Time to rumble (open)

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner was in the arena beating up the different various dummies there. He was weilding a sword and it was pretty hefty in size and he was holding it with little effort. It was a nice fine afternoon the weaponry instructor had finished helping out a camper picking out their first weapon. It was pretty simple he got to work pretty hand in hand with Jace. Sure the boy was an Armor smith but he also made some of the weapons for camp so Tanner got to go see his little brother to pick out the new assortment of weapons that would come from the forge. Tanner was proud to help people pick out their weapons for he knew alot about them and could spout of many random facts about them. Tanner was slashing away at the dummies working up a great sweat and his gray t-shirt clingng to his muscular frame despite it being winter out and the sweat becoming cold on his body Tanner knew he would just go to his apartment and warm up later by the fire or something.

The son of Ares also had the option of just finding Jace and hugging him for that son of Hephaestus was always warm or in warm places. Then remembered the event in which Jace was gored by a Minotaur and this spurred him on to train even more. He was going to one day find that beast and kill him. Tanner had not paid attention to if the beast had been killed or not, he was too busy screaming for medical attention for Jace as the boy was limp in his arms from being gored by the beast. The rest of that moment was a blur all he remembers after that was him staying by Jace's side for the entire time and not once leaving it to protect the boy and made sure he lived. The image was burned into the ares' boys brain and that mere image alone spurred him on to totally destroy the dummy with little to no resistance whatsoever.

Tanner sighed as the remains of the dummy fell to the floor and it felt good to know his training was paying off although he did it often and be a son of the war god fighting came naturally to him so really it was hard to base how his training was going. He was alway up for a sparring match. The boy walked and dusted off a bench of the accumulated snow and sat down breathing heavily. It was a good day He would visit Jace later right now he was just relaxing after a good work out.

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun had been reading for hours in the library, he wanted to get as much information as he could about some battles in the past, battles that had been really difficult to his mother to win. If he could learn the kind of strategies and plans that his mother used in those battles, then maybe he wouldn't have to have 5 different plans with their strategies in his mind the next capture the flag exercise. If he could have just a single strategy and its plan to defeat the other team, then he would be able to fight in a much better way than in other exercises.

JinHyun almost never got tired of reading, but while he read about war strategies, his mind was already planning stuff, so he got tired after 8 hours in the library. He closed the book about the Troy war and then got up from his chair, he stretched out and yawned, then he rubbed his temples as he grabbed the book and put it back on its shelf. Then he walked out of the library and looked around, it was still day light out there, so maybe he could go to the Arena and train his body as well as he just did with his mind.

He walked to the Arena and grabbed a sword and armor, then walked to the fighting area. there he saw a guy a couple of years younger than he was. He was training and Gods' sake he was good at it! He waited in the shadows, till the guy finished smashing the dummy, then looked how he moved and the way he held the sword in his hand, he was the son of a warrior, for sure, but which.

When he walked a bit closer, he noticed the guy was Tanner, he was son of Ares and an amazing warrior. He had trained several times with him in the past, so he knew how he frought and some ways to win when fighting him, but Tanners always had an ace under his sleeve. "Good smashing, would you be able to to the same with a living, moving target?" he asked smiling, he knew he would.

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner was resting after his work out and was calming down when suddenly he heard the voice of someone come up on him. Instinctively Tanner gripped his dagger and sighed as he almost attacked a fellow adult. " Oh Jin, I am so sorry I am almost attacked you do not sneak up on an ares child like that." Tanner chuckled. The only reason he had known Jin was he had seen him about and within his seven years at camp but Tanner was so busy with his family and his younger brother that he did not interact with many people. Then again he was not that social growing up that he did not have many friends all because he was caring for Jace. Tanner never once grew resentful of Jace. He hated his mother for being so inattentive and leaving Jace to be cared for by the son of Ares.

