Spar / Training

As it turned out the girl had defended herself from one of his favorite moves; using one person to beat another person with. It's quite a funny tactic which he gathered much joy from. Darn her for spoiling his day. However, the girl had requested to know his name once more, whilst grinning afterwards. It seemed like she no longer believed that he actually posed a threat, perhaps he should actually begin to integrate jutsus into his attacks instead of giving them a chance. Shrugging a little, he was thankful at this point in time that his name was actually spoke of in such disgust as he began to speak, "I AM the Abysswalker. Xyxer Gyojin. The TRUE demon of the Mist." Most people knew by word of mouth of a man that had inhabited the walls of Kirigakure whom was not afraid of killing his own ninja on a whim. In fact, it was what most people recognised his name for. None the less, he decided to add on a little treat just in case they didn't believe he pose a threat.

Drawing out his ANBU sword with a mere flick of his wrist, he'd point the tip of the blade down towards Yozora, the one who seemed to be unshakeable, whilst looking down the edge of the blade as if he was judging the distance between them. "And if you really wish to know why I'm here.. it's because I'm using subterfuge to destroy the village, but hell, may as well kill a few of them while you're at it, right?" He smirked after he had said that, realising that he could also bring in the recent news about Kirigakure's demise to his aid, "The Akatsuki will thank me for helping them destroy your pitiful village." Of course, what he was saying was a lie, but he wanted the girls to feel as if there was an actual threat. After all, he didn't want to have to actually commit a serious injury before they realised the grave situation they were now faced with.

Leaving the situation as it is, Yuri didn't find much to lose. Normally the breathe that is used for a bursting laughter is now used for fear, for she know that the fear might be a valuable advantage towards regulating the armor in battle since it has superior capabilities compared to her. She took a few steps backwards and turned back from the girl in front of her and starts running for the need to fear as the first step of her plan. Like an act of cowardice, Yuri made the expression on her face mean it as she gets faster and faster on her pace as well. With the understanding of a slight disadvantage by not looking at both of them, she looks for the exit of the area to connect her act together in response to the threats the armor made about destroying the village. The bluff will look set to get her as she would try to make it count, she wouldn't know what the other girl was thinking. But, it would be best if she knows Yuri's intention by her own judgement as she gives off a slight hint. She shouts while running. Run! Don't you get it that its a demon! Run!

Yozora listened to what the man named Xyxer was saying. Some of the things caught her attention while others were dismissed almost immediately. "Mist" and "Akatsuki" seemed to be the major attention suckers. First thing Yozora dismissed was the demon thing - she had seen his eyes, she knew he was a man, not an otherworldly being. Trying to change that with words was laughable... But a moment later it appeared to have worked on her ally. The other girl turned around and began running away shouting Yozora to run too because he was a demon. After briefly following the girl with her eyes Yozora would then look back at Xyxer again. His words were still spinning in her head. Although she was the best student in her class back at the academy, she never liked or gave too much attention to shinobi history and such. But she remembered Mist, which probably referred to the Hidden Mist or Kirigakure, being an ally village to Tengakure until recently it was destroyed. The second word was Akatsuki. This she remembered, as it was one of those actually important things in the history, not just some random royal family dispute, that made 500 people die as well as driving a couple bloodlines to extinction, no, this was important. Akatsuki was a group of usually very powerful shinobi and the group seemed to constantly appear at different points in the history, usually consisting of different members and with slightly different goals, but always flying the same flag. Destruction of Kirigakure sounded like something Akatsuki would do, which is also why Xyxer's last sentence sounded so terrifying, so true. But something here looked fishy and Yozora decided to test it. After all better talk to a demon, then attack him if you know what you're doing and if you know you can't survive a real fight with it. "So, tell me then, o great demon. Was the Mist really so weak? Are you glad you betrayed it and now it's at the bottom of the sea?"

