Playing with Guns [Open -- Please Join!]

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

A statuesque figure sat upon a tree, staring down the scope of a massive rifle. This was Nozomi's trusted companion and the reason behind the nickname given to her 'The Thunder Queen' or 'The Queen of Thunder' due to the massive and shattering boom that came from the weapon upon discharging a round. Due to her hunting for game, she equipped a much smaller barrel. She still kept the massive barrel in her possession, just in case. Her payload was reduced to a .308; big enough to kill a doe if shot behind the forward shoulders or throat. Something as big as the her Anti-Material rifle's ammo would turn the prey into pink mist; and she didn't want that. The only thing that moved for several hours was her head, remaining on a swivel for her prey. Snipers had to remain calm and patient, even if they had to wait through hours and hours before their prey arrived. It was something snipers prided themselves in; patience.

Her weapon looked funny with a puny .308 barrel upon it; it even made her laugh when she first saw it. Restraint was still needed, sadly. Her thoughts remained empty as she just focused on waiting for prey to walk into her line-of-sight. After one did, she patiently brought the weapon up to eye-level and got a good eye-relief, centering her cross-hair behind the massive buck's shoulders. Crossing in front of her line-of-sight was a doe along with a smaller child. Upon seeing this, she lowered her weapon and just let them pass. She set the weapon down and maintained her position once again. The need to pee struck her, but that scent would scare off the game. She just held it in.

A couple hours had passed, now into the mid-morning where she saw a small 80 pound deer cross her line-of-sight. She picked up the rifle and without hesitation, this time, she pulled the trigger and shot the deer directly behind the shoulder blades. The creature fell to it's side, kicking it's legs a bit and twitching. She ejected a round using the bolt-action of her rifle and took aim, this time at the head and fired once again, ending the creature's suffering. After having ended the creature's life, she maneuvered herself down the tree and over towards the dead-deer and pulled out a hunting knife and started to clean it.

"It was your unlucky day. My apologies. At least I didn't let you suffer for long," she said as she cut into the deer and started to clean it. She noticed that she was cutting into a female deer and took a sigh of relief when she realized the deer wasn't pregnant. She continued to cut into the deer, removing all of the good meat and placing them into her leather satchel; normally home to poisons, but for today it's home to meat. She estimated about 20 pounds of venison.

 

[Arinia Hiroyuki]

Yuki found himself in the forest yet again, something that had become a bit of habit. It was peaceful compared the the busy city and hectic academy where he spent most of his time training. But every day he would find himself coming to the forest. Today he had even decided to ditch class, a rarity in itself, and simply explore the peace that continued to call to him. I don't usually get to come out here in the morning like this, its even more calming at this time. Yuki thought to himself as he walked among the trees, his fingers brushing against the bark of a tree. However his peaceful walk was soon interrupted by an all too familiar smell, the pungent smell of blood. He had become all to accustomed to it during his training, whether at the academy or on his own, injuries being all too common in the shinobi life. I wonder if a creature just finished hunting nearby. Yuki thought as he continued to walk the smell getting stronger.

Soon a figure began to come into view between the tree, though it certainly wasn't a creature, but instead a grown woman. As Yuki drew closer he could make out more of the scene. She had clearly been hunting as she carried a large rifle with her and stood over the corpse of a doe having just been carved. Hunting wasn't exactly a rare thing, specially to shinobi who used it as a way to train their skills, so Yuki wasn't exactly shocked. "Ummm good morning", Yuki said as he continued to draw near. He didn't exactly feel like trying to hide or redirect his path so he figured the best course was to just announce himself and go from there.

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[Midori Futotta]

After getting a quick bite to eat, he decided to do some exploring in the Ancient Forest because it seemed like the kinda place where he would find some strange things that lurk in the darker parts. Rumors of things that sounded like they were supernatural while some things were said to medical experimentations that managed to escape the hospital to flee into this forest. He haven't ran into one of these mutants yet… well he's seen some kind of baby-doll-spider thing lurking around but besides that. Oh there was also that part of the Forest that almost made him holy but besides that everything else seemed pretty normal. At Maru's side was his Kensei Spirit Kawaii hovering swiftly across the ground with the grace of a ghostly predator, usually her presence around Maru was only strong around him but no one else seem to see her. Probably because she didn't want to be seen, but it did make him look crazy when he spoke to her since it looked like he was talking to no one...

Maru was still feeling a bit hungry since he's been knocked out for 72 hours from doing some intense genjustu training to make him a bit more accurate in using genjustu, he lost out on 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 3 dinners. He already ate at an all you can eat restaurant until he was thrown out and still felt hungry. He should really ask the medical branch to help him remove all his organs and blood to become a puppet again but then he'll lose the ability to use his signature move known as the all mighty Omni-Flash!!!!! The best and strongest Taijustu he knows. The young mercenary startled by the crack of gunfire which made yelp then duck behind a tree for cover, honestly he thought he was the only gunslinger around these parts since guns weren't exactly ‘shinobi.’ Kawaii could already tell where the gunshot came from. 'It came from about 20 meters from here, seems like it wasn't meant for you. A hunter? A child that you gave a gun to?’ Then Maru realized who that might be, and the mask rogue shot up seemingly happy. “It's Mastermind and his gang! He probably made his way to cloud after our little adventure, common hurry let's see what he gots planned.” He adjusted his masquerade mask, then began to run with his cape flowing behind him funtimes were here if Mastermind had found his way inside Kumo.

….

He followed where the sound came from, Kawaii pretty much directed him on where to go and to Maru's surprise it wasn't Mastermind. It was what he assumed to be a hunter butchering a deer, he repeated ‘ew’ in his head like a million times. That blood might get on his 2000 Yen outfit he had on, he picked a good time to wear white. However, this hunter was actually a huntress… when he realized this the blood and guts didn't really matter much to him anymore. Now weighing the pros and cons, in his mind it looked something like;

Pros:
>New clothes could be bought.
>She is pretty so doesn't matter.
>She owns a gun, he owns a gun.
>.... Beatiful!

Con's:
>Animal blood.

‘Welp pros wins!’ He thought then began strutting his way over to the mysterious gun girl without a care in the world. Kawaii rolled her eyes, then attached her spiritual chakra threads to Maru's limbs in case the girl would've tried for her wielder's life. The masked rogue stopped a few meters away just in case he might would've startled the woman, he leaned in to get a better glance at the gun she had then grin widely standing straight up holding his chest to prepare one of his best pickup lines yet to get the Kumo Shinobi’s attention. “Oh dear, you've shot a hole in my heart. Woah! And you did it from 20 meters away. How did you do that? What do you say we discuss this over- dinner or something?” He said making fingers guns to the woman soon after, then jolted remembering he didn't introduce himself. “Oh! Where are my manners, names Yamamoto Yamaru but I prefer my awesome title of Maru, Princess of Heart Protector of Light!” he said dramatically putting his hands on his hips to strike a pose. “Or just Maru. What's your name? And more importantly what's your friend's name here.” He said, referring to the kumo shinobis weapon, the weapon and her seemed close so he assumed that it was probably alive like his was. “Yo there, rifle. I'm Maru.”

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“Its shy.” Maru said, but his ghostly companion corrected him. ‘It's not a sentient weapon, its just a normal plain old, gun with no soul.’ Kawaii remarked, which slightly disappointed the rogue but whatever.

