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"Well Mohji, The single most amazing Lion Tamer..." It was obvious she was buttering him up. "I was wondering if you can help me with my whip work." She said simply. "I hear you're the man for this sort of matter." She told him, batting her eyelashes. He puffed out at this. "Well, I think I can help you out; as long as you do one thing for me?" He told her. "When it's all said and done; you have to do an act with me." He told her, get close and eying the girl.

Was it worth it? She inwardly questioned herself and then nodded. "Deal." She allowed.

"Good, I hope you're ready for the wild world of whipitry." He said, making up some name for whip and...the act of whipping. It sounded good. He'd need to get it made into a real word.

{2/8; Animal Tame}

"Uh, Excuse Me. Miss doesn't know the first thing about whipitry." He called. "You should be paying attention if you expect to learn anything from me." He told her. Kale twitched and then smiled brightly, she could handle this guy; but he was so not getting a goodbye hug. Her form of punishment.

She turned towards him, and watched him. "First, you've got to make sure that your wrist is ready for this. It's a important part of the whip process." He spoke and flicked his wrist, the whip moving with it. She watched and nodded, copying his action. A crack of the whip. "Good!" He seemed pleased, "But...learning to handle your whip will be your next lesson." He told her.

{4/8; Animal Tame}

Now it was time for the real stuff to start, Kale realized as he began shouting commands at her, with a silly tone to his voice. "Come on girl!" He hollered, "Let's see what you have!" She stared at him. He rolled his eyes, "Oh Sorry. I forgot you were new at this."

He raised his whip and moved it slowly in a motion. "Like that." He said and then repeated the motion quickly. It snapped and Richie stared at him. "It's okay, just showing the newbie." He told the lion who seemed to understand, though seemed annoyed as well.

Kale shook her head, slowly copying the motion and then repeated it. Mohji watched and clapped his hands together. "You're a natural, girl!" He told her pleasantly.

{6/8; Animal Tame}

"Final task," he seemed to take on a serious edge for a mere mili-second. "We're going to have you tame an animal." He nodded looking about. Richie seemed to look around as well, crouching down in the direction of what looked like a hare. "Perfection!" Mohji clapped his hands together. "Go tame that hare!" He ordered with a laugh.

"I -- you sure?" Kale questioned nervously. "What if it laughs." She probed.
"You must be fearless, girl!" He told her. "Remember?" He tapped at her head.

She nodded and headed for the hare, looking over the rabbit which just seemed to stare awkwardly back at her. "Don't forget your calls!" He called to Kale. She glanced back and nodded.

Facing the hare again, she raised her hand. "Hyah!" She snapped her wrist, elegantly. It was a smooth motion, he had definitely called it when he said she was a natural. She moved her wrist and arm gracefully, the whip moving intricately. She felt silly as she let out the last call, she figured he was just making it up for show man-ship. "Whipshhh..."

The hare seemed frozen for a moment. "Call it!" Mohji called, where he was petting Richie affectionately. She glanced to him and then crouched down, wondering if it worked. She thought a moment and then clicked. The rabbit hopped forward and right into her arms, that she had extended.

Mohji was next to her now, clapping. "You're good girl." He told her happily. "Though you have an amazing teachers!" He nodded, patting himself and Richie on the back.

{8/8; Animal Tame!}

She nodded; he slowed down his movements, and showed her the correct ways to move her wrist. "You see, it's that simple." He told her, moving her wrist to help loosen it. "Now show me." He told her, backing away. She frowned and stepped back, focusing and flicked her wrist quickly, it hit a branch, and there was a crack; but not enough force behind it to cause any real damage to the branch.

He tisked at her. "Where is your lion tamer instinct?!" He seemed displeased at her lack of forcefulness. "You've got to put your strength into it, girl! If you're using this to protect yourself, just barely using strength isn't going to cut it!" He told her. He seemed serious. "Whips can be used for a lot of different reasons. Maybe, if one day you got good like me, you could even knock someone's weapon out of their hand; but you need animal instinct girl!"

"Try Again," He urged, pushing her.

{2/4; Whip Strike}

"Well," He said simply. "It's time for you to hold up your end of the bargain." He told her. He turned and he and Richie were off, back to the center where she had found him. He was at her heels. He stepped up on an old box, he'd used for a podium. "Come one, Come all!" He called, it seemed like his voice echoed.

"See the Amazing Mohji and his mediocre sidekick; Kale!" At least he'd gotten her name right. That was an upside, she would allow that, she thought to herself as she stood there at his feet. People began gathering. He looked to her, "Just do what I taught you girl, and you'll be fine."

He began telling mystifying feats that he and his assistant would accomplish in mere seconds. He pulled from the box some ragged plates, anything that could shatter. Including a glass.

He looked to Kale and got back up on his box. "I'll throw the glass, and all you have to do is break it." She raised an eyebrow, "But isn't that dangerous, won't the shards hit people?" She questioned him.

"Not if you hit it perfectly, like I can. It'll shatter, and the tiny pieces of glass will fall like snow, and sparkle in the sun." He said in a whisper. She nodded worriedly. "Alright." She allowed.

"And now, my darling mediocre assistant will shatter this glass!" He hollered, gathering the attention of more onlookers. Kale poised herself, whip in hand as Mohji tossed the glass in the air. Richie who wasn't far away, covered his eyes with his paws as if he expected the worst.

Kale snapped her wrist with force behind it, just how she'd been taught and hit the glass dead-on. Mohji watched, and Richie watched through his paws as the glass shattered, into thousands of tiny glasses pieces that did just as Mohji had said they would. Floating down to the crowds "Ooohs and Aaahs".

"Okay girl, get on. You're taking my customers!" He said with a wink. She waved a bit. "Thank you!" She said excitedly to him as he began speaking about his next amazing trick. He leaned down quickly, mid-sentence and said.

"Keep up the good whipitry!" Then was back to his crowd. She turned and bounced away, excitedly, slipping her whip away for use later.

{4/4; Whip Strike!}

He stared at her; pushing her towards where he just was. "I'll show that weak, weird haired want to be Lion Tamer." He looked towards her, "You will learn my specialty move, a Hike in the Mountains, and you will like it. You got that, girl?" He asked her. Again with the girl, but she nodded anyway. "Yes!" She told him. "Got it." She seemed pleased, and that seemed to annoy the other. "Don't smile." He told her. "This is not for amusement, this is for power."

She nodded and tried to wipe the grin off her face, unsuccessfully. He touched the wall of the nearest building and pressed his hand against it. "It's very simple." He told her. "Watch." He stepped back a few feet and ran directly at the wall, running up it, and using it to push himself off into a flip, landing next to her.

{2/6; A Hike In The Mountains}