Iron Strength [T]

[Zetsumei]

Setsuna Hibana(Instant Spark)
Rank: E
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a spark instantaneously at said target location
Special: Ox
Drawback: --
Description: The user focuses chakra at a certain point on the target and creates a small amount of friction in the air, sparking the area. This can be done almost instantaneously, but causes almost zero damage due to the small nature of the spark. It cannot cause paralysis or blindness, nor any other sort of damage. Usually a prank children use on each other like a game of tag, but with sparks for a small kick.
Limit: Lightning Release

Anastasia walked into the back yard of the home she had purchased for herself with the earnings from her mission, along with a loan from the village. Placing her hand on the trunk of the tree she plucked a leaf from it, it was time to learn a bit more to do with standard lightning abilities. First would be the Instant Spark, a weak power from the Raiton release, that involved a quick, instantaneous burst of electric chakra to create a small spark nearby. Her hands slipped into shape and formed a single seal, the one that felt most natural for her fingers to slip into while chakra flowed throughout he body.

Slipping into a seated position the energy flowed through her body, it should not take long for the power to unfold for such a simple power. Charging the energy within her body the woman pushed twisted the power of chakra that flowed through her body until it felt like a writhing mass of electricity that sought release and now she simply needed to choose a target. Eyes darting about she took notice of a leaf that had fallen from the tree and onto a dirt patch not five feet away. Releasing the pent up power inside she left the spark fly to it's target.

Shooting through the leaf the spark heated the air enough to scorch a hole through the fallen bit of vegetation. Nodding to herself she began the process again, speed could always be improved, and the power flowed in her body. Twisting the minute about of power into another offshoot of electrical energy she kept her target the same as she prepped the power for release. Finally, unleashing it after the blink it took to guide the energy the spark appeared again, shooting through the leaf and scorching a hole through it once more.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Laughs. Talented one as you learning something so … Yeah, learned.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

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[Zetsumei]

When the letter appeared in front of her face, the woman looked at it curiously before plucking from the air after it showed her who it was addressed to. Reading over it she jumped up immediately. Someone needed help! How could the former slave simply sit about and do nothing? Hurrying to the Tower, Anastasia was determined to find and save this person. Someone had to.

{Exit}

[Zetsumei]

"Power Bond"
Rank: D-ranked
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Binds two objects capable of being influenced together.
Special: "Hand seals"
Drawback: Same draw backs as "Satetsu Transmutation". This bond is as strong as the user's respective rank within "Satetsu Transmutation". Moving out of the "Polarity Field" ends this technique.
Description: By performing a set of hand seals, the user can command satetsu to adhere and solidify between the two metallic objects with magnetic potential. This binds together the two objects temporally. The bond of satetsu may be rigid and hold the two objects together stiffly, or bond them in a flexible manner to grant movement. This technique can be used in a variety of purposes, such as combing two metallic objects together to create a stronger weapon, or to further enhance two metallic objects in some way, shape or form. Satetsu appears like a spindle wrapped around the object, and lasts for 1 hour. The bond is as strong as the user's current rank within "Satetsu Transmutation" but will return to its powdered state once the technique ends, upon the whim of the user, or if enough damage is received.
Limit: Masamune Blood line. Must know C-ranked "Satetsu Transmutation".
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Returning to her home she went back to the back yard with the barrel of Satatsu and set it down, moving a bit away and seating herself. Pulling the two swords she carried with her from her belt she recalled an ability of her blood line that would allow her to bond two metallic objects together using the powdery iron sand. Well, she did not really have a use for it with her weapons at the moment, but perhaps someday it could be used to produce a bridge or something like that. For the moment she closed her eyes and prepared herself to utilize the technique.

She allowed the energy to flow through her body and empower the polarity field that emanated from her body and allow it to manipulate the iron sand. Anastasia began to slip her fingers through the various zodiac symbols that allowed the power within to properly focus itself and conform to the technique at hand. The energy flowed within her body and infused her polarity field which began to touch upon the satetsu within the barrel, pulling it towards the cork that stoppered it and pushing up against it.

