Volt[Training]

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

+36

[Defiant]

Raiton – Orochi Daija (Thunder Style – Zeus’ Leviathan)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Summons a huge lightning serpent to destroy an area. Serpent lasts for five turns, unless defeated prematurely. It cannot be stopped by hard-like releases such as Doton for Raiton is flowing and it will simply reform, but flowing type jutsu such as Suiton and Fuuton will certainly put it down. Due to the intense concentrated Raiton chakra, anyone with Raiton mastery loses two charges rather than one for every time the victim is hurt.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Takes a heavy toll on the user’s chakra pool. Does not discriminate between friend or foe. Can only be used twice per thread.
Description: One of the strongest and hardest techniques within the Raiton series to create, this technique brings both onto the battlefield an awesomely large serpent like entity comprised of pure lightning. Measured at seventy-five meters long, with twenty meters comprising both its height and diameter, this colossal creature moves as fast as a tai-specialist, and can climb onto all forms of surfaces. The trick is that it is comprised of Raiton energy, so it doesn’t actually walk – it hovers ever so softly over anything it chooses to cross, temporarily changing the surface’s charge in order for it to be compatible with the beast. However, as large as it is, it’s rather dumb, and follows only the most basic of the user’s mental commands. Summon only at appropriate times!
Limit: Raiton no Jutsu

56/120

The dawn brought with it the time to recover and eat, and the time to think back on the night before. What she had made, although massive and blinding, was not the leviathan that she needed to be controlling. That was some sort of half created shadow of it with no mind whatsoever. Controlling it any further than keeping it's shape would have been a damn joke, and it pissed her off to know that truth.

She went out to the snow again, and tried to focus once more. Her body wouldn't be able to take repeat runs at a technique of this size, so she needed to be careful with how she molded her chakra; one slip might drain her to death. The seemingly endless chain of seals droned through her mind as if on a conveyor belt, and the machines in her gut churned her chakra into the brilliant blue energy for the technique.

The mechanical monotonous procedure was followed abruptly by the organic nascence of the true leviathan from her chakra. Her eyes re-actively converted to their Ryuugan state at the passing of such massive raiton chakra, and illuminated the sky around her in the brilliant color of the storm. The lightning rushed from her body at a blinding pace and collided into a point above her, creating a sphere of blue plasma above her head.

The coagulation of energy was so much denser this time around, and it was coming faster and faster, rushing into the slowly expanding sphere until it was finally ready to take shape. She didn't quite know how she knew when to start the forming process, maybe it was in the hand seals and it was just a subconscious trigger, or maybe she felt the slight spark of consciousness that came from the gigantic mass of chakra; a spark she didn't feel the last time.

The sphere didn't stretch to form the snake this time, it instead acted almost as a gateway for the creature. The head emerged, shoving it's long snout through, whiskers sparking and jumping as they trailed from under it's nose. It's eyes shone brighter than the rest of it's form, somehow acting as beacons even in the incandescence of the lightning. Once it's head fully emerged from the gateway, she felt the connection for real.

It was simple. Small. Not in size but in concept. It had no needs, no wants, no desires. It was a child-like mind, but different in it's inability to grow, and it's ability to not need to. She wondered how something so gigantic and complex in construction, she would know considering it was her chakra as it's entire structure, have a mind that was so different from it.

Her focus wavered during her marvel at the incomplete beast, and she took that as her Que to continue the jutsu.

[Deleted]

+10; 66|120.

[Defiant]

Raiton – Orochi Daija (Thunder Style – Zeus’ Leviathan)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Summons a huge lightning serpent to destroy an area. Serpent lasts for five turns, unless defeated prematurely. It cannot be stopped by hard-like releases such as Doton for Raiton is flowing and it will simply reform, but flowing type jutsu such as Suiton and Fuuton will certainly put it down. Due to the intense concentrated Raiton chakra, anyone with Raiton mastery loses two charges rather than one for every time the victim is hurt.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Takes a heavy toll on the user’s chakra pool. Does not discriminate between friend or foe. Can only be used twice per thread.
Description: One of the strongest and hardest techniques within the Raiton series to create, this technique brings both onto the battlefield an awesomely large serpent like entity comprised of pure lightning. Measured at seventy-five meters long, with twenty meters comprising both its height and diameter, this colossal creature moves as fast as a tai-specialist, and can climb onto all forms of surfaces. The trick is that it is comprised of Raiton energy, so it doesn’t actually walk – it hovers ever so softly over anything it chooses to cross, temporarily changing the surface’s charge in order for it to be compatible with the beast. However, as large as it is, it’s rather dumb, and follows only the most basic of the user’s mental commands. Summon only at appropriate times!
Limit: Raiton no Jutsu

66/120

The monster's scull pulled away from the orb, and slowly but carefully the rest of the body came into existence behind it, expanding as it exited the orb further lending to the idea of it coming from a different place. It's body would have looked smooth if not for the massive discharges that came from it's bright cyan spine and scale-like patterns. It's body extended as such, giving it a heavily serpentine appearance.