Tanner released his hold on his dagger and relaxed again on his bench and then it registered in his brain what the man had said it sounded like like a challenge and a question in one statement. If Jin knew anything about Tanner he would of known it was not wise to challenge the son of Ares to a battle for although he knew this son of athena would probably already be thinking two to three steps ahead Tanner always seemed to do something that threw Jin off. When he did lose to Jin he was man enough to admit it and not hold a grudge. Most thought he was one of the more mature children of Ares granted he did have a temper especially if someone messed with his family or got on his nerves. "That sounds like a challenge to me. Anxious to have your butt whooped again by me? You know as much as i do that the battle would end in either you catching me off guard with some awesome strategic planning or two I knock you flat on your butt." Tanner smiled and warned the son of Athena getting up off his bench but not in a threatening manner. More of a I accept your challenge kind of manner.

"Weapons or not? I can do either one and you know I can." Tanner asked with a casual tone wanting to know wht kind of scuffle he would have with Jin. he would make sure to pull back and that Jin was not injured for he had the potential to do so but he never used his strength in battle. He would make sure to keep Jin in one piece during this fight.

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun looked at Tanner, he knew the hot temper that all Ares children had, so he knew that talking to him in such way would make him move and react in an attacking mode, which he did. He grabbed his weapon and was going to attack, but Jin was a couple of steps far from where Tanner was sitting on that bench, so he would have need to move some steps to get Jin and by then, jin would have already moved. that was an easy plan, but in an active combat, things wouldn't be so easy, he knew that.

He smiled at Tanner and then nodded. "I know, I know, but I'm an Athena's child, we're very alike in many ways, Tanner" he felt confident at that moment, maybe he won't in battle, but in that moment he had everything under control. He knew where he was standing and what would happen in the next minutes. He smiled at Tanner as the young man realized what he had told him, he wanted a good fight and Tanner was the right guy for it.

JinHyun almost laughed when he asked if he wanted to get his butt kicked by Tanner, but he knew it could happen, that had already happened before and for sure it would happen again. But he had kicked Tanner's butt too, he needed to focus on the battle and be sure that he could find a blind side, but he had done it before. "come on Tanner, you're not the only one who kick butts at the end of one of our training exercises, I have done it to you once or twice, right?" he smiled.

JinHyun swang his sword and looked at it, then smiled and looked at Tanner again with a slight smirk. "Maybe we should use our fine swords, I haven't practiced with it in a while, besides a fight hand to hand..." he smiled a bit more. He was one of the best fighters hand to hand in the Camp. "you know we both would end up with our butts flat on the arena's ground tired to death." he winked at Tanner. He was just tempting him to fight. Which would be a fool thing if it was any other Ares' child, but Tanner was calmed and thought about his actions, it was 50% safe to tempt him like that.

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner chuckled as Jin made the comparison to his mother and Tanner's father. True Athena seemed to be somewhat of a warrior but if he remembered correctly she was the goddess of wisdom and strategy whereas his own father was the god of war and was the physical aspect including the weaponry. "I hate to disappoint you but we are only similar in that our parents are different aspects of warefare. Athena I believe is more of a strategist while my dad prefers the physical confrontation." Tanner spoke casually getting up and grabbing his sword from the last place he had left it. Tanner was not surprised that Jin brought up the few times he had actually beaten the son of Ares in a battle. The man chuckled again for he was not arrogant enough to deny the fact that he was beaten a couple times by jin and he was amazed at the man's knowledge and his ability to quickly pick up on Tanner's fighting style. "I will admit you have beaten me a couple times but if i remember correctly it was a tough battle and you had come close to losing yourself." Tanner teased as he swung his blade in the air not really aiming at anyone but of getting a feel for it.

Tanner smiled when the other man said they would both end up with their butts on the ground and tired. This was true for he knew that Jin would give him a run for his money and Tanner would be worn out and tired from the little scuffle. The son of Ares got in a fighting defensive stance and was going to wait for Jin to make the first move because he figured if he threw the first swing Jin would take this into consideration and then he would figure out a way to counteract it. The boy was always planning and always scheming. "After you oh wise one. I know your brain is already working a mile a minute to predict your chances of winning." Tanner smirked as the man kept his position and prepared to defend against the onslaught brought by Jin. This man was quick and smart but Tanner was just as strategic as Jin he just didn't use it as often for what he knew best were weapons and fighting. This would certainly be an interesting scuffle and hopefully Tanner did not injure his training partner...Well not too badly. He would need Jin uninjured later if he was going to continue practicing with the son of Athena. This was just a friendly competition among friends.

