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Post by Alex Johnson on Aug 18, 2009 21:24:04 GMT -5
(takes place the day after You've Got Mail)
It was the middle of the day and Alex had brought Cira to the mall to see what this parkour was she kept talking about. He was standing in the courtyard outside the mall looking around. He was wearing a pair of black jogging pants with dual white stripes going down the sides of each leg, white sneakers and a white sleeveless shirt. He started doing some simple stretches with his arms and then his legs.
"So how bout showing me the beginners course before you start making me run and fly all over the place babe?" he asked as he put his metallic blue Oakley's on.
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Post by Midnight on Aug 18, 2009 21:46:00 GMT -5
Cira had her headphones on as usual, but she let one earbud hang as they approached the mall. the song Step Up by Drowning Pool could be heard. She kept the volume down soft so she could hear Alex out of both ears. She clapped her hands together with a grin on her face as she directed them to the left railing on the left side of the large set of stairs that lead up to the mall entrance. "All right, can do."
The width of the set of stairs wasn't as large as some mall entrances, but it was length enough she could do a long precision jump from one railing to another when the coast was clear. She'd start out by showing off some basic vaults around and across the set of railings. She climbed over the left railing and jumped down lightly, then walked a couple yards back to get a running start for the first vault.
She ran and planted a left hand on the angled railing, and swung her legs over the railing with ease as she jumped into a vault, not even bothering planting her other hand on the railing as she went. She then stopped on a dime and pivoted around, planting her right hand on the railing from the otherside now, to turn around and completely push herself up and over the bar again by tucking her legs high to her chest as she went. Landing with her arms behind her, she turned around and vaulted over the bar again at a slightly different location higher up, and then used her opposite hand to do a reverse vault to go back over again.
Cira did a pattern of frontal, reverse, then the 'kong'-vault over the railing all the way to the top. It was like the railing wasn't even there and she was just hoping over it because she could. It seemed as though Cira was doing the moves to the beat of the fast paced music too. She then stopped at the very top of the left railing (still only on this side), and balanced herself on the top bar at the balls of her feet. Using all of her weight and swinging her arms back before jumping, she made a precision jump way across the fairly wide set of stairs to the other side.
She then jumped off the aft side of the right railing and ran a few feet away from it. She turned around and ran at one side of the entrance before placing both hands on the bricks. Doing an odd form of a summer-sault, she completely flipped along side of the wall and landed softly before spinning away from the door as it opened and ran back down the stairs, leaping about a little more than her body length at a time--thus only needing to take about two leaps to cover the length of the stair case.
"That is a preview of parkour. You can do so much more. It's merely the practice of moving over obstacles the most efficient ways possible." she said as she walked up to him, not even appearing that tired.
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Post by Alex Johnson on Aug 20, 2009 14:31:02 GMT -5
Alex followed and observed her carefully as she made her way around. He nodded his head every time something made sense to him or an idea came to him. It made more sense to him after seeing her demonstrate it. His travels and what he studied overseas, primarily through China and Japan, would help him be able to perform some of these maneuvers.
After she came back and explained her little demonstration he nodded and took off running for the rails. He grabbed onto it with his right hand and jumped off the ground into a full handstand on the bar after grabbing it with his left hand. He held himself in that position for a few seconds, his shirt fell over his face. His abs and chest could be seen clearly and to anyone thats known him since high school could tell that he has gotten quit ripped. The same could be seen with his arms as the muscles tightened and toned all over him. He started to do push ups while still in his handstand. When he did ten or eleven he stopped and let his body swing forward. He tucked his legs in and tightened his arms so that he swung right off the rail and forward a couple of feet. He landed on his feet between the rails and immediately jumped into a front flip before taking off in a sprint and leaping over and under the rails with enough ease to appear like he knew what he was doing, but still had the sloppiness of a beginner.
He reached the bottom and then lightly jogged his way back to her. He rested his hands on his hips and his breathing was only a little bit quicker. "So, how was that?" he asked with a smirk on his face
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Post by Midnight on Aug 20, 2009 15:00:04 GMT -5
Cira took note of his great balance with the handstand (and the abs), but she could tell he'd never done anything like this before from the vaults. Matt had been the same way from what she saw the one time they ran together. "Not bad, I'll give you that but you need to move more. Parkour is all about moving in the most efficient way possible. It's a bonus you got strength. One of my legs is slightly weaker than the other since I broke it when I was little and all." Cira said with a shrug. "Practice precision leaps. I'll show you different vaults---its fun to get creative with them." she added.
Cira demonstrated another precision leap, balancing on the railing as she did the first time. It being more than just a couple yards across to the other railing, she had quite the distance to travel. But it seemed like Cira could do whatever she wanted if she put her mind to it, so she sailed across like a flying monkey and landed with perfect balance on the opposite railing.
