Secret Training

[Pepper]

"You're right. This isn't the time to be afraid. Well, in the way that causes you to run off a lot. I'm sick of hiding. It hasn't done any good then, and it certainly won't do any good now" Bambi agreed, a soft remembering glance to Littlefoot. His friend had a point. Sure they were younger but one way or another, they wouldn't be young forever. They had to learn to defend themselves eventually. It wasn't even a choice. All children had to take care of themselves one way or another eventually.

"Me too. It's ok to get angry sometimes. Besides, she did it for someone. It's excusable to a extent" Bambi agreed. Although he was impressed, he understood why Darla did it. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned apparently. He then paid more attention as Littlefoot attempted to use his neck for defense, Bambi did get hit but it didn't hurt. As a return for Littlefoot's defense, Bambi once more tried to charge at him, and fortunately due to no antlers quite yet, his head was completely bare so defense was easy.
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Pepper stood her head up high in a mockingly-prideful fashion as Freckles acknowledged she never forgot her own abilities. She then looked to see Mooch talk with Gene but listened as Freckles made herself aware that nobody would harm Darla on her watch. Pepper nodded in agreement "Same with me. You mess with my family, they'll really know why they named me pepper" She snarled a little to make her point be set across. She then giggled "Best I could come up with to comparison sake" She then saw Freckles pounce her and Pepper laughed as she was successfully tackled. Though Pepper did gently try to shove freckles off so she could fight better.
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Darla smiled as rolly kissed her back and afterwards, she smiled in agreement as Cadpig spoke to rolly too. "See? We can handle it rolly. Cadpig can at least, she's a good talker" She then giggled as Cadpig playfully challenged her. Darla got into a playful stance and took Cadpig's invitation to heart, as she quickly pounced the littler one. She made sure to be careful as well as fair.
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"Tell me something I don't know!" Kiara laughed teasingly, and then she was suddenly grabbed by Kovu who kissed her. Kiara was so shocked, she accepted it, completely distracted. She suddenly felt kovu get above her and she then snapped out of it and replied "Oh no you---Ah!" She then saw herself being the one pinned down. "Darn. How'd you.... never mind. You cheater!"
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"Exactly a safe-word!" Lilo replied, glad Edith caught on to the idea. She pondered a bit, thinking of which word before replying with a smile "I got it. Stitch" She didn't really need to explain it but that choice of word was quite frankly all for Lilo's good side.

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Mooch didn't pull back when gene hugged him, in fact he hugs gene back . Mooch smiles just a little, but his smile fades. " you wanna be my friend? What's the catch? I didn't get many friends at home" mooch said.

"Maybe that's just because you never really gave us a chance to be your friend. Have you ever considered that maybe if you were nicer and didn't have to insult me all the time I'd be your friend? I'm willing to look past all the things, you've ever said about me, if you're willing to at least try to be my friend. What do you say , mooch ? Wanna start over"? Rolly said as he walked over to mooch and extended his paw for a fist bump.

Rolly was surprised however, when mooch grabbed him and pulled him close in a hug.

Thumper was knocked to the ground by flower. "Nice move Flower" thumper said.

Koda goes to pounce on Tenderheart playfully and tried to go as gently as he could.

"Yeah, stitch works" Edith said.

Cadpig had to smile as he sees mooch give Rolly a hug. She knew deep down that Rolly could do it, and now that she saw mooch hugging Rolly, she thought she should try to be mooch's friend . Cadpig got distracted and was pounced to the ground by Darla. Cadpig growls playfully, as she wrestled with Darla.

"In wrestling, there is no such thing as cheating, what you call cheating I call "clever strategy"" Kovu said poking his tongue out at Kiara but, than gives her another kiss on the lips.

Dash waited patiently for an opponent.

