Test 2 - Bachiatari and Weeze {4}

[Chuunin Examiner 4]

Dismantling the doors would indeed help. Room One, once it was freed of its door, was.. completely empty. It was a simple, tiny room with no apparent interests or dangers. Rooms Four and Five were both different than the others, however, as both were long corridors. They were completely dark, the light from the main room only able to penetrate a very small distance into each.

Unfortunately for Weeze, his explosives would go wasted. Room Two was like the one before it in sequence: empty, but rather large. Its only attraction were odd markings along the opposite wall.

Continue.

[Zetsumei]

Out of three doors only two held anything of interest, and they were just long, dark corridors. He would start with door four and test for a false floor by hitting two of his scythes onto the ground. The other two would be positioned so that if the pressure and weight put on the weapons made him lose balance with a giving floor they would catch. The same would be done for the next room, though he knew chances of the scroll being down one of these were slim, trap was most likely. Turning he would go to the door Weeze had destroyed while he was working on Door Four and said, "What you got." 'Twas no request, more a demand.

[-W-]

Weeze was furious. Perfectly good explosives wasted, and for what? Nothing. Nothing but an empty room. "Nothing!" He snapped as his partner asked him from the door way if he had found anything. Weeze was touchy about wasting his equipment. Weeze looked through the room one more time and saw the strange markings on the wall? He was a tad bit nervous about walking into the room, however, he knew his sand shield would protect him from pretty much anything as far as traps were concern. He had never really come across one that would make it past his shield and kill him. "I don't suppose you have a light or anything?" He asked, controlling his emotions once more.

Cautiously, he peered at the markings and look to see if he could read any of it. After he read it, he would give the room one last look over before leaving the room to see if his partner had been more successful.

[Chuunin Examiner 4]

Bachiatari's testing of the floors gave up no traps, for neither the room nor the corridors had any, assuming he only checked the flooring near each of the doorways. As for Weeze, inspecting the symbols would only give him this message:

" rodirroc htruof eht rof daeh :sdrow ym deeh "

Continue.

[Zetsumei]

The Sand Entity followed Weee into the room and read the markings he saw for himself. For a moment it was a confusing message, that is, until he read it backwards. "The fourth corridor, eh? Never could bring myself to trust writing on the wall." The look of distain had never left his lips the entire time in the tower and he would give orders again. "You check it out, I'm moving on to the third floor. Check in with me when you're done with this floor or yell if you need help. Move on to the fourth floor after checking in and giving me the scroll fragment."

Bachiatari had had enough of working on the same floor, it would be faster working separately and he didn't care about Comm. Devices. Climbing up the stairs to the next floor he would begin his search as he usually did, slicing into the doors and looking through the gashes at what lay beyond.

[-W-]

"You check it out, I'm moving on to the third floor. Check in with me when you're done with this floor or yell if you need help. Move on to the fourth floor after checking in and giving me the scroll fragment." The orders had been given. Weeze simply raised his eyebrow looking at him as he walked out of the room. Looking back at the message he reread it again to himself.

rodirroc htruof eht rof daeh :sdrow ym deeh. Heed my words:head for the fourth Corridor. It was to bad that the door did not tell him what he would be facing. What sort of trial lay ahead. He left the room and headed for the fourth door. He saw before him, that door for head a long corridor. Just as the message had said. Weeze wondered how far the monster had walked down. He himself was not worried about any traps. He was more then sure his sand shield would hold back, most, if not all of the damage the traps would un leash. Yet he still did not wanna take any chances.

He crouched at the door way, his right hand stroking the beard he now had. He was thinking hard. Thinking of a way to spring any traps with in the corridor..and more importantly trying to figure out where it went. Why did they have to take away his use of sand? Closing his eyes, he thought harder, he had a couple ideas, but they all required that he could at least see what he was doing. He needed light.. or at least a quick dose of it for him to see what was in the dark room ahead. He took out an exploding tag, and wrapped it around a Kunai. "Here goes nothing.." he muttered and threw the weapon down the hall.

As it hit the floor, Weeze would have it explode. He hoped this would set off any traps, as well as give him an idea what was in the room. With any luck, the fire would catch a small piece of wood, or something for him to use as light.

