Training by Thousand Paper Cuts

[Zavii]

"Thank you, Master," Zavii grinned sheepishly as she took a few more sheets of paper to try her luck on. As she picked one up to consider how best to go about the novel task at hand, she noticed [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] start to cough just before something suddenly slapped into the paper between her own fingers. A small yelp of surprise escaped the girl's lips and she looked down to see a marshmallow rolling on the table. Looking up, she saw the Jedi Master holding a little gun and smiling mischievously.

Rolling her violet eyes and shaking her head with a smile, she directed her attention back at Tanasuki as the pale boy asked if he ought to kiss her finger to help the burn. This cracked Zavii's lips in a giggle. Looking at his eyes to see that he was serious, she decided to let him show his devotion, even if she didn't want to officially announce their mutual interest, she didn't mind letting him make a fool of himself around others, especially his sister.

"If you want, I'm sure I'd appreciate it, Tanasuki." Switching the paper to her unblemished hand, the Zabrak lazily presented her fingers to him, palm upturned and leaned back with an expectant grin to see what he'd do.

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

The paper could be anything you wanted it to be?

Asaraa took another long glance at the sheets of paper infront of her, her teeth worrying at the flesh of her lip as she slowly built up a plan in her head, a blueprint for a creation. If you were going to do this, go big or go home right?

Gesturing with one hand the young woman summoned a swirl of paper from the pile, holding it in the air in front of her as she slowly adjusted it so the edges were just touching, shaping it out into the form of a flattened animal form, as if she's skinned a paper critter. Slowly running a finger along the boundary between the sheets she reached down with the force, splitting her touch into finer and finer tendrils she wove through the paper, melding it together in the wake of her finger so that it looked like she had one big piece of cut out paper.

Next came the shaping, the paper seeming to collapse in on itself, filling out of depth what it lost in size as the figure started to take form, a mottled brown colour spreading across the surface of the creation as the Padawan stayed almost statue still, her eyes closed as her face wrinkled up in concentration.

[member="Zavii"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"] [member='Sky'ito Yumi'] [member="Wu Yeoh"]

 

[Tanaski Yumi]

Hearing Sukai choke Tana knew exactly what was coming, the boy raising his hand, catching the small white coloured sweet, giving Wu a sly while before eating it himself. Very odd training even to him, but hell, if you were quick enough free food, not that food here cost anything, though it did feel akin to training a dog of some sorts.

With that little meal out of the way Tana turned attention back to [member="Zavii"] as the girl let out a small giggle, instead of trying to eat his head, his eyebrow quirking up slightly. His ocean blue gaze fell upon the woman's dark-skinned hand, "oh trust me you will appreciate it, maybe even like it too, I'll try to be gentle". Leaning towards Tana gently wrapped his lips around the girl’s finger, slightly working the tongue around its length in a playful manner.

In that moment a light pick would be felt on Zavii's figure. Then a small feel or rejuvenation working its way through her blood vessels the burn wound slowly starting to heal up. Tana injecting a small amount of energy into the Zabrak singed finger, temporarily leading her vampire regeneration. Once all done the young boy breaking off, giving her a small wink in the process, "all done my sweet, don't hesitate to ask if you need healing again".

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] - [member="Wu Yeoh"]

 

[Wu Yeoh-Mei]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Zavii"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

There we go, she was seeing them and Sukai was look choking for a moment. She knew what was coming but the jedi master clasped her hands behind her back with a small grin on her face. "Very good, you are learning.. your concentration abilities are there, your skills with the technique are showing and so I am proud of each of you." She said it and remained there sitting with a look on her face while she hid the cannon and went to look at each of them. "Padawan Asaraa, talented and able to concentrate under sugary assault. Padawan's Yumi the two of you show skill, though Sukai.. I am worried about you my padawan... we shall have to work on your concentration efforts and.... padawan Zavii and Yumi... I wil not hesitate to get a bucket of cold water for the two of you." Wu looked at the four of them and brought their creations to the center. "Alright, now lets see what you have done and repeat the process, try something a little different this time please. Focus on the smallest parts of it and add your own unique flare.

 

[Zavii]

"Oh my Gods!" Zavii laughed out loud at the ridiculous way Tanasuki licked her finger, covering her mouth as she looked away as if to say 'are you all seeing this right now?' When she felt his tooth she quickly pulled away with a little yelping gasp, but before she could say 'Ow!' she felt the burning sensation dissolve into a pleasant warmth and by the time she'd wiped the saliva off on the boy's pants, she no longer felt the light pressure of an impending blister.

