Going Against Time [T] [Rosalie]

[Celaena Kamyuja]

• Koodori Retsu (Dancing Cold) [10]
  Rank: C
  Skill: Taijutsu
  Effect: The user strikes with their off-elbow while simultaneously dodging to the side.
  Special: --
  Drawback: The user ends up close to their foe.
  Description: The user steps forward and far to the outside with their off-foot, leaning into the motion to let a strike slip by them without touching them. As they realign themselves, they deliver a punishing elbow-strike with their off-arm, driving it into the opponent’s armpit region. This strike leaves one standing nearly beside their opponent. The user than resumes the stance.
  Limit: Must learn from a Gintsuki no Seikou Mai Master. Must know Tentou (To Invert).

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Amarantha's taijutsu was severely lacking and as much as she hated to admit it she really favored the Gintsuki style. Thus she found her way back to the dojo. There was so very much to learn and so little time. In truth she was preparing for something and this was her way of doing it. Amara found her Sensei immediately and then they bowed in, getting ready to go. He explained to her the intricacies of the Koodori Retsu technique and demonstrated on one of the other students so that she could see the technique first hand. With that she was ready to give it a try.

They began slowly with her sensei throwing a strike. Amara's off foot, the left, stepped to her sensei’s right and his strike moved past her. She let her elbow glide in and under his arm. The slow version seemed to work well enough though her sensei had something to say about her footing and pivoting. She nodded and took in his words, ready to fix what it was that needed fixing. They rest and began again. He still moved slowly so she could fix her footing. She stepped in and dodged the strike easily, making sure to put the needed rotation into her elbow strike to improve the strength.

As they reset she knew he was going to move faster this time and Amara tried to be prepared. She stepped as he threw his punch. It caught her hair, just barely skimming her but it was enough to set her off balance. Amarantha stumbled slightly and looked up at her sensei. He crooked a smile and reset himself. She did too, waiting for the reprimand for failing but it never came. Instead he fired another punch in her direction and she quickly slid out of the way, putting more distance between herself and the punch this time thankfully. Amara twisted her elbow into his under arm as she moved, so far so good.

However they were still moving at about half speed and she needed to be able to perform the technique in real time if she wanted to succeed. Once again they would take their positions and begin. His punch came in at what was a vaguely normal punching speed, and when Amara say vaguely normal she mean normal for a Taijutsu master of his rank so roughly equal to an arrow flying at you. Amara moved to dodge and got punched in the face for her troubles. Her body weight had stopped the force of his punch so there was or set back for her when if normal, she would have been sent flying backwards.

He was at least kind enough to wait until she had her non shaking knees sorted and then they tried again and she waited, hovering on the balls of her feet, ready to move at the slightest inclination of his movement. As soon as his chest muscles tightened she was gone, flying past him and driving her elbow into his arm pit. Amara didn’t hit hard, she could of but the light tap was all she needed to prove that she could perform the technique correctly. Amarantha knew she wouldn’t have hurt him but there is no skill in muscling someone just because you can, she knew that much at least.

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[Natsy]

[Enter]

Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique)
Rank: "D" "C" "B" "A" "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique where the user takes the time to formulate, or create Rock in order to use other types of techniques for great usages.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Must be learned more and more in order to be capable of performing better, and capable of producing more Rock like formations for other types of techniques. Cannot be used on Sand
Description: What occurs is that the user takes the time to push down into the ground their own chakra. As the user does this the user takes the earth like materials found within the ground which is the components of soil as they begin to formulate and harden them all around in order to create harden rock like materials. The user may slam their hands against the ground in order to use this technique or just by pushing their chakra down to the ground. A user can gain the capability of grabbing onto the very ground and molding a piece of earth into a hardened like rock. The more the user learns and the higher the Difficulty class the user becomes the more they are capable of mastering this type of technique. When first learned the user is only capable of formulating rock into the size of their hand. When the user learns the "C" Rank, version this type increases to five meters in radius. Each time learned after that, the distance increases by ten feet giving a total distance of thirty-five meters in a radius distance. For each Difficulty class the User is the larger number this distance becomes. Each Difficulty class after C The distance increases by Ten meters. This means that if a user becomes S Rank in Difficulty Class and learns the S Rank Version of this technique the user is capable of formulating Rock within a Seventy-Five meters Radius.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release

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Once outside, I suck in the fresh air and allow the coolness of the environment to soak through my clothes. I was not exactly calm at the moment, and I needed to occupy myself for a while before going back in there. The ground beneath me was solid, yet it was clearly earth. Axel's wolf, Exccel sat by my side and glanced around the area where I had chosen to train in. I knelled down and began to perform a short chain of handseals while my chakra began to awaken.

