Embers of Time [EPIC]

[Cadoc]

Woah! Her attack, her attack was meaningless? The young Mizukage had watched the whole thing take place, her carefully timed the attack had somehow been evaded via a feat that boggled her mind. Alas, all that she could do was continue to observe the creature in search of more vital points that could take it down in a single hit. All twenty of her arrows were just about to hit at virtually the same time, then by some unknown feat, only two of the arrows made contact the rest were suspended in mid-air! Maybe this creature had psychic powers was it an ESPer?! Either way, the creature was able to suspend the arrows in the air long enough to let out a loud howl and then shunshin through the air! The rest of the arrows just hit the ground aimlessly. This really was quite the surprise, the young Mizukage had thought for sure that her coordinated attack would have hit her opponent and that if they had tried to evade they would have been hit by the aforementioned arrows shot to limit their movements.

Alas, it seemed the creature had a means of avoiding everything she did. The lone exception being the first two arrows which seemed to have made contact with the beast as evidenced by the momentary explosion that revealed the creature's position. Alas, it seemed the monster wasn’t as smart as it needed to be, it has teleported away with its magical abilities in a manner that had enabled it to evade the hail of arrows, however, one still remained embedded in its shoulder. An explosive tipped arrow, moments after contact the arrow exploded releasing the four packages contained inside to inflict the same damage on the same area once again.

Yoko continued to carefully observe her target, readying her bow in preparation for a further attack. She watched carefully as it struck the ground with a great amount of speed causing a cataclysmic amount of damage to the surrounding environment. It was during this series of events that an old man of unknown origins attempted to reach out and touch her. Of course, there was no real reason for an actual old man to be in such a region, nor for him to possess the ability of teleportation. Thus, the young Mizukage chalked it up to some kind of by-product of the monster that stood before her, a clone or a genjutsu of sorts. Thus, she moved to evade his hand as it moved towards her, firing of an arrow directly at his mid-section. The moment the attack was released she turned her full body into an incorporeal state, in preparation of a retaliation attack. She readied another arrow which she would fire at this old man’s chest if he moved towards her again.

[Master Game]

Under the cover of the steamy lake, Shoko would be unaware for what was going on above until when he tried to exit the pool. As the young boy swam up to the surface, he would get the shock of his life. An ear-splitting booom resounded even through the waters that hid Shoko, giving him the fright of his life. It was as if a nuclear armament had gone off somewhere in the nearby area, but Shoko suspected that it had to do with the monstrous Gigas.
That suspicion alone was enough to spur him into instant action. The boy broke the surface of the water, remembering that he could now breathe freely but soon found himself wishing he was back under the depths. Ashes and dust swamped the decrepit land that represented the anti-thesis of life. At that moment Shoko knew no matter what, nothing would ever grow again on the soil around him, and the area would likely remain a wasteland. The only thing that came to the sand shinobi's mind as he surveyed his environment was death.

Shoko coughed, there was a cruel abundance of smoke still lingering in the blistering atmosphere, but somehow managed thanks to the seal implanted on him. At this point in time Shoko could see his target, the demonic entity that had corrupted these lands, on his knees. It was obvious to him that the last attack had likely taken out a lot of its chakra, and now it seemed to be recovering from performing such a devastating attack. But why? Shoko then realised the absence of the chakra link between his remaining clones, signifying that they had likely been obliterated in the attack. Shoko scowled, it was likely time to stop fooling around.

With a dark grin, Shoko reached into his patrol pack with his middle set of arms, hesitated slightly before emptying out all fifteen of his lightning bottles into the water, as well as dropping all 45 bo-shuriken into the pool as well. He would also snatch a chakra gem or two from his medical pack to enhance his abilities. With the deed done, Shoko's bottom set of hands would begin forming a series of handseals for the Focused Water Dragon Fang technique. His top set of arms would be performing handseals for the Lightning style Hydra technique. Barely a second later, the boy's fingers seized to move, and his eyes slammed shut. With both his middle hands outstretched, his attack would begin.

First the lake would ripple and bubble, before a long sinuous water dragon would emerge from its depths to a height of 30-40 feet. Seeing as the water was transparent, one could easily the multitude of shuriken and lightning bottles suspended in the dragon's body. As this happened, Shoko's middle hands would spark and crack, before a shroud of lightning would materialise around them and begin to grow into the shape of dragon and continue growing until it was about the same size as its liquid counterpart. The two elemental beasts stared Shoko with glowing red eyes orbs, the young boy's chakra almost struggled to keep control of the two techniques at once, but he trained long and hard for it, and wouldn't mess up now.

