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Sand Reflection Wall
Rank: B Rank, Defensive
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a small wall of sand that will counter attack.
Special: Slams hands into ground.
Drawback: The wall is fairly small, only about 6 by 6 ft. and requires a constant connection with sand that leads back to it (making it most effective in a desert). The wall is also in no way intelligent, so it’s counterattacks are simply launched to the exact place that they came from. It can also counter up to three times, but it usually dispelled after on counter so it can be used as a surprise attack/defense.
Description: The user slams their hands into the ground and a wall of sand quickly shoots out of the ground. The wall never compacts though, so it looks weak. When attacked, the wall will absorb the attack and ‘reflect it’ using sand. For example, if someone threw a kunai at the wall, it would absorb the kunai and launch a kunai of sand at the same angle as the real one came from. If the kunai had an explosive tag on it, the wall would shoot a compacted blob of sand that would explode upon impact. The wall takes no additional chalkra after being made unless it’s counterattacking.
Limit: Sand Release

It would follow her commands, almost as if it was an extension to her soul(which it was). It would always, always be the one companion that would be with her, no matter where she went. But forming Sand into a complex shape, like a creature, and maintaining it and making it act like one was difficult. Very difficult. It would never be able to make the sounds of a creature, for one, but she could mimic some actions of it.

The conjuration she chose this time was not of a Dragon, or another Mythical Creature. It was of a bird that was always seen in the desert. A Falcon. The fastest and the deadliest creature in the sky of the desert, Desert Falcons were said to be able to fly through Sandstorms and even Haboobs that she had created to destroy the teddies. And a Falcon was a bird that could kill the snakes.

So once again, the desert roared because of her will, and formed a shape. As she was literally in the very place where her powers originated from, it took half the time that it had taken to make the Dragon. The Falcon’s wings were made first, massive and made to cut the wind, with its avian body following next.

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Finally was the claws that it was known for, able to pick even the slimiest of all the creatures in the world without being afraid of dropping it. Sand hardened over to once again, form a material harder than metal. Wings flapped, sending the sand beneath flying, and her Sand Falcon Screeched.

It was not a nice sound, she would admit.

She would never be able to make her conjurations have the same sound as the creatures, but she would be able to make them as powerful, if not, more powerful. And in comparison to the Snake, her Falcon was just the right size. With a wingspan of 25 ft each, and being almost 40 ft in length from tail to beak, the Falcon glared down at its prey.

Gwyn twitched as the pressure slammed upon her of controlling such a massive beast of a creature. She would not bow to it, however, as she had trained specifically for this very thing. To be able to withstand even the most dangerous and most horrifying of all the creatures that would stand in front of her.

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She needed, desperately needed to properly be able to use and utilise her power, otherwise there was no need for her to exist. After-all, a Falcon was the predator of the desert. The Snake hissed, coiling around and shooting in the air. The Falcon twisted in the air, and grabbed it by the claws. Gwyn grinned. The Spider had taught her much.

For once, it was stupid to play around. The Sand Dragon was made to battle.The Sand Falcon was made to kill. With a screech, the Falcon’s beak went around the head of the snake, and a simple movement later, the bird of sand had cut through the Snake’s head, and ripped it out of the body. Just as he was about to fall a last moment reaction from her enemy was the last move he could do - his tail coming out of the sand and right behind her with the intent to kill.

But yet another quick reaction coming from Gwyn allowed her to shield herself in a layer of sand, a  special sand wall - completly negating the damage that would otherwise have killed her , or at the very least injured her for good. and she was glad she was trained enough to react at that speed.

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the wall had reflected the attack , further injuring the snake with his own tail and as a matter of fact poisoning itself too essentially giving him and even more painful death. all of this happened in a very short span, most likely 20 seconds. Gwyn grinned, satisfaction only akin to that when she killed a snake pooling her. Yes. This was what she meant.