[Chuunin Examiner 4]

Room One, when its door was sliced open, showed a portion of a rather large room. This portion didn't appear to have anything in it, but most of the room was not able to be seen thanks to its width. Room Two was much smaller, and looking through the hole showed a small vault, much like the one he had encountered before. Room Three was another small room, however there was absolutely nothing to be seen against the walls or on the ceiling-- it appeared bare. Room Four's door, when he attempted to slice it, wouldn't allow for such. Its material was made out of the same as the walls, and withstood his force. Room Five was another large room length-wise, but centered perfectly in sight of the door was a pedestal holding a golden cup. Inside the cup was a rolled scroll.

Now, as for Weeze. The explosion just barely lit up the darkness of the corridor, but he would no doubt see what resembled a door at the far end. Sadly, it was a looong corridor! Lots of walking to do.

Continue.

[Zetsumei]

It seemed there was a lot going on with the rooms up here and looking through wouldn't be enough. Next the Sand Devil moved on to the next phase, remove the doors from the frames. In turn each door would have the hinges removed like the last floor and would be pulled free, however the fourth door would be difficult. He had less of a gripping surface for this one with no hole in it, but that wouldn't stop him. One hand would grip the doorknob, while one would grab the part of the hinges attached to the door and two would grip the door as best they could and proceed to pulling it from the frame. After each one was pulled from the frame, activating door traps and acting as shields, he would look inside the rooms.

[-W-]

Lucky for him, he liked being brainy then brawny. He had more brain power, then actual muscle. The quick flash of light was all he needed for his head to take a mental snap shot of the long corridor. He took in as much as he could. Every detail mattered. Ahead of him, was nothing more then a long corridor, with a door at the end. He was sure this is the door were the scroll was hidden. He did not see anything from his mental snap shot that resembled obvious traps, but he was still nervous. He was fast, no where near that of a tai jutsu master, but fast enough.

Still, he did not just wanna run down the hallway and hope for the best, however, at the present moment, he did not see any other option, he had to do what needed to be done. Taking a deep breath, He pulled out a broad sword with his right hand, and held firmly onto a Windmill shuriken, ready to flick it into its full form and throw it at need be. He was going to run, full speed using the Shunshin technique to move him even faster. The explosion had not triggered any sort of trap, so he assumed that the hallway was clean of any major sort of trap. Then of course, the examiners could just be getting smarter. They had a nasty habit of doing that.

Taking several quick, deep breaths, he ran forward at breakneck speed. Both weapons in a defensive position ready to act if a problem occurred. Using the Shunshin, he could run at least ten meters in virtually a second, faster then any trap should be able to react. He just hoped he could reach the door with out any problems.

Shunshin no Jutsu, 瞬身の術, (Body Flicker Technique)
Rank: "C" Rank
Type: NinJutsu
Effect: This jutsu is a high-speed movement technique, allowing a ninja to move short distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. This technique allows a user to move from one point to another at speeds double of their speed potential of up to ten meters.
Special: ---
Drawback The user is only capable of doing this three Times per day after learning it the first time. Each time learned the user is capable of going into this multiple times. Each time learned the user is capable using this technique an extra turn per day. If the user uses this technique more then stated, the user's muscles will cramp and render the user unable to run about and move period.
Description: This jutsu is a high-speed movement technique, allowing a ninja to move short distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. A puff of smoke is occasionally used to disguise the user's movements. It is accomplished by using chakra to temporarily boost the user's reflexes. The amount of chakra required depends on the overall distance between the user and their intended destination.
Limit: User must have a Character.

[Chuunin Examiner 4]

Tugging the door to Room One from its hinges activated a rather silly trap, as a guillotine rushed forth from the frame and sliced open air, stopping only at the ground. Room Two had no such traps to be seen, and taking away the final obstruction showed the whole of the safe, in all its silver glory. Room Three's doorway was just as empty of traps as its room counterpart appeared to be of items. Room Five was just as dull; nothing happened at all when the door was removed, however.. doing this did show off the splendor of the golden cup and the little scroll settled comfortably within. Now, that tricky fourth door! It took a little while to remove it from its hinges, but when Bachitari did, he was in for a surprise. A large, almost comical gloved fish burst forth on a spring, probably hitting him and knocking him backwards if he was still in front of the door. Thankfully for him, he was using the actual door as a shield, and would not receive the full impact.