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The man just stood there as one of them began to run and the other questioned him. However, he was not standing there because he was thinking about them, he was standing there because it was happening again. Webs of gooey darkness once more descended from the 'heavens'. Turning his head around, the skyscrapers now appeared to be on flames with creatures swarming out of the broken windows. What was going on? Looking downwards, the grass below him appeared to be decayed and mushy, hell, a few feet away he was sure he could see the half-consumed body of an academy student. Of course, this was all in his head. Xyxer turned his head towards the girl that was still questioning him and cocked his head backwards a little, almost as if taken aback. Multiple horns were protruding from her skin and her skin was no longer a 'normal' colour.. it was now rusty. She appeared a bit like an Oni, but more.. demonic. The trees around them were also adding to his mind transition as they appeared to lean over them, he was sure there were faces in the trees, but of course, this was again, in his head. Now was when his sub-conscience began to speak to him, "Kill them, Xyxer. They doubt you. It won't be that hard, will it? And no one will find out.." He just stood there for a second before he acted instantly, lunging his body forwards towards the girl that had questioning him, his right arm stretched out with it's hand open as it sought to find it's way to the throat of the girl.

Yozora was standing here and there. For a moment everything froze and then she appeared in front of that tower, beneath the strange sky. She already knew that this wasn't real, or at least it was in her head. But this time it was different. She wasn't sleeping and she wasn't meditating. It was sort of a trance and she could perceive both this and the real world at the same time. The hooded figure appeared in front of her, eyes glowing as always. "I've brought you here this time, you did not come yourself, if that's what you wanted to ask" Yozora remained still, she was curious how these things worked and she also had a lot of questions to the figure. She was about to ask some, but was interrupted. "Not now. We will unlock the mysteries in time. This time you're here because of the man in front of you. The one named Xyxer." Yozora raised one eyebrow. "Why?" And the answer echoed back "He's strong, he's different, he's dangerous. Nothing we have ever seen like so far... I wanted to warn you-" And at that moment the figure shot forward and so did Xyxer. Both in different worlds, but both coming at Yozora at the same time and she got confused. Luckily for her though the "blue eyes" got to her first. At the last moment both of her hands in the real world shot up and grabbed Xyxer by his wrist before he grabbed her throat. Although she could still perceive the real world, her movements were no longer controlled by her and her eyes were not glowing blue instead of red. In her inner realm she was surrounded by darkness and that darkness was leaking out into the real world through tenketsu on her throat pushing back Xyxer's hand and seeping deep into Xyxer's own chakra.

Her expression had now changed into a more serious but at the same time completely calm look. "Got here in time..." she said.

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[Skipping Gamer after 48 hours of waiting. He hasn't been online in a few days... well with the way he ran away here it doesn't do much damage, I guess... might as well consider this his exit, although he probably planned on doing a tricky return]
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Used Shade Release: Dark Pulse with 2 Yuumei.
Both me and Xyxer losing 10 chakra unless somehow blocked.
1/2 Yuumei left (unsure because of the chakra stat moving to strength)

It was almost as if the girl thought she could actually stop the man from doing whatever he wanted to do. This was amusing to him, because when he had neared the girl he bent his knees and retracted his arm back to his body, just in time to see that the girl had sent her own hand out to try and grab him. Acting quickly, Xyxer would jump straight up into the air, 10 feet higher than the girl and with a flicker of movement, he drew and threw five shuriken straight at the girl after he had seen some sort of.. shadowy thing come from her? How peculiar. None the less, he threw them after the shadowy chakra thing was gone, and at such angles that if the girl was to try and step to one side, one of the shurikens would surely hit her, with one of the shuriken going straight in the center so it pretty much formed a + sign. The shuriken were moving at such a speed that even if she had tried, she would be unable to sprint from them; as well as that, such little space was between the shurikens that if she twisted and tried to avoid the shuriken shower, she'd still be hit. But as always, Xyxer had added something to sweeten the dangerous deal. When he had thrown each of them, he had imbued his chakra into them, using the chakra infusion technique to have wind now spinning around each one, giving it more destructive power than before and being practically unable to be parried due to the girl's strength. That was not the worst part though; the worst part was how all of this had happened in just a blink of an eye, leaving very little time to see what's going on, never mind avoid it.

