Battlecraft (Exam)

[Takahashi Aki]

Within a glass case something stirred within the waters. Something not right. Something foul. On the other side of a glass case stood a shadowy figure. That figure spoke to the foul creature in a dark and terrible voice. "You and I have been fighting for a long time." An older female voice spoke. "You may be some spawn of a filth recently destroyed, but you are something of a fragment. A part of something bigger, and that something is what we the descendents of the First Men have fought time and time again. Your weakness will be found, and it will be exploited. Filth like you will be thrown to the fire to be burned to ashes." The voice continued to speak.

A series of lights would turn on revealing the speaker. She wore a brown military coat with several stars and decorations. These were various awards given to the individual for several acts of valor. The cost of such tremendous acts were demonstrated by loss of limb. The left sleeve of the coat was not present, rather it ended about mid forearm. The sleeve was folded and stapled up. In addition to missing an arm, the individual also wore an eye patch on her right eye. Perhaps what was most stunning was the features of the individual aside from her scars from war. Her hair was more grey, but there were still some streaks of violet present. Her left eye was a familiar tone of deep blue if one was familiar with one Masashi Chiyoko. Like Chiyoko her features were fine, but they were aged somewhat gracefully.

Why exactly did this person resemble the mother of the Steward? Well that was probably in due to the part that this was the Steward's grandmother. Masashi Mako, a member of fourth division. She was one of three surviving members who were forced into retirement. Did forced retirement stop Mako from occasionally operating in today's world? No. Mako had a habit of ... reminding and embarrassing people about their shortcomings when it came to a particular exam she was known for running. When her grandson tried to suggest that she shouldn't run the exam anymore due to the high fail rate, she promptly reminded him that not only did he fail the exam at a 51.1% grading (a pass was 60%), that even his mother failed at 47.8%. When reminded of his own shortcomings, the Steward said nothing and merely let his grandmother proceed with the test.

So three of the younger and brightest members of Suna were to see her today to attempt success at one of Suna's more difficult exams: Battle Craft. Mako was promised that she was going to be testing some of the brighter students and genin. The two genin she had gone over report wise. Surely, surely her grandson was kidding. Ryuu Tama and 'Okibi'. Ha. Brightest? That was Sousuke's opinion not hers. The last one was an academy student. She reminded him of her grandson in that she was a weapon and armor smith of sorts. Something more traditional compared to her grandson's gadgets.

Best and Brightest? Or Worst and Dimmest? It was time to see. It was time for the school of hard knocks to take off, it was time for Battlecraft.

 

[Toraono Michino]

It was one thing to go to your normal mission box and discover a letter for a job, but it was a whole different experience when you reached in and pulled out one of those cool little discs that had a hologram display. It meant that this was something coming from the high authorities and that just excited Tama all the more.

He lifted it up into the air and looked under the disc to find the little red button that, when pressed, made the disc blink a few times before summoning the image of a receptionist from the Key Prime offices. Of course he only knew that because there was a little rotating message around her feet saying so. The recorded message played,
“Congratulations <Ryuu Tama>, You have been selected to undergo a special test known as the Battle Craft in order to reassess your skills as a shinobi of the Sunagakure Government. You have one hour to prepare and reach this location provided.<i></i>”
The hologram changed and displayed a map that gave him the location of the exam with details on how to get into the building before turning itself off. He placed the disc inside of his coat and quickly headed out towards his home; he knew that he only had a short time to prepare.

Forty-five minutes later he arrived at the Key Stone Prime and entered the building as he was directed after showing the disc that would obviously work as his pass – he had done this before after all.
The scientist was dressed a little differently than normal. He was in what could best be considered a ‘battle outfit’ for a man who had never actually had to prepare himself for a fight before; it always just happened.
He wore a dark blue one-piece body suit that adhered to his every muscle tone as he had built it to do so. It acted as a conduit for a special technique he had recently developed but had problems drawing out originally. A single belt was strapped around his waist with two large pouches on the back carrying a few things he thought would be useful in something called Battle Craft, wire mostly. His hands, head, and feet were left uncovered however, though strange runic writing done in a strong staining ink had been written onto the bare skin of his fingers and toes. Covering all of this, or at least most of it, was a long trench coat that very nearly brushed the ground as he moved. The only other thing about Tama that was strangely off, you know aside from the battle clothing, was that his eyes were not bi-colored as normal. They were both turned into a hue of emerald green, and the irises were slit in the reptilian fashion meaning that he was already focusing chakra into his eyes so that he didn’t need to use his glasses.

He was lead slowly by two escorts into a waiting room that had three chairs in it. It told him that two more people would be showing up, or that at least one very large person was coming; he prayed for the first one. He had no idea what Battle Craft was or if he was actually going to be fighting, but with something that used the word ‘battle’ to describe it told him that he would be doing something physically related with that word.
He didn’t have time to study up on anything involving Battle Craft as he was forced to fashion a battle suit last second and write down special seals on his body to help him use his techniques in this way. He normally wasn’t much of one for fighting unless he had to…the idea of preparing himself for it for a change was still something very new and odd for the scientist.

 

[Okibi]

(Just FYI yall, Im treating this topic as though its taking place some time in the future. I already asked Mel about this, and he was cool with it. ^^)

Okibi fiddled with and rotated the joints in her false arm, testing the tweaks and fine tuning that Sousuke had done for her just that morning. The prosthetic now felt light as a feather and as flexible, if not more so, than her real arm. She had to hand it to the Steward, he was a master at his craft. And a good thing too, because she had a daunting task in front of her, or so he told her anyway; passing a specialized test which was going to be proctored by his grandmother. Unfortunately, Okibi had never met the woman, so she didnt know what to expect, but if she was anything like Chiyoko - her daughter - Okibi knew she had a real ordeal in store for her.