Exerting pressure on the cork she popped it with the iron sand which flowed in a small quantity towards her person. The former slave completed the series of zodiac symbols and the flowing sands of iron moved towards the hilts of her swords and attach to them, building a connection of the sands between them. As the woman examined the connection something seemed wrong about it and so she tried picking up the swords, byt just the handle of one.

Even without real pressure aside from the weight of the other blade, the metal user could already see the iron sands straining to keep the weapons connected and after tugging them apart fairly lightly the connection snapped. The woman could tell the grains were not interlocked well enough by the polarity field, so she would need to work on that. Moving her fingers through the zodiac symbols a second time the power within flowed throughout her body and infused her polarity field once again, the control was with her again.

The magnetic field of hers took control of the powdered iron which she had shed from the swords and began to manipulate it again. The iron flowed and pulled the two weapons together once again, creating a small like that connected them at first. After the first small line was created, more sand began to surround it and she wove the powder as if it were thread becoming a sturdy rope. After a moment of working the Satetsu, she ceased and looked at the bond that held the weapons together, it certainly looked sturdier, but would it hold up?

[zarak729]

Learned!

[Zetsumei]

"Seeker's Eye"
Rank: D-ranked
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Grants a mobile "eye" for the user.
Special: "Hand seals"
Drawback: Same draw backs as "Satetsu Transmutation". Moving out of the "Polarity Field" ends this technique. User must cover one eye for this technique.
Description: By performing hand seals, the user solidifies satetsu into the shape of an eyeball: 1 centimeter in diameter. The user then closes ones of their own eyes, and creates a direct neural connection with this eye. This eye will grant the user the ability to see, just as they would with their regular eye. The eye formed is an excellent spying tool, and can often be placed on the opposite sides of walls, or wherever the user's Polarity Field may permit. They eyeball is rather fragile, and merits on a "D-ranked" work of defense. These items return to their powdered state upon the whim of the user or if it is destroyed.
Limit: Masamune Blood line. Must know "Satetsu Transmutation" and "Polarity Field".
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The woman tugged the two connected blades and could not break the bond, with a nod of satisfaction she released the connection and used her magnetic field to dismantle the bond that she built. This, however, was not enough for her repertoire and some further additions would be necessary with her blood line capabilities. Thinking back to what she might be able to do and what might be useful, her mind set upon one lower ranked ability that would increase her scouting potential, though it would only work within her field of magnetic control.

It would require a good deal of focus to make use of the ability, at least for the first time using it, but soon it would be fairly simple to make the neural connection. The woman's fingers began to dance through the series of zodiac symbols, each one unleashing the energy that flowed inside her form. With each symbol the energy of life that was chakra began to mold and shape itself into the weave that would allow the connection between her mind and the false eye I was about to create.

As the short series of zodiac symbols was completed the chakra within flowed out and into the polarity field which enhanced my control over it. The fine powdered iron that made up the Satetsu swirled about in the air as she gave it an interlocking form, a sphere that started with a grain and grew into a sphere one centimeter in diameter. Once the iron orb was created, the energy that was within the magnetic field her body produced seeped into the orb of iron sand. It was not simply a sphere though, for she made sure the added the protrusions to give it a more defined form.

She was puzzled for a moment why the ability did not seem to work, she had done everything correctly as far as she remembered. After a moment of thought she smacked the heel of her palm against her forehead and closer her left eye, placing two figners over as she reached out to the chakra infusing the floating iron sphere. Connecting that power with her body, making it at her eye she could feel the neural link slide into place and the blankness in the Masamune's vision was filled by another angle.

Staggering for a moment from being suddenly hit by vision from two separate perspectives at once, Anastasia adjusted herself and began to experiment with the eye. Exerting her power over the magnetic field she began to pull the iron eye away from her, noticing as the view changed, but she noticed that the picture she was getting from it was slightly blurry and so she began to strengthen the link that she had with the sphere and the image began to sharpen properly. Raising the eye into the air she lifted it over the roof of her home and was taking note of everything atop it.

