Anchor : Jonathan Morgestern

Chapter 38 (Mini Chapter)

Both of them together walked towards the training room laughing and talking. Both of them took a fence each and got into position. Jonathan put his fence down after seeing Clary’s position and said, “Step 1: Taking proper position.”

When Clary took her stance he corrected her immediately, “This is a wrong position. Think of your feet as the roots that keep your body in place. If you have a solid, well-balanced stance, you will be much harder to knock over. First, extend your non-dominant foot towards your opponent. Rotate your leg slightly towards your body so that your toes and knee point just to the side of your opponent. Extend your dominant foot behind you, about a shoulders-width apart from your dominant foot. Rotate your dominant leg so that your toes and knee are pointing away from your opponent. Also, your dominant leg shouldn’t be at a right angle to your dominant foot. Turn your leg in towards your body slightly if you find yourself doing this. Stay on the balls of your feet. If you stand flatfooted you might be slower than your opponent.”

And he helped Clary to get into right fighting position and helped her adjust properly on her feet.

“Now Step 2: Connect to the fight. You have to feel the rhythm. Best fighters always have something to hold on and connect to in a fight. Most of them connect it to dancing. Like move your body gracefully and flexibly. Feel the dance or imagine the music beat to move your body. Most importantly you have to learn to tune out your opponent, sometimes they try to bait us make us angry which creates mistakes. You have to keep a hold on your emotions during a fight.”

Clary nodded in understanding making notes mentally because this sounds like a wonderful piece of advice.

“Right so, come on now let’s take a chapter check-up. Give it your best shot and lighten up your body, you need to adjust to any style to defend yourself or to attack. And believe me stiffness is very counter-productive.”

“Aren’t you gonna pick up the fence to defend yourself?” Clary asked with a raised eyebrow.

“No. You attack and I will defend manually first, with punches and kicks only alright. Show me your moves.”

Clary threw the fence aside and got in position Jonathan taught her and felt much better when Jonathan nodded in approval. At his nod, she swung a punch to face which he easily blocked.

“Clary, easy there. If you use all your energy and strength at once, you will get tired easily which by the way is Step 3. That you should always put appropriate power in your moves, not too weak and not too strong.”

“Again.” He said.

Clary did it again and he caught it. “Step 4: Don’t let the opponent see your moves beforehand. Try to be as discreet as possible and try new techniques each time so that the opponent cannot guess your moves. Distract the enemy, goad the enemy.”

Clary got into position again, she was feeling it, the power the moves.

It was amazing. She kicked his legs but he didn’t budge.

“That was a good attempt but let me teach you different kicking techniques for Step 5.”

Jonathan then proceeded to show her different kicking techniques while helping her correct the basics and lay strong foundation for fighting.

Honestly how can people expect her to fight spectacularly if her basics are not correct? Jonathan internally rolled his eyes at people’s stupidity.

Clary listened everything attentively and then got into position once again and pretended to punch him on his face and swung a punch towards his stomach which he blocked easily by the way if anyone was wondering.

They practiced for a few more times and Clary’s hits were improving vastly. Then Jonathan taught her different blocking techniques and they practiced blocking techniques and Clary has never felt so good in a fight before.

Then they practiced with fences and they started a mock fight without any weapons and then with the help of fences.

Lastly they tried different weapons to find the suitable one for Clary. They tried bow and arrows, whips, swords and daggers. They find Clary is more relaxed with swords and daggers.

Jonathan helped Clary with the daggers in teaching her how to aim properly and throwing it without doing much damage to our palms and showing her different parts of human body that would hinder movement by hitting them that that point.

He also told her that hitting in femora artery would cause death within seconds which was scary as fuck.

He also taught her some basic sword movement. By the time they were done for the day, both of them were drenched in sweat. Both Clary and Jonathan were peacefully drinking water when their peace was broken abruptly with the annoying voice of Jocelyn calling, “Clary, Clary… Are you here?”

This made Clary roll her eyes and Jonathan trying to get the hell out of here. Well trying was the key word because Clary understood what he was trying to do and was doing her best to prevent him from escaping.

Jonathan then unleashed his secret weapon, his puppy dog eyes on Clary and Clary’s resolve melted faster than the ice in Egypt but sadly for Jonathan, his timing sucked as Jocelyn decided the same moment to enter after hearing their hushed bickering.

Jocelyn entered the room to see a sweaty Clary and a sweaty Jonathan looking at her and she sighed in relief when she saw Clary and said,

“Can we talk for a moment Clary, I searched the entire house to find you.”

While clearly giving Sebastian a look that said in private which was very rude mind you but a perfect escape opportunity for Jonathan for which he was really glad.

Who knew Jocelyn had her own uses… Well he certainly didn’t but then who with more than one brain cell would do.

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A/N:

Hey again guys
This is the last part of my updating spree...

I had quite a few ideas of Anchor already prepared, still it took hours

But....  This was your today's three part update as a long apology for irregularity regarding update.
Well it was a hard year being 12th std and board exams add along Grandfather's passing to the mix.

But, I really can't promise when the next update would be due but yeah it would be first of 'Amaranthine' and then for 'Anchor'

Hope you liked this mini bonus chap
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And oh, happy reading and stay safe
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