But, she felt more confident than she had in months. Her eighteenth birthday was only a few weeks away, and she'd been back in the village for nearly seven months. All of the weight she'd lost over that hellish year spent in tortuous captivity had been gained back and her muscles were just nearly back to being what they used to be. Her legs were strong, her flesh and unflesh arms limber, and her core was tight and balanced. Aside from having some stiffness in her limbs because of all her scars (when she didn't keep them massaged with special oils) she felt as good, physically, as she ever had.

Unfortunately she couldn't say she was emotionally or psychologically back to being one hundred percent; at best, she'd say she was at maybe seventy-six. But, it was a lot better than the zero percent she was at when she'd first returned.

Rotating her mechanical arm a few more times, Okibi turned the corner and entered the room Sousuke told her to report to. She didnt see anyone else there, save for a blond haired fellow in a trench coat sitting in one of three chairs. A small smile curled her lips when she realized who it was, and really, she should have recognized him before she'd even entered the room - she supposed she was too distracted by her thoughts to notice his scent. Floating over to the chairs, Okibi settled herself in the seat next to Tama and flicked the ends of his slowly growing out hair playfully.

"Hey." Was all she said in greeting as she relaxed into her seat. She wasnt wearing an outfit quite as . . . interesting as Tama's, but it was battle ready as far as she was concerned. It didnt show as much skin as the things she use to wear (or didnt), but it showed as much as she was comfortable with. Okibi wore a decently fitting tank top tucked into loose fitting pants cut off at he knee, held up by a sash. Her left arm and calves were wrapped up in light bandages, covering up the majority of her scars, though the ones on her feet, upper chest and neck were still plain as day.

[MFT]

 

[Chiyo]

The redhead grinned as she listened to the little hologram that had been waiting for her in her box for the third time in the half hour since she had received it. She had taken a trip to her shop to check over her blades quickly to make sure they were as sharp as could be and ready for whatever was in store for her. Having sharpened the broadsword and scimitar into peak condition, she ran home to pull on one of her sets of samurai armor she had had made for herself. This set was an electric blue and clashed fantastically with her lengths of crimson hair, braided into a long plait that lay along the length of her back and over her toned and quickly developing rear-end where it touched the middle of her thighs.. It was held in place by charcoal grey leather straps and she wore it over a pair of black speed shorts and a matching speed shirt which bared her toned abs and had sleeves that reached down to just above her elbows, giving her a free range of movement while hugging her petite, but muscular frame. Also, on her thigh she wore a charcoal grey leather belt that held a set of three exceptionally crafted kunai, smithed by the Suchiru herself - just as her broadsword was.

Once she was ready to go - having stashed a few supplies into the various small pockets that were sewn into her armor such as a travel-sized whetstone should she need it - she headed back out into the street and took off at a run toward Keystone prime and she arrived at the doors with 5 minutes to spare. Pushing open the doors, she flashed her holo-disk and was lead to a waiting room where one familiar face was seated and a new one she had never seen before.Walking over, the soles of her speed boots making a very slight scuffing noise across the floor.

"Hey, Tama, are you giving the exam? This should be interesting, I expect," she said with a grin before turning to the pale, almost albino looking girl with a friendly smile as she extended her hand. "Hi, I'm Suchiru Amejisuto, of Suchiru Arms, but you can call me Amy if you like."

[[Short post is short. >.<]]

 

[Takahashi Aki]

Mako entered the room. She held herself high and mighty despite her shortcomings being her missing arm and aged body. Her chin was held high as she inspected Tama, Okibi, and 'Amy'. "We won't have any of that. You were christened Amejisuto, and so to me you will be Amejisuto. Don't disrespect your ancestors with the shortening of names. I'm sure your ancestors are rolling in the grave." Mako spoke sharply. The veteran snorted as she held herself at ease.

"I am Masashi Mako. You may or may not recognize the name, it doesn't matter. You are to be tested here and now in Battlecraft. Your world now revolves around me. I am the sun, and you are mere planets." Mako paused for a moment. She began to pace back and forth like a certain someone Tama and Okibi knew. "We're here today to see if you're worth anything. I doubt it. Not many people here are worth much. Sunagakure has become a bunch of bloated rich nobles who get by on their titles. Titles don't serve you in war, they make you targets. I want you to know this, and mark it well in your pretty little heads. In war you are a human, you are a bag of meat and blood waiting to be made a corpse. When you fight a demon, that demon wants to eat your insides and wear your skin. He wants to wear you like a coat, and he wants to wear your titles." Mako would stop mid pace and turn her attention. "We've all got expiry dates, and some of us are way past them because ... because some of us fight harder than the rest." Mako reached into a pocket and removed a tooth pick. She placed into her mouth and began to gnaw on it. "Your enemy has and always will be faster than you, stronger than you, smarter than you. Your enemy, does not rest. Your enemy, does not eat. Your enemy does not make mistakes. I want you to be better than that. I want you to be beyond perfection. Perfection. Got it?"

