Burning Earth, Dirty Flames

[Nira]

Nira

Vs.

Okami

1 on 1



Active Volcano. 300 Diameter Crater, 100 Meter Deep.

IIC of 48 Hours.
Time of day is noon.
No attacks on first post.
Go!

[Okami]

OOC: All items with me, not bothering with description for arena.

They soared through the air with pterodactyl like grace, flitting from mountaintop to mountaintop in long gliding leaps. Both wore heavy white cloaks and masks suitible for the cold at high altitudes, and measured at roughly the same height. The only difference betwen them was their wings. One poked his large feather appendages out of specialzed slits in the back of his heavy cloak, above his massive shields. The other's wings were sleek white beauties that seemed to meld into his cloak, but carried him with the same speed as his companion's. Finally they came upon a steaming, bubbling cauldron of a mountain, and knew they had found their volcano.

Jin came to rest on the lip of the boiling crater and channeled a bit of chakra to his eyes. He always wondered what magma looked like with an active Byakugan. "Go get me a cup of lava." he commanded.

Okami only peered at him quizically. The Hyuuga knew that something must be amiss if the creature decided not to follow his orders. "Oh right, we need to sacrifice something to appease Vulcan..."

But what was around to sacrifice?

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Byakugan

Kami Tsubasa (Paper Wings)
Rank: C, B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user is capable of forming wings of paper, granting them the ability to fly. At its higher rank, the user is able to carry more weight with them.
Special: Hand seals
Drawback: ---
Description: After forming hand seals, the user is able to from wings from paper on their back. Functioning much like the wings of the Tsubasa Clan, the paper user is granted the ability of flight.



* C rank- The user is given the ability to fly, and can also carry up to one person (or an object of equivalent size) beneath them as they fly. This requires 400 pieces of paper.

* B Rank- The paper wings of the user are now much stronger, granting them the ability to the carry 2 people (or objects or equivalent size) beneath them as they fly. The user is also capable of flying much faster than before, granting them 2 extra movements in the sky. This requires 600 pieces of paper.


Limit: Paper Release, Paper Manipulation A Rank.

[Nira]

OOC: Only items on hand are: Knife & Knife Hoister

At the opposite end of the volcano, a third winged figure appeared. The wings were a pure white, like that of doves or angels. The wings were attached to a little girl, one that wasn't even in her pre-teens yet. Like her wings, Naira's clothes were also pure white, a little white shirt and a nice white dress, all silk. She even had a white beret and shoes on. The black belt around her waist that held her knife was the only article of clothing that wasn't white, even the handle of the knife itself was white!

Naira's Tsubasa wings were quickly folded behind her back, as she also glanced at the volcano below. She was aware of the two winged figures on the opposite end of the volcano, but she didn't really mind them all that much. If they didn't bother her, she would not respond to their presence. The volcano was nice, bright, hot, and powerful. What would happen if she threw something down there that wasn't rock? It was a curious idea...

[Okami]

Somehow, when Jin looked up from admiring the lava, a young virgin stood waiting in her traditionally white sacrifice dress. She must have been cold climbing up to the peak, but perhaps that discomfort was necessary to please the gods. Jin started jogging around the lip of the crater, and Okami followed. It was such a long way that it would take a while before he arrived.

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[Nira]

Oh? The two seemed to be jogging alongside the crater, how curious. Should Naira do something and keep them away from her? Well, nothing against that, but it would be a waste of her energy. The only other way to deal with the problem was with her ice release, but they were over a volcano, so ice was kind of useless at the current moment. Naira shrugged a bit, and just kept an eye on them, she would wait till they were closer, then maybe she would do something. Just to keep from standing too long though, Naira made a little ice chair using her ice construction jutsu combined with Kaishin water and ice creation. The chair was nice and fancy, four feet high and was attached to the volcano's rim, she would sit on it while she waited for the two, if she bothered to come all the way to her.

[Okami]

Jin and Okami kept jogging. Soon they were about 150 meters away.