[Father 'Suke]

+10; learned

[Zetsumei]

Shōton no Jutsu (Crystal Release Skill)
Rank: "A" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The Crystal Release is a specialized field of Ninjutsu that can create crystal, (providing the user with an unlimited supply of melee weapons,) as well as manipulate already-existing Crystals and crystalline structures.
Special: ---
Drawback: Crystal Release cannot crystallize either raw energy or chakra as they have no physical mass to crystallize, allowing a person with either energy-based jutsu, such Wind Release, Fire Release and Lightning Release, or good chakra control to properly counter it. Crystal Release is also susceptible to a specific sound wave frequency; because crystal requires a very precise build-up of molecules, the proper sound waves can break down the build-up before the crystal can properly form.
Description: Using Crystal Ninjutsu, the user can crystallize any physical material and even the moisture that is present in the air around them, turning them into a weapon. In the case of human targets, Crystal Release can solidify its targets down to the cellular level, imprisoning and even killing the victim should the crystal ever be struck, reducing the mass of crystal and the victim down to crystalline dust. Earth Release, Water Release and Wood Release are all useless against the Crystal Release style: Because the Earth, Water and Wood styles all have physical mass, they can be crystallized, and then turned against the Crystal user's opponent. The Crystal style does this by influencing the arrangement of minerals and the structure of molecules. Liquid, mineral or organic, if it has physical mass, then the Crystal style can effect it,
Limit: Must have Mastered Earth Release or Must have gained two and fifty training points in both Lightning and Sand Release.
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The orb she had formed of iron sand was pulled from the roof by the woman the the powdered iron came apart and returned to the barrel which she then corked. It was rather dull working solely with the Satetsu her personal polarity field manipulated, so she wanted to try something different. With something different, something new would work best, and so she sat down, determined to work and obtain a new Ninjutsu release of the advanced type. The former slave had been mulling over the notion for a while and settled upon trying to obtain and use the Crystal Release.

Taking a seat beside the barrel the woman crossed her legs into a meditative position and close her eyes, slowing her breathing to a slower, more natural pace. She allowed her mind to blank as she continued her slow, rhythmic breathing in order to slip herself into a trance. Anastasia's chest rose and fell and her mind slipped into a dream-like state as she fell into a trance and entered within herself, into the great ethereal network of energy that ran throughout her physical form. Looking around she began to walk the halls of energy in her semi-translucent form in the realm within, searching for the cage which held a source of untapped energy.

As what felt like hours of searching throughout the labyrinthine channels of power that ran through her form she came across it, a passage caged off from the rest. A power she had not been able to tap into before, yet she felt herself capable now. Pushing on the cage she crush the bonds that sealed it off and allowed the energy to flow through her, yet it was wild and untamed. As it threatened to consume her she let out a gasp of discomfort and fought against the crystalline power that ate away at both physical and ethereal forms.

The woman pushed her energy through, trying to overcome the pure, raw power and yet she only managed to subdue it. It would seem that taking control would require her to confront and tame the source itself and she continued onward through the passages and as she continued along little crystalline energy creatures rose up and attacked, trying to slow her journey, yet the woman easily used her power to suppress the small critters.And on she went, crushing those minor obstacles as she hurried towards the source of this power within.

When Ana finally arrived and saw the huge, ethereal creature of crystal before he she was panting from the exertion of suppressing all the minor attacks that had taken place in her search. The woman could not hesitate, however, and instead pressed the attack while she could, unleashing the chakra within her body and creating a blanket of energy which she used to smother the beast. Yet it was but a minor deterrent for the creature of pure crystal energy and with it's counter the woman could feel her fingers begin to stiffen. Using a pulse of energy she broke free from the crystallization and continued the pulses to slow the beast down while gathering up her own power.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Lol! I remember when I leaned this! Plus Ten.

