The White Wolf Lost in Shadow [Training/ Invite]

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Post 5

Shiki grabbed the man and threw him against the tree. "Even now... You strike me knowing you are doomed to fail. You need to learn from this lesson." Shiki's mind thought back to his moments struggling with the bandersnatch. Shiki threw a quick series of three punches into the mans chest. He felt the cuts on his shoulder reopen slightly from the force of the hits. Shiki frowned. If he reopened his wounds fighting these people it would delay his healing process a lot. Shiki watched as the man recoiled from the hits. 

The man tried to frantically stab at Shiki with the hunting blade. He had lost all his form and was relying on his baser animal instinct to defend himself. Shiki watched as the man failed constantly striking the edges of his electric field. Shiki watched unimpressed as the man thrashed with his left hand. His left hand clutched around the knife in a white knuckle grip. Suddenly the man lashed out with his right hand as just an open fist. The man's hand passed through his static field towards his face.

Shiki threw his hand up and blocked the mans wild hay maker. "You can either beg for your life right now and walk away. Or you can attack me again and lose your life. This I promise to you." Shiki gazed into the mans brown eyes. Shiki's sapphire eyes were alive a bright with energy. His demeanor was calm, confident and unwavering. He released his grip on the man and waited a few seconds. The man looked at him and back at his friend who was presumably still fighting Loki. 

Shiki knew this mans choice before he did. Shiki turned his back towards the man anyways. He knew that the man was going to make his move when he had his back turned. But Shiki needed to leave the man a choice. He needed this man to have his own chance to save his life. Shiki started taking small steps towards the battle that was going on with Loki and the other venator as he felt the lightning chakra form up behind him. The lightning was giving of a strong electromagnetic field. 

Shiki let the lighting tech crash into him as he absorbed the chakra into his body. The chakra replenished his chakra pool as he worked on turning the lighting back into chakra. Shiki turned and looked at the man with a feeling of real sadness. "You have made your choice. I'm not here to punish you for your choices. I am simply here to deliver your condemnation. I will make this clean. I'm sorry." With that Shiki would grip the mans chest and push through a strong current of electrical energy that would stop the mans heart instantly. Shiki's arm dropped limp and paralyzed to his side. 

[Madame Loki]

Learning: ?/40

Loki continued to walk towards the man who seemed to be the leader of the men that attack her. As she walked towards him he was flinging wood jutsu after wood jutsu at her. The barks began to twist from the trees and started to shot out at Loki. She didn't move a finger as the barks that raced towards her woulds start to slow down, as they were being influenced by Loki's chakra. They came to stop and then the wood began to crystallize, and Loki kept walking towards the man with a smile on her face. She could have easily closed the distance by now if she desired to, put she wanted this man to realize his powerlessness against her.

The man then made more hand seals and spit out a tidal wave that made it's way towards Loki. She smiled and nodded her head, this was actually rather impressive for a non-witch. Impressive, but useless nonetheless. Loki gently held out her hand out in front of her. The water seemed to rush down on her, but as soon as it touched her hand, it ceased all movement. From Loki's view point everything around her seemed to top moving, when the water touched her hand. She focused her chakra into the water, and and pushed it through out the mans jutsu. Once she felt that her chakra had over taken his she dug deeper into the waters structure.

Her chakra grip onto the molecules in the water and began to rearrange it. The particles that mad up the water, began to change. the water at the tip off Loki's fingers began to crystallize, and spread. Loki watched closely as the crystal spread through out the water, and began to over take the jutsu. As the crystal continued to spread, Loki's smile got wider. Then time seemed to start moving once again. The crystal expand over the wave of water in an instant, and it was nothing more than a wall of crystal. The Venator was in shock on the other said and began to mumble, "What is she?" As he said this Loki's laugh could be heard on the other side of the wall.

"What am I?" Thee sound of a snipping finger could be heard as the wall of crystal began to crumble. As it crumbled Loki continued her walk towards the man with a elated smile. "My dear man I thought you knew?" The man was starting to panic and dug his hand into the ground and pulled out a boulder, launching it at Loki. She clenched her fist, and then channeled her chakra into it. She then released a hay-maker on the jutsu that was just launched at her. As she fist connected, her chakra washed over the boulder, and with the sound of a crack, the boulder transformed.

It was instantly turned into a crystal boulder, and thanks to the power of her chakra and punch she sent the boulder flying back at her attacker, like a bullet. Thee Venator scrambled to dodge and then fell to the ground. Loki was still at least 30 meters away from the man but in blink of an eye she was on him. The man pull a sword made of earth out of the ground and swung it at Loki. She blocked with her left forearm and as she did so the sword the man had created shattered into crystal, as it had been overridden and dismissed the instant it touched Loki. She then leaned in and whispered, "I'm a witch remember." Loki then started to laugh.

