CLASH

The Advanced Training Facility of Hoshigakure no Sato - the Training Grouds - was especially empty this afternoon. It seemed as though no one had the will nor drive to train today - well, it wasn't like they could be entirely blamed. It was the weekend, so you'd be hard-pressed to see many people busting their asses in hopes of getting stronger unless they had to prepare for some type of mission or competition. The only person who appeared to be within the domain of the Training Grounds was Enishi Kurosawa. Normally, he tended to be one of the odd people who would try to train even on the weekends, but today, he wasn't here simply to train. No, there would be a spar going down. He stood in the sparring sector of the Advanced Training Facility which was only used during "duels" and battles that would not only judge the souls of shinobi who fought in the area but also as an excellent method to train. Effectively, his part of the Training Grounds was only used for spars, not just some goofy training.

The sparring sector he waited in and chose was about an 80-meter radius clearing, completely circular which resembled an arena ring of sorts. What surrounded this sector that formed the perfect circle were entrances to it, along with arena rings to give a cool sort of vibe. In terms of environmental stuff inside of the sector, it was just smooth grass that was able to be used for Earth Release and water. Speaking of water, there was a river at the center of the arena, which "split" the arena horizontally. The river was more like a stream, 5 meters long and wide. The river flowed into a larger lake that formed on the right side of the arena, 20 meters in size and 20 meters deep, both bodies of water being amazing for Water Release. Therefore, 60m of the arena starting from the left was land, and the other 20m of it was pure water. The arena he chose within the sparring sector was made for both parties to use their elements at their leisure so that it could be a fair fight. Essentially, this arena was chosen to simulate a situation with little to no external variables to complicate situations. Enishi stood close to the center of the arena stopping just 5 meters behind the river. 10 meters right of him began the 20m lake that flowed into a waterfall. Hopefully whoever would come from the other side would be who he was looking for.

The person in question was a woman called Baliquis, a genin of Hoshigakure who put a universal spar request in the community center in hopes of "testing experimental techniques." Enishi was bored, and rather intrigued by what this Genin had up her sleeve, so he entertained her request and accepted to be her opponent for today. He wasn't particularly the most geared for combat, but he still had his necessities since it was a spar. The Sage of Pleiades adorned his typical Nova Outfit, the Cloak of Prodigy with some personal alterations to it: a black shirt underneath, white trousers with lilac cuffs, black shoes, black gloves, and a double-breasted white long coat with a cutaway front, rolled cuffs, lapels, and lilac lining. The crest of the Hoshigakure could be seen proudly pictured on the upper part of his left sleeve, and a black belt was fastened tightly around his waist. With the Cloak of Prodigy came a hood enhanced with the armor properties, but he'd leave it open for right now - allowing his auburn-scarlet hair to glide freely along the wind's zephyrs. His Ninja Tool Sealing Bands were worn just above his gloves on his inner right and left forearms, worn over his white cloak. On his right hip held a minuscule Basic Scroll infused with the Basic Sealing Technique, which stores other materials to be released for any dire situation. Just below his scroll on his right hip held a Ninja Pouch with a variety of extra tools that his Sealing Bands cannot normally hold. Balmung - the sword of the Holy Phoenix - was attached to his back hip with its unique black cloaked sheath. Normally, he'd sheathe it on his left hip, but he wasn't sure how strong this "Baliquis" woman was to see if he should even be using the sword...and he didn't want to use Albion either.

Stretching a bit, the ice-blue eyes of the Understudy fixated on the other side of the entrance, awaiting the woman so they could commence their spar - a clash, many would call it.