[Lilo]

Darla was glad that rolly and mooch seemed to finally make peace. Hey, maybe this would work out after all. She then turned to Cadpig and laughed as Cadpig began wrestling back with her. She growled right back just as playfully, using enough effort to help herself but not hurt her little sister. She didn't want to hurt anyone anymore. She did plenty of that with mooch
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"Good! Let's start! I'll go first!" Lilo responded, keeping her promise and quick to wrestle Edith. Elsewhere, Kiara growled playfully as Kovu teed her before laughing, then kissing Kovu back. The young lion cub then saw Dash and responded "OK. Kovu won, so maybe he should train with you first dash. Then it'll be you and me!" Kiara waited for answers from both of them

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"That works" Kovu and dash say at the same time.

"And don't worry dash , both me and Kiara are gonna take it really super easy on your wings" Kovu said remembering that Dashs wings had gotten hurt that one time. He didn't want the same thing to happen again.

Dash flew over to playfully tackle Kovu.

" oh no you don't" Kovu said with a crouch and a playful growl and playfully pounces on top of dash in mid air.

Cadpig grabs a hold of darla's right ear in her teeth and pulls gently and playfully with a playful growl.

Edith wrestle back with LILO hoping to pin her down.

[Littlefoot]

Littlefoot nodded.

"I am tired of running away. So many times I wanted to help or fight back but I was told I was too young. Or it was too dangerous. Usually both. But this war's dangerous than anything that happened in my home. I need to learn how to fight and protect myself and my friends." said Littlefoot.

He nodded.

"Yeah. You're right. It is ok to angry sometimes. I'll just have to remember not to make her angry now." said Littlefoot.

He grinned as they kept training. He saw he had hit Bambi but Bambi was quick to retaliate and bumped him with his head. Littlefoot stumbled backwards and grinned.

"That was good. We'll be good at this in no time." said Littlefoot.

"I hope." thought Littlefoot.

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Freckles giggled as well.

"So you weren't named Pepper cause you sneeze a lot?" teased Freckles.

She chuckled showing she was kidding. She watched in surprise as Mooch and Rolly seem to make up and they were hugging. Mooch and Gene had hugged as well.

"Wow. Looks like something good came out of that mess after all." said Freckles.

Freckles grinned as Pepper shoved her off.

"We're going to have a lot of fun." said Freckles.

She giggled and kept playing charging at Pepper again.

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Gene grinned as Mooch hugged him back.

"There's no catch. I just want to be your friend." said Gene.

Gene watched as Rolly and Mooch made amends and hugged. He grinned at the sight wiping away happy tears.

"Wonderful. A happy ending." said Gene.

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Flower blushed at the compliment surprised he'd done so well.

"Gosh. Thanks Flower." said Flower.

He decided to wait to give Thumper time to get up. In a real battle the enemy probably wouldn't be so gracious. But they were learning how to fight so they could go easy on each other. At least for now.

"Come on Thumper. I bet you could knock me over." said Flower.

He grinned knowing Thumper was fast. He definitely could jump and that could be helpful in battle.

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Tender Heart watched seeing Mooch make up with Rolly and hug Rolly and Gene. Things were calming down now and that was a good thing. He paused as he realized too late Koda was pouncing on him as Tender Heart was knocked over. He chuckled glancing up at the playful cub.

"You got me." said Tender Heart.

[Lilo]

"Me too. I'm sick of being underappreciated or being a coward. I'm not some fawn anymore, I'm going to be a buck soon. I need to act like one" Bambi agreed. Like Littlefoot, Bambi was tired of being treated special simply because he was young. He was quite frankly sick of it. He wanted to be treated equally. As stupid as it was, he had to fight. No rules in war anymore. He then giggled about Darla "Yeah. She's a feisty one. Must run in the family I guess" He shrugged at that

He then beamed as he successfully hit Littlefoot. And with luck that they'd be good according to Littlefoot and he nodded. Although Bambi was still unsure of hurting his new friend, he knew he had to continue with process. He then tried again, still being careful but aiming for the same attack. This time to make sure Littlefoot was defeated for a bit.
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Pepper laughed "That's a good one. But nah, I think mom named me that because of my facial spots. That and the name Freckles was taken by you" She then saw Mooch and Rolly hug it out and Pepper panted happily. She then yipped "Hey what do you know? I guess things worked out! That's awesome!"

