A Change of Plans [PRIVATE: AC & The Whistlerify]

[AustralianChaos]

Kali nodded, before smiling at them. "Okay, first let's see how much you know," she said, sitting down in front of the group. "What parts of you can be used as weapons in a fight?" she asked, looking to the group.

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Nala was the first to raise her paw, lowering it after Kali nodded at her. "Your claws," she answered confidently.

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Kali smiled, "Yes, your claws are an effective weapon...anyone else?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Marini also raised her paw, she was about to mention the word teeth when her mind set to how that leopard ripped off half of Tanga's ears. Also the teeth marks on Sarabi's neck the day she joined them in exile, which were given to her by Sarafina which helped fake her death. But that only meant that a long and strong enough bite to the neck will kill you almost instantly. But she snapped out of those horrible memories when she noticed that Kali had already nodded at her, telling her that she could answer, "You're teeth." she said, trying not to think about what happend with the leopard

[AustralianChaos]

Kali nodded. "Yes, your jaws can be a brutally effective weapon...since we use them all the time for hunting as well. Any more?"

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Tanga raised his paw this time, also remembering his fight with the leopard. "Your legs...you don't need to draw blood to harm someone a lot of the time," he said, remembering the way he had kicked the leopard off him, and the way Nala always pinned Simba.

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Kali nodded. "That is a very good observation, Tanga. I have defeated many lions without ever drawing a single drop of blood from them...even killed them that way. But there are still more...does any have anything else?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba wasabout to bring up a rather crazy guess, but a one which made sense. "You're mouth." he said, not bothering to add anything else. He remembered anything that happend since the day Scar convinced him and Nala into the elephant graveyard, and then the gorge. Scar wasn't a strong lion, anyoe could see, but he was the sly type. The way he lied to the entire pride, to him, his friends and father. And how he lied to everyone after Mufasa died. Once they had their guards down, he striked, he was going to have to be careful of that when he faced him.

[AustralianChaos]

Kali gave Simba an odd look, initially thinking he meant mouth in the same way Marini had suggested teeth. But when she caught on, her eyes widened. "Well done, Simba! Yes, words can be just as harmful as claws and teeth, sometimes even more so. If you lack physical strength, sometimes words end up being a far more effective weapon."

She then looked at them all. "But there is one more I'm looking for in particular...one more part of you that is probably the most effective weapon of all. You use it all the time, and it assists all the other weapons in a fight. Can anyone think of it?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba and Marini fell quiet and began thinking. Simba tried to put the pieces together. They mentioned claws, legs, teeth, and words. But the way he thought about Scar's usage of words, he figured out that wasn't everything. Words wasn't the only thing Scar was using, he was also using his sly and twisted mind, to pull off Mufasa's death he pobably had to come up with a plan; he first took im to the gorge, started the stampede, lured Mufasa into it, and then had him killed. The way that SImba thought over it now, it was a 'perfect' plan. If Mufasa wouldn't have came, then Simba would have died. Scar achieved one of his goals on both cases.

"Your mind." he said finally, "You have to plan before making any sort of move."

[AustralianChaos]

Kali grinned at Simba as the adolescent put the pieces together. "You're going to make a good king, Simba.," she commented sincerely, before adressing everyone. "Yes...while, in one way or another, every part of your body can be used as a weapon in some form...your mind is by far the most important, and the most powerful, too. Not only because you can use it to plan your moves in advance, but because, in the heat of battle, you tend to panic. If you can keep your mind about you in a fight, you can very easily outsmart your opponent. Your mind is also the first step to getting your body to move and act the way you want it to. Many warriors disregard the mind as a weapon, believing in brute force over smarts...but even the weakest lions can beat a giant brute if they are smart about how they fight."

"Knowing your weapons is one things...knowing how to use them is another matter entirely. Can anyone tell me the best things your claws could do in a fight?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Simba could not help but smile at Kali's words. It meant alot to him and made him wander what would his father say if he could speak to him for a few moments, not just to know his father's opininion, but to also say the goodbye he never had the chance to

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Marini spoke up again, remembering the big scratched the leopard had left on Tanga, some of them turning into big scars on his chest. "Swiping?' she half-asked half-said

[AustralianChaos]

Kali half nodded. "In a way, yes. In a fight, the primary use of you claws is to inflicts cuts and gashes. Make the enemy bleed, and feel pain. The more an opponent bleeds, the weaker they will get, although this is a rather ruthless and brutal method of fighting. The more pain an opponent is in, the more they will be distracted from a fight, as well."

Smiling, she moved on. "Okay, what about your jaws...what purpose do they serve?"

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This time is was Tanga who spoke up, remembering that first hunt he had made with Marini alone, when they were so much smaller and younger. "In hunting, I know they're good for crushing your prey's neck," he said, hoping that Kali took it as a fighting technique as well.

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Kali smiled once more. "Yes, definitely. A set of jaws around your opponent's neck will end the fight in a very quick, but also very bloody, manner. Biting can produce a similar effect as slashing with your claws, but with less blood. It can be a little more awkward to use, though, so you generally only bite your opponent when an oppourtunity comes up. Your jaws are mostly used in the method Tanga just suggested...to go for the throat to end the fight."

She then smiled, getting to her feet. "Now, while there is a lot more to learn, fighting is not just about knowledge...obviously you need physical training, and I think it's time I gave you some of the basics now."

[TheWhistlerify]

As Kali mentioned it was time to being the physical part of their training, Simba, Uhuru and Marini also got to their feet. This was probably the hard part of their training