Training new power

"Alright. Time to get back into the fight" she said to no one in particular as she prepared to enter close combat with the other two. She stood quickly, testing her body to ensure nothing had been harmed of her actual person by the blast. She had been shaken but found she was more or less fine and ready to get back into the action.

"Sorrow of humanity. Come forth and fill this world with your damnation" she spoke and as she did the weapon ripped through reality with a horrifying blood curdling screech, this time reminiscent to the final call of a dying woman sliced through with a heavy handed knife strike. She wasn't sure how a single scream could be that easily recognizable but as the sound entered her ears she could imagine the situation described vividly, sure that there could be no other description of the sound, perhaps she had sliced a woman through with a knife some time in her past, she thought to herself only to dismiss it as both troublesome to think about and most likely impossible. She would ask the others later if they imsgined it similarly in order to compare and see if it was an effect of the scythe or just her perception.

The crowd stepped back from the action several steps as the scythes call was heard, women and children shifted back behind the men of the village with worry or fear clearly evident on their faces, as was the expected reaction from any normal person when experiencing sorrow' sentry into this world but as usual she expected her team mates, whom were used to the strange sounds, to be completely unaffected.

A large tendril of shadow rose up to form a giant black hand beside her just as the scythe formed, it took ahold of the chain that sat just at her back foot, and without need to spin or twirl it as the young girl did whipped it outward a toward the combatants at a speed and power equal to her chakra stat, causing the weapon to head their direction at a base of two hundred and thirty. She saw the threads rip from the ground, and reacted almost instantly. Her shadow rose up to impede the threads from stopping her ranged attack, lashing out to wrap around them at two hundred thirty speed and power, though they couldn't hope to suceed in time. The ball was deflected at youkas whim,the impact with the sharp pointed weapon whose total power was three hundred and sixty five due to the razor sharp spikes covering the weapon, causing whatever damage to the threads it would, unless of course they manipulated the chain passing behind it in some way, and as they moved to settle back into the ground her shadows would strike, two of them attempting to cut the threads to ribbons.

The moment the weapon was thrown Kira rushed towards the other two at her full speed of two hundred and sixty four. She stopped in her tracks for barely a second as the creature burst from the ground before wielding the scythe in a swift downward arc with a power of two fourth in an attempt to slice right through the barrier before moving on.

(2289 requesting mark activation (2k)

When everything seemed to be going so perfectly, Youka had to use those damn threads, to wrap around his blade, and open a hole beneath his feet.  All hope was lost, as the Village Leader of Yukigakure was sucked into the ground to his death, his face looked so scared in his last moments of life, so sad, so much potential wasted.  However, just at that moment, Maku's frame changed, and it was a snowman.  Maku had used the substitution jutsu with a large amount of snow to escape the wrath of Youka, it had been a simple task of dismissing the blades the moment of substitution to keep everything smooth and hidden.  

The real Maku was hiding, chakra fully suppressed 20 meters from Youka, underneath the snow completely hidden from view.  It was there that he waited using his chakra senses to keep track of Youka, and his skill as an expierenced fighter to keep track of Kira's movements from the vibration on the ground since he had completely buried himself and could not physically see them.  He also could feel something coming from the ground around Youka, the man must have some new tricks of his own.

(2045 requesting beta mark activated)

Jutsu and skill used:

approving both marks being activated

Ok first thing was to deal with Kira and her trying to join the battle again. As soon as her shadows would attempt to throw the weapon after it left the threads would allow the ball to pass but stop it at it's source by wrapping the chain and binding it from going any further before letting go at returning to the earth. She would attempt to run by and as stated the hand would rise with the heart beat in the center of the threads pumping chakra through out the network. The moment she would swing down with her weapon or atleast try to threads would come forth from the ground behind her wrapping it at the top of the weapon and pulling backwards against her weight. If this was indeed a downward strike her weight would have been shifted upwards causing her to be thrown off balance by the additional pull on the weapon. If this worked as he planned she would lose just enough balance for the threads under the floating hand to initiate multiple strikes in varyig places on her body like a whip.