"Oh you know it sis. Watch out!" Pepper challenged teasingly. She allowed Freckles to come at her once more, but Pepper made sure she rolled about to make sure she was on top. Although this was playful, fun and surprisingly safer than Pepper normally was with wrestling, Pepper was aware this was training. And due to some of her own ego, she wanted to do the best she could.
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Darla growled as Cadpig pulled her right ear, laughing a bit. Darla responded by shoving her hind paws a bit into Cadpig's own hind paws. Lilo meanwhile was trying to not get pinned again by edith, by using all her might to shove her off. Lilo was a bit less careful but also was definitely showing restraint.
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"Get 'em dash! Show him boys drool!" Kiara cheered for Dash. She was obviously teasing but she obviously wanted Kovu to lose just so she could wrestle dash. It looked pretty close though thanks to both Dash's wings and Kovu's strength. Either way, Kiara wanted to be ready. Kiara sat patiently, laughing slightly seeing the fun in this training thanks to her two best pals in the children side of the heroes army.

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Cadpig was pushed off Darla with her hind paws. Cadpig circles Darla with a playful growl.

Koda continues to playfully wrestle with tender heart.

Mooch hugs Rolly tighter.

Mooch wondered if he ever had a problem with Rolly or Cadpig for that matter. I mean sure, they both made him look like a fool at one point, but, perhaps now that lucky wasn't here they might get a second chance.

Thumper charges at flower hoping to knock him down.

Dash and Kovu wrestled around in the dirt.

Kovu got the upper paw for the time being when he climbed on to Dashs back and wraps his paws around her neck .

"You're mine" he said with a playful growl.

Dash was hoping to win so she could take on Kiara as well.

Edith was shoved inthe dirt. After a moment or two on the ground she goes to playfully tackle LILO.

[Darla]

Darla was aware of how stubborn Cadpig was but then again, most of the Radcliffe family was. It was in their nature to be. They survived so much to give up the simple things. Darla growled playfully in return and awaited for a attack from cadpig again. Her hind legs jointed for action and her tail faster than a windmill.
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"Get on with it come on! There's gotta be a winner!" Kiara called out. As you can tell, Kiara wasn't the most patient of cubs. Especially with something she wanted to be a part of. She would win out of this either way, fighting her boyfriend or fighting her best friend.
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Shoving someone in the dirt was easy, shoving someone you liked in the dirt was hard. Lilo wasn't too keen on this but she knew it was something she had to practice for memory. She pinned Edith despite the other's attempts to tackle the Hawaiian. Trying to win this time was definitely on the child's mind.

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Kiara's call motivated dash and was the thing that really made Dash reach deep down and win this. Dash rears up on her hind hooves making Kovu fall off of her. Before Kovu could get up dash had placed her hooves on top of Kovu pinning down the lion cub and keeping him pinned down.

"Pinned ya" dash said with a smirk

Dash zoomed over to Kiara with a cocky smirk.

"And now, you're mine pussy cat." She playfully said to her BFF and got ready for impact ready to wrestle.

Edith tried and struggled to get out of lilo's pin somehow. Edith sighs dejectedly when she realized there was no escape.

Cadpig wags her tail and playfully growls. Cadpig playfully pounces Darla and playfully wrestles her to the ground.

[Kiara]

"Bring it horsey" Kiara teased playfully in return, her grin wider than ever. She immediately pounced on Dash, not patient about Dash being able to fight back. She was competitive as well as excited. She couldn't help herself. Now that the fight between her best friend and boyfriend were done, she wanted a piece of action. Now. She was in it.
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Seeing that Lilo succeeded, the Hawaiian quickly let go and assisted her friend. "You're ok? Rematch? Best two out of three now?" Lilo felt bad. Obviously. This was one of her best friends. Edith had been with her for a while now. Lilo wasn't comfortable still. It was sort of hard anyway. She helped Edith with some of the dirt with a apologetic look
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"Ah!" Darla cried out before laughing as her younger sister wrestled her down. Cadpig was feisty. Then again, Darla could be too. Darla responded by nipping her sister's ears or anything she could find that would cause Cadpig to try and get off her.

