[Axel Hagane]

What an absolutely disgusting display of "skill"

come back when you think you're actually worth something.

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Axel had been a little more relaxed about things lately, but it was hard to recognize to others that didn't know him. Ever since the blood moon had risen and signs of their Dark Lord's return were now more apparent than ever, he'd felt a little brighter about things in general. But he still stood with rock hard shoulders, clenched fists, a set jaw and a deep glare written across his features. But now, here he was, a wicked smirk creeping across his Glasgow smile as he stood at the top of the hill leaving the center of their hide out. With one deep breath after another, Axel powerhoused snowball after Snowball downhill from the Gerudo Highlands and into the training center of the hideout. As he worked, snow caked to his legs and palms as his body temperature dropped, but he never felt it for true. He was used to the cold, he loved the cold and this was all worth it in the long run anyways. Prank after prank were pulled among the footsoldiers of the hide out, the only one with the bravery to prank Axel being Masanori. Well, he was bored and he decided to give this 'prank' thing a try. He didn't have these kinds of liberties while he was struggling for his life in the Akkala Wilderness as a child and due to his jaded nature, he never tried it while he was growing among the fellow monsters called Yiga. Well, things were changing, and honestly, the little time he spent off and on working with foot soldiers as he was commanded had loosened him just a little bit. While he was still hard handed and angry, his strict nature never fading for true, he was at least finding his self snapping a little less at jokes, playful nudges and the like. Folding his lips in thought as he shoved the last snowball down hill, he stopped it just at the foot and hefted the now Snow boulder over his head and placed it as the final part to the giant, pit filling stack. Climbing to the top of it, Axel made his way to the entrance of the training grounds and climbed down to the door, making sure it could still open before climbing to the top of the massive stack. Not only was it a prank, he guess he also did it cause he was kinda bored. It was frigid here because of the winter season, even being next to the desert, the highlands remained cold almost all year around. He looked side to side, across the snowy planes significantly lowered by snow collection. But they were quickly being refilled thanks to the snow fall that started up. Looking up at the sky, he actually gave his self the liberty of a chuckle before looking back ahead, his chin in his palm as he waited for something to happen. It was cold, but thankfully, if he hunkered his huge form down into the divot in the snow boulder he sat on, he was less exposed to the winds.

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Today was particularly cold, but that was precisely why she was getting up so early to train. Harsh training in harsh environments strengthened the body and sharpened the mind.

Illia sat in her room for a moment, sharpening her carver and doing some stretches afterwards. Winter was the perfect time for training. You could work harder and the air kept you cool. Although it was pretty cold in general in the highlands. Once she had finished her warm ups she made her way through the twisting halls of the hideout, making her way to the training hall. As she flipped the door to the main training area she found what she could only call a snowball hell. She looked around panicked, wh-what happened, this was horrible, it was- was that blademaster Hagane?


“B-Blademaster Hagane!?” she stammers out, quickly covering what she can of herself, being in only her skin tight underarmor. “What’s going on here!? What happened!?” it looked like giant eenos had destroyed the place.

[Master Ryuu]

Masanori slowly rose from his bed, groaning as he did so. His injuries from Lurelin still dulled his senses so slightly, and his left arm was still in a cast while his shoulder healed from the arrow he'd taken. His body ached and he slowly turned to his right, letting his feet hang from his bed for a moment before he stood. Shirtless with black pants on was typically how he slept, but he had been confined to a shirt due to the annoying time it took to change clothes in his condition. He didn't have a lot of time. He was Master of the Yiga Clan. He had Yiga shit to do, after all.

However, when he heard the crashing of snow-boulders outside, he quirked a brow. Moving to his window to look over the training grounds, he saw a hylian high atop the hill chucking snowballs down. Though he recognized the disguise. It was Axel... playing? Masanori rubbed his eyes with his good hand. Was that really true? It was! A grin crossed the Yiga Masters face and he threw on a heavy black cloak over his shirt to protect him from the cold.

He walked through the halls of the Yiga Hideout, pushing open the hidden door that lead to the training grounds and the large pit in the center of it all. He'd pushed more than one Yiga-traitor to their deaths in that hole. Nobody ever found the bodies for obvious reasons.

Coming up behind Illia (who was covering her own dignity), he chuckled. "Oh? Actually relaxing for once in your life, Axel?" He'd speak, before tossing Illia the cloak he had been wearing. "Cover up. You're no good to us frozen to death." After that he'd begin to walk over to one of the snow-boulders, before placing his hand on it. After inspecting it for a moment, he raised his left leg and kicked the thing as hard as he could!

The boulder was sent flying back at Axel, and he wanted to see if he could get Hagane to play his little game.

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Ilia was beside herself with glee, not only did she get a cloak from Master Ryuu, she got to watch as he and blademaster Hagane performed a special training regimen and he even spoke directly to her! It was even something halfway nice! This was truly an auspicious day! She wrapped the cloak tightly around herself, breathing in deeply of Ryuu’s scent, it was everything she wanted. Then Ryuu kicked an impossibly large snow boulder towards Axel. What strength! She had to learn how to do that, for several reasons. It was the only way she’d advance. It was the only way she could hope to get more attention like this from her Master.


Illia decided to make the most of this opportunity. She stared at the two of them intently, hoping to not miss a single action between the two. “Ah!” she exclaimed, how could she be so stupid! He was injured and gave her his clothing, so she could stay warm! She had to return the favor and help him against what blademaster Hagane was doing. What if this was some sort of test for her? “Thank you Master Ryuu! I-I won’t disappoint you!” She runs over to another large snow boulder and tries to start pushing it towards Axel.

