Skating for flowers [Training/Flower hunting]

[Nira]

+10

occ: Whoo, double! It's high chances, but still!

If you could focus a bit more on how Zetsubo searches, that would be great.

2 found

[~Emi~]

20/50, 2 rolls (Emi 60%, Zet 75% (tracking scent B rank) (10 found so far)


The one thing that caught his gaze, was his friend that once again had successfully found more trees. So Emi sprinted towards his friend and used the edge of the shield to cut of the trees in one go. Since he had taken down so many of them, he had a very good idea on where to cut it to avoid unnecessary damage to the trees. Their fall was so swift that Emi had to use his shield to avoid getting them over himself. Even thought they didn't weight that much, they were still so long that he had to use both his hands to direct them so they fell into the hands of the gorillas.

As he send away the gorillas after Zetsubô, something grabbed his ankles, rooting him to the ground. The surprise made him loose most of his balance, but was easily regained as barely was capable of moving his feet in any direction. As his eyes looked down, he saw that the thing grappling him was a pair of undead hands reaching up from the mud. But as Emi was about to hit the hands with the edge of the shield, he saw a glimpse of something approaching fast. So he turned his face along with the shield and blocked two large arrows. One of the arrows hit the vines and lost most of its force before it hit the wood. But the other one still had its full momentum when it hit the shield, so it pierced so far into the shield that the arrowhead scratched Emi's lower arm. The warm blood started to drip down into the muddy water and Emi moved his arm slightly to avoid the pointy iron.

Almost 100 feet away from Emi, there was three new skeletons which all carried an oversize composite bow. They already had drawn the bows back ready to send away some more arrows, which they did after less than a second. Emi's reflexes screamed for him to avoid the attacks, but as the feet tried to obey his brain, but it only resulted in him loosing the balance once again. As the arrows were closing in, Emi pulled up the shield and by using both his arms to support it, Emi managed to gain normal force behind the block. Even though he was held down by the undead hands, Emi drifted two feet back from the arrows, but the shield was unharmed. The skeleton that was hiding beneath him was dragged along with him, which made it surface a little more than it had been before. So immediately after Emi had realized that the arrows had hit, he leaned forward and punched it with all his might.

Meanwhile the fight occurred, Zetsubô was running around looking for more of the long and hollow trees. He had no idea why his master would want those and every time the master got to the trees, he cut them violently down. But Zetsubô didn't care, he liked to be out in the free and running over his old territory. As the wind blew past him, Zetsubô leaned back a little with his head and took a deep breath. The nose discovered hundreds of different facts about the surrounding area by just smelling the air, but it was a little hard to distinguish what he was looking for. So Zetsubô stopped for a brief moment and took another two deep breaths with the nose before he had found a good way he suspected having some trees.

The bones cracked under the strength of Emi's blow and he was able to tumble away freed. Adrenaline was pumping quickly through his veins and he knew that if he got pinned down again it could be for good. So he backed away from the rising skeletons until he was able to maintain them all within sight without turning his head. He then raised his shield a little further and knelt down a little more. Since he noticed such a success using both his hands, he developed it further by having the shield lay on his entire left arm while the right one was tightly around the right corner and down to the bottom. When the next volley of arrows flew against him, Emi started to twist his upper body, so when the arrows hit the shield it was moving quickly to the side.

The arrows just glanced the strong wood and ended up a feet down into the mud next to him. They were horribly long and thick, it was as if giants had been firing at him. But despite the fear of getting hit by the arrows, his confidence started to get a little better when he realized that the shield hadn't taken any damage at all from them. The skeletons reloaded their bows slowly, which gave Emi the time to start running again. They got further and further back until he finally was out of their reach with the bows. Emi panted and started to look around himself. He didn't know what he had done that made all the skeletons so angry at him, but he didn't intend to walk over any other burial sites. So he ran over a couple of fallen trees and avoided the slippery stones as he looked for any sign of a road or civilization. Far in the distance, he saw his gorillas, so he ran towards them, expecting to find them standing by another tree.

[Nira]

ooc: Parfait :3

+10

2 found

[~Emi~]

30/50, 2 rolls (Emi 60%, Zet 75% (tracking scent B rank) (12 found so far)

When he got closer to the gorillas, he saw that they were standing next to a downhill leading into a crater. It felt a little strange as it was in the middle of a swamp, but as he saw a big round rock in the middle of it, he realized that it had to be a meteorite. Just a few feet from the rock, there were a small number of trees, 2 of which was the ones he looked for. So he skidded down to his happy friend Zetsubô and cut the trees down. Emi had learned that it wasn't very necessary to be very gentle with the trees, he just had to make sure that as much of the trees as possible was left. As the trees fell down, Emi used the shield to slow them down and then angled the shield towards the gorillas so they were able to pick them up.