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[Ghost NPC Kawaii Entered and is visable cause of supernatural elements of forest]

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

Nozomi's clothing was covered in blood with her sleeves rolled-up, having her hands, wrist, and forearms bathed in the creature's blood. She heard the voice of a new person, darting her eyes at them while holding the carving knife in her hands. It was a child saying welcome to her. Gray eyes darted in the boy's general direction as she severed the gore from the creature's body and picked it up in her arms and escorted it away from the kill; she will have to bury that later with the rest of the corpse. Upon returning, she turned her eyes back to the child and waved a bloodied hand at the child before dropping the deer's heart into her satchel and picking up her knife and started to skin the creature carefully, as if trying to preserve the pelt. She cut with precision, taking a few tries to cut through the extremely thick hide. "Want some of the meat? There's like, 20 pounds of venison here, if you want a little bit," she offered.

"Ever hunted before?" she simply asked while still carving off the creature's pelt. After all of her incisions were made, she started to hack at the layer of skin connecting the hide to the fleshy parts. Once she was finished rendering the hide from the creature, she folded it as neatly as she could, without causing a crease in it, next to the satchel where the actual meat would go. "As long as you use every part of the kill, people won't think you're a monster. Absolutely hate poachers," she said as she turned the blade around and stabbed it into the bullet wound. She made a big enough incision to where she could fish out the metal bullet from it's body. The one in the head didn't matter as that part isn't going to be eaten. She tossed the bullet over her shoulder, letting it splat upon the forest's floor.

Another voice pierced through the air causing Nozomi to blink. She looked around for a moment, looking towards Hiroyuki before asking, "Did you hear that?" she asked before turning her eyes towards the one that walked up, making a stupid comment. "If you are here to court me, move a long," she squeezed in before he addressed himself as 'Maru, Princess of Heart -- Protector of Light' which caused Nozomi to stop what she was doing and just look at Maru with an extremely blank expression. She was dumb-founded from what she just heard. Who, in their right minds, would call themselves that other than someone lacking the proper mental stability?

Before she was able to say anything, she noticed Maru talking to her rifle. "You have 5 seconds to either state your business or leave," she said as she put the knife down and picked up her rifle, replacing the barrel of the weapon to the standard .959 configuration; a weapon that would punch holes into space/time with how huge it was. "You see a man like this, child?" she asked, turning her eyes towards the boy named Hiroyuki. She looked at him for a moment before turning her eyes to look towards Maru. "Don't grow up acting or talking like this man," she said before loading in a full magazine with bullets the size of the large Monster Energy Drink cans. She clicked the magazine into place, pulled the bolt back to chamber a round and pointed the weapon directly at Maru.

[Sorry for the late response. Working on a bmod just wiped me out yesterday]

 

[Midori Futotta]

'Instantly shut me down already? Must be playing hard to get.’ Maru thought, snickering to himself as if he took the rejection like a challenge. Although after his title seemed to have her look up at him with a extremely blank expression as if staring him down. Or up since he was standing up… with that she ordered the young mercenary to tell her what he was doing or leave. He looked to see the woman go for her rifle, and boy was it huge, bigger than his signature weapon that was for sure. Was it a gun or a huge cannon? By the size of the rounds she was loading into it the thing gotta be a cannon of some kind. Then there was the thought of how heavy the thing actually was, like it had to be hella heavy from how long it took her to load it. Unless she gots some kinda superhuman strength, a weapon like that even he wouldn't be able to hold since he wasn't exactly a– 'Oh… Ooooooooooooooooooooh….’ He then realized that she was loading the huge rifle to point it at him. He looked into the gun one more time to see if it had teeth or something. But nope, just a regular everyday weapon which was pretty disappointing.

Finally coming back to earth, the masked rogue decided to finally answer the woman's question. “Right! Business! Uhhh-...” He thought for a bit. “Well after getting me a quick bite to eat I heard some people talking about the Ancient Forest and the crazy things that go on in here. They said that there was some mutant creatures that escaped from the hospital so I came out here to check it out.” The rogue explained, continuing. “I was making my way deeper into the forest when I heard a gunshot and thought it was probably some friends that traveled here. I followed where I heard the gunshot then and I find a rather beautiful looking gun girl gutting a helpless animal.” He made finger guns at the woman, making a kissy face before jolting realizing that he didn't show off his weapon.

“Oh and nice weapon too. My signature weapon is a firearm too but it isn't as… bulky as yours is. Check it.” he said before reaching into his mask to pull out long, white and gold, Percussion-lock, rifled musket from underneath his mask. It was almost in the similar fashion a magician would pull a rabbit out of the hat. He twirled the standard looking musket within his hand before throwing it over his shoulders/as if trying to impress the lady. “Pretty cool huh?” Maru said, however his Kensei Spirit didn't find the woman amusing at all. Kawaii lived inside of the signature weapon but her soul was mostly preserved because Maru was still alive. He dies, she goes too, and that was something that she couldn't let happen. After Maru had his little fun playing lover boy, she decided to speak up.’Excuse me… but pulling out that… abomination you call a weapon on someone who isn't being aggressive is considered a crime in most countries.’ she glared at the woman, Maru mouth dropped open then attempted to clean up what his ghostly companion was saying. “Oh ignore her, you're just frightening her with-” he was cut off by his kensei spirit, her next statement made him facepalm at the third wheeling she as doing. ’It's hard to be scared of.someone wearing cat ears and took an hour to load one round. Maybe Mittons here wants to see herself shoot herself with her own gu-’ Maru cocked his arm back then threw his own signature weapon as far as he could behind him to hopefully shut her up already, the spirit vanished and the musket stopped in mid air. And wrapped itself around a tree branch to keep itself from falling onto the ground. While Maru attempted pleaing for Nozomi’s forgiveness the musket was slithering back to her wielder like a snake, and like a snake it meant that the metal itself was bending as if it was actually a snake then extended itself to wrap itself around Maru's hand before the handle found itself back into his hand once more. His Kensei Spirit separating itself from the weapon to reappear behind the rogue before held her hand out then made Maru punch himself in the side of his head with the hand that held the weapon. 'You know.... A non sentient weapon doesn't seem half bad.' he thought to himself, rubbing his head to sooth his head. "Again... Sorry."

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

Nozomi lowered the rifle for a moment when she heard about some mutated creature running around the ancient forest. She had been here since the crack of dawn and hadn't seen anything like that running about. Her lips tugged to the side a bit at the prospect of that creature being ever-present and possibly nearby. She almost completely dropped her weapon until the sexual harassment flung her way from the masked person. She squeezed off a round, barely missing Maru's face; the feeling of the air pressure left by the bullet shot could be felt by him. The sound of cracking thunder also echoed throughout the forest coming from her massive rifle 'the Thunderclap'. "I will ask you, one last time, to address me in a proper manner. No kissy-faces or stupid hand gestures. If you wish to address me something, call me Nozomi," she stated as she re-adjusted her aim to put her cross-hairs at Maru's throat. She won't hesitate to actually shoot him next time in a mortal location.

She didn't know whether or not to take the description of her weapon as 'bulky' as an insult or not. A weapon of this size HAD to be 'bulky' otherwise it would get destroyed the first time it got fired. She grumbled a bit, since it was a weapon she ended up manufacturing herself, but all that went away when he showed his percussion lock rifle. This piqued at her interest. The glint of the percussion lock mechanism drew her eyes towards the weapon, causing her to lower her aim. With a round still chambered, she engaged her safety and put her weapon away. She approached the weapon and started to analyze it. It was smooth and clean in appearance and everything seemed to be in top-working order.