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Post by Alex Johnson on Aug 22, 2009 0:10:12 GMT -5
He got a bit nervous when she jumped off the rail, if she missed she could easily get hurt. When she landed on the other rail safely he let out a sigh of relief. He looked around the area for other spots to work with. He saw several benches scattered about in various spots, some low walls that could be used, railing along a handicap path and the parking garage about 100 yards away that could prove to be more fun.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out his i pod and unraveled the ear buds from it. Placing them both in his ears he then started looking through his play list. He selected Pulse of the Maggots by Slipknot and turned the volume up loud enough for it to pumping him up. He started bouncing up and down lightly to get himself pumped even further with the music. When it reached the part of the intro that really got him going he took off running.
He ran toward the entrance of the building but towards the wall on the right side of the entrances. He reached the wall and started to run up and along the side of it, he pushed himself off with his left leg into a 1080 degree spin and landed on the bench nearby. He then got a short length to run before flipping off of it and onto the top of the wall of the handicap ramp. He ran along the top of it, while maintaining his balance and then jumped across it the the wall on the other side of the ramp.
The handicap ramp went in an Z shape formation with four foot high walls lining both sides of it as it went down into the parking lot. Alex leaped from one side to the other with ease and did a flip from one wall to the next for good measure. Wanting to impress his girlfriend and all. When he finally made his way to the end of the ramp he made his way back to Cira without parkouring anything; other then one of those walls that was out in the open that he somersaulted over with little difficulty. When he was back over near her he hunched forward, resting his hands on his knees to hold himself up while he caught his breath. He looked up at her with a curious expression, like a 'how'd I do?' look.
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Post by Midnight on Aug 24, 2009 16:20:32 GMT -5
Cira applauded him. "Nice job on the wall pass and spin. The flips are good just be careful okay? Seems I will have to compete with that." she said with a snicker, scratching her chin. Techno music started to play on her headphones: Jump Jump by Nightcore II. Cracking her knuckles once, she performed the kong-vault (both legs raised first) on the farthest railing of the main entrance that was near the handi-capped ramp. She landed softly on both feet and tucked into a brief roll that propelled her to the vicinity of the ramp.
Ending up right near the ramp, Cira jumped up to her feet with her back mostly facing the first wall, shifting into a reverse vault. With her size it looked like she needed a lot of strength to pass the height of the wall, since it stopped almost at her chest level. She tapped her foot against the opposite wall as she ran and easily climbed up to the ledge, performing a precision leap and double flip over to the bench that Alex had spun off earlier.
She landed on the bench face-on and planted a left hand on the back-rest of the bench. Kicking off and up, Cira swung her body forward just a bit, performing a skater-type move and lifted her feet almost a little more than horizontally to the ground, while saluting for the heck of it with her right hand.
Cira landed lightly, turned to the right, and bolted for a trash can at the right corner of the mall, one of those super large, dark green trash containers. Thick bricks from the building stuck out and Cira was eying them as good places to grab onto. With a single leap Cira grabbed onto one of the thick edges of the garbage container. Instead of swinging her feet up to either side to pull herself up, she used her arms and strength to tuck her knees and hop up immediately upon leaping onto the large container.
Cira grabbed onto the corner of the roof. Enjoying the quick beat of her techno music, she was quite motivated. Keeping her weight close and her grip tight, she vertically scaled the wall and moved up about a story high before she decided she'd had enough. She pushed off and twirled around 180 degrees and landed on the trash can with a heavy thud before bouncing off of it, landing softly on the ground in a kneel.
She glanced over at Alex. She hadn't really caught his reaction when she performed the precision leaps on the railing, but she couldn't help but wonder what she thought of her reaching the second story of the mall with out a ladder.
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Post by Alex Johnson on Aug 24, 2009 19:54:08 GMT -5
Ok, scaling walls was not in his arsenal and he didn't have anything short of flying to top that. He grabbed the lower portion of his shirt and waved it like a flag.
"I give up, you win ya little brat." he said jokingly
He really couldn't compete with that at this point and there was no point in trying. He walked over to her, placed his hands on her hips and then leaned in to kiss her. Afterwards he pulled back but kept his hands on her hips.
"So, let say we call this a day and go inside? Let your amazing boyfriend take you on a shopping spree." he said smiling
He knew she eventually would wonder why he always has money to spend on stuff. Truth is he was secretly quite wealthy, after all he had the last four years to travel around the world and do whatever he wanted. He set himself up with some very profitable investments in every continent he visited. In several different countries and regions in each continent and in cities within those countries.
He had so many that it was too difficult to keep up with all of them. He just knew he had a net worth somewhere in the billions by now. Even still that is a lot of money to make in four years, well truth behind that is Alex did a lot of work on top of his adventures. And now there was more to him then even Cira realized.
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Post by Midnight on Aug 24, 2009 20:57:06 GMT -5
Cira whipped some sweat off her brow and then and then smiled at Alex. She walked up to him and let him kiss her, returning it. Cira chuckled when he said she won. She'd known that she'd out-do him from the beginning, because she'd been practicing for al long time now since she got out of high school, and long before that, even. "Oh shopping! I haven't done that in quite a while!" she raised her fists happily and then pounced on him into a hug, slinging her arms around his neck.
