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Old February 27th, 2018, 06:51 PM   #3
Aeternam
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"Don't complain. This is meant for you to learn how to fight if your powers somehow aren't available for you to use, and most important, for you to improve your self-control. Think of that, you are handling a random thief. You grab his arm, but can't contr your strength well enough and instead you blow up his body with the pressure" Artemis explained as she stepped away. The angry look on Kara's face should get any human trembling in fear considering the difference in their power levels, but Artemis just kept her strict expression as she positioned once again. "Besides, let's say your enemy has a weapon which can pierce through your skin. How are you going to block his attacks? With your forearms? Get back into position"

Meanwhile, Diana sighed at Kara's reaction. At first these discussions weren't as often, but now almost every day the girl would complain about it being useless. She knew Artemis did have a point. Hell, there were weapons in Themyscira which could pierce Clark's skin, although these were rare. Kara was not as experienced as Superman, and unlike him, so far hadn't found any actual threat. Nothing she'd come across so far could hurt her, and as such Diana supposed it was only natural that she felt invincible. However, if she was going to help them in the future, there would be many foes who could kill her in a single blow, and so being able to fight back without having to count solely on her sheer power would be essential to Kara. But she didn't say anything. She hadn't even made her presence in there known so far.

"After we are done here, you are going to make a thousand push-ups. And no, you can't rely on your super speed." Artemis spoke up. A thousand push-ups would probably kill most humans if they tried to do that, but in Kara's case, it was only enough to make her start sweating. Artemis had suggested a few times that they used magic to block Kara's powers while she was training, but Diana insisted that if they did that, Kara's self-control wouldn't improve since she wouldn't have to keep her powers at bay. Right now Artemis knew perfectly that Diana was the only person on the island who could possibly stop the girl if she threw a juvenile tantrum, and that's why she was spending so much time in Themyscira for the last few weeks, only going out when a real threat showed up. Gladly, none had appeared so far.

"Now protect yourself." And with that Artemis attacked again. Despite her blade not being able to pierce through Kara's skin, it was resistant enough so that unless she tried a direct blow, it wouldn't break. Diana had been talking about asking Hephaestus to create something to help with that, but so far nothing had been done about it. So she danced around Kara all the while shouting instructions, telling her how to move and where to step whenever she made a move. Regardless of that, however, it always ended the same, with Artemis kicking Kara's feet off the ground and pointing her sword at her, then pointing out everything she had done wrong or imperfectly.
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