Zetsubô didn't like that his master was so distracted, so he sniffed the air searching for the distinct smell he had started to like. But due to the strong smell of freshly cut trees and sweaty sharkboy, the characteristics he was searching for was hidden. So he growled a little and started to walk around the big rock. It was a little strange, Zetsubô had been living in the area, but never seen the crater nor the rock, and the yellow light that appeared from time to time made him wonder what it was. So when he got to the other side, he scratched the surface with his claws and tried to smell the air again.

Emi had thought that the skeletons were far behind him, but as he helped the second gorilla to get a good grip of the tree, one of their giant arrows landed in the mud next to him. So he immediately rolled to the side and picked up his shield again. The arrow from earlier was still in there, and the vines was still relatively intact, but he knew that the shield were about to become useless if it'd take much more damage. So when he saw the heads of the first skeleton and a second volley started to rain down on him, Emi tumbled to the side to avoid most of the arrows, but had to block 3 of them. To avoid receiving too much damaged on the shield, Emi tried to just deflect them of the shield by angling it at the same time as the arrows hit.

As the first arrow hit the shield, he angled it to the left, and it successfully bounced off it without dealing more damage than a few shallow scratches. But when he had to block the second one, he didn't know what he'd do as the arrow would hit him if he just angled it to the other side. The first one had opened him up for the remaining arrows and the time appeared to slow down when Emi panicked and pulled the shield back to stop the second arrow. The force was at its peak when the arrow finally hit the side of the shield, and it refused to be stopped by the relatively weak wooden structure.

The projectile reached so far through the shield that it even penetrated into Emi's flesh, sending a huge wave of pain throughout Emi. A scream escaped him and he had to force himself to keep standing up as the final arrow reached him. Since it would hit approximately at the same spot as the second one, Emi would just need to make the block better than the first one. But his arm were no longer able to move to the sides since the arrow hindered him. So he bit his lips and angled it upwards, hoping it'd go pass him. A thunk was heard as the arrow hit the wood, and luckily for Emi, it actually did bounce off. But the movement required to angle the shield made him break the arrow that was stuck in him. The pain made his left side numb and red sparkles appeared in his vision-field. On its way over Emi, the arrow scratched his upper head which made a small stream of warm blood run down, covering his left eye. The force from the arrows had made him getting pushed back 12 feet, which made him almost hit the rock.

His hand wandered to the puncturing wound and made a quick estimation of the damage it had caused. The wound were closely around the arrow there were no splinters that had gotten stuck in his flesh, but he felt how his left lung was starting to fill up with blood. The blood irritated his throat to the point that Emi coughed up some of the blood and since he already had lost quite a lot of it, Emi felt that his legs and arms started to get weaker and his head turned dizzy. He would need to get out from the place soon, it was too many skeletons around. When he looked to his sides, he noticed something in the corner in his eyes and raised his shield without hesitation. A few feet in front of him there were a skeleton carrying a long spear which it had tried to pierce the unexpected Emi with. But when the spear hit the shield, most of the force disappeared and Emi was just pushed away.

He didn't want to wait to see what happened, Emi knew that there were coming more and more archers to the edge of the crater. The frustration he felt about the situation heightened as he realized that he had entered a trap without knowing it. So since he knew that the skeletons wasn't very fast runners, he used the momentum he had received from the skeleton with the spear and started to run around the stone, hoping there would be a better way of exit on that side. His eyes wandered the area and he saw that there were no more skeletons there. So he started to sprint up from the crater, always checking on his sides after the smallest sign of anything large enough to be of any danger.

[Nira]

Ah, meteorite, that's a first for me.

+10

2 Found

[~Emi~]

40/50, 2 rolls (Emi 60%, Zet 75% (tracking scent B rank) (14 found so far)

The traction of his feet were worse than he had expected from the slope, so he had to use chakra in his feet to be able to keep up a good pace. Suddenly the ground behind Emi started to crumble and a group of three skeleton ascended from the mud. It seemed like they were acting a lot faster than the previous skeletons, and Emi was barely able to turn around before the first one threw a quick punch towards him. Emi was capable of leaning back and therefor avoided the attack, but as he did, he lost his balance and fell down to the ground. The arrowhead buried itself into the mud, but the pressure from the fall made the shaft move and made the wound bigger. The blood started to rise in his throat and he started to cough violently as he raised his shield to block the incoming attacks. The blood started to color the back of the shield red and he started to get a hard time breathing with so much blood in his throat.