"Where to first? I don't know...I wouldn't mind adding to my car model collection...its been years...or should we start with clothes? What do you think?"
On the other side of things, Cira could technically care less about the opportunity to go on a shopping spree. Even if Alex hadn't had the money, she would have been glad to have spent the time with him any other way.
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Post by Alex Johnson on Aug 25, 2009 10:38:03 GMT -5
Alex opened his arms when she came at him, he then wrapped them around her hips. He kissed her again and smiled.
"Doesn't matter to me, you lead, I'll follow, pay for anything and carry most of the bags." he said smirking
Hopefully there would be an opportunity or distraction while inside the mall for him to slip away and go look at some rings. Maybe one of her friends would be inside (open invitation to any friend of Cira to join and distract her for me, really need it).
He seperated them from the hug and wrapped his right arm with her left arm at the elbow. "This way mi lady." he said playfully
How could he not be happy right now, he was rich, he had everything he wanted and he was with the most beautiful woman in the whole world and she loved him as much as he loved her. There was nothing in this life that would ever seperate the two of them and he knew it.
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Post by Aura on Aug 30, 2009 14:54:57 GMT -5
(Takes place after Corina and KITT leave Shadow Lake)
Corina drove into the mall parking lot and looked around, the place was packed. "KITT can you scan the area and check for Cira's car. She texted me a while back saying she was at the mall." She looked around but sadly she didn't see Cira's car, nor did she exactly know what it looked like. She pulled into a parking lot that was rather close to the doors and put KITT into a park before unbuckling her seatbelt and waiting for the results of KITT's scan.
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Post by KITT on Aug 30, 2009 18:59:09 GMT -5
KITT checked to see if Cira still wore the watch-communicator Devon had given her way back when. "She still has her watch. She's here. Of course she didn't bring her vehicle. I believe Alex is here, they were practicing parkour, so they aren't even in the mall yet. I'm not surprised." KITT said. Holo-KITT appeared in front of KITT's 4x4 mode, leaning against the still-warm grill, hands tucked in his black jean pockets.
His left wrist also had a watch communicator. He held it up slightly and spoke into it to see if Cira would answer. "Hey Cira, I'm here with Corina. Wait for us."
He stood up straighter and took a couple steps towards Corina, his form was just as solid and real as last time. The only thing different was KITT had decided to alter his hair color some: red highlights. "Like the change? I thought a little bit of red looked nice. " he said as his true form automatically locked. He glanced back at Corina with a shy smile. "This should be interesting...I've never used this form in a populated place like the mall."
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Post by Aura on Aug 30, 2009 19:25:48 GMT -5
Corina smiled as she looked up at his new hair color, well just a different style. "I like it KITT. It suits you more." She looked over towards the mall and stared at it, having never been to the mall in Tranquility it was going to be an adventure just going into the store, let alone going into the store with KITT.
"Well you and I both have no idea what this mall is going to be like so it looks like our first mission together is to find Cira and Alex by conquering the mall." She was trying her hardest not to sound dorky and stupid but she had to say it just to maybe get a chuckle out of KITT.
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Post by KITT on Aug 30, 2009 19:49:53 GMT -5
KITT smirked a bit, walking towards the entrance. A couple people left and entered, and they didn't even look at him. "Well so far no one's noticed. Thus far I'd say its a success." he said happily. He decided to remain walking at Corina's pace even though he could walk much fast if he needed to. He saw Cira and Alex just beyond the double doors inside. "There they are." he said as they walked through the entrance. KITT opened the doors for Corina.
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Post by Aura on Aug 30, 2009 19:56:05 GMT -5
Corina smiled as she noticed Cira and another boy that she didn't know. "Cira!" She shouted and waved before racing over to her and giving her a hug. "Mind introducing me to your buddy here?" She regained her posture also looking back to see if KITT was following her still or if he had stopped to laugh at her because of how excited she was to see Cira.
(OOC Lame post....sorries...)
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Post by Midnight on Aug 30, 2009 20:37:15 GMT -5
Cira smiled and walked into the entrance as Alex playfully showed her through the doors. A few seconds later she got KITT's call. It didn't take long for them to show up.
Cira blinked in surprise when Corina randomly gave her a hug. She'd heard KITT through her watch just a few moments before. She was a bit surprised when KITT had said, "wait for us", but when she turned around she understood why. She saw a young adult dressed in black jeans, a maroon t-shirt, black sneakers with black and red hair move swiftly through the double doors after Corina with a semi-amused look on his face, red eye's dimming to a dull-ish dirt brown.
"Hey Corina!" she said happily returning the hug. "I'm glad you could join up. This dude here is my man Alex!" she said, gesturing towards the young man who was around KITT's age with shaggy brown hair. She turned and glanced at KITT, who walked towards them with his hands tucked in his jean pockets again. "Oh my GOSH its KITT! You know, KITT is a strange name for a guy, perhaps we should give him a random alias so he can blend in better! Any suggestions you guys?" Cira said with a happy grin on her face.
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