The two dragons streaked towards the Gigas at frightening velocity. Just five metres before they reached their target, Shoko would will his chakra to cause the two elemental beasts to merge in mid-air. Their combined form was now twice as intimidating as it flew towards the hellspawn with an open jaw, currents flowing in harmony and their powers combined. If uninterrupted, the massive dragon would collide with the fiery abomination, the resulting effect would be... hard to watch. As the beast and Shoko's creation collided, hundreds of thousands of volts would electrocute the Gigas as its electrified liquid composition crashed down violently upon it. But it wasn't just that, 45 bo-shurikens that flowed inside within the dragon's sinuous body would greatly pierce and eviscerate the Gigas in the collision. The fifteen bottles that flowed along with the shurikens would all break explode during the collision to add grave insult to injury.

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Raiton: Hidora, 雷光: 紫陽花, (Lightning Style: Hydra)[70]
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a massive dragon of lightning to strike the foe.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: This technique is extremely loud and unsuited for stealth.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing chakra into their hands. They then thrust their hands forward, releasing the lightning chakra forward. A long, sinuous dragon-like being of crackling blue-white lightning will spring forward from each of the user’s hands, twining around one another. They will extend towards the target at high speed, for a maximum range of thirty meters. When they reach the target they rear up and split from one another, crashing explosively into and around the target, creating a crater five meters in diameter. These hydras cause extreme shocking akin to severe second-degree burning on the target, as well as applying a fair amount of explosive force caused by the generated pressure wave.
Limit: Must have Raiton.

Focused Water Dragon Fang[50]
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A powerful dragon launched to attack multiple targets.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 7 meters + 6 meters per Class Level. Target is up to 5 creatures or objects, no two can be more than 10 meters apart. Duration of this technique is instantaneous. This technique requires a large source of water nearby. User launches a powerful, focused attack at several opponents in the shape of a Dragon. The attack deals 16 Armour Points per Class Level of bludgeoning damage to each creature or object. No single creature or object can be targeted twice.
Limit: Must know Water Release.

Control Water[50]
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Depending on the version the user chooses, the control water Jutsu raises or lowers water.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 120 meters + 60 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is water in the volume of 15 meters per Class Level by 15 meters per Class Level, by 3 meters per Class Level. Duration of this technique is 50 minutes per Class Level. Depending on the version the user chooses, the control water Jutsu raises or lowers water.
Lower Water: This causes water or similar liquid to reduce its depth by as much as 3 meters per Class Level evel (to a minimum depth of 1 inch). The water is lowered within a squarish depression whose sides are up to user's Class Level x 15 meters long. In extremely large and deep bodies of water, such as a deep ocean, the Jutsu creates a whirlpool that sweeps ships and similar craft downward, putting them at risk and rendering them unable to leave by normal movement for the duration of the Jutsu. When performed on water elementals and other water-based creatures, this Jutsu acts as a slow Jutsu (Will negates) reducing their movements by 1/2. The Jutsu has no effect on other creatures.
Raise Water: This causes water or similar liquid to rise in height, just as the lower water version causes it to lower. Boats raised in this way slide down the sides of the hump that the Jutsu creates. If the area affected by the Jutsu includes riverbanks, a beach, or other land nearby, the water can spill over onto dry land. With either version, the user may reduce one horizontal dimension by half and double the other horizontal dimension.

Limit: Must know Water Release.

Greater Water Control[50]
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User's ability to control water is greatly expanded.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When the user performs control water, the user has significantly more options than most users. First, the user can raise and lower the water multiple times as a move movement each time (even switching between the 2 versions of the Jutsu during one performing). Second, as a weaving movement the user can attempt to make a combat maneuver against anything in the water, as long as it is smaller than the volume of the water the user is controlling. These Combat Maneuvers are Bull Rush, Charge, Choke, Feint, Grapple, and Knockout Blow. Unless the user has the appropriate improved maneuver technique, such maneuvers do provoke opportunity attack from creatures that threaten the user.
Limit: Must know Water Release. Must know Control Water.

Perfect Water Control[80]
Rank: "A"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User's ability to control water is abnormal.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user can move the water how they wish, raise it, lower it, carry it in the air. This allows the user to perform Water Jutsus without having the water to be on the ground, spread out over a vast area. User must still perform a Jutsu with this water to have an effect with it however. Applications of Greater Water Control still apply.
Limit: Must know Water Release. Must know Greater Water Control.

Static Rain[50]
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User's water Jutsus make targets more susceptible to electrical attacks.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This technique can only be used on a creature directly exposed to rain or that is significantly wet or immersed in water. For the duration of this technique, the subject will take a -2 penalty to Saves against Raiton techniques and suffer an additional point of electricity damage per 6 Armour Points of electrical damage.
Limit: Must know Water Release.

