"Ladies, I'm sorry to bother you, but some of us need to train. Cough cough Jaimie." He would glare at her as she would look up at him topless and smiling.
"Astral, enjoy the view and join us." she said as her shirt and bra hit her in the face.
"Get up, or do you wanna lose today?" Astral spoke as she dressed as quickly as possible. "When you are ready meet me outside and we will start with our run." Astral waddled outside as Jaimie was stumbling around. Her legs were numb. "Feeling ready for a run?" Astral had his workout armor on.
"This is high altitude, and I just got blasted last night. No, I do not want to run, only reason I will is because of you." She spoke, with each step she shook a bit. Trying to just get motivated to move.
"Okay we will take it easy with a one hundred mile sprint." Astral spoke as he handed her a cup of water.
"Thanks, and one hundred miles? How long should this take?" Jaimie asked.
"Well, for me, it can take seconds to a couple minutes depending on pace. Just follow me okay?" He looked at her and smiled. She instantly felt refreshed after sipping the water. Astral started to run and she chased him, she never ran out of breath. Astral would keep increasing the pace to keep up with his quota of seven hundred miles for the day. Running around for two hours Jaimie and Astral made it back to the house. Jaimie collapsed from the running.
"How long was that?" Jaimie asked looking up at Astral who was standing over her.
"About as long as it takes for me to finish." Astral would speak, Jaimie would send a kick upwards to try and hit his crotch. He dodged quickly and smiled at her. "We covered the seven hundred miles in about two hours. But here comes the fun part, we get to eat some good food. If Anders was able to wake up and stand." When they went inside there was a buffet for them made by Anders. Walking in little baby steps. The two feasted before going back outside. Anders would slowly clean up after them. Once they were back outside. Astral smiled.
"What do we get to learn about first? Karate, taekwondo, boxing?" Jaimie was excited to see Astral as much as she wanted.
"No, making a proper stance is the first thing to everything." He went over and pushed Jaimie, she fell over and looked up at him from the snowy ground. "Your core is not balanced. Stand up." She would stand up looking at him, he walked over and positioned her body.
"When you fight, you want to have your center of gravity as tight as possible." His hands would run over body, moving her arms and legs into their correct spots. "Now when I push you, resist it, and use your core to stay up." She nodded as he went back over and pushed her, she moved her front foot back to not fall.
"Good, you learned that you don't have to stand still to stay stable." He backed up to look at her. "Ready yourself into the stance again. I am pushing you over, use that to your advantage and launch a counterattack." She nodded again, and he went over and pushed her. She used the push as a counterweight to send her leg up to kick Astral. Nearly hitting him in the head he catches it and holds her up.
"I like this, good technique but raw. As your form allows for a counter blow here, here, and here." Astral would still hold her up as he taps lightly with his foot. He sets her leg down. "Now I want you to simply practice movement in and out of your base stance." He would then pull out a staff from his pocket dimension.
"I will point to a spot on the ground. Move there and get into your stance. I will then poke you with the stick to see your stance's stability. Try and grab the stick, and you will be smacked in the head. Got it?" He tosses her an ab guard, so that way it doesn't break her ribs or rupture her internal organs.
"When do I get the chance to beat on you?" Jaimie asked as she strapped the ab plate on.
"Tomorrow. For now, you get to learn a basic principle that applies to so many martial arts." she reached for the stick and she got hit on the hand by the stick
"Ouch, that hurt. Be gentle." She yelled at him.
"You won't be asking for that later." he smiled and pointed to the ground on her left. She would jump there and get in her stance. He would poke through the stance and push her over. She shot back up and got in her stance, Astral pointed left again and she got into her stance and leaned into the blow. It pushed her backward instead of knocking her over. They would repeat this until their lunch break.
Once Astral had finished eating Jaimie was already practicing hopping between her stances. Her core movement made large strides in progress after taking some time to study it. Astral went over to her talking on his way. "So, now that you have your stance down, we will continue this drill. Block the stick instead of letting it jab you, which you could have done the entire time." With a look of annoyance she stood in front of him.
"You may be stronger for now, but I will pass you."
"In your dreams. You are going to have to show a lot more effort in order to catch up to where I am at." He throws a punch to her abs which she is able to parry away. Astral smiles and sweeps her legs, Jaimie falls to the ground, growling at him as she glares at him. "Your lesson for the day is finished, be reserved and learn to adapt."
He smiled and reached out his hand to her, helping her up. "For the rest of the day, it is strength training. Here is the workout list, now are you ready?" She gets up and stands, sighing as she wants more. "Good, now put on this heavy armor and prepare for the workout." Astral summoned the armor and as it fell it shook the area.
She sighed as she put the armor on, it felt light to her as she started the body weight program. Astral was next to her going at her pace. He would periodically speed up, which caused her to step it up. Once the sun had set and they finished their workout they went inside.
"Are you ready to repeat this for the rest of eternity?" Astral asked as he took off his weights, he took a sniff of the fresh food Anders made.
"If it means I will pass you up someday, it will be well worth it. Wait how long is eternity?" Jaimie asked nodding in thanks to Anders for dishing her up a plate of food.
"Well, it is forever, time will never stop flowing, it is just different things in different places." Astral dished up his plate while patting Ander's on the head.
"It means as long as you exist, the universe will be cycincal and everlasting." Anders sat down next to the two with her own plate, it was a smaller portion size compared to Astral and Jaimie, who both finished their plates before Anders sat down. They both went and got seconds for their food while Ander's savored her meal.
After Jaimie and Astral both had five plates, Anders pulled out their custom chess board. Astral smiled as he went to reading his notebook, going through his custom notebook of strategies, combat forms and ideas for creation. Anders waived Jaimie over to play chess. "I am guessing you have played chess before and know what to do?" Anders asked.
"Yeah, I never played the top people, I just did it for fun, unlike him over there." Pointing at Astral, he would start to summon various things from his pocket dimension to build something he has schemed up. Anders allows Jaimie to start, playing E4.
Anders responds with E5 and asks. "How often do you think ahead? One step at a time, or do you lay everything out in your mind and try to follow it?" Anders would have her notepad out while Astral slowly assembles things in the background.
"Well, I have always lived in the moment and I do not see that changing any time soon." Jaime moves a piece into a bad spot as Astral starts to weld some of the metals together. "This seems to me like a bad move but, sometimes the future is better to not know and live through to experience." She blundered away her queen.
"Yes, but sometimes it is important to think of the future. Even if it is for just a moment." Anders took the piece and wrote a note as Jaimie leaned back groaning. She played another couple bad moves and lost. Anders smiled and looked at her. "Play again?" Jaimie nodded and smiled. She was willing to play chess as long as she was allowed to. Two hours would go by and the ladies would be constantly conversing during the time. Astral had finished the project he had of the paws.
He would smile and get ready to meditate. Anders and Jaimie would fall asleep at the table playing chess. Astral came out from meditation and carried the two of them to bed. And he would sleep on the couch.