Escort the Middle Class [M]

[Flower]

Name: Escort the Middle Class
Rank: "C"rank
IIC Length: 2 days
Difficulty: low
Objective: a group of fairly wealthy people need protection on their journey.
Description: carpenters and merchants alike transport goods from one place to another. It is also just as common to have those goods coveted. Protect the middle class merchant/craftsman/citizen at all costs. Their goods drop location will vary depending on information you are given by the informant at the beginning. So attention to detail and directions are important here. Also if any of the merchandise is damaged the ninja or team will be responsible for their replacement. This mission may be taken by one ninja of any rank or a team consisting of up to four members (one Captian). This mission may be repeated after 1 real life week!
Reward: 30,000 Ryo

[enter.]

Valerys grabbed all of her gear and her weapons and prepared herself for the mission that lie aheead of her. Although she hadn't been excited for a C-rank mission, it was true that it had been a while and she was excited to do something like this for the first time in a while. She wore the face of Victoria Uchiha, a blonde girl with golden eyes (save her sharingan) who wore a white and blue dress, sporting a messenger pack over her left shoulder filled with all sorts of jars, gadgets, and poisons. On her pack was her spear that had been gifted to her by the Kazekage, Shiki, that he had named Bitter Mercy. It was fully extended as a regular polearm and a red scarf blew in the breeze from its shaft. Valerys wore all of this, even her face, with pride as she went to meet her cargo. After a bit of a walk she saw them, elegantly dressed men and a few women standing against a caravan pulled by several horses.

Valerys walked up to the group and said, "Hello? Are you the merchants who hired the ninja of Sand?" One of the men, with long black hair, told her that they were. "We are traveling not far outside of the village." Valerys wondered why they needed protecting and all the man would say is, "That we travel and trade with rare and valuable goods, the likes of which many want to get their hands on. We cannot risk allowing someone to steal what we possess." Valerys could appreciate wanting to keep a secret, but at the same time she was truly interested in what they might be trading. She tried to barter with them, but they didn't seem interested, and Valerys settled for leading them on this voyage. She hopped into the caravan and before long a brown-haired man was pulling on the reigns, telling the horses to go.

In all there were seven of them who needed to be escorted, which Valerys found oddly symbolic. Three of them were women, and she sat next to them in the caravan with the men across. It felt a little odd, but she wasn't used to their customs and so didn't say anything. As the journey began, one of the men named Abo told her about the goods that he sold. He was an herbalist it turned out, and as much as Valerys wanted to buy from him they said that it wouldn't have been appropriate. The rest of the trip was mostly quiet, and them trying to beat the hot sun, until they got outside of the village. It wasn't too long before one of the tires on the caravan fell off its axel. Of course... Valerys thought to herself, no idiot. She got out of the caravan and prepared herself, taking out Bitter Mercy as she stepped from the door. No one was out there yet.

[Flower]

Valerys inspected the axel and, of course, it had been sabotaged. She told the group that surrounded her, "Be wary. This is a trap. I want everyone back in the caravan. I'll take it from here." The seven of them went back inside the caravan and Valerys proceeded to take off her top -- snickering as she did -- letting the sunlight bathe her flesh as she stood in her black bra. All of a sudden, her flesh would begin to bubble and stretch, morphing into three people crafted from her very own body. There were three of them, two of them twin children with blonde hair (one a boy and one a girl) and one of them a blue haired female. The twins were a black and out outfit, while the blue-haired female sported her own attire that looked similar what a popstar might have worn, a headset dangling over her ears. "Welcome," Valerys said, "I'm going to be needing you all for a little while..."

Valerys, in the face of Victoria, instructed the two children to stand at opposite ends of the caravan. Valerys herself climbed on top to get a better vantage point and monitor everything in the area, looking around in all directions. #01, the blue-haired female's numerical tag, was instructed to fix the tire. While she was attempting to fix it, Valerys saw something coming very quickly from the west. "Nine o' clock!" she yelled to her companions, and the children glanced in that direction but did not break formation. Valerys held Bitter Mercy tightly in her hand, happily to finally give it a chance to taste blood. Suddenly, the dust was getting much closer and the speeding object was nothing other than a person -- a man with black hair and a black robe running toward the caravan at insane speeds.

But they must not have been that strong, for Valerys body flickered toward them and suddenly stood in their path -- making getting through her impossible. But that wasn't all. As she flickered down from the caravan, Valerys let out a scream and drew back her spear, rushing in to deliver a powerful strike. With North Wind: Barrage she struck at the man three times toward the head. The first he dodged, surprisingly, but the other two cut him right along the cheek and he was forced to back away from th caravan. Additionally, he dropped the dagger that he had in his hand. "What do you think you're doing?" Valerys asked and looked at the blood that was dripping down his cheek. "Oooh, goodness. You're gonna get me excited." The man, his face covered well except for his menacing eyes and smile, looked a bit frieghtened and rubbed the blood away. But Valerys could see all of him with her darkvision, and cherished this inisght into their battle.