This was what she wanted in her life, Mastery. Complete and utter mastery of her skills. And she would always, always get it. No matter how difficult it got, she would get it. That is how she would be the best. Since she was h aving fun s he decided to play a little further with her newly learned sand shield and at the same time truly analyze it. The reason for this was quite simple.

She had noticed a truly insane improvement and her very constructions were stronger, sturdier - bigger and came out faster and much easier than before. This sand wall w as the perfect example It was larger than her previous one and it was able to reflect many a ttacks including ninjutsus.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[4] Learned.

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Sand Cocoon
Rank: B Rank, Supplementary
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Surrounds the user in sand and prolongs their live for up to 24 hours.
Special: Tiger, Boar, Snake
Drawback: Takes up all available sand and all of the user’s chakra, regardless of how much they have. Can’t be used during battle as it takes to long. Also, the user may not decide when they want to wake up, they'll only come out of their stasis when the 24 hrs. are up or when they are healed by someone on the outside.
Description: After completing the specified hand seals, all of the user’s available sand will begin to surround them until they are encased in a very strong cocoon of sand. The cocoon’s purpose is to put the user into a kind of stasis in which everything about the user will cease to function, meaning that they will temporary shut down. The user will not heal naturally, nor will they recover any chakra at all, they will simply be preserved. The cocoon is quite hard and very cumbersome to move, but will crumble back into sand after the twenty-four are up. The cocoon will let only healing chakra pass though it so as to let anyone friendly to the user to heal them before they emerge. The cocoon will also revert back to sand if the user is healed.

Limit: Sand Release

Defense was one of the things that Gwyn would admit, she lacked. She lacked it a lot more than anything else in the world. It was something that she would cry and rage about, as it was what she desperately needed. Defence to be able to stand up against her enemies, defence that she would need to stand against the very creatures that stood against her. The terrifying demons that would be able to fight against her. 

Sand was made to crush. Made to destroy. Made to overpower her enemies. Her powers were similar. Made to crush, made to destroy, made to overpower her enemies. She would not be able to defeat her opponents if she truthfully overlooked them, or if she looked down upon them. No, she needed, desperately needed to properly look at them and say that she was strong enough to take their hits. 

Choosing to test out her defensive skill against a creature like a giant ape like the one she fought after the Yetis was perhaps not the best idea that she had, she would admit. For once, that creature’s punches would hurt her, if it did get its hands on her. For second, to be able to do something like what she was doing could very-well mean a single thing. Suicide. Complete and utter Suicide.

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By stupidity too. But Gwyn was stubborn. She had chosen this path, she had chosen this very path and she would not ever let go of it. She would follow it to the very end, the absolute end even if it killed her, and mauled her beyond anything ever had mauled her. “Alright.” Gwyn narrowed her eyes. “You stinking, dirty ape. I am done with you, and your utter weakness.”

Her eyes glowed suddenly as sand slowly rose up from around her. The ape was black this time, and was thumping its brutish arms on its chest. It glared at her and rampaged towards her, ready to destroy, anhilate and devastate her. But she would not let it. She would not let it come close to her, no matter how hard it tried. Because she was going to crush its very existence.

She was going to destroy it thoroughly. And the way she was going to do it was going to be painful. Either for her, or for that creature. She knew that she had to be careful, after-all, she was going to use a technique to defend herself to kill something that was attacking her. The Best defence was a great offence. That is what she believed in. It was the absolute inverse of the saying, the best offence was a great defence.

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In a way, both of them were true. She always found it better to aggressively destroy her enemies than focus on protecting herself from them. Speed over defence, power of endurance. But that didn’t mean she didn’t have something to defend herself. Sand gushed around her, extending and circling her until a cocoon of sand was formed around her. This was one of her only defensive techniques that she could use.

Sand particles interlocked with each other creating chains, upon chains upon chains of sand molecules, and then those said chains creating a singular sheet of sand, impenetrable and unbreakable. To add more defence, she had created not only one single of these interlocked sheets, but hundreds of them, and then had layered them again, and again and again until all the layers were fused with the sheets.

