Horror at the hot springs[hunter]

This day was DECIDEDLY not lovely. For the first time since her creation, Ai found nothing positive in the situation she found herself in. She rushed through the streets, glancing back every few moments to see if the enemy who'd killed her team was still on her heels. Coach kept pace one meter ahead, about half a meter to her left so she had vision, Behind her, one meter back and half a meter to the right the saya puppet followed, keeping the flank protected. As long as she could run, she had a chance.

Unfortunately just as she thought about the safety of fleeing, she glanced ahead. It seemed like the five meter wide fifteen meter tall alley made from stone buildings placed directly beside one another was finally opening up into free space. As she left the twenty meter long alleyway, She glanced about and terror gripped her. She'd entered a courtyard surrounded completely by tall stone walls. The space was a fourty meter square blocked off in every direction asside from the alley she'd entered by twenty meter high walls with barbed wire across the top. Why. Just like. Why. who even thought this was a good idea?! There were four benches, one in each corner about a meter from the wall with a three meter tall sapling beside each whose trunk couldn't have been thicker than her wrist. Other than that, there was nothing. Nothing to hide behind, nowhere to run.

She would move into the center of the square that clearly would be either her arena or obnoxiously large open casket. Ensuring that she at no point got within ten meters of anyone other than her puppets. The blue chakra threads glowed from Ai to her puppets as they stopped as near to the center as they could get without coming within ten meters of someone. shifting so that the two were in front of her, she took inventory. Coach on the left controled by her right hand. Saya on the right controled by her left. Was she still being followed? Was her enemy already here? The suspense gripped her.

(TWC 355 will calc ap once i use something more than puppets)

A robed figure appeared almost exactly where she would have expected him to. I mean. That's convenient, but the ideal situation would have been no figure, she thought. Looks like the murderer wasn't satsified with just killing her friends. She would have to fight. The moment he pushed towards her she moved back, forming the hand seals for the summoning jutsu. This absolute meanie face had killed three people so far! There was uh. Random ninja with the spikey hair, That one really big ninja with like. The sword that did something or the other, and the really short old ninja who walked with a cane. Why had they even been on a mission with an elderly man who literally couldn't move more than like ten speed? Right now it didn't matter.

Keeping her eyes on her opponent she would drop down to cast the summoning jutsu, a split in her palm providing the sacrifice as she ducked low, her palm gliding across the stone below as her feet slid a full meter at her max speed, leaving a trail of blood as the fuinjutsu mark formed three meters behind her puppets, which had sat at rest one meter in front of ai before her movement. An otter decked out in totally bad ass leather armor puffed into view at the mark of the seal, glancing back for a moment to see ai still rushing away from the man coming towards her. he understood his job.

Continuing her movement until she placed ten meters between herself and her puppets Ai followed the summoning technique up with two more sets of hand seals formed in unison.

Tiger. Boar. Dog. Rat.
Ram. Tiger. Ox. Boar. Bird. Dog.

She would wait until their opponent was two meters from the two puppets, each puppet shifting to put a distance of five meters between them in a triangular formation with ai ten meters to the back. Then a stream of high viscocity sweet fluid would pour from the Saya puppet. The stream flowed across the ground quickly, targeting the space directly in front of her feet, less than a meter from the puppet. THe field spread quickly, opening up to create a patch of dangerous control that would be twenty meters in every direction from the puppet at a speed of 85. While the higher speed would be enough to threaten the cultist whose speed wasn't sufficient to remove himself effectively from the quickly stretching zone, the true strength of the technique would be in its control. WIth an amplified power of 125 any without a strength to suprass would find their movements halted. With the way this guy was trying to close distance she expected that would be a problem.

The field would overtake the two puppets quickly. As it neared the range to threaten holding them in place their feet lifted from the ground, hovering just high enough to not touch the sticky ninjutsu. The moment ragnar realized the situation, having glanced at ai and back as the smoke first cleared, He moved forward himself, Setting two feet into the coach puppet's slatted back to climb up and hold on, forming seals of his own.