She blinked and hummed in thought at her now-unblemished digit before looking up and giving the dark-haired boy a hearty slap across the back of his head. "No biting wiv'out permission, idioot!" Satisfied, she looked up and listened to Master Wu's assessment.

She didn't realize how much the others had already done while she was distracted. When the Master threatened to dump water on her and Tanasuki, the Zabrak stood up and moved to the other side of the table so she was only sitting next to Sukai. Taking a new sheet of paper, she took a moment to glare at it, trying to decide what she wanted to do to it. Eventually, the Padawan took a deep breath in and let her eyes fall shut, hovering her palm over the sheet without touching it.

Again her mind sank down into the latticework of the material, atoms sharing space to make molecules in chains that held the fibers together. This time, rather than trying to adjust the alignment of the atoms themselves, she focused on the fibers. She listened to ariose vibrations of the particles, how they worked together to create what she could see, and picked out a note... white. The paper was a sort of milky white and that was obviously a manipulable property; she had seen the other sheets changed into different colors. Changing the whole thing, though, would probably take too long. In her years of training Zavii had learned to focus like a laser, bigger picture stuff was for other people; the Knights and Masters over her.

Instead, she decided to fold it; thinking of the patterns of a Nemoidian Lotus; her favorite flower in the gardens of the Silver rest and the only pattern she had learned to fold a few years ago when she first heard of origami. She waved her hands around the paper, curling her fingers as the paper folded itself into a little triangle with several layers. Once that was done, she focused only on one corner and found the note once more, the color. With an effort of focus that actually created beads of sweat, she grimaced and thought of her hair, her eyes, found the colors in them and started a monotone hum in her throat, one loud enough for the others to hear, loud enough to resonate into the fabric of the paper, and slowly the tip of the fat little triangle shifted to a deep purple hue.

After a full minute of work, She opened her eyes and dropped the paper onto the table. Shaky hands picked it up and began to unfold until a rough flower was uncovered; white with purple tips on the petals. "There," she said with a sigh that almost sounded like panting, "I did it."

[member="Wu Yeoh"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"] [member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

Sukai coughed a few more time before getting herself under control, giving Wu a glare that said, 'I hate you' as she went around critiquing everyone on how they were going. Sure, getting down the fundamental was now within her grasp now, a few more and she made become a novice at it, but still the marshmallow gun again? She thought that was a onetime thing, "don't tell me that thing is being mass produced or something".

She let out a small sigh before turning attention back to a new piece of paper placed before her, though being able to get underway noticed Zavii switching seats. She was about to query about the Zabraks change of seating, where not her and Tana in some sort of buddy buddy relationship? Lately the two had been hanging out quite a lot. Continuing to watch the brown skinned woman Sukai noted her new change in style, the pages of the paper folding over and over into an intricate pattern.

Slowly the paper took the shape of a flower and in time with some meditation like humming turned purple, a rather pretty display, Sukai giving [member="Zavii"] a small clap. "Hey that is very good, I like the colour pallet", herself being one for dark blues, purple and black, "but why did you swap seats, did my brother do something, or has Wu threatened you someway"? Either option was very, very likely, Wu's sense of humour often being rather... erratic.

[member="Wu Yeoh"] - [member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

Slowly Asaraa reached up, trailing a finger down the sugary sticky patch on her cheek before looking down at her lap, eyes widening at the sight of the marshmallow's lying there. Aqua eyes blinked before she looked up, a playful grin struggling to peek out past her features as she smirked at the others. "Guys, guys...I think I can make marshmallows just appear without thinking about it!" Unable to hold it back any longer a smile pulled up the corner of her lips as she winked at Master Yeoh.

Her attention danced over to Zavii as she shifted positions as the Padawan absentmindedly collected the sugary treats from her lap, popping one into her mouth as she stared innocently at her friend. "Yeah what's the deal, it's not every day that you get threatened with a drenching or you know the oh so gallant healing of a cut like that." The young woman winked at Tana as she continued. "When did you start letting him bite you? Do I need to take Tana out behind the speeder shed and have 'the talk' with him?" A soft smile on her face let her friends know Asaraa was just messing with them as she gestured at a piece of paper, letting it hang in front of her face like a veil as she popped the second marshmallow into her mouth and reached out one finger towards the paper. As she touched it she could see it start to crinkle inwards, folding in on itself as a dark stain seemed to spread out from the point where she'd touched it.

Without realising it the padawan was biting her lip in concentration it was easier when you knew what you were doing, but still not simple. the shape of a bird started to emerge as she focused on the wings, folding them into feathers and adding a little extra detail to each feather before she fell back, sucking in a deep breath she didn't realise she'd been holding as she held out her hand, floating her bird over to join the growing collection in the middle of the table.

