The first thing I do when I get up is to bark out orders "we'll rest for some time and then explore the next room" kinda feel like I'm the unspoken leader of that group? Or perhaps it's my arrogance coming in check, I'm not too sure, but what I'm sure of is that I COULD GET FUCKING USED TO ORDERING PEOPLE AROUND!
Not paying them any mind anymore, I walk toward the middle of the room, I have some things to test.
Without even hesitating I lift my hand up and put my spear in, again, it's seamless, it doesn't even require any effort....should I give them a hint to see if my theory is right? I turn to look at my little team, they all seem to be busy doing something.
Malfoy is trying to see how he can use his fencing skills with a long sword of all things, thrusting in the wind and trying some movements, he seems to be struggling with the weight.
Annie is going over the pictures on her phone like a maniac while lounging on the couch, Jenna is doing much the same thing as the slytherin, trying to draw her bow fully, and probably learn how to fucking shoot an arrow.
Balrow however is just sitting on the couch and with purpose filling his movements he rub a spot on his forearm, did he hurt himself?
Seeing the less busy person, I approach annie, and put my hand on her shoulder from behind "WHA-!" she jump up in fright, her phone almost falling on the ground before she grab it back mid air
"You almost killed me!"
I look at her, and not dignifing her with an answer I ignore her "Annie, could you try to put something in your inventory with only a thought? I want to see if what I do can be obtained through practice"
Annie look at me for 2 whoooole second, taking her sweet sweet time to assimilate the information I gave her, finally she come back with a simple.
"Sure!"
I look at her for a while and taking that as an invitation to talk further.
It wasn't.
She keep up "I mean, I was already set on trying to practice that, I have daggers!" she say with a big excited smile as she prop her one and only dagger up showing it to me, as if I didn't fucking saw it already.
"Imagine if I can just like"
Annie start to, crouch? While being sitted, her arms moving. bending as if she was imitating being stealthy, following this tendence she start whispering.
"move around, like an assasin, and like, take out my dagger and"
Like a beast Annie suddenly attack the wind in front of her with the dagger "slash slash, stab stab! And like, take out the dagger from the inventory to do that!"
She stare at me after her extremely logical and well put explanation, her big round eyes just begging for praise "Ah, I see, this will make everything more useful then" patting her shoulder with one of my bloody hand I add "do warn me of your progress, if you do any" Annie jump at attention and with an overzealous millitary salute she say "For sure bossboss!"
Bossboss? Wondering about this new nickname for a while, I nod at her before turning back toward my earlier practicing place.
Well, since she was already planning on it, I guess I lost nothing by trying to push one of them to practice it. Great.
What, you think that's sarcasm? No, no, it's not I swear.
You think that I'm being a bit peeved out because one of my only strange advantage -which will probably get learned fast if my theory is right- will become common knowledge? Me? Being peeved out like that? Who do you take me for?
I look toward malfoy. Malfoy? You take me for malfoy?
I feel like I already did this joke, eh whatever, time for practice.
Most important things to figure out now is, can I do that.
Yes, that.
I look at my hand, I focus on hard really hard, really fucking hard, and I try to get my spear out, right in my hand, my spear pop up in existance, just before my belly button.
Failure.
The sound of my failure manifest itself into a spear falling on the ground, squatting to take it bac-! The second the tip of my finger graze the shaft of said weapon it directly dissapear in my inventory.
That, actually can become a problem, I didn't try to put it in.
Taking my spear out again with a thought, I grab it before it fall down.
I then extend my single arm forward, the one I hold my spear with, the leverage make holding the position pretty challenging.
OH LA LA! Wow, my arm is really tired! It would be cool if I wasn't hold-! The spear dissapear in my inventory.
Fuck.
So like? Will my spear dissapear mid fight if I find it heavy? That's, that's a big problem, a big, big problem, and it's not like I need to vocalise the thought, I take my spear out and do the same process, I don't vocalise anything, I just feel that my spear is heavy on my arm and it dissapear again.
FUCK!
I forget about all my current plans.
PROBLEM PROBLEM!
The only thing that currently matter is finding a way to get rid of that problem.
That's why I start to do the same experiment again and again and again. After three time, I'm sure that it wasn't some sort of fluke, so I pass to the next experiment.
I extend my arm out, same position as with all my other experiments.
Ah, I do this hard position to TRAIN, yes to train, but this spear is quit-! Still dissapear, fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck, I try again, did I doomed myself by remembering the inventory?
Do I need to forget it to get rid of that? Is this because of my bullet blocking experience? Is my theory right? And I achieved such a closeness with the inventory because of all my emotions that it just depop like that? Shouldn't an inventory serve his user!?
Serve his user?
Serve his user.
I take my spear back out again, I'm not testing anything here, I just want to genuinely train.
I never used a spear before and I really want to see how it feels when I'm extending my arm that way.
Damn it's heavy but I want to see how unwieldy it is from that range, I try to push it up, and down, and fuck that's heavy, what if I take the shaft from a lower end?
Oh shit, that's even heavier.
I take back the spear with two hands and ready myself to spear with two hands, need to figure out a good way to thrust forward....and I almost forgot I was testing the inventory.
It didn't stock it.
FUCK YES!
Alright, so I can train for sure, now the question is, will that happen to me in a fight? I hope not, it didn't happen to me against the goblins and my arms were fucking burning while I was lifting one of them up.
I guess everything is based on intent here? True intent? If I'm fighting and I feel my spear is heavy BUT I still want to fight my spear should probably stay in my hands.
I hope?
Same to defend myself, if I don't want to fight though....what would happen?
I look at the spear in my hands, and try something else, taking a rudimentary stance.
Anything that feel more or less natural, doubt I look any good but that's better than nothing, I start shadowboxing.
With the spear I mean!
Let's imagine I'm in a fight.
I thrust, and use my spear like a baseball bat, I keep hitting and thrusting, until, the spear feel heavy, I keep fighting, I dodge an imaginary spear, I don't want to fight, I keep attacking, and counter attack, GET THIS SPEAR OUT OF MY FUCKING HANDS.
It's still there.
I stop and take a big sigh of relief, that's not total proof that it won't dissapear in the middle of a fight, but that's better than nothing, perhaps I should try a spar and see if that work?
My head turn toward the old man "you're injured?"
he look at me and shake his head "barely."
Nodding and removing my bloody t shirt, I wrap it on the wood end of my spear.
"wanna spar lightly? I need to try something."
Balrow don't even think twice, he just whisper something and suddenly his shield appear before him.
He take it mid air and strap it against his arm, just as he get up.
Three word comes just after
"Let us spar."