Two days into the journey to the Korosvye Helots, Konrad wakes early. Making his way to the galley, he eats his breakfast in relative silence, occasionally throwing small interjections into the nearby crew's conversation.

As the sun fully breaks the horizon, he steps out onto the deck, a large wooden greatsword in his gauntlet-covered hands, his bare chest and forearms showing signs of past battles. He grins at the couple of deckhands who know what is coming...

"Chloe! It's Freeday! Training doesn't stop just because we are traveling! Gather your gear and meet me on deck! Bring your sparring equipment!" He bellows out across the airship.

With a leap up Chloe bounds out of the galley, having only arrived a few minutes after Konrad left. She makes her way to her room, and throwing open a large locker box, she retrieves her padded training clothes, and a pair of wooden hand-and-a-half swords. She dawns her padded training vest and races to the deck.

With no hesitation, she bolts across the deck, her hand-and-a-half sword trainers held before her. She leaps into the air, and brings the wooden blades down toward the shoulders of her adversary.

Konrad cracks a broad grin as his sister emerges onto the deck, swinging his heavy practice greatsword from side to side. As she leaps into the air, Konrad grabs the blade of his sword and lifts it to meet her strikes.

"Saw that coming, same as always... but we've been sparring since you could hold a sword." He teases, spinning his blade and taking a large step back. He feints a high strike (11) before changing the direction of the blade down low, trying to sweep her ankles. (14)

"As if," she retorts. "I like the maneuver! I think I'll call it," she is interrupted in her thought as she sees his high feint (13), and goes low with one sword to parry his greatsword (12), but misses the blade.

She rapidly sidesteps his low strike (19), and brings the other sword in for a slash across the chest (12), "I think I'll call it 'The Bastard's Fury,' because it's two bastard swords, and my fury!"

Konrad smiles, thoroughly enjoying sparring with his little sister. Still recovering from his low sweep, Chloe's sword connects with his chest, leaving a red mark that would welt up nicely. (4... lol) "Of course you would name it something like that!"

He raises his greatsword high above his head and brings it down in a large, sweeping arc (17) followed up by a thrust with his shoulder, attempting to throw his fiery sister off balance. (20! Lol)

Chloe brings her offhand arm up, seeking to parry and knock aside her large brother's greatsword at the tip, but the maneuver fails as her own blade simply provides a slide for him to maneuver down to the thrust. She tries to sidestep (1...crap), but trips awkwardly over her own foot. The big blade jams point first painfully into her ribcage, and knocks her clean over. She completely loses her balance and topples to the ground.

With quick wit and fast reflexes, she attempts to roll away (7), but loses one of her blades in the process.

Konrad laughs heartily and flips his sister's lost blade up into his hand with his foot, barely catching it. (13) He spins it in his hand so he is holding the blade and extends the handle down to Chloe, offering to help her up and return her sword in one motion.

"No fun sparring someone who's only half prepared... good effort, though!" He smiles at her, nodding at the wooden sword.

Chloe takes the blade and gives it a good swing to make sure it's still in working order, and then, to Konrad's surprise (and her own, at that), she sheathes the one sword, and goes two-handed on the other. "I'm always prepared, brother!"

With that, she executes a series of quick strikes with her one bastard sword, and comes in a thrust below Konrad's guard. (17)

Konrad struggles to defend against her swift assault, keeping most of the strikes at bay, but the thrust makes it through. (15) he rubs his hip where the wooden practice sword slammed into him. "Good one, Chloe! That was a flurry of blows that even Master Mackenzie would be proud of!"

Switching his grip from in front of him to the blade behind him, he changes his pose to a stance he's been practicing for years. "Alright, Chlo... let's see how ya handle this!" Bringing the reverse held blade up in a sweeping arc and downward in a lightning fast move, he follows the attack up with a quick pivot and sideways slash, switching hands on the hilt and hacking again horizontally in a wide swathe in front of him. (14)

Chloe easily parries the blow, catching the reversed blade in her crossguard, she twists and holds it fast (19). She delivers a front push kick with her left heel into Konrad's chest, seeking to knock him back (9), but to no avail! Konrad is just too big of a man to be pushed back by a girl 1/3 his size!

Konrad lurches as his sister levers his sword into an awkward position, hunching down as to keep ahold of it. As her foot comes up and pushes against his chest, he lets out a hearty, deep-from-the-chest laugh.

He releases one hand from his greatsword, reaching down further and grabbing the blade, resulting in a half-hilted stance. He attempts to heft his sword free from Chloe's, pulling with all his strength... the massive greatsword shatters, sending splinters in every direction. (Friggin.... rolled a 1... lol)