[member="Sky'ito Yumi"] | [member="Zavii"] | [member="Wu Yeoh"] | [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

 

[Wu Yeoh-Mei]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Zavii"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

Wu looked at Zavii and Asaraa who were working and got it. "Ah very good, ten points to your scaores. You two are really going to make the grade." She said it smiling and laughing a little seeing what they were doing and Sukai knew her methods and jokes could be odd but they generally worked out.... so the grading system was... now there she should have explained that to them.. maybe... no they would have more fun this way while learning and she moved over.

"Wonderful work Padawan Yumi, your skills are nice." She leaned over near Tana and spoke more to teach. "Just focus and allow your mind to go empty... see only the paper and what makes it up, what connects it and reach out." Wu was walking over and looked at her padawan, she was a knight but lovely Sukai would always be her little padawan.. who was taller then her.... Still little." Sukai.... are you alright? I know you have issues with marshmallows from the past."

Wu was looking at her and trying to recall how it happened.. flashing back on their training sessions over the months and years where her cannon had been used to teach Sukai to expect the unexpected... nope she had no idea how this trauma happened. "I don't know what happened to make you fear them so but do not worry my old padawan." Wu leaned down and embraced holding Sukai's to her chest mostly to comfort her.

"We will heal your mind my former padawan, you shall be a great jedi master." Waiting afew more seconds though she went over and looked at Zavii with a nod of her head. Standing behind her and leaning to look over her shoulder as her hand tapped and patted her shoulder. "Very nice work padawan, you are learnign the skills and when we go into the advanced techniques you should do very very well." Wu turned to the left to look behind her and her chest went towards Zavii's face.

"Oh padawan Asaraa you have done very very well. Such advanced techniques." Wu was moving over towards her and looked at the marshmallows with a nod of her head. "Yummy making such treats with your talents, you will become a master of this technique in no time. Are you cettain you haven't been trained with this beforehand?" Wu said it while eating one of the marshmallows with a smile seeing all of them there were doing well.

"Now the next part of the lesson, we move from paper to objects, in this case figurines. Little childrens toys but you can do a great deal with them." Wu was taking them out and the jedi line of action figures from a companies legends line. That showed jedi with a stat card from the old republic, it was like a game for trading card kids could get. Wu was motioning them forward. "Come come and get your own." She stood there bounsing a little in place because she was doing well.

 

[Zavii]

Zavii smiled at [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]'s compliment and gave her a cheery "Thanks!" At the Dark-haired young Knight's question, she glanced over at Tanasuki and back to the elder Yumi. "It's nothing, I just don't want him distracting me while I try to concentrate. That seems to be a new talent he's developing." Of course just then [member="Asaraa Vaashe"] had to join in teasing and the Zabrak shot her friend a warning glare, hardly letting her smile show but just enough to reassure the changed girl.

"Don't you start, Asaraa. You've seen me fight, I can handle him. Besides, I'm not the one who had to get carried to her room after drinking half an ocean at the Life Day Feast." She concluded her quip by pressing her lips around her tongue and making a crude noise with one eye closed, then giving Asaraa a wide, toothy grin. "Nice bird, by the way."

Just then [member="Wu Yeoh"] came up behind her and patted her shoulder while praising her efforts. Looking up at the woman, she said "Oh, thank you, Master W- oof" the Zabrak was cut off by Master Wu's massive mammary mashing onto her mouth and nose. The teenager quickly leaned her head away so her horns wouldn't scrape any skin or tear any cloth, then righted herself after the Master had passed, barely able to contain her astonished laughter with both hands over her mouth.

 

[Tanaski Yumi]

Tana let out a small 'ga' noise as Zavii's hand slapped him in the back of the head, 'ouch, well I guess I deserved that, better luck next time I guess'. That girl certainly has quite the hand, 'hope I don't get a headache from this', he joked to himself before turning attention back to the task at hand. He was here to learn get better, not flirt, plenty of time to do that later, Wu coming up behind to offer some advice.

"Okay I get it, atoms and all that stuff, hmm I wonder what I can make out of paper with enough practice", after all if it was just moving around the molecules that make up the object and if it had the same chemical composition as another material, he'd be able to make said material. As the girls went about their own business Tana focused back on the paper, trying to see how he could change the colour palate, how to reflect the light in a different manner.

Concentrating he decided to try and change up the colour, if the paper was white that meant it reflected all light, so if he changed the atoms around, chemical composition and all he would be able to make the paper only reflect certain shades, in turn changing its colour. Working his force tendrils through the paper Tana slowly changed its nature, different shades arose over the thin materials, in a view minutes upon opening his eye Tanasuki was greeted to a rainbow coloured item. "... Just as planned".