A cart was pushed forward, and on top of the cart was a glass case. At first it looked like nothing was in the case, but slowly something appeared. Something foul. One moment it had a human skull, the next it turned into an ooze puddle, the next it turned into spike ball. "This filth is your enemy. This filth is Djiinn-Spawn. It is superior to you in every way." Mako for a moment conjured a small show of chakra. The entity in the tank stirred and transformed into a leech and made motion towards Mako but was stopped by the glass. "What can you tell me about this filfth? Can you tell me what makes it tick? Can you tell me how to defeat it? Don't be shy, if you're shy you could be a crater in the ground... or worse ensorcelled. It's filth like this that makes corpses of us. You have thirty seconds to tell me anything that comes to mind, and your time starts... NOW."

 

[Toraono Michino]

Tama chuckled at the sight of Okibi entering into this thing with him, but couldn’t help but continue to worry about her health. Even though it had been months since she started down the road of physical recovery, the man couldn’t help but continue his mild anxiety with his best friend.

Of course it was next to impossible to not have a sense of small anxiety when in the presence of the Wild Child; there was a reason she was once called a walking tornado.

“Hey,” Tama simply replied with a smile before the third member of the group walked in. The scientist instantly recognized the blacksmith by the trademark red hair that seemed just as fiery as it had been when they had met. Two swords were sheathed at her side instead of the traditional single blade style that she used and briefly the blonde wondered if she was training with the elusive Uzumoreru Toushin again.

Of course his thoughts and Amy’s introduction was quickly cut off by the snappy reply of their ‘master’ for this exercise. Of course Tama didn’t recognize the name or the staunch attitude to anyone he met, but as soon as she started doing the pacing and talking bit the scientist knew exactly who she was related to.
He was also suddenly glad that certain other traits didn’t get picked up.
After a riveting lecture on just how insanely strict this older battle scared veteran was going to be a mass of black evil was forced in front of them. Only thirty seconds were given to react with an answer so naturally he decided to take as good a look as he could. Reaching out into the air with his fingertips he pulsed a little chakra into them to activate the runes which would draw in some nature energy from the air and store it inside the runes. He took his index finger and placed it against his temple to feed a little bit of the energy into his eyes to activate his dojutsu without going into his Divine Form. The slit pupils turned sideways and two arcing curves morphed out of the ends in opposite positions of up and down. His eyes and the flesh around his eyes began to crystallize slightly with a grey hue as his vision transformed so that he could view both spiritual and natural energy.

The first thing he deciphered from this was that the black thing inside the glass was desperately trying to absorb any kind of energy that it could to begin cycling more strength through its core, possibly in the attempt to take on stronger shapes. The case was built specifically to block out any energy or even air from getting inside so it could also live without having the need for oxygen.
“It appears to be an infinite energy recycling xenomorphic with the ability to take on any shape that it has the energy to sustain. The black substance that it is created from also appears to have a natural leeching property that constantly attempts to draw in energy from any element it can gather the strongest from.</B><B>
“To kill it, I’d say it would take a massive amount of reverse energy between two seals that would eventually absorb all of its recycling energy until it was nothing, but dark matter separated via two seals. Of course the downside is that due to its natural properties killing it would be next to impossible unless you could literally deconstruct it from the molecular level at high energy rates that are beyond anything humans can produce – at least as far as I know.<i></i>”

 

[Okibi]

Okibi blinked when a third person entered the room, apparently joining Tama and herself in the exam. She seemed a little young, and Okibi had to wonder if maybe she'd entered the wrong room. However, the rest of the red haired girls appearance - the sword and neat looking kunai - told her otherwise. This was only cemented when the girl addressed Tama and then introduced herself to Okibi. It seemed they were going to be mixing things up a bit.

Smiling lightly, Okibi took Amejisuto's proffered hand and shook it quickly before letting go. She'd become comfortable with physical contact between herself and people she knew; touching strangers was still a little difficult. "I'm Okibi, it's nice to meet you." Okibi said in what she hoped was a warm voice, attempting to soften any possible sting her actions might have carried.

Any further chit chat was bulldozed out of the room when an older woman entered the room. Okibi's eyes immediately zeroed in on the empty sleeve pinned up on the woman's left side. She touched her metal arm absentmindedly; it seemed she and the Stewards grandmother had a little something in common. However, when the older woman started talking it was obvious that was the only thing they had in common.

Okibi wouldn't have been surprised at all if it was this woman that Sousuke inherited his love for rambling from.

Most of what Mako said sounded like rushing water to Okibi. Why did all these people have to use so many damn words? Couldnt they get their points across in a few simple sentences? Okibi was beginning to wonder if speaking with simplicity was a dying art.

When a cart was wheeled in Okibi latched onto it with her eyes. There was a clear case on top of it and at first Okibi thought it was empty. However, as seconds passed by a creature appeared, first in the shape of a skull, then a puddle and then a spiked ball. Curiosity got the better of Okibi and she got to her feet so she could get a better look. She bent over the case, her eyes narrowed, closely inspecting the strange creature. Turned out it was good thing Okibi decided to do this because not a moment later Mako was instructing them to tell her anything they knew about the thing.

Okibi straightened up and stood back just as the black blobish thing lunged for Ame and hit the glass. She rubbed her chin as Tama went first, once again proving to her that speaking in few words was a talent that few people had. She turned and gave him a look, telling him without words to "Talk faster!". The moment he was finished speaking - and dammit but he took up precious seconds with his freaking speech - Okibi spewed the few facts she'd hastily gleaned about the creature.

