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[hit_girl_mindy]

There was no Ruffnut around. There was no prinnies, as if they had understood that the girl wearing black and purple was not one to be trifled with. All this served to do nothing but infuriate Mindy Macready more, now donned in the disguise of her alter ego Hit Girl.

Lost Lash. Pissed off her mentor. Her roomie was a nut case and, worse still, she actually preferred that to being alone?! Since when had she become so dependent on that kind of feeling? She had always been a lone wolf, at least after her daddy had bit it. She had understood on the ship she was a tool, and a tool was at its best when it was sharp and willing to inflict pain. That was why she hadn't needed anyone, maybe just the occasional person to bounce off of and maybe some food and a place to squat. Then, of course, she meets the Overlord and Lash and Ruffnut, and they were this team of four crazy people all gathered together. They were all nuts and violent in their own way, and in some twisted turn of events, she'd found the closest thing to a family she had.

So why now, of all times, did she have to care that she felt something slipping away? That losing one of them shouldn't have mattered as much. Lash had not been HER girlfriend, it was Zetta's thing to get over. But here she was, in the gym complex, staff in hand. She had used an area with the least amount of mud and had started working it down until she had a nice spot of dry dirt with several dummies set up, each resembling a prinny and one resembling a certain someone.

Hit Girl went to work on them, setting one dummy on fire, and simply cutting two of the prinnies in twain. The lone dummy wit a most haughty expression she turned her spear on, quickly jabbing and blocking as if the dummy were putting up a fight, delivering fierce blows.

Comments

[hit_girl_mindy]

Training.

[She looked up, spying the Overlord]. Why do you ask?

[rose_liberated]

It looks like more than training. Those kinds of targets are sort of below your level, aren't they?

[Rozalin demonstrates by putting a couple of rounds into one and knocking it down.]

Really, you seem to just have them here to absorb some abuse.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Of course they are. I haven't had time to make a real obstacle course. Maybe if these people build an actual training course I wouldn't have to. Right now I just have to work out frustration. The normal way I would isn't available to me right now.

[She neatly decapitate one].

Nothing wrong with that.

[rose_liberated]

...you mean you haven't found the ninja clan's training course? Well I mean, they hid the entrance above the ceiling tiles in the locker room, but still, I'm surprised you didn't hear about it.

[Rozalin wanders over and toes the head.]

I didn't say that there was, but this is seldom a healthy way to work through problems. The old adage about killing ten thousand demons comes to mind.

[hit_girl_mindy]

[Stops, and paused]

Ok, I gotta be off my game if I never heard of it. Next place I'll head to.

I dunno, feels pretty healthy to me, besides sex anyway.

[rose_liberated]

They had the run of the whole place until I drove them off a few months ago. Most of their kit is still here, if you know where to look for it.

And I suppose it does feel good in the short term. But does it actually deal with the source of the problem? You'll just be back here tomorrow and the day after that.

[hit_girl_mindy]

You drove 'em off? Good thinking: now there can be good use of the place.

I figure by then I'll have a solution outside of psychotic fucking rage. It's pretty much what I'm working with right now.

[Which you are totally spoiling].

[rose_liberated]

That was the general idea-but it turned out that refurbishing the facilities would take more funds than I have available. It's just so big. They have nearly everything here to-at one point there was everything from a large stadium to a curling rink.

Oh, perhaps you will. But I simply question the healthiness of using violence to distract from other problems. I know enough people already who go and punch things when they have real issues. It just breaks things from where I stand.

[Rozalin doesn't know you want to turn into a demon, otherwise she wouldn't have mentioned the murder-clause.]

[hit_girl_mindy]

Curling? Heh. That dumb sport. But I can see what you mean. Not that I wouldn't mind helping furbish this place.

I don't mind breaking some things though, every once and awhile. Really helps with the pent up aggression so I'm not punching someone else.

[rose_liberated]

Yes, that sport. Though there are also football, baseball, and several other sports I'm not familiar with all featured on this landscape. But most of the buildings are so run down it's hard to tell what it was before it turned into a dojo.

Adell says something similar, but I think that if he didn't punch so many things already he wouldn't want to punch even more. And I've seen him try to punch a lot of things that were clearly not going to give way before his fists.

[hit_girl_mindy]

I know all of those, all over hyped and paid way too much. I can only imagine what this place could look like if the demons gave half a shit about it.

Who's Adell? Another Overlord?

[rose_liberated]

Oh, probably grand indeed. Getting demons to care is worth than herding cats however.

Adell is...well, he's just a human, a demon hunter. We teamed up to take down my fake father.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Then again, it would be nice to have a class in general where the teacher cares.

I can see why he'd be wanting to beat the crap out of things.

[rose_liberated]

Hmmm. There does seem to be one of the exchange students who has sent out messages concerning teaching music and something called 'string theory'. Not that I have much interest in either field of study.

Well, he is good at it. Anything short of a major overlord would be in for a rude shock when he knocks their teeth out. But I find such violence crass at best.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Yeah, I talked to her. I'm going to go check that out to see what its like.

I figured you would. You're more the prim and proper type, right?

[rose_liberated]

...I cannot shake the feeling that I am hearing my own voice however with her though sometimes. It is uncanny.

And there is nothing wrong with propriety and good order. In the demonic sense, of course.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Yeah, I can see that.

I'm not usually one for it, although if you meet Ruffnut, its easy to see who is the more relaxed one.

[rose_liberated]

Then let us not mention it further.

...I do not think I would be able to deal with that for long. Zetta certainly attracts an...interesting bunch.

[hit_girl_mindy]

No problem with that.

Zetta gets people as outlandish as he is. Well, outlandish in their final goal, anyway.

[rose_liberated]

I had one prior run-in with him before we came here. It was...well, intense.

[hit_girl_mindy]

I can imagine. That was the word for what happened when I interrupted his date. After "painful."

[rose_liberated]

Hmmm. Adell was finding it fun however. At least, that's what he claimed. But I had to set his nose after he zigged when he should have zagged so he may have just been blabbering.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Set his nose? Did you cause that or did Zetta?

[rose_liberated]

Zetta beam to the face I'm afraid. Though he did once have to have three bullets removed after he got a bit too fresh with me.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Eep. That sounds brutal.

Really? Figured he would know better than that.