Now, for Weeze. His ideas of Shunshining through the hallway would have been very good for avoiding traps, had he not set one off upon throwing the kunai and exploding tag in the room. It activated a sensor that started a timer, and just as Weeze began to run so quickly, the walls shifted. One behind him moved to hide the door from view, and one in front of him moved to block his path to the other door-- it was a very small space. If he wasn't careful, he would probably smack into the wall before stopping! Especially because the not-so-corridorish corridor was still very, very dark. Very few could see through it.

Continue.

[Zetsumei]

The fist struck the door and the force of the door should have knocked him down. Yet he merely stumbled for the body was of sand and the sand aborbed most of the kinetic force behind the attack. It was time to check out that scroll piece that was in room five, but he had something else to do first. Leaning his four scythes against the wall he grabbed two doors for use as shields leaving two of his arms free. Bringing the doors close to his side the Sand Devil would manuver himself through the door and run through the corridor to the cup, the doors shielding both his sides. On reaching the cup he would carefully remove the paper without touching the cup itself and read what was on it to make sure it was not a fake and head back to the doorway, still shielding himself.

[-W-]

He heard the Noise all around him, He came to an sudden stopped. He winced at the sharp pain the stop had made. However, just because he stopped moving his legs, the laws of physics still applied. His body made an involuntary move forward tapping his head on the wall. It wouldn't be hard enough to hurt him, or cause any sort of damage, just enough of a tap to let him know something had come out in front of him. His eyes slowly adjusted to the dark around him. He still could not see everything, but he could at least make out shapes, and began to guess what had gone on.

Walls..or some sort of objected had popped out in front of him. That was aggravating. Why did they have to mess with him like that. They Should let him just get the scroll and get out. Now the question was how was he getting out of his little box. And for that matter, Where was his so called companion? Again he had to stop and breath in and out to keep himself from getting over aggravated. He had to keep thinking clear. Focus. The rules said he could climb the wall. He would just do that, and hope he could get around the wall with out anything happening. She slowly started to walk over the wall, so see if he could get over.

If he could get over it, he would run in the direction of the door, keeping in mind the mental picture he had taken before. He was now however, listening harder then ever. Listening for any sort of sign at foul play. The door had to be close by this point.

[Chuunin Examiner 4]

Having not touched the cup, Bachitari would find that he was not stopped in any way from grabbing the scroll piece. It was not a fake, either-- he had found the next piece of the puzzle, the next step in the game. Only a few more left now.

Unfortunately for Weeze, things would not fair so well with him. Running up the walls had been a good idea, but they were walls, after all. They went floor to ceiling without a break, leaving absolutely no means of escape by running over them. However, as his eyes would adjust he would realize that his left and right hand sides (from the direction staring at where the door at the end of the corridor used to be) were now free of walls, but just as dark.

Continue.

[Zetsumei]

Another piece down, there were just three to go, two if that Weeze kid would hurry up and nab the one on the second floor. Moving to the staircase he would grabe his scythes before yelling down to the Shinobi on the second floor. "I GOT THE PIECE ON THIS FLOOR, MOVING ON TO THE FOURTH!" The shout would be loud enough to be heard even in the dark corridor he still had to be in. Moving up to the fourth floor with two scroll pieces tucked safely away he would begin his routine again. Namely, cutting gashes into the doors and looking through at what lay beyond.

[-W-]

So it was as he thought. The walls connected to the ceiling. He sighed and dropped back down to the ground. He did the one thing he did not really wanna do. He started to grope around the walls looking for any sort of opening. He finally found one. To his right hand side, he found the opening. He guessed it was another long corridor. It made sense that he did not notice this before. The hallway was just as dark as the rest of the corridor was. He Took a deep breath and began running down the hall way.

He could not do as he did before, and use the technique. He couldn't see far in front of him, and he did not wanna risk running into anything. So all that was left to do is to jog down the hallway listening very intently for any sounds at all. He prayed to whatever divine being was watching over him. "Help me get through this, and i swear.." He said aloud. "Just help me get through this.." He said out loud once again, almost begging.