Juggle right. Juggle figure eight. Juggle left. Balance on nose. His hands would be a blur of incredibly rediculous movements as the otter juggled a rock around, chest resting against the stationary puppet for balance. At his higher speed he would have made it onto the coach puppet by the time their enemy made it to the six meter mark, and would be sitting in wait with the puppets as ai prepared to spring her trap. Now they just needed to see if the syrup did it's job, or if he would need to use THAT jutsu.

(TWC 983

ap:
Ai: 1289-10(threads)-40(summon) -23(nin amp b rank)- 34(syrup)-20(cast through saya)-20(both jutsu ohs)=1142
Ragnar:450-50=400

for clarity i've posted ai's timeline and then ragnars so the ragnar paragraph doesn't happen after all the ai stuff i just split them into two different sections so its clear what each are doing in the time frame ^^))

Her opponent shifted gears, deciding instead of attacking them head on to....go underground? Well that didn't seem fair. Thankfully it was an effort in futility. At Kanaye's max speed he moved ten speed slower than Ai's starch syrup capture field. The very syrup capture field that was readily expanding in all directions to a 20 meter radius. Fun fact: twenty meter raidus is exactly fourty meters in diameter, which happens to be the entire length of the open arena they were fighting in.Unfortunately, His rending drill fang had one major down side.As he burrowed under the ground and began heading towards her, the powers of vague manipulation keeping him just inches from the surface, the syrup that overtook the point that he was at continued to flow over the hole, and into it. What happens next would be quite comical. The expanding syrup would leave a bit of an open spot where specifically the hole is, the portion of the jutsu that would have covered that circular area constantly falling into the hole and coating the walls of the hole faster than he could dig it at a speed of 85. It would only be a matter of time before the area she'd targetted, which includes this new addition, was fully coated in her jutsu which would hold her opponent in place, gluing his arms to walls and his body with its power of 125.

As her opponent crossed the 2 meter mark that would be needed to sense Ai, He would find nothing. The thick layer of syrup crossed the threshold well before he could, shielding Ai from sensory even if she didn't move, and locking him underground with a power that his c rank jutsu could never hope to match.

in the time it would take Kanaye to burrow under the ground, Her syrup would coat an area four meters ahead of him, continuing at 85 speed to move towards her as he tried desperately to race it towards her. This would effectively block the are of her vision, leaving a blind spot that would include where she was standing when he finally got within range.

Now onto what she did as her jutsu did it's work.

Ai needed to make sure she had a catalyst for her water style ninjutsu. She knew the syrup would be a barrier against underground attacks, so it should stay in place, but there was one problem. Using any of her jutsu that required a suiton source would mean drawing form the syrup field and opening up the barrier that was currently setting a power check to anything that wanted to cross it. There was a quick answer to that.

Dragon. Tiger. Hare. Ram.

The moment her opponent was out of sight she would leap upwards, soaring ten meters up in an arc that would carry her ten meters behind her puppets, touching down with Coach to the left and Saya on the right. She just hoped that her jump was high enough to give herself time to react should he manage to break the syrup that saught to coat the battlefield in a tough layer of defense.


As she left the ground both Ai and Ragnar formed hand seals, but held the final seal, chakra ready but not released so they could throw their attacks at the perfect moment

Balance on nose. Juggle figure eight. Juggle left. Juggle left. Roll left and right between collar bones. Juggle right.

Bird. Dog. Tiger. Bird. Dragon.

"whirling waters....Of...."

And so they waited and watched, prepared to release their strength the moment something happened.

(TWC 1578

AP!