"It's aggressive and can change it's shape, but it can be contained obviously." She waved her hand at the clear enclosure to exemplify her point. They were few words, but Mako wanted them to tell her what they knew about the creature, and Okibi did just that.

 

[Chiyo]

Amy smiled more at the girl, not offended at all by the brief handshake, at least she hadn't been snubbed. Committing the girl's name to memory, she wheeled around as the fourth person entered the room, her hair flailing through the air like a whip and smacking the blonde scientist across the cheek. Her emerald eyes looked the woman over, somewhat impressed by her appearance. This was clearly not a woman to be reckoned with and this theory was proved as the young blacksmith was reprimanded for using a nickname. Amy scowled at the woman, moving over to take a seat in the empty chair next to Okibi.

Unfamiliar with the Steward and not having any knowledge of the woman, Amy simply listened as the woman spoke. Her eyes squinted more and more as the rambling went on and on, the redhead wasn't one to take being spoken down to lightly, in fact, it was one of her pet peeves. She may be an Academy student, but she was worth much more than what this woman clearly thought of her. Trying her best to keep her eyes from rolling, she folded her arms across her chest and continued to listen, trying to ascertain exactly what their exam would consist of...clearly this would be much more than a walk in the park.

Just as she was considering the possibilities a cart was wheeled into the room with a glass case on top of it, Amy stood again and walked forward with Okibi, walking around the cart to get a better look at the thing inside it. She continued to look as Tama began to speak, but she couldn't take much from what he said due to the complicated terms he used. Not to mention he used up the majority of the thirty seconds the trio were allowed. Scowling a little at him for a split second before she turned her eyes to the other girl to listen. Okibi's ideas were much easier to understand and from this an idea came to her mind.

"I would imagine it could be contained in a chakra balanced metal, I've worked with a few things that could be used for it...perhaps one could even fashion a weapon from said alloy and harness some of its powers..." Amy's eyes glittered a bit as her mind ran away with the idea, wondering just what sorts of abilities could be unlocked.

 

[Takahashi Aki]

Mako listened to the explanations and concepts offered by the three. The veteran merely nodded her head. "Well now. I have three graduates from the school of the obvious. Bravo. I would even think that you were capable of remotely capable of theorycraft." Her tone was dripping with sarcasm. She continued to pace about once more. "The part about containment. How do we know that this fifth isn't letting itself be contained because it wants to? Never think for a moment because you've caged something, that it cannot break itself out." The lights would go out instantly, and a loud crashing noise would be heard, followed by the shattering of glass. Garbled sounds came from all sides. A sickening crack could be hard as it was most likely the contents of the tank breaking free and begin transformation. A sort of horrible smell would fill the air, it smelt like ink and ash. The smell of smoke followed as someone struck a match.

In the darkness the one who struck the match raised it up. "Hrrmm..." A pause followed as the lights would turn back on. The case was still present and the creature within still floated about. The smell seemed to have disappeared, and there was no signs of a mess. Was it a genjutsu? "Always be wary of what you catch. Did it want to be caught? Once inside who knows what this devilry may bring." Mako would then put the match out with her index and thumb. "A life lesson you kids should learn sooner rather than later. A threat like this needs to be eradicated. Let's see if any of your theories are indeed any worth." With that Mako proceeded to kick the tank, instantly shattering in, her form vanishing into ash. Water gushed out of the broken tank and the evil within stirred.

The Djinn-spawn spilled out and began to twist and wriggle, it sought to take form. It hacked and coughed like a person, and the humanoid form followed. Demented it was, it had the shape of a human, but the body was simply black. Very slowly it rose up and began to survey its surroundings. It was as if the creature was put into a long coma, and now it was just waking up for the first time. The form began to detect chakra and rose its head looking at Tama first. The form would begin to split and twist and launched at Tama a hand from its head. After having done that, the left side turned red and split again into a series of spikes firing them at Okibi. For Amejitsuo the form merely expanded and took the form of what was best described as an axe. The form reached out to cleave at skin at her. Each of the three motions were slow though. Sluggish but still lethal.

 

[Toraono Michino]

Well that escalated quickly. Too much of Tama’s life was sudden escalation out of nowhere, and he briefly wondered if he would ever just have a freaking normal day.

The sudden drop of the light blackened everyone’s vision, even his enhanced form of sight. Then a series of sounds and smells would assault them like something out of a survival horror game, trying to shake fear into their hearts for whatever reason. The scientist wasn’t sure about his two comrades in arms, but he was prepared to fight the moment he stepped inside the building. He slowly began to draw at the nature chakra in the air by activating the marks on his fingers and toes. It would take a full four minutes for all of the marks to absorb all the energy that he would need to ‘go all out’, and until then he would have to try and use as little of his own chakra as possible.
Just as suddenly as everything got weird, it returned to normal. Tama’s eyes looked around the room as soon as the match was lit so that he had something to reflect off the crystals in and around his eyes and saw nothing until the lights came on and still saw nothing out of the ordinary…or at least until the proctor kicked open the case that contained the terrible creature inside.