A cross interlinking between molecules of such high durability that it would do its intended task.She felt the Ape’s hands coming down, and grinned as her sand-cocoon absorbed the impact. She knew, for one, that if that had hit her, she would have been paste. But it hadn’t hit her. It hadn’t even come close to hitting her. Rather, it had only bounced off her sand cocoon.

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The Ape roared in fury, and tried smashing the cocoon again and again. Its hands came down, again and again. Punches, slashes, chops, all manner of techniques hit against the wall of her cocoon that surrounded her. It even tried to pick her up, but was unable to do so because the sand was held by her force, her power, and her will.

Each of those molecules that were inter and cross linked with its adjacent and higher molecule would be able to vibrate so extensively, that at any given point of impact, the vibrations would absorb the force inside of the entire cocoon, and then into the ground itself.

That is how the Sand-Cocoon worked. She would be able to give this detailed description mainly because she could feel each and every single grain of sand, every single granule of it as she controlled it. And she could feel the vibrations of force being absorbed.That way, she could also feel the vibrations getting weaker, and weaker, and she knew that the chance to strike back would be soon. See, power was strange.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[4] Learned.

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Sabaku Kousenchitai no Jutsu (Desert Warzone Technique)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Creates an explosion of sand.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: This jutsu is called ‘Desert’ Warzone for a good reason; it only works where there is a lot of sand on the ground. Attempting to use it anywhere else, such as on hard, packed ground will most likely result in the user breaking his hand. The user must remember where they place these for if they do not the user may then become victim with his own technique.
Description: The user quickly charges their fist into the ground using his knuckles in which sends forth a massive shockwave of sand towards the enemy. In reality, he is delaying the force of the punch and making it travel beneath the desert at his opponent. Once the force has reached the desired place, the ninja can make it explode. Even if the hit does not connect, the flying streams of sand in the air afterwards can make for a good distraction for a different attack. The range of the blast is comparable to that of an exploding note.
Limit: Must have the Sand Release, Must know Suna Bakuhatsu (Sand Explosion), and Must know Sunagakure (Hidden Sand).

If she absorbed it, she could also very well resonate it. Simply put, the creature would strike her, and she would control the waves on her sand cocoon to become harder at that very point and bounce back, thus sending the Ape flying by just striking her. Yes, it was not possible to explain it academically, but she was able to control sand. That was not meant to be explained.

And so, when the Ape struck her with the last of its power, Gwyn struck back. The resulting force was powerful enough to crack the Ape’s hand, and break it, sending a shard of bone jutting towards its chest and piercing its heart. With a groan of pain and disbelief, it collapsed dead.And Gwyn came out victorious without even moving a single step.

Just like every other person, Gwyn liked Explosions. She liked Explosions a lot. She loved them, really speaking. The sight of exploding gun-powder in different shapes and sizes, having different effects always did mystify her. When she was young and little, she would dream of being able to make things explode. It was just a dream, however, as she could control sand, not gunpowder. She had tried to do so, but it was a big failure. No, it was in sand that she had her power, and it was in this very sand that she would make her dream a reality.

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Sand couldn’t explode. It was simple. Unlike Gunpowder, which would catch fire, the sand wouldn’t catch fire. It made it a good way to fireproof herself if she ever came close to fire, that being in a forest recently. Her travels through the desert had lead do this last objective she was going to do in the Land of Wind, the task which had promised her 400 Goldcoins. It was simple, really.

Apparently, there were literally undead creatures that had crawled out of their coffins and were terrorising everyone. Gwyn first thought it was a joke, but when she did get to the town, she understood that perhaps it was not a joke, but a reality. Only, she recognised them. They were not the undead. No. They were actually not even human.

They were simply a brand of creatures called the Voiders. She didn’t know why they were called voiders, or what reason that they had to be called voiders, but these monsters had natural skin that was pure white and flappy, like silk, and they could also control it to an extent, wrap people in the silk, and drag it to their nest. Basically, they were like demonic ants. Co-ordinated by a king instead of a queen, the Voiders were….strange.