"Yes, it is a very nice looking weapon. Very clean and exquisite in appearance. I wonder how it handles," she said as she continued to look around the weapon. This old-style weapon reminded her of one of her other weapons. She reached down to the holster upon her right hip and pulled out her weapon, the Peace Keeper. She held the weapon in her hand and spun it around, as if she actually knew how to use it. After spinning it around, she started to spit out the specifications on the weapon with it's nominal range, the ammunition it took and the rate of fire. She didn't give away too much information on it in the event she'd have to actually use it against Maru.

Her attention was taken from displaying her weapons to another voice that popped up, prompting her to quickly aim her weapon in the direction she heard the voice. While she did let her guard down at the show-and-tell of the weapons, she was always on high-alert; it came with the territory of her job. "I don't think anyone would shutter or mourn for a foreigner-pervert if he were to die," she said to the gun before Maru ended up shutting her up. She quickly sheathed her revolver and turned her eyes towards Maru. "I suggest speaking to the people of Kumogakure with respect if you want respect in-return. Your little finger-gun non-sense," she said as she half-heartedly pantomimed the action. "won't earn you any favors. And keep your desires in your pants. Nobody wants to see that," she said in a matter-of-fact manner. She wasn't speaking in a non-sensical manner nor was she speaking in a flirtatious manner.

"Don't worry about that," she said as she paused for a moment, thinking of a good way to explain the ghost in the weapon. "person that came from your weapon. She isn't entirely wrong. But she should really correct your mannerism before correcting others. Your attitude will get you killed." she said before looking around the forest for a brief moment, turning her gaze back at the child that she had met to begin with. She tilted her head for a brief moment and returned to rendering the meat off of the animal. "Go into detail about this creature," she asked of Maru before reaching for the knife and starting to cut meat from the creature.

 

[Midori Futotta]

Nozomi’s gun went off, nearly hitting the masked rogues face which startled him a bit causing him to yelp in a high pitch squeal. If he was in any kind of danger, Kawaii would've intervene but even she could see that was a warning shot however she didn't like it one bit. Maru however immediately forgave the woman since he didn't really mind women acting violent towards him, after all he could simply run if it came down to it since hurting girls wasn't exactly his thing. A major flaw on Maru part. Straightening up his back, he took in what Nozomi had to say. “Nozomi hm? That's a beautiful name too, first time a girl actually gave me her name and me not have to work for it.” He placed his hands on his hips then laughed, before feeling a slight joy out of hearing the woman compliment on his well taken care of musket. The weapon of course mostly represented what Maru wanted to be. Skinny, shiny, not too heavy, everso changing, good looking and not too heavy. ‘Yes! Knew she'd go for it!’ Maru snickered to himself.

Maru was pretty easy to blindly like, trust, fall in love, or even follow people. Kawaii however, wasn't as kind as the young mercenary was nor did she like this woman at all. From what she understood, she was willing to kill a person for the simple fact that they were annoying and she knows she would get away with it because her wielder was a foreigner from what Mittons had to say. She. Didn't. Like. This. Woman. ’So let me get this straight and please correct me if I'm wrong Mittons’ she began, not fearing her dumb weapon being pointed at her. Nor respecting that this Kumo Shinobi had a actual name, referring to her as Mittons since she was more animal than human. ’So what you're saying is that you are willing to murder my wielder because your asexual self finds his flirting annoying enough to warrant death even though my wielder wasn't acting violent nor touching.’ she said, folding her arms. It didn't matter if she didn't like what her wielder said, he didn't threaten her so what she did was assault. If she wanted to easily get rid of the woman, the spirit was pondering on commanding Maru to attack but that seemed risky if they attacked first. ’Then I'm sure if we go report that you are shooting at non violent visitors to the Raikage or Sennin they would agree with your actions. And that's IF we… no I decided to take the legal route and report you. I would simply prefer making my wielder burn your body and soul since a afterlife is too good for murder happy scum like you.’

'Dangit Kawaii.’ although his spirit was merely trying to look out for him, he wasn't going to take things that far. Reporting the woman? Common now, she really needed to let things go. When Nozomi told him that she needed to correct his mannerism the rogue puffed out his cheeks. “You know she's not my mom right? She's kinda like supposed to be my gun spirit partner but she acts a bit too bossy at times.” He said, hopefully de escalating the situation even though Kawaii still didn't like the woman at all. When the woman asked about the mutant thing he was looking for he jolted, his hair shoots up as he just remembered about what he originally was out here looking for. “Right! Details on the critter! Hold on!-” he reached into his mask again to pull out a small piece of paper from underneath his mask then looks at the paper of the thing he was looking for. “Well the mutant looks like a huge dude, a very, very, very, very… very HUGE dude. The thing has a bunch of eyes on his chest, some of its neck, and all over its face but it's got about a average looking mouth. It also gots a lot of scars, like he's sewn up. Oh the thing has no hair or shirt but it does wear pants.” He paused. He thought his description of the thing sounded a bit weird so he just showed the woman a sketch of the thing that he was trying hard to describe. “It looks like this! This guy looks interesting, have you seen anything like that walking around here?”

The Critter​

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

Nozomi wasn't one to play petty games on people. She is far-too-direct for mind-games like that. Maru wasn't a target of her's so she had no reason to 'play with her food'. She returned to rendering the deer and putting it's remains into her bag. The one named Kawaii came out of where she came from to berate her, but Nozomi paid her absolutely no mind. There was no reason to respond to her jibberish. She gets that she needs to protect him, but her jibber-jabber just went in through one ear and out the other. Her mind seemed too pre-occupied with cutting up the meat of this deer to deliver to the Sweetwater Orphanage than to get into a bitching contest with a disembodied spirit.

She did, however, respond to Maru's voice, turning her eyes towards him as he spoke in response to what his weapon-spirit had said. "I don't care," she said as she put more meat in the bag; the bag filling up quite nicely. After she rent all of the surface meat, she started to break the bones of the creature, hacking off the bones at the hip and shoulders to pull out just the rib-cage. It was too much of a pain to rend the meat from the ribs so she pulled the whole thing out. It wasn't much meat, but it was sweet and tender.

His words returned to the mutant and this had piqued at her interest. She had finished tearing the torso out from the corpse and dragged it away, placing it upon the deer-skin that she cut away earlier. She kept an ear open to listen to the information he knew about the creature. She was shown a piece of paper after dragging the ribs onto the skin and looked at it. She didn't show a look of disgust upon her face, but she did turn to look at Maru. Maru went into more detail to explain this thing to her and she shook her head. "No, never seen it before. Help me take this food to where it needs to go and I'll help you dispatch that monster," she said before moving away from Maru to a place about 20 feet away from the kill and threw down the knife. She flipped through a few handseals and it created a hole in the ground.

She walked back over to the rest of the corpse and said a small prayer before putting it in, flipping through more handseals before the hole closed itself up. She made another set of handseals and touched the rubs, upon the deer-skin with the two floating up into the sky; like the ribs were floating on a magic carpet. Gravity jutsu can be very useful outside of combat. She hefted the bag of meat over her shoulder and turned to look towards Maru and hooked her head. "You coming?" she asked as she turned to look at the magic-carpet-riding rack of ribs.

