Dragons of the Sky [Summoning Quest|Ayame]

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Kisame appeared in the dense forest of Taki wearing his Type 2 cloak and katana attached to his right hip. His hip quiver holding all slots filled with arrows and his composite bow sheathed in place as well. He smelled the good smell of the woods as the beautiful aroma filled his nostrils. He wasn't too sure what he was really doing but he was looking for an adventure. Raijime was resting behind him, still attatched to his brother with his right arm strapped with a senbon bracelet that was filled with 60 senbons and a Shield Buckler attached to his right wrist. At this point Kisame was the Host body and he was ready to fight as well. Both had a pari of comm devices attached to their ears.

You ready Rai? We are gonna go find an adventure to go on!

Hell yah Kisame! Lets go kick some ass and fuck shit up! Wooho

And like that the twins were off. They flew from branch to branch upon a tree and headed god knows what direction. They were in all honesty just looking for an adventure within the boundaries of Taki. Hopefully something interesting would happen and hopefully they would encounter and run into a couple of people on the way as well. He was ready!

[Crystal Song]

As was the usual, Song found herself wandering through the forest. Her long red locks were style with a red ribbon, tied into a large bow at the back of her head. Orange flowers accented her well styled hair. She dressed in her usual outfit, a golden device cupped her breasts without connecting in the center, leaving ample amounts of cleavage. Gold bands held her biceps and large black sleeves billowed around her arms. She was wearing a golden bikini with three golden strands rising on each side of her hips. Her pants branched off from the bikini at the top of her thigh, in a shade of sheer white. Many tight bangles surrounded her ankles and stylizes sandals hug her feet, holding right around her ankle and covering the top of her foot.

Hitched on either side of her waist was a rope whip. In a pouch around her waist she held twenty flints, two eight inch flashlight, four field cauterizers, ten glass cutters, four knives, thirty bo-shuriken, fifteen darts, thirty-two makibishi, an equal amount of fifty milliliter vials, an inordinate amount of weaponry really. And that was not even counting her cloak, a heavy silk garment styled like a kimono, held tight around her body. That held two pairs of goggles, two walkie-talkies, forty-five bo-shuriken, fifteen hira-shuriken, and six knives. No one could say the girl was not prepared.

As she walked through the untamed forest she began to sing, her voice rising and falling in perfect notes as she sang a wordless tune. Her voice mingling with the calls of the birds.

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[OOC: Not sure how to start us off but want to get us moving, so my first post will be subpar to my normal standards, forgive me and bear with it please.]

And suddenly, things were different. The lush forests of the Land of Waterfalls seemed to fade away in an instant; a strange and dark wood taking its place. Where the sun shined brightly, the light filtering green through the tree branches, there was now only a dull grey light falling from a hheavily overcast sky. Trees that were strong and tall were replaced by gnarled and tortured husks that looked ready to fall over. The wind whipped through the trees, a long continuous moan filling the air as if the land itself was crying out in pain. The three Shinobi would find themselves standing in the center of a wide forest crossroad, the path old and overgrown with sickly looking weeds and ferns. How had they gotten there?

As Raijime, Kisame, and Song would look back at the separate paths they had taken they would see nothing but more of the same environment that they were in now. Either somehow the world truly had changed in a moment, or all three of these people had walked through the landscape in a fugue. Both options were frightening in their own way, but for now there was nothing attacking them. The most pressing matter at hand was simply each other. What would these Shinobi, strangers before this day, do now that they were suddenly thrust together?

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WHAT THE FUCK!!

What was going on?!?! The two merged ninjas would suddenly find their environment changing. It was bizarre. The lush forestry that they had seen themselves in was now nothing but a complete surrounding of dead trees and burdened branches. The sky had darkened and it immediately felt like they were in a completely new dimension. I don't remember the forest ever doing this before! Kisame and Raijime had probably ventured through out this whole country and not once have they ever encountered this strange phenomenon that they had just witnessed. Stopping right in his tracks Kisame would suddenly find himself standing in the middle of this crossroad and before them was a woman only 5 meters away.

Kisame's hand flew to the hilt of his sword. He didn't know who this woman was or where she came from but it was not something he wanted to find himself off guard with. He would retrieve his bow from it's resting place but the distance between them was too short. He would ready himself in a stance and speak in a commanding voice to the woman.

"You! Who are you and what sort of witchcraft has transpired here?!"

