Excess energy [training]

[Taichi Negeel]

Intro

It was nine o clock in the morning in the town of Magnolia. The bright blue sky that contained clouds which looked like soft cushions fooled the eyes into thinking it was warm, since the cold morning breeze was all but friendly towards the under dressed.  

Taichi exited the door of a quaint apartment building. A girl with a knee-high frilly dress was seeing him out. He turned back towards the opening to say his final goodbyes to the girl, kissing her on the lips one last time. “Thanks for having me over Nana-chan”  

The girl blushed and brought her hands to her chest, fiddling around with her fingers shyly. “A-anytime”
 

This caused him to grin widely before he waved her goodbye, walking off in a rather terrific mood. “Goodbye!” 

The girl lived near the train station so he still had a long ways to walk, but it was clearly visible that he was feeling rather perky on his way towards the guild building. “Wah! I’m all pumped up!” he yelled energetically.  

“But should I really be going back to the guild with so much energy to spare?” He appeared to be deep in thought, his hands rubbing his chin as if that would help stimulate his brain somehow. In a pulse he decided and put his hands in his sides.  

“Nope! With this much energy to spare I should definitely train!” After he confidently decided his face turned more serious again.  

“It’s my own fault for going after the cute girls.. If I go after the foxy ones there’s no way I have this much energy left in the morning..”  

He nodded to himself. Though a pervy grin soon replaced that serious face, as he started swooning with his entire body. “Hmm!! But Nanako-chan was so cute! Her big round blue eyes and long lilac hair! And her big round squishy-Ahahahahaa!”  
He burst out in laughter from excitement. Everyone was staring at him with eerie looks of disapproval, mothers telling their children not to pay attention to the weird man. However it didn’t phase Taichi one bit and he continued talking to himself all the way until he reached his own little establishment.  

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“Home sweet home!” He exclaimed in a cheerful and proud manner, and proceeded to open the door.

His house was one of the cheapest rentals in all of magnolia, and was basically a garage with a bathroom installed. He didn’t even have a living room, causing him to walk straight into the bedroom upon entering. His bed being right next to the door on the left. Across the bed was a door that led to the bathroom and to the left of that door was his closet.

He didn’t have a couch or a stove even, or any cooking supplies for that matter. He always ate out or at the guild. “Yosh!” he smirked as he stepped into his house and made his way to the rug in the center of the room.

“These abs aren’t going to maintain themselves haha” he jokingly patted his stomach and got down on the floor to do some healthy physical exercise. As he did ten minutes of crunches, cross crunches, cycling crunches, flutter kicks, cross flutter kicks, leg raises and elbow planking, he daydreamed of last night.



Flashback

Taichi was woken by the sound of a train whistle, just in time to see the train emptying and hear the speakers announce that they had reached Magnolia, the end of the line. He stretched. “Ah that was a good sleep!”

He had a mission that was three hours from Magnolia by train, and was highly disappointed since there wasn’t a single attractive person in the small farming village where his mission was at. And it wasn’t a dangerous mission either so he wasn’t tired at all. Nevertheless he fell asleep in the train, something that happened a lot when he traveled alone. It was eleven in the evening. Initially he wanted to go to the guild, but the bar three streets from the train station was looking very inviting. When he entered he took a good look around, there were round tables with four chairs paired against them. Most of the seats were occupied by older men, but one table had three lovely ladies. Of course Taichi had to smile and wave at them as he made his way to the bar.

The three girls noticed him, two of which immediately smiled at the shy one amongst them and started talking to her. He couldn’t hear the entire conversation, but he did pick up from it that they were trying to get her to come talk to him. He looked over one more time with a charming smile, but before he could make eye-contact the bartender asked him if he was going to order anything.

“Give me whatever you recommend.” He said to the bartender before getting off the stool to walk over to the girls. Ideally enough there was still one available chair across from the shy girl at the table. He put his arm on the back of the chair. “Is this seat taken?”

The two girls eagerly nodded that it was not, and invited him to sit. He was of course very pleased and took a seat. “It must be my lucky day, to be allowed to sit with three beautiful women”

Though he complimented the three of them, he was clearly eyeballing the shy girl who hadn’t even dared to speak or look at him. The two girls suddenly got up and started making excuses to leave, leaving the shy girl confused. One of the girls patted her on the shoulder and said “He likes you” in her ear, leaving her flustered and asking her friends not to leave her. But they were only too happy to leave their friend behind as they were giggling on their way out, signaling a thumbs up at her.