His crystal eyes watched as the black blob quickly began to absorb the energy around it and transform itself into a humanoid looking shape. As amazed as he was to see such a creature he immediately put himself on the defense and waited for the thing to make its move.
When it did decide to go all crazy movie monsters on them Tama quickly drew out a pre-inked pen from one of his belt bags and drew seals onto his hands within seconds. He then raised the hands up into the air to pulse his chakra out and create a shield that would cut off the half of the room with the creature on the opposite side of them. The scientist then motioned for everyone to take a step back from the barrier for he was unsure how long it would take for an energy absorbing creature to break through a barrier, but it would hopefully give them a second to strategize.
“Okibi, Amy, I need the two of you to try and distract the creature from paying attention to me while I set up the ninjutsu I was yammering on about earlier. It should only take me twenty seconds to write out the seals with my trusty pen, but I’m gonna need to keep that thing away from them until I’m done,” he looked at Okibi with a grin, “Think you can handle it, Wild Child?<i></i>”


[Sorry for the late reply, work was extra stressful in those two days]

 

[Okibi]

Mako's words put Okibi on edge. Was the old woman calling them dull? Of course they were stating the obvious, what else was there to state? Assumptions and 'theorycraft'? Bah! Useless! Those kinds of thought processes were for people like Sousuke and Tama; people who liked to think before they acted. Even as she was, Okibi still didnt like to think for too long; sitting still was not her forte.

The moment the lights went out, Okibi was on guard. Then the smell hit her nose and she feinted back, covering her offended nostrils. Augh, that stink. To someone who had a normal nose it probably wasnt so bad, but for someone like her it was like being punched in the face. Thankfully, the smell didnt last. Mako struck a match and not long after the lights were back on and the smell was gone. Everything was as it was before. So what had just happened exactly?

They didnt have time to wonder because Mako took that opportunity to kick the box containing the goopy thing, shattering the casing. With that, the older woman then disappeared. Okibi stared at the spot the woman had vacated, mouth open in disbelief. She was beginning to feel like she didnt like that lady . . .

But there was no time to harbor ill feelings! That could come later, after they passed their test! Okibi jumped back to stand beside Tama in front of the chairs, arms raised in a defense. She had no idea how the creature liked to act, so waiting and watching was all she could do. When the monster slowly started to split, sending separate, multiple attacks at them, Okibi reached behind her with a foot and launched one of the chairs into the air in front of her, attempt to block the spikes coming her way.

It turned out that her actions werent very necessary, as Tama seemed to erect a barrier of some kind. Okibi watched as the attacked bounced (or not) off the protective wall. She glanced at her friend and his outstretched hand with wonder. He was handy in a pinch wasnt he? Tama then informed her and Ame about how he needed time to work out the jutsu he mentioned earlier. Could they buy him that time? Psh, as if he needed to ask.

Okibi's face split with a coy grin as she looked at Tama over her shoulder. "It'd be my pleasure to handle it Tami." She said before she turned to Ame, whirling on her heels. "Let's go Ameme." Yup, Okibi had already picked her nickname for the girl, nevermind that Ame already had a nickname that she liked. "If you have any clone jutsu, I think it'd be best if you used it. Try not to let it touch you; if what Tami said about it is true, it'll just leech away your strength." She then turned around and flew through some hand seals. "It already moves pretty slow, but I'm going to try to slow it down more with some gravity jutsu."

With that said, Okibi activated her Graviton jutsu, which if successful would pick up the djinn spawn and slam it into the ground. She would attempt to hold it there. Then, she flew through some more seals and formed a Mud Clone which seeped up through the cracks in the tiled floor. The clone jumped through the barrier and launched itself at the creature, preparing to use Shoryuken, a taijutsu attack. This was more of a test, to see what would really happen should something of an element base touch the creature. Okibi wanted to attack the thing herself, but doing so without knowing what they were up against would have been foolhardy. Even she could admit that much.

 

[Chiyo]

Amy got progressively angrier as the woman spoke, her hands clenching into fists – hidden beneath her opposite elbows - but her face continued to grow its scowl as she listened to the woman. Theorycraft?! The redhead scoffed at the word in her head, she was almost pure fighter, her strong points were her swords and no one who really knew her could ever doubt that fact. Theorycraft was for people like Tama.

Just as she was cursing the woman in her mind, the lights went out and the sounds of the thing breaking out of its “cage” filled the room. The girl drew her swords with surprising speed and dropped into a defensive position, moving slowly over to where she knew Okibi and Tama had been standing. As her nostrils were assaulted by one of the most disgusting smells she had ever smelled.

A moment later she heard the sound of a match striking and the small firelight lit the space around them. Amy's emerald green eyes shifted automatically to where the spawn was still encased in its prison and she let out a sigh of relief, straightening out of her stance just as the old woman kicked the tank over. The black blob morphed into a humanoid shape and Amy's eyes widened, dropping back into her stance once again with a frown. Apparently this would be their test...or at least part of it.

Once it had taken a proper form, it launched three attacks – one for each of them – and Amy began to step forward to defend herself, figuring the other two would be able to take on their own attacks. Just then, Tama threw a shield up between the creature and themselves, telling them to distract the thing while he worked on containing it again.

Amy's expression was almost a mirror of Okibi's grin as she turned back to Tama and nodded before facing Okibi. The pale girl apparently had given her another nickname, and Amy's cheeks flushed just a little, happy to have been so readily accepted. Before she nodded in response to her suggestion of a clone jutsu. Forming a few quick hand seals an exact image of the redhead popped up next to her and drew her swords at the exact moment Amy did. 'Lets do this!”
Amy was almost excited for a real fight, and she was bouncing a little on her toes as her clone ran through the barrier, though she was a bit dissapointed that she couldn't run in there herself, at least not until they knew what this thing could do.

