Ice and Lighting (training.)

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Post 3
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Shiki paused for a moment in the middle of the form and closed his eyes one more time. As he moved the blade around him in a crescent pattern. As he did he felt the magnetic field move around him in a flourish of steel. Shiki brought the blade back around. In a flash of steel Shiki moved around taking a deep breath and pausing in a low stance. Lifting his leg off the ground and raising his knee up past his knee and his sword out in front of his chest.

Shiki slowly exhaled and as he slowly released his breath he brought his leg down slowly to the ground straddled in a low stance. As his foot touched the ground he sank his body down slowly and moved into a small semi squat. Letting out a deep breath and basking in the stability of his stance Shiki stepped forward with his left foot thrusting his blade forward into a stab. As he extended his arms out he thrust forward with both of his hands. 

As Shiki fully extended his arms out he twisted the blade turning the blade from being a vertical blade to becoming a horizontal blade. As the blade twisted Shiki lifted his leg and kicked outwards mimicking the movements of kicking someone off of his blade. As he did he spun the sword around to his own hip with the tip of the blade pointing behind him. Shiki spun orienting the trunk of his body so his stance was reversed. As Shiki finished the spin bringing the blade back around. 

As Shiki twisted throwing the blade back around in front of him into another stab. Twisting and using the force of the blade and throwing the force with his hips. As he pushed with his hips the blade spun around with precision. Once again, still with his eyes closed Shiki focused not on the movements in his body but rather just on the blade. Focusing on the movements of the sword to complete the form of the dragon. This particular gambit of the blades dance was called the dragons nest. 

Shiki stepped forwards and lifted his leg on more time and spread out his stance once again. Bringing the sword up in front of him Shiki felt the forces at work around him. Shiki raised his sword and felt the static field around his sword. He could feel the poles of the earth around him calling on him. Shiki felt the vibrations all around him as he centered on the tree in front of him. Holding the blade out low and ready to start the final push to create the dragons nest. 

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Post 4
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Shiki stepped forward with a look of determination in his eyes and stepped forward. Shiki held his sword out and channeling his energy he let sparks fly off his face. Stepping out Shiki took a huge swing and brought his sword low striking as fast as he could. In less then a second Shiki swung low and brought the wind slash low towards the trunk of the tree. Before the whole ki pulse was finished coming off his blade he spun his body around at a break neck pace. 

Turning around Shiki moved his arms so quickly that his muscles were operating with full speed. The pace was so quick that Shiki could already feel his body getting tired after throwing just one swing with his sword. Shiki channeled his Ki and quickly brought the blade back around quickly in a silver flash as he brought the wind strike off the ground. This one was aimed the same horizontal direction as the first strike. 

Shiki kept channeling his chi as he used the energy in the air around him to keep his muscles from breaking apart and failing from the swing of his attacks. Shiki kept swinging with the intensity of a man on a mission to destroy this damn tree. Slashing from the zone right shoulder to left hip and then back across to left shoulder to right him Shiki moved so quickly that it sent a powerful crossing X shape at the tree just inches behind the first cut. 

Shiki then sent two horizontal strikes right above the original cut. Shiki watched and already felt the dragons fight come off of the sword as he moved to position himself into the next swing. Shiki carried the swing around and brought a large amount of force across as the cut came from around the side of his shoulder aiming further up the tree. Despite all the movements that he had made less then half a second had passed from his attack. 

Shiki spun the attack around and kept attacking with a renewed sense of passion. FASTER FASTER FASTER! He thought as his body was reacting to his speed. Shiki brought the speed around even faster as he cut once again slashing from the zone right shoulder to left hip and then back across to left shoulder. Only this time, the cut was much higher and the angle of deviation from his blade upwards to land above the highest horizontal strike. 

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Post 5
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Shiki smiled and his eyes were alight with determination. All this gathering of his Chi and managing the Ki strike around to move his body to his old speed was satisfying on the highest degree. Shiki was enamored with getting stronger, with getting faster. This was a good first step of doing so. Shiki roared and sent the next attack cascading over the ground striking low and from the floor upwards in a vertical strike. 