The soil was difficult for me to puncture so I relied on my chakra to pierce the earth and dig out a chunk that way. Fortunately I was able to chisel out a small portion of the earth gently before pulling it out with my fingers. Once I had the chunk of earth in my hands, the soil was strangely soft to the touch and it was loose considering the surface was frozen. I gently place the pile on the ground and raised my hands to perform a quick series of six handseals. My chakra flowed out of my body and mixed in with the soil before me, intergrading with the soil until I felt reactions from the soil itself without me physically touching it.

Seeing this as a sign I began envisioning the chakra molding the soil together, pushing out all signs of air and other particles until there was only the soil and my chakra. My chakra smothered the soil together, building it upon itself to the point when the rock slowly began to form before me. A cracking noise along with the sound of stone rubbing against stone filled the area around me, causing Exccel to whimper slightly. My attention flickered toward the wolf first, seeing that he had spotted someone, but my attention shifted back toward the soil as I realized that half of it had successfully been turned into rock.

My mind concentrated on the other half of the rock and began smothering everything together there. I figured since Exccel has not began growling yet, that there was no cause for alarm. My gaze penetrated the soil before me, watching it grow drier to the point when that sound returned, molding together to harden and become jagged in some places. As a result, the soil did look more like a rock in my eyes, so I picked it up experimentally and turned it over in my hands before showing the wolf beside me. My response from the wolf was an awkward glance.

The only way I could think of to test wither it was hard skin-deep was to see if it will shatter. My grip on the rock tightened and it managed to stay hard and did not crumble. I tried grabbing it with both hands and squeezed it tightly. The rock still held firm. Smiling slightly, I raised it and threw it sharply into the ground. The rock broke off slightly but managed to damage the ground upon impact. I made a face at this, signifying that I was impressed and then began to see if I could make more rocks.

[Draven]

Both learned

[Celaena Kamyuja]

• Shikkyaku Yuki (Falling Snow) [10]
  Rank: D
  Skill: Taijutsu
  Effect: The user moves forward and down, surprising their opponent with an off-hand upper-cut.
  Special: --
  Drawback: --
  Description: The user steps forward with their main-foot, straightening their main-leg and lowering their center of gravity to allow a strike to pass above them, evading it. The user then shoots their off-hand up and forward in a powerful uppercut, striking the opponent squarely in the chin. The user then resumes the stance.
  Limit: Must learn from a Gintsuki no Seikou Mai Master. Must know Koodori Retsu (Dancing Cold).

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If Amarantha was fragile, then she would have had a growing bruise on her left eye. But she was not fragile so bruises were nothing; she had learned how to fight in spite of watching others get hurt with them. She needed to keep going, to master this style and stop slacking off. As long as her sensei was prepared to teach her, she was prepared to learn.

Despite her unease when it came to training Taijutsu, it usually kept her occupied. She just wasn’t naturally good with it so she actually had to work with it meaning it kept her more entertained than learning six different ways to throw a punch. What Amara was learning was basically an uppercut, a ridiculously strong evasion followed by an uppercut. It sure sounded like another great opportunity to get punched in the face. But she set up with her sensei once more anyway and waited for the slow punch to come for her to get used to the technique.

As the punch came she let her front foot, the left, step in and lowered her torso, letting the punch sail over her head. She straightened herself upwards and let her right hand come upwards in what would be an uppercut jumped up with the entire weight of her body behind it. He corrected her posture on the evasion and demonstrated the technique once more. Amara nodded and they reset their positions. The punch moved faster this time and she was able to duck underneath, careful to keep her body upright instead of ducking her head.

She came up inside the punch, turning into her uppercut as she fired it upwards and stopped short of her sensei’s chin. It was a good execution of the technique which meant it was time for the real time practicing, the most dreaded part of practicing any technique. So maybe she was being girlishly but she really didn’t like getting punched in the face if she could help. Amara set herself up and made sure she was prepared. Oh who was she kidding there was no way to avoid sensei’s punches considering her rank and skill in Taijutsu but it was still worth a shot.

As he punched her, she ducked underneath and inside his motion, her arm and body lifted and her body twisted adding to the force of the uppercut. Amara stopped short of her punch, perhaps an inch but it was enough. She knew she had performed well and her sensei said the same. Amara knew the feeling of it now, so she could do it again.