 

[Takahashi Aki]

When the Djinn spawn began to attack, a female voice filled the air. "Cataclysmic entity detected. Keystone is now locking down." By this time the seal went up and blocked half of the room, and thus Tama had blocked some of the Djinn-spawn's attaks. The seal however took severe damage. Several cracks began to appear in the chakra shield. The Djinn began then to bludgeon his head into the seal which then transformed into a hammer. "Anti-Cataclysmic weaponry detected in Section Seven. In Sector Six you may gain access to Keystone Prime controls. "

The seal looked like it was going to give away quickly, but the Djinn-spawn was thrown to the ground by Okibi's gravity jutsu. As she held it down and forced it to become distorted the Djinn-Spawn seemed to be getting large, but only slightly. Okibi's clone became active and ran through the barrier breaking it, and it very quickly gained the attention of the Djinn-Spawn. The taijutsu came from the clone and struck the Djinn-spawn soundly. A loud cry came out of the devilish fiend, and it in turn threw a punch and the clone breaking the upper body of it. "Infestation Detected." Things continued to not go well, as the spikes from before reanimated into three tiny rat sized Djinn spawns. One of them turned into senbons and hurled themselves at Okibi. The other two went for Tama, and transformed into spike balls, which hurled themselves with great force.

Amejisuto decided to go toe to toe with the Djinn. While she armed herself with blades the struggling Djinn-spawn rose to its feet. The Djinn-spawn with its hammer head would steady itself weakly and then attempt to bludgeon the dual weilding ginger. If that wasn't enough, the two arms curled into sickles, and it would then swing both arms at her but the movement was off due to the distortion effect.

 

[Toraono Michino]

The nature energy filled up the marks of his right hand and were half way done with his left. After that all he needed was to get the energy in his feet and this creature was going to wish the woman hadn’t broke open the case in which was laid semi-dormant in.

Tama watched with pride as Okibi used gravity jutsu, a part of power that he strangely hadn’t had the chance to experiment with, and saw how it affected the Djinn Spawn. His every studious eyes continued to bear witness as the creature split itself and began to attack the three in different shapes. It seemed that the bravest among them would have to go to Ame as she actually went toe-to-toe with the thing without any hesitation. The strength in her attacks and the sureness of her footing reminded him vividly of a certain assassin and the terrible things that he had wrought upon that clan a little while back but that were a thought for another time.

The green eyed scientist with his dojutsu activated at twenty-five percent watched and kept a wary eye on all the energy that was affecting the creature and them, making sure that the thing wasn’t trying to attempt to lure them into a genjutsu of some sorts.
Slapping his hands together his fingers began to roll through a number of seals that drew up the power dwelling deep within his nearly limitless chakra coil. Lightning began to roll off the scientist’s shoulders and down his arms towards his hands that completed the seal sequence. Large bolts of electricity would launch themselves off of Tama’s body towards the two attacking spiked balls powerful enough to stop just about anything and a third bolt off towards Ame’s attacker to hopefully cause it to slip up enough for the kid to get a good strike in.

Without wasting a single movement Tama jumped back as the lightning bolts fired off of him and quickly rotated through another series of seals with speed that could not be followed saved by someone who had the Uchiha eyes. His left hand shot out towards Okibi sending a gust of wind her way that would surround her body in the form of armor to help deflect the senbon and hopefully keep them from piercing her flesh as the word infection rolled through his head from what the voice above said when the Djinn Spawn struck the clone; two and two together told him that it was a bad idea to actually be touched by it.

Backing away from the fight he drew out the mighty pen again and began to quickly write on the walls a special seal that would constantly pull at the Djinn’s energy levels to hopefully trap it once the girls had the creature distracted enough for him to place the seals on the walls and decipher its energy levels. He left a bit of the seals open so he could go back and write in the final parts once he did, but to do that he would need to activate the Divine Form.

His left hand was full of nature energy now as he felt the Earth’s energy slowly fill into his pinky toe. Almost time.


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Jutsus used - Cyclone Movement - Mastered and Chidori Control - Mastered

The seal he is writing is a massive Leech Seal.

 

[Okibi]

A mechanical voice suddenly rang from out of nowhere, alerting everyone in Keystone Prime that a danger was now loose, or so Okibi thought the voice was saying, anyway. It sounded a lot like Sousuke in the way that it spoke. Something it - she? - said caught Okibi's attention. Anti-cataclysmic weaponry? Access to Keystone Prime controls? Was it trying to tell them how they could oppose their blobbish adversary?

Well, if the plan they were attempting now didnt work, they could always see about that after. For now, they would try this. As Okibi focused on keeping the spawned creature held down under her gravity jutsu, she didnt notice the smaller pieces of mystery matter from before reanimating until one of them was already launching at her in the form of multiple senbon. With an audible curse, she whirled around, losing control of her jutsu, attempting to block the attack with her metal arm. At least if the thing hit that, most likely it wouldnt have any affects on her physical body.

But, once again, she didnt get the chance to protect herself as an armor of wind suddenly engulfed her body, repelling the dark senbon. Immediately Okibi knew who her 'savior' was. She spun on her heels and glowered in Tama's direction, and then Shadow Danced over to his side where she hissed in his ear angrily. "If you have the time to waste protecting others, use it on Ameme, and stop worrying about me. I can protect myself Tami." The last part of her sentence came out just a bit more gentle than the rest, softening the sting of her words. She appreciated his help, truly, but how was she supposed to prove herself, or improve herself, if he kept protecting her?