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Craft Greater Homunculi [x2 learned]
Rank: A-ranked
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: The user creates a homunculi from their own body to do their bidding.
Special: ---
Drawback: Crafting a Greater Homunculi consumes 3 of the users movements over 2 seconds. Greater Homunculi cannot mold chakra and take 50% more damage from Ninjutsu based techniques. The amount of Homunculi the user may craft is capped at 9 per day.They last for one day before melting away. Going farther than their functioning ranges causes them to melt.
Description: A flesh crafting skill that allows the user to create a larger and more powerful Homunculi. By amassing a myriad of cells, the user can craft and bring forth an organic construct derived from the user's own body. Greater homunculi form and bubble off the skin. Similar to a lesser homunculi, this creature is granted its own nervous and muscular system; capable of operating as its own living organism for all intents and purposes. It can speak, interact with others, and think for itself. Unlike a lesser Homunculi, this creature is more suited for combat than espionage. Greater homunculi are granted the following stats:

A base movement speed equal to that of the user.
A Choice size between 100 cm and 200 cm tall (3-6 feet).
Physical fortitude equal to the users own Class level (EX A B-class user allows a Greater Homunculi to survive 1 B-rank attack)
Homunculi deal same damage as the user.
A functioning range of 100 meters.

Greater Homunculi can be crafted to appear as the user desires; from young adults, to the elderly and more. If a Homunculi is consumed by the user, they gain the knowledge and memories obtained by the Homunculi. If killed, they turn into a mass of cells and the user does not gain any memory. The user may craft 3 Homunculi when first learned. Relearning this technique as a "A-ranked technique" allows the user to craft 1 more homunculi.
Limit: Kedōin Clan. Must know "Craft Lesser Homunculi"

North Wind: Barrage
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The user attacks multiple times against the opponent's head with enough potential to knock an opponent's weapon out of their hands.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user strikes 3 times per movement while performing North Wind: Bash with each strike towards the opponent's head. This technique is capable of knocking a weapon out of the opponent's hand.
Limit: Must learn from a Master of Tensora (天空 Heavenly Sky), Must know North Wind: Triple Strafe.

[Flower]

The children, #02 and #03, stood in their position and awaited combat. Sure enough, two more of the man's team appeared before them. But the children had been prepared, having formed maws ont heir hands which could rip and tear flesh away from their victims. One of the newcomers was female and the other male, both robed, and suddenly the oriinal opponent said, "Why are we rushing off to such hasty beginnings?" Valerys looked at him, surprised that he was also willing to play games, and laughed. "You know well why we have. Fate has destined me to protect this caravan, and for whatever reason has destined you to try to fight me for it. Well, let's have our fight." Valerys didn't give him another moment to speak, knowing first-hand how tricky an actor could be. She dashed up against him to deliver another attack with Bitter Mercy, the North Wind: Razor technique which would threaten to slice his body in half. Bitter Mercy did not miss her mark, cutting through the robe and then his shoulder, arm, and part of his torso underneath. It hadn't been perfect, but good enough...

The man fell to the ground bleeding, and his companions looked at him -- never having even got an attack in. Valerys started to walk toward them as the children continued to guard the caravan. All of a sudden, the woman tried to run. Unfortunately for her, #01 was already behind her. The fangs and her maws chewed madly at her face as she turned around, gouging her eyes and leaving her screaming with empty holes in her face. #03 looked at her and chuckled saying, "Hey, look at that! I got the second one!" Valerys sighed. "I told you I wanted to do the killing..." The woman fell to the ground, blood pooling below her, as she let out her last breath. "I know," #01 complained, "but she was just so weak." Valerys turned her attention to the man that stood remaining, in front of #03. The man got down on his knees and started to beg.

"Please don't kill me," he said, "I didn't even want to do this. Come on please, show mercy..."

Valerys looked at her spear and grinned, stepping up to the man. She placed the head of Bitter Mercy at his neck but did not kill him and said, "Go on. Leave this place. And when you do, let them know that your life was spared on a whim by Ken -- Killer of the Hidden Sand Village. Do you understand me?" The man looked at her, unbelieving that he would live, and she motioned to stab at him as he took too long to answer. "Yes, yes! I got it!"

"Then be off."

The man took off into the desert, going who knew where? But one thing was certain, he would spread the legacy of her murders and her name. That much was worth preserving. Valerys prepared herself for the rest of the voyage and told the members that they would be safe from here on out. Indeed they were, and she got them to a small city outside of Sand fairly quickly. She told them goodbye and headed back to the village, ready to recieve her payment. Although, it seemed that the battle int he sand had been payment enough for her bloodlust...

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North Wind: Razor
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A more dangerous version of Heaven Dragonfly: Dismemberment (Air and Ground), however the user does not have to learn that version.
Special: ---
Drawback: This technique only works on overview weapons.
Description: The user concentrates on their strength within a single strike. The user slices through all materials with their polearm in a single swipe. When used on an opponent this technique will bash through the opponent as well in a single swipe, cutting, or bludgeoning through the opponent's flesh and bone cleanly.
Limit: Must learn from a Master of Tensora (天空 Heavenly Sky), Must know North Wind: Disarm (Counter).