[Nira]

Naira shook her head in disbelief, that got boring quickly. The volcano wasn't doing much and the two other entities were still running towards her. It was time to just make something happen. Still sitting in her chair, Naira would perform a couple hand signs in the span of a few seconds. After doing so, she would breath in and aim her head at the rim of the crater halfway between her and the two other entities. Once her aim was well, she would exhale, and from her mouth came a gigantic fireball, resembling the sun close up, which would be fired at the inside of the volcano towards the rim.

Upon connecting with the cater's sides, an explosion would issue, and that part of the volcano crater would collapse, debris flying all around the place, the rocks cracking under the explosion of the great fireball technique Naira fired. If the two other entities did not stop after that, that would mean they were trying to reach Naira with no fear of danger, and thus counted for as enemies...

[Okami]

"Noooo!" Jin cried, flailing his arms in desperation, as he saw the young girl bullying an innocent volcano. Vulcan would not be pleased.

On the other hand, it was strange that a young girl could shoot giant fireballs from her mouth. Come to think of it, that ice chair wasn't something a normal person could create either. And the frosting on this abnormal cake? A very young girl made her way to an active volcano alone! Preoccupied with the thought of currying Vulcan's favour, Jin had forgotten to take note of key facts.

But none of that was important now. Jin had prevent the volcano from eating itself. If Vulcan didn't grant his wish and erupt, he would have to destroy the village down below all by himself. Why did he ever agree to take that mission?

Throwing his hands together, then slamming them to the ground, Jin channeled chakra into the rocks ahead of him the moment they exploded. Instead of being flung around like a nine year old girl fighting a fully grown man, the rocks slowly congealed together and became an enormous, grim-faced golem. Stone golem summoning saved the day. Jin and Okami continued to approach, while the golem ran along 40 meters ahead of them. The creation was about 60 meters away from the girl.

[Nira]

"Yep, hostile..." Naira muttered, looking at the golem while getting off of her chair.

She shook her head just a little, before ripping her ice chair from the ground through pure brawler force. The ice chair itself wasn't damaged, since it was enforced with the kaishin hardness of metal, and the ground ended up being taken up more or less. The chair would act as her improvised brawler weapon to use against the golem, it should definitely be harder at least. Although it would probably be hard to beat the golem, Naira figured that, if she could knock the thing into the volcano, then it's all good and done.

That done, Naira just went ahead and walked five meters closer to the direction of the golem and it's creators. She didn't feel like wasting energy to charge towards the golem. It would be within range soon anyway, unless it stopped.

[Okami]

(Sorry for the late reply. I tried to post earlier but misread something and had to delete it.)

Jin made his way closer, and this time the girl stepped forward to greet him. Judging from the force required to rip a giant chunk of ice from the ground, it was pretty clear the girl was well versed in taijutsu, or at least hid a dangerous strength in her small frame. Keeping a safe distance of forty meters behind his golem, he would see how she handled the monster.

It lumbered straight toward her, its wide bulk filling the entire ridge as it moved to squash her. Four meters tall, and with arms to match, the thing would claw at her from such a distance that she wouldn't reach its torso even with the added reach of a chair. Its massive hand would enclose her head completely, and crush it easily if it could get a firm grip. Meanwhile, Jin made a few short handseals. The golem would hide a little surprise should she manage to derail it from its purpose.

[Nira]

Naira charged forward at the golem, watching as it moved to crush her with it's hand. Naira would hit the incoming arm of stone with her metal-ice chair from her right to her left, having enough force to send any normal human almost sixty meters away. The force was currently used by Naira to force the golem's arm in her desired direction, and in turn pull the golem itself along with it. She aimed to force the golem into the volcano with her hidden brute force. It should at least unbalance it in the direction of volcanic crater. Given that the golem was much more massive than a normal human though, Naira also performed a second little trick while hitting the golem's arm with her chair.

Right at the moment the chair would collide with the arm of the golem, Naira would also have punched forward with her right fist, would would be engulfed in flames and release a ball of fire. The fireball would be aimed at Naira's right, at the ground that was left of the golem. It would explode about a second after Naira hit the golem's arm with the ice chair, and it would add to the total amount of force that Naira was trying to use to send the golem off the edge.

Assuming all went well, Naira would focus her eyes on the enemy that was forty meters from her position.

[Okami]

The golem had no way to defend against such devastating force. Small pieces chipped off, flung in every direction, while the golem itself was knocked into the bubbling lava. Vulcan's first sacrifice.