[Zetsumei]

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The power grew within as the woman continued to charge up her counter until finally unleashing the energy upon the beast of chakra that dwelt within her. as she unleashed the power when it reached the pinnacle for her desires the walls, floor, and ceiling shot out at the chakra creature in chunks. Those portions that shot out at the crystal chakra entity transformed into chains which bound the thing, restricting it's movements yet it was not yet under her control. She could not hesitate, however, and used the opportunity created to charge the beast the raged within her chakra network and threatening to consume her.

The ethereal entity roared at her imagined form within the network of power that filled Ana's physical form and it launched crystal shards at her charging ethereal body. Raising up one hand in front of her as she ran, a glowing wall of translucent blue ki rose up before her without hindering her movement. The shards of crystal shattered against it and the wild creature let out a roar of frustration and when the shield lowered it made one more effort to destroy her mind and resistance. All around it crystal was formed, with large spikes shooting up with each one, trying to stab her as she darted swiftly around, avoiding them and impalement.

That would hopefully be the last effort it made and soon she would have crushed the resistance and made this rampant chakra her own to use as she pleased. Avoiding the last of the spikes she drove her hands into the being's ethereal form and began to flood it with her own energy. A shriek of pain came from it's throat as her energy flooded it, though it was by no means a simple take over. The being fought against her power and control over it as she pushed her ki in and overrode it's wild spirit. After several grueling moments of fighting to assert her dominance directly with this injection of power she succeeded.

Slipping out of her trance she opened her eyes and looked around, everything seemed fairly normal until she looked down and noticed that crystal had taken form on the ground surrounding her. She let out a small gasp, realizing that one meter of crystal in all directions had been formed during the brief moment she had lost control, she needed to learn to do something of that sort herself. For now, though, she needed to focus on properly harnessing the power and so she picked up a small stone, hardly more than a pebbled, and began to focus upon it. Tapping into the newly tamed power within she began to draw upon that energy and focused it into the stone.

Things were not quite as simple as they seemed, however, and despite placing the chakra capable of crystallization into the stone there was no change to it. Perhaps she needed to focus more upon it, she had only obtained it after all and not the proper know how on it's use. Taking the energy she allowed it to cycle through the network of chakra in her body, passing through the tenketsu as she obtained a feel for how it could be used. After a few short moments the woman got a better understanding and allowed the energy to pass through the appropriate tenketsu and into the stone within the palm of her hand.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Plus ten. Nice

[Zetsumei]

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The power she used flooded into the small stone and she focused upon it, using a good deal of her concentration as a starting point. The power flowed into the stone and she began to pulsate the energy very slightly which caused a bit of compression within the rock. The woman continued the pulsing, increasing the pressure she was putting upon the rock and compressing at a fairly slow pace. She needed to pick up the pace a bit so she increased the energy output and frequency of the pulses and watched as the pace noticeably picked up. First she heard it as the process went on, the faint crackling as the stone compressed and crystallized, though it was not visible just yet.

After a minute she saw it, the first visual key that anything she was doing was taking effect. The rough sides and edges of the stone began to smooth out and the dark grayish coloration began to change, to lighten. She saw it crystallizing, it was a truly fascinating process to watch and even more so since the Masamune woman knew that she was the one causing the change. After a minute longer of watching it the stone was fully crystallized, the rough stone surface changed to a smooth, semi-translucent crystal with a slightly blue hue to it. The process had succeeded, but it had only worked with a small stone and the had been incredibly slow, she could not say that it was even remotely successful at this pace.

Setting down the crystal, the Chuunin of Otogakure no Sato took a slightly larger stone into her hand and rolled it around for a moment in thought. Gripping tightly, her decision made, Anastasia let energy flow into her body and pass through the tenketsu that would best amplify it's crystallization properties in a cycle of seven in hopes that it would further increase the crystallizing speed. After the seventh pass through the Tenketsu cycle she passed the chakra through her arm, into her hand, and then out into the stone, where she began to manipulate and cause it to rapidly pulse as she had before.