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Possible damage calculated:

• B-rank Lightning Hydra(performed at +1 class level due to chakra gem) = 80 ap electrical
• B-rank Focused Water Dragon Fang(performed at +1 class level due to chakra gem and enhanced by static rain) = 64 ap bludgeoning + 13 ap electrical
  
• x45 Bo-shuriken = 80 ap
• x15 Lightning bottle = 540 ap

Possible total calculated: 777 ap

[Wolf of the Falls]

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As the torrent of flame rushed out over the ground aiming to consume Shoko it would only succeed in feeding upon one of the clones while the boy had been smart enough to hide under water. However, as the two arrows lodged in Belias' shoulder the larger of the two would howl and vanish from view, to appear above the cave opening hanging from it with his weapon driven into the while the stream of arrows swarmed through the area he had been in. The smaller of the two had already begun to rapidly form a string of seals. while the larger reached up pulling the arrows out and dropping them. Although as his blood touched the ground it was like hearing a pin fall.

As Yoko attempted to shoot the man and go incorporeal she would find her arrow pass through him as he did the same. Given that she hadn't moved away he reached her shoulder before her next shot which also passed through him. As the flames raged through the area the man vanished though Yoko would remain mostly unharmed as the burst of force caused 10 damage (unless you have a defense to negate it).

After Shoko emerged and prepped his technique Belias stayed where he had fallen his body slowly heaving from the strain of the blast. However the smaller Gigas concealed by the arms and body of the whole continued to make seals. During the maelstrom of water and lightning as it crashed into the large body made it shutter while the larger Gigas roared out in pain while the shuriken also sank his flesh leaving blood to drip to the ground.

With the Hellfire having raged the chakra in the area would have disappeared and blasted a hole through the black clouds leaving the blue sky above. Although the moment went on a moment too late as a deep thrum ran through the area and a golden sphere would appear around the Gigas as the smaller one finally finished its seals. The energy would begin to cause the air to stir while a much stranger effect began.

Shoko would see through the shell his shuriken slowly pulling out of the Gigas' skin while the flesh mended after the blood had returned. After that the water and lightning would reform in reverse as it played in reverse traveling back to the pool of water Shoko had made before returning to the bottles and rising back into his bag along with the shuriken. After that the devastation of Hellfire would repair itself along the ground though the explosion would not occur again, likewise the sky would not darken once more. The arrows for Yoko would also return across the ground to her quiver.

Now as the area resembled its state from before their arrival, the puddles of metal began to reform while the air glowed gold. Helmets, Chestplates, swords, shields, hammers, a multitude of gear all reformed and gleaming as if it were brand new. However the changes went even further, slowly the ground itself would change, becoming less rough patterns slowly becoming evident as far in the distance just behind Yoko's position the stone would roll and reform as grand pillars becoming a grand ornate wall similar to that of a coliseum as the area returned to a state that had long since been forgotten by time and the land alike Even the cave that Belias had emerged from looking far more refined and smooth, however gates had also appeared that were locked across the area.

All the while the golden shell remained in place around the Gigas but inside of it, it was far less clear to see what was within. The sealed bubble of time returned Shoko and Yoko to the past where things would be different, how would they move forward? or fall to the passage of time.

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You should've aimed for the head *snap* (kidding)

Belias, The Gigas
HP: 144 (-777 damage taken from dragon fang maelstrom)
Intelligence: 50 (+50 physical damage)
Might: 50 (+50 chakra damage)
Perception: 0
Agility: 10 (+5 movements)
Toughness: 0
Luck: 777

Passive:
Rage of The Gigas: Immune to Mind and Emotion effects.

Smaller Gigas Actions:
Grand Chrono-Regression

[Cadoc]

Oh, golly gosh! The young Mizukage’s attacks had been thwarted again by some unknown force! The explosive rounds that she had fired at the large creature had failed to activate to cause the secondary damage required to finish it off! And the man who was trying to grab at her? He had managed to turn incorporeal and pass right through her arrows that had the ability to affect incorporeal creatures! What a terrible shame. Alas, it seemed rather clear to Yoko that everything she attempted to do in this area was thwarted by an otherworldly force. Her initial attempts to find tracks, her attempts to identify this creature, her attempts to remain hidden, to land her attacks on the creature at the same time, for her attacks to actually work, even to shoot this old man in the face and evade his grasp! All thwarted.

Then as if by magic everything that she had done all her failures in this cursed area was reverted as if the hands of time were turning back. Woah this creature was abusing its ability to warp time and space yet again! Whatever to do! With all of her abilities, skills, and training as a ninja proving totally worthless she was left with no choice but to observe the other person who had been engaged in combat with this monster. Clearly, he was the chosen one who could actually do things a god amongst men.