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun smiled widely when Tanner reminded him the real difference between his mother and Tanner's father. he was right, Ares was a warrior, he was born like that, his mother on the other hand, had been born from Zeus's head, already a grown woman and ready to kick butts. but in an strategic way. "yes, you're right, my warrior friend, that's why you are the weaponry instructor and I'm the strategy instructor" he said with a wide smile, he hadn't lost his confidence, not even when Tanner got up and held his sword.

JinHyun moved a couple of steps backwards, just to give the son of Ares some space to move and handle his sword, even when he knew that Tanner was perfectly capable to manuever even in a small elevator full with children and not harm any of them. When he admitted that he had kick his butt too, he smiled and nodded. "you're right, I needed all my potential to win that time, you were an amazing fighter, I remember some campers got scared, they thought we were fighting for real!"

Whenever they trained it seemed like an epic battle, but they hardly ever hurt each other, maybe just scratched and small cuts that Apollo's children or tonics from Dempter's children could heal in a second or a couple of days. "oh... yeah sure... me wise! leave that to my mother..." he smiled and shook his head, walking back to the center of the arena with Tanner. He knew Tanner was smart, he would let him throw the first strike, so he couldn't know Ares' son's startegy for that battle, well... he would do it, he had also meassured in his head the opportunities he had if he attacked first.

He never changed his confident smile, not even when he took the attacking position and a second later threw a swing of his sword form his down right to up his left against Tanner. it was a difficult move to perform and also to block, but Tanner was really good, that move wouldn't be a problem for him, or at least was what JinHyun thought."let's start with this, Oh you brave warrior!"

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner smiled as Jin did acknowledge that their parents embodied different aspects and that Tanner was the weaponry instructor. "Well what can I say? I love my weapons. Now I just help out people pick their weapons. Cole is the combat instructor, he teaches how to use the weapons i help pick out. " The ares child smirked and without so much as a warning Jin made a strike at his side. He didn't really notice it until was too late and the blade made contact. It left a little cut but nothing major for it was not their intention to kill each other in the match but more like help each other improve their battle skills."Nice strike but can you handle this?" As The man spoke he used his own body weight to do a downward diagonal strike towards Jin's collar bone and if it missed he quickly came up with butt end of his blade and attempt to jab Jin in the side with it. " I don't know if I wouldn't call you wise.Your mother does grant her children some of her wisdom. If people can not tell the difference between a real battle and one of my good friends helping me train than I truly feel bad for them if they get into a real fight. I have told you before If I take it easy then how will i know what to do if a real fight comes?I do not want to focus primarily on technique I got that down fairly well. Give me a weapon and i can pretty much use it." Tanner smiled but not trying to sound cocky.

He also partially wished his brother was amongst the group training but more than likely the boy was off doing something in the forges or was flirting up some hot young man or woman. Tanner however tried to clear his mind briefly of that thought for it was not something he needed to be thinking about while staring down an athena child with a sword especially one he knew would not take it easy on him not even for a moment. " Come on give me your best shot. I will not take it easy on you nor do I expect you to do the same. I am a big boy I can take it. " Tanner smirked at the pun for he was rather large in muscle and probably in hieght compared to the child belonging to the goddess of wisdom. " I know for a fact you have calculated over 100 different ways this match could end. I assure you never know what why this battle will turn. Even given your superior intelligence I always seem to surprise you. " Tanner smirked hoping with all his might that his weapon made contact. Either with the downward slash or the strike to the ribs. Either one would of done something to effect the other man standing before him who was always calculating strategies.

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun smiled when he saw that his swinging sword had connected with Tanner's body and some flesh was opened. Whenever they practiced in the arena or at the wall, they never did it as just as a practice, they did it as if their lives were on the line. They knew that was the only way to teach campers about the seriousness of a battle, how they needed to react facing their enemies, no matter who their enemy was, they would always have to fight giving all of them in each battle and fight. "you help them to pick their weapons, I help them to pick the right strategy to use those weapons in the way you and Cole teach them how to use them..."