[Madame Loki]

Learning: ?/40

The venator sent wave after wave of Earth and water attacks at Loki. First he would try a water dragon, again. Loki figured he must be trying to wear her out. He was a fool if he believed that plan would work. Loki held out her hand and then touched the dragon, as she did so the water was transformed into crystal. Loki laughed as the sound of the water being turned into crystal sounded like whining ice. But the only sound that Loki was worried about was making this man scream. As the water dragon was turned into Crystal, Loki flicked her wrist and sent back at it's creator.

He barely dodge out of the way in time to save himself and began to form his seals again. This time the mane tried mud, he must have thought he was rather clever. He made a multitude of the mud falcons and then sent them raining down on Loki. he was trying to overwhelm her with numbers. A simple but relatively smart idea. Loki lazily raised her right finger, and turned one of the falcons into crystal. After she turned it into crystal, she let the falcon fall to the ground with a smile on her face as she whipped her hand around to turn another one.

She didn't have the time to turn the crystal structures back at their creator... yet. So instead she would just let them fall to the side for the moment. Loki smiled as her hands continued to move through the air turned the mud into beautiful crystal, but Loki started to noticed that the number of the birds were decreasing but increasing. Wily old venator knew what he was doing. Or at least he thought he did. Loki then turned two of the birds into crystal and then dodged out of the way of the third. She would now be on the move and her grace and speed was a sight to behold.

Loki laughed as bird after bird was turned into crystal. She was just bidding her time waiting for a chance to strike and then she finally found one. There was a lull in the birds approached and then clapped her hands together. As she did so the crystal birds came to life, and soared through the air, as they took out their mud counterparts and head straight for their original creator. The venator was drilled with a horde of crystal Falcon and Loki smiled. When the barrage ended there was nothing there but a wooded log. The wood pillars would come out of the ground and wrapp around Loki's hands.

Loki chuckled to herself for a moment and then put on a fake surprised face. "I finally got you. You demon!" The venator shouted in victory, as Loki had a fake look of fear in her eyes, "What did I do? What great sins have I committed?" As Loki put on her show, she would begin to slowly... very slowly move her chakra into the wooden pillars that now bound her. She was gonna break out, but not before getting to know what made this venator tick first. The best way of doing that was to make him think he won. Loki's chakra steadily worked it's way through the fibers of the wood.

[Madame Loki]

Learning: ?/40

"The sins of all witch girl... You resign yourselves with demons." Loki was still slowly moving her chakra through the wood planning to slowly crystallize it so she would draw any attention to her self while doing so. However when she heard what the venator said she lost all focus. "I'm sorry what? resign with demons?! You you as ignorant as you are ugly! Witches don't work with demons... warlocks do... you idiot." Loki said as she would begin to channel her chakra through the wood on her hands once again. Her chakra slowly seeping into the fibers of the wood, she began to feel the composition of its' structure and prepared to rip it at it's core.

"Warlocks are just male witches... everyone knows that." The Venator responded. "Yeah every idiot knows that. Warlocks can be male or female... they are the scum of the witching world. They are covenant breakers." The Venator would confused and shocked for a moment. Loki used this time to to pump more of her chakra into the wood, and the area of space that she had controll over would began to spread rapidly for a moment before the venator would respond. "Covenant Breaker? So you do make packs with demons." Loki sighed as she slowed down the movement of her chakra yet again. Not wanted to drawn attention to what she was doing.

"Witches... real witches, don't need to make pacts with demons, for power. We are born with power. It is a gift granted to us by the Mother Goddess." "Mother Goddess?" The Venator would ask never here of such a being. Loki would once again use the time to focus on spread her influence of this man jutsu. The reason he bound her hands was probably because he felt that as long as they were bound, Loki could do nothing against him. Just another stupid and false witch super-situation. One Loki was going to use to her advantage. "Yes the Mother Goddess... Or Mother Nature to others. She is a being of unimaginable grace and power. She has granted witch kind with tremendous power, some more than others. All she asks in return, is that we maintain her balance.

We snuff out chaos were it is.... Demons are the embodiment of chaos. Any witch would would ally themselves with one, is immediately disowned and hunted. These witches are branded warlocks. Real witches do not seek the aid of demons, because they have no aid to give us. Our power flows from a being who is infinitely stronger than any demon. Any witch that seeks power from demons is sowing the seeds of chaos and are slated for death. Witches are beings of Balance. Good, evil... you can not have one without the other. Good without evil becomes meaningless, and will eventually itself turn into unchecked evil. Unchecked Evil... is anarchy, chaos... that will bring this world to an end. Demons are the embodiment of that Unchecked Evil, of chaos... That is what we fight... THAT is what a real witch is... you fool." Loki shouted at the Venator in front of her, you seemed to be visibly shaken by Loki's words.

He gathered himself and shook his head, "No... you're just trying to talk your way out of this, because you know your finished." Loki raised an eyebrow and started to laugh at his face, "Finished? Because of this?" Loki smirked and the the wood that was holding her started to turn into crystal. Loki started to laugh as the crystal then started to fade away into dust. With a flick of her wrist Loki sent the man flying. "How... why?" He said as he tried to summon and earth clone to protect him. Loki then drove her hand into the earth clones gut and looked around it to stare at the Venators face.