WC: 770

+1 Pleiades Stack Acquired (1/6 Remaining)
AP: 2000

Enishi's Stats (For This Spar):

It wouldn't take long before his opponent entered the fray. Joining from the other side of the arena, the Understudy's adversary and also sparring partner carried a sort of resolved intensity that wouldn't go unnoticed by the Nova soldier. He knew her name, Baliquis, yet he didn't have the slightest clue of what she looked like. As she strode tenaciously to her starting position, the Hawk raptorially scrutinized his opponent's appearance. Baliquis was quite the enigmatic woman, carrying a tall frame and brightly colored shades of hair coalescing with each other in a beautiful mixture. That made Enishi wonder...was it truly her real hair color or did she dye it? Another thing to take into notice about her was that she seemed quite tall and mature, like, Enishi knew for a fact that he was decently tall, but this lady...even looking at her at a great distance seemed to be a literal giant in comparison. Anyway, he didn't have much time to ponder about her origins and things like that at the moment. The most pressing matter - and the thing that she requested of him - was to test her abilities, so immediately, he'd clear his mind, facing her without a single stray thought. She spoke first, thanking him for helping her with the request, to which he'd quickly respond with his signature smile and a firm enough voice, "No problem! Let's see what you're made of, Miss Baliquis!"

And with that, the gauntlet was thrown.

Letting her have the first move, Baliquis instinctively sprung into action, the Understudy simply observing her first course of action. She seemed to be using a similar method of weaving handseals - Whistle Trigger, but suddenly once occurred, the clouds darkened and expanded throughout the arena in a fifty-meter diameter, or rather, twenty-five meters in all directions. He knew the jutsu she was about to use, after all, it was one of his favorites to spontaneously create water sources. A Ninjutsu user? Not only that, but she uses Water Release? Tch, Balmung will be rather ineffective against her so I have to use it sparingly; I don't intend on using Hiramekarei either for this fight. This means that- Like the ebb and flow of a river, he weaved two handseals in rapid succession. Albion! His Cloak of Prodigy dissipated, only to be replaced with an armor more suitable to battle chakra-based users like her. In its summoned Semi-Armored state, Albion - the Raiment of the Holy Phoenix - became his new armor, replacing the white and lilac color scheme with white, red, and gold. But most importantly, all parts of his body were swathed in silver armor with a red armored cloak surrounding it akin to a general. Effectively, no rain would touch him, but his true intention was to be able to defend against any of the woman's offensive. Whether it was the glint or the sun or the incandescent nature of his armor, the eye areas seemed to gleam gold within the torrent of rain commencing its deluge. Regardless, the woman continued her assault, finishing her next set of handseals as he seemed to spit out this syrupy fluid that splattered two meters in front of her, before expanding twenty meters in all directions, reaching out to a total diameter of forty meters. As the syrupy mixture expanded, the Armored Wraith with exemplary fluidity wove his next set of handseals before it was even close to arriving to hinder his movement. 

It wouldn't only be Baliquis that wanted to test a few things for herself.

At lightning-fast swiftness - practically as if the world wasn't fast enough to register the light - diaphanous blue prismatic wings materialized on Enishi's back spreading out in a glorious shine with a two-meter wingspan. Harmless plasma particles siphoned outwards as the wings began to angle upwards. The ionized wings of natural energy lifted him half a meter off the ground, effectively avoiding the syrupy blend without much trouble. Now, it seemed that the woman was quite adept at field control, but what truly separated brainless casters from smart casters was their defense. It was time to test this hypothesis. The Wraith's right hand sparked blue for a moment - then it suddenly shifted crimson. Vermillion red not dissimilar to a blood moon, lightning would surround his right hand in a violent discharge of energy, almost as if he was holding electricity itself. Carrying the sound of a thousand birds, the red light would incessantly dance around in bolts around the Jugo's palm, extending up to three inches away from the palm of his hand around his armor. It functioned as a shield, but it was also his spear. Agent of Calamity: Chidori would be executed without the need for a single handseal. Deftly, he'd waste no time before aerially charging straight towards the woman, taking into account all external and internal variables occurring within his sight. Dramatically closing the fifteen-meter distance between them if she didn't react fast enough, the elevated Understudy would thrust his electrified hand at the woman's abdomen once he reached fourteen and a half meters from her - the hand closing the space immediately. Should the woman come in contact with Chidori, it wouldn't pierce her body, but it would function as a numbing taser that would paralyze her body immediately.

Enishi hoped that she wouldn't lose like that, if it were possible.