He said and moved a step backward knowing that Tanner would counter attack him using the inertia that their movements were taking, but he didn't move fast enough. Tanner made his move, Jin was able to bend to the back to miss the hit on his collar bone, but the butt of his sword still got his side. He felt a jab on his side and made it bent to the front. He moved and rolled on the ground. He got up and put his hand on his side, then he looked his hand and saw the red line on it.

"well done Son of Ares..." he smirked and grabbed tightly his sword again, looking at Tanner, his mind was working again on 5 different ways of defeat Tanner. "you know I can't think on a hundred ways, that would drive me crazy... well even more." he said and looked at Tanner thinking on his pun. He was right and he remember something about huge guys. Jinhyun was 5'10" not that tall, but he had read about it, somewhere, he only remembered the knowledge.

He approached to Tanner and instead of attacking up to down way, he he ran at Tanner and when he was on his sword range, he knelt and slid on the sand, swinging his sword against Tanner's left leg. He only hoped it had worked and could connect a jab. "if I always won out practices, it would be extremely borning, don't you think?" he asked as he got up after rolling on the sand twice.

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner smiled when his training partner said they both taught kids how to use their weapons. "Nah, Cole is more the actual use of them, I just help outfit them with the best weapon suited for the camper. They can't even begin to barely handle a weapon correctly if it is not suited for them. Some people are better at then others." Tanner smiled and saw that his blow had connected with the Athena child. He knew it could of been counteracted somehow but it was nice to know he had caught the man off guard and was actually able to land a surprising blow. Tanner was not overly surprised the man doubled over, nor was he overly concerned. If Jin could not take the injuries then he had no business being Tanner's partner for he trained all the time like his life depended on it. He left Dummies in ruins and his partners battered and bruised. He would not kill them because it looked bad if a camper or adult showed up dead while training with him.

The son of Ares laughed when Jin admitted to thinking of multiple ways to beat Tanner in battle. He did stand corrected on it being about one hundred different ways but that didn't matter to him because if it came down to it he was just thinking of multiple ways. It also made him chuckle about the going insane part. " Jin when he all found out we are demigods we went a little insane anyways. So what is one more insanity thrown into the mix. I am glad you liked the strike but I warn you I am not letting up not one bit. If you can not tolerate that then I do not have the paitence for you. " Tanner smirked try to let Jin know he was kind of joking but his manner of joking was a bit off and plus he was not with his brother Jace so he was mostly always business. This was no different and Jin would just have to deal with it. Tanner was not the greatest in joking and that was better suited for Jace. He was a more mature and caring man when not in combat.

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun got up facing at Tanner, he smirked when Tanner joked like that, he knew Tanner for a long time now, so he knew when he was joking, he was one of his closest friends, if he could tell that he had some friends. At least he cosidered Tanner, Zeph and Eliza his friends, he didn't know if they considered the same way. "I don't really think that me being more crazy would do any good to the camp or the campers"

He smiled but if you knew him well you could tell that his smiled was a sad one. He remembered when he came to the camp right after the DCA got him. He wasn't sane at all, the DCA almost driven him completely crazy. His first month in the camp he almost killed two campers and a satyr, his mind was confused at that moment. So he knew that his mind shouldn't get more damaged or he could end up really killing someone, even worst, killing someone he really cared about.

"It's your time to attack my friend" he smiled at him as he gripped his sword and looked at Tanner, he couldn't believe that his sword hadn't connected a jab on Tanner's leg. "I'll have to focus more on the battle, or Tanner will have a really easy victory" He moved a couple of steps to his right to get to the center of the arena again. "I don't regret the practices with you..." he said and stopped smiling, he was studying Tanner's movements.