Once it's tail left the sphere, the gate simply collapsed in on itself and vanished into a bolt of lightning that shot into the creature. It was either some sort of final piece, or simply a maximization of used chakra. Siobhan hoped for the second, because as the creature floated above her, she felt sick and dizzy. She clearly hadn't recovered enough from her last attempt, and incomplete jutsu always left one feeling far more drained than they would if done properly, and she should have known that.

She clenched her eyes shut and did her best to focus on her leviathan. The pulse of it's energy and the waves that ran through it like a heartbeat. Maybe it was a heartbeat, and the leviathan was some sort of inter-dimensional being summoned purely by the mass of raiton. Whatever she thought it was, the fact of the moment was it was here, and it was waiting.

"Uhm...Go left!"She pointed to her left, across the lake and towards the mountain. The leviathan turned from facing her, to her requested destination, and left for it with the obedience of a dog; a huge, electric snake-dog. It probably would have been silent in it's motion if not for it's size, the stability of it's mass left the static discharge that it used to float the only thing that made any noise, and there was a lot of it.

She didn't feel any wavering of her connection with it while the distance increased either, though leaving it do it's own devices seemed like a dangerous idea as it began to climb the mountain she had pointed at. 'Go Left', didn't come with a stopping order, so if not for Siobhan's frantic yelling, it would have simply kept going...forever? That would be cool.

She ordered it back to her, and then around the perimeter of the lake. It was slow, both in speed and mind, but the thought of it crashing headfirst into an object was finally blooming fully in her mind.

"Tomorrow..." she said to the leviathan as it made another lap around the lake, "stop for a second. Tomo- no not a literal second, stop. Tomorrow, we're going to get in some battle practice. Sound good?" She smiled happily up at the gigantic creature, and it simply stared back. Siobhan sighed. "But you can't understand much beyond order's, can you?"

No response.

[Beltran]

+9

[Defiant]

Raiton – Orochi Daija (Thunder Style – Zeus’ Leviathan)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Summons a huge lightning serpent to destroy an area. Serpent lasts for five turns, unless defeated prematurely. It cannot be stopped by hard-like releases such as Doton for Raiton is flowing and it will simply reform, but flowing type jutsu such as Suiton and Fuuton will certainly put it down. Due to the intense concentrated Raiton chakra, anyone with Raiton mastery loses two charges rather than one for every time the victim is hurt.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Takes a heavy toll on the user’s chakra pool. Does not discriminate between friend or foe. Can only be used twice per thread.
Description: One of the strongest and hardest techniques within the Raiton series to create, this technique brings both onto the battlefield an awesomely large serpent like entity comprised of pure lightning. Measured at seventy-five meters long, with twenty meters comprising both its height and diameter, this colossal creature moves as fast as a tai-specialist, and can climb onto all forms of surfaces. The trick is that it is comprised of Raiton energy, so it doesn’t actually walk – it hovers ever so softly over anything it chooses to cross, temporarily changing the surface’s charge in order for it to be compatible with the beast. However, as large as it is, it’s rather dumb, and follows only the most basic of the user’s mental commands. Summon only at appropriate times!
Limit: Raiton no Jutsu

75/120

The morning came with wind and snow. No rays could pierce through the black, acrid clouds and the howling of the wind through the peaks sent chills up the woman's spine. Good chills. She took the storm as a good omen, and as was her custom she reveled in the storm that raged overhead. When the thunder roared, her hands came together to form the first seal of her technique.

"Leviathan, hear me," she said softly inwards as her chakra spiraled through her coil. The mixture of her physical energy and spiritual energy was flowing together into a homogeneous mixture. The chakra felt cool through her skin, yet even in the cold of the north it was soothing as it bled through her tenketsu. Her entire form began to glow with a visible aura, her being was outlined with a soft blue glow that slowly, as the seals progressed, became a more opaque outline. The edge was solid at first, simply appearing as an azure corona, but quickly began to become more active in it's manifestation. Oscillating spikes of chakra began to stream from her like licks of fire.