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"Come on Kiara, you can beat her easily" Kovu cheered on.

"You'd better be careful, or I'm gonna kick your butt again right after I'm done with Kiara." Dash said wrestling with Kiara. Dash refused to be beaten and would not be on her back for long.

Dash tried to roll Kiara on to her back for a quick pin.

Edith frowned, she hated losing. She wasn't very accustomed to it back home. Back home she was a winner and didn't like losing.

"I'm fine lets go again , for a rematch. But first, one thing"

Edith hugs LILO tightly. "Thank you for being my bestestfriend , LILO. You're more than my best friend, to me we're like sisters" Edith said hugging LILO tighter.

Cadpig playfully growls and nips at Darla playfully. "You're going down Darla" Cadpig playfully growled.

[Gene The Genie]

Littlefoot grinned.

"Then we'll just have to prove ourselves with this training. Then ask them to train us to show we can fight. We can't just sit in the sidelines or hide at home. This is our fight too and I want to help." said Littlefoot.

Back home he always had his grandparents and the other adults in the Great Valley handle the big stuff like Sharptooth. They'd run into a few bad guys in his adventures with Cera and the others but they'd always managed to outrun them or get to their families in time. But his family wasn't here to protect him anymore. He had to protect himself and his new friends. Littlefoot grinned as Bambi said Darla was feisty.

"I guess she is." said Littlefoot.

He smiled impressed though that Bambi had hit him.

"Not bad. I'm glad you're on my side." said Littlefoot.

He charged at Bambi wanting to prove he could fight too.

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Freckles chuckled.

"I suppose that's true. Freckles and Pepper. I guess we do look a lot like." said Freckiles.

She nodded seeing them be happy.

"I never thought I'd see the day. Maybe he just needed to be away from the farm and the others for a bit." said Freckles.

She grinned as Pepper surprised her and they started wrestling. She was just having a lot of fun and giggled. She paused wondering if they should switch partners soon.

"We should think about other ways to fight. Wrestling's only good if we're the same size. We're so little and I really don't want to fight Patch, Penny, or any of her other siblings that show up at one of the other armies. Maybe we should switch partners since anyone we fight will probably be bigger than us." said Freckles.

She didn't want to do it right away since everyone was mostly paired off. But the more she thought about it the pouncing and wrestling they were doing would only be helpful if they fought someone their size.

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Gene smiled.

"It's nice when things go so well." said Gene.

He paused turning to Mooch with a grin.

"You want to train with me? I promise not to use any magic well aside from maybe turning into a dog. We'd be more even that way. Although you'd probably still win." said Gene.

He grinned at his new friend hoping to train with him or at least hang out with him later. If he wanted to train Rolly or with one of the others that was ok too.

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Tender Heart grinned as he kept wrestling with Koda not focusing on any of the fights. In a real fight you had to focus on your opponent anyway.

"This isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I'm glad I have you to help teach me this stuff." said Tender Heart.

It was odd as he'd always seen himself as a Care Bear trying to look for peaceful solutions to help other kids. But he was technically a bear and he hadn't learned a lot of things that normal bears did. Like wrestling or catching fish. He'd learn what he could from Koda and try learning things on his own as well. He couldn't rely just on his power here anymore. He had to learn how to fight to protect his friends. He grinned at Koda as they kept wrestling.

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Flower grinned as Thumper charged at him as he charged as well. Flower stood there waiting for Thumper as his friend knocked him over and Flower grinned.

"I knew you could do it." said Flower.

Flower giggled as he glanced around at the other fights before back at Thumper.

"So what should we try now?" asked Flower.

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Mooch hugs Rolly and gene tighter. "Don't be tellin lucky, I said this, but, you're ok " mooch said giving Rolly a punch on the paw.

