>>6329987“What the…”, Ashley said with honest surprise, her voice lacking the vitriol that had seemed to be there since the infirmary. Lifted the fairly thick redwood cane covered with silver accents along its length, raised gleaming accents, minute ancient runes around portions of it. “Heavy. It’s beautiful. How… why…”, she asked in honest confusion.
Emmy began.
“It’s your new cane we got from our older brother, David Adams; we were going to pool our allowances and ‘Brey was going to sell some gold to get one, but this is nicer and way more than we could have afforded. It was his but he is just going to upgrade to something even more posh and with more tricks.”
“It is to help while you get better, Ley. So you can protect yourself until you can cast again and use your new auto-mail arm. It has quite a few tricks, has a little instruction book but ‘Brey, Emmy, and I will walk you through them. Also, a letter to you; you are sending a “Thank You” back. This thing is custom-made and costs more than a nice car.” So? You went over its functions after you got a silent nod.
The handle could be twisted one direction to be pulled out, revealing a goblin silver and true silver blade; the handle could be straightened from its normal curve if desired. Twisting the other way with the handle and shaft caused a small rectangular opening to appear on the side halfway down that fit small straight mags with shortened 28 gauge shotgun shells and worked as a cocking and pump mechanism with a small embossed section to pop out some; the trigger. The tip of the cane was internally threaded and could be fitted with a small gauge grenade launching attachment powered by blank shells. Long silver tipped steel darts could be loaded in the end to be fired the same way or turn it into an improvised spear. Pushing a silver shield Icon near the handle would produce a forward facing, weak <span class="mu-i">protego</span>, like opening an umbrella. The wood had a strengthening enchantment and much of the outer decoration was goblin silver with some true silver as well making it an excellent beating stick.
The case held several different magazines; slugs, silver and lead buck-shot, dragon’s breath, non-lethal pepper ball; Aubrey promised to make some armor piercing rounds as well and stich holsters for the different magazines.
This is… it's amazing, like something out of Bond. I still hate you all but… thanks I guess.”, she grudgingly pushed out.
“Welcome. Now get up; on your own. The other Senseis and I are going to explain the rules of this Dojo, then it is exercise.”
A few minutes and rules and roles explained, the lot of you started around the lawn. Anna and Brey were running fast enough they easily lapped the rest; every one else mostly kept together at a jog with Macy and Matthew towards the back and Macy chugging a small bottle to pep her up. And at the very end were you keeping close to Ley in case she tripped and Travis power walking so he didn’t pop a stitch.