Above her head, spinning into a small sphere, were the tiny tongues of the fire like chakra that flowed up around her body. Slowly, they accumulated, growing in size until it reached a about one foot across. It's outline was pockmarked with gaps in it's chakra weave, and it's spherical shape fluctuated until the final seal came to be formed. When her fingers formed the final binding seal, anyone near her would have sworn the storm raging above had descended to the sphere of the mortals on the earth, for from her body emanated a sound akin to the strongest of thunderclaps, and it echoed through the mountains.

The chakra responded in time with the clap and the soft, flowing edges of the chakra turned jagged in an instant, and were suddenly brilliant blue. Their movements were hastened, and the casual flowing of the sphere above her head was suddenly a ball of lightning like energy. As if attracted to the mass, the corona around her body which was now a raging lightning storm flowed into this orb, and it's expansion was faster and more dramatic than before, stretching the orb out to ten times its initial size.

Bolts of lightning steamed from the now gigantic mass of chakra, striking the snowy ground around her, drawing haphazard patterns in the melting snow and scorched earth. The first part was starting to become her favorite bit, and the speed at which she could do it pleased her; she could feel forming the leviathan would soon become a single process done all in one flowing movement.

[Holy Grail]

9+

[Defiant]

Raiton – Orochi Daija (Thunder Style – Zeus’ Leviathan)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Summons a huge lightning serpent to destroy an area. Serpent lasts for five turns, unless defeated prematurely. It cannot be stopped by hard-like releases such as Doton for Raiton is flowing and it will simply reform, but flowing type jutsu such as Suiton and Fuuton will certainly put it down. Due to the intense concentrated Raiton chakra, anyone with Raiton mastery loses two charges rather than one for every time the victim is hurt.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Takes a heavy toll on the user’s chakra pool. Does not discriminate between friend or foe. Can only be used twice per thread.
Description: One of the strongest and hardest techniques within the Raiton series to create, this technique brings both onto the battlefield an awesomely large serpent like entity comprised of pure lightning. Measured at seventy-five meters long, with twenty meters comprising both its height and diameter, this colossal creature moves as fast as a tai-specialist, and can climb onto all forms of surfaces. The trick is that it is comprised of Raiton energy, so it doesn’t actually walk – it hovers ever so softly over anything it chooses to cross, temporarily changing the surface’s charge in order for it to be compatible with the beast. However, as large as it is, it’s rather dumb, and follows only the most basic of the user’s mental commands. Summon only at appropriate times!
Limit: Raiton no Jutsu

84/120

The blue sun above Siobhan's head pulsed rapidly as it's surface shifted and morphed, adopting concave and convex pockets as though a creature was trying to break free. In truth, the creature was forming. Strands of energy wove itself across a structure created from her imagination, and gave shape and form to flights of fancy; the orb opened wide, held agape by her will, and chakra poured from the maw.

It curled into a sort of jagged pillar, moving erratically as the orb that one contained the shape now fueled it's growth. It's dragon-like features erupted into life as it's shell faded into its new form. Teeth, claws and horns were all of the brightest blue that could be granted by her chakra; their edges could cut through some of the hardest materials, the lightning would not just cut, but literally separate objects. If she could have given the beast a shield to go with it's swords, she would have, but the naturally flowing nature of Lightning did not allow for such a brute defense, so a more deceptive one was employed.

Through the use of lightning's natural flowing nature, she formed a net of chakra around the creature and all through the surface of it's body. The purpose was to act as a container for the energy; the strands could be interrupted, but if the pattern was generally undisturbed, the snake could keep it's integrity. It would have to crash directly into something in order to dissipate, or something would need to be big enough to disturb enough of it's surface area to cause the technique to collapse...and with a mass of chakra that size, the collapse would surely be catastrophic for the area.

But the net wasn't just to keep it's shape, it also gave it motion. It stopped the more volatile chakras from interacting with generic objects, and by containing the energy it produces along the net, energy that would have been spent jumping from the creature to ground, is actually spent keeping it hovering just inches above surfaces.

She didn't want to call it her masterpiece or anything, in truth she thought the leviathan was ugly, but she had to marvel at the intricacies of it's construction. With the way it would move on it's own, even if it was just the random vibrations of lightning, the massive beast seemed alive and in possession of motion or thoughts beyond her control.

