A Cool Morning Breeze [Vee/Gigi]

Vee would possibly sense a presence walking up behind her. Each and every step a quiet sharp clack as the distance was closed between Trainee and Mentor. Until finally Giselle snuck up on her little trainee and patted the girl on the back, smiling from ear to ear. "ARE YA READY KID?!" She shouted, smiling brightly as she did, no doubt intentionally startling the woman out of those clouded thoughts that kept her shrouded in her own indecision and probably uncertainty.

"SOOOOOO you finally showed up! Or well, you showed up exactly when I told you to! Excellent! I think? I'm not actually sure how strict the higher ups are these days..... but back in the day your ass had better show up when it's supposed to!" She chimed, pausing to look Vee over for a moment. Acceptable to be sure. Especially since she didn't see any of those ridiculous gloves.

"So then, are you ready?"

Giselle smiled, pleased an amused to say the least as she watched the girl recover from her spookums. Her head canting a bit to the side as she took note. Not like she was really all that familiar outside of the required training. All the same, she grinned. "Alright, so since this is your first lesson with me. Why don't you tell me what sort of training you've done in the past? Just outside of your lessons with your trainers and such." She asked, tapping her foot and resting a hand on her hip as she watched the woman closely.

Of course it was natural that the girl had normal training, but she was curious what ELSE Vee spent her time on. Already a few ideas were floating around her head, but she still wanted to see what the girl had been fixating on, then they could go from there. Specifically she was making note of a few...possibilities in how to train the girl. But that could come later, for now she would just see what the girl could accomplish on her own. Simple enough right?

Giselle quirked a brow slightly at that and nodded just a little. She rubbed her chin a few times before glancing at the burns on her hands. Well, nothing new at least. But actually Giselle honestly couldn't even tell. All the same, she seemed to take a moment and think over plausible methods. But ultimately she knew what it was she was going to do. Her mind racing back. "Well, I do have a special kind of training that I want to teach you, however I don't think you're quite ready for it. Not like you are. I think it's far more important that you learn how to fight without hurting yourself." She pointed out, smirking.

"And since I assume you don't know any normal quincy spells, Which means that you're going to learn to fight using normal weapons." She noted with a light smirk, holding her hand out before forming. a slim line with her hand, grasping the arrow out of the air, it's shaft looking like bones. Only it was incredibly large, the thing more like a spear than anything else. Promptly she stuck the arrow into the ground before forming a second one for herself to use, though her own lacked a point. "Not exactly normal, but since your own reishi manipulation is so low that you probably can't make these, just pretend that these are normal spears."

She smiled a bit deeper. "For what I have in mind, you need to be able to defend yourself. So we'll be practicing some basic combat training. First just getting used to the feel of a weapon that isn't one you've made yourself."

Giselle smiled calmly enough as Vee seemed to be quite amicable to what she was suggesting. Which was good to say the least. All the same, she promptly moved toward Vee and raised that long bone staff, tapping it against the center of the woman's chest, a slight shift of her wrist, and that staff was suddenly a blur around her body, swinging about and flitting through her fingers before she would execute a firm sharp tap onto Vee's chest straight to the sternum with enough force to make the girl stumble, but not enough to properly injure the woman. Intent on shoving the girl out of her relaxed state and into something a bit more ....alert. She'd need it. She knew what Vee might encounter. Possibly.

Truth be told, she had no idea how meditation worked for quincies from Nozomi's line. But there was no way she was going to let the girl get into that unprepared. That staff came to a sudden stop and she leaned on it's shaft. "I'm going to guess that you've never been in a combat situation before. And that's what we'll need to start with. You need to know what it feels like to be in a fight. Alastair can help you with your form. Your Instructors can put you through the motions. They can teach you stances. Technique. finesse. But the best thing I can teach you is the feeling of desperation." she smiled calmly, canting her head to the side. "Which is why your first lesson: You are to do everything you can to stab me."

It was about as much as she expected. But then again, she was more or less ignoring those details about the girl at this point. After all, technique and form aren't what she was trying to teach the girl. She was trying to teach her something....... special. She watched as the girl seemed to recover from that blow to the chest, watching carefully.
Even a deer will bare it's horns when threatened.
This was good. "Even a deer will bare it's horns when threatened. Remember that." She noted in calm warning to the other woman as she watched her grip her weapon.

Her own staff swung out, watching as the other woman blocked the strike, before following through with a sudden slash. A decent move, but Giselle twister and THRUST her shoulder forward, checking the shaft of her own staff and causing it to shunt into the side of that spear as it was swung, bashing it up and into the air, causing it to completely miss Giselle before she executed two more sharp blows, slightly harder this time intent on making Vee stumble with the first hit, and then knock her to the ground in the opposite direction on her second hit.

"A spear isn't made for slashing. Sure you COULD cut with it, but it's not really designed for that. Swords....knives...those are all small, easy, aerodynamic, flat weapons made for swift and easy slashes. Of course, you could learn to slash with a spear effectively, but that takes a lot of time, practice, and experience. None of which you have. If you want to hit with a spear, you need to use it how it's designed to be used: Stabbing." She explained calmly. She knew what Vee was doing...or she had an idea. But a slash with a shallow wound wasn't what she was looking for. She used hirenkyaku to suddenly blitz her way to Vee, getting in her face and grabbing her spear, raising it up, and scraping it slowly over her own face, and Vee would see that subtle pattern forming along her skin, her blut stopping it from even scratching her. "Besides, a glancing slash like that? Isn't going to hurt me."


That's what this was. She wasn't going to just LET Vee stab her halfassedly. She had to push her. To make her struggle. To learn. A spear had a lot of length, and sure it was very easy to let out little pokes. But Giselle could easily ward away those sorts of things. What she wanted to draw out of Vee, was a powerful charging stab. As if she were really trying to kill Giselle. That was why she was using her Blut and had adjusted the strength of the arrows they were using as staff and spear. Vee would not be able to succeed unless she came at Giselle seriously. And that too, would be part of the lesson. Not just how to attack with intent, but to see what happened when that intent was executed. Vee would need to kill. But she'd also need to learn how to control her own strength. Not just with her poowers, but with all of her abilities and skills. To SEE how her attacks would effect a normal human body. Vee needed to know not just HOW to fight, but when to fight, and how hard. Most people were able to learn the first, some were able to learn the second, but very few were able to learn all three. Even powerful quincy and shinigami in the past did not know how to hold themselves back. Often resulting in egregious collateral. Her mind snapping back to the memory of Radioactive.

These were lessons she intended to instill in Vee. At least as best she could.
The others could teach her how to fight.
They MIGHT be able to teach her when to fight.
But putting it all together could be hard. Especially with someone as ...young and enthusiastic as Vee. They could lecture her. But experience was the best teacher.