The Forsaken Past [Magnolia/Angel]

The force of their foreheads colliding, after angels masterful means of negotiating magnolia's counter was brilliant, it was jarring, and took a few moments to be shaken off by the shinigami as she blinked a few times in surprise, and a newfound respect blossomed in her mind. Magnolia had in a very rare instance let a hit get by because of the sheer illogicality of it, or rather the ingenuity of it. . Most beings naturally did not use their heads when it came to combat, in fact probably only a machine could come up with the idea of smashing their head into another being without fear of repercussion mentally. Thankfully magnolia’s head was hard so all she got out of the ordeal was a faint bruise as she rubbed her head and said in a slow, amused manner.

”Well, i’m glad to see you are using your head.”

Magnolia’s smile was genuine as her chuckle at her own pun was one that was probably only amusing to her. However she still was waiting, and discerning if, or when Angel would come attack. Because in all honesty if there was anything she had learned from there spar was, angel was not inept when it came to hand to hand combat. She had the tactical knowledge, and the intuition to be capable of fighting at a very fluent level, it was just a matter of honing those skills and giving angel the tools. Think of it like giving a tiger claws, that was essentially what she was doing here. Magnolia as Angel assented to attacking her spoke in a slow, measured tone as the girl bridged the gap.

”That intuition and battle ingenuity you have is almost frightening, it will benefit you to hone that because it will only make you a better fighter.

Praise aside, Magnolia didn’t stop the onslaught of the girls fist as it moved towards her for a very simple reason, there would be no point to this training if she dodged or evaded every blow that was thrown at her. Which was why as the attack neared her she did something different. Taking the point infinitely near when angel would strike her forehead with her palm she had leaned backwards and shifted her center of balance, shifting on a semi-circular axis to loop her elbow around the arm and pitch her body forward, borrowing all angels centrifugal force to flip her over her shoulder into the air. Granted she knew the girl might try something funny in return which was why the moment her arm hooked and she threw angel she was ready for a counter attack. Her lips parting as she continued to teach even as she fought.

”When you move, you need to consider your alternatives even as you fight. Because there’s a risk involved the closer you get to the point of impact. Since while your opponent has less time to react to it--the same applies to you as well. “

It was such a simple thing to say, and yet she had proven her point by throwing angel before magnolia herself got moving. She knew this girl wished to collect data so she would utilize the time that angel was in the air and moved forward upon a linear axis her palm moving at speeds exceeding mach one as she’d stop it just before it impacted with angel’s mechanical solar plexus. This all mind you would be timed near perfectly to make use of angels destability and then the followup would be timed near instantaneously after that point of reference. In short both attacks would have an extremely high likelihood to exceed given the sparse amount of time that was logically there to actually counter them.

However even though Magnolia’s fist stopped, Angel would still be able to feel the immense vibrations that had been thrown off from that strike. The force would blow past angel, ripping up the earth and shattering buildings upwards of an eighth of a mile behind her, even though magnolia was only using a fraction of her strength. The concept of this strike and it’s destructive vibratory force was one of her trademark combat techniques--Demon shattering Blows. Through showing her this technique she’d hopefully show angel what it meant to utilize her movements and timing effectively. After all the entire point of this particular sequence was to show angel one of those effective ways to utilize the fulcrum of the body in terms of redistributing force. Angels own power had been the very thing that had make it very unlikely that she dodged all this, but it also was the greatest learning example of this motion.

Magnolia moved forward at a brisk pace as her foot skimmed the confines of the ground. If angel didn’t roll, move or recover (if she didn’t manage to recover in the air, or very unlikely even more dodge the attack outright. This attack would serve to punt angel from the ground into the air. After though whatever angels state was her body moved at a brisk speed, her kicks were small, concise--full of power and yet easily defensible. Each blow channeled her well-toned leg muscles to explode with power, and yet the small amount of space they moved through would show angel a way to effectively utilize force. Her words echoing lightly.

”Force is also not about how far you move. If done right, you can do nearly the same force with a blow that moves two inches, when comparing a blow that moved the full length of that it’d normally go. Regular length punches use more of your muscles, or kinetic energy. Your body is the force that generates that energy. However, these smaller blows, while slightly inferior offer much more defensibility and speed to your strikes, like so.”

Magnolia’s words were coupled with her showing through example, doing a long kick off to the side to show the power that boomed forward. Then a second kick that traveled a fraction of the distance that only seemed like a streak. The longer kick had more power naturally but the smaller kick had been no slouch either. After the small demonstration she lowered her foot and said in a slow manner.

”I know this is for your . . data? Yes data as you put it, however is there more you want to know other than how i do hand to hand combat?”



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