[Deleted]

+10; 94|120.

[Defiant]

Raiton – Orochi Daija (Thunder Style – Zeus’ Leviathan)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Summons a huge lightning serpent to destroy an area. Serpent lasts for five turns, unless defeated prematurely. It cannot be stopped by hard-like releases such as Doton for Raiton is flowing and it will simply reform, but flowing type jutsu such as Suiton and Fuuton will certainly put it down. Due to the intense concentrated Raiton chakra, anyone with Raiton mastery loses two charges rather than one for every time the victim is hurt.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Takes a heavy toll on the user’s chakra pool. Does not discriminate between friend or foe. Can only be used twice per thread.
Description: One of the strongest and hardest techniques within the Raiton series to create, this technique brings both onto the battlefield an awesomely large serpent like entity comprised of pure lightning. Measured at seventy-five meters long, with twenty meters comprising both its height and diameter, this colossal creature moves as fast as a tai-specialist, and can climb onto all forms of surfaces. The trick is that it is comprised of Raiton energy, so it doesn’t actually walk – it hovers ever so softly over anything it chooses to cross, temporarily changing the surface’s charge in order for it to be compatible with the beast. However, as large as it is, it’s rather dumb, and follows only the most basic of the user’s mental commands. Summon only at appropriate times!
Limit: Raiton no Jutsu

94/120

"Y'know you're actually not bad at this?" a voice cooed from her back. A smile crept across Siobhan's face as the familiar tone reached her ears, and she turned to see the one with golden hair standing a few feet behind her, beaming at her. His eyes jumped from her form to the leviathans' and with a whistle, he got the creatures attention.

The gigantic snake curled over itself, creating a sparkling blue pretzel in the air as it turned and looped in on itself to keep itself floating in a singular spot. It's serpentine weaving and spiraling slowly began to tone down into a simple circle in the sky, nearly forming a perfect Azure ring on the grey backdrop of the winter sky. Siobhan looked up at it too, it spiraled carelessly around her head, sitting a hundred meters in the sky.

"So it seems like it went well...ready for the final test?" It wasn't a question, because his hands were already blurring together, and Siobhan was already retreating from him rapidly. Arekkusu had patience, kindness and compassion, but with the way he acted sometimes, one would think quite the opposite; especially when the seals ended, and his right hand extended towards her.

In his extended palm was a brilliant blue orb of electricity. It kept it's shape for but a blink of an eye, before exploding outwards towards the woman. Her serpent, acting both on it's own instincts and hers practically fell from the sky, nose first, into the gap between the pair. It's body coiled around her, leaving her enough space to maneuver, but keeping her protected from every direction. If this was a lightning attack, she had to hope that it was at a level that could be canceled out by the Raiton snake, and give her a moment to counter attack...

but the impact didn't come. She strained her eyes to see him through the gaps in the weave of the leviathan, but she couldn't make out what he was doing. Her leviathan slowed it's pace, and then lifted it's great head only a few feet to let her see him still standing across from her...with a leviathan of his own.

His, however, was different from hers. While hers was extravagant, regal and detailed with unnecessary tassels like the whiskers or antler-horns, his was thin, possibly thinner than hers, and smooth from head to toe. It wasn't a snake-like creature of lightning like hers was, his looked solid, as if lightning truly gave form to a beast of massive stature. It was curled around him like hers was, except iit's head stood erect over it's master, and piercing serpentine eyes glared down at her. It sat like a cobra in wait to strike it's foe.

Siobhan's dragon-like leviathan roared in disgust at it, and it was spurred on by her own annoyance at what was now her imperfect leviathan; it was like every time she made progress, he always proved that there was another level higher, another step further she should have taken. One's emotions are tightly linked to their chakra, and as her anger grew, the leviathan's did as well, and quickly they fueled each-other until the great beast was rushing head first at it's s called perfected counterpart.

Arekkusu's snake was absolutely still as the mass rushed towards it. It's jaws were wide and it's small claw like hands were ready to try and tear and rip at the entities. Then in a snap of light and a thunder crack of sound, Siobhan's serpent exploded. The speed at which Arekkusu's serpent had moved had barely registered in Siobhan's eyes, it might as well have been a bolt of lightning that struck right down onto the head of her creature, and scattered it's chakra like sand to the wind.

"Yours is too slow though..."