"I didn't need to lie to you. Everything I just told you is true. I just wanted to you know, about your own ignorance. So the knowledge of of all those witches I'm sure you've kill. Most of which, more than likely weren't witches anyway... were all innocent. I want that thought to haunt you for all eternity." As Loki talked the earth clone that her hand was in the gut of slowly started to turn into crystal. After in had fully formed and a purple blade composed of pure energy shot out of the clone into the Venators chest, going straight through his heart. Loki's head tilted to the side, "You didn't think crystal was all I could use did you? Silly man... ignorant till the end." the chakra sword would then disappear along with the crystallized clone. Loki then sighed as she made her way over to Shiki.

[Nekomata Minh]

Learned to the both of you.

[Madame Loki]

Learning: 0/40

Kessho Mageyasui no Jutsu (Pliant Crystal Technique)
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: Allows the user to crystallize matter but have it retain its previous properties.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used with Shōton: Chakra Override. Crystal made using this technique is weaker than normal. Cannot crystallize particles in the air or water.
Description: Using their mastery in the Crystal Release, the user can learn to change the way they form their crystal from objects. By sacrificing crystal toughness the user can crystallize objects but have them retain their physical properties. If one were to crystallize a leather whip, it would retain its flexibility. This extends only so far as the object's shape and mobility. Magnetic, chakra-based, or chemical properties are not retained. Crystal formed this way is substantially weaker than normal, and can only withstand attacks two ranks below the user's skill in Shōton: Crystallization. This jutsu is useful for those skilled with soft weapons or who otherwise need more malleable creations.
Limit: Must know Shōton: Crystallization.
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Before Loki had walked back over to Shiki, she had grabbed a metal whip that was on the man that she had killed. She walked pas Shiki with a somber look on her face, and said, "Come on... we need to move to a different location." Loki would then started to walk away from the scene of where the fight had just taken place and brought them to another clearly. Loki would stand there for a moment looking down at the whip she had just taken off of the man, she then began to focus her chakra around the metal whip with a determined look in her eye. As she focused her chakra, the metal's composition would begin to transform.

The whip started to slowly crystallize, however this was a little different than before. She wasn't crystallizing a jutsu she was crystallizing physical matter. With in a sense was far more impressive. More over Loki was doing this to try something out. "Shiki, I know you're a venator... and I heard what you were saying to that man. But tell me something." he metal whip would fall would uncoil in Loki's hand as it's tip would rest against the ground next to her. The crystallization of the weapon was completed and Loki seemed to be in a threatening stance.

The crystallization of the metal whip would have strip any magnetism out of the whip. It would seem like Loki was gearing up to take Shiki, head on without having to worry about his blood-limit. "Amira is one too... but she's a witch, and one of my best friends, a real friend, so I don't have to worry about her. But what about you Shiki? what do you see when you look at me?" Loki would then crack the whip that was in her hands and as she did so, would would be clear to see that the whip still retained it's mobility, and flexibility, even though it had been crystallized. Not only that, but there was a trail of crystal spikes left in the wake of were the whip had touched.

"I have been on the run my whole life. Betrayal, and disappointment abound. So... If what you see before you is a monster. Tell me now... if all you want from me is power, THEN TELL ME NOW!!" She was half hoping that he would see a monster, that all he wanted from her was a way to gain power. It would make things easier going forward, and when he would ultimately by forced to leave her, just like everyone else. Loki chakra continued to flow through the crystallized whip as her grip on it's handle increased, even further. Her chakra flowed through the weapon, and even though there were other things on her mind at the moment she could still feel the lattice lines that ran through this creation, and she knew, that it was not as strong as her other creations. Put it didn't need to be for her uses.

Loki cracked the whip again, as she channeled her chakra through this structure, and once again, the whip displayed it's flexibility. It also slapped it's body against a nearby tree as Loki cracked it. It left a large gash in the tree that quickly spouted out a trail of jagged crystal. Loki wasn't usually this emotional, but Venators... venators like that, always brought out, in her opinion the worse side of her. The side of that girl that was abandoned and sold off. That little girl that was afraid to make any real connection because she feared it would just be taken from her, severed not by fate, but the cruel hands of another. The girl before Loki taught her self to hide behind a smile and half truths. The girl who was just, afraid ... of being left again.

She had had learned to close herself off from any real emotions, to use people for all there worth, before their worth was gone. People became just moving pieces on a chess board to her, that was the only why she could handle losing one of those pieces, because if there is no connection, then there would be nothing to feel. But every once in awhile, someone would creep their way in. Tetsu, Amira, Gosei, regardless of what a bad influence he is, Krystal, Fumiko and Junko...Peisinoe can eat a bag of horse nuts. She felt that Shiki could be someone similar, or maybe even more. She felt that they shared something in common that very few people understood. While that made Loki happy, it also scared her to death... that feeling that Loki had... made Shiki possibly very dangerous to her. It was best to find out if this would turned out to be romance or ruin.