Taichi smiled widely and stretched out his arm to her “I’m Taichi”

The girl was hesitant, but decided to shake his hand, speaking very softly “I’m Nanako..”

From then on they talked, and laughed and even danced. Flirting with shy girls was fun and easy for Taichi, since it was but a matter of being kind and complimenting on the right moments. They overall had a fun night, that lasted two hours before he walked her home. Instead of saying their goodbyes however he kissed her, and basically invited himself in since he lifted her up and walked her into her own apartment.

Flashback End

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After finishing his abs training Taichi got up from the rug and groaned. “Damn it! I keep forgetting how hard a rug feels on my back..”

He arched his back and then rubbed it with the palms of his hands. “Sore, sore.. O well, I’m sure it will blow over when I finish training magic”

His abs were burning nicely from the exercise though, and now that his body was warmed up he would have an easier time focusing on his pulse. He closed his eyes as he wiped some sweat off his forehead using his arm, and stood with his legs spread a bit. He breathed in and let out a deep sigh. His eyes opened, his mind going somewhere dark. He imagined he was in a dark pit, with lava slowly oozing out of the walls, ceiling and floor. He could feel his fear build up in his body, a strong emotion that he used to form into a magic shield. It formed in the core of his body and came out in a pulse that he could feel through his every muscle, revealing itself as a turquoise glow that fit his body like a glove. “Alright then”

He looked confident and proud and walked towards the door. If he was going to practice his other Body Link Shields he was going to need obstacles, not to mention he might make a mess of his tiny house if he stayed there. He didn’t usually train his magic by himself, so he was a bit confused as to how he was going to use his shield when he didn’t need it. Sure he was able to call on it from his own emotions, but without incoming attacks or dangers how could he measure the strength of his own defense? Sure he could exhaust his magic in an attempt to push his limits, but the day was young and he might still need to use it, so that wasn’t a good idea.

He stepped outside and stood there, thinking deeply. A frown on his face, his eyes closed, his hand rubbing his chin. And of course, his shield still active.

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He pointed his finger in the air and smirked with big eyes “I got it!”

Without further ado he started running down the street to gain some speed and then leaped forward. In the time he was in the air a new pulse went from his core to his skin, to the eye not any different than the previous shield, but in effect very different. He used body link slippery shield and slid forward on his feet like a riding an invisible skateboard. “Wooooo!”

He laughed, unaware that training could actually be fun, but he had found a way! He was feeling rather cool, right until the moment the slipperiness backfired, his feet losing ground as he crashed into the ground on his back, continuing to slide down the street. “W-Wah! Watch out! Watch out!”

He screamed at the citizens that were out and about in an attempt to avoid clashing into them. Some had to literally jump out of the way, until he finally crashed into three garbage cans. He was covered in trash, and had to literally pull the can from his upper body causing more rubbish to shower over him. “Balls!”

Thankfully not even the liquid parts of the garbage like sauces or drinks got to his clothes as the slippery shield had everything slip right off. He sighed in relief seeing the effect his magic had on the garbage. So far he had only used it to slip through things in order to get somewhere, but now he figured out two new ways to put his skill to use. “Thank goodness, I’d hate to smell like trash or be covered in it.”

He wanted to walk away but as soon as he made another step he slipped and crashed to the floor again. Thankfully such a minor clash didn’t cause any damage with his shield protecting him. “Maybe I just better..”

He moved on his belly and started to make swimming motions, slowly slipping away from the trashcans to the clean part of the sidewalk. Meanwhile fathers pointed at him and nudged at their sons “haha look at that weirdo”

Taichi was unaffected by it and deactivated his magic, then proceeded to walk back home again. “I suppose training by myself can be useful, but maybe a little dangerous.. I could’ve crashed into people instead of.. Ah! I don’t even want to think about that!”

Once home he threw his dirty clothes into the laundry and took a shower, taking his whistle with him. As the warm water poured over him he lifted his whistle near his lips, “And that concludes training for today” he said as an excuse to blow his whistle.