As for Maku's antics with the snowman it made Youka let out an audible laugh as he watched it get crushed by the jutsu. Yet the left the question as to where Maku actually was, he didn't like not being able to see his friend or sense him. Crouching in the snow Youka placed his hands on the earth and would allow the armor to retract letting it go up to his shoulders so both arms were bare. Anyone looking would be able to see that he no longer hand on of his arms and it was complete thread. As he placed his arm and the threads on the ground he would shoot the over the field and under the snow at their fastest speed to set up a grid around him as per usual of losing sight of Maku. The threads would lash out and strike downwards and attempt to wrap anything that moved that was human size if any movement was made.

Youka smiled as he finally felt the creations make their way to the surface behind him. Six zombies rose from the huge pit that was not behind him and shambled to his side, three on each side of him. They were slightly grotesque and stunk badly but he honestly didn't care they were about to serve their purpose which was to annoy and pester his friends while also making his job easier. Youka would send three of the zombies to Kira's location to provide back up to his arm, they would begin to shamble over their at their full speed to stand at the side of the arm and react to anything she might try. The other three would now wait at his side till Maku decided to show himself or he was found by His threads. Youka was still crouched on the ground at this point waiting to feel out and see if anything happened.

There was a slight tingling sensation on his chest, the mark had finally awakened to his power and noticed him as it's master, a single question was asked of him in his own voice in his head,"What power can I give you" Youka smiled.

(WC 3223)
(Requesting mark to be activated)
(Zombie stats
Strength 62
Health 40
Speed 50)

approving the mark

"Shit" she said as she felt the power of her speed jutsu diminish quickly. Without it's aid she was significantly slower, dropping her speed by over half, down to only one hundred and twenty, as she struck at her opponent the threads grasped her weapon, pulling her hands back as she put pressure downward. This, she thought, was an easy fix. Her body pulsed with a strange new power and her chest felt like it was burning up where youka had drawn his blood seal, she knew from before that warmth to be the activation of the ghost mark and called out to it's power.

"Kira, I have granted you my power, decide now what you would like to enhance. " youkas voice rang out in her head in the most strange and almost uncomfortable way. She was used to it, his voice that is, as well as the thought of telepathy but something about this felt different.

"Nope. Nope nope nope" she said in her head concentrating on the fight ahead of her. In her mind Selene and what seemed to be youka had a long detailed discussion, beginning with her stat choices but continuing as she fought as if the gravity of the situation was beyond them. They discussed the weather, politics, religion , which was strange because they into a topic about some but job religion called jishiism or jashimism, something she was certain started with an s. She hadn't heard of it and for her own safety she tuned the entire conversation out because after all having the only thing that confirmed psychosis better then having voices speaking to you in your head with no true physical form to take was when they began to converse amongst themselves and you acknowledged it. The first step to acceptance of the crazy was acknowledgement and thst was a path, for sanity sake, she would leave for another day.

She would use it to boost her chakra, stamina, and speed by fourty, though her power compared to that of the mark would increase the gain almost exponentially, offering her a doubled effect. With her new power up and a chakra pool of two hundred seventy, stamina of one hundred one, and speed of one hundred and sixety she would react to each event as they occurred.

    Her body shifted forward as she struck, beginning to lose balance as her attack was held back by youkas threads up until the point when the scythe of sorrow disappeared from her hands. Freed from the limitation her body spun at a downward angle. She flared her leg out as she moved for balance and unless her spin was stopped three shadows would rise up from behind her, their existence hidden by staying between herself and the opponent until her right arm was apparent at the end of the counter clockwise spin. The moment her arm peeked back around her body the tendrils would lash out at full speed, forming large gaping mouths as they intersected with the strikes now coming at her from Youka's constructs threads, each opened wide in an attempt to simply swallow up the offending attack, and if successful the mouthed would close on that which had previously be of a danger to her, swallowing them whole and letting out a satisfied moan.

