Practice (Tag: Alidia) rated M

Rahim entered the gym for the first time. It was the perfect place for him to work out. With him, he had brought a music player. He preferred to do his exercise to noisy settings for the reason of sound not being a problem when in combat.

Alidia was wearing her workout outfit as she walked in the gym. She smiled and laughed as she sneaked around Rahim and covered his eyes. "Guess who, handsome?" she whispered in his ears.

Rahim knew right away who it was when she spoke. He couldn't stop the smile from spreading to his face. He would know that voice anywhere.
"Hello, Alidia." he said as he took her hands from over his eyes.

Alidia smiled as she looked at him, face-to-face and kissed him. "Great minds think alike?" she put her bag down and fixed her hair into a bun.

"Are you here to practiccce too? I didn't know anyone elssse was coming." Rahim confessed, an apologetic look in his eyes.

Alidia chuckled as she started to warm up. "Funny how fate throws things like that?" She was ready to pretend fight with a hologram hunter. She smiled as she started the demonstration.

"Wow. You're not bad. Your father, whoever he is here, cccertainly trained you well." Rahim complimented her.

Alidia giggled. "Thanks honey, my "dad" is Vlad. I love him." she kept kicking the dummy.

"Niccce work. I guessss you want to sssee what I've got next. Yesss?" Rahim inquired, giving her a sly look.

Alidia saw his sly smile. She giggled. "Rahim, honey...show me what you got."

"As you wish. I hope you don't mind that I play musssic here. It'sss to desssensssitize me to the chaosss of real battle." Rahim explained as he walked to the music player.

Alidia gave him her sly smile. "I dont mind at all, honey." she watched him with a grin.

"Alright then. Get ready." Rahim said as he pressed the play button. The music quickly took him away to a world of combat. Drawing his scimitar, he slipped into a veritable tornado of swordplay and martial arts. He looked unstoppable.

Alidia smiled. "Yea, Go Rahim." she cheered. She clapped and cheered him on.

Rahim finally sliced of the head of an imagined hunter. For a minute, he pretended it was the one who took his mother from him. A smile tugged at his mouth with this notion. He landed gracefully on his feet when the song ended. It was only then that he stopped to catch his breath.

Alidia smiled as she ran up to him. And kissed him making sure she'd given him, her breath of life. Then she pulled out her magical stars of her hair and made them land on the other dummy's "areas" and then she did a cartwheel, kissed it and stabbed it's heart. "Never piss me off." she said as she walked to Rahim.

"I can sssee that. It makesss me wonder what your guardian ssspirit is." Rahim commented as he leaned on the hilt of his sword.

Alidia looked at him with confusion. "Guardian Spirit? What's that?"

"Everyone hasss their own guardian ssspirit that watchesss over them. When I was a child, I actually met mine. Imagine my sssurprissse when my guardian turned out to have been in Rudyard Kipling'sss famousss novel, The Jungle Book." Rahim explained.

Alidia held out her hand. "Do you think you could try getting ahold of mine? Or how does it work? I'll focus my mind." Alidia closed her eyes, relaxed and cleared her mind as she sat on the gym floor.

"Well, I'm not entirely sure if it'sss that easy. I found out when my mother and father took me with them to India. I got lossst in an old ruin near the campsssite, and that'sss when I met him." Rahim told her as he took her hand.

When Alidia felt Rahim's hand touching her's: she felt something, leaving her body.
The spirit of the Greek Goddess Athena came up out of her. "Who are you, stranger?" she asked Rahim.

The sight of the Greek Goddess left him almost speechless. Admittedly, Rahim wasn't sure which Goddess she was as he wasn't very familiar with Greek mythology. But if he had to guess, he would say she was either Artemis or Athena.
"My name is Rahim Sssahib, Your Ladyship. I was jussst with the woman I cared for. I regret that I do not know who you are." he answered when he finally found his voice.

Athena looked at the young man and smirked. "Arise Rahim, you can let go of Alidia's hand, she'll be okay, just in a small sleep. And I, I am Athena Greek Goddess of War. Alidia is a young woman that has been through a lot. Do you know that young Rahim?" she floated to him and looked into his eyes and saw love. "Rahim, you love her dont you?" she pointed her staff at Alidia.

"Yesss, I do. I know about her passst. And I love her more than I can properly sssay." Rahim admitted, truthfully. He doubted he could fool a Goddess. It was wiser to just say what was in his heart.