Aimi Kaguya & Laughing Corvus vs. Lightnings Wolf

[Aimi Kaguya]

Area of fight:



200 x 200 meters

Rules:
All normal rules apply
Combatants start 10 meters away from each other
No attacking on your first post
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Aimi sat atop one of the highest branches of a barren willow tree, it's long, limp, wispy fingers drifting lazily in the cool wet breeze. It was drizzling outside, ever so slightly, creating the thinnest of veils of rain all around the vacant marshland. There were surprisingly little trees around for a marsh and an unusual number of rocks. The water was still there though, and that was why Aimi was in the tree branch. There was an abundance of long wet grass as well. The sky was a dreary grey, covered with a thin lining of clouds that was draping the veil on the land below. On his hip was his bottle of sake, the only thing he had brought with him that day.

"It's wet out..." Aimi said to himself quietly, pulling his knee up and resting his arm on it. He closed his eyes and let out a sigh. This veil was putting him in bad spirits, making his blood boil and his temperance bubble. He wanted something to happen, he didn't care what... not really.

[Corvus]

"Are we there yet?" <"No."> "Are we there yet?" <"No."> "Are we there yet?" <"No!!"> "Are we there yet?" <"Akiko, if you don't turn that tape recorder off right now, I'm tossing it past the horizon."> With a mischievous smile on her face, Akiko finally clicked off the recording tool and placed it back in her pockets of curious space. "Ne, do you even know where we're going?" <"We're heading to a small village at the foot of a mountain range that's been reporting problems with, as the locals put in the request, 'giant monsters'.">

"Yeah, I know that much, but do you know where we are now?" <"Of course. We're in a marsh in Mizu no Kuni."> Omori was dodging what she meant, and both knew it. "But do you know where we are in relation to where we're going?" Omori fell silent, prompting Akiko, mounted securely on his back, to lean over and tease: "We're lost."

<"W-we are not lost!"> Akiko giggled, "heh heh, yes we are." The silence was palipable after their joking banter, the silence punctuated by the soft pitterpatter of rain on soft earth and the umbrella Akiko held over her and Omori's heads. <"Akiko, the winds seem calm, could you try and fly up and see if you can find the village.

Akiko nodded and handed the umbrella over to Omori, who whiped the mud from his hands before taking the handle in hand. With a brief flicker of handseals, Akiko grew her wings to full size. With a swift effort, Akiko balanced her weight onto her front hands, bringing her AT laden feet up onto Omori's back. The large wolf lowered the umbrella briefly, giving Akiko clearance for flight.

Akiko shifted her weight back, coiling the muscles in her legs. Just before taking off, Akiko pulled her goggles up over her eyes, securing them in place. "Well, I'm off." Akiko kicked off Omori's back with all the force of her legs and ATs combined. She fired off like a rocket, spreading her wings to catch the wind and turning them to gain altitude.

Flying was always fun, but not as much on a day as rainy as today. The falling rain and dampness of the air made it hard to fly. And the air temperature was so even that there weren't any thermals to speak of. At least even a light storm always brough...Akiko's half-thought was interrupted by a sudden gust. Akiko angled into it briefly, then back up, using the headwind to help her lift. Akiko spread her legs wide to help with balance, then performed another series of handseals, spawning 100 cubes of air to aid her further. As she mused, even a light storm such as this one always brought winds.

Akiko's air cubes moved about in a complicated pattern which increased the air pressure below her wings and dropped the pressure above. This generated an upward air current which helped her lift. From her skyborn spot, Akiko gazed at the ground out to the horizon, searching for any sign of the village they were searching for.

The first thing she noticed was a humanoid figure standing by one of the few trees this marsh supported. Akiko banked down and began a gentile dive towards the person, aiming to ask about the whereabouts of the village they sought. She nosed farther down into a rather vertical dive, pulling her wings in to decrease wind resistance. At the last moment, she spread her wings and pulled up. She couldn't adjust her angle quickly enough though.

But instead of smashing into the ground, Akiko stuck her feet out front, catching her momentum with her ATs and bending her knees to absorb the impact. It looked like she just made her first proper landing...ever. But fate would not be so kind; Akiko's front wheel struck a small rock sticking just far enough out of the muck that, despite her wheels gliding upon the top of the gunk, it still stopped one leg dead. Her upper torso, however, greatly desired to continue forward, and so it did, swinging forward and down.

Her momentum rotated her feet above her head, and forced Akiko into a high-speed sphere, rolling uncontrollably forward. A Dark blur quickly caught up with the Akiko-orb, grabbing her by the back of her jacket and skidding to a stop. <"You really need shoo learn how shoo shop."> The dark-furred wolf held the closed umbrella in her mouth. "I know," the last vestiges of the cherub-esque girl's momentum threw her hood up over her head, covering her short blonde hair and eclipsing her asymmetrically pigmented green eyes, "Thanks Omori-tan."

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Jutsu used and active: High-Pressure Air Cubes, Wing Growth, Wing Control, Reflex Training C, all three AT control jutsu, etc.

Got everything in my bio on me, too.