Swinging and bringing the momentum around from his shoulder Shiki pivoted his hips as he started swinging with a powerful determined slash. As Shiki sent that last of the vertical slashes from off the ground cascading from the ground upwards. Shiki roared compassionately as he felt his body react to his will. The sparks on on his body were turning into real static shocks as the lightning was coming off his body in streams of lightning. 

Shiki swung harder and harder, faster and faster bringing about dragon cuts in two's and threes in a tenth of a second. Shiki felt empowered as he swung the blade around feeling Thanatos's weight in his hand Shiki treated the blade as a second joint of his arm. An Extension of his body. Creating a massive attack of over 39 dragon strikes in less then 9 seconds Shiki smiled as he saw the strikes hit the tree in a rapid succession of power. 

Branches and whole limbs were destroyed as the tree was separated from its trunk. Each of the swings strong enough to shatter steel and break stone. The wood was of no match as the explosive power of force shattered and destroyed everything around him. The leaves came falling off and broke off the branch almost instantly. The deep X patterns were cut into the tree cutting directly through the tree. 

The pieces were cut into small triangles as the vertical slices and horizontal slices finally caught up. Within a second, before the a single leaf had touched the ground the entire tree had been cut into small pieces no larger then a 20 pound log a piece. Shiki smiled at the fruits of his labor and walked over to the pile and smiled at all the tree sap and logs that now covered the ground. Shiki looked over and wiped his blade clean and sheathed it. 

[Skulking Shinzu]

Since Minh already gave a 10, +40 TP. Learned.

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(exits momentarily.)

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

20/60
Uncanny Dodge
Rank: “B”
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The user is no longer be flat-footed.
Special: –-
Drawback: –-
Description: The user can react to danger before their senses would normally allow them to do so. They cannot be caught flat-footed, nor do they lose any Defensive benefits if the attacker is invisible. The user still loses their Defensive benefits if they are immobilized. A user with this ability can still lose their Defensive Abilities if an opponent successfully uses a feint attack. If the user already knows Uncanny Dodge from a different source, they may automatically learn Improved Uncanny Dodge.
Limit: Must learn from a Master of Busōsen (Arms Flash).

Ryutatsu had to get fancy getting out of the city though. For several hunters and gang members seemed to think he was the one who messed up their friends. These guys attacked him relentlessly as he ran for the safety of the country side. He didn't draw his weapon to fight them for it would just cause more trouble with the relations. Ryu knew that he needed to be on his best behavior even though it seemed one of his clan ruined that.

Ryutatsu had to dodge projectiles and various weapons improvised and not. Sometimes it was someone swinging a bat other times it was a sword. A lot of the time while he was running out of the town though, it was thrown knives. Or other times people were trying to shank him. It wasn't really a fun process of dodging and weaving as he ran away.

Ryutatsu actually would have preferred not to have to run at all. But he was officially not even here so that was a problem. Occasionally he was cornered enough that he had to fight back but then he just knocked out that individual or group. Unknown to him at the time he was running out the same gate that the other Kyoudo had. He really didn't what had happen to cause so much violence but he had an idea.

What Ryutatsu was getting between insults and attacks from the people that were yelling and attacking him. Somebody sliced up their friends at the docks. Ryutatsu knew he had nothing to do with it but he looked close enough to the description to be his problem. So he was having to play dodge and run with a bunch of loser gang bangers and hunters. None of them matched his skill at all.

Definitely they did not match Ryutatsu's speed in the whole process. He was faster than most and in this case more agile to boot. These guys didn't even wait long enough to realize he was only eight and the person they described was bigger and older than he. But it wasn't surprising with how little these guys seemed to think. More than once because he dodged they got in to each other's ways.

[Shallistera]

+10

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0/10

(reenters thread)

Genkai Ryuu: Kenhaku (Sword Sweep)
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A spinning sweep attack made to trip opponents while using the blade of the sword.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A sweeping attack where the user crouches down and sweeps and slams the opponent's legs using the fat end of the blade knocking the opponent down into the ground as a setup for a more devastating attack.
Limit: Must Learn from a Master of Burēdono Kenseijin - ブレードの剣聖人 - Blade of the Sword Saint

Shiki stood there at the edge of the water practicing his moves and when the wood from the trees finally fell to the floor Shiki gathered up the wood and grabbed his fish and setting it on a skewer and setting forward to start cooking. Shiki watched over the flame as the skin of the fish started to simmer. Shiki stood there for a moment just listening to the sound of nature all around him. The sound of birds chirping, the fire burning, the fish simmering and the wind shaking the branches of the trees. 