[Master Game]

The boy's attack had hit, or so it seemed. The millions of volts hidden in the water/lightning dragon hybrid would certainly electrocute his foe severely as it crashed down great explosive force in the form of bludgeoning damage on the demonic creature. The boy watched in silence as the ripped through and lethally eviscerated the Gigas's skin in cold satisfaction.
But then, before Shoko could truly register what was going on, a glowing golden sphere appeared, hovering around the Gigas. This glowing orb irreparable fractured what little sense of reality the young chuunin had left, as it seemingly made time reverse itself. His attack, the Gigas's physical condition, even the landscape itself reversed. Watching his chakra creation revert back to water in a puddle, the landscape revert back to how it seemed to be long before the boy had arrived and nowstaring the Gigas currently unscathed due to the reversal of time left Shoko in a perplexed state of quandary.

Shoko clenched all six of his fists, a sudden rage appearing from nowhere and infesting his body. Short series of handseals were performed, and three lightning clones would materialise once more around the boy. A great deal of chakra had been put into those clones so that they could perform raiton powerful enough to at least scathe the beast. the clones eyed the imposing Gigas, then just a second later they all took off towards it. With them splitting up as they made their hasty approach, their efforts were to try and flank the creature before doing what they could to subdue, or at least distract it long enough.

Meanwhile, the original Shoko's calloused palms would reach into his patrol pack and find the 45 bo-shuriken that had fallen victim to time manipulation, Shoko laid them on the ground. Once that was done each set of hands would perform handseals for various techniques simultaneously: Charged Projectile, Ninpou: Kari Shuriken and Ninpou: Shuriken Mokuzai Jiten. With the handseals down, Shoko would bend down and use his six hands to charge as many shuriken as could with the chakra for each technique within a very short timespan.

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Ninpou: Kari Shuriken (Ninja Art: Hunting Shuriken) [10]
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user causes shuriken to track their foes.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: The shuriken cannot be recalled until they hit something.
Description: The user forms the hand seal, channeling chakra into a number of thrown or held shuriken. Those shuriken, when thrown, will curve and turn in their flight paths to continue to follow their opponent. They gain no bonuses to speed, and as such can be foiled with a fast enough or clever enough defensive maneuver.
Limit: Universal Ninjutsu.

Ninpou: Shuriken Mokuzai Jiten (Ninja Art: Shuriken Lumber Spin)[10]
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user causes a shuriken to spin intensely fast, greatly increasing it’s cutting power.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: --
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing chakra into held or thrown shuriken. The shuriken will begin to spin excessively fast, reminiscent of a saw blade. With this it gains enhanced cutting power, much like a saw blade does, to shear through wood, bite into stone, and slash the human body deeply.
Limit: Universal Ninjutsu.

Charged Projectile[10]
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Charges a metal throwing projectile with lightning adding lightning damage.
Special: ---
Drawback: Can only do enough to slightly numb and paralyze (Only for a quarter of a post), if the user tries to make it stronger, it will end up backfiring and paralyzing their hand. Can only charge up to 5 slots at once
Description: The user holds as many kunai/shuriken, or metal projectile for that matter, as they can, up to 5 slots in their hands, and charges them with electricity. Extra lightning damage is added which will slightly paralyze or numb. The projectiles will shock the opponent weakly even if they don't make contact, but at least come close to.
Limit: Lightning release

Lightning Clone (Learned 4 times)[70][60][50][50]
Rank: "B"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of lightning that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: When first learned the user is capable of creating one clone that are within the size of Medium size. The lightning looks similiar to that of a human but the chakra makes the lightning makes the clone look like a normal person. The clone may only last for an amount of two rounds per class level starting at "D" Class. Every time the user learns this technique the user may create another clone. The user must add in an amount of chakra to allow the clone to perform lightning techniques that the user wishes the clone to perform at later time. When the clone it hit the clone forces an electrical charge that may shock the opponent greatly immobilizing the opponent.
Limit: Lightning release

[Wolf of the Falls]

As the clones spread out around the golden shell, Shoko may have noticed it had shrank to about half the size it had previously been and a moment later a piercing crack and shatter echoed through the air. As the fragments of gold faded away to dust two figures would be revealed within where the Gigas had once stood. A young man with blood red hair stood all with gold eyes and tan skin while a boy crouched and stretched slowly standing up with a messy head of black hair. The young man wore a tight jacket-like garment which covered his back and sides with a fur collar and plain black pants with boots however in his grasp was a long polearm resembling the shape of the weapon Belias was using, the boy meanwhile just wore black pants. The two looked around at the clones then to Shoko who was arranging shuriken on the ground before the young man spoke up. "Hey man you wanna chill a bit? What's going on?"

While the boy peered around somewhat oblivious the young man met Shoko's gaze directly. If he looked close enough he would see a mark on both of their chests but it was too far to make it out clearly. However when the boy looked to see Shoko as well and followed his brother's gaze he would grin and wave. "Hi mister!"