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+10

[Defiant]

Raiton – Orochi Daija (Thunder Style – Zeus’ Leviathan)
Rank: S
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Summons a huge lightning serpent to destroy an area. Serpent lasts for five turns, unless defeated prematurely. It cannot be stopped by hard-like releases such as Doton for Raiton is flowing and it will simply reform, but flowing type jutsu such as Suiton and Fuuton will certainly put it down. Due to the intense concentrated Raiton chakra, anyone with Raiton mastery loses two charges rather than one for every time the victim is hurt.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Takes a heavy toll on the user’s chakra pool. Does not discriminate between friend or foe. Can only be used twice per thread.
Description: One of the strongest and hardest techniques within the Raiton series to create, this technique brings both onto the battlefield an awesomely large serpent like entity comprised of pure lightning. Measured at seventy-five meters long, with twenty meters comprising both its height and diameter, this colossal creature moves as fast as a tai-specialist, and can climb onto all forms of surfaces. The trick is that it is comprised of Raiton energy, so it doesn’t actually walk – it hovers ever so softly over anything it chooses to cross, temporarily changing the surface’s charge in order for it to be compatible with the beast. However, as large as it is, it’s rather dumb, and follows only the most basic of the user’s mental commands. Summon only at appropriate times!
Limit: Raiton no Jutsu

104/120

"Ready?" no, was the correct answer, but Siobhan nodded her head despite her desire to quit. Since Arekkusu had crushed her apparition, he'd been monitoring her training like he'd never done before. Normally she was left alone to train, and he simply tested her end result, but this time, he was actually helping. In his own way, that is.

The technique was big, and producing it was slow, even after the formation of the hand-seals, she was still molding chakra, and still working it into shape; he was going to force her to preform the technique faster through pressure. She knew he was right, that she couldn't make herself go faster without a spur, and trying it in actual combat would be even more dangerous than this, though it wasn't as if the backlash of an S rank technique was somehow less instantaneously lethal in controlled conditions. Still, she had to trust him; she didn't have a choice.

Her confirmation came with a crack of lightning and an explosion of snow and light at her feet; Arekkusu was already hurling lightning bolts. Her fear wasn't of death, or truly pain, but of failure...and the fact that those bolts would paralyze half of her body for several hours if they so much as touched her. Her hands came together quickly, and her legs carried her even quicker across the quickly vaporizing snow. She tripped on the hand-seals as a bold of lightning careened past her face, and she quickly dove behind the cabin for a moment of succor as she was forced to start over. She cursed herself under her breath as she rapidly fired off the seals.

Her hands came to a stop at the dragon seal, just as a clump of snow slid off the roof and landed on her left. She looked up to see Arekkusu grinning down at her, a lightning spear in his hands.

"Here goes!" She thought as her hands opened up and outstretched to the sky. Between her fingers, and her wrists, sparks of lightning jumped. For a second it was only a few strands of static, but in the blink of an eye it was an eruption of light all around her hands. It felt like forming the preliminary orb, like gathering the chakra into a singular mass to be shaped and folded into the snake, but this time, as it was gathering, it was being released into the shape simultaneously.

Where Arekkusu's Leviathan's form came from makes sense to the speed it needs to be made at too. There's no time for small details, there's no time to dedicate conscious thought to it's features and tassels. It had to create itself, and finally what he had said at the beginning was making real sense. The Leviathan's jaw was open as it rushed upwards, tearing apart the cabin walls as it rose. Arekkusu was quick enough to slip away from the sudden rush of power, but the beast turned mid air to pursue him.

[Defiant]

/120 [#2]

The jaw of the Leviathan was massive, and looking into it was like looking into a vortex of light and chaos, but it's exterior was far smoother. There were no straight, or even jagged edges on it anymore, it was completely smooth. The net used to form it was now so tightly woven that no chakra seeped through the gaps to distort it's silhouette, and that objects could pass through it with ease. It's eyes were different now too, the intelligence and life that seemed dull and dim before, albeit present, was now shining with the ferocity it should have had all along.

It's horns were gone, as were the ridges along it's back, and the whiskers from it's nose. Its arms, and legs were gone now too, and replacing them were fin-like appendages big enough to be wings. As they formed, they stretched open to their full 20 meter span, spread wide as the massive leviathan chased after it's prey.

Siobhan's hands burned as the tail was finally formed, and the massive snake rushed across the snow away from her. They were red and numb, stinging from the cold and the heat, and the massive rush of chakra that just went through them, but in the moment of seeing her creation in full size, and in full glory, chasing the laughing blonde across the snow, her hands could have been burnt to a crisp and it wouldn't have made her smile any weaker.