WC: 898
TWC: 1668

AP + Stats:

The tempestuous rain squall batted against the airborne Understudy like a constant storm as he rushed through the downpour. Chidori in his right hand, Enishi was extremely grateful that he summoned Albion prior to taking flight because the amount of rain he was taking straight to the face was utterly disturbing, and he really didn't want to imagine how uncomfortable dealing with cold, drizzly clothes would feel for the course of the fight. Thankfully though, his intuition was on his side, however it seemed as though this woman wouldn't take a Chidori straight to the stomach. She formed handseals as he bulleted through the distance between them, but before he could reach her with the emblazoned red enveloping his hand, the syrup on the ground erupted. At this point, the Jugo stopped in his tracks as his aerial assault would have to be put on hold with the now five-meter distance between the two exacerbated further with something three meters in front of Baliquis bubbling then erupting. Ascending upwards from the syrup, a Chinese dragon twenty meters long and three meters wide coiled around its caster as it swirled, turning its four-meter-long maw and five-meter thick head on the Enishi who stopped in his tracks, about two meters away from the coiling dragon. The dragon's syrupy maw opened wide to crush and maim the armored Jugo, but before it could do just that...

It was absorbed, sucked straight into nothingness.
 
Immediately activating his Seal of Absorption just as the dragon began to rise, by the time the hellish construct rushed at Enishi, it would have already come in contact with the expanding invisible aura of his seal, converting the dragon to chakra as it would be harmlessly absorbed into him. The Wraith was impressed; very few Genin would force him to use one of his seals so hastily, well, it appeared as though he made the right choice in accepting this woman's request! Now then... Seeing as the dragon was gone, leaving the Understudy in the midst of a turbulent storm, Where the hell are you? Baliquis disappeared amid the chaos and disarray that the dragon created, so it probably stood to reason that the dragon was some sort of diversion, not an actual attempt at outright defeating the Sage. Enishi smirked. Baliquis seemed to be a shinobi who liked testing her opponent to see how they would react before she would attempt to ensnare and defeat them once she understood how they operated. Depending on how strong these types of shinobi were, it could be painfully difficult or extremely easy to deal with them. There was a simple marker to test who fell into each category.

Defeat them before they can catch on to your tactics.

Dispelling his vermillion Chidori seeing as it was more of a feint scheme than anything else, Enishi's voice would radically boom through the air, making sure that most people within a reasonable range could hear him loud and clear, but he would also pay attention to all of his surroundings, rising an additional four and a half meters in the air so the Sage of Pleiades would be five meters elevated above the ground.

"If you don't show yourself now, I will blow up this whole area."

WC: 544
TWC: 2212

AP + Stats:

"....!"

Enishi's blood boiled. It burned and seethed, almost as if his skin was melting completely off of his body. The searing pain stopped him in his tracks in the midst of the rain, hovering over the ground in silent misery. He blinked. His skin, his flesh, and his meaty insides were still tethered to his bone. He blinked again. His skin was nothing more than bone. He blinked again...there were still there. No, if his skin was still intact - then why were his insides burning so much? This had to be something internally wrong with him, but it was impossible to pinpoint what exactly was going on after all this time. Not to mention, his chakra system was getting burned along with his blood; this whole cellular annihilation...it reminded him exactly of his old prototype poison - Somnolent Agent: Stasis. But suppose this whole blood boiling effect was due to some sort of toxin...where could this woman have applied the poison to inject it in his body? Airborne? No, that was unlikely. Every poison contained either a distinct odor, visual appearance, or taste, and the Jugo hadn't experienced either within this short period of time. So what could have been the trigger to place such a poison that was boiling all parts of his chakra system and his very own blood? The suitable question was essentially this:

What has been touching him this whole time?

He realized, instantly.

In contrast to his burning blood, the Sage of Pleiades exuded a chilling smirk.

Ah. I didn't know you were the type of person to fight so ruthlessly, Baliquis. But I suppose that this is a blessing in disguise...

Now I don't have to hold back as much anymore.