From here in this point Shiki was ready to turn in for a short nap. But there was something there in the air. There was something around him that Shiki was just faintly picking up around him with his scent. It was the smell of leather and sweat. Shiki knew this scent very well. It was the smell of someone who was stressed and preparing themselves for combat. Someone had decided to track him down to this area and who knows what this person was planning on doing. 

Well Shiki had a pretty good idea based on the fact that the man had enough weapons and assassination tools to kill a small squad of people. Shiki could feel the man's weapon of choice. Apparently it was a Kasurigama. Shiki paused for a moment and looked over at his fish. He only had 5-6 minutes before it would be at its optimum heat for cooking on the fire. Shiki poked the skin of the fish a little bit before standing up and grabbing his weapon. Shiki stretched a little bit as he waited for the guy to attack. 

Here it comes... Shiki saw the shuriken coming from off in the bushes. Whoever thrown them was obviously skilled as he was able to hide the second shuriken underneath the shadow of the thrown shuriken. Shiki sighed and raised his blade simply knocking the shrunken to the floor. The metal projectiles were sent to the floor as Shiki watched the grass line waiting for him to continue his attack. Shiki looked over at the man who was doing a poor job trying to hide.

The man jumped at Shiki swinging his balled end of his Kasurigama around bringing the weight around to bear trying to smash Shiki along his head with it. Shiki grabbed his sword and swung it low aiming at his assailants feet. As he swung the blade around Shiki dipped low and knowing that his attack on his opponents chest would be easily predicted Shiki swung and went after the mans legs. It was just like his master had taught him all those years ago. Attack the roots. 

[Shallistera]

+10

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(exits)

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

30/60
Uncanny Dodge
Rank: “B”
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The user is no longer be flat-footed.
Special: –-
Drawback: –-
Description: The user can react to danger before their senses would normally allow them to do so. They cannot be caught flat-footed, nor do they lose any Defensive benefits if the attacker is invisible. The user still loses their Defensive benefits if they are immobilized. A user with this ability can still lose their Defensive Abilities if an opponent successfully uses a feint attack. If the user already knows Uncanny Dodge from a different source, they may automatically learn Improved Uncanny Dodge.
Limit: Must learn from a Master of Busōsen (Arms Flash).

As Ryutatsu traveled from the town to out and about the Wind Country's land he was remembering his training. He had always been a straight forward kind of swordsman but his speed had been an asset there. Ryutatsu had used his speed many a time to dodge an incoming attack of all sorts. He would use the least amount of motion to get what he wanted out of an dodge.

*Flashback*

Ryutatsu remembers many a time in the dojo facing off with older and more experienced students. To keep up with them he had to be stronger and faster than they were. Not only that he had to be generally better than them. But his best part of his sword style was always being able to read his opponent and know how to make their swing miss him. It made his senses incredibly sharp.

Ryutatsu continued to go over the various fights he had in the dojo of the wind country. It wasn't necessarily a pleasant experience. He had forgotten at how disliked he was in the dojo for being better than many older boy. More so because he was no longer a citizen there but of a rival nation. The master of the dojo put him there but the others resented it. It made each fight edged with malice.

But Ryutatsu did get certified as a Traveling Master of the dojo. That set even more people at odds with him as he was a favored student. It was one of reasons he had to leave town. The fight at the docks with another Kyoudo was just a coincidence. But it made him have to dodge and fight so much more than normally had to for training. But at least he was getting better at it he supposed.

Ryutatsu was getting great experience weaving and dodging as far as he was concerned. For once the malice didn't hurt as much for Kumo was now home. This was just a place to visit anymore. It was a sad truth for this orphan, who didn't even know where in the world his parents may be. But it didn't matter as much anymore as he had a cousin now. And the skills he learned and practice were valuable.

[Skulking Shinzu]

+10 TP.

[Tetsu]

[Exit]