 

[Midori Futotta]

Well at least the woman didn't pay the spirit of his weapon any mind, since there was kinda a limit to what ghost could actually do a person without a body he believed that she should be safe. But then again she was able to touch him without a problem, he wouldn't be surprised if his spiritual companion turned out to be a poltergeist since she was capable of pinching, biting, hitting, scratching and tripping him at least. Only thing he haven't seen her do yet was touch other people so she might not be that strong yet but he could just hope that she wasn't that tough. With that little back and forth over they went back to the topic of the critters that he was hunting that he believed was lurking within this forest. Unfortunately, the woman hasn't seen the mutant which was probably expected. Honestly he was going off some folklore and some accounts from the locals who said they experienced something similar with a few changes in the critters mannerisms but they all came to a hulking, multi eyed, scarred thing lurking around in the forest. If he was actively looking for the thing, he was sure that he could catch it if he found the critter.

The masked man cheeks turned pink, clasping both hands together and kicking his left leg behind him seemingly overjoyed at Nozomi's willingness to help him. “So if I help you take this food where it needs to go, you'll help me hunt the critter? Sounds groovy!~♥” Maru said, sounding pretty excited. Then he wondered how they were going to carry the stuff, so he figured she probably had a bag of but instead she created a huge hole in the ground before setting the dead creature inside before saying a small prayer for the creature before burying it. 'Ooooooooooookay a little much.’ He thought to himself. Before he knew it, the ribs were floating around which amazed him since they were floating magic carpet style. This could only mean one thing, the woman summon the spirit of the animal to help her carry the ribs which was a pretty logical to Maru at least. When the woman heaved the bag of meat over her shoulder with floating ribs the rogue began hurry along to catch up with his new goddess. “Right, on the way!” With a dramatic pull of his cape he pretend flew over to the woman's side. His Kensei Spirit folding her arms, keeping close had already said enough to the woman already so she kept silent for now but she gave a really mean look her wielder while he careless twirled the weapon in his hand before pulling one end of his mask to put his shiny musket back inside of his mask where he usually store items. She had been warned, that was all that needed to be said.

Realizing that he wasn't actually, helping with the food he decided to offer some help since that's what gentlemen do. “Oh! Want me to carry that bag for you? Seems weird for me to help you and not really do anything.” he remarked, at least offering.

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

"Yes," she responded to Maru as she readjusted the bag upon her shoulder. She didn't need any help with this package, having carried much more on her back before -- a canon, currently not present, was much heavier than about 30 lbs of meat. As the two started to make their way back into town, she noticed his strange, yet flamboyant mannerisms. "Capes will only get you killed in close combat, you know that right," he said in a matter-of-fact manner. She also thought capes looked goofy, but that's just her opinion. Cloaks are fine, capes are goofy.

"No. I can manage, thanks," she said as the two of them walked out of the forest and towards a well-worn building with a wrought-iron gate with the words 'Sweetwater Orphanage' inscribed in an iron-sheet. There were subtle signs of rusting on the gate and the sign, itself. A gothic, wrought-iron fencing surrounded the entirety of the large 3 story building with children playing visibly behind the gates. They were playing with a bright red ball, seemingly having a good time. Nozomi waited patiently at the gate-entrance only to be noticed by a few of the kids playing. "Miss Nozomi!!" the kids shouted out, stopping what they were doing and rushed over to the gate. The red ball they were playing with bounced alone until it ran out of momentum and came to a stop.

The kids opened the gate and held it open for Nozomi and Maru, bringing in a massive gift for them. "More deer, Miss Nozomi?" they asked as they looked at the rack-of-ribs and their mouths began to water. One of the girls in the group, about 7 years old, turned to look towards Nozomi, tugging on her parka and pointed at Maru. "Who is that stupid looking villain-guy? I swore I saw him on a cartoon!" she said as Nozomi turned her eyes towards Maru for a moment and smiled at the child; a legitimate smile came across her face as she reached down and pat the girl upon the top of the head.

"He is a nice man that helped me bring all of this here to you. So please don't call him a villain. His clothes look stupid, but he is a nice man. Other than that, I don't know who this is. But me and him are going to go hunt down a monster!" she said in a hyped-up manner, to get the kids hyped up. They all gasped and looked up to the goofy-dressed man and looked at him with bright eyes. "So you're a monster hunter!? That's so cool! Tell us about some of the monsters you've hunted sometime!" one of the kids said with the others nodding their head in agreement.

"Maybe some other time, alright? We will tell you all about it after we are done, okay?" she said as she gave all of the children a great, big, group-hug. Afterward, a group of the kids pushed the still-floating rack-of-ribs and group-carried Nozomi's bag into the orphanage, leaving Maru and Nozomi in relative silence. She turned to look towards Maru for a moment. "Alright, we have a monster to hunt. Lead the way," she said, upholding her end of the bargain.​

MFT -- 539 words

 

[Midori Futotta]

Making his way into town with the woman, his cape flowed as he walked with the woman. Kawaii deciding to make herself invisible so she wouldn't draw attention to herself unless one of these people could actually see ghost which was pretty rare among civilians. When Nozomi told Maru about how capes would get him killed in close combat he jolted in surprise at the remark. “Hey, capes add some flair to anyone that wears one. Nothing says that ‘I'm important’ more than sitting on a horse on a mountain top with your cape and long flowing hair flowing majestically in the wind while looking down upon people.” Maru stated, then from underneath his mask he pulled out a book that had a strange looking cartoony villain on the cover. Turning to the page about capes."Plus it says that capes make people look more than what they are. Capes hero's look more heroic, Shinobi look more ninja, a kage look more of power, and villain's look more evil. So a cape is a must if I want to look more…. Like Royalty! Someone mistaken me for a celebrity one time.” After discussing the importance of wearing a cape apparently the book didn't really discuss how effective they would be in battle. While Nozomi came up with a fact that capes would be bad in close combat Maru's argument was that capes are necessary because… it makes you look important.

It was rather unfortunate that she didn't allow him to carry anything, but he follow her anyway trying to figure out what kind of magic was used to make these ribs float. Once they got to their destination, Maru looked up at the huge orphanage and gasped since he never really saw a orphanage that looked this good. But maybe that was because he usually hung around bad areas and in the outer village. Maru was shocked when hearing one of the few kids who were playing outside call out Nozomi by name, who was even more shocked was Maru's kensei spirit upon seeing the Nozomi's mannerisms towards the orphans.’Hmmmm…. So Mittens isn't such a violent outlaw like I thought’ She said to her wielder before one of the children pointed Maru out saying that he looked like a villain they saw on a cartoon once and Maru looked at Nozomi as if to say ‘Told ya’ before letting the woman explain that he wasn't a supervillain but a Monster Hunter. He was more than happy to tell them about the amazing and fantastic beast that he found but Nozomi seemed to want to tell them later.

Before, Kawaii would've probably not help Nozomi and probably would refuse to be used to rescue the woman should the monster would hand her behind to her or if the beast would deliver a killing blow she would shut down Maru's consciousness so the creature could just finish the woman off. But after seeing how the Kumo Shinobi was with the orphans it would be a shame for Maru to come back to report that Mittens died. Looks like she would be helping her after all. With the orphans gone there was a awkward silences between them with Maru looking slightly downward before shooting his glance back up raising his hand. “Right, Monster hunt, let's go!” He said, flexing his cape to give off that dramatic ‘fwoosh’ sound before heading back to the direction of the Ancient Forest.

….