The first skeleton was the only one within range to hit Emi, so it leaned over him and started to throw a rapid stream of punches towards his upper body. It didn't appear to be thinking, as the hits were aimed at the same spot even though the shield was placed in its way. Emi had to angle the shield to avoid most of the force. It helped and at first the bony fists bounced away from the shield, but then it started to break down and small chips flew away from it. Then suddenly the shield broke into two pieces and most of the force from the punch hit Emi's upper arm. The damage wasn't severe and due to the fact that the arm already was numb, Emi barely felt a thing when the blow landed. But since the shield no longer were useful to protect him as much as he would need against the skeletons, he pushed the shield away with the skeleton and rolled to the side.

He drifted down a little as he rolled up unto his feet and when he looked backwards to the spot he lay on before, he saw a bloody trail. The skeletons seemed to be puzzled with his sudden movement, so Emi used the opportunity and grabbed the shield one of them wore and pulled it towards himself. To make the skeleton loosen his grip, Emi gave it a backhand blow to the face. But as the punch landed, Emi's hand froze, and he could feel how the bones in the hand cracked. The skeleton was rock-hard. When Emi realized that he wouldn't be able to damage them, he jumped backwards, luckily he was able to pull the shield with him. So when he landed and the skeletons rushed after him, he pulled it up aimed towards the first skeleton. As the skeleton got close enough and threw a punch towards Emi, he just took a step to the right, angled the shield to the left and put his entire weight behind the block.

The skeleton wasn't prepare for the sudden change in blocking strength, so it bounced off, lost it balance and started falling downwards into the crater. Emi then turned towards the second one and charged towards it with the shield aimed at its head. Thanks to the bad traction, the skeleton fell immediately to the ground when the shield hit, but it was still capable of grabbing on to Emi's ankle so it wouldn't glide down. The grip was hard, and Emi knew that the ankle would break unless he were to remove the hand. But he had to focus on the last one as it swung a sword towards his head. Emi tried to shake the hand off him while raising the shield towards the sword. His shield-arm barely moved as the sword landed, but he was pushed backwards.

The mud made it way too hard for Emi to stop the gliding, and when he finally got to a complete stop, he was nearly at the rock again. A chill went down his spine as he heard loud footsteps from on top of the stone. When he turned around, he saw the first skeleton, the one with the giant hammer and the ability to throw fire balls. It didn't take long before one of the fire spheres was burning and being launched towards Emi. The heat was fierce, so Emi tumbled to the side to put the shield into the mud to make it moist before the impact. But the water didn't affect the fireball, but for some reason, the shield did and reflected the fireball towards the glowing meteorite. When it hit the rock, a long and loud screech was heard from all around and the stone was blinking rapidly for a few seconds before it stopped and all the skeletons fell down to the ground.

The stone was the reason they were animated? What kind of rock is that?

But he didn't have time to examine it as the ground started to shake and the meteorite descended deeper into the mud. Emi ran away from it to avoid getting dragged down with it, and when he got out from the crater, he spat out a handful of blood and then started to wrap some cloth around the arrow-wound in his chest. On the top of the hill, Zetsubô was standing next to two of the trees with the small army of mud gorillas. So Emi cut the two remaining trees down and started to walk away. He would need to get to a hospital before it was too late, the bleeding was severe, but not deadly. However the internal wounds probably was. His gaze started to get blurry, but far in the distance, he saw the lights coming from the capital.

Zetsubô didn't know what had happened to his master, but he could see that the young boy was damaged and needed help. So he ran away towards the group of buildings in the distance as he were going to get some two-legged to help his master. While he ran towards the city, he smelled the air and was constantly aware of the surroundings. Even though the two-legs were most common in the city, he might find someone on the way that could give his master assistance quicker.

[Nira]

Ew, gore.

+10, Learned

2 Found

[~Emi~]

Emi stumbled forward towards the city and his started to get a little dozy from the pain and loss of blood, but he knew he couldn't stop. So he closed his eyes as he walked trying to regain some of his strength to continue walking. But suddenly he felt too dizzy and he started to fall. His arms flew up to catch him, but surprisingly he caught something on his way down. When he opened up his eyes, he saw there were two more trees. Emi sighed as he really didn't have the energy to think about gathering the trees, but since they were there, he cut them down and called for the gorillas to carry them. He then hurried towards the town.

[Exit]