Kisame expected answers. He would not take his eyes off the womans torso an arms, any sudden movements of attack and he would be forced to react. However she was the only other  person that witnessed the phenomenon. If he was to get answers it would be from her.

ooc: Just for clarification. Kisame and Raijime are stilled joint so they are still moving as one body. 

[Crystal Song]

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"Hark, I am known throughout the lands as Crystal Song. I know not what has transpired in these woods, though it pains me to see such a desolate space where greenery should thrive."

Who? Kisame and Raijime had never heard of the name ever before. Crystal Song. Who in gods name would try to name their child that? Maybe it was a stage name. Either way Kisame wasn't going to let his guard down. He couldn't risk getting blind sided by whoever this Crystal song may be. His eyes did not move away from her however, the surrounding was still disturbing him. Who could have done this? If this Crystal woman knew nothing of what had happened then who did? Kisame wanted answers and he wanted them now.

"Then what's your business here in Taki? I do not see your headband so I'm assuming your a wanderer. What have you come Taki for?"

Kisame would relax his grip around his sword a little but remain in his stance. The woman was in a stance of her own. A strange stance but a stance nethertheless. He had never seen an eccentric style before. She seemed like she was telling the truth but one could never be too sure. But for now Kisame would not see her as a threat to his life. She may prove to be an ally.

[Crystal Song]

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While the travelers continued to speak amongst themselves there would come a new change to the environment, although a subtle one. The scent on the air, which would have smelled simply of dirt and old wood to that point, would now be fouled by a much more sinister scent. Rotting meat, a poisonous acrid scent, and the smell of discharging lightning filled the air in a strange putrid mix. At first the scent of incredibly faint, but as time went on it would grow stronger until there was no denying its existence.

After the scent would come the sounds. Shuffling feet, wordless groans, the occasional thud of something heavy hitting the ground. Just like out of some horror story would shamble the half-rotted corpses of the dead, dozens of men and women dressed in tribal garb and many of them missing entire portions of their body. All tripping over the heavy roots but always rising again to continue their endles walk forward. They came directly for the sounds that the three travelers had been making, their wordless groanings a call to yet more zombies that followed behind.

The first zombie, a short and dumpy woman wearing a rough skirt and nothing but jewelry for a top, would enter the crossroads, slowly ambling towards Crystal Song. Her eyes had long since rotted away, and her ears had fallen off, but she went straight for her, her grubby skull and jawbone parting to try and clamp down on Crystal Song's shoulder. At the same time two more of the undead would shamble towards the Twins, hands that were nothing but bony claws reaching out to grasp at the duo.

Yes. We went there. Zombies. What would the travelers do?

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Okay this is getting really fucked up right now.

What were these things? Creatures of the undead that had come forth and attack them? Could things get any more stranger? One minute he was about to answer the lady's question of what his name was, the next he was trying his hardest not to vomit out whatever he had for lunch from the stench of the corpses that was rotting right infront of him. Two of them began to approach Kisame but they were slow in movement compared to most opponent that they were used too. He would crouch into a position and began to harness his energy. He needed to make sure that he was in full strength. As they got close enough to his swords length he would slash out and perfectly slice the two zombies heads off their head and sheathing his sword back. Crimson Lotus Swipe. 

However the hoard continued to move towards them. They were still a safe distance away but they would prove to be very troublesome and Kisame had no intention in staying with them any longer. Calling out to Crystal he would yell "Hey you okay?"

He wanted to make sure the girl was alright after all. Looking forward towards the group of zombies he would take a step back and with a quick slash he would slice the air infront of him, sending an S rank amount of damage towards the upcoming Zombies, as the air that had been around his sword was concentrated and sent flying towards them, cutting them in half in the process. Dragon Strike

[Crystal Song]

Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) [10][10][10][10][10][Always Active]
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

Auditory Comprehension
Rank: B, A, S [Always Active]
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user comprehends various types of sounds instantaneously
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Bard has experienced many different types and used use many different type of sound. At this point, hearing and interpreting sound becomes second hand. The user can now interpret sounds heard, rather then just hearing them, deciphering what type of sound is made, location, what caused the sound, etc. This can even help the bard ascertain the general physical strength of the being that caused the sound. The user must train to understand the different types of sound made, listed below.
B Rank: The bard may accurately identify and decipher sounds within a 25 meter radius.
A Rank: The bard may accurately identify and decipher sounds within a 50 meter radius.
S Rank: The bard may accurately identify and decipher sounds within a 100 meter radius.
Limit: Automatically gained once the user has mastered Art of the Bard by gaining 500 Training Points. Every 500 Points extra unlocks another rank of this technique.