The woman's mind was set on the task and, while not the smartest individual out there, she could come to the solution with enough thought and experimentation. After a short time she decided to alter the pulsing slightly from the steady pulsation of power to something more rhythmic. Shifting the power which was in the stone already she changed the steady thump-thump-thump into a thumpthumpthumpthump, thumpthumpthumpthump. She could practically feel the change as the new transformative measures she had implemented began to take hold and shift the rock. The grinding crumble of the rock being compressed by the energy soon started up and another idea struck out of the blue.

She went through the same application process that she had done before to prepare the initial energy she pushed into the stone and began to expel it from her palm to the rock again while still maintaining the pulsing. This time, however, instead of infusing the power into the stone she spread it over the stone as if a blanket which she then proceeded to compressed with allowing it to enter into the rock. This pressure from both inside and out managed to increase the speed at which the crystallizing process increased dramatically. Soon she was seeing this larger rock shape itself into a crystal in much the same way the first had.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Nods. Ten

[Zetsumei]

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Once she completed the new crystal made from the larger stone she examined the amethyst colored crystal in order seek out any flaws, or portions that had remained stone. Yet her examinations yielded no such results and a small smiles crept onto her face. She could be slightly satisfied with this result, but the woman wanted to further test the abilities to change stone into crystal before moving onto something more difficult and so she grabbed one more stone, this one larger than the others. Power flooded her system and she cycled as she had done several times before and the Chuunin infused the stone with it and blanketed it as she had before.

This time, however, was different, she was not simply creating a crystal from the stone, and she fused the blanket slightly into the rock and used it to contain the pulse as well. The exterior portion would remain stone, but the interior would crystallize and create a simple geode if everything went as planned. She was careful with the crystallization process, one misstep could cause the crystals to form incorrectly or the whole stone to crystallize. She focused her attention on that outer shell of energy that had been created and made sure it would contain the crystallizing without extending beyond and after a few moments of the muffled crackling noise she felt that the geode had been formed.

Releasing the chakra so it could not overextend the crystallization, the woman used her magnetic field to get her Satetsu to open up the rock and return it to the barrel. Opening up the stone that her iron sand had split she looked inside at the crystals to find a perfect, emerald hue geode within that hollow centered stone with crystals inside. The Sound Chuunin smiled and pumped her fist in success, with such precision in being able to crystallize rocks then perhaps it would not take quite as much work to get a decent handle on the crystal release but only time could tell for that.

She wanted to move on to creating crystal from nothing, but still knew that there were too many steps in between, so she set down the geode and scooped up a small handful of dirt. She had been dealing with one solid piece before, but something more loose like soil would be a lot more difficult to crystallize. So, she began the process of empowering he chakra as she had done several times before already and infused it into the soil at the correct time. And so her power flowed throughout the soil that was held within the palm of her hand, yet after a minute there was no change, the method to alter this would be different from doing it with a single solid stone.

Cutting off the energy she looked at the soil for a moment, it would seem for this she would have to solidify it first as she could do with the earth release, it would be pointless to do so without using the Crystal Release, though. Reconstructing the solidification process in her mind she began to make alterations using chakra weaves that she knew to get the desired results. After a few moments of careful consideration the woman constructed the weave in her mind and began to release the flow of energy into the ethereal veins that ran throughout her body. The power passed through different tenketsu, key to help solidify and crystalize, and then she began to push it into the soft earth within the palm of her hand.

[Zetsumei]

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The Ki that flowed out from her body and into the soil, yet it was not a simple mass as she had done previously and instead used another method. The spiritual power flowed from her palm in what looked like thread shapes and first entered the loose soil as a tangled mess. Taking a deep breath, she set her mind to work and took the thread of raw power and began to untangle it, weaving it into shape during the process. It was a painstaking process, every part had to be perfectly woven together tightly if she was to see results of any kind, though the woman did find herself hopeful as she continued forming the weave.