AI: 1142-5(threads)-40(ragnar)-23(syrup)
Ragnar: 400

For clarity i pointed out how my active jutsu worked in response to the opponents actions, and then began Ai and ragnar's timeline so now what she did is the begining of Ai's timeline with everything before just being how Syrup interacts with the underground effect)

There was a clear difference between what happened above the ground and below. While Kanaye's earth wall was able to close off the flow of syrup after only a bit dripped out, a bit was all that was needed. Given that the hole he made was enough to fully submerge himself(1.9m), and with starch syrup capture fields ability to both spread across an entire area and be able to spread on verticle surfaces, It was this singular jutsu that would begin the end for our enemy. He detected some of the fluid seeping into the hole he'd dug. It would be silly that Kanaye formed seals, and then dug several meters forwards before activating his earthen wall jutsu due to not stating  how far he'd dug after forming the seals, and then describing the earth wall forming AFTER stating that he'd dug forward, but unfortunately silly seems to be the world we are living in. It didn't matter, given that he'd stated the syrup was already seeping into the hole. Even if he'd activated it earlier, at its speed it the syrup cleared the less than one meter distance far faster than the 20 speed earth wall could hope to close it off. This is where things get fun. 

Due to Kanaye having not reacted in a way to stop the syrup from getting into the hole, when Ai landed on the other side, behind her puppets....Nothing would happen. How could it? The syrup captured Kanaye as described, holding his body in place in what would seem to be an effective stone coffin. Syrup would hold his feet to the ground, Lock his arms firmly against the earth he'd been digging through, and fully incapacitate him due to this one singular mistake. 

After a minute of nothing happening, Ai would have to assume that her jutsu had worked. Now it was time to do something. Power flowed through her body as Ai forwent her Whirling waters jutsu, allowing the chakra flow to cease as she formed a new set of seals, the blue aura of Tobirama's rage granting her additional strength. The Saya puppet moved fowards, Stopping just within five meters of the point where Ai had lept from, chaneling the jutsu for her pupeteer.

Tiger. Ram. Hare. Monkey. Tiger. 

The syrup at her previous stopping point, which would coincidentally be directly above where Kanaye was trapped by syrup would raise up, a shift that was imperceptible by kanae as the volume of syrup needed to form the ball was fed by the starting point's movement. And so the wall that stopped his vision simply rose up to create an orb of sticky syrup that blocked his sensory....Until. 

Four tendrils of sharp water cut through the earth. Her Water dragon whip didn't need to see the target to cut into it's body with deadly accuracy due to it's autonimous nature. Anything within ten meters got the axe, While he'd dug lower, Again he didn't state how much lower, so as the Water dragon whip tendils cut through the earth with a speed and power of 110, They would only find they needed to travel a one meter distance before the earth opened up to a trapped and stuck Kanaye. If not stopped, The tendrils would stab through his neck and skull, with the last two ripping through his chest to remove the still beating heart from his body. Otherwise the jutsu would act according to the danger presented to it with automatic vigor. 

(TWC 1707

OOC: since you stated it had already entered the hole("Kanaye could instantly detect the fluid that began to seep into the hole he had dug"), and given my jutsu moving at over four times the speed that your wall does it makes it overtakes the movement of the wall and goes under it handily. Since you didn't answer the attack it goes through, locking your body up including your arms as described so calling a hit with syrup capture. With you not saying when you were stopping movement this post, but with your last post saying you stopped under where saya was standing, the hit is claimed at that point. 

To note, Rending drill fang stops all sensory if a ground effect is active, so with the water dragon whip forming as more syrup pours into the space its taking up, the ground effect never leaves and your vision is blocked so your sensory doesn't activate until the attack begins

AP:AI:1074-5(threads)-40(ragnar)-23(syrup)-40(whip)-20(cast through saya)=946
ragnar: 400)

It was finally crunch time. The earth broke beneath Ai as her opponent sent a devastating uppercut aimed at her chin with such force that he would fly upwards until his feet reached the five meter mark in the air. Reacting With a speed of ninety the moment she felt the ground shift beneath her,  her body would move backward far more quickly than his body could travel the nearly two meters, given she only actually had to move inches to watch the fist sail past her face. As she shifted, her puppets following her movement away from the enemy who quickly rose up from the ground to now be standing between the quartet, several things happened at once, each the moment she felt the earth shift beneath her. 