However, the golem was but a ruse, a test. Against most accomplished ninja, a slow moving creature of stone would serve as little more than a distraction. Molding the stone body of the golem at various locations, Jin crafted small nondescript birds with beaks sharp as kunai. Many of these were destroyed in the explosion as well, but two small birds formed from the rock in the golems stretching palm were hit by neither chair nor fire, and hurled themselves at the small girl. Disguised by the frantic explosion, seeming as two of the many fragments of a collapsing monster, the twin beaks would dig into her flesh. One aimed for the throat, a lethal blow if direct, while the other snuck low to hamstring her. With both of her arms dedicated to the smashing, her position was not conducive to an effective defence.

Not all the pretty birdies were created in the golem. Ten birds rose out of the ground by Jin and circled as vultures above his head. Preperations made, both he and Okami rushed forward faster than before. Jin flipped through a few handseals while Okami pulled a massive rifle crossbow from behind him even as he loaded it with the other hand. Taking the explosion as a signal to start, he moved with deadly efficiency while the girls attention was elsewhere, and aimed at the general area ten meters ahead of her. Thirty meters away, he paused to aim, and pulled the trigger. A massive concussive explosion with a fifteen meter wounding radius didn't need much aiming. Jin now led the way, a skin tight armor of paper molding to his skin.

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[Nira]

Even if they looked like fragments breaking off the golem, if one could avoid it they would certainly not be hit by such fast moving pieces, especially if they were heading towards vital body parts. Naira was no different, and seeing the fragments fly towards her, she would act quick to repel the annoying pieces. Her body would burst into swirling flames from her Enkai, and she would do a quick spin on her right leg, while her left leg was bend in a knee kick that sent out an arch of fire around her. The sudden appearance of the swirling Enkai flames would already detour the fragments, and the ring of blaze Naira sent around herself would enjoy the total propulsion of nearby projectiles she might or might not have caused. It also looked like a fancy spin dance move, which was a plus.

After the spin, and with the golem now out of the way, Naira performed her own hand signs. They were short hand signs, taking less than a second to perform, but it would probably be finished only a moment before the crossbow was fired. Just before the arrow with the concussion explosion would hit, a massive amount of water would form around Naira, specifically gathering in front of her. The water would act as an aware shield, though it was hard to tell how to block an explosion. Regardless, the initial punch of the concussion blast was taken in by the water shield, which would spray backwards past Naira before she was also hit by the force.

The water flowed roughly around her, not damaging Naira much but absorbing the initial force strike along with debris from the concussion force. The rest of the force would throw Naira back, but she would be able to withstand a fair amount of the damage with her blunt damage resistance built through brawler. Although she was too dazed to attempt hand sign based ninjutsu right after being hit by the force, so instead she just regained her balance on the floor and breathed in, before breathing out a wind arrow the incoming enemy that shot through the sky in a piercing attempt.

[Okami]

The girl's defence against his onslaught was an intricate combination of fire, water, and ice, all flickering into existence as she willed. Could she have total control of the temperature in her vicinity? Either way, she recovered faster than Jin expected, and managed to fit in a counter of her own.

With his Byakugan able to detect chakra energy as well as light, he saw the arrow as a bright blue bolt streaking across the sky. He could try to dodge, but Okami behind him had no effective way of combating invisible wind. No time for handseals, he thrust a twisting palm outward, and with it came a wave of pure stone-crushing force. The invisible wave of chakra would consume the invisible arrow, and without slowing a beat it would smash into the girl now twenty meters away. Jin was certainly not adverse to fighting with weapons only his Byakugan could see.

However she blocked or dodged, he would immediately send the remaining ten stone birds as a volley crashing down from overhead as a follow up, if only to keep her on the defensive. His hands worked through new seals.

As his master parried blows at a range, Okami decided it was time to move in for the kill. By the time Jin thrust his arm out, his bow was slung behind and replaced with a massive shield in his right hand. Using the volley of birds as covering fire, he approached with three flickering dashes. Changing direction mid-shunshin, the creature would circle around the edge of the ridge, avoiding the dangerously projectile-filled space between the two ninja. He would arrive directly behind the girl soon after the birds struck. Planting the shield that was itself taller than the girl as a wall between them, he flicked his gauntleted hand around his shield three times in rapid succession. A hybrid boxer, he could not only punch three times in a single movement, but they would be strong enough to effectively negate a brawler's tougher body.