[Nyx 🐇]

death walks among you

It comes first and follows after, Nyx mumbled under her breath from her bed and opened her mouth to yawn, only to be greeted by a mouthful of rabbit. Her eyes shot open as she began coughing, watching as the red eyed, white rabbit hopped off of her and onto the space next to her body. "Geez... Are you trying to kill me now?" 

Cleaning her mouth out, she stood and stretched before hearing a slight commotion. "What the actual fuck...is going on...?" The dark haired female made her way to the door of her room before turning back to the bed and looking at the small creature. "You just stay here..." She yawned. "And rest."
Nyx finally made her way towards the training grounds in time to see their Master kick a boulder towards... Axel? She lifted her hand and was shocked to see him.

Then she noticed the female sniffing Ryuus cloak. She could see thrill in her eyes yet laughed at it.

Walking over, she took notice of the other female and stopped near Masa, watching and cleaning the remaining fur out of her mouth. "Maybe I should have threw on an extra layer." She joked, chuckling a little.

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[Axel Hagane]

What an absolutely disgusting display of "skill"

come back when you think you're actually worth something.

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Axel let out a snort at Masanori's comment, crossing his arms as he watched him drop his cloak onto the foot soldiers shoulders. While he did that, Axel decided to make a normal sized snowball and chuck it down at Illia just before Masanori kicked a snow boulder up to him. Hopping to his feet, Axel caught the boulder, sliding back about a foot or so before taking a hop forward, throwing the ball back down at Masanori with a heavy grunt. "You'll have to try harder than that." He grumbled out, eyes moving to watch Illia push up against a snow boulder, trying to move it. It was a good, but embarrassing thing to watch. A footsoldier trying so hard to move something like that. Sometimes he forgets their blessings aren't as strong yet, not as developed. Picking up another snowball, Axel threw a second towards Illia, arms dropping to his side in mild amusement.

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[Yara]

Yara had been up before the sunrise training in an adjacent training yard with her familiar, a very large silver back gorilla named Jett. They had been trying out battle maneuvers they had seen Blademaster Hagane implement with Mot. This was only because Yara had respect for the Blademaster’s combat skill and they shared the element of earth she figured if she could learn indirectly from observation that when she was drilling with the rest of the foot soldiers for basic combat that she could be satisfied in the burn of excess training.

She had a lot to prove to her new family and since she was, essentially, canon fodder at the moment she strove to be more of an asset than a liability.

Jett and Yara where in the midst of a charge n’ dodge formation when a very large and very cold ball of snow struck the pair sending them flying. Jett caught himself as Yara landed on him but it didn’t save them any dignity. Growling in frustration suspecting it was another juvenile prank from some of the foot soldiers Yara clambered angrily over the wall “Stop pussy foot in’ around! The masters will not stand for this sort of juvenile delinquency!” She yelled loudly in a fit of anger before surveying the culprits below. She gulped suddenly wishing to be incredibly invisible seeing not just Blademaster Hagane but Master Ryuu as well.

Meanwhile Jett barreled through the doorway below into a snow bolder oblivious to his companions humiliation.

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The boulder was much heavier than she thought it would be, wasn’t snow supposed to be fluffy and soft? She couldn’t fail this test, others were starting to come out to watch, not when master Ryuu was so clearly counting on her.

She looked over again as yet another new comer entered. 'how many people are coming to this trial?' she thought to herself. Her attention is disrupted for a moment as a snowball hits her square in the face, she lets out a muffled ‘mph!’ as it struck her. If anyone said anything she missed it completely
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Ok, now she was angry. If it were any other circumstance she would be incredibly hesitant to strike out against blade master Hagane in a serious way, but this was different.

Wiping the snow from her face and taking a deep breath, she called upon the might of her dark lord and of her own strength in wind magic. She struck the snow boulder again with both hands and released a potent gust of wind as she did so to add to her might, sending the boulder flying towards the blademaster. She then summoned her own familiar, seeing a large gorilla burst through the door. The helmaroc appearing behind her, wings spread.
 

Illia then quickly gathers up several smaller snowballs, waiting for the next move.

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Axel Hagane 

[Master Ryuu]

Axel caught the ball as Masanori expected. Sure he hadn't thrown it with all his force but it wouldn't have mattered if he did. Anything less than what Axel performed would've left him sorely dissapointed, though the other. Masanori chuckled. "If you hadn't been able to catch that I would've demoted you back to a foot soldier." A grin crossed his face, but when Nyx appeared he'd glance to her and wink. "Up already, are we? You're normally such a late sleeper. Glad to see you awake."

The ball was thrown back to Masanori who jumped into the air and slammed both feet into it. The boulder of snow shattered into hundreds of tiny chunks of snow that was sent straight back to Axel! "Counter this! No magic!" He commanded. He wanted to see how Axel would handle such a thing.

[Nyx 🐇]

By finished cleaning the white furs from her mouth and turned her head to face him. Late sleeper she was on any average day yet today had felt a bit different. "Late sleeper eh? Well, I had my room to myself and my friend who thought it would be a grand idea to stuff my mouth with her furs." 

Nyx coughed a bit, feeling another piece. "Fucking hell... Her fur will be the death of me..." 

After a moment, her eyes drifted back and forth, wondering whose side to join. Of course! She wanted to be fighting along side Masa but her devilish brain decided against it. "This is going to be a blast." 

Her lips curled into a grin, followed by a chuckle as she playfully waltzed past the Yiga master and jumped up to where Axel was, forming new balls of snow.