"Call it off!" He shouted as her as he sprinted across the lake, the leviathan quickly in tow, "call it off!!!" but she only laughed, and decided to pretend she didn't hear him; at least for a little while.

[~Emi~]

Call it off!!!!!

or not

+10 +6

120/120 Learned~

[Defiant]

The trials of the days past seemed like a distant memory under the morning light; the burns on her hands had already faded, as though they knew how to respond to the lightning that had caused it. She could almost feel her chakra continuously carrying an electrical current through her body, giving her a tingling sensation on her nerves.

The morning went by quickly, the end of her training meant moving again to a new location. More north, further into the ice and cold and harsh mountains, it was getting harder to discern ice from stone, as they were all glossy and slick; it took all her will to keep her chakra gripped to the walls of ice Arekkusu lead her across. Hours of travel passed by in what felt like minutes though, the grand sweeping scenes and the treacherous cliffs was enough excitement to take her mind off the time, and she hardly noticed the sun had already begun to set when they finally reached what she had to assume was the destination.

"A cave?" she asked as she took her place next to him at it's mouth. He looked longingly into it, as if it was an old friend.

Without a word, he was moving into it, and Siobhan jumped to keep up. She was expecting it to be a shelter from the cold and the wind, but she was not expecting the sudden increase in temperature upon stepping into it.

"It's about 25 degrees," he spoke as if reading her mind. She tugged on her winter gear, pulling it loose to allow herself to breathe.

"What are we doing here?" he didn't respond, and she was about to ask again, until the answer suddenly became obvious. Bellow her, the tunnel dropped off into a massive chamber, and in it was training equipment of all types. Heavy bags, sword racks, archery targets, and even an improvised boxing ring carved out of the stone of the mountain itself. He walked down the small stair path that led into the chamber, and rested his equipment haphazardly on the floor. She followed, and looked around the massive space, and noticed there were side chambers, separated by stone bars she assumed he could move himself. Did he build this entire place? When?

Before she could find out, Siobhan was being beckoned to the ring. A spar, she assumed, but when she reached for her sword, he told her to leave it. Curious, she complied and joined him in the ring.

Jod Muay
Rank: "E" Rank
Type: TaiJutsu
Effect: The basic posture of the Muay Thai Style. The basic posture needed in order to move on into the more advanced techniques of the Muay Thai style. The Jod Muay is the basic step of defending but Muay is the martial art that uses the eight limbs, two hands, two shins, two knees, and two elbows to fight the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture The leading foot should be pointed straight, while the other is positioned to angle at ninety degrees whilst raising the heel of the back foot. Both the knees and the body are straight, designed to create posture. Arch the back backwards slightly. This allows power to be generated for the legs. The chin must remain in the same posture as the shoulders; in essence, this means that the user must lower their chin to be level with the shoulders, while raising the shoulders and the arms for guarding purposes. The next step is to grasp the hands, keeping them raised to face level, crafting a guard with the forearms to allow defending against oncoming attacks. The eyes are straight forward, locking onto the opponent's abdomen for full view of oncoming strikes against the upper or lower body.
Limit: Must learn from a Muay Thai Master.

0/5

"You've mastered the art of lightning, you've mastered the art of the sword, and the arrow. You are formidable at all ranges...but one." he stretched, pulled off his shirt, and prepared himself for combat. Siobhan was frozen. She had nearly a drop of hand to hand combat, the only tastes she received was from Buredono Kenseijin, and she hadn't even entered into the Power form. She had her instincts of course, and she had always assumed that would be enough, especially considering her skill with her lightning techniques.

"What if you can't mold your chakra? What if your sword is taken away and you've run short of arrows?" Arekkusu's fists went up, his shoulders went up, and his chin lowered slightly, creating a defensive posture around his upper body. His left foot was solid, while his right's heel was raised.

"This is Jod Muay," he fired of three punches in rapid succession, each one she could feel the strokes of air from even across the ring. "It is the art of fighting, with understanding of Muai Thai, You'll never be weaponless again; you will always have eight."

"Eight?"

"Yes," And with a flurry of motion he kicked the air, sweeping left and right, then following with a combination of punches, elbows and knees. "Two fists, two elbows, two knees, and two shins. You can shatter the bodies and wills of anyone with these if you master them." Siobhans eyes were alight, and Arekkusu smirked. "If you're so eager, then join me in the stance."