Her weaving of the chakra tightened up the power over the soil, drawing it all together and compressing the soil slowly. It became plainly apparent that the rate and strength of the soil compression required the weave she was making to become quite a bit tighter in order to both unite and solidify the loose, disjointed soil into the smooth, tight form of a crystal. She tugged upon the end thread with half her mind, tightening up the weave she had created thus far, and weaving the loose bit back into the standard portion of the weaving power and the visual results were quite clear.

Anastasia could see the soil becoming more of a solid lump rather than a loose ball being pressed together, and the edges were taking on a stony texture and hue. The woman was getting more and more use to the manner in which she needed to tightly weave the energy together and the process was speeding up as her capability to weave did as well. Faster and faster the soil became stone and then the stone began to compress further and take on a more translucent sheen. After several moments that pile of soil had transformed into a violet crystal, but this was not the end of it.

Before she had only been changing other materials into crystal, but now it was time to test a different process altogether, a very valuable process of crystals. This property to test, was the ability that crystals possessed to grow, as if they were living things. While she wished to use the same means of processing and utilizing her energy, it was quite apparent that such a way would never work for something so different. So she set down the newly formed crystal and stared at it for a minute, trying to think about the best way to make a crystal grow like a tree.

Perhaps that held the answer though, the chakra types, while completely different, held similar properties when it came to the growth of things, though one was organic growth and the other was inorganic. Taking the normal chakra formation and preparation in her mind as the starting point for this new build, the woman began to reverse engineer another mold of energy. The shape changes and morphed with each passing moment as she imagined the necessary configuration and altered it as necessary, adapting such different types of growth was more difficult than Ana had initially imagined.

[Zetsumei]

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While conceptualizing the particular mold necessary to form the crystal growth, the woman had to take a quick water break where inspiration struck. Nodding to herself she went back outside and sat down on her comfortable little patch of grass and picked up the dirt crystal once more, preparing herself for the next step, the crystal growth. Inhaling deeply the power within her body began to cycle through the veins of energy that filled her body and pass through her tenketsu, reaching and optimal 'elasticity' for the use of crystal growth. Giving it another moment to properly run its course, she released the energy through the tips of her fingers and into the crystal itself.

The energy flowed into the crystal with ease and from the moment it entered the semi translucent structure of the crystallized soil she set to work on it. The power pulsed with a slow thrum as the former slave worked with it, molding it into shape as if a sculptor shaping clay into a work of art. Yet she was not an artist and this was not a work of art she created, what the Chuunin of Otogakure was building was an art of war. As she worked and shaped the power that infused the crystal, the female focused her senses of sight and hearing in attempt to catch the signs that she was on the right path with her mold concept and where changes would best help.

As she shaped the power she began hearing different sounds and soon a small amount of growth was seen from one side of the crystal. The growth, however, stopped shortly after and only reached about a centimeter before it had stopped, which caused me to ponder the cause of it. She continued to shift the chakra he molded and while it did cause more growth, it was not enough to truly be called true growth to the Crystal, and then she realized the issue. The power that was filling the crystal did not extend with the growth, if she wanted the growth to continue more naturally, the Masamune would be unable to allow it proper growth if she had to guide it the whole time.

As she continued to manipulate the power that she allowed to flow freely, the woman shifted the mold, waiting for the energy she had inserted into the crystal formed originally from dirt. She watched the power shifting with her inner eye as she worked until the female managed to get the chakra moving on it's own without sacrificing the growth quality of the energy. She watched with a small smile as the crystal began to grow again, thought she controlled the energy a bit more than necessary in order to limit the growth a bit so it did not get out of hand, though that would have been more beneficial to the next phase of the work that she had planned.

After she felt that both the crystal's and chakra's progress was satisfactory enough to move on she released the energy and shifted her mind to the next stage of the operation. Thus far, the iron maiden had been focusing on the creation of Crystal from other things, but up next would be something equally important, and that was dismantling the crystal. Rubbing her chin she stared at the crystal which had grown from about the inched to what looked more like twenty and began to ponder the best way to dismantle. Well, she did have creation pretty much down, and destruction was close to creation though the opposite so perhaps starting from there would be best.

[Shallistera]

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