As these three went about defending her, spreading quickly for form shields in the event something got past them, one directly behind the other two as a defensive measure, two more rose up to strike directly at the beast aimed for where the thumping heart beat sounded. There was a light whiz sound as the shadows cut through the air baring razor sharp points down on the strange monstrosity, she was determined to get out of this no matter the cost.

   Her momentum stopped after one full turn. Her right foot, which had been up to allow for the shift in momentum during her spin set down against the earth as the shadows moved to defend her. It slid across the snow to create enough friction to slow her and as she stopped her right hand slipped into her bag. Haphazardly she grasped onto the senbon in her bag, specifically the ten she had rigged with the thin wire, and as soon as she stopped moving her hand was out again and the weapons were flying three at a time in three waves. The first three were thrown with a speed of one hundred and twenty eight, aimed more towards the constructs left side. If they hit two would actually bite into the creature, assuming they were able to pierce through it's skin, striking it I'm the center mass and across the left side. The moment her hand had emerged she released the senbon, one tossed in front of her to immediately be followed by three, and they rose into the air as she threw the first three at her opponent. Her left hand caught the second set of three, which had been tossed upwards in front of her face to immediately send them at the opponent a fraction of a second later this time set in the same pattern as before but across the right side. The last two of these attacks would miss the creature on each side, flying harmlessly past it. Finally as her right a fired off the first attack the momentum of the throw would bring it in towards her chest, her hand would open, palm down to catche the final senbon and with a flick of her wrist it would be thrown approximately a half foot higher then where the two center aimed senbon were thrown.

   The attacks, she knew wouldn't work, however she had banked on it. With her shadow shields erected as she released the attack, blocking her and her assault from sight except for the brief moment when a hole just large enough for each senbon would open up, closing the second they were out to keep less then a pin hole for the tiny wire, she was able to perform the seal for shadow imitation , preparing to activate sny shadow that would allow her to control whatever it was that was attacking her and both close in on her opponents and have a method by which to fight each of them when they got there.

(3346)

As Maku layed in the snow, he wondered about a couple things.  Was Charlotte making him dinner, does Youka ever feel guilty about killing those horses, did that granny he headbutted make good cookies.  So much to think about, so much to do.  He almost forgot he was in the middle of a spar.  He was already kind of tired, I mean, these two friends of his always made him do so much work, shooting damn threads all of the place, shadows trying to eat his shit all the time.  It just wasn't fun, what happened to the good old days were ninja just attacked each other threw out a couple jutsu and bam fights over.  Also why was he talking about the good old days, he was only 11.

As these thoughts came into his head, a shifting in snow could be seen directly in front of him as what Maku presumed would be one of Youka's threads.  Maku immediately jumped backwards out of the snow another 5 meters to be out of range.  Continuing to back track he soon made the distance 40 meters between himself and Youka, and instantly used the transformation tech to turn himself into a snowman, and create two other snowman each 10 meters beside him.  His hands were together, though they looked like sticks, as if they were in prayer, when in actuality this was so a handsign could be made super fast.  His chakra would be revealed, and his senses were once again open.

Those zombies looked odd, and gross.  Maku wondered if they were a threat or merely meat shields to distract and supplicate Youka's attacks.  Whatever the case, he would deal with them when they got close, his yo-yo blades would assuredly rip them to shreds, without problem.  

(2342)

Youka was standing alone in the snow by himself as he was no longer the object of everyone's attacks, which to him was a nice little break from all the action that was happening. Maku had jumped out of the snow and disappeared again out of his view but again in the distance were snowmen. Standing up and allowing his threads to return to his body Youka turned to one of the zombies he had created that was standing around to the left side of him. This would be fun to see what would happen, Youka transferred another one of his hearts to his left threads again pushing it out of his body and pressed it into the zombies skin allowing the threads to scoop aside the rotting flesh and embed the heart into the zombies back encased in threads.

