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The Friendship Test - Chapter 6 - Finding Focus
By: RampageSports Date: December 10, 2014, 8:13 pm
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This scene goes on for a while, and it's spread over several
chapters. Some are a little long. Others are short (like this
one). So, in an effort to avoid putting all three of our
readers to sleep, we're going to try and speed things up a
little. I don't know if we're going to be able to stick to it,
but we're gonna try.
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The Friendship Test - Chapter 6 - Finding Focus
The two women exited the lobby and Sophia led the way through a
short corridor. They stepped into the heart of the training
facility. "And here is where the magic is supposed to happen."
Sophia motioned to the large open area littered with fight cages
and rings and gym equipment. "There's another gym out the back
behind the change rooms, but this equipment gets a good workout
while we're in-between sparring or whatever. There's hydros and
all the rest of it out there, too."
Danni casually strode over to the nearest cage. Absently
entangling her fingers in the vinyl-wrapped fencing, she looked
into the center of the enclosure. Though the open layout here
was a little different from RSI, where the cages were in one
room and the weight equipment in another, the end result was the
same. It was a training floor, plain and simple. Though Danni
had an office next to Richelle's, it was in a room just like
this one where she did her best work. This was where she could
offer Sophia the most advice, and she could feel the wheels
beginning to turn in her mind.
Keeping her eyes focused into the cage, she asked, "How do you
split the girls up for training?"
Sophia watched as Danni absent-mindedly inspected one of the
training cages. "Split them up? Uh, more or less by division.
Like, Woz and Hammer - uh, sorry, Hoopes - uh, Wozniacki and
Samantha Hoopes, do a lot of work together." Sophia had to
remind herself Danni wasn't part of the stable. Having her there
by the cages just felt, right. She managed to buck the thought
and continued. "But some of the girls just have preferences.
Milano and Susan Ward tend to stick to themselves, 'cause
they're just like that and they have similar methods. They're
quite, you know, serious."
As Danni was preparing for this little escapade, she had taken a
long look at the Dragon's Den roster. Observers would say that
the Den had a wealth of talent and potential, but what Danni saw
was a lot of youth and inexperience. Nearly half the roster
were rookies, and Danni immediately had an image of the blind
leading the blind. With no senior teammates to help them along,
the younger fighters would be doomed. But, when she regrouped
the roster by weight class, she could see there was more
leadership there than she'd realized. If those women could step
up and help out, then the Den might just be able to tap into
that talent everyone was so excited about. Talent like that of
Samantha Hoopes.
Hammer Hoopes. Danni smiled to herself. Nothing like a good
nickname to get the attention of the fans. But she had seen
Samantha fight. The girl was pure power and aggression. A
knockout artist in the making. With the right guidance, she
could live up to the label. And Caroline Wozniacki was just the
right person to help her get there. Fighters who chose the
all-out style usually hit a wall as they came up against more
seasoned competition, but Woz had found a way to make it stick.
And she had the championship pedigree to make a younger fighter
like Samantha sit up and take notice.
Sophia continued to watch as Danni looked ready to leap into the
cage. "And Briana and I do a lot of our training together, just
because it feels right. I know I can trust her in and out of the
cage. Only one other person I know I can say that about." Sophia
smiled at her friend, knowing she picked up on that pointed
reference. She was grateful, and feeling increasingly so. And
Sophia being Sophia was having a hard time not just screaming it
out.
Danni smiled at the compliment, but she let it go. As far as
she was concerned, Sophia didn't owe her anything, but they
could talk about that later. Danni's whole reason for being
here was to help Sophia figure out where things were going wrong
at the Den. And she had just heard quite a few things she
didn't like the sound of.
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Re: The Friendship Test - Chapter 6 - Finding Focus
By: Raccoon Date: January 4, 2015, 6:15 am
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[quote author=Rampage Sports link=topic=124.msg883#msg883
date=1418264025]
This scene goes on for a while, and it's spread over several
chapters. Some are a little long. Others are short (like this
one). So, in an effort to avoid putting all three of our
readers to sleep, we're going to try and speed things up a
little. I don't know if we're going to be able to stick to it,
but we're gonna try.
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"ZZZZzzzz..zzz...zzz...huh? What? Shorter? Who me? Oh! I see...
Shorter chapters are in my view easier to read, but if you want
to make me excited then you should add a few images here and
there..."
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