First, Ai pressed one hand held already within an inch of her chest from her handseals into her own body. At the same time her other hand thrust forward as she moved back, in a motion that would make it look like she clutched her chest with one hand while throwing a punch with the other. The force of Kanaye's bursting out of the ground would propel him upwards to just miss ai, and he would have a heck of an unfortunate wake up when he came down. The hand touching her chest would immediately place strings on her, the Saya puppet falling to the ground as her practiced performance with a human body took over. This would leave Ai retreating backwards to a ten meter point of safety unless something happened with the puppets moving forward to stop at the five meter mark between themselves and Kanaye. 

second. The arm thrust forward was intentional. While it only needed to move a few inches to activate the technique, being completely out of Kanaye's path as it moved no more than two inches, the effect was dynamic. Three meters from Kanaye a large shark lifted up from the syrup as her fist thrust, roaring towards him. With a speed and power of one hundred the shark would seek to devour it's prey, catching him far before he could land on the ground and find movement to dodge it. The three meter wide shark's body centered on the point it would meet it's prey in the air, heading strait onto AI's opponent's falling position to strike before he hit the one meter mark.

Third. With a taijutsu fighter breaking through the ground towards Ai, Ragnar allowed his jutsu to finally activate. His body would seem to be dripping water as his enhancer activated, boosting his chakra and speed by 50 points, and then Five orbs of powerful medical suiton formed up from the ground in front of where he was being carried at a speed of 123(pup speed not technique speed), the same speed Ai would be moving the moment her strings grabbed herself. All five ripped through the air, rushing in a line towards Kanae that would make it nearly impossible to dodge them. With a speed of 150 and power of 200 three orbs would be aimed close enough to ensure he couldn't turn and be missed, with each angled to catch him as he reached the one meter mark of his fall back to the earth. Unless stopped he would shift them in air in such a way that if he moved they would follow path, with the two orbs on the outside set to just barelly miss his body, falling with him in preparation for the second round of attacks. 

Kanaye would look Ai in the eyes, trying to activate a technique he didn't perform hand seals for, only to find out that Temporary paralysis technique cannot be mastered. Because of this, though her speed would have been sufficient to get out of it, in regards to that particular technique, Nothing would happen. 

Fourth. With the syrup no longer important, The sticky fluid would shift to regular water, splashing against Kanaye's body as he flowed through it up into the air. The puppets still glided just barelly off the ground, but a mere second after they reacted to the splitting earth, there would be no stickly liquid threatening her summons movement. Thankfully the Saya puppet on the ground had a silicone coating to protect it from all the water. 

(TWC 2382

Note: Ai reacts at 90 because of reaction time(75+15) and the vagued attack sent to her chin which passes in front of her body is easily avoided

Temp paralysis cannot be mastered so it doesn't go off

AP: 946-5(threads)-40(ragnar)-23(last post syrup active)-30(water dragon whip. ap cost for last post was wrong because of 25% but doing 25 on this post makes ap correct, will  pay 40 next post for upkeep if its still up) 30(tobi's rage from last post)-40(tobi this post)-23(practiced)-23(water shark bullet)=732

Ragnar:400-30(river's flowing tide)-50(river's judgement ap cost reduced by river's flowing tide)=320

jutsu active because theres alot:

Ragnar:
river's judgement 200 power(amped) 150 speed
river's flowing tide +50 spe and chakra

Ai:
tobirama's rage +60 chak and vig(2/3 posts active)
water dragon whip  110 all stats 2/4 posts
practiced performance with a human body linked to AI making movement speed 123(same for coach puppet) 1/4 posts
water shark bullet 100 all stats activated seallessly 1/2 posts
this is the last post for nin amp cd)