However on Yoko's side she would feel a cut across her shoulder where the medallion had touched her and the chakra that made the mark entered her body like water falling through cracks in the ground. The old man had seen enough of her ability and had deemed that she would make a fine subject.

OOC: Congratulations Cadoc you've received your Cursed Seal, you may now begin your pain posts and are removed from initiative so you can post at your leisure.

[Master Game]

Shoko's lightning clones came to an abrupt halt halfway into their menacing approach towards the Gigas. Something, unprecedented was happening right before their eyes which they interpreted as the beginning of some sort of chakra-related assault and as such, their fingers would flicker into the dance of handseals. CRACK! Before the clones could do anymore their ears were assaulted by a startling cacophony of sound. The luminescent, glowing orb faded out of existence. And behold, where the Gigas had previously stood, there were now two figures, which upon simple observation could be identified as human beings.

The original Shoko let the shurikens grasped between his fingers clatter as they hit the ground. His jaw was agape for a few seconds as he tried to make sense of what had just happened.

"Hey man you wanna chill a bit? What's going on?"

Eyes wide, Shoko's field of vision instantly focused on the young man talking to him.

"Hi mister!"

Another voice, this time coming from the younger boy around his age. How keen-sighted they must've been to almost instantly realise who the original caster of the cloning jutsu was. At this moment in time, Shoko's usual shinobi instincts and cold demeanor were being replaced by the sickening feeling of confusion and befuddlement that thrived in the pits of his gut. The boy was absolutely speechless, his mind already having lost sight of who he was supposed to kill and why he wasn't dead yet. For the passionless tool of war that Shoko was, it was a quite traumatizing experience.

As the bloodlust faded from his eyes, Shoko regained some of his casual senses.

"...What, no, who are you two? And what happened to the monstrosity I was battling just now?"

[Wolf of the Falls]

"No idea what you mean bro. We just finished a match then we turn around you and your copies." The older of the two spoke clearly, a sense of awareness coming from him, as if aware of the motions of the clones and Shoko all at once. Neither really looked threatening at the moment and as the boy smiled looking around at the clones his eyes seemed to glimmer with a spark.

"I'm Baal, this is my little brother, Elias. If you're here you either know we're gladiators and want something or you're our next fight. We really don't want to fight back to back though." The red-head sighed before looking back at his little brother. With their names Shoko would begin to make the connection that he had been returned to a time before the brothers became the Gigas. The black mark on their chests an inactive Cursed Seal.

"So. Are we good or what?"

[Master Game]

Seeing the boys clearly, Shoko then began to notice the strange seal on both of the strangers' chests. Baal and Elias were their names from what he'd been told, but this particular situation, all of it just seemed to strange. Those two brothers, were they actually the beast he had just been fighting? Did the time-altering jutsu recently used reverse their condition and bring them back to their original form, and without any memories of life after they became the Gigas?

Shoko sighed.

"Well, let's just say some things happened, I'm not going to go into the details because it seems none of it matters." The young boy cancelled his lightning clone technique, deeming any immediate threat to be nonexistent.

"Sorry for... disturbing you two? It's just that I'm really confused right now and unsure of how to continue on from here. Maybe I'll just be on my way."

Shoko looked up to the cyan blue skyline, basking in its slightly melancholic serenity. Splashes of white drifted over its canvas at a snail's pace, revealing the illustration of simply another aesthetically-pleasing early afternoon. Just witnessing the whole thing made the chuunin oddly calmer and more relaxed.

[Wolf of the Falls]

The young man raised a brow as the cloens were dispatched and he would raise his spear up over his shoulders resting his arms upon it while the younger brother tilted his head. "Well, you look pretty strong, maybe one day we could have a match."

The red-head offered a light smile as he and his brother began to walk past Shoko toward the cage. It seemed they were both slaves before the Gigas destroyed this place, used for entertainment this place seemed to be a hell for most of those who entered though the brothers grew up in the chaos.

A moment later the mark across Shoko's hand would split open as if cut while the chakra and the mark pushed into his body assaulting his chakra system. However now the golden recreation had faded leaving Shoko upon a plain while pain assaulted his body, the Gigas completely gone.