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0/10 C rank
Stalwart
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The Venator can use mental and physical resiliency to avoid certain attacks.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: If the user makes a save against an attack that has a reduced effect on a successful save, the user avoids the effect entirely. This ability can only be used if the user has no armour. A helpless Venator does not gain the benefit of the Stalwart technique.
Limit: Must be a Venator.

Shiki felt a small sense of sadness in having to put down another from his order. They were mis guided and forced his hand. But taking a human life must only be done under the most just of causes. If these men had better applied themselves in some other field of aspect in life they might have done a good service to the world. Shiki knew his place in society and what it meant for him to be someone who was considered a guardian of order. 

Shiki tried to move his left arm but it was still paralyzed from the technique he had used earlier. Normally having to take a human life was something that Shiki would have to give after a long pause. He had killed people before... but that was different. Shiki remembered one of his first missions as a younger lad from the village patrolling the market place. He had tracked a circle of pick pocketers down to an alleyway. 

Shiki was forced into a confrontation by being careless as he had to fight each individual member of the group. Most of them he was able to take down using the flat end of his blade and a couple paralyzing ninjutsu. But there was one really large man who was striking to kill Shiki. In the heat of the moment Shiki thrusted his sword at the man to avoid getting his head split open by an axe. If only Shiki had been stronger back then he could have repelled the weapon with his bloodlimit. 

But he was weaker back then. The way he handled his fight today was how he would aspire to do it everytime. Shiki was forced into killing the man. He was unable to give the man a choice because his strength did not allow it. It wasn't killing the bandit that had shaken Shiki those years ago. It was not being strong enough to stop the fight without killing him. It was being so scared of his first taste of real combat that he let his instincts control the fight. 

Becase when men of violence let their instincts control them rather then help them That is too often what turns the sheep dogs into wolves of their own. That's what makes men give way to their weaker convictions. Death was something to be administered to restore and keep order. It was used to end the suffering of a life that was ensnared by constant chaos and to rescue people from their own inhibitions. Shiki was just happy he had his racesolve in order. 

Shiki would look at Loki and her whip made of crystal. Shiki let the chakra to his eyes fade. His normally stern expression in his face gave way and softened into the cool sapphire pools that were his eyes. Shiki didn't need to be a Venator to see what was going on inside of her. This was one of the rare few times that Shiki actually found a real emotion inside of Loki. "People are quick to see power as power." Shiki said softly. He started taking a couple strides towards here. "But when I see power I see a story... and every good story has a bit of tragedy in it." With that Shiki would take his still working arm and wrap it around Loki and kiss her. 

He would hold the kiss for a few seconds before pulling away. "To me you are just Loki. The woman who saved my life and who is working on finding me a purpose in this world. People don't understand that power isn't given to you. I'm not here for a handout." Shiki would run his working fingers through her hair. 

[Madame Loki]

Learning: ?/40

Loki did crack the whip again, as Shiki made his way over to her. It's body dragging through the dirt as it left crystal sprouting in it's wake. She held up the whip again, and then stopped as his lips touched hers. She let it happen as her whip hand slowly lowered to her side. Once the kiss had ended Loki pulled away, pressing her hands against his chest."Who said you could kiss me... idiot? I guess you choice your prize from earlier... what a modest choice." Loki said with a smile on her face as Shiki moved his hand through her hair. Loki then looked down at Shiki's arm and saw that it hadn't moved in some time. Loki sighed, and rubbed the scar on Shiki's face, "You can't do anything without getting yourself hurt, can you?" Loki than gave Shiki a soft playful shot to gut and walked away from him saying, "Well that's no excuse... we shall continue your training. Let's see... what can you do with one arm and no legs, other than die?"

Loki though to herself for a moment, she stood there in thought with her back turned toward Shiki, and her hand with on the crystallized whip. As she held on to whip she focused her chakra through it, to get a good feel for it. She felt how the whip still maintained it's flexibility, with through she had turned it into a crystal structure. She had done this instinctively and was curious to figure out how she pulled this off. Loki sighed to herself and then looked back at shiki and said, "Wait here for a second." Loki then walk up ahead, and told in front of a tree. She then looked back at Shiki, and to see rather or not he had a good line of sight.

Loki then turned towards the three, and whipped her crystal whip across the tree's trunk. The slashing marks where deep and obvious, and after the whip had done it's work, tiny crystal pillars would appear in it's wake. This should make it easier for Shiki to see. Loki then turned around as she made her way back over to Shiki and then said, "That is your target... but... I'm only giving you *snaps fingers*... that long to aim your shot and take it. Your tight bum, will get a lashing if you take to long." Loki would smiled as she was obviously joking... kind of. Loki would then take two steps away from Shiki and then crack the whip in the air away from Shiki. That was his crew, and the time frame in which he had to take aim and fire.

