Path to Imperfection [OPEN]

[Skulking Shinzu]

“I sense it you know – that evil in your heart.” Wisps of shadowy smoke oozed off Lady’s pitch-black fur. She seemed different to before. Stronger and with a more agile body. She seemed to be speaking to no one in particular. No one, except the one other living creature in the area capable of receiving her telepathic thoughts. Like their previous encounter, the surroundings were vastly flat. Sand scattered everywhere and as far as the eye could see, there were no trees or other objects to hide behind. The only structures that could offer any protection against line of sight would be the large dunes of sand scattered all around the playing field – each one being around 10-15 meters away from the last.

Neko possessed little equipment. A simple pouch remained by the feline’s left hip, which contained six Kunai and Life Water. As per standard, all equipment – including the pouch itself – was marked with a single Hiraishin seal. Keen observers would also note a single Item Summoning Seal etched onto the feline’s right palm which was linked to Tessaiga. "Come out! We need to finish what we started."

[Starnaess]

Galadriel walked slowly while her feet touched the warm sand of suna - no reason to be there other than a challenge. Her long crimson hair weren't bound by anything, reaching all the way to the lower back, they moved freely as the wind blew toward her direction. A long silk dress with gold patterns and some basic sandals were all the teenager wore. Her katana on her left hip, in a white sheath with the  same gold patterns as her dress. "No need to get impatient, wolf." said Galadriel as she looked down on the dog. "Dogs should know their place, but it seems you forgot - ill be sure to remind you." She stopped roughly 20 meters away from lady, her guard was up - her right hand on the hilt of the katana and her stance somewhat lowered , ready for the inevitable fight.

[Skulking Shinzu]

“And with every insult – your soul blackens further into damnation.” The shadowy Lady hissed as her eyes locked with Galadriel, who now stood 20 meters away. Exploding in a puff of smoke, the greyish cloud vanished as quickly as it had appeared to reveal a slender pale figure with a light-grey dress and messy short white hair that only reached as far as her chin. In her human form, Lady extended her pale white palm outwards to take aim. In that instant, Galadriel would likely attempt to dodge a beam of energy. However, no such attack would come. Instead, the standard blue hue of Searing Soul shifted to a light green colour as it blasted out from Lady in all directions in the form of a wave that would effect everything within a 40 meter radius of her body [60 AP damage].

[Starnaess]

"How boring" said Galadriel as she internally manipulated her body nutrients to better suit herself. Shifting her chakra reserves and combining them together with her sugar ones followed by a serie of handseals, opened up her poores as they oozed gum - making it poor overher and onto the floor. While that was happening the wave created by Lady succesfully hit her and continued to travel for forty more meters behind her. A grunt could be heard from Galadriel since she took the hit head on but she did not flinch, instead she continued to produce gum until a medium sized ball of gum was created. Said creature would attatch itself to Galadriel, acting like a suit of armor, a silly looking one though - giving her an alike pink helmet with a round silly face and two big eyes. A long pink fluffy gummy cloak that touched all the way to the ground, and a suit of gum armor that almost made her look like a gummy bear.

"Here!, admire my beautiful creation!" said the girl as she giggled.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Never giving up on her offence, Lady would have finished weaving together her next set of seals just as gum oozed out of the opponent’s pores. She paused for a moment, waiting for the ooze to attach itself to Galadriel as a jade crystal mirror formed behind her just as the strange pink armour swallowed Galadriel. Unable to stop this from occurring, Lady weaved together a second set of seals. If successful, the reflections in the mirror would begin moving - allowing the mirror to spit out five identical replicas of Lady's human form. "Admire this you wench!"