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[Natsy]

Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique)
Rank: "D" "C" "B" "A" "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique where the user takes the time to formulate, or create Rock in order to use other types of techniques for great usages.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Must be learned more and more in order to be capable of performing better, and capable of producing more Rock like formations for other types of techniques. Cannot be used on Sand
Description: What occurs is that the user takes the time to push down into the ground their own chakra. As the user does this the user takes the earth like materials found within the ground which is the components of soil as they begin to formulate and harden them all around in order to create harden rock like materials. The user may slam their hands against the ground in order to use this technique or just by pushing their chakra down to the ground. A user can gain the capability of grabbing onto the very ground and molding a piece of earth into a hardened like rock. The more the user learns and the higher the Difficulty class the user becomes the more they are capable of mastering this type of technique. When first learned the user is only capable of formulating rock into the size of their hand. When the user learns the "C" Rank, version this type increases to five meters in radius. Each time learned after that, the distance increases by ten feet giving a total distance of thirty-five meters in a radius distance. For each Difficulty class the User is the larger number this distance becomes. Each Difficulty class after C The distance increases by Ten meters. This means that if a user becomes S Rank in Difficulty Class and learns the S Rank Version of this technique the user is capable of formulating Rock within a Seventy-Five meters Radius.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release

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I suddenly got up off of the ground and leaped forward, coating my fingertips into the ground before me. My chakra had acted like a shield against the hard ground as my fingers pierced through the earth. As my fingers curled inward, I gripped onto the area and sent my chakra in deeply. My quick skim of Doton related scrolls stated that I was able to move in an extra five meter radius, so I sent the chakra deeply into the earth and quickly began to smother the loosened soil together tightly. My chakra infested below, swelling around a certain part of the area while all of the soil was packed together.

Removing all signs of air and other particles, I wanted it to be just the soil in the ground and my chakra. Closing my eyes briefly, I felt my chakra removing all the non-soil bits in the ground and gathering up the soil into a large, tight mass. A cracking noise like root-pulling suddenly filled the area, while a few visible cracks stretched and scarred the earth around me. Exccel moved behind me to avoid stepping on the cracks as I heaved at the chunk of earth. A loud crack – pop – like noise echoed through the area as I yanked out a rock which would best fit the size of a beach ball.

Large pieces of rock fell from the bulk of it, dropping to the ground. But it was no doubt a chunk of rock. However, what concerned me the most was the fact that a lot of rock was falling away from it. Stepping away from the hole, I threw the rock down sharply and watched as it crumpled upon impact. Frowning, I knelled down and went through the shattered bits and found that I had only hardened a good portion of the exterior and not the interior.

I turned away from the hole and faced Exccel and knelled again. My fingertips began to coat themselves in chakra yet again as I stabbed the earth with them again. Five little holes penetrated the surface as I curled my fingers inward and grabbed a hold of the section I was grabbing. Bending my knees, I sent my chakra into the earth, closing my eyes as I felt it deep into the area like a virus through someones system. This time, I waited patiently for the chakra to subtract the unwanted particles from the soil and move the actual soil together into one single heap.

The air was then removed from the gathered soil as the molding process began. It crackled and as I heaved on the chunk I had made, I felt certain that it was hard all the way through. I inhale deeply and pull, severing the earth from it's pit as I raised it out of the ground. A large, hard and very solid piece of earth, jagged in appearance and cool to the touch raised from the now medium – sized hole. Nothing fell from the rocks which was a great sign to me and as I turned and threw it down, only a small portion of it broke, and only a small portion.

[The Roar of the Falls]

Adel: +5

Rose: Learned

[Celaena Kamyuja]

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[Natsy]

Tsuchi funshutsu no Jutsu (Earth spewing Technique)
Rank: “C” “B” “A” “S”
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique where the user takes a deep breath then spits out earth from his/her body, this can be used as a source for other jutsu or it can be used as a projectile.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: N/A
Description: The user holds the dragon seal and takes a deep breath expanding his rib cage but instead of oxygen, earth is exhaled. He will only spit out half his body weight of earth then the chakra from his body will then increase the mass according to the level of the jutsu. For a reason it is generally used to create earth where there is none, to allow the ninja to use other earth based jutsu. The earth is in a form of liquefied mud though after a few seconds of being in the open atmosphere it will harden into a natural, solid soil. The radius, speed and the amount of damage of earth varies at each rank. C rank = 5 meters. B = 10 meters. A rank = 20 meters. S rank = 40meters
Limit: Needs the Earth Release

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Although there was earth all around me, I cold easily find myself walking through that door into a room made entirely out of metal. So I vaguely remembered picking up a scroll and reading about an ability to vomit out earth from the inside. So as I raised my hands they gently moved together in the form of the Dragon handseal. My two pinky fingers were reverted, pointing toward the ground, my tips touching gently. My ring, middle and index fingers laced together, folding over one another while my two thumbs touched together while facing heavenward.

My chakra swam around inside my body, filling my fingers as the handseal was activated. As my chakra began to travel back toward my stomach and chest, my thoughts went back to reading the scroll. It stated that I was to inhale deeply, while the air transformed into earth inside my rib cage. My chakra seeped into my lungs, forming a coat around the inner sections to allow me to breathe in air while the rest of me inhaled earth. It was a little unnerving having an element which initially does not belong inside a human body filling up inside me, but I was prepared to do whatever it took to survive.