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner didn't know the past of Jin's coming to camp. The other man had been here longer than Tanner so he was not sure what happened to Jin before camp but he did hear stories but never sought to ask if the stories were true for he knew some people's pasts were sometimes a sensitive subject, His was not something he openly talked about and so he just let the matter go. "You are right us being more insane would not be good for the campers at all. I know it is my turn to attack but like you I am somewhat wise in my attacking. It would be pointless to go in for a strike it miss and then i get injured in the process. Then again I can't always land a strike it has to miss you occassionally too. Oh and about the striking at my feet, the only reason I saw that come is because it is a strategy I would use myself. If I take out their legs they are less likely to run and would be a sitting duck. It nearly caught me off guard though. Good Job I must say I am impressed." Tanner complimened as he tried to decide how best to strike Jin.

He had already used the upward strike with a butt end of his sword hitting Jin in the ribs and it had done some effective damage but he was not out of the woods yet. He decided that this time he would go for a thrusting jab. Tanner got in a proper stance and then used his forward momentum to try and thrust at Jin. He would naturally stop when the tip of his blade was at like Jin's stomach for he did not want skewer the instructor. He jut hoped to olympus that Jin noticed the attack and countered. He did not want to end this fight too early. It would not be much fun if it ended to easily.

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun looked at Tanner and smiled when he agreed that they shouldn't be more insane than they were in that moment, He hadn't told about his crazy moment in life to everyone, including Tanner. It wasn't something about not trusting Tanner or others, but there were very few who knew about it, he didn't even remember if Zephyr or Eliza knew about it, Levi for sure would know about it, but he was too prudent to tell others about it. "Yeah, as crazy as we are out trainments are hell enough for campers, if we got crazier we would send them to the infirmary for sure."

He moved a couple of step to a side when he saw Tanner moving some steps to the other side. He was paying more attention to his opponent moves, and his head already was tracking the moves and linking them to any movement of attack that he had seen or read before. Then Tanner explained why his previous attack hadn't affect him. "I see... yes, I chose it remembering one of our past trainments..." he smirked. He was playing in that moment, just as his mother used to play with Tanner's father in any battle they have been into.

Then Tanner told him that he needed to think of a good attack. Suddenly Tanner finally moved, the moment his muscles got tense JinHyun's minds started to work a 1000 times per second if not more. He saw how Tanner changed his stance, how he moved inch by inch his arms and torso. His mind worked on all the possibilities for that stance and just a second before Tanner moved and attacked, He recognized the attack, it was a Thrusting jab.

"good one..."
He thought and moved to jump backwards at the time that he moved his sword and hit Tanner's sword, moving it aside. Then he rolled on his own axis and was going to hit Tanner on the back neck with his elbow, but he knew his friend would see it coming.

[Tanner Serrano]

Tanner smiled as he watched Jin move to the side and kock his sword out of the way. However what he didn't expect the force behind what Jin did for it completely knocked his sword out of his hand sending it clanking against the floor of the arena. Tanner felt jin strike him in the back of the neck. It knocked him to the ground and he chuckled. "Alright i concede this match. You win I do not need cooper having a beat up dad." Tanner spoke about his one year old son whom he had taken care of since the child's mom had mysteriously disappeared. He sat up and looked at Jin. His best friend was helping best he could care for Cooper.

Last year Tanner had a brief romance with an apollo daughter and soon found out that she was pregnant and then the ares son became a daddy. Now that he was a single parent he couldn't train as hard as he would like because had a little one to think of. So now Tanner just made sure to keep in shape but part of him hoped that Cooper gained the apollo genes, partially for selfish reasons. If he became hurt his son would be able to heal. For now he was done training

[JinHyun Lee]

JinHyun looked how Tanner fell to the ground and smiled widely, then adopted the next stance, ready for his counter attack, but instead of that he got something very different, Tanner was giving up the winning moment. He frowned at his friend and got straight. "are you sure?" he asked but in the moment that Tanner gave him the excuse of why he did it. JinHyun nodded at him and smiled widely. "I'm glad you think on Cooper, he does need his father with him, more than ever." smiles and offered his hand to Tanner to get up, then he looked at the cuts he got and sighed. "I liked these clothes." smirks and then smiles at Tanner.

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