With the extended distance, it would seems that the other girl would continue to face the armor head-on. To Yuri, she had no control over what that happened in front of her as she would get attacked naturally due to not retreating. However, the girl was a little different reacting to the latest attack that gave her a hint; it was actually feared that even the armor looked like having second thoughts. It was then it began with the aerial attack again with the difference that the cutting power of the projectiles thrown increased. Yuri safely assumed that it would be dealt with appropriately. Even so, Yuri focused on that attack as she witnessed the repeated use of the technique with the difference of it being with ease. This is where she lost out having losing the ability to perform them or use an equivalent in the least. She would continue to examine the situation before taking action but she knows this isn't totally right after all, this is when she would decide to take sides as she approaches the fighting spot slowly. (@ 20 speed)

Xyxer would avoid getting grabbed by his wrist as well as the dark pulse blasting in front of Yozora. Her eyes followed Xyxer above her with some delay. When they finally caught up to him he was already mid air, throwing shurikens at her. There was no escaping them in time. Yozora's right hand shot towards her right shoulder grabbing her katana's hilt, while her left hand slid onto her ninjato, which was on the back of her waist, hilt. Wind chakra would surge through them and at the next moment both blades would be unsheathed at the same time, flickering in the air in multiple strikes deflecting four shurikens and then resting in their sheaths silent again. But there were five shurikens to deflect. Yozora would kneel down with one bladed star stuck in her right shoulder. Her eyes slowly turning back to red and then the light fading from them...

She was in her inner realm again, the shrouded figure sort of floating in front of her. The girl would get a bit angry "Why did you take control over my actions?! You got me injured!" "I did it to protect you..." "Yea, sure... Well done" Her words were soaked in irony and it was the last thing she felt before everything disappeared and she regained her control over her body... not for long though. Her shoulder was bleeding badly. Wind infusion called the scariest not for show. With a dull look the girl looked around one more time. She found Xyxer and gave him the blaming expression whispering "Some Abysswalker you are..." and then passing out.

"I'm sorry." "You better be." She was in front of the tower again, under the starry sky. She loved this sky, nothing like this could be seen in the real world. "Well then..." He, it... or whatever it was said it liked this sky too the first time they met. "...I guess it's time you see something." With those words the doors behind him opened. Slowly the gates of the tower opened and Yozora was finally allowed to see inside that majestic structure again. She walked inside it together with it, curious of what she would see today...

365 (3003) w.
[Passed out. Expecting exit.]
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Used:
Chakra Infusion with Wind
and Iai: Nigeki with two blades - four strikes with 56 speed.

It had happened as was expected; the girl had suffered at least one wound from the five shuriken he had thrown. Lucky, he thought. If any of the others would have hit she would have been marked dead right there considering how dangerous the shurikens he were throwing were. Slowly, the man drifted back tot he ground with his cape flapping behind him, crouching a little to absorb the impact of his landing before he walked over to the now unconscious girl, smirking at her whisper. It was then, when the girl fell unconscious that Xyxer went about collecting all of the equipment he had thrown, and finished by attempting to pull the shuriken out from the girl. However, rather unfortunately, it appeared that it had got lodged in the bone.. shit. Lifting the girl up quickly, he darted off immediately to the nearest hospital using his full speed, getting inside he'd tug the shuriken out roughly before shouting for medical aid, a bunch of doctors crowded around them and took the girl from his arms, doing their best to heal her.

[Exit]

WC 2853
Stored 28 JP

[853/10000]

[2000/2000]
Level four suiton mastery unlocked

[In case anybody's looking over this, sorry about the edit it was accidental because I was trying to edit another post because I thought I put the wrong WC for the 10k, apologies]

Yuri was mistaken, she had thought that it would went well or at least enough for her to get into action since the girl. She seems confident and would even show signs of taking an offense towards something that looked to be a few leagues above her. However, the girl fell to the attack that she used to save her herself earlier on. Even so, its not very surprising to her since she had been using techniques to counter plain movement by the armor for this long, letting both her and armor saw the fact she could not compete evenly. As both of her foot takes her nearer to the armor, the pointing of her blade changed. From the ground to the armor, Yuri intend to perform a range attack. Taking its line of sight into consideration, Yuri had wanted to raise the sword to its vision levels. Unfortunately, she lost the tempo all of a suddenly as an act of comrade was done by the armor. It actually carried the injured girl and ran for it, Yuri knew which direction he was going. Needless to say, anymore attack on that armor would be uncool and she simply stopped in her steps, realizing that she had returned to be alone in the training area again. She had wanted to extend her sword by 4 meters and make use of the front view advantage through normal vision and peaking her pace to unbalance the armor with the help of an explosive tag. Taking her a second to read just to the situation, she figured that her stomach would growl if she continued to stay here.

[Exit]

Total WC for topic: 2603