Seemed though the class would be moving away from paper and to, action figures? "I probably already know this but who may I ask make this little toys"? It was Sasori, it had to be Sasori, who else would make Jedi action figures.

[member="Zavii"] - [member="Wu Yeoh"] - [member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

The Padawan couldn't keep the grin off her face as she nodded gravely at Zavii, "True, true, I did have to be helped out of the party...but," she held up a finger, amusement dancing in those aqua eyes that twinkled at her friend. "I still managed to beat you in a fight so...you know there's that." A smirk tugged up the corners of her lips, "Are you sure you can take him if you can't even take me?"

Still grinning the pink-haired Padawan reached over to wave at one of the figures floating it through the ait to rest on her palm as she stared at the little green man. "One question Master Yeoh, do we get to keep them afterwards? You know, assuming that they haven't been destroyed in our attempts to modify them? Cause I don't have a lot of decorations in my room and it might be nice to have something like this around." It only took a little touch of the force to move the figure around her palm, a little mannequin marching. It honestly got her a little curious, wondering what he would actually move like in real life, maybe if she was really careful she could loosen the bonds at his limbs, actually get him walking realistically instead of like a statue being pulled around.

[member="Tanaski Yumi"] | [member="Zavii"] | [member="Wu Yeoh"]

 

[Zavii]

The Zabrak threw her head back in laughter at Asaraa's boastful comeback, slapping her hands on the table as she reaffirmed eye-contact. "You caught me once, sweatheart, but let me know when you're ready for a few more rounds." Zavii's eyes flashed as she snapped her teeth and winked at her friend. She had thought about the other Padawan's quick Makashi strikes many times over and had made a point to study some of the form's more advanced techniques in the weeks since.

Refocusing on the task at hand, however, Zavii looked over at the figurines on the table and plucked one up at random. "Woah, Darth Vader!" she whispered in awe, nudging Sukai and showing off the little statue pinched between her fingers. An idea came into her head and forced her to smirk before closing her eyes to concentrate.

Once again, she levitated the tiny Sith Lord as she had done with the paper and focused on the surface of the plastic. Slowly she made the black armor and cape fade to grey and eventually bleached-bone white. After peeking at her work she rotated her hands to make it spin on the y-axis as she redoubled her effort to fine-tune it's hue. After at least two minutes, Darth Vader clattered back to the table as the Padawan exhaled and leaned back in her chair. Reaching out to pick it up with her hand, she held it up for all to see. "Look, Asa, he matches your hair!"

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Wu Yeoh"]

 

[Wu Yeoh-Mei]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Zavii"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

Looking at them she offered a small grin on her face. "Sasorio's makes the figurines a means to well give ideas and have some fun. Some of the accessories themselves can be used and for orphans who lose everything a small toy might bring them a little joy for a time after everything. Maybe." She said it and believed it but there was more to helping kids... also well proceeds could be funded into programs to help children... she was amused and looking over at all of it. "This looks like it is going well." She was amused by them and clapped her hands excitedly. "Keep it up and see what you can realy do with them and yes you can keep them to remember your lessons."

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

Sukai looked over her own figure, Count Do0ku, quite the refined swordsman, she remembered the time she used his fighting style against a wild Wookie Sith wannabe. Just thinking about it sent a small shiver up her spine, she was glad the being was dead, poor guy, if only he could see his home world now. Her small trip down memory lane was interrupted by a [member="Zavii"] elbow, the Jin looking over with a slight, 'oi' face as the Zabrak, but paying attention to what she did.

Out off all the things she had seem, a pink Darth Vader was not it, now that was something to laugh about, but now, how would she change Dooku, 'perhaps you are in need of a face lift my old friend'. Placing the figure down Sukai concentrated first on the man white hair, twisting the molecular structure of the plastic, the hair darkening, becoming a brown, just as mother said the Sith Lord had looked like when younger. Next Sukai focused on the face, smothering out the mans wrinkled face bit by bit, making the skin a little more vibrant, making the face a little less, 'grr I am an old man', "all done, not to bad if I say to myself".

[member="Wu Yeoh"] - [member="Asaraa Vaashe"]

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

"Oh it's on!" There was no way she was going to let her friend get away with that sense of self-confidence. Especially since their last fight had been so close. Asaraa knew she had walked away with a win, but it hadn't been as clean or as overwhelming as she would have liked and now...subconsciously she flexed her hand at her side, well she wasn't as strong as she used to be anymore but maybe she was more agile. She knew that in a pure saber fight the Zabrak would have an advantage but...pride more than anything kept her from turning back. Besides she'd noticed he was agiler than she used to be, so maybe that could come as a surprise to her friend. "Just name the time and place."