OOC: Congratulations on attaining your Curse Mark, you may now begin your pain posts and have received 20 TP for completing the Epic ^^

[Cadoc]

Tenfuin: Stage One
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: FuinJutsu
Effect: Increases physical speed, power, and endurance. Increases the user's chakra level.
Special: Channeling a small amount of chakra into the seal.
Drawback: Drains chakra at a rate of 3% per turn, meaning that this ability, on top of using chakra to fight, can quickly tire the user out.
Description: Stage One increases the user's physical strength, speed, and endurance by a large amount. They become much more capable of fighting hand to hand, as their body responds more quickly than most forms of training can produce. Their strikes become strengthened twofold, their muscles suddenly capable of performing at higher rates than normal. Beyond that, they are capable of fighting for much more extended periods, as their body seems to thrive off of the battle. Even beyond all of the physical attributes gained by the Seal, the user's chakra level will increase a substantial amount, allowing them the ability to perform jutsu as if they were one Difficulty Class above their current level (please note, this does not mean that they can use this ability to learn jutsu faster or to learn jutsu that their rank does not allow them to learn, but rather allows them the ability to perform more jutsu for less of a cost). When the Tenfuin Stage One is gained, it takes three IC turns to spread the seal all the way across the body. After the First round they will reach times .03 (3%) times their movements. After the Second Round they will reach times .06 (6%) times thier movements. After the Third Round theu reach the full .10 (10%) times their movements.
Limit: Gaining Stage One is a long process in which is forced upon the user immediately after receiving Stage Zero. This process is highly dangerous, and during this process, many hundreds of potential recipients and experiments have perished. Pain beyond imagine is forced through the user's body, stretching out their physical and mental limits. The power of the Seal somehow prohibits people from going unconscious as this pain soars through their body, thus they either remain awake or they perish. As Stage Zero of the Seal is placed upon the user, the seal rapidly drains the user of their chakra, pushing them into levels of below 5% of all of their chakra. This chakra is pumped throughout the body, forcing it to be ready to perform the remarkable feats that the seal allows the body to do. This process lasts for Twenty Full Length RP posts, in which the user must describe the chakra changing each part of their body to become more proficient. These “Pain” posts are graded by the admin like training posts, requiring the user to gain the proper amount of “TP” (apply Difficulty Class) with one exception- the maximum number of points capable of being allotted at once are 5.

00/40 Spend 10 of 20 event tp on Cursed Seal lvl 0.

What? The young Mizukage could hardly believe her eyes. She had shot off an arrow at this creepy old man and turned her body incorporeal. Alas, it seemed that neither of her tactics had been successful, her salt laced arrow passed through the priest by some unknown means, thus it did not explode and damage him as she had intended. Clearly, she should have fired off at the ground to disable his ability to turn incorporeal as had been her intent with the prior shot.

Instead, she was left in a situation where his rapid advance was made with such speed that she was unable to respond. Despite her amazing speed, she was unable to draw another arrow and fire it off before her opponent made contact with her, as had been his intent mere moments ago. The real question was why was he so intent on touching her small body. As the fire went off around her the youth found herself affected, this could, of course, have been due to the elemental resistance that she possessed.

However, this seemed rather doubtful in her mind at least due to the magnitude and grandeur of the actions leading up to it. This was after all a fire-based attack that extended to cover an area as far as the eye could see, easily a thousand metres in all directions. Thus, if the damage was in proportion then she should have been destroyed by all rights. Instead, this raised the question of why wasn't she destroyed, was it something to do with her contact with this priest?

[Cadoc]

Or was it that this whole situation was merely genjutsu? Warping time to freeze her arrows, reversing to a period from a bygone age, and godlike speed all seemed unlikely feats for a mere mortal. After all the young Mizukage was arguably at the peak of her power as an S ranked taijutsu master her speed with a bow was all but unmatched. Under normal circumstances, she could have fired off in excess of fifty arrows in a single six-second window, yet the man had touched her as if she had been standing still.

However, there was no time to consider things further, no time to reflect on just how lucky she had been as yet another mind-blowing occurrence took place. This time from the place that the priest had touched her: a searing pain emanated from the wound as if he had touched her with a hot coal. The pain itself was quite potent but nothing the young Mizukage hadn't experienced a thousand times before in training.

It was what was to come however that was to rack her sense of pain. She quickly used the kai release in a fashion that must have appeared neigh instantaneous to an onlooker. Alas, it had little effect on the environment around her, nor did it affect the level of pain that she was experiencing. This of course indicated that she was either still trapped in a genjutsu and just lacked the skill to dispell it, or that she was not in a genjutsu at all, and rather had been affected by actual time warping ninjutsu.

[Cadoc]

The former seemed rather unlikely, as she had honed her senses to a great degree with countless hours of training. But the latter also seemed rather unlikely, the youth had never heard of a jutsu so powerful that it could affect an area's time, never mind the time of a single individual. Alas, it seemed the time for careful consideration was passing, as the burning sensation was quickly starting to scale up in terms of magnitude.

What had initially been a bad burn to the place of contact was turning into a searing pain all over her body. Again, the youth drew on years of training in the taijutsu arts to endure these hardships, she had frequently pushed her body to the limits when she had learned the likes of the gates taijutsu. However, this pain was becoming something else entirely. She soon began to falter as her constitution was tested: she felt the overwhelming urge to vomit on the floor.