About some time walking, they almost seemed like they weren't getting anywhere closer to where they needed to go. Maru told stories he heard from the locals about their being a stitcher who was a medical researcher who was using various parts of fallen ninja to stitch together new designs for abominations. The one that they were looking for was one of the macabre creations of this madman who escaped from the hospital… or set free. They were just rumors he heard from the locals and folklore, he's seen a bunch of creatures stalking the darker parts of the Ancient Forest so he was sure that he could find it around. Maru was on all fours, crawling around like a dog trying to inspect around for footprints or smell around for rotting flesh. Honestly it looked like the rogue was just crazy before they ran into what looked to be trees bent in a odd angles as if something ran into them while making its escaped with huge human like footprints with like 8 toes only this humanoid foot was 10x bigger than any humans. “Aha! We found critter tracks.” He examined the footprint closely gesturing his hand for Nozomi to come to him to check out the footprint as proof that he wasn't a madman.

Then he looked at the path before them which had trees that looked either like the creature bumped into or tramped all together. The wood on some of the tree trunks were cracked, bent, and most of the trees were knocked over entirely. Whatever that it was that was trying to get away really wanted to get out in a hurry, poor thing must've gotten chased. He stood up straight, then reached in his mask to pull out his musket then spun it in his hand. “Welp looks like the critter made it easier for us to find it. Let's follow the trail.” he was about to head off to the trail until he heard a small groaning sound coming from a behind one of the bent trees. Maru decided to get a head start then run behind the trees to their right on the trail but as soon as Maru saw what was behind the tree he instantly cussed loudly.

“DAMN!”

Nozomi would hear, then upon investigating she would see why. A man in a lab coat was FOLDED backwards like a sandwich, his arms bent in odd angles with his legs broken beyond repair, the man's glasses were cracked and bent. His science looking clothing was in tatters, cuts and bruises all over his face. His chest was heaving, blood hurling as he tried to speak to the duo with tears streaming down his cheeks. From what it looked like, the critter broken all the man's limbs, folded him, then tossed him aside. “Welp I guess that's our cue to turn back.” Maru said.

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

'Critter tracks' he called it. Something with a foot that large isn't a critter! It was an abomination; a monster! She carried her rifle in her hands and looked around, keeping her senses open to any stimulation that would cause her to go into high alert. The stories of the stitcher that Maru mentioned earlier clung to her mind; a bit of background on this creature was exactly what she needed. If she wanted to fight, even kill this thing, she would need SOME information on it. Maru's willingness to give up the information was wise of him. "If you called that a critter, I'd hate to see what you'd see as a monster," she said as her head remained looking left, right, up and down. She felt terribly exposed on the ground, preferring the high-ground over being caught down-in-the-dirt like this.

She turned towards the man as he pulled out a weapon from his mask. She blinked, astonished at what she saw. She needed to come up with some way to keep her weapons on her in a more discrete fashion. That and so she could bring along her cannon. Carrying that thing was a pain and only brought with her on special excursions. "On you," she said as she allowed Maru to take the lead. The fact that they were in close proximity to the creature put her on high-alert. A loud expletive was shouted by the rogue prompting her to quickly jump ahead towards Maru only to wince at what she saw. A man in a lab-coat was folded in half. She didn't fear this creature. If anything, seeing this person in the 'shape' they were in only increased her fervor to take down this creature.

"If this thing is loose inside of the village, then we need to stop it before it hurts anyone else," she looked at him with a stone-cold expression. "You brought me on this monster hunt. We're going to kill this thing, do you understand?" she said. If something this strong and terrifying was active in the Ancient Forest, it needed to be brought down. Children come here, civilians come here, and even shinobi come here. Having something as dangerous as this creature roaming around may spell out disaster. She turned her eyes down towards the direction of the footprint and started to make her way in that direction.

[MFT] -- 396 Words​

 

[Midori Futotta]

“But-” the rogue stopped himself. She was right about not having this critter run around the village unchecked, if it got out the critter may just go on a rampage inside of the village and end up FOLDING more people like this poor scientist dude who wasn't ready for dealing with a man made creature like that. However, did it had to be them to actually kill the beast? It could be just going into hiding, just don't let people go into the forest or better yet sick some fully capable Anbu on the thing when it decided to go wild in the village. It really didn't have to be them to kill the damn critter but he didn't say anything since… well it kinda made him look bad if he ran away but still worried him that the woman hadn't actually seen a delt with a critter before at least from what he assumed since she didn't have knowledge that this stitched abomination even exist. Following in behind the woman, Maru marched with his musket in hand down the conveniently obvious trail that the critter made for them. Hoping that the critter wasn't as big and mean as they thought it would be…

…

Walking down the path, the footprints ended when when the duo had gotten to the mouth of a cave it was obvious that the critter was somewhere inside. Maybe it was because there had been human bones scattered around the entrance, possibly because there appeared to be ruins scattered about the area. Now if they were going to fight this thing, the rogue believed it would be a lot smarter to fight the thing outside of the cave because there were a lot of places for them to hide behind if they needed cover plus more space for them to dodge should they need to because he doubted that the critter would just grovel and be a easy kill. “Alright.” He said, strapping his musket to his back and confidently placed his fists on his hips as his cape blew in the wind. “Inside of that cave is the critter! I'm not a big fan of fighting inside of caves since you can easily get cornered so I plan on drawing the critter out of it'e hidey-hole. If you please.” He explained, reaching inside of his mask to pull out two of his old pistols from underneath his mask… cleared his throat…. then began shooting into the air! Stomping his feet and yelling like a lunatic into the shadow of the cave.“CRITTER! CRITTER! CRITTER!” the rogue yelled while shooting in the air to purposely cause a ruckus that was until he ran out of bullets with his dual pistols and so Maru put them back into his mask then began to weave handseals. “Turning the heat up in this bitch, making it toastay!” He took in a deep breath then exhaled dark gray cloud of ash that covered the inside of the cave to attempt to smoke out the critter. However there was still no sign of the critters so Maru continued making a racket until it came out.

“CRIIIIIIIIIITER! CRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITER! CRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITER!!! CRIT~!”

Maru's annoying shouting was cut off by a teeth rattling roar coming from the blackness of the cave. The air pressure from the putrid smelling battle cry pushed Maru back at least five steps before the roaring stopped, then everything went stil. It almost seemed like that was it.. it seemed that the they was staring at the blackness of the cave for a while until they heard the thumping sound of something big inside of the cave galloping like a gorilla toward them fast before slowing down.

Thump! Thump! Thump!..... Thump… Thump… Thump!!!!

A massive hand emerged from the blackness, powerful muscular limbs came to the light as the creature revealed it's ugly head. The picture of the creature didn't really do the thing justice from how it looked in person. The beast was a 12 foot tall abomination of pure muscle, yellowish green skin had been covered in scars from whoever made this thing stitching the undead creature together, old wounds oozed a weird black liquid from it's stitches as it gripped onto the end of the cave and opening all of it's hideous eyes. Countless eyes squinting at the light from the sun, adjusting it's eyes to cast it's stare upon the duo. Some of it's eyes were spastically looking around but at least 5 of it's eyes looked down at them. Maru backed up slightly when seeing the horror before him open it's mouth to revealed huge mismatched yellow teeth that looked stained with blood and black gums as it let a inhuman growl loose through clenched teeth. It's massive hand that gripped the mouth of the cave for support gripped tighter causing the stone to crack, the stitch on its head began to open when it made a face of pure rage, pretty cranky from being woken up to the racket of a certain someone. Maru looked back at Nozomi, pulling his musket his back then pulled it's strap off. "Uhhhhhh… Well the Critter is out.” He laughed nervously. It's arm— a massive muscular Python– swiped at Maru in a attempt at grabbing him but he threw himself backwards landing a about five meters away from the critter.

