her defense by spinning around to hopefully not get hit by the cannon's fire.

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Ha! Now that he had range he deployed the mortar, launching a heavy round at her tonk. "Mortars have a longer range, remember!" he called out with a grin.

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"Argh!" Well, she expected that this wasn't going to go as smooth as her beyblading did, having quite a bit of unfamiliarity with the tonks. So, her's took a decent sized hit and looked to be struggling to continue on.

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And that's when Mar's charged back in, cannon firing as it strafed nimbly around the mine it had dropped.

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Oh, that was right. Hoshi never called Seraphiel back and he had quite a bit of spin on him left still.

With a mischievous grin, she moved one hand off of the controller and positioned that hand to her beyblade, it ramming over to Maridian's tonk to hopefully take it off course.

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"Oh, is THAT how you want to play it!?"

In one seamless motion Mar pulled the shield off his back and hurled it. Holy energy sheathed it as it spun towards the beyblade with deadly accuracy.

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Well, Hoshi signed herself up for something definitely out of the worlds! She made sure to jump out of the way of the shield so that she wouldn't end up being hit by it.

The beyblade jumped up, suspended in motion by the air and landed down on the ground in a few seconds, spinning just as proud as it was previously.

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The shield spun back into his hand; he caught it with casual ease. "Nice try, but you'll have to do better to beat a Blood Knight!"

FIRE CANNON.

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Hoshi realized that she was out of her league with this one, and she decided to untie her bandanna on her forehead to wave it in an 'I surrender!' way.

"Okay, okay! You win!"

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That was just an excuse to use that icons wasn't it.

"Rematch?" he asked, backing up his tonk. "I DID play a little unfairly with you, since I know these, after all. You'd probably win quite as easily against me if I picked up your disc-fighter hobby."

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"Hm..." Hoshi considered her options with this before deciding that something that they both knew would be probably better.

"Say, what else do you like to do other than play tonks?"

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"Oh, I'm used to being in combat, honestly. Either taking hits or giving them." That was a pretty narrow field of interests -- except on Azeroth, where it could comprise an individual's entire day, quite profitably.

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Well, that certainly narrowed down what things Hoshi herself was interested in, but she definitely could work with it! "Would you like to train with me one day?"

But, it did hit home for her, other than the taking hits part. She still worried about her father -- or actually, both of her parents. She hoped they were sleeping in the pod caverns somewhere.

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"Sure! I'm always up for training! What's your preferred method?" Of course, he was imagining her using a bow or gun -- after all, she had a 'pet', however technically. Naturally she would attack from a distance!

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"Hand-to-hand combat sometimes, but other times, I like to do endurance and weight training, like what I was doing here initially," Hoshi answered, giving Maridian a little nervous smile.

Getting down and dirty was definitely her way of fighting.

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"Using your disc thing counts as endurance and weight training?" He peered curiously at it, trying to deduce the connection.

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"Yeah. When I give my beyblade verbal commands, it acts upon what I've told it to. It's a pretty high contact sport in of itself. For weight training, it's just to make sure that I'm still in tip-top shape," she explained in a way that would make sense.

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"That's pretty crazy." But most things he was familiar with fit that same description, so what was he gonna do, complain? "I'm all right with just punching things, but most of my serious training I do with a weapon. A lot of my techniques need to be channeled through one, or they don't work properly."

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"It is, but then again, it's nice to have some variety here and there," Hoshi stated. "And, ooh. I guess how we're similar is that without my beyblade or holy beast, I'm more or less a sitting duck, and considering the circumstances we're pitted against... Yeah."