Gunslinging Basics (Satoru and Kage)

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru breathed a barely audible sigh of relief as the shooting range. It was fairly large with both an indoor and outdoor range designed for a variety of guns. After all, Satoru wasn't picky, and he had grown up around weapons of varied calibers and killing-strength. He opened the door to be greeted by a young woman, perhaps in her early twenties, with twice-pierced ears and dark eyeshadow. She seemed perky enough and her eyes brightened as she saw the owner walk in.

"Toru!" She exclaimed, rushing forward to greet him and peer at the newcomer, long black ponytail trailing behind her. Her expression showed no hint of malice towards the giant Tora, probably because she was one as well. "Who's the new guy?"

Satoru let out a chuckle. "His name's Kage, Mina, and we'll be showing him the ropes. We needed another set of hands wround this place." He turned back to Kage. "Kage, this is Mina Izumi. Listen to her if she tells you something." Satoru was glad the woman hadn't hugged him and had settled for a bright greeting instead. Mina had a tendency to get overzealous with greeting her friends.

[jernus]

Kage walked in behind Satoru, a bit surprised to find yet another Tora working at a shooting range in the Ookami sector. She seemed friendly enough, so the giant wouldn't really have any trouble listening to her instruction. Besides, he was there to learn and assist, not lead. Such was the way of the wanderer.

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Izumi," he told the woman, giving a bit of an awkward salute. Officiality was not Kage's norm, but humor was, and hopefully the failed salute would make either of his overseers laugh.

[Satoru Alabaster]

Mina gave a laugh. "Just call me Mina, Ms. Izumi's so... formal." She stuck out her tongue in mock disgust. Her gaze brightened almost immediately. "Well you can start by helping me get some of the newer models sorted. We-"

Satoru cut her off. "Kage doesn't know much about guns in general Mina, I'm gonna give him a lesson or two before we start him on any actual work. Wouldn't do us any good if he got his head shot off."

[jernus]

Kage grinned at Mina's apparent distaste for formality. At Satoru's mention of the giant's head getting shot off, he looked at his employer and cracked his neck, grin widening.

"It'd take a cannonball to take this gourd down, but better safe than sorry," remarked Kage. "In other words, teach away, Cort." He wasn't sure just where the nickname for Satoru had come from, but it sounded like a name that the teacher of gun-wielders might have.

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru blinked as Mina giggled. "A Dark Tower fan." She said behind her chuckles. "Great!" With that she bounded off to continue her work. The elder male sighed, wondering where he had left his lighter. He needed a smoke.

"Whatever..." He said before leading the way through the halls. "So do you know anything about guns at all? Even the tiniest detail aside from that they can injure people?" He was hoping he wouldn't have to start completely from scratch with this guy. It would take far too long to get everything done if that was the case.

[jernus]

After giving Mina a tentative thumbs-up, Kage followed Satoru down the hall. He scratched his head at the owner's question, scowering his brain for any information that he might've picked up from people-watching.

"Well..." the giant began, chuckling nervously. "I know that the bullets are propulsed through the barrel with a tiny explosion that's made using gunpowder... and that you can tell when a bullet's spent because of how the firing pin looks..." Gee, this was tough. Kage didn't really want to frustrate his boss, considering that he appeared to need Kage's help for an extended period of time. However, being a pacifist came at a price where firearms were concerned.

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru nodded. "Well, that's something at least." He stepped into a room with handguns on the wall and on several tables. A sink was off to the side attached to a wall with a cleaning materials stashed beneath it. Another door was a few meters from the sink, it lead to an indoor firing range, albeit smaller than the usual one. Satoru had it built to conduct private lessons.

He washed his hands and gestured for Kage to do the same before taking a revolver and a semi-automatic off the wall and placing them on a cloth on a table. "I hope you know what these are." He said to the younger Tora. He should know, one was found on muggers on a daily basis and the other was seen is every western movie ever filmed.

[jernus]

Kage did as Satoru implied, washing his hands thoroughly and looking down at the two firearms that the older man had lain out. He pointed at the revolver with a hesitant finger. The unfortunate part was that he could recognize guns, but couldn't name them.