Maru took off his mask (however his face was still covered by a second black masquerade mask he kept on) to turn his mask upside to make one, two, three, four, eight copies of his signature weapon fall from his mask into the soil before putting his mask back on… this is when the real monster hunt would begin.

The STITCH CRITTER!!

Status: Angry
Weapons: Bare Hands
Ability: Healing Factor

[Maru and Nozomi had found The Stitched Critter! It is big, mean, cranky, and very ugly. The monster heals +3 each round since it gots slow regeneration however it can't heal illusionary attacks. Note that it only heals only +3 post and most high ranking attacks from A Rank are worth -10.

A Rank: -10
B Rank: - 9
C Rank: - 8
D Rank: - 7
E Rank: - 6
Basic: -4

Make sure you post the attack you're doing and also don't let critter heal to 100% otherwise it will escape also it will attack using unarmed attacks too! Happy hunting!]

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

Nozomi felt her blade quiver upon her hip as a loud roar could be heard in her head. This prompted her to place a hand upon her forehead with a grimace crossing her lips. If she could hear this loud, horrifying roar, so can the creature -- which means the abominable monstrosity is nearby. She looked into the maw of the cave, seeing nothing but a dark abyss before her. Lowering her hands, she returned it to the rifle and held it in the ready-position. She didn't need to get a bead on this creature, quite yet, as it hasn't made itself known. She felt too exposed out in the open, which made her feel extremely uneasy, preferring to stick to the back of the engagement rather than up-front. The blade quaked once again, it's eye springing to life and moving around violently on it's own. Hoisting her rifle, she unsheathed the Starbringer Sword and looked into the eye. It looked agitated and bloodthirsty.

Then Maru made a comical proclamation. His cape flowing dynamically in the 'wind' that blew. She turned and looked towards the man for a moment; stuck between confusion and disgust from the over-the-top show that he was putting on. Whether this was his real-self or a goofy facade was still up-in-the-air. Pop! Pop! Pop! Gunshots rattled the air as Nozomi took a step back for a moment.
She didn't have her earplugs in at the moment, which caused her ears to ring from the sound. "You are seriously just going to ask the creature to come out? Do you really think that'll --" she said before eating her words.

The shooting in the air was just part of the show -- the real bit was the Scalding Ash Cloud that he vomited into the cave that caused the creature to come out. "Well, I guess that's one way to coax it out," she said as she picked up the StarBringer Sword and held it up into a defensive position. Thump thump thump! It was as if the creature was responding to the gunshots from earlier. The ground rattled beneath her until it poked it's ugly head out from the cave. The creature had many eyes, each of which made the thing that much more ugly and repulsive. She grasped her StarBringer Sword and held the weapon to her chest. The eye of the blade transformed into a strange, circular device that started to spin. A brilliant red-light started to envelope her, even changing her appearance. Her appearance changed to a skin-tight red spandex suit with a strange looking helmet over her face.

After the transformation, she turned the StarBringer Sword downwards and impaled it into the ground. As the blade was impaled, another red light enveloped her for a brief moment before being sucked into the blade, reverting her to her usual appearance. The ground rumbled underfoot for a moment. "You're going to want to step back," she warned Maru before jumping back, equipping her Anti-Material Rifle at the same time. After a brief moment, a terrifying roar could be heard by Maru, Nozomi, and the 12 foot tall abomination. The ground splintered and ruptured open. With explosive force, a creature of terrifying size and demeanor popped up out from the hole, releasing an ear-piercing roar.

Her name was Anna Rose. A monstrosity that stood at 40 meters tall, being 55 meters from tip of snout to tip of tail. A look of anger could be seen in the creature's eyes as it breathed heavily, sniffing the air for a moment. "Anna Rose! It's time to eat!" she said as she pointed at the abomination.

"Pretty sure that'll taste like shit! I don't wanna eat it!" the creature shouted out. It had a smooth feminine voice with a pinch of a feral attitude in it's voice.

"Eat it and I'll buy you TWO cows!" she said before Anna Rose paused for a moment to calculate 2 cows. After it finally clicked in her head, she jumped up, causing the ground to rumble and turned to look towards the abomination and let out a massive roar. The clouds began to part before a white colored meteor began to fall from the sky. Noticing this, Nozomi sheathed her rifle and formed together a series of handseals. A rainbow ribbon appeared from around Nozomi, shooting forward to wrap itself around the creature in order to bind it -- giving Anna Rose's jutsu a free hit.​

[MFT] -- 744 Words

Nozomi's Actions:
- Summons Anna Rose
- RAINBOW FLASH Master Rank to Bind the Monster

Anna Rose's Actions:
- Stardust Nova Master Rank happening after the bind.

 

[Midori Futotta]

The furious creature was about to attack Maru again, it's powerful arm moving backwards about to land a devastating blow to him but the rogue took two muskets into his hands then fired at the creatures hand to knock the attack off course. Luckily, Kawaii had loaded a musket ball that had a explosive Topaz round within it that contained electrical chakra that was meant to cause the critter muscle paralysis. A good chunk of meat from it's hand was blasted off it's rotting hand and the second shot from his other weapon pierced through the things chest causing black liquid to splatter to the ground. It was slowly beginning to regenerate, then Maru heard another terrifying roar coming from in behind him and he glanced back to see that there was ANOTHER critter that decided to join in unannounced. A 40 meter tall monstrous lizard that Maru believed to be a freaking dinosaur, he thought those things were all dead! Like, anyone knows that they were all blown up and that they are just bones in the museum now but here one was alive and well. The rogue was considering OMNIFLASHING the dinosaur that appeared from nowhere but it seemed to be a ally because Nozomi seemingly was ordering the thing around. Plus Nozomi's outfit was rather…. different. He couldn't recall where he saw that kind of outfit before, perhaps within one of those manga about giant mechanical puppets that he probably ignored but it was a cool outfit.

The monster after recovering from the muscle paralysis it reeled back it's hand, it's hand glowing a red before sending a devastating blow towards the creature but it missed it by a inch, must've not recovered fully from the paralysis from one of Maru's Special rounds but with quick thinking Nozomi ended up binding the creature successfully by rainbow ribbon of chakra! The beast struggled and gave Nozomi a thumbs then while the giant lizard went in for the free hit Maru picked up one of his muskets to prepare for a transformation of his own since it looked like it would take a lot of OMNIFLASHES to take this thing down. “Common Kawaii it's Kindred Fusion time, need those OMNIFLASHES.” He said then musket began to glow gold then surrounded Maru's body in a gold spiritual chakra as he began to merge with his weapon. A skill mastered by those who share a special bond with their weapon will allow the wielder to shapeshift into a new powerful form that grants the wielder all of the abilities that their signature weapon holds. The wielder becomes stronger, more accurate, their minds are linked, and the strongest taijustu currently in existence was available to him which was the almighty, unstoppable, OMNIFLASH. However unlike other Kensei's who probably would have way cooler forms Maru's fusion literally mimicked the form of what Kawaii looked like.