[Starnaess]

As soon as Lady began weaving her handseals Galadriel started running toward her ,Gum began stretching forward from her and her creature's body immediatly attatching to each angle of the mirror and began pulling it toward them. The mirror would lift up and hurl itself toward the girl lifting up sand on its way back, trampling everything in its path thanks to the strenght of both galadriel, the creature and the gum itself. at the same time the gum would also attempt to attach itself to lady wherever possible using the confusion to its advantage.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Lady saw numerous lines of gum shoot out at her, which prompted her to change her weaving movements to cancel her previous technique and to prep a different Still Jutsu. However, strangely, the gum didn’t seem to reach her. It just seemed to fly past her. Almost as if it was aimed at- “W-Wait!” She pleaded telepathically as her own mirror was slammed into her as she reached for and grabbed onto one of the pink gooey tendrils [-45 AP]. As Lady whizzed towards Galadriel, she would appear helpless – with one arm stuck against the gum. It was checkmate, or so it seemed. Waiting until she neared, Lady unleashed her Jutsu and utilised contact with the gum to crystallise the structure the moment she was a mere 5 meters away from Galadriel. Not only would this suddenly cause the mirror to stop, but at such a close range, Galadriel would be left with very little of a window to react as the crystallisation whizzed through the tendril of gum and reached her armour in order to solidify it and lock the joints together in a dense layer of protective crystal.

[Starnaess]

Lady was coming their way and gumbi could taste her pray as if it was in his mouth already, as it began to drool gum. As lady neared Gumbi enlarged to 3 timex his size creating a n empty ball of gum around Galadriel in order to accomodate for both the wall and lady , so that gumbi could swallow them both. However, lady had a trick up her sleeve and gumbi turned to crystal instead trapping galadriel inside of him. No matter how much gumbi tried to move in order to break free , he just couldnt - every single piece of gum had been completly crystallized.

Galadriel was now stuck inside, however the moment lady decided to use the crystal on top of gumbi she would free him from his grasp. After a serie of handseals she unsheathed her  sword, turned and aimed at the crystallized wall, closing her eyes for just a split second and then opening them unleashed a large amount of chakra into her sword as she began to swing it rapidly, slashing everything in her path. If the damage from the slashes was enough to break through her crystal prison, as she jumped out she would pick up a piece of gum and would begin running away. (6 slashes max - 57 AP per slash)

[Skulking Shinzu]

Lady’s eyes widened as the strange gum-like armour enlarged in an obvious attempt to swallow her. In response, she stealthily performed another Still Jutsu just as her earlier technique hit and crystallised every inch of the gum creature in solid and dense jade crystals before its mouth could open. With every orifice and opening sealed shut, Galadriel was left trapped inside with no way of knowing what Lady had already been preparing as she was released and landed just shy of 6 meters away from the enlarged Gumbi. Without a single movement wasted on handseals, Lady slammed her hands onto the ground to release her ultimate Crystal Pentagonal Prison technique around the gum creature just as two thudding sounds echoed from Gumbi’s belly. Galadriel was attempting to escape. Not that it would do her much good. She’d be unable to see the technique in action due to being stuck within a crystallised stomach, but just as her third strike hit the crystallised walls of the belly and before the fourth strike could begin, a hexagonal symbol with a 15 meter radius would light up on the ground beneath Gumbi and crystallise everything inside and within a 6 meter radius outside the gum creature’s belly, including the air itself up to a height of 20 meters.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Sighing, Lady relaxed at the sight of her hexagonal pillar of jade crystal. The opponent had been defeated – as evident by the sense of calm now present in the area. Waiting patiently, she allowed a reasonable amount of time to pass to ensure that the opponent had slipped into unconsciousness before snapping her finger. At that moment, the gum creature shattered into dust alongside the crystal fragments to leave behind the opponent sprawled against the ground. Crystal gone; air was now able to make its way into Galadriel’s lungs. It wouldn’t be long before she regained consciousness. “You’re lucky I still sense some good in you.” Lady whispered before her form exploded in a puff of smoke. Returning to the shape of a canine, she sprinted away from the foe and vanished into the horizon to regroup with Zuruel.

[Exit]