To empty her guts all over the area in a rather unceremonious fashion. The only thing that prevented this was the fact that there was nothing to vomit up, not for a lack of food but for a feeling of being unable to do so. She was instead stuck in a strange situation wherein she felt that she needed to vomit, but found herself unable to do so. Instead, she could merely dry heave in a somewhat frantic attempt to sate this overwhelming urge.

[Cadoc]

Her mind struggled to cling to her sense of the environment around her as her vision began to spin, from her perspective the world around her was slowly turning while she remained firmly grounded. In an effort to confirm that this was the case the youth channelled chakra to her feet to stick herself to the earth as one would a tree that they were attempting to climb. Alas, it seemed that there was little effect, at least in a positive way.

Instead, she felt that this simple feat had devoured an exorbitant amount of chakra from her small body. The pain itself was not letting up, if anything it was increasing once again, slowly increasing over time. The sensation of a hot coal was replaced with that of a thousand knives being plunged into her skin. A grimace formed over her face as she strained not to scream out in pain, not wanting to show a sign of weakness in what was still a battlefield.

That was right, the though streamed across her mind cutting through the growing pain. She was still on a battlefield, the priest could be coming back for more, or the monster that she had been fighting moments before could be coming to attack once again. With great strength, she staggered of directly forward, the world around her still ever-shifting. She knew that she had been hiding in a vantage point as a means of defence.

[Cadoc]

So if she could make her way to a rock then at least she could support her body and try to eliminate the feeling of being on an ever-spinning plate. Alas, it seemed that the jutsu used on her, had sapped the strength in her small body to its limit, and her efforts to simply walk forward were quickly rendered null and void. Instead, she staggered for a few paces before dropping to her hands and knees narrowly avoiding a blow on a nearby rock.

The pain was there again rippling through her body as if he was pulsating from the point of contact. She needed to think quickly how could she stabilise herself in an ever-spinning world, or regain a semblance of normality. Perhaps the answer lied in the usage of all of her senses, to this end the youth opened her third eye, located on her forehead and used it to further augment her senses. Even with this the world still appeared before her to be a blur all be it a slightly slower blur.

The use of her blue chakra gem eye in conjunction with this meant that she should be able to perceive chakra signatures. Given that she had already encountered the monster and the man, then she merely had to see if she could perceive a chakra form that resembled them. Fortunately, she was unable to do so, which she took to mean that they were not in the immediate vicinity. Not that it would have mattered in the scheme of things, as the pain flowing through her body had essentially rendered her unable to move.

[Cadoc]

What had caused this affliction, a powerful poison? A ninjutsu technique? Perhaps if she could work out what the cause was then she could combat it. A dose of antivenom could have been effective, but unless she was able to ascertain the exact type of poison then the antivenom could have been rendered useless or worse still it could worsen her situation. Thus, she had to proceed with caution. The pain had progressed far past a feeling of a broken bone and was now bordering on the most painful experience of her life.

Akin to when she had cut out her own eye with no anaesthetic to replace it with her blue gem. It wasn't all that fun, but at least at that time she had been able to find solace in the knowledge that she was bettering herself through the pain. The current situation, however, offered no such respite. Instead, as far as she knew it this pain could have led to or at least precluded her death. Perhaps it was true and she would be with them soon?

Still, even in the face of this prospect the youth was not scared for she found comfort in her religion. As a worshipper of Death, she was of the belief that death was not the end. But rather just the beginning of a new chapter, and if she had lived her life as she thought she had then perhaps in the next life she could be assistance to the reaper. For in the young Mizukage's religion the stereotypical reaper pictured in so many other religions were a great defender, akin to the Valhalla that others believed in.

[Cadoc]

They believed that deaths scythe was there to protect the innocent from that lied beyond the veil, the old ones and the like that were spoken of in the great tails of old. The eldritch powers, demons, devils, fiends, and other vile creatures of that nature. Instead, the reapers escorted the soul on its next journey. The prospect excited the young zealot, the idea of joining the entity that she worshipped was not one that she feared but rather one that she embraced.

However, that one should not take that to mean that she was rushing to her death. Rather her life as a human was to be used to accomplish great deeds, thus, the longer she survived the higher the likelihood that she could save people on mass, as she had so frequently before. So, perhaps Death still had a purpose for her in this mortal realm? And all she had to do was withstand this pain to find it?

The level of pain had been increasing in a way that prevented the youth from developing a tolerance, instead, she let out her first moan of pain. As she writhed around on the ground, the feeling akin to having all of her bones broken and tendons ripped from her body. But one had to wonder what more could this attack do? Her body was not actually taking damage, it was merely the feeling of damage? Akin to the heat that came with eating a chilli: the mouth was not actually burned even if it felt like it was.