"Just concentrate on sealing the damn thing." She added, clapping him on the shoulder before she Shadow Danced away again, reappearing right next to the djinn spawn. Acting quickly, she reared her metal arm back and activated two jutsu at the same time; Thunder Fist and Orbital Strike, two melee attacks that utilized ninjutsu to enhance the force of her punch. Lightning snapped around her arm and she felt the gravity around it increase as she prepared to strike. When she did, the blow would come down with both crushing force and stunning energy.

All the while, Okibi tried to keep a separate eye on Ame, who seemed to be the least experienced of them. Should she have to, she would step in and assist the girl.

(Cmon Mel! Throw Okibi through a wall! 8D)

 

[Chiyo]

Amy looked around momentarily as the disembodied voice filled the air. Keystone was locking down? Sector Six gained access to the controls? It seemed that they were now inside Sector Seven, so what were the controls for? This was an interesting idea, if they could figure out how to get to these controls and how to use them perhaps they could get this thing back into some sort of box. Though for the time being, the trio seemed to be doing fairly well on their own, and that was what this was all about, right? Testing their abilities to see if they were good enough to earn a rank-up?

The creature before them sure was putting up a good fight, and it was easily attacking all three of them at once. Amy's eyes flickered over to catch the three rat-sized bits run for her companions, but being an almost completely melee fighter, she didn't have too much of a choice but to run right into the fray. The black creature had morphed its body into a hammer-head with sickles for arms and Amy flipped her small body back away from it, avoiding its blows just as the scientist shot a bolt of lighting at the thing, distracting it for just enough time to allow her to roll through the hand seals to bring out a clone.

Her doppelganger ran around the D'jinn spawn, drawing its attention, then at the same moment from opposite sides of the creature, both redheads ran in with their weapons blazing to slash three times at the black body. The real Amy flipped backward once again after the attack, her clone having vanished, trying to keep out of reach of the sickle-arms. The word infestation had reached her ears as well, and she had a strong feeling that it wouldn't be a good idea to be touched by the creature. Just as she would land on her feet, her emerald eyes would catch a glimpse of Okibi, shrouded in wind energy, running forward to aim a jutsu fueled punch at the spawn.

 

[Takahashi Aki]

Tama's lightning jutsu zapped the two minor Djinn spawn that were attacking him. Tama's jutsu overloaded the Djinn spawn with too much chakra and caused the two minor Djinn-spawn to explode. Unfortunately the explosion left a sort of chakra mist in the air, and the mist was then absorbed by the greater Djinn-Spawn. It's size grew slightly as it greedily absorbed the chakra.

Okibi was protected by Tama's use of wind chakra and thus deflected the Djinn senbons. The senbons bounced off and then proceeded to return to the growing Djinn spawn.

Amejisuto used the clone jutsu and poof brought a single clone into existence. The two worked in unision to confuse the chakra-vaccum entity that was the Djinn. It seemed to be tracking their movements quite well until Tama struck it with a lightning bolt from his earlier works. The bolt struck the Djinn soundly causing it to get disoriented for a moment, and while Amejistuo was able to evade most of the attacks the clone bit the bullet and was slashed by one of the razor sharp appendages. While she danced about her sluggish foe she slashed at it three times. Each slash drew not blood but seemed to wound the beast. Oddly the chakra that it absorbed earlier from the mist began to leak out of it and completely dissolve. It would not be enough though to defeat the Djinn-Spawn, but if anything it was progress in trying to find a way to defeat this foe, and how their foe would react to cold steel.

Last but not least Okibi empowered herself. She brought fists of lightning and gravity down upon the Djinn-spawn. She landed bone-crunching blows, and she certainly struck something. The Djinn-spawn absorbed the electrical portion of her attack, but could do very little to absorb the gravity element as it was more of a forceful blow more than anything else. The Djinn-spawn was sent flying and hit the wall and virtually went through the wall. As that happened, the being somewhat spilled about, and went back to reforming itself in a humanoid form. Now it was its turn to retaliate.

First the Djinn-spawn rolled up into a ball. The giant ball proceeded to bounce for a moment before firing itself at the three suna nin. While its motions were sluggish before, this came quickly which was perhaps due to it absorbing some chakra from earlier. While dodging it would prove easy enough, what next followed was the tricky part. Upon first contact the ball would explode into three forms. These three forms would be pyramids. Each of them would land on the outreached of the room. From there a ring would surface at the top point of each pyramid. A chaotic nova would erupt from each pyramid sending a wave of chakra out to each of the three suna nin. The novas from an observational glance would appear to be of the shadow element.

 

[Toraono Michino]

Chuckling at Okibi's snappiness over his help, Tama couldn't help but chuckle a little bit in mid battle despite the urgency of the entire situation.

Deciding to heed her words the scientist turned back to his seal and slapped his hand against the center of it to expel a little of his chakra to begin warming up the technique as he ran past the two girls that were battling and began to create at least two more seals; one that was directly across from his first and one on the floor between the two. By the time he had finished with writing both of these seals the creature was forced through a wall and the loud explosion caught his attention.

Looking up at the wreckage he watched as the creature seemed to absorb the energy they had used in the techniques to fight it. The Ryuu's eyes narrowed seriously as he watched the thing morph into a ball that came rolling at them. Without wasting even a single moment Tama flipped through a few seals that would send another lightning bolt at Spawn, and watched studiously as the thing split into three pyramid forms that spread themselves out through the room.
The chaotic energy that exploded from each creature caused the hairs on the back of Tama's neck to raise. He knew that the energy they would end up blasting at them would be deadly and could easily obliterate their flesh if it touched them.