Loki channeled her chakra through the crystal whip once again, and then she crack it during every interval shot Shiki would make. However, the more she cracked the whip the more she realized how weak it actually was. This helped it maintain it's shape, but it wasn't much in the way of durability. She shrugged her shoulders as she cracked the whip again, she supposed you couldn't have one without the other. There had to be a little bit of give and take. There was one thing that was being to brother her. She had planned to use this with her guns, to prevent people like Shiki from manipulating the metal of her Crossbows. Now while she had already planned for this by plating the it with silver, and using a non-ferrous metal compound. It wouldn't hurt to be careful.

Adding crystal on top of the weapon would be even more helpful, however, it seemed the crystallization didn't just added a crystal coating. It turn the weapon completely in the crystal. If this was the case then her idea would not bold well, and she was happy that she tried it out on this weapon first. She cracked her whip again to signal Shiki's next shot, and as she did so she felt her chakra moving through the whip and all she was feeling at the moment was the lattices of a crystal structure. It would appear that things were exactly as she feared. She would need to test thing a bit more to be sure.


-Shiki's next Tech-

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Quick Aim
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: This technique reduces the time to aim while using Far Shot.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This technique allows the user to aim faster in order to shoot faster. This technique reduces the time to perform Far Shot by 1 movement, allowing the user to shoot within the same speed proficiency as they normally would within the 1st Range Increment. This technique reduces the number of rounds needed to Aim from other Range Increments by 1 as well. Example: Eagle Eye normally needs 4 movements of aiming before firing a shot. This technique decreases the aim time by 1 movement allowing the user to aim for 3 movements before firing a shot.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Far Shot.

[Nekomata Minh]

+20 to loki
+10 learned to snow.

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0/50
Quick Aim
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: This technique reduces the time to aim while using Far Shot.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This technique allows the user to aim faster in order to shoot faster. This technique reduces the time to perform Far Shot by 1 movement, allowing the user to shoot within the same speed proficiency as they normally would within the 1st Range Increment. This technique reduces the number of rounds needed to Aim from other Range Increments by 1 as well. Example: Eagle Eye normally needs 4 movements of aiming before firing a shot. This technique decreases the aim time by 1 movement allowing the user to aim for 3 movements before firing a shot.
Limit: Must be a Marksman. Must know Far Shot.

Shiki smiled as she broke away. Shiki gave a small laugh as she called him out on losing mobility in his hand. "I'm not hurt. I just ran so much lighting through it at once that the arm is out for the count for a bit." Shiki leaned down and tried to grab the crossbow with his damaged arm. But managing to swing it awkwardly towards the weapon system. "Who said that was my prize?" He called after her playfully. She walked off and started forming the next round of targets. 

Shiki grabbed the weapon system with his other free and let the weight of the system fall in his hands. Shiki raised the weapon up and pointed up at the target but he found the process of trying to make the weapon platform stable. But there was no so such luck. Shiki raised the crossbow up and his arm was shaking. Not from muscle failure exactly but because he was having trouble stabilizing. 

Shiki pointed the weapon towards the crystal. He set the weapon system down in between his legs making sure that the bolt release wasn't pointing anywhere that might cause damage in the chance that it might have an accidental discharge. Shiki sat down and leaned his back halfway down till he was at the seated position. He sat his upper body up almost as if he was doing a sit up and then he would grab the weapon system. 

There were all sorts of different things you could do to make sure that the shot was stable. Normally all you really needed to do was brace the shot and make sure that he could acquire the targets quickly and efficiently. From this position Shiki was using his body as a turret mount of sorts. He could easily pivot from point to point using his legs as a means to brace and set his weapon system on. 

Shiki waited for first target to move. As it did Shiki flexed his core and through his weight with his legs to pivot his body. Pressing his face against the buttstock of the crossbow Shiki took a deep breath to steady his nerves and fired. The bolt fired quickly and moved through the air. Shiki held his breath in anticipation as the round soared through the air. It was on a collision course. Without his blood limit active Shiki had no idea how he was going track this.

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Post 2

Shiki watched as the round soared just inches in front of the target. Shiki cursed and waited for the crossbow to rechamber back into the buffer assembly. Another bolt was pushed back into the rear receiver as it went through its mechanical process to become lethal again. Shiki closed his eyes and reopened them revealing his bloodlimit. He could sense every working part of the rifle as he got back to reloading the weapon. 

Once Shiki's mind came alive he could do more then sense the vibrations from inside the weapon system. He could literally feel all the working parts of the crossbow with a scary precision. He watched as the slide came back causing the bolt to slide back. As the bolt came back another crossbow bolt came up from the magazine. Shiki watched as the bolt pulled the crossbow bolt into the chamber. 

Once the round was locked into place Shiki waited for the bolt to settle into place. No sooner did the round fit into the bolt did Shiki raise the weapon up and take another closer aim at the moving target. Shiki used his blood limit to raise the front mount of the weapon along his arm. Shiki worked the metal in the crossbow in such a way that the crossbow almost felt weightless in his arm. The crossbow was now magnetized to his hands.

