Getting back into the swing of things.

[Su Mei Lin]

It was a warm morning, the sun beating down into the valley following the showers of the previous day. She was in the sword fighting arena, a build up of sweat dripping from her, causing her gray crew neck to cling to her uncomfortably. The hoodie she'd been wearing over it had been thrown to the side as the heat and exercise made it unbearable. She had just came back to camp from China as she had planned on observing the Qingming festival with her mother and grandmother. They traveled to their ancestors' gravesite to clean, make offerings to them, and enjoyed what the festival has to offer. It was almost a week-long holiday but she was more surprised that she hasn't encountered any monsters in her time outside of the camp's borders. 

Hopping back and forth, Mei Lin twisted her great axe in her hands with, eyes focused on the dummy in front of her. Surrounding them were the remains of other wooden constructs, hacked and crushed with heavy, somewhat coordinated swings. Tightening her grip, she brought the axe around to the back of her head and swung it around, aiming to decapitate the dummy. She calculated the length of her weapon as the blade of the axe sliced through the neck of the dummy and the head dropped itself to the ground. But she was not done just yet. She took a step back as she raised the axe and swung from the side. The blade didn't slash this time but was wedged in the middle of the wooden chest. Mei Lin tried to pull it free, but it didn't budge. She muttered swears in Mandarin before making another attempt and her weapon suddenly came loose, causing her to fall flat into her back. She wasted no time to kick herself back up and performed several close combat moves until the dummy fell backwards from her kick to the chest. She was done.

Slowly pacing to the side of the area where she left her hydro flask that was covered by some cute stickers, ice cubes bobbing inside.  Water was poured from the head down before settling in the cavea, she took swigs as she stared at the mess she made. She planned on cleaning after herself. @ Elena Clarke

[Elena Clarke]

Elena was hoping to practise some martial arts or sword fighting today since she needed to catch-up on classes. She wasn’t too interested in improving this however, more towards arts these days even if she was an Ares, but she had to train herself in her own talent their father gave them. She was also intending to learn some good war strategies as what Ares traits were. She geared up with some simple combat outfit and went to the swords fighting arena. There she could see most of her half siblings but also from other cabins who were eager to learn good fighting skills. She admired them on how much effort they put. Surely they could improve and probably excel better than them in no time. She came across another Ares half sister training on a wooden dummy and recognised her immediately. Though after that she also found the area she was at looking a bit messy with wooden pieces. "Hi Mei, nicely done. Need a hand in cleaning?" She could head for her practise next after that she thought.

[Su Mei Lin]

She normally wouldn't use an axe, but she elected that today would be some time to practice it. Even though her powers enable to control any weapon of her choice, she preferred honing her skill in a select few, believing that using those weapons make her a strong contender in the battlefield. Still, she thought it would be nice to have some experience with other weapons since she can't just transfigure an object into one of her choice every time. It took energy and she found that out the hard way. After taking a swig, she gazed at the hacked wooden dummies that lay in one area of the arena in her proximity while the other campers took their training to the vacant spaces. One camper seemed to be approaching from afar and she could recognize her from her red hair.

"Thank you, Elena. I appreciate it." She responded with a cordial tone, followed by a smile. Placing her flask down on the cavea, she paced to where the hacked dummies are and picked up the first remains. "So what brings you here? Training, right?"

[Elena Clarke]

Elena smiled at her half sibling as she was watching from afar on her training skills. It was very much entertaining to watch especially at all the Ares children. Really, they were build for combat and battle. "Yes training too, probably on weapons this time. Wanna practice together?" Guess they didn’t need any cleaning right now since they were going to be back to the training on the dummies. She took one practice sword and held it upwards feeling the weight on it. She was lucky to have so many siblings and they could really spend time on training apart from classes as well.