Algorithmic Decipher [10]
Rank: C-rank [Always Active]
Skill: Ninjutsu, supplementary
Effect: The user understands sound made by writing or various forms of tapping (Morse code). He or she can also mimic the said sounds as well.
Special: ---
Drawback:---
Description: The user can comprehend and decode sound waves emitted through tapping. This is done by hearing a string of sounds, measuring there pitch, flow, consistency, etc. Any forms of writing/tapping, will now be understood and reproduced by the user. This is extremely useful in spying on opponent or even sending messages back and forth. From the sounds of writing they can discern what has been written and pinpoint morse code messages.
Limit: Art of the Bard, must unlock Auditory Comprehension

Bodily Decipher [10]
Rank: C-rank [Always Active]
Skill:Ninjutsu, supplementary
Effect: Explained below
Special: ---
Drawback:---
Description: The user interprets sound waves emitted by opponent. By understand the sound waves created by walking, breathing, heartbeat, etc. The user is able to gauge their enemy’s bodily specification, such as their height, weight, muscle mass, etc. until they have literally gathered an extremely accurate ‘picture’ of the person with sound. This also allows them to sense fluctuations within breathing, heart rate, pulse which can help the bard know how tired or ill a specific person is. This is extremely useful in gathering information on opponents before ever encountering them. This jutsu can also be used to retrieve information on multiple opponents as well, when first learned they can discern the information of ten opponents, this can be retrained for an additional ten people each time with the maximum of one hundred. Each time this skill is learned it also gives a 3% chance of discerning if an opponent is telling a lie, with a maximum of thirty percent.
Limit: Art of the Bard, must unlock Auditory Comprehension


Wild Empathy
Rank: C, B [20][70]
Skill: Ninjutsu, Vocal
Effect: Gets any animals in the surrounding area to fight for the users cause.
Special: Singing
Drawback: There is a chance to fail. Animals may not be in the area. May NOT harvest/gather these animals for any reason.
Description: Singing a song meant to gain affection of the wild animals, the bard may be able to convince these animals to fight for their cause. At C Rank there is a 45% chance of getting animals to help. At B Rank there is a 65% chance. If the user is successful a die roll of ten will decide how many animals come to the users aide. These animals will be either 'common' or 'uncommon' and must be from a surrounding region. These animals will not exceed 'medium' in size. Once the song ends the animals will return to their homes if capable. This song lasts for four posts.
Limit: Art of the Bard. 'Singing'.

Ototon: Zerihagi (Sound Style: Jelly Leg) [20]
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu, Vocal or Instrumental
Effect: The user renders the opponent unable to use their legs.
Special: Instrument Skill or Singing
Drawback: --
Description: The user plays or sings a fast paced samba styled song. The chakra produced from this song will run along the ground in an manner that creates no visible impression. When this burst strikes a target it forcibly vibrates the user’s ligaments and tendons, making it impossible for the user to walk, run, or jump for two rounds. This technique has a range of ten meters, plus five more for every character rank above D the user possesses.
Limit: Art of the Bard, Singing C or an Instrument

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The Twins went with impressive brute force while the Maiden went with beautiful music. Both had their merits, but against these creatures it seemed that brute force was superior. The double slash easily too kthe heads off of the two zombies that were aiming for the men, and the slicing pressure wave they released cut a large swath through the clumsy corpses. Many of them were bifurcated by the powerful wind, although those that were cut at the waist merely began to crawl forward, black and green ichor trailing behind.

Crystal Song's songs had more mixed results. The song she sang to call the animals nearby... seemed to do nothing at first. The notes were clear and strong, and could easily be heard a good distances, but nothing responded. There simply seemed to be no animals nearby to hear Crystal Song's call. Her sound based attack however got her the results she desired, and the female zombie that was closing in on her fell to the ground in a moment. Yet just like the bifurcated zombies from before, she began to crawl across the ground towards Crystal Song.

