Parkour Competition {Kana, Xeern, Cira}

[knight]

1606
Gym

Cira had made her way onto the top of basket ball hoop by doing a more rigorous wall pass and clinging to the top of the frame before balancing on it in a crouch. She glanced around the room for just a moment as she watched Xeern depart and Kana monkey around on the Bowflex machine before leaping down fearlessly and shifting into a smooth roll. She then 'sprung up' into a cartwheel only to pivot on her right foot straight towards the West wall away from Kana on the farthest side of the exit.

Making another running pass up to the corner of the exit, Cira automatically knew it was just a bit too high for her to do a typical high jump so she had to gain some speed via this manner. With this kind of door, there was unfortunately no place to grab at the top of it, so she had to make something up instead since she was out of arms reach from the corner of the ceiling. Still in motion, she reached around the door with both hands and planted them on the outside wall as she tucked in her feet and pivoted around on her hands counterclockwise while beginning to fall. She landed softly into a handspring and then bounced onto her feet to temporarily dart back into the gym. Her body literally halfway into the gym, Cira looked straight at Kana for a moment while sticking her thumbs in her ears and her hands spread to where they looked like lame antlers; she stuck her tongue out at him in a challenging, annoying and teasing way at him, a sound that sounded much like "thhhhbbbt!". This was sometimes her way of saying 'neener neener neener' or 'try to catch me'. Quickly turning back around, she darted after Xeern. "I've never been to a tournament, sounds fun!" she shouted as she sped up again.

Hearing Walter's papers fall and the sound of feet against the hard flooring, Cira knew which hallway to run down as she moved back into a full sprint. It didn't take long for Cira to catch up. Instead of pivoting around the inner corner, she moved diagonally to it and bounced off the wall before running diagonally behind Xeern to the left wall. Every stride she took, she was driven to move faster than the last. Her pulse was already higher than normal and she had to force herself to regulate her breathing, otherwise she'd drop like a fly with in minutes. But this was a typical run for her, to say the least. "I can defy gravitay, muahaha!" she said as she managed to run on the vertical wall in an arc some several running steps past Xeern. Jumping down, she stayed a bit to the left and used the momentum from the fall to shift into a brief forward handspring before resuming a full speed run on proper footing.

<Tag: Kana and Xeern>

[Kana]

1607
Gym ....> Outside Parking Lot

Kana heard the noise but thankfully had missed Cira's little 'display'. Glancing towards the door he just was able to make out the left boot that belonged to Cira, making a quick exit from the gym.

Smoothly Kana jumped and hit the wall. It wasn't an uncontrolled or unintentional hit. He slid down the wall a little ways before kicking off and tucking in to a small ball. He hit the ground, rolled and then jumped to his feet again, dashing out of the gym. Instead of following after Cira and Xeern, Kana went the opposite way, quickly piling in to an elevator that was full of off duty officers on their way home.

Kana hadn't meant to ride the elevator all the way to the surface, but once the doors opened, he stepped out and followed the rest of the officers.
Once out in the parking lot Kana was a little shocked. He had never seen anything like the big machines that took up small spaces on the ground. The machines had four black circles, two in the front and two in the back.

A low rumble caused him to look up in time to see another machine, slimmer than the others. This machine had two circles instead of four, and it was shaped differently.
Once the machine was gone, Kana heard something that he fully recognized...music.
He approached the noise and saw it was coming from a big machine that was painted black. It's doors were open, displaying a black interior with seats that were made of something that Kana had never seen.
Leaning against the truck were four officers watching a fifth officer try to dance to the music, but to Kana it was obvious that the fifth officer was failing miserably.


Kana approached the truck and instead of waiting for an invitation, he stepped over to the officer.
The officer, thinking that Kana wanted to try his luck, stopped dancing and stepped back.

Taking a deep breath Kana began to jump in time with the beat. He moved his left leg one way and his right leg another way but he always kept it in time with the music. Finally he started doing tricks. A flip here and there, back and front flips, 360 degree turns and such.

Finally when the music picked up even more Kana began to incorporate some of his free running style in to the music. He ran at the nearest vehicle, running up the side before jumping off in to a backflip. He landed, running back towards the truck, but instead of running up it, he did a front flip right on to it's top, landing on his hands.

He did another backflip off, managing to land on his feet as the music ended.
The officers were all smiling and nodding their heads as they said what a good job he had done, then they piled in to the machine which they called a truck and left the parking lot.
Kana continued on, finding a truck that had a wacky paint job. Approaching it a waft of scent hit him. He stopped and sniffed the air, recognizing the scent. It was from that Cira lady.
He went over to the truck and realized that the scent was stronger there. This had to have been her truck.