Her fists went up, mimicking his, and she stood half on her right foot just as he did. Arekkusu moved to her to correct her posture. He shifted her right foot farther outwards, turning it to 90 degrees. He tapper her thighs lightly, lowering her stance. Her shoulders raised slightly, and her head lilted forward to mach, but Arekkusu instead arched her backwards instead.

"You're too tense, you'll slow yourself down. Relax. This style is going to be a turning point for you, Siobhan. When you master it, you're going to find yourself stronger than you ever have been before, your potential will double, at the very least. And the key? Start at the top, and relax; exerting your full power will be as easy as breathing," Siobhan took a deep breath in response, "And you'll release more power than you even realize. From this point on, your very best, is now your very worse."

His words were intense and potent, and Siobhan drank them in as if they gave her life.

[KoKoKo]

5

[Defiant]

Ka Jig Khai
Rank: "D"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A jab used within the Muay Thai Style.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture The Boxer Throws the straight left or swing left first to the chin, nose, or the eyes of the opponent. Then Hurry to attack with another trick. This trick is used for attack, defense, or escape. To Protect: The Straight Fist: Throws the right punch, if to protect the swing fist. Moves the right arm to the right side. (If User knows The Jab in Boxing, or the Left Straight Punch in Krav Maga the user does not have to learn this Technique.)
Limit: Must learn from a Muay Thai Master.

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Clattering of chains and the sound of fists striking leather rang through the cave-hideout that Siobhan's teacher Arekkusu had created. They stood separated by a large, deep-red cylinder dangling from the ceiling; Arekkusu gripped it tightly as Siobhan punded at it with her fists on the other side.

No form, and her wrists were paying the price. She was feeling out of breath, and her arms hurt from what was a surprisingly unfamiliar motion for her. She had hoped that her swordsmanship skill would give her an edge in learning hand to hand combat, but if anything, she was finding her sword habits detrimental to her training.

It was just a jab, simple extension of the arm towards the point of impact. Clench the fist before the connection to stop your hand from breaking. So simple, but somehow the first punch Siobhan threw at the sand filled bag twisted her hand so badly she was out of commission for an hour. Embarrassed, she didn't even want to continue after that incident, but the golden haired man had a way with words, and swayed her back to her feet, and back in front of the bag.

She carefully regulated her breathing; timing them to her jabs and the sound of the impacts created a rhythm for her to follow and keep with.

"You're too tense, that's why you keep hurting yourself," Arekkusu said from around the bag after she cursed aloud and tried to shake off the pain from her left hand. Him telling her that she was tense only made her more tense, and more annoyed, which made her technique more sloppy, and thus perpetuating the cycle of failure.

Arekkusu stepped out from behind the bag and stopped her hand mid punch. "Stop stop stop," he sighed with a shake of his head, "listen, and look."

His right hand extended out to the bag with fist clenched, measuring the distance between him and it. "If you clench your grip too early, you loose power," he did a quick jab to demonstrate and the bag rocked back softly, "and if too late, your wrists break." Siobhan crossed her arms with a sulk; his form was supposed to be better than hers, she was his teacher after all, but he always made everything look so easy.

Siobhan moved back to her place in front of the bag. She extended her right arm, and her knuckles just lightly touched the bag before being pulled back into the Jod Muay stance. She could feel tension building in her calves, in her back, in her shoulders and arms as she got ready to punch; then a hand touched her shoulder.

"See, tense. Relax. You don't need to flex your muscles for them to work at full speed; let your shoulder's go limp," Siobhan's right shoulder descended a few inches, and then her left followed suit as she tried to relax. "Deep breathes, slow breathes. With your stomach, in through the nose, out through the mouth. Yea, like that."

Her eyes were closed now and her body felt calm, and then with a flicker of movement, her left arm exploded outwards and struck the bag. She cringed slightly after the impact; her wrist was not fully ready for the strike, but instead of the reprimand to her form that she had expected, Arekkusu only roared with a proud grin: "Again!"