As the two began to battle against the clumsy and slow zombies just throwing themselves forward, the trio of humans would be able to notice a much... heavier presence. Looking up from their assailants they would be able to see another zombie, although this one was much different than the others. Standing on a small tree branch was an androgynous zombie, it's skin drawn taught across stringy muscles and bones. It wore nothing but the tatters of a pair of pants, and its legs were longer and more developed than any human's.

Opening it's mouth the agile looking zombie let forth a horrific scream, drowning out Crystal Song's singing for a moment. Immediately the presence of more enemies would become apparent, as more agile zombies, looking like perfect clones of the first except for their clothing. They each stood high in the tree looking down at the humans, six of them in all. They didn't move a muscle for a long time, more than long enough for the three prey to dispatch the rest of the clumsy zombies. When they finally moved however, it was in perfect synchronization with each other, and with a plain strategy. As one, three of the agile zombies leapt forward, aiming to land directly on top of Crystal Song from three sides, and the other three screeched loudly as they leapt down to form a circle around the Twins. They would literally begin to run circles around the pair, as the other three attempted to sink their teeth into Crystal Song's flesh...

At least until a pair of solid antlers promptly slammed directly into the leaping zombies, them all three careening away and bouncing along the ground. Standing next to Crystal Song was a War Moose, standing five feet at the shoulder with great big antlers jutting from its skull, and razor sharp tines placed on the tips. The dull brown fur was covered with a wicked looking saddle, spikes jutting from bracers attached to the moose's legs, and a sturdy leather bridle affixing it's jaw. The moose let off a deep "buuooooh!" sound and charged forward, five more war moose each similarly equipped rushing into the crossroads and engaging the zombies... and the Twins. Two would charge the group of zombies with the twins and slam the side of their antlers into the creatures, knocking them to the ground before the moose would savagely trample and stomp the downed opponents. A fourth would charge straight at the Twins, its antlers lowered ready to stab them through. The first one to arrive and the last two would charge the zombies that had attacked Crystal Song, goring them with the sharp daggers on their antlers.

The battle had just gotten even more chaotic! Crystal Song's song would have drawn the War Moose to her, but she had called them to aid her without specific orders, and they would help her, and only her, fight. The Twins were in serious danger of being gored, mauled, trampled, or otherwise crippled by the powerful mounts.

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Things just suddenly got extremely chaotic. First the twins would find that the zombies were both attacked and both taken down by Crystal and his sword attack. Crystal had a weird technique where she began to call forth somethingt hat he would soon figure out what it was. Then Kisame would hear something. From up above he would find a bunch of zombies ready to attack. As they came down Raijime would seperate almost immediately from Kisame but the zombies would get rammed by a ...... moose? What the fuck was going on? Moose had came and attacked the zombies around them. Suddenly a moose began to charge the twins and this was getting deadly. Clicking a button from his senbon bracelet Raijime would send a senbon flying through the air and hit the moose directly on the thigh and proceeded to shunshin backwards 10 meters along with Kisame.

Kisame would call out. "Crystal DID YOU CALL THESE THINGS? CAN YOU CONTROL THEM PLEASE" He didn't want to kill an innocent animal. With Raijime guarding his back Kisame would draw his bow and arrow and get ready for an assult while Rai had a senbon and an open hand ready for an attack as well.

[Crystal Song]

Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) [10][10][10][10][10][Always Active]
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

Auditory Comprehension
Rank: B, A, S [Always Active]
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user comprehends various types of sounds instantaneously
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Bard has experienced many different types and used use many different type of sound. At this point, hearing and interpreting sound becomes second hand. The user can now interpret sounds heard, rather then just hearing them, deciphering what type of sound is made, location, what caused the sound, etc. This can even help the bard ascertain the general physical strength of the being that caused the sound. The user must train to understand the different types of sound made, listed below.
B Rank: The bard may accurately identify and decipher sounds within a 25 meter radius.
A Rank: The bard may accurately identify and decipher sounds within a 50 meter radius.
S Rank: The bard may accurately identify and decipher sounds within a 100 meter radius.
Limit: Automatically gained once the user has mastered Art of the Bard by gaining 500 Training Points. Every 500 Points extra unlocks another rank of this technique.