"You're ok too, mooch " Rolly said with a wide smirk.

Mooch smiles at gene and was about ready to accept his offer , but he heard what freckles had said. He was bigger than many of the Dalmatians and you had to start somewhere.

"I owe you a fight later gene, for now how about you face Rolly." Mooch said.


"I'd be ok with that" Rolly playfully growls to gene.

Mooch walks over to freckles and pepper. "If you're serious about that idea, I'd be down with wrestling with one of you. The other one can wrestle, that lion, he doesn't seem to have an opponent right now. "Mooch said looking at Kovu.

Koda continues to wrestle with tender heart and put him in a wrestling hold but, trying to be gentle with the care bear.

"How about now , we try to pin the other one down"? Thumper said.

[Pepper]

"I wanna help too. I'm tired of being put aside" Bambi responded calmly. He agreed with the dinosaur with most of things, because Bambi was sick of being underappreciated or for being a coward. Bambi was sick of being treated like a child, well a younger child. He then smiled as Littlefoot agreed with him about Darla. He related to the puppy in that regard. Anyone who messed with family, was someone who was going to get their teeth knocked in. He then chuckled as Littlefoot teased him slightly about his strength of attack.

He allowed Littlefoot the chance to hit and while it did surprise him, he didn't let it bother him. He responded in kind and attempted another attack. He made sure to be fair though, this was practice after all.
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"Ain't that the truth, twin?" Pepper teasingly responded. She then wagged her tail and nodded in agreement to Freckles statement about Mooch. Pepper responded "Yeah it's nice. I guess mooch has some good in him after all" She wasn't close to mooch, so she always assumed him as a bit of a buzzkill and a bully. Seeing this happen was a indication that the tough-guy attitude was mostly for show. Some kids were just afraid to be themselves, it made Pepper feel a bit bad for judging him.

She giggled then listened, after wrestling a tad, to Freckles' statement. She was about to agree when Mooch volunteered himself to them. Pepper growled playfully "Sure. One of us can take ya and one of us can take Kovu. I guess I can go with Kovu, if you want Frecks"
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"Hey let him root, Dash. No need to be a early sore loser" Kiara teased, for the moment allowing Dash to feel as if she got the upper hand. Allowing the Pegasus to pin her, only for Kiara to try a quick attack for her back, swiping to shove her off. Dash was a good fighter but she was a princess trained by the best of lionesses in some regard or another.
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"Alrighty. What?" Lilo said, aware of Edith's disappointment. She knew this wasn't a game but she didn't want Edith to feel she was a loser for not winning this time. Although Lilo was vain enough to be proud of herself for winning, she wasn't to take in the disappointment her friend felt. Then she had a big hug from edith and some worry, Lilo smiled and hugged back "You're like my younger sister too, Edith. You're really great to have around. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you or Nani or anyone I cared about"
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"No way!" Darla replied to Cadpig, fighting back with intensity. She and her sister always fought with intensity. Mostly out of fun though.

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Cadpig playfully growls at Darla and fought back with even more intensity. Cadpig was not gonna go down easily, that was for sure.

" I feel the same way. I have never had much family and I wouldn't be able to survive this long without you. You're like the awesomest person ever. I have got to meet this Nani person of yours someday. She sounds pretty amazing and any sister of yours, is a best friend of mine" Edith said.

She got into a fighting stance. "Whenever you're ready BFF" Edith said eager for a rematch.

Dash had to smile as she looked like she was about to pin Kiara down. But she took advantage and fought just a tad bit dirty. "Hey, that's playing a little dirty, I never knew you had that fighter's spirit. Well, Game on" Dash said as she was shoved to the ground by Kiara.

Kovu cheered happily as Dash got up and fought with Kiara.

"Come on Kiara, Dash is a push over you could beat her easily." Kovu said. Kovu didn't really believe all that. Dash was one of their best friends, he was just foolin around.

Mooch smiles.

"Which of you girls, think you could out wrestle me" Mooch asked playfully with a playful growl.