The junction in time after he spoke his threat to the cowering Baliquis and the effects of the toxin invaded his system to halve his chakra network, Enishi would mount his counteroffensive. Baliquis' strategies and ability to poison chakra systems through subtle means were ingenious, but unfortunately, she had faced the wrong opponent. In a pillar of transparent blue light, Albion would instantaneously switch into its full-armored form, concealing Enishi in full body armor that would protect him on every single angle, only filtering in the air for obvious reasons but forbidding any other substance from coming in contact with his body any further - shielding him from the woman's toxic rain. As this dazzling transformation occurred, the Wraith would quickly slip an Enhanced Soldier's Pill from hand to mouth through the use of the Hidden Arms technique which would be timed to be caught in the mouth just as the armor enclosed his body, bestowing him more of his diminished chakra reserves. This would be consumed alongside the release of his Chakra Storage Seal on his body with a single whistle to at least restore some of the chakra he lost against the woman's rain. But most importantly, an indigo surge of chakra would engulf his body and encase itself with the power of Foul Legacy. The Hawk -the animal that symbolized Enishi Kurosawa -  the apex predator of the sky that roamed above the seas akin to a deity, its chakra's wings would outstretch and its head would fully manifest, floating above Enishi's head like a specter, its would stare down Baliquis with glowing gold eyes, expanding outwards and assaulting the very laws of the world. Its wings would outstretch further as the unique chakra exerted by the Jugo would emulate the ocean's depth, boundless in size yet bearing palpable pressure. Displaying his power towards Baliquis as she spoke and launched a blast of lightning toward him, it would be evident that the Sage had activated Grand Chariot. Grand Chariot bolstered his chakra as seen through the depiction of the immaterial hawk, but it also removed any sort of debilitations occurring in his body or any future ones. This meant that the blood boiling of the rain would cease, seeing as its power was inferior to the bastion that was Grand Chariot.

The lightning loomed towards him.

He would make true to his threat.

Whistling at lightning speeds in replacement of handseals, Balmung would be unsheathed and be raised over his head upwards as Enishi would face the woman's voice. Baliquis seemed to be submerged in the earth as her hands and previous voice were the only indications of her presence, standing about half a meter away from the rain's range and had also launched a field of electricity that would fuse towards the rain - acting as an electrical downpour of sorts to attack him. Now that the Wraith turned around, Baliquis stood half a meter to the right of him and 24.5 meters directly in front. Taking to account every single possible calculation in that instant, Enishi imposed his will onto reality. The Sword Saint's emblazoned blade, Balmung would flash red for a moment as it was raised- signifying that Vanishing Chariot was devoured and converted into raw energy for something else. The red ceased. 

Blue light then painted the world. Emanating from the Holy Light of the Phoenix, the will of the Sword Saint expanded in a pillar form with Balmung as the tethering center. All that came in contact with it, from the physical reality of constructs to the imaginary plane of chakra would be erased by the light of devastation. The pillar rose upwards to fifty meters in height and caved all the way to ground level, expanding in a cylinder form on the surface in a twenty-meter radius centered on the armored warrior. The light cut through the rain, reversing the change in weather and scorching the clouds that evoked the rain to nothingness. Baliquis, while being far away from Enishi, was still in range of getting hit by the encroaching light of Ascalon. He made sure that it wouldn't seriously damage her, but if she was unfortunate to get hit by it...it'd surely knock the wind out of her body. Eventually, incessant the light ceased once it reached its maximum pillar size, but shockingly, nothing remained. The rain ceased. The syrup field was nonexistent. The lightning was erased as well. Essentially, there was no evidence that Enishi and Baliquis were fighting at all. Ion particles proliferated the area, the sun shining once again in a subdued glare that reigned upon the two shinobi. Dreaded Destiny would deactivate once the light would cease, the wings joining the Ion particles as the armored Understudy seemingly floated to ground level. The only reason why Enishi needed flight was exhausted, so he would stand. The hawk that displayed his sudden rise of chakra ceased, only leaving his armor and the indigo aura of Grand Chariot surrounding him. Balmung would be held by his right hand as well. If everything went correctly, he'd stand, half a meter to the left of Baliquis and 24.5 meters before her, standing as if nothing would happen. 

He'd await her next move.

"What a nice day, wouldn't you say?"

WC: 1167
TWC: 3379

AP + Stats:

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