A smirk appeared on Kana's face as he jumped up on to her hood. He sat down in the Indian style position as he waited for Cira and Xeern.
Kana had a feeling that they would come out sooner or later, he just hoped it was sooner.

<Tag Xeern and Cira>

[xeern]

1607
Hallway

Xeern kept on jumping from wall to wall, he passed personnel as he went. Xeern wasn’t sure where he was going he didn’t know the base very well and he was sure that he would hit a dead end sooner or later. Xeern could hear Cira from behind him. However it didn’t take Cira long for her to reach Xeern, he smiled, the girl was good looking and good at what she does as well it made Xeern work a lot faster then had had done previously. Xeern had no idea where Kana had ran of to he just kept his mind focused on Cira for the moment and he knew that they would meet up with Kana eventually it was only a matter of time until they did. Xeern merely laughed when he heard Cira speak he had no idea what it meant but in her world maybe it meant something to her. Xeern watched as Cira got in front of him, he leaped on the floor to gain some more speed before jumping back onto the wall to only jump to another one. Xeern managed to catch up to Cira and soon pass her turning into another hallway he could see the doorway that would take them to the control room but thought that he should go the other way seeing as they might get into trouble. Turning into another hallway Xeern just kept on gaining more and more speed until he was stopped by the elevator not sure what it was used for and he didn’t want to go back as well.

(TAG Cira and Kana)

[knight]

1608
Hallway

Running to the right side of the hallway as they crossed into another, Cira ran along the wall again for a bit as they approached another intersection. Seeing Xeern halt suddenly in front of the elevator, Cira quickened her steps and jumped onto the right wall. Nearing the edge of it quickly, she jumped off the edge and took her base card out of a right BDU pocket. Picking up speed for just a few seconds, Cira decided to try something new.

Grinning as she ran straight for the slide card mechanism to the right of the elevator, she stepped in mid run slightly off to the right of it. Making a running pass up that wall, she began to run in a counter clockwise half circle instead of flat out jumping off the wall like she normally did. She had enough momentum she was running down the wall for a few nano-seconds as she took the key card and swiped the scanner with it. Literally about to fall, she pushed off with her knees and feet into a flip and landed a few steps away from the right side of the elevator as it opened with a ding. Pivoting on her heels she waved a left hand at Xeern. "It's an elevator, don't you guys have somethin' like it? Or do y'all use teleporting devices similar to Stargates?" Cira figured the latter was probably why he had no idea what it was. It seemed Kana however, knew what they were already because he'd been here a bit longer, and for the fact that he was NO where to be found. Cira selected the next two levels to go to the surface.

As soon as she finished her statement, Cira stepped back a bit to sprint forward and run up the right wall of the elevator. Reaching the top, she used her arms and legs to turn around and press weight on all sides of it for as long as she possibly could, hiding herself in the right most corner. "Hey I'm taller than you," she said, observing the elevator from this view, trying not to jump down just yet, because she found it fun.

"I hope Kana didn't get lost, he sure left quickly." she added as the elevator went up one level.

<Tag: Xeern.
Since Kana's out in the parking lot, next post once they get through the second floor they'll be at the surface- I figure they'll officially be caught up that point.
AND, since Xeern hasn't seen it yet, this is Cira's truck (did this in PS)
Toyota Tacoma>

[Kana]

1610
Parking Lot
SGC Complex, Earth

After sitting still for several moments, Kana started to glance around. He felt the familiar 'someone's watching me' feeling and didn't like it.
Sure enough two young men in a greenish, tannish camouflage uniform were leaving against a low rider vehicle, arms folded, eyes on him.

Sighing, Kana jumped down off of Cira's truck and walked over to the two men.
"What you looking at? You have something to say to me, say it." Kana more or less demanded of the two men.
One man was blond, wearing the rank insignia of a 2nd. Lieutenant. The second man was brown haired, wearing the rank insignia of a Captain, who didn't seem to appreciate Kana's tone.

"Since when do they left offworlders outside the base without an escort?" The Captain shot back.
Kana's hands clenched in to fists. He was so terribly close to decking the Captain across the face but at the last minute thought better of it.

"I am currently in ...in...competition with a Cira Knight. Please do not get in the way." Kana said, as if that was reason enough for him being up in the parking lot.
"Competition huh? What sort of competition?" The Captain asked, sounding just a little bit intrigued.