Algorithmic Decipher [10]
Rank: C-rank [Always Active]
Skill: Ninjutsu, supplementary
Effect: The user understands sound made by writing or various forms of tapping (Morse code). He or she can also mimic the said sounds as well.
Special: ---
Drawback:---
Description: The user can comprehend and decode sound waves emitted through tapping. This is done by hearing a string of sounds, measuring there pitch, flow, consistency, etc. Any forms of writing/tapping, will now be understood and reproduced by the user. This is extremely useful in spying on opponent or even sending messages back and forth. From the sounds of writing they can discern what has been written and pinpoint morse code messages.
Limit: Art of the Bard, must unlock Auditory Comprehension

Bodily Decipher [10]
Rank: C-rank [Always Active]
Skill:Ninjutsu, supplementary
Effect: Explained below
Special: ---
Drawback:---
Description: The user interprets sound waves emitted by opponent. By understand the sound waves created by walking, breathing, heartbeat, etc. The user is able to gauge their enemy’s bodily specification, such as their height, weight, muscle mass, etc. until they have literally gathered an extremely accurate ‘picture’ of the person with sound. This also allows them to sense fluctuations within breathing, heart rate, pulse which can help the bard know how tired or ill a specific person is. This is extremely useful in gathering information on opponents before ever encountering them. This jutsu can also be used to retrieve information on multiple opponents as well, when first learned they can discern the information of ten opponents, this can be retrained for an additional ten people each time with the maximum of one hundred. Each time this skill is learned it also gives a 3% chance of discerning if an opponent is telling a lie, with a maximum of thirty percent.
Limit: Art of the Bard, must unlock Auditory Comprehension

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The War Moose were easily placated by Crystal Song into not attacking the two other living humanoids in the area. Their fury thwarted, the War Moose would unleash even more violence upon the walking corpses, quickly reducing most of them into bloody smears on the ground. Although this was more because zombies are mindless swarming creatures that had no concept of their own existence or protecting it than any skill on the part of the War Moose.

There was an exception however. The original agile zombie that had called the other five had managed, after being gored by a set of antlers, to dis-attach themselves from the War Moose and quickly leapt back into the trees, quickly heading back the way the zombie had originally come from.

And that was, apparently, it for now. The quivering masses of flesh that used to be zombies were still now, and the War Moose looked over the carnage they had wrought with an animalistic satisfaction, grunting as they pawed the ground and looked for something else they could murder. The sense of unnatural danger had passed, and only the stench of rotting meat filled the air now. The three humans had a few choices available to them. Chase after the agile zombie that had fled, search the downed zombies for clues as to their identity or perhaps just for loot, give the poor corpses a quick burial, or continue on their way into a third path along the crossroad. The path led deeper into the forest, and probably towards more undead.

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Thank Rai for the help.

Kisame would look at his brother before he would come and fuse with Kisame one more time.As soon as they would fuse Kisame would turn around to see if Crystal was okay. The sudden wake of the undead was unsettling and he did not enjoy it whatsoever. Whatever lurked around these parts was not something that he enjoyed nor wanted to get into. He needed to get out of here quickly before any more chaos was to be brought forth. He would shout out to Crystal.

My name is Kisame by the way. He honestly didn't know what to say anymore. He didn't neccesarily turst this Crystal song woman but he felt as if he didn't have much of an option. So I would really like to find a way out of this place. Would you like to help each other get out? He asked with since honesty. The road before him looked grim and dangerous.

[Crystal Song]

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[OOC: Your characters haven't done anything yet, so go another round!]

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ooc: sorry it took so long. Teachers assigned shit ton of exams before spring break and well yah

Taking her heed of warning he would nod his head understanding the current situation and would trust her expertise. He would begin walking down the dirt road that lied before them with his hand itching and ready for whatever may come. The woman was weird at best. She actually wanted to rejuvenate the forest that they were in which he could not help but not understand why. How would she be able to do that and why? He figured it was probably some wandering hope thing that she was attatched too but he would not dare speak that out loud in fear of offending her. Suddenly to break the silence as they traveled Kisame spoke "So what brought you to this region Crystal?" The question was light but nothing too personal. Maybe he could get to know the person aiding him

[Crystal Song]

"My partner is currently indisposed." She explained, keeping a careful ear as she walked. Her eyes were peeled as well but she trusted her hearing more. "I was hoping to visit an old friend, another Bard, who lives near here. I chose to move through the forest due to my affinity with nature however I did not find it as I expect." She explained. It was a simple answer and entirely the truth. She allowed them to walk in silence for some time more before she spoke again. "And what of yourself?" She questioned.

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[OOC: Idling for now, continue as you like and I'll pop in when something happens]