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She would expect them to be demonic, or even energetic, considering their entire being of existence was about killing and bringing prey for their colony to eat. But instead they just stumbled along, their silky appendages extending out to grab whatever they could. From what she could see, this town was already a lost cause. No one even looked alive, and the Voiders were merely moving around to find more food.

It was a desert town, meaning she could find out how many of them were there based on the sand, and where their nest was. The answer didn’t give her relief.Their nest extended deep inside of the ground, and there were far too many of them to kill on her own. Voiders, once again, ruled over the fear of humans due to their sheer number, instead of power. A trained warrior could easily kill a warrior with little to no effort, but he would as easily be outnumbered.

Provided yes, he would be able to kill almost 10 or 20 of those Voiders, about 300 of them would be waiting for him to fight. Even if a single warrior managed to kill a single wave, in her experience with Voiders, there were various Waves of them waiting. In total, she could easily sense how many voiders were there. And she didn’t find it pleasing. There were almost a thousand of them. Why was she not freaking out or running away, one might ask? Well…..she had a way to kill them all at once. And her mind was already getting her sand ready for it.

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Like everything, sand could be compressed. It could be sucked in a single point, and compressed to such an extent that eventually it would fuse up to form stone. Pressurised sand was stone, after-all, and destroyed stone was sand. But….there was another option as well. As the Sandstone(not the mineral, the object created by pressurising sand) would be horrifying compressed, she could manipulate the sand inside of it to instead of fuse together, gather the energy, and eventually release it in a singular blow.

That is what she was doing to this town.In all honesty, if she was asked to be truthful with a swear on her mother’s life, Gwyn would admit this was the most brutal, and destructive technique that she had if she used it inside of a desert. Sand that surrounded the entire town slowly gathered over in the middle of it, and created a small ball that continued to expand. And expand. And expand. And Expand.

It became so huge, and massive, half of the sphere of sand had destroyed the village already, and the other half was inside of the ground itself. She did need to make a compressed force big enough to destroy everything, after-all. Something so massive and large, so destructive that all the Voiders would be killed at once.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[4] Learned.

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Doujou Kirikae no Jutsu (Soil Conversion Technique)
Rank: "C", "B", "A", "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Turns soil and other matter into sand.
Special: ---
Drawback: The largest drawback is that it takes time to be capable of doing such a thing as well as it takes an abundance amount of chakra in order to perform this technique. This technique should be used only if the user needs to use as a last chance for a large move.
Description: When the user does not have sand for them to use in a vast amount for Jutsus the user is capable of taking what sand that they do have to convert materials around them to create more sand. Depending on the type of rank the user is capable of learning this the user is capable of converting different types of material. The higher the rank is the stronger the material the user can convert.
C Rank - Can convert soft stone. Four meters per post.
B Rank - Can convert hard stone. Six meters per post.
A Rank - Can convert concrete and weak metal. Eight meters per post.
S Rank - Can convert all of the above at once. Ten meters per post.

Limit: Must have the Sand Release.

And once she was sure the compression had reached the right amount, Gwyn grit her teeth, and released all that compressed force she had gathered up. The result was a titanic explosion of sand accompanied by a boom that made her glad she had remembered to clog her ears with sand once again, and a geyser of sand reaching the sky that could be visible from miles upon miles.

Gwyn raised a hand to make sure none of the sand fell on her, while the town that had been overtaken by the Voiders simply became a crater. And every single Voider that was inside of her Desert Warzone, the name of this technique, was killed by the sheer force of the Sand Explosion.
‘Even though I can’t control Gunpowder….’