Shiki literally felt like the crossbow was suddenly an exertion of his blood limit. In his arms he now suddenly had a weapon system that was dancing to his very will. Still from the seated position Shiki fired a quick double tap of rounds. The bolts flew through the air. Shiki let the rounds fly naturally. He wanted to get good at actually shooting things of his own accord. He didn't want to be dependent on his Blood limit for everything. 

Shiki took a second to watch the bolts fly. Both of the rounds hit their collective marks. Shiki looked back at Loki with a slightly pleased look on his face. Shiki just to show off a little bit released the crossbow itself and left the crossbow floating in the air in front of him. He twirled it around in the air as he leaned back against the tree. Shiki brought the cross bow to his face and used the sights and began to fire without using his hands at all. 

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Post 3.

Shiki raised the crossbow sights and started getting ready to collect the next series of rounds. Not being able to use his arms to pull back on the crossbow Shiki used his blood limit to make sure that cocking device worked. Most crossbow users use a cocking device, but it’s largely a matter of convenience. Pulling back 150 pounds of draw weight is challenging, even to the stoutest bowman, and may be impossible for slighter archers. But ease of drawback isn’t the only reason to use a cocking device, nor is it the most important one. 

A cocking device also increases accuracy and weapon system stability. You can never grab the bowstring with your hands and pull it back exactly the same way twice. A little more tension to one side or the other can move the center of the string to one side or the other of the rail. A cocking device ensures the string will return in exactly the same position every time. Shiki used this quick moment to look over his strings. 

The string is one of the most important components of the crossbow, Shiki knew how important it was to protect it. Someone should always be checking it regularly for wear. Dirt creates friction and excessive wear, so make sure your cables and strings are clean after every practice session or hunting trip. It’s also a good idea to store and transport your bow in a case; this reduces dust and dirt accumulation. Even normal use causes friction, but wear can be reduced by waxing the string and lubricating your rail.

Bowhunters know strings and cables will eventually need replacing. Shiki had heard somewhere that something many don’t know when it is appropriate to swap out the strings. The answer is: more often than a compound bow. On a crossbow, you have direct string to-rail contact plus additional friction and abrasion on every shot. If strings or cables are frayed or otherwise worn, replace them. Shiki knew that the weight that a crossbow needed to fire at such a high tension would out match a bow pound per pound on a compound bow. 

Shiki loved the optics on the crossbow and took great pleasure in the fact that you can mount just about any sighting system on a crossbow, but you’ll be doing yourself a huge favor by selecting one designed for a crossbow. Scopes are typically multi-reticle, with three dots or three horizontal crosshairs. They’re designed so you sight the top reticle for 20 yards, while the next two are fixed at intervals that will be “on” at 30 and 40 yards, respectively, on most bows. A three-dot will work fine on most crossbows. Shiki was good with a standard iron sight but had grown to appreciate these optics. 

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Post 4

Shiki was getting to the point where he was going to need to pinch his pennies together to get a crossbow of his own. There’s a big difference between an el cheapo, bargain-basement crossbow and a top-of-the-line model. Sure, the bargain model costs a lot less, but it will not be built as well, be as accurate or reliable, and sooner or later it will fail you when the moment of truth arrives. Shiki knew there were two things you never cheaped out on when you were getting ready to head out into a fight. 

Number one was your weapon system and number two was your boots. But the shoe talk was for another day. Shiki readied the weapon system again and fired at the next snap target that popped up. Shiki felt the recoil against his shoulder as the bolt released off the slide. Shiki watched the bolt fly through the air and take down the other target. Shiki gave a satisfied sigh and got back examining his bow. 

Shiki was satisfied with the crossbow itself but he would get to the point where he would need to make sure that looked at getting bolts or arrows that fit his needs. Both crossbow and compound bow makers continually strive to push the speed envelope. You make a crossbow faster by increasing the draw weight. That’s why the above point is so important. How fast is fast enough? Shiki wished he knew what the answer he needed. judging from this crossbow the rounds were traveling at least 300 fps. 

Shiki enjoyed the scope on this particular crossbow but he would have a tough choice as to what exactly he would need to consider in deciding on a scope for his next weapon system. Though some crossbows still come with open sights, you will be much better served using some sort of scope sight. These optical sighting devices make accurate shooting much easier. For magnification, you can choose from just about anything between zero power and 5X.

Shiki sighed. This crossbow had done him so well. He was kinda worried about just picking up another crossbow and suddenly being without this familiar machine. But it was not time for reminiscing with this machine. It was time to get back into the fray. Shiki started lifting the weapon system and brought the machine back into action firing several rounds at the flying targets and hitting them with impunity. 

[Madame Loki]

Learning: 30/40

Loki would stop cracking her whip around Shiki as she was sure that he had gotten the idea. Instead she would sit down where she was standing and then continued to go over the crystal whip she had created. She focused her chakra through the whip and felt the chakra as it moved through the lattices of the crystal. Loki made an annoyed grunt as she held the whip in her hand. It was exactly how she thought it was. It was crystal through and through. It was a little upsetting but Loki was sure she could work it to her advantage like she did everything else.