Glancing around the young woman felt a smile pulling at her lips as she gestured down towards the paper shapes still collected on the table as her aqua eyes fell back onto the figure in her palm. Reaching down to rub a finger over the hunched over jedi's figure the young woman could feel the plastic shifting and change beneath her touch, the hunch straightening out as the Jedi's robes seemed to flow back into his body, a cylinder growing from the top of his head. The covering on the ancient master's body started to turn black and white, conforming to his shape as the lightsaber in his hands drooped into a full circle before breaking apart. Asaraa's eyes were closed now, her entire attention focused on the piece of plastic in her hands as a rim grew out of the cylinder on his head, coattails flaring out behind him as Yoda floated up out of her palm. "There you go, he's all ready for a night out on the town now."


[member="Sky'ito Yumi"] | [member="Wu Yeoh"] | @Zavii | [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

 

[Tanaski Yumi]

Well it should come as no surprise to Tana that it was Sasori, but the reasoning was a little heart touching about the orphans, unless [member="Wu Yeoh"] was just making that up, she did seem like the joker. Well guess I will take Boba Fett, gonna mess this guy up real good, 'well closest thing I can get to Koda, still need to get even with that man'. Keeping focus Tana went about grasping the plastic structure on a molecule level, slowly but randomly shifting around the lactic structure of the figurine.

From the outside nothing seemed to be happening, the figure not changing shape or colour, but they would see soon, for on the inside Tana was breaking the plastic bonds, turning the entire structure into sand like state. In a few minutes, the young boy leaning over, blowing against the structure, the entire things crumbling, into a small heap of colours grains, a smile planted across Tana's face.

"Hee hee hee, not so tough now are we little mando, hmm I wonder if I could do this to his armor the next time we met", now that would be a fun thing to do, just touch the Beskar and then turn it into plastic. Looking around it seemed everyone had done there little bit, sister making a pink Darth Vader of all things, not something you say often.

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Zavii"]

 

[Wu Yeoh-Mei]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Zavii"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

Wu was watching them and they were doing well as she needed to look at it and think about it. "Very very good." She could see what her padawan... well Sukai was a knight but she was forever going to be Wu's padawan... her first and best.... also most awkward with all of her things. The jedi master clapped and bounced up and down in place before she was speaking. "Wonderful all of you, now with your figures and you origami... there is the next and moat important part. Being able to use it on a person... I don't want you to hurt each other but work together and do small things. Maybe give youerself highlights in your hair, a freckle or change the color of yours nails."

 

[Asaraa Vaashe]

See, now this was the kind of assignment she could really get behind. If they managed to pull this off Asaraa would never have to spend another penny on the nice nail polish...not that it would stop her. There was something relaxing about shopping that made it worth the prices, but you could buy smarter with this. Crossing her legs the pink haired Padawan sank down to the floor, resting a hand palm down in her lap as she stared at her fingernails intently. Slowly, ever so carefully she reached out with a finger, running it down one smooth fingernail leaving a pink trail behind her digit. Success!

[member="Wu Yeoh"] | [member="Tanaski Yumi"] | [member="Zavii"] | [member="Sky'ito Yumi"]

 

[Sky'ito Yumi]

High lights, hair colour and physical altering? that was quite the interesting choice of to use the new skills taught, but she had a feeling that everyone here had some sort of use for it. Unfortunately she knew one of that would use it for less then noble purposes, her head slowly turning towards he younger brother with a worried expression, mouthing the words, 'Don't you dare'.

The last thing she needed was a lone running around doing all sorts of stupid things and ruing her reputation. With this force power in hand, and the two already looking like twins, ell it would be quite easy for Tana to quickly don a 'Sukai' mask, do something stupid and then run off to revert back. "Just a question master Yeoh, will these having any lasting effects, and how far can someone go with body modifications"?

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] - [member="Wu Yeoh"]

 

[Wu Yeoh-Mei]

[member="Asaraa Vaashe"] [member="Zavii"] [member="Sky'ito Yumi"] [member="Tanaski Yumi"]

Looking at the two of them as they were working and trying it she moved to look at her padawan.. former padawan.... Sukai was cool. "Well depending on what you are changing it could be. If you change your hair it will continue to grow, if you change physical attributes like your tears to give them healing effects, make your saliva more acidic or things like giving yourself different colored iris." Her hand came out and she touched her hair. "You can go far but you will want to understand your own body."