Yes golden spiritual chakra changed him from a handsome masked man to a cute 5’3 blondie! Maru's usual blackish blue hair turned from its normal color to gold with curly twin drills while the gold chakra that swirled around his feet worked its way up to transform his pants into a beige skirt with black tips along with transforming his boots and socks into gray and white striped leggings, with black and yellow knee-high boots. The gold chakra swirling upwards turned his shirt into a long sleeved dress shirt with puffs on the ends, his cape even transformed into a fancy looking brown corset to give him that hourglass shape, and the last article of clothing to change was his mask that transformed into Kawaiis small brown hat with white fur coming out of it that Maru caught before it fell then by the time he moved the hat to his head the gold chakra seeped into his skin to change his anatomy. His body went from looking masculine to developing a woman's curves, breast, and other things that might be painful to think about. By the time Maru's fusion was over with Anna Rose had already got her free hits it, blasting the monster 10 times and while five of those didn't exactly hit the creature fully, the other 4 we're successful while one got the critters in a vital area!

Maru in her (his) new form deciding that after the creature broke from it's binds that she (he) should bind the creature again. The creature throwing a blow to the giant lizards body actually made it's mark and landing a critical blow to the lizards body but it missed it's next striking. The rogue began to use his expanded knowledge of projectile taijustu to make his next barrage of attacks even more damaging. All but two of his attacks hitting their mark against the creature while one blasted off a more meat from it's side. “We are doing great mitt- I mean Nozomi! Just keep attacking”

The STITCH CRITTER!!

Status: Angry, Bleeding, No Hope
Weapons: Bare Hands
Ability: Healing Factor

[Maru's actions:
Voltaic Shot A Rank
Kindred Fusion S Rank
Flurry Shot+ Special actions+ Justu Expansion]

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

The creature went kablooey from Nozomi's and Ana Rose's combination attack. A glittering gold was spotted coming from Maru as his form changed; seemingly to that of the buxom blonde-haired weapon of his. Nozomi had to pause for a moment as she watched the overly glitterous transformation sequence. Her eyes opened and closed a couple times rapidly in confusion. While her transformation into a red, spandex-clad masked warrior was strange (happening only when summoning Anna Rose) this new transformation was just completely alien to the sniper. She had never seen anything like it. She had no idea what just happened and no idea why it was so attention-grabbing; a transformation sequence that could be seen from several miles away.

The walking pair of breasts; even after the transformation sequence, nearly called her a cat's name. While she enjoyed the company of the feline variety, now wasn't the time for goofy jokes. No, it was time for destruction. She didn't care about the creature's backstory nor did she care if the creature snapping that person in half (like a twig) was even justified. The fact that something with that kind of power running around, unchecked, was her motivation to hunt this thing down. If it was terrified, it wouldn't have resorted to such deadly measures. If it wanted to get away, it would have incapacitated the man. Folding a person in half was deliberate; a display of power that could only come from an inhuman creature -- one similar to the abomination before her.

The creature turned it's eyes towards Nozomi, prompting her to unsheathe her rifle and jump up into a nearby tree. It charged like a mad bull towards her, slamming firmly into the tree. Nozomi loaded in a bullet from her magazine and fired at the monster. Her bullet landed in the creature's chest, seemingly unfazed by the hot lead entering it's body. It started to shake the tree that Nozomi was in, causing her to lose her footing upon the tree. After shaking the tree, it gave it a big hug. The tree was much larger than the behemoth, yet it squeezed it so hard that the tree she was perched upon started to splinter. Taking this time to bail, the creature caused the tree to explode a myriad of splinters.

Anna Rose responded to this attempting to charge in towards the monster before getting completely clobbered across the face, causing it to reel back, avoiding the follow-up blow. Angered by this creature's attack, Anna Rose opened up it's mouth and let out a mighty roar, one that would potentially terrify. Sheathing her rifle, she pulled out her revolver and started to shoot the creature repeatedly in the legs. The bullets go from striking the shins, up to it's knee-caps, and up it's thigh. She aimed with masterful precision in order to slow it down. For such a big creature, it was FAST. Very fast! After depleting all sixth rounds in her revolver, she went into her ammo bag and pulled out a quick-loader, opened the cylinder, and replaced the bullets before fetching another quick-loader -- placing the one she just used in the ammo-pouch. She unloaded another six bullets into the monstrosity's legs.​

[MFT] -- 744 Words

Nozomi's Actions:
- Equip Anti-Material Rifle
- Basic Strike (Miss)
- Unequip Anti-Material Rifle
- Equip Peacekeeper
- Spam Called Shot legs

Anna Rose's Actions:
- Ancient Tyrrany r2

 

[Midori Futotta]

Mhm That's pretty much how she (he) expected the Kumo shinobi to react to the whole fusion thing. Nozomi looked pretty confused as to why his body now transformed into the appearance and anatomy of his Kensei Spirit. Heck Maru didn't even know that he could turn into a magical girl when he first fused with his weapon inside of his dream when he first found out that his weapon was sentient. It was only until he went to actually battle the baby-doll-spider so he could use OMNI-FLASH repeatedly was when he actually found out about his… ability. It was pretty useful to distract people in mid battle at the whole wtfness of the fusion, even the monster was confused as to where the man had gone or who this new person was attacking it. Which left the rogue a perfect chance to strike, taking aim with one of the her (his) muskets to fire a musket ball that was covered in a yellowish crystal and although it didn't do much damage, it hit it's mark then began to sprout yellow ribbons from the bloody wound to bind the creature again with hundreds of ribbon pinning it down then before tying itself into a bow to make the creature look like a present.

“Hup!” Maru kicked at the ground, pulling off a gold ribbon from around her (his) neck to whip the ribbon around his weapon to manipulate the golden spiritual chakra into transforming the small musket into a huge cannon before taking aim at the creature with the massive gun that looked too heavy enough for even Maru's female body to hold. Waiting until Nozomi attacked, she unfortunately missed which allowed Maru enough time to wink at the string causing the TNT strong to light up then as it reached the end, golden chakra gathered at the barrel of the cannon that the rogue held. Combining the power of both Ninjustu and Taijustu, the rouge did his favorite signature move which was the almighty unstoppable….. “Omni…. FLAAAAAASH!!!!!” she (he) yelled as a huge beam of spiritual energy was sent the creatures way. The creature swiped at Nozomi, but missed only to see a bright light coming it's way. As it looked up, a beam bright as the sun had already hit it's mark landing causing the thing to go up in a huge ball of spiritual chakra!

The cannon after the shot was fired then turned back into ribbons with golden magical sparkles falling to the ground below her (him) like snow as the trasformormed Maru landed elegantly onto the ground then bowed at her performance, believing the critter was done for since that Omni-Flash was a work of art she (he) didn't notice the massive fist as it connected to the blondes face, sending the pretty little princess flying into a tree. “Kyaaaa!!-” smash, the tree dented on upon impact. Maru rubbed the side of her (his) face, whimpering from the pain from the very ungentleman like critter that hit had the nerve to hit a girl in her face. “Ow.. Ow.. Ow.. Oooww!” While Nozomi handled the critter, it would seem that Maru and her (his) spirit would be arguing for allowing the creature to catch her (him) off guard. If someone were to take a guess at who was Kawaii and who was Maru in the body the personality that seemed a bit more mature with less of a squeaky sounding voice was the actual Kawaii and the girly girl dumb blonde personality was obviously Maru. The two souls in the same body looking from one end to the other, arguing while the battle unfolded in front of them;

”Dangit Maru learn to dodge!”

“But it caught me off guaaaaaaard, the critter is pretty fast.”

’Maybe if you actually use those eyes of yours to make it believe it's hands or arms are broken.’

“But you're the genjustu expert not me.”

’Move…’

“Nani?”