Loki held the the whip in-between the palms of her hand as she focused her chakra through it. There was still other things she wanted to figure out about this before she moved on. As her chakra moved through the crystal whip she felt the lattices once again. She needed to figure out why they were flexible. Loki closed her eyes as she tried her best to pick this thing apart. She focused on the lattice lines because this was the thing that controlled the structure of the crystal so if there was anything that could inform her about the flexibility it would be found here.

Loki could really feel any differences between the lattices in she was examining and every other lattice she had created before hand. Loki moaned a little bit, and then started to move the whip around a little bit. When noticed something very odd. The Lattice... were moving. This was increasingly strange because crystal was a suppose to be incredibility strong and stable. The Lattice lines were the lich pin to it's strength. So them moving like this... well it explained why the crystal was as hard as it should be, but how... how was it still crystal at all? Loki would have to keep studying this to figure it out.

Loki continued to move the whip around in her hand as she focused more and more chakra into it. The more chakra she poured into the whip the clearer the picture of what was going on inside became. Loki was getting deep into the crystal structure of the whip, and what she was seeing was incredible. The lattice line had formed countless joints and then pivots on themselves, that allowed the other lattices to move through each other. This would help to explain a great many things about this and how Loki would accomplish this in the future. Loki then opened her eyes and then looked over the the whip once again with a smile on her face.

Holding it there in her hands gave her ideas on how she would be able to perform this without worrying about destroying the weapon in question. Loki smiled as she release the hold that she had on the jutsu and then the whip began to slowly crumble before her eyes. As she watched what was once metal crumbling into the crystal particles, she got the idea that this could be used to cripple her opponents that relayed heavily on weaponry. Crystal was indeed a very powerful very fascinating Element.

[Nekomata Minh]

Learned to Loki
+40 to snow

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Post 5

Shiki kept his cheek welded to the butstock and started firing several rounds in succession until his clip ran dry. There were certain locks and functions in the magazine well that would prevent the weapon from being able to release the magazine without specific releases being made on the crossbow. While Shiki could control minor things with his static fields there was something that was rather difficult to do only using static fields.

Shiki reached out with his good hand and released the magazine from the magazine well and cast the spent magazine to the side. Reaching to the spare one that he had bolt side up he fed the magazine into the crossbow and let the bolt slide forward. She sliding bolt came forward and caught the bolt and drove the bolt into the chamber. Shiki knew that the round was chambered and ready to fire.

Shiki raised his one good hand and leveled it at the area where he was supposed to have the next target pop up. Shiki's disabled hand was coming a little bit more lively. His fingers were tingling as he was getting ready to take his next round of firing. It was far to disabled to be able to use his second arm to be able to actually aim at the proper target. Shiki simply used his forearm as a means to brace the front of the crossbow.

As Shiki readied the next round and took a deep breath. The target popped up and Shiki swung and pivoted with his body. Using his forearm as a brace Shiki took a quick arm and released the shot. Shiki using the brace and his blood limit were still able to compensate for the numbed arm. Shiki took a deep breath and readied himself for the next Shot. Shiki waited for a brief moment and fired as soon as the target popped up. 

Shiki watched as the bolt flew though the air and struck the crystal. As the gem was struck the gem gave a resounding thud as it twirled into the ground and shattered. Shiki raised his hand out and pulled out the magnetic powers and tapped into his blood limit. As Shiki raised his hands the bolts were already flying out of the weapon system. Using his blood limit to control the bolt Shiki took the last gem down. Resting the crossbow against his leg he took a sigh and walked back over to Loki. "I killed your rocks darling"

[Nekomata Minh]

learned

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B Rank

Scent

Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S" (“C” Rank)

Skill: TaiJutsu

Effect: This extraordinary special quality allows a creature to detect approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes, and track by sense of smell.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: The creature can detect opponents within 10-meters by sense of smell. If the opponent is upwind, the range increases to 20-meters; if downwind, it drops to 5-meters. Strong scents, such as smoke or rotting garbage, can be detected at x2 the ranges noted above. Overpowering scents, such as skunk musk, can be detected at x3 normal range. When a creature detects a scent, the exact location of the source is not revealed—only its presence somewhere within range. The creature can take a movement to note the direction of the scent. Whenever the creature comes within 2-meters of the source, the creature pinpoints the source’s location. When finding Herbs and Animals (random), Scent may improve searching for them (must have Scent of object previously before searching). Learning "D" Rank allows the user to search for Common things, while "S" for Nearly Impossible. Each rank user learns increases chance of finding by 2% for the Rank of Herb, and increases per Rank thereafter. Example: At "S" Rank User gains 10% increase chance in finding Common Herbs and Animals but only 2% Increase for Nearly Impossible Herbs and Animals.

Limit: Must be an Animal, Fey, Monster, or Vermin. Innate Animal Jutsu.


