<div class="floatleft">(http://knuxx.com/nm/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/prefight-pics-114.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Nuo<br/><strong>Location:</strong>New York, Westchester, The Xavier Institute<br/><strong>Whereabouts</strong>The Sub-basement/Danger Room<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Running outfit<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Danger Room Team<br/><br/>There were words of gratitude then followed by what others could be certain was cursing in Mandarin as the girl went flying through the air unexpectedly.  Nuo’s mind raced as her position in the world suddenly shifted.  The mind raced with all the sudden input of kinetic energy, her own signature increasing in her thoughts.  Lines of energy flared to life before her hands slipped in familiar motions down the length of the staff.  The length of metal had long since been known to her since before most people could even run she had brought these instruments to life.  Training for Wu Shu began and an early age and she had once been a champion.  Carefully she extended her body, twisting in the air so that her hands gripped the staff low and she poised the item over her head.  When her feet struck the Sentinel she channeled all her power into the length of metal, driving it downward in a rather awkward position.<br/><br/>Vibrations rang through her hands as the staff struck home.  Fingers went numb from the force of the blow as her back drove the staff downward with the power of her entire body.  Then the kinetic power of a day spent moving, surrounded by others moving channeled through the length.  Nuo desperately hoped the staff to handle the onslaught and then hoped her own body could handle what came next.  Standing sideways on the side of a building was not healthy.  More power echoed through her lower legs after the strike of the staff, pushing down into the Sentinel with added force to push off from the steel creature.  A slow flip started from her position, an arching of her back so that her eyes could track onto a landing point.  Then the flip continued with her legs sliding overhead.  Nuo’s mind opened up to the flows of energy around her, drawing on them all to soften the landing she would face.  Perhaps at a smaller distance she could have nailed the landing, as it was she landed on her feet first.  Still the kinetic energy was too much for her to absorb now and her body came crashing down from the impact.<br/><br/>Falling was a first lesson when leaping and turning was involved.  Nuo let her legs absorb the initial impact, curling backward instinctively so that her bones wouldn’t break after the considerable force.  She tumbled and rolling, turning to her side before coming to rest against the side of a parked car with another curse falling from her lips.  Scraps and bruises decorated her limbs, but she gave a weary thumbs up from her seated position.  The smile still there if a little worse for wear.<br/>