[Mist]

+ 10 - learned

[Defiant]

Prapai Lom Singkorn (Straight Punch)
Rank: "D" Rank, "D" Rank Variations
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A powerful, straight punch thrown with the rear hand.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture The Boxer Throws the straight right punch and twists the body by that punch, stepping with the right foot forward. The Boxer must consider about the distance between him and the opponent. The target is the chin or the heart of the opponent. This trick is used for attack, defense, or escape. If used for attack use both left and right alternately. The Straight Punch is one of the heaviest punches in all of Muay Thai. It can be used in attack and defense. If used properly it can stop your opponent right in his tracks. However if used at the wrong moment it may put the boxer in a difficult situation because if the punch misses the target the boxer will have wasted a lot of energy and will be left exposed to a counter attack. The strength of this punch comes from moving the foot forward and from the transfer of force from the leg to the moving body and finally to the fist. To further enhance the power in his punch the boxer must twist his hips, waist, and shoulder while punching. The result is a very powerful blow that draws upon the boxer's weight, the muscles of the feet, legs, hips, waist, and shoulders, and the proper technique in releasing the punch for its forcefulness.
Variation: Full Body Straight Punch - This straight punch uses the force of gravity thrown in the perpendicular plane. The boxer throws himself forward and the momentum of his falling body is added to the punch making it very powerful. To practice this punch, start by standing at ease with guards up. Then move either foot forward and use the rear leg to push the body forward, similar to falling forward towards the target. The momentum from this movement transferred to the arm and fist, giving the punch its characteristic power. When connecting against the opponent's torso area will stun the opponent for 2 movements.
Variation: Over the Shoulder Straight Punch - This punch is released by a sudden jerking and twisting of the body. It derives its power solely from the muscles and is less powerful than the other versions of the straight punch. It is best used in close fights and emergencies. When the punch is thrown with the left hand, the right hand is automatically jerked backwards. As a result, the muscles of the shoulder, back, stomach, waist, and the two legs will work together transferring the weight from one side of the body to the other. This twist of the body prepares one for an over the shoulder punch with the right hand. This twist should be practiced so that one is comfortable throwing the over the shoulder punch using the twist of the body and the corresponding transfer of body weight as the source of the punch's power. This technique hits as a "B" Rank technique instead of the basic "C" Rank.

To Protect: Brushes it with the fist or the arm which in the front, if the opponent boxer is a right handed fighter, the user will use the left fist or the left arm to swipe the punch out to the left side. (If user knows The Cross/The Straight in Boxing, or Cross-Body Punch in Krav Maga the user does not have to learn the base Technique.)
Limit: Must learn from a Muay Thai Master.

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Siobhan was alternating the beat of her jabs between her left hand and right hand. She was quickly learning to slow and speed up the rhythm of her motions, and timing the clenching of her wrists was getting easier. Arekkusu was getting into the habit of moving the punching bag around now, bringing it closer or jerking it farther back to throw her off, but her eyes were sharp and she rarely lost sight of her target. The training had been underway for a week, but the workouts and exorcises meant to get her body properly into shape took up the entirety of that time; she had a feeling that if Arekkusu didn't have to teach her how to jab properly before they went into the work-outs he was making her do, he wouldn't have.

Learning the straight punch came next, or more accurately, came as the first real technique he was teaching her. A full power, full speed, fully extended punch would be guaranteed to wreak havoc on an opponent's body, but to miss, or to even preform the technique improperly would convert all of that power into a force bent on destroying the arm that once carried it. She could only imagine firing a rocket of a punch and missing the timing; her wrist bending all the way back and the base slamming against the object she tried to hit; chills ran up her spine.

Despite it, her right hand went out to check the distance of the bag. She twisted herself to the left and then to the right over and over, stretching out her tendons and warming up her muscles for what would be a sudden rush of movement. "Remember," Arekkusu called from behind the bag, "keep relaxed right up until the end," his grip tightened as Siobhan nodded and lifted her hands.

Pivot, push. Push, pivot. With a burst of movement, her right leg was propelling her body forward, and her shoulders twisted in time with her waist, and core, sending the power spiraling up her body like a corkscrew. The twisting motion to build and release power was even present in her fists as it flew through the air, and the power that it produced was immediately evident; Arekkusu staggered backwards at her punch.

She didn't lock-out the punch though, and just as quickly as her fist went out, it was being pulled back, and the motion was being repeated as a mirror image with her left fist, causing him to take another step back at the impact.

He peeked out from behind the bag, eyeing her curiously. Siobhan stared back, worried for a moment that she'd done something wrong; the fact that her body wasn't in any pain had to be a good sign, but Arekkusu was just staring at her.

"...Push ups." Siobhan groaned and dropped to the floor, sprawling out her digits for the finger push ups Arekkusu ordered. The first time he'd told her to drop and do finger push ups, she nearly died, but now she doesn't even ask how many. Arekkusu continued to stare at her with curiosity...and fright.

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+10; Learned.