[Cadoc]

Thus, the question on her fragmented mind was what more could this jutsu hold over her, she was already feeling a massive surge of pain, it seemed to her that there was little more that the priest could inflict on her. After all, physically breaking her body wouldn't have hurt as much as this, thus, he couldn't even hold that over her. Presumably, the sense was akin to serenity, the knowledge that no matter what they did the situation could arguably not get any worse.

Instead, all she could do was merely wait, writhing in pain, either the pain would subside of its own accord, she would receive treatment from an unknown entity, or she would die. Either way, all of the options seemed out of her control. Thus, she could only go forth coping as best she could with the intense pain. She attempted to find an object to place in her mouth to stop herself from screaming out.

Her fumbling attempts to locate an item fit for purpose were largely unsuccessful but not for want of trying, instead, the environment around her offered little in the way of thick branches. And instead, she was forced to resort to using her own belt. With weak pain wracked arms, she managed to slowly shuffle her body to remove her belt, carefully shifting her weight off of her waist in a manner akin to a writhing worm.

[Cadoc]

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This, however, was one of the situations in which the ends justified the means, sure the manner in which she removed the belt was unbefitting an idol, but once she had acquired the belt in her hands she was able to fold it back on itself to give her something to bite down on. And that was just what she did, her fangs clamping down on the material.

The action was so hard that she felt she could have punctured steel, fortunately, the belt remained undamaged, and the whole affair provided an outlet for her pain as well as muffling her screams. She half-considered cutting off the afflicted section of flesh, simply taking a knife to her upper shoulder and hacking the flesh from the bone.

Obviously, this would have been a crude solution, but even still it sprung to her pained wracked mind. Of course, there were other things that meant that this method was unsustainable namely the loss of blood. And the fact that if it was a poison of some sort then it had clearly already spread through her body so removing the point of impact would have been meaningless. But one hardly thought that rationally when they were under such intense pain.

[Master Game]

Tenfuin: Stage One
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: FuinJutsu
Effect: Increases physical speed, power, and endurance. Increases the user's chakra level.
Special: Channeling a small amount of chakra into the seal.
Drawback: Drains chakra at a rate of 3% per turn, meaning that this ability, on top of using chakra to fight, can quickly tire the user out.
Description: Stage One increases the user's physical strength, speed, and endurance by a large amount. They become much more capable of fighting hand to hand, as their body responds more quickly than most forms of training can produce. Their strikes become strengthened twofold, their muscles suddenly capable of performing at higher rates than normal. Beyond that, they are capable of fighting for much more extended periods, as their body seems to thrive off of the battle. Even beyond all of the physical attributes gained by the Seal, the user's chakra level will increase a substantial amount, allowing them the ability to perform jutsu as if they were one Difficulty Class above their current level (please note, this does not mean that they can use this ability to learn jutsu faster or to learn jutsu that their rank does not allow them to learn, but rather allows them the ability to perform more jutsu for less of a cost). When the Tenfuin Stage One is gained, it takes three IC turns to spread the seal all the way across the body. After the First round they will reach times .03 (3%) times their movements. After the Second Round they will reach times .06 (6%) times thier movements. After the Third Round theu reach the full .10 (10%) times their movements.
Limit: Gaining Stage One is a long process in which is forced upon the user immediately after receiving Stage Zero. This process is highly dangerous, and during this process, many hundreds of potential recipients and experiments have perished. Pain beyond imagine is forced through the user's body, stretching out their physical and mental limits. The power of the Seal somehow prohibits people from going unconscious as this pain soars through their body, thus they either remain awake or they perish. As Stage Zero of the Seal is placed upon the user, the seal rapidly drains the user of their chakra, pushing them into levels of below 5% of all of their chakra. This chakra is pumped throughout the body, forcing it to be ready to perform the remarkable feats that the seal allows the body to do. This process lasts for Twenty Full Length RP posts, in which the user must describe the chakra changing each part of their body to become more proficient. These “Pain” posts are graded by the admin like training posts, requiring the user to gain the proper amount of “TP” (apply Difficulty Class) with one exception- the maximum number of points capable of being allotted at once are 5.

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For whatever reason however, Shoko's life would begin to take a turn that not many would expect at this point. Pain. Commonly defined as an unpleasant sensation and emotional experience linked to tissue damage. Its purpose is to allow the body to react and prevent further tissue damage. It can be present in the day-to-day lives of most livings and is part of a body's defense mechanism, to warn a body to take actions to prevent further bodily harm. Yet since the dawn of time, man has cruelfully used it against its fellow man for reasons to abundant to count.

From forcing compliance to obtaining information and even deriving joy from making the one suffer have all been reasons why pain has been turned into a weapon. But one thing about pain is clear, there is almost always an obvious source.