As the cool fresh air flowed into my body, the suddenly build up of earth already began to form. Packing up my insides and giving me the feeling of being smothered. This frightened me slightly, but I managed to close my eyes and keep myself calm. The earth build up within me continued to give me a slight plump appearance, especially around the chest and stomach. And I also remembered that the scroll said that I would be expelling half of my body weight in Earth in a liquefied state which repulsed me.

As I doubled over and opened my mouth, I pushed up against the earth inside me, picturing how brown and runny it would be and heaved at the thought. My hands clutch my stomach as pieces of the muddy substance flowed out of my mouth before piling upon the ground at my feet. Exccel raised his head at the sight of this and barked but otherwise did nothing else. My eyes snapped open at this, watching as the earth looked like diarrhea rather than mud. Once it was all out of my system, I coughed and watched as it hardened briefly once it was exposed to the air and elements around.

“That was by far, the most disgusting thing I will ever do!” I exclaimed, not caring who was around or nearby. But as I leaned forward, coating my hand in chakra to perform the chakra scalpel, I sliced through the earth swiftly and picked up the piece I had sliced off and examined it. It was no doubt earth and in it's purest form, but what made it worse was the fact that it came out of me! Dropping it down, I gradually began to prepare myself for a second attempt.

[The Roar of the Falls]

Learned

[Natsy]

Doton Senbon Soushi no Jutsu (Earth Senbon Creation Technique)
Rank: "D" "D" "D" "D" "C" "B"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates Senbon out of the earth and fires them at the opponent.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Must be learned more and more in order to be capable of performing better, and capable of producing more Senbon. Cannot be used on Sand.
Description: Forming the handseals, the User begins to use the Earth Creation Technique to form Senbon in the ground wherever they choose. These Senbon can then fire from the ground at the same speed and strength as if someone had thrown it. These earthen Senbon are shaped like those that are sold in stores and are just as sharp. At D rank, this jutsu forms five Senbon wherever the caster wants. This can be five in different spots, or five all together. The D rank can be learned 4 times for 20 Senbon. Then this jutsu can be learned C rank for 10 more and then B rank for 20 more. Fifty Senbon (after learning 4 D, 1 C, and 1 B rank Jutsu) can be fired from all around the opponent, aimed wherever the caster chooses.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release, must have knowledge of Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique) "D" and "C"

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Shortly after vomiting out liquefied earth, I quickly moved onto the next jutsu. My Father suggested that I learn it if I ever became short of projectiles and needed space. I frown at the memory and raised my hands to lace the six handseals needed for the technique. As my hands parted between each handseal, my chakra was released in steady bursts as I moved down the line. And at this point, I moved onto expelling my chakra out around me, injecting it into the ground and soaking the surface while my mind began to picture a thin, needle – like object beneath the earth.

A senbon needle is roughly five inches long in length and is extremely thin in thickness. These objects were used to pierce vital areas on an opponent and sometimes used for controlling proposes; or so I read. The ground beneath me creaked slightly as my chakra briefly moved around beneath the surface. The loose soil below was being moved together, stretching and then packing together sharply to form the point, body and length of the senbon as they remain hidden from view. I was patient with this and had glanced toward Axel's wolf as he moved closer to me and sat down.

My chakra bubbled within the earth, sharpening the points of my created senbon by solidifying the tips and packing the soil together to give them a sharp, yet smooth appearance. Five of these tiny earthly objects were hidden beneath the earth's surface, each positioned in certain areas around the place. I for one, knew exactly where each senbon was, so this technique gave me the element of surprise should anyone attempt to attack me head on. My attention darted out around me, awaiting for my senbon's formation to be completed before I fired them into the air. The target would be a near by tree since my intentions were not to harm another living thing until these exams started.

After awaiting patiently for the senbon to form, I quickly released my chakra briefly watched as five small, thin projectiles protrude through the earth and sore upward into the air. That was soon followed by five tapping noises as each senbon struck the tree 2 meters to my right. I approached the tree cautiously followed closely by Exccel and found each senbon at least an inch deep into the bark. A smile found it's way upon my face as I turned away from the tree and headed back out into the open to continue my training. As I walked, my fingers laced through the same six handseals as my chakra was sent straight into the ground beneath me.

The soil moved quickly, while being divided from any substance lingering around. The air was also squeezed out through my chakra before the soil was smothered together and formed into the size, shape and appearance of a senbon needle. Another five was scattered around the area, each given a 2 meter distance between each creation and the moment they were fully formed and sharpened to perfection, I released the chakra withholding them and watched as they protruded through the earth and sailed toward another tree 2.4 meters to my left.

[The Roar of the Falls]

+10

[Natsy]

[Exit]