The monster attempting to swing it's fist to hit Nozomi missed, and instead was redirect towards Maru who uttered a eep before making a handseal then closed her (his) eyes before it delivered another devastating blow that looked like it crushed the rogue for good. But at the last minute Maru switched places with one of his puppets, the broken wooden doll of the mask rogue head rolled on the ground with bits and pieces of wooden parts smashed against the tree. The beast turned around then locked eyes with the giant lizard who gave it a weird stare that made the monster cower, shrinking back in terror as the other eyes seemed to look in all other directions will wondering what was going on before letting a desperate yell bellow out from it's throat. Maru hopping out of the tree he had hidden in landed onto the ground, then smiled. Time for another OMNI-FLASH

The STITCH CRITTER!!

Status: Angry, Bleeding, No Hope, Fractured Knees
Weapons: Bare Hands
Ability: Healing Factor

Maru’s Actions:
Grapple Shot B Rank
https://ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=429&t=2219

OMNI-FLASH A (Awesome) Rank
(Perfect Rasengan+ Destruction Power Shot)
https://ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=51363

Puppets Switch C Rank
https://ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=802&t=538[

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

Not only was she confused at the sudden transformation, but the sparkles and the flashy 'omni-flash' skill they used just made Nozomi lower her weapon and watch in awe. Anna Rose, the massive 40 meter tall creature did the same as they watched the sparkly magic turn into a beam of pure mayhem. The novelty wore off as the beam seemed to last a bit longer than she'd expected. Even Anna Rose returned to her regular, angry demeanor. No! She wouldn't get upstaged like this by a masked moron! No! She isn't gonna take this! She's going to one-up this sunovabitch!

She placed her rifle down and held a hand out as a massive cannon appeared upon her shoulders. She flipped a few switches on the weapon as it started to spool up while the beam was still going. The weapon started to glow multiple colors:

Red: Activation of Explosive Seal
Orange: Maximum Overflow
Cyan: Twin Rising Dragon​

Her weapon charged up and with that, she noticed the colors of the wind shifting, showing her every current. She dug her heels in to the dirt and scoped in, firing at the creature at center mass. She pressed the trigger upon the cannon before releasing 2 balls of pure steel out from the cannon. The balls of steal erupted, turning into a pair of blue dragons that shot towards the monster. The blast from the attack threw her and the cannon backwards into the ground. She released her grip upon the weapon, causing it to vanish. While on the ground, she crawled over to her rifle and fired a couple shots towards the creature's neck. It was at this time that Anna Rose let out another mighty roar, suppressing the creature's ability to deal damage.​

Actions:
Dropped Anti-material Rifle
Equip: Gatekeeper
Applied Explosive Seal
Twin Rising Dragon
See the Wind
Use Overflow Augment
Drop Gatekeeper
Pick up: Anti Material Rifle

Anna Rose: Ancient Tyranny

 

[Midori Futotta]

They didn't know what kind of Taijustu that Nozomi used, even her (his) eyes could only copy the perpetration part of the Taijustu but the move itself seemed to be too special for even him to mock. A secret technique that only certain people could do like how not a lot of people can do the almighty unstoppable OMNI-FLASH. But it would sure be nice to combine that technique into a Omni-Flash, the rogue giggled to herself at the display of power from the sniper. 'Not bad mittens.’ the transformed Maru thought. The monster damage physically and mentally. It was bleeding more than it could regenerate, it's body riddled with bullets and glowing rainbow colored magical musket balls. The beast was lazily swinging at the air, it's knees popped from the nasty bullets wounds that chewed right through it's bones it to bellow a shriek of a dying animal. All of the hideous eyes of the creature spastically looking in every direction, blood jutting from it's mouth and the stitches that held the creature together was starting to look loose.

Maru would at least show the critter a bit of Mercy, activating her (his) sharingan then hammered into the creatures mind with a genjustu when he made eye contact, all of the creatures eyes began to close knocking out the monster with a genjustu known as Temple of Nirvana so it didn't resist much nor did they had to deal with it trying to clobber them. The creature fell to the ground with a thud, it was slowly beginning to heal itself while it slept and the rogue spun her musket, walking to the creature with a bounce in her step. Maru not wanting to get blood on his feminine body aimed the rifle to get a good shot at the critters head, then with one last squeeze of the trigger the critters head exploded with black ooze and bits of gore littering the stone. The powerful limbs of the critters twitched once, before it stopped moving completely.

Maru threw the musket lazily over her (his) shoulder, looking back at Nozomi with a sweet smile. “Good work out there mit-” Maru slapped her (his) forehead, nearly forgetting that he still was sharing a body with his Kensei Spirit. “NOZOMI! NO-ZO-MI! Ahem… Good work out there Nozomi, have to say your skills with range weapons are something else.” Though her weapons weren't alive and she wasn't able to contact the power of the all powerful OMNI-FLASH she did have a few tricks of her own. Maru looked back at the critters, rubbing her (his) hands greedily to hold out both of her small hands to begin to pull a blue essence from the back the dead critters skin, becoming more wrinkly as though the thing had aged a thousand years making me look more mummy-like as blue chakra was drained from it's body.

The chakra would later turn from its normal blue color to begin to shape into a golden heart filled with the knowledge and youth of the past lives that had been used to make the critter. Maru crushed the golden heart, the laughs of children could be heard as the gold spiritual chakra slithered it's way into the yellow flower on the right side of Maru's female body's head, strengthening the power of his Kensei spirit and the bond that they had with one another. Though most of that power goes to the spirit, Maru still gets his youth. Probably a bit unbalanced relationship between a weapon and the wielder since the weapon in this case was the one pulling the strings but nothing with Maru was ever normal anyway.

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CRITTER IS DEAD​

 

[Kanagawa Nozomi]

With a mighty roar, Anna Rose started to walk over to the corpse of the monster before Nozomi raised her hands and elevated her voice. "Stop, Anna-Rose!" she said as the creature came to a screeching halt and turned around, stomped a few times and looked at Nozomi with anger in it's eyes. It was hungry and demanded food. "Pretty sure that thing is part human," Nozomi responded as a look of displeasure could be seen upon Anna Rose's face, almost spitting out the future taste from it's mouth. The thought of even consuming a human-being repulsed the large lizard, shaking it's head to perish the thought. The creature recoiled and took a couple of thundrous steps backwards.

"Oh! You saved me from a human's lifetime of indigestion! Thank you! But you better feed me some of that 'cow' that you humans eat. And..." Anna Rose stated before taking a deep breath in and letting out a mighty roar; saying during the roar, "This time you better fucking cook it yourself!!!!!!" she shouted out to the human. Her breath reeked of death and the sheer pressure caused Nozomi to hold on to her hat to stop it from blowing away. Nozomi closed her eyes until the roar finished. After the roar was complete, Anna Rose turned to look at the busty blonde that stood around near Nozomi for a moment. She looked at her blankly before running back with thundrous footfalls back into the hole it crawled out of, magically sealing the hole as if it was never there in the first place.

There was a compliment from the busty blonde after they corrected themselves from nearly calling her 'Mittens'. Yet another nickname that will most likely stick. During the compliment, Nozomi walked over to the corpse of the creature; the blade by her hip still roaring and vibrating. There seemed to be another presence very close-by. "We need to take this corpse to the Monster Hunter's Guild for research. Remember what we did earlier? Mind giving me a hand with that? Oh, and what should I call you?" she asked as she put her weapon away and formed together a series of handseals, pressing her palms upon the mangled corpse causing it to float due to the Anti-Gravity ninjutsu.

MFT -- 380 words​