Ukko's path (training)

[Starnaess]

Hand Vine Manipulation

Rank: "D" Rank

Skill: NinJutsu; Passive

Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines in their hands.

Special: ---

Drawback: Cannot use hand vines until this technique is learned.

Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their hands, as well as how to control them more precisely.

Limit: Must be a Zassou.

Ukko walked through the dark forest slowly and took in her surroundings. She was walking along a trail of trodden down leaves that were on the forest floor. She didn’t know where she was going, but that was the fun of it to her. She loved to explore and she wasn’t afraid of exploring the forest and the unknown. While her friends didn’t enjoy it as much as she did, Ukko still went out to feed her curiousness.



She liked to wander around since it gave her something to do. Ukko was lost when it came to knowing her purpose for being there. She hoped the answer would come to her if she explored enough. Ukko didn’t have any plans for her future, which made her walk even further into the forest. She continued trekking through it and listened to everything around her.



There was the sound of birds chirping, critters scurrying around in the bushes, and then… there was another sound… the definitive sound of the trudging of goblins. Ukko knew that sound well as her father always taught her about all of the dangers of the forest and dark places. The lesson of goblins was the longest and she learned a lot about them from him.

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Foot Vine Manipulation

Rank: "D" Rank

Skill: NinJutsu; Passive

Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the feet.

Special: ---

Drawback: Cannot use foot vines until this technique is learned. When vines are extended beneath the ground, movement of the user becomes extremely limited based on how far under the ground they are and what rank of Vine Length Manipulation is known.

Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their feet, as well as how to control them more precisely.

Limit: Must be a Zassou.

Ukko crouched down low near the ground and tuned in to the sound in order to determine which direction it was coming from. Goblins could confuse many people since they walked in packs making their footsteps overlap each other and create the effect of their sound all around. Ukko was smart though and, with her father’s lessons, she was able to tell that the goblins were to the south of where she currently was.



She thought that she could make out three sets of footsteps. Three goblins would be the most she had ever fought at once. Her father taught her many things, but he only allowed her to practice with one or, in some instances, two goblins at a time. Ukko pushed away those thoughts of possible self-doubt and focused on the task at hand. Sneaking near where the goblins were, Ukko was able to see them from the bush where she was hiding.



They were ugly to look at and they looked very dirty. Ukko could’ve swore she saw their fingernails caked with dirt or whatever they got ahold of to eat that morning. She didn’t want to tangle with them, but she figured that if she didn’t then they would find her when she would least expect it. It would be better to get rid of them now rather than later. Ukko looked down at her hands and began to sprout a vine from the right one.

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Shoulder Vine Manipulation

Rank: "D" Rank

Skill: NinJutsu; Passive

Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the hole in the front portion of each shoulder.

Special: ---

Drawback: Cannot use shoulder vines until this technique is learned.

Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their shoulders, as well as how to control them more precisely.

Limit: Must be a Zassou.

She looked back up and she mentally prepared herself to fight the three goblins. They hadn’t noticed her yet and she could still turn back. Ukko shook herself. This is what I have to do , she thought. If I don’t then there could be more trouble later on. Her thoughts kept trying to quarrel with each other inside Ukko. She decided to end all of the bickering and she walked out of the cover of the bushes



The goblins spun back and noticed Ukko immediately. They let out blood curdling shrieks of war and started to ready their weapons to fight. Ukko stuck her right hand out in front of her and the vine that sprouted out of it earlier was at full length now. She decided to take out the goblin to the right first and the vine went over to the goblin. It wrapped around the goblin’s

hand, stopping it from attacking Ukko.



She then ran forward with a loud yell and punched the goblin square in the face. The other two goblins were just understanding what was happening right as the one fell to the ground unconscious. Ukko reached down and grabbed the knife that the goblin dropped and used it to get the other two to step back more. They gave more yells of confusion and they didn’t know what to do with their newfound foe.

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Forehead Vine Manipulation

Rank: "D" Rank

Skill: NinJutsu; Passive

Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate vines extending from the hole in their forehead.

Special: ---

Drawback: Cannot use forehead vines until this technique is learned.

Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their fprehead, as well as how to control them more precisely.

Limit: Must be a Zassou.

She began to untangle her vine from around the unconscious goblin’s hand, but was tackled down by a goblin she didn’t notice. Ukko was slammed to the ground and she quickly looked up to see her attacker. It was a fourth goblin who was on top of her with a bat type of weapon that had spikes sticking out of it… and it was coming straight at her.



Ukko rolled to her right and narrowly avoided the spiked bat. She saw the knife that she lost during the surprise attack and she grabbed it with her left hand while the new goblin tried to pull its bat from out of the ground. Ukko stabbed the goblin with the knife which made it tumble over in the dirt motionless. She quickly tried to get up and ward off the other two, but one of them saw its chance and took it.



Slamming against her chest, the goblin held down Ukko’s right hand in an attempt to stop her from using her vine. While she was trying to hit the one on top of her, she noticed the other goblin coming from her left to stab her with the sharp knife that it had in its hand. Ukko felt completely helpless. She couldn’t use her right hand or her vine and she couldn’t get the goblin off of her.

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Stomach Vine Manipulation

Rank: "D" Rank

Skill: NinJutsu; Passive

Effect: Allows a Zassou member to manipulate thick vines extending from the hole in his stomach.

Special: ---

Drawback: Cannot use stomach vines until this technique is learned.

Description: A form of training that allows a clan member to manipulate vines from different portions of their bodies. Because the vines are threaded through the users chakra system, this allows them to control those vines. The Zassou will learn how to send the vines in and out from their stomach, as well as how to control them more precisely.

Limit: Must be a Zassou.

On top of that there was a knife coming to end her. Ukko didn’t know what to do, but then she remembered something her father had told her. “Now remember, Ukko. When you think you are in a fight you can’t win or you can’t escape from, you just need to remember your powers. You can do more than you think. Don’t ever tell yourself you can’t do anything, because it seems impossible. It is possible; you just need to believe it.



Ukko looked down at her left hand and told herself that it was possible. It was possible for her to grow a vine from her other hand. It was possible for her to win this fight. Suddenly, a vine sprouted from her left hand so quickly that she almost fainted from the power it used in her. Ukko willed the new vine to wrap around the neck of the goblin that was on her.



Soon it stopped breathing and slumped to the ground and she was ready to fight the last one. She got up from the ground and regained control of her right hand. She now shoved both of her hands with their vines in front of her. The goblin was very confused now since it thought she only had one. It didn’t know what to do in order to stop Ukko.

[Christoff]

+10 TP
Learned

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Weapon Form: One-Handed Weapons

Rank: "C"

Skill: Supplementary

Effect: User learns to "Partially" transform a portion of their anatomy (usually the arm) into a single Non-Chakra One-Handed Weapon.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: When learning Weapon Form: One-Handed Weapons the user chooses a single One-Handed Weapon to partially transform into. If the user knows Weapon Form: Single Weapon Transformation they may choose to fully transform into that weapon. The user may not release the partial form as a ranged weapon. May learn multiple times. Each time learned user may transform into a new weapon.

Limit: Must be a Mabuki. Must have Demon Weapon Gene.


“Right, so what’s on the agenda today?” Al asked. sitting in the side, watching her twin train with Ukko.“My first form, the Weapon Form.” Ukko said, her eyes glowing slowly as she reverted to her blade form. “What do you think? Pretty?”“I’ve told you hundreds of times, yes, you are pretty.”

Al rolled his eyes, and picked the blade up, swinging it experimentally a couple of times. The blade was perfectly balanced, right as what it was needed for a blade like this. He grinned, and held it with both the hands in a simple ‘cross’ section grip, and pointed it at the dummy, and then rushed at it, slashing it multiple times across.


The blade was sharp, and was made of some unknown material that neither Al nor Gwyn could identify. Their master, Geodan, or former master now, was not in shop, having gone for a vacation for 2 months so they couldn’t exactly contact him, and Aern was on some job as well, therefore they were alone in this little ‘adventure’ of theirs.