Kana gave a wicked smile, took two steps back before running at the low rider. He jumped on the hood before reaching out with his hands towards the next vehicle, a humvee was parked crookedly.

Smoothly Kana used his hands to balance while he jumped in to the humvee, landing on the top of one of the seats. Gaging the distance, Kana jumped up and on to the top of the humvee before doing a backflip, landing right in front of the Captain.

"Free running. Just waiting for her and Xeern to catch up." Kana replied. He looked around, not seeing anything else of interest except for a few trees. Running over to them Kana jumped up and began to do jumps and flips from branch to branch for a bit before returning to Cira's truck. Thankfully the Captain and 2nd. Lieutenant were gone.

Stepping back, Kana ran at Cira's truck, jumping from the ground to the top of the bed of the truck and from there to the roof. Once there Kana knelt down on both knees, arms folded. He knew that they would be along shortly.

<Tag Cira and Xeern>

[xeern]

1610
Parking Lot
SGC Complex, Earth

Xeern still had no idea what this so called elevator was meant for but he had never seen something quiet like this before. Xeern turned and looked at Cira as she explained what the elevator was to him, so it was a transport device, he smirked his people only ever use transport beams and beamed to one location to another instead of these elevators that the SGC had installed. “My people use transporters all the time we don’t have these elevators.” Xeern explained to Cira as he looked back at the elevator with a curious look on his face. Xeern stepped into the elevator shortly after Cira did, he grinned as he heard Cira’s words. “Not for long.” Xeern explained with an evil grin on his face. Xeern waiting for the lift to stop at the surface level before making a jump into the air. He grabbed Cira by the foot and pulled her down with grace. Letting go he bolted from the elevator waiting for Cira to catch up to him knowing that she would do so. Turing the hallway Xeern jumped over the security check point and made his way outside of the base. Xeern soon spotted Kana, he had no idea on how Kana had gotten out of the SGC so quickly. Doing a back flip Xeern landed on Cira’s truck roof.

(TAG)

[knight]

1607

"Hey I coulda gotten down myself thank you!" Cira called after him as she bolted out the elevator, having caught her fall by shifting into a roll. Finally making a break for it outside, the picked up some speed. Kana was already monkeying around, and oddly enough, as her gaze naturally went straight towards her truck, she found him already over there!

As Xeern joined Kana doing a flip on her truck, Cira made a tsk tsk sound while running over. "Hey my truck ain't part of some amusement park!" she commented jokingly as she ran up the front of one vehicle parked close to it before doing a sideways mid air cartwheel onto her Tacoma's hood before running up the glass window, onto the top where Xeern was and then did did a front flip off the back end of the double cab onto the capped/covered truck bed. She remembered those old Toyota commercials where they had some person dancing on the truck, if only she knew what song that was - oh well.

Running to a small vehicle behind hers, a Ford Focus, Cira leaped forward into a high twist off the ground before spring forward into a cartwheel onto the hood before performing a more or less 'showy' one handed freeze on the hood of the blue car before putting her feet back onto it, careful to not force the car alarm to activate. Turning around, she ran up the car before running along the roof. Leaping off to the right onto another car, a BMW about the same height, she took a huge springing leap onto it perpendicularly.

She then jumped off the truck and ran over to the same group of trees Kana had been going on before getting a running start into the lowest level of branches. Sitting crouched on one before swinging to another just above her, she shifted herself upside down. "Trunk monkey in proper environment!" she declared as she hung upside down and started making monkey sounds.

<Tag: Kana, Xeern>

[Kana]

1610
<Parking Lot>
Kana was less than impressed with Cira's so called skills, in fact he was rather bored.
He didn't understand this planet at all, not the people, not the landscape and especially not Cira.

Sighing, he jumped down off Cira's truck. All they seemed to be doing was running and jumping around like little children. Surely they could do better, couldn't they?
Turning around, Kana began to ignore Cira's antics because they seemed a tad too childish for his tastes.

All of a sudden he heard a song playing on a car radio. It was something he had never heard before. Oh sure he had danced to Tau'ri music not that long ago but this...this sounded totally different.
He heard someone mention the title of the song, something called XTC.

Rolling his eyes, Kana started dancing as he had done before. He wasn't in the mood for more Parkour at the moment but the music seemed to just call him to dance, and Jumpstyle dance he did.
He didn't care how weird his dancing looked, this was just a way for him to release pent up energy, and it was working.

<Tag Cira and Xeern>