Charlotte walked into the empty training room and shrugged her cardigan to the floor. She kicked it to the side carelessly and walked around the room, inspecting the equipment closely and pondering which weapon she should choose. After a few moments of thinking, she picked up a sword and poked the tip. The weapon must have been blunt; her finger was unharmed. She sighed, slightly disappointed. It would be much easier to train with sharp weapons if she were to go up against someone.
But no one was around anyways, so Charlotte would have to train by herself with one of the many dummies that stood around the room. She walked up to one, swinging the sword in her hand carelessly as she did. She stood in front of it and widened her stance, balancing her weight equally and holding the sword in front of her. As she did so, her mind recalled memories from many years past.
When Charlotte was younger, a few older friends of hers taught her how to fight with not only fists, but also with weapons. Those weapons were much more rudimentary, mostly rusty pipes found in dirty alleyways. One thing New York never seemed to have a shortage of was dangerous trash in suspicious alleys. She tried to remember a few moves she used to do with those weapons but ended up blank.
Frustrated, she raised the sword high into the air and slashed downward at the dummy, knocking its chest and causes it to begin falling backwards. She smiled triumphantly at the dummy, but it regained its balance and stood its ground solidly again, Even more pissed off than before, Charlotte slashed at the dummy from the side. It still didn't fall, so she began to pummel it violently with her sword until it finally toppled to the ground.
Breathing hard from the exerted effort of wielding a heavy sword, Charlotte sat down on the floor and laid on her back, arms outstretched. She felt better for defeating the dummy, but she wished she could do something like that to a person; she craved the ability to test herself on someone else and to practice her actual power instead of just banging a sword against a dummy.