That was of course if he didn't have a plan in mind, and Tama always had a plan.

The nature energy he had been absorbing since the start of all this madness was now finished fusing with the ink marks on his fingers and toes causing his appendages to glow with a soft white color.
"About time," he muttered before clenching his open hands into fists. With a simple gesture of his will he caused the energy he absorbed to flesh in through his body and energize him in the same way he used to do with his "Divine Form" but on a more controlled scale. Chakra crystals began to form around his hands, feet, and thicker around his eyes as his dojutsu took on its full effect by constantly channeling the nature energy through his entire body.
Unlike normal there was no way-too-bright glow immolating off the scientist, but just an invisible force that seemed to constantly surround the ligaments where the chakra crystals gathered.
Tama turned his full attention back towards the three dark rays of energy and activated the seals on the walls and floor. He sent out a pulse of his nature and normal chakra mixed together that would make the seals begin to draw in large amounts of any energy in the room which would mean both the dark rays of death and Tama's gathered extra chakra that was allowing him to use powers normally out of his reach.
He then moved in around the seals and the rays to move towards one of the pyramids and pulled out a long length of wire, two kunai, and three specially written seals that would link up to the leech seals in the room. He slapped one of the tags on the pyramid he was closest two, looped the wire through the tags and then the kunai before tossing the knives back at the girls to land at their feet.

"Take the tags and slap 'em on those things closest to you! I'll try to finish the rest!<i></i>"

After the tags were placed on he would activate the tags to begin drawing the Spawn into the seals with its deadly rays of energy, he just hoped that the seals were strong enough to hold all that destructive energy.

[Activates Leech Seals which are tied to Tsuihouton Tags: Exorcism that he threw two of at Amy and Okibi to use on their separate targets. The chakra crystals on his flesh is basically the activation of his Divine Avatar from the Chimera Kinjutsu, using Tsuchimikado and Chakra Attuned to make his jutsu more powerful and non-elemental. I RP non-elemental techniques as having Nature Chakra cause it makes for better flavor text.
His dojutsu is of course the same for the Tsuchimikado allowing him see what it sees but at Rank 3. I RP rank 1 when not using Divine Avatar]

 

[Okibi]

At first Okibi felt an immense satisfaction at having sent the spawn flying through a nearby wall. However, that satisfaction wouldnt last when she realized that the monster had absorbed her lightning element jutsu. How could it do that when Tama's lightning bolts caused it damage not but a minute ago? Was it because the main body was bigger?

She didnt have much time to contemplate before the creature was up and attacking them again, this time in a much quicker fashion. Okibi's eyes rounded out as she jumped back and away from the attacking blob, landing on a wall some distance behind her, sticking their like a spider woman. She watched as the blob split into three triangular forms - pyramids she realized - and an ominous dark energy started to gather at their peaks. That didnt look good.

Honestly Okibi was getting a little frustrated. It just kept taking everything they threw at it only to retaliate with more. What was it going to take to beat this thing?

A metallic plink drew her attention to the floor, where a kunai landed with a wire and seal strung through it. She looked up just as Tama instructed her and Ame to connect the seals to the pyramids nearest them. She wasnt sure what that was going to do - physical combat was her area dammit - but she trusted Tama and his knowledge. Hopefully his plan would gain them some ground against the creature.

Okibi shot off the wall and snatched up her portion of the wire. She then Shadow Danced over to her pyramid, crouching low to stay as far away from the energy at the top of it as possible. She quickly slapped the seal on it, and stabbed it with the kunai for good measure, before fluttering away again. If, in the end, this all proved for naught, then she would have a Body Switch ready that would take her out of the room and away from danger. She only hoped her comrades were as prepared.

 

[Chiyo]

Amy gave a small cheer at both her own as well as Okibi's success – though obviously the albino-esque girl had done much more than the redhead had. Even still, the young shinobi was very excited to have done her part, however small that part had been. Grinning a little as she watched the Djinn-Spawn, her grin fell slowly as she saw the creature growing stronger, it would seem it could absorb chakra energy from attacks.

The redhead's mouth dropped open as the thing formed itself into a ball and came charging after the trio, Amy rolled to the side to dodge the thing just as Tama shot a lightning bolt at it causing it to split into three and form pyramids. For a moment the three figures were still, and Amy took a tentative step toward the closest one before all three began to emit a sinister black energy. Jumping high into the air to dodge the first wave, she curled her body around in a flip, the end of her long hair just touching the wave of energy and burning off about an inch.

The girl let out a little whimper as she dropped back down to the ground to lay on her stomach with her hands pressing against the back of her neck, her body well below the trajectory of the black rings of death. She was way over her head here, and all she could think was how this could be considered a Genin exam. Her eyes closed and her small body trembling just a little, she stayed in the same position until she heard a light 'thunk' as a kunai stuck into the floor just in front of her head.

Blinking a couple of times, she lifted her head to look at the tag that was attached to it before looking toward the blonde scientist and nodding at his instruction. Clearly he had a plan, and that was much more than the student had, all she had was a strong desire not to die. Grabbing the kunai and sticking it between her teeth she did somewhat of an army crawl to the nearest pyramid and stuck the tag to its base - and stabbed the small blade into it for good measure - before crawling away once again and preparing herself to perform a Body Switch should Tama's plan go awry.