The first blow was one the girl should know well, a brawler technique packing enough force and accuracy to leave her stunned for 30 seconds. The stunning fist would crack into her spine and immobilize her. The second was a well placed hook aimed at the back of her head to confirm her state. Should everything go as planned, his final blow would be a devastating haymaker slipping under her shoulder with enough force to fling her directly into the volcano.

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[Nira]

Another force of crushing blunt force was releases, and though Naira could not see it happening, she could tell that the enemy did something in order to neutralize her arrows, since he didn't seem to react to being hit by anything. The fact Naira's water shield concentrated in front of her again as if to block something she could not see and further indication that something was coming. Naira would reply by moving her arms in front of her to take whatever attack might hit go through her water shield. It seemed to be some strong yet invisible force that pushed her back, forcing her back some distance. Once again the water shield of brawler blunt force reduction protected Naira. This time she was capable of starting hand signs immediately after the push back, since there didn't seem to be an explosive or debris based element to the push.

The enemy seemed to have no indication of stopping, and part of Naira's water shield would quickly move in the way of the direction where the birds were coming from. Naira would quickly finish her hand signs before the birds reached her, and she noticed at the same time that part of her water shield moved behind her, indicating an attack from behind. Naira would quickly hold her hand out and touch a single bit of her water shield, and suddenly all the water around Naira would turn to ice and expand at an almost instant rate. Every angle around Naira would be consumed by ice, even the floor she was standing on.

It was a massive ice prison, and the ice from it would be as hard as metal thanks to Naira's kaishin bloodline. The ice would instantly freeze the birds in mid air, and probably freeze the enemy behind Naira before he could throw a single punch at her. The ice continued to expand by Naira' will, until she would be surrounded by ice around her at every angle. In the enemy behind Naira was frozen in the ice, he would be as good as dead, the ice would be pressing on every bit of his body with metal-like restraining force, and no matter the strength he had if he could not produce any momentum his strength would be for naught.

The gigantic ice prison defense would be about eleven meters thick. Naira left some empty space in front of her on the inside so she could move around, and her water creation would recreate water for her water shield, allowing for Naira to tell where any more sneak attacks would come from. The sphere-shaped eleven meter thick ice prison would be attached to the ground itself, frozen into it.

In no further interruptions came, Naira would start to perform hand signs again, hidden behind her grand defense.

[Okami]

Even as the creature arrived the ice built up around him, encasing him. Struggle as he might against the hard cold, he couldn't get free. He couldn't breathe, couldn't move, and the cold was jarring. He wouldn't last long.

Cursing himself for guessing wrong, Jin abandoned the restraining technique that would have ended a close quarters fight. Normal eyes couldn't see through eleven meters of thick ice, but Jin's Byakugan could make sense of the debacle. Whipping his hands out, long strings of white paper instantly grew from his fingers. The paper slid down his sleeves and across his gloves in a torrent, as if his arms melted into the strings. In no time at all the dome would be entrapped by six of the strings, wrapping around it every which way like a ball of yarn. Should he choose to close his fist, the prison would collapse in on itself and destroy everyone inside. But Okami was in there.

The remaining four strings bore a tunnel through the back—just the size of a large monkey—a spiraling vortex of string cutting the toughest metal with ease. Two strings set to work right away carving out the monkey, while the other two lashed around in the small inner dome with a vengeance. With two tendrils, unhindered by water, metal, and bone, whipping around the tiny cell she had trapped herself in, how would she escape?

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[Nira]

She could not.

Paper that could cut steel. Out of the many things that Naira's ice could defense against, that was not one of them. The crushing ice, she could survive, only needing to yell and exert upon great force through her Brawler style, releasing chakra and pure force of strength. That would protect her from the crushing force, but strings of paper that could cut through steel she would not survive. It would rip her apart, end her.

Damn, almost had one of them too.

Maybe next time, maybe not. Nice while it lasted...

{Death}