Shiki paused for a moment during his training with Loki and stopped and took a deep breath in from the area around him. It had rained recently and the smell of rain was always a pleasant one. Most people notice a distinctive smell in the air after it rains. It's frequently linked with spring, as the smell of fresh cut grass was one of the most charming smells on the planet. Shiki loved the smell of foliage in the woods.

Shiki took another deep breath and looked over at Loki. He wondered if she thought it was weird that he was just sniffing the air so much. But his time that he spent with his direwolves had enhanced his scent much stronger than that of a normal human. Shiki could smell all the soft earthy tones in the ground. The coarse silky dirt. The warm scents of different aromatic qualities of the earth. 

He could smell the different levels of wetness that was in the ground. The water had gotten all the different types of sediment that was present in the dirt. As Shiki took in a deep breath he could smell the ceder trees that had been broken down by the weeks of rain that had seeped through the topsoil. The trails of running water had turned the topsoil lose. There were so many interesting trapped scents that came from the erosion of the dirt.

The streams of running topsoil had revealed layers of sand and clay that were left exposed from the running water. This soil erosion opened up the earth to a multitude of new layers. He could smell the silty musks that were coming from the sand and clay that was exposed in the ground below him. Shiki didn't want to get too caught up in just the scents of the ground of course. There were more fun things to smell.

Shiki noticed as the wind shifted that it brought the scents of the area to the east. Shki immediately noticed Loki’s scent. Shiki could make out the soap from the bath house and the shampoo and conditioner that seemed to cover up all the hair that seemed to seemingly cover her entire body as she wished. Shiki did his best to put this scent to memory in case he ever needed to detect it later.

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Shiki could smell his two direwolves allright. They were recently bathed but even so there was no masking the scent of canines after they had been in the woods for so long. Shiki was used to their scent however and it provided him with a strange scent of comfort. It was just nice not having to go monster hunting alone for a change. Having a group of dire wolves certainly helped make him feel more as part of a pack.

Shiki knew that there were a lot of very key parts to training someone’s nose to smell and take on deeper scents. Studying why certain things smelt like they did was actually kinda gross sometimes. As it turns out, the smells people associate with rainstorms can be caused by a number of things. One of the more pleasant rain smells, the one we often notice in the woods, is actually caused by bacteria!Actinomycetes, a type of filamentous bacteria, grow in soil when conditions are damp and warm.

When the soil dries out, the bacteria produces spores in the soil. The wetness and force of rainfall kick these tiny spores up into the air where the moisture after a rain acts as an aerosol. The moist air easily carries the spores to us so we breathe them in. These spores have a distinctive, earthy smell humans often associate with rainfall. Shiki took another deep breath and let the earthy tones caress his face.

Another sort of smell is caused by the acidity of rain. Because of chemicals in the atmosphere, rainwater tends to be somewhat acidic, especially in urban environments. When it comes in contact with organic debris or chemicals on the ground, it can cause some particularly aromatic reactions. It breaks apart soil and releases minerals trapped inside, and it reacts with chemicals, and other such trapped aromas, giving them a stronger smell.

These reactions generally produce more unpleasant smells than bacteria spores, which is why the after-the-rain smell isn't always a good one. Like the smell caused by the bacteria spores, the smell of chemical reactions is most noticeable when it rains following a dry spell. This is because once the chemicals on the ground have been diluted by one downpour, they don't have the same reaction with the rainwater.

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Shiki could smell of the more muskier scents of the forest as he took on a deeper breath of his surroundings. Another after-the-rain smell comes from volatile oils that plants and trees release. The oil then collects on surfaces such as rocks. The rain reacts with the oil on the rocks and carries it as a gas through the air. This scent is like the bacteria spores in that most people consider it a pleasant, fresh smell.


Shiki knew that the term was called Petrichor and it was a very pleasant combination of Fresh, wet dirt and sort of a scent of a dry twig scent. Fresh is a hard trait to describe. Perhaps because the only real way to describe what fresh or earthy mean was the total absence of the city or man around him. Shiki was out here with Loki smelling nothing but nature… And he loved it.

Shiki relaxed his posture and tried to smell some of the lighter scents that were permeating throughout the newly carried wind. He tried to catch a scent of some of the flowers that were found only in the summertime here in the forest. Shiki smiled as he took on the gentle scent of some of the lilac and other fresh flowers that were wafting in from the wind around him.

Shiki smiled at the pleasant smells and closed his eyes just letting the sunlight soak onto his body. Shiki could feel the warmth and one of the best parts about feeling the warmth was that sometimes Shiki could actually smell the earth around him as they started to soak up that warm sunlight. Shiki found that this was a damn good day to be outside. Shiki was happy that he was out here and with good company.

Shiki started to stretch just a little bit. It was an involuntary reaction to being in the sunlight. Shiki felt relaxed in the sunlight and out here in the woods. With both his nose, his direwolves and the combined scent combination of the three of them Shiki was not in the least bit worried about something dangerous. Shiki felt like he was actually safe out here… He sighed and looked around at the scenery.