"That's a, uh..." stalled the larger Tora. "Er, um... That is to say, eh..." After another few words of hesitation, Kage dropped his arm and sighed. "Damn it... I know I've seen them before, but I can't put a label on either one."

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru was feeling reasonably more personable now that he was in his element. "This," He held up the glock. "Is a common nine-millimeter glock. Most police have this on hand when they're out." He placed the gun back down and held up the revolver. "This is a six-shot revolver, also rather common and in every single Western I've ever seen." He gave grin. "We're going to take these apart and put them back together so you know them inside and out."

[jernus]

This lit a certain fire in Kage's multicolored eyes, and he rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"You just learned the first words of my language, Cort," the giant stated gleefully. "I may not be a fighter, but seein' how stuff works is my mug o' root beer!" As a little kid, Kage had made a bad habit of taking things apart, enough so to very effectively irritate his parents. Now, it seemed that would finally come in handy.

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru grinned at his enthusiasm, taking the revolver aside and handing Kage a toolkit. "Have at it then." This was something he'd leave up to Kage, best that he get a feel for it. Satoru would repair it if the younger Tora messed anything up.

[jernus]

Letting his tinkering instincts take over, Kage took the toolkit and set it down on the table. He picked up the revolver gently and looked it over, taking note of anything that looked like it came apart without too much toolwork. With a few experiment presses and shakes, the giant Tora had managed to swing open the cylinder to find that it wasn't at all loaded. From there, Kage figured out how to take the whole thing mostly apart with just his huge hands.

"Ta-daaaa..." said the wanderer with a small grin. "Need me to put into smaller pieces?"

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru shook his head. "For now this is good." He picked up one of the pieces, a curved piece of metal that seemed like a latch of some kind. "This is the hammer, when you pull the trigger it goes back on a spring in the handle, then it springs forward and ignites the primer at the end of the bullet creating a small explosion. Using that, the bullet is shot from the gun out at the target."

He held up another piece, the cylinder. "This is the cylinder, you can probably already tell that this is where the bullets go. Loading them in can be a hassle though, so most people prefer the newer models of handguns."

He ran his finger along some grooves going around the very center of the cylinder. "These are how the bullets rotate, there's a little thing called a pawl attached to the trigger and it moves the chamber around by nudging it as the hammer is pulled back so another bullet is in place." He put the rounded metal back down.

"Got that?" He asked, not trying to patronize the giant. He had had the misfortune of trying to teach a few rich teens earlier in the week who couldn't seem to get the concept through their head that guns weren't magic. The habit of making sure everything had sunken in hadn't really left him just yet.

[jernus]

Kage nodded eagerly, the thrill of learning allowing him to understand why his employer was explaining everything so thoroughly. First of all, the giant really didn't more than Satoru had just taught him. Second, he recognized that most people didn't grasp some concepts as easily as he did, and it seemed that the shooting range owner was also well aware of that.

"You could probably get pretty fast at reloading and pulling the hammer back with practice though, right?" asked Kage. If he had to learn how to shoot, this would end up being his forte, most likely. The giant couldn't help but admire the simple things that actually required some attention.

[Satoru Alabaster]

Satoru nodded. "With practice, certainly." He was quick enough with it after all, though it's not like his old job had let him be slow at it either. He mused on that for a moment before continuing. "Anyway," He began reassembling the revolver. "It's fairly self-explanatory from there. Aim and pull trigger. If you cant aim then hope you don't hit something important."

He held up the handgun next. "This one we won't be disassembling, but I'll tell you the basics about it." He pointed to a little latch on the side. "This is the safety, unless you're about to use it, keep it on at all times. Last thing you need is a bullet through your foot. Trust me, it hurts like a bitch." He was grinning despite the talk of injuries. "Also, the safety won't work if you're already firing, you need to use up the entire mag before it'll work again." Though that was because it was a semi-automatic. "Once it's cocked the safety won't work, though measures are taken to make sure there isn't a misfire."

He pushed a small button near the handle and the gun, the magazine slid out almost immediately afterward. "This is the magazine. Despite popular belief mags and cartridges aren't the same thing. This holds the bullets for when you need to fire." He paused to see if the younger Tora had any questions so far.