“And surprising agile too. I’ve never seen a blade this swift and this light yet this sharp….” Al mumbled, twirling the blade around in his hand. “Right. That’s the first part done. What’s next?”

[Skulking Shinzu]

[1] +10 TP. Learned.

[Starnaess]

Weapon Material Absorption: Inorganic

Rank: "C"

Skill: Supplementary

Effect: User learns to alter their Weapon Form into inorganic material depending on how well they know this technique.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: Must learn Multiple times. When first learned the user may assume weapon properties of inorganic Special Materials with Trivial and Easy identification difficulties. User must first obtain a piece of the material. After obtaining the material the user will absorb the material into their body, allowing the user to assimilate with the material. User must know the identity of the material beforehand. After learning a second time the user may assimilate inorganic Special Materials with Average identification difficulties. Each additional time learned the user may assimilate inorganic Special Materials with higher identification difficulties (Maximum Extremely Difficult). When altering into a Weapon the user takes the properties specifically for Weapons. When altering into a Shield the user takes the properties of either Armour or Weapons.

Limit: Must be a Mabuki. Must have Demon Weapon Gene.




“Material absorption.” Ukko’s voice rolled out. It was muffled and distorted, as in her blade-form, and the hilt felt warm in his hands strangely. “You said you’d let me absorb some magical metals, to use Jutsu better.”

“Right.” Al nodded. He and Gwyn both could weild Ukko properly in her base form, but she was a magical weapon with a lot of skills, and Al was going to be the one to get the honor to get her used to the magical metals, for future prospects.

“Uh….we’ll use the Lightning Mixture first. Then the Ice one.”

“Sure!” Ukko chirped. She was rather excited for what was about to happen. Gwyn rose up, walking beside her twin to curiously see how Ukko would do it. Al touched the metal, imbursed in lightning, and tapped it on the top of the metal. “Oh…yeah, yeah that’s lightning alright!”



The metallic alloy, a bar, slowly started to melt and aborb into the sword, seeping into the jewl on the hilt until the bar entirely disappeared. Then the entire sword started to glow, going from a deep blue tint to a deep yellow/metallic golden tilt that was expected of the metal that she had absorbed. Al gave a few experimental swings, and nodded.

“Yep, you’ve absorbed it.” Gwyn said, very curious about the make of the sword. “Good job! SO….the next part is….”

[Skulking Shinzu]

[1] +10 TP. Learned.

[Starnaess]

Rune-Carved Weapon

Rank: "A"

Skill: Supplementary

Effect: The target's weapon form gains Runes, showing they can pass their knowledge of Jutsus to the target.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: The user's weapon Form is covered in Runes, and while a Meister is wielding the user in their weapon form, the user gives the Knowledge of Jutsus, no more than up to their Impeccable Will (+6 Maximum). What techniques user may transfer is determined once per day. User may alter what techniques they can transfer when determining what techniques they can transfer. Meister wielding user must have correct Class Level to perform Jutsus. Example: A "C" Class Meister is unable to perform an "S" Rank Technique.

Limit: Must be a Mabuki. Must know a Mind of a Demon Weapon.

The next time they got a chance to try out something, skills that they couldn’t actually try out other than when facing enemies, was when they were in the wild, out in the open, and about to face bandits. Literal bandits. There were 2 major skills that they had to learn and try out, called the Mind Weapon and the Rune Weapon, and they were extremely, extremely important for Ukko to teach to her weilders.



When she was made, specifically made for the purpose of fighting and wielding, she had been coded with hundreds, of thousands, of millions of rules, codes and instructions that would basically mean she had to impart knowledge upon her wielder about how she worked, how he or she, or they in this case, could use her weapon form, how many skills did she have and so on.


One of the most important of her additions had to be the Rune Weapon. It was a simple skill, but turned over to be so effective it got ridiculous.It basically was a set of written codes, within her in the language of runes specifically built up for the transversal of language.

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Both Al and Gwyn had tried to make sense of the Runes used and they had simply given up due to the complexity of the task, they didn’t even know how to complete it really speaking. It was difficult, so very difficult to even start completing the task that, at times, they simply worked on it for days upon days, learning how to properly wield her(because simply hacking at a Dummy was not exactly something that would give them the required training to wield her, truthfully speaking.