Now Youka had one threaded zombie bomb ready to go off, and he would send the three zombies that were surrounding him to deal with Maku in the distance wherever he might be. The zombies would shamble over as fast as they could closing the distance between them and the snowmen at a steady speed. The two that did not have the heart implanted would lead the charge as the one that was now an extension of Youka traveled slightly behind them in a triangle fashion. As they would reach the snowmen the two zombies would attempt to go after the two other snow men on either side of the one in the middle flailing their arms and attempting to bite. Youka's threaded zombie would wait patiently as the other two did their work, if the ones on the side turned out to not be Maku the two would converge on the snowman in the middle. The zombie that now carried Youka's heart with threads coursing through it's rotted flesh would wait to react to any movement made and potentially protect it's much weaker counter parts from being snuffed out too quickly, Youka would ensure to have his threaded distortion ready just in case it needed to be fired quickly.

Kira was still trying hard in her fight with Youka's hand in the distance completely opposite of Maku as he turned his head to see how well his arm was fairing against the woman. It seemed she had activated her mark and was pouring as much power as she could into getting around his plaything. She was trying and almost succeeding the only downside was that his threads were under the ground which gave his hand a much easier time to react and turn away most of her attacks. He would talk to her directly over the choker "Kira remember our first spar with the contraption I made". He would watch her shadows grow mouths and attempt to eat his threads again, it was indeed an interesting ability but not one that he couldn't get away from. The threaded hand would convulse once and threads directly under the shadows would rise at their full speed to puncture the shadows forcing them upwards or if they couldn't punture the sheer amount would provide enough force at that speed to push upwards still letting his threads from the arm directly to attack Kira in the same manner described earlier.

Youka sighed and activated his own mark as well and listened as he asked himself the same question he had programmed the mark to do in his head. "Strength, Stamina, and Chakra please" He would reply to himself before his chest heaved and the mark started to glow a light hue. now he could have fun too. She was getting better at reading his attack patterns with the threads even if she wasn't keeping up all that well with it just being a disembodied hand. She was again forming shields around herself but never under her which he always counted as weird when she fought him. Twitching his eye in the distance, the threads would react by puncturing the earth from directly under the girl in an attempt to wrap and cocoon her up to her legs which if successful would initiate a falling motion for the young female.

If she was somehow able to get out of these things and her attacks were still to go through he would have to respond in order. By now however the zombies would have made their way to the battle and each were coming around to flank her from the right left and back side, how would she react to being on the ground if it was successful and zombies coming to end her part in this spar

Stats now
Strength 165
Stam 80
Chkra 170

Thead stats
Strength 247

From the distance, Maku could see Youka smiling.  Which was a fair assumption since the man was always smiling.  He had begun to lift his arm and point it towards one of those ungodly creations.  Already seeing the disembodied hand that acted of its own accord, what Maku didn't need was another foe to fight, that'd make 4 between Youka, the hand, Kira, and zombie guy.  Loving his clones, he decided they would continue to be a feature in his new style of battle. 

First he activated the ghost mark, increasing Speed, Chakra, and Stamina +40.  Then he made the tiger handsign, which his hands were already in position to do.  Moving at a speed of 450 under the body flicker, he appeared 10 meters in front of Youka, along with two clones (still all three looked like snowmen Mastered Transformation FTW).  All three moved at the same time and identically.  This would cause the location of the real Maku to be undecernable until it was to late, or so he hoped.  The instant he appeared, he fired a Quasar Pulsate from both hands, if all was going as planned this would occur while the heart was halfway between Youka, and the zombie.  The beam would now move at a speed and strength of 195 thanks to the power up from the ghost mark.

If all went as planned, the beams would intersect with each other 1 meter in front of Youka.  This was to prevent the blast from destroying or damaging his armor, and instead just ringing the bell of the man, and most likely disintegrating the zombies next to him.  As the two blast waves would have 195 power each combining for a force of 390.

If the attack worked, he would stand still and act like a snowman, waiting to react to the next attack, leaving Kira to her business.  If Youka mounted a counter attack, Maku would be watching to respond in kind.

(WC=2663)

New stats:
Stamina - 41
Chakra - 210
Speed - 240