Early Morning Practice

Kate strolled into the arena with her sword sheathed at her left hip and her helmet in her right hand. Most campers seemed to enjoy sleeping in on Saturday mornings but not Kate, especially after the week she had. It seemed like one think stacked on top of another, school work had started piling up to the point she skipped some of her training classes to try to get it done. She had hoped to beat at least some of the instructors and other campers to the arena so she could practice by herself for a little while and try to relieve some of her stress from the week on a dummy rather than a sparring partner.

The soft echoing of her steps in the arena brought a smile to the girls face, "Perfect." She whispered, before setting up a training dummy and donning her helmet. After a deep breath she started attacking the dummy, letting her anger from the week drive her attacks.

OOC: Sounds good. Sorry for the late reply it’s been a really busy week.

BIC: A few beads of sweat trickled down Kate’s forehead, her mechanical opponent being the right amount of difficult this particular morning to be challenging but not make the teen more upset. A smile graced her lips as the endorphins melted away the stress from the week. There was a certain serenity in the arena this early in the morning, with the birds not even awake and the sun just barely beginning to brighten the sky.

A flash of movement in the corner of her eye caught the girl’s attention for a movement. The daughter of Athena shoulder checked the automaton to push it away from herself before focusing on the movement that caught her eye. Kate recognized the woman who walked into the arena, one of the instructors but she couldn’t quite remember her name at this moment. The teen returned her nod before returning her attention to sparring with the robotic hoplite.

Kate's focus had been almost solely on the automaton in front of her, and keeping it in front of her. During the last game of capture the flag of the summer one of the Ares kids had gotten behind her and managed to knock her out, and she wasn't about to let that happen again. The robotic hoplite's sword bounced off of the teen's shield causing a wicked grin to flash across her face as her sword connected with the metallic arm, just below the elbow. Her opponent's arm and weapon clattered to the ground as Kate pulled her sword back up and through the front of the robots neck, the machine fell back into the sand while the girl stood over it smiling before the noise tore through the arena. A curse escaped her mouth as she ducked instinctively. A few pieces of hot metal had hit the daughter of Athena in the back of her legs and arms, leaving small cuts and burns. The teen bounced lightly trying to shrug off the pains ass he stood up briefly triaging herself and taking off her helmet. She spun quickly on her heel to look at the instructor as she started to sit up before walking over to her quickly, "No worries," Kate said quickly, "Are you ok?" The teen asked kneeling next to the older girl and helping her sit up.