They needed practice) and finally learning how to ‘sync’ with her. That is how Rune Weapon and Mind Weapon worked. It was a very complex system, yes, but it was a system that both of the twins and Ukko were very, very anxious to try out.


The first thing that they needed to do was use the skill of Rune Weapon, so they could understand what it was that they could do.For that, Ukko would have be laid in her sword form across Al’s, or Gwyn’s lap. The sad part was in this form they couldn’t use the multiplication factor of her blade to even come close to doing it at once.

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For that, Al and Gwyn would have to sit down and meditate, twice. And during that meditation, the information would be transferred over to them. It was what would make them come close to understanding the powers that were inside of the Rune Weapon, the powers that did make the sword what it was.


The art of Jutsu was a very, very complicated one. Unlike magic, which was the use of mystic power in the form of using mystic energy and then expelling out, at once, in the form of magical powers and such. However, Jutsu was different. It was not just mystic energy, but spiritual as well.

And Spiritual Energy wasn’t as easy to use as Mystic Energy was. Infact, if anything, it was thrice as difficult to use as Mystic energy was and that was saying something about it simply because one couldn’t just use Mystic Energy like that. The test to be a mage was hard. The sheer ability required to learn a singular Jutsu was harder, really put.

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It didn’t only involve what was inside of the body, but rather what was outside of it as well. To use Jutsu, one needed to be attuned to their spiritual selves, at the same time as being attuned to their own selves too. And being attuned to their own selves was thrice, if not, 5 times as hard. Then came the physical conditioning required to use Jutsu.

A Jutsu master, let them be Ninja, Monk, Priest or any other Jutsu users in the world, all of them had one single important quality about them. They trained their physique extensively. Now it wasn’t to be said that Al and Gwyn were in a bad physical state, they were pretty high up there than the normal blacksmith. But to be able to use Jutsu was a level of physical fitness far, far beyond what was normal.



The Rune Weapon worked in a way that it would actually make them able to use those Jutsu without needing to be in the Physical form required to learn it. Jutsu were difficult, and going to the technicality of it was something only masters of the art would do.

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To be able to use Jutsu without training physically only showed the sheer scale of power a person would have had to be able to write a rune like that, let alone transfer the memories and the required instructions to the person’s brain to use the Jutsu.“Damn that was something!” Al gasped, his eyes opening. An entire bucketload of information was just shoved inside of his head, a full on bucketload and he didn’t know what to do about it.

“You really need to get this done sister, it’s….it’s an experience, for sure.”

“Well if you’re done now, then I would like to do it too.” Gwyn said, her hands on her hips as she looked at him imperviously. “Get up and get out of the way, I’m excited about learning those Jutsu as well.”



Rune Weapon was turning out to be one of the better skills that this utter horror of a sword had. They could learn tricks from the sword, and not just any tricks but literal tricks that would allow them to kill, murder, dismember, anhilate and mutilate out of just a couple of moves, if not, a couple of seconds.

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And it wasn’t just simple physical based Jutsu that were transported to her. All manners of Jutsu, let them be strong wide area elemental based ones or simple slashing ones, they were all transported in her brain. Gwyn gasped, finally getting out of the pure state of hysteria that she had ended up in, her eyes opening wide and her grin extending.



“Yeah, that’s awesome alright. That’s utterly awesome. I so wanna crack this blade open to see how the rune structure works!” Gwyn said, almost cooing at the thought. There was a shimmer, as the sword lifted up from Gwyn’s lap and turned into Ukko again, who frowned at her.
“You are not doing that.” She said, her hands over her chest. “Because I am partly organic, I will not allow you to ‘crack me open’.”



“She was joking.” Al said, rolling his eyes. “She’s not going to do anything like that. But we’re about to have company soon.”
The reason why there were here, in a camp out in the wild, was because the soldiers needed extra arms in Ellerton simply because the army was busy down in the east, and they didn’t have anyone strong enough to deal with local bandit problems.