Gwyn looked up as all the sand that had blown over was carried away by the wind, and the remnants of her ‘explosion’ was revealed to her in the form of a crater with dead Voider all over, the crater, lying face down. ‘I still love my explosions. I can safely say, that dream of mine is complete. Now to complete my other dream…’

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There were times, at which Gwyn would realise that perhaps having a control over the sand was not the best thing to happen to her. Especially when she was crossing into a forest. The Land of Fire was the biggest forestland in all of the Nations that she was in. The way to get to the Land of Fire meant she had to go through the land of crossing rivers. That was perhaps the worst out of all the areas for her to go through. Because the Land of Crossing Rivers was…..to be simply put, wet.

The ground was wet, the soil was wet, the stones were wet, the very earth itself was wet and most of all, the entire world was wet inside of the land of the Crossing Rivers. She had thought it would be the Rainforests south of the Land of fire that would be truly wet, but these marshy mud-lands were the worst areas that she had ever seen, and Gwyn was thankful that she didn’t have to fight any single creature in these areas.

Right up until she came to a town called Treetop.“A what?” Gwyn asked, her face blank. “Bone Piranha.” The Elder of the town’s face was literally as if someone had stolen his children. “You don’t have any idea how many of those….those fish….have killed! My child died to them!”Gwyn looked at him, and then looked down from Treetop town. The entire town was made on top of trees, gigantic trees, with 4 different rivers churning underneath them.

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Gwyn didn’t know why these trees were so big, but the people here lived in tree-houses, and she was glad to spend a night here. That was until she found out about this. Apparently in a delta north of the town, there was a partition, a tributary of the river which had Bone Pirhanas. It was also the shallowest of all the Tributaries, hence it was the only way one could safely get across the Land of Crossing Rivers without being on a boat.

And inside of that shallow river did the creatures live. The creatures that she would have to fight.“Right. I’ll take care of them.” Gwyn nodded.

“Thank you, warrior! Thank you very much!” The elder cried. “I shall have a feast prepared in your name! You will get gold, jewels, whatever we can muster up to pay you! Just kill those Pirahna!”

Gwyn nodded, sighing. So much for a calm and cool trip across the one land in the entire world that she didn’t want to fight monsters in.
To be honest, these couldn’t be considered ‘monsters’. They were simply Fish, with bone-like armour about them. Fish, that once Gwyn reached the spot, realised were upwards of 1000 in number.

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She should have saved the Desert Warzone for this, she first thought, but shuddered at completing it. She would be able to kill these Fish, yes, but most likely the entire town behind her would go down to. Not a desirable outcome really. “Alright. Fish….” Gwyn tilted her head, and smirked. She raised her hands to tie her crimson hair in a band, and then bent down, slamming her hands on the ground. “You do need water to live….”

On a second thought, naming this technique Soil Conversion was perhaps the worst idea ever, she should have named it Sand Conversion, but the reason why she called it ‘soil conversion’ was because a lot of this process involved Photosynthesis, Evaporation and Kaolinising(Process of rocks disintegrating over time).

Her power would spread out over the area that she wanted this technique to have an effect in, and then start acting.

First of all, she would convert all soil and ground into sand. That would basically mean oxygen and nutrients would become a difficult thing for most plants to gather. Grass would instantly crumble over and join the ecosystem as sand, plants would wither and die out and using a process she couldn’t explain, convert to sand as well.

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Rocks would disintegrate rapidly, turning into sand and finally, finally it would be the turn for water to join the rest of it’s natural kin.

Turning water into sand was hard. She needed to focus on each and every single granule of sand in the bottom of the river, or the pool, and let the granules float inside of the water.

Once there were sufficient of them, she would pass sheer energy into the water, that would rapidly evaporate the water to such an extent that only the minerals would remain. Those minerals would then disintegrate into sand as well. In short, she would remove the water out of the river, and turn what was remaining into sand.

Removing the water out of the river also had a second benefit. All the Bone Piranhas were now flapping out in the open, unable to breathe, as their lifeblood was gone. She had made sure to dam the river so more water wouldn’t rush in, and by the time she would have to let the water flow again, the Piranhas would be dead.