Indeed her fears came true as Lahlil watched with her Sakkakugan infused eyes as the snowmen who had seemingly been destroyed slowly reformed themselves out of the chakra infused snow, and this time with carrot noses? What the what.. where did they even get those? Once their newly reformed bodies were set, a wave of carrots fired from their faces in a wide arcing attack. A great puff of smoke arose to surround the woman in blue for only a brief moment before an enormous door stood in her place with her on top of it. The impassive face that decorated the gigantic structure took the brunt of the carrot barrage with nary a scratch. Lahlil didn't have time to marvel however, as a few wide arcing carrots were also flung her way. A high pitched "Eep!" and raising her hands in front of her face were all she offered as the carrots shot at her and... bounced helplessly off of her skin? It's normal pink color now covered in a dark golden film, with the carrots laying helplessly in the snow beside her. Nenkin no Yoroi [ Armor of Sticky Gold ]
Breathing deep Lahlil peeked open her eyes to find the scene before her. Did I just..? Her head felt light for a moment and everything began to spin. For a shadow of moment Lahlil was sure that she would pass out, until a single sound reached her ears. The mewling of a kitten in the air. Their tiny life forces were easily picked out by her eyes through the flurry of snow and her heart broke as she watched the tiny creatures bumble about as a snowman came menacingly at them. A surge of motherly instinct awoke within Lahlil and the fogginess at the edges of her vision faded away. Summoning her prowess over the sand, she willed it to come to the aid of the animals in the form of a tiny dome like shield fit for their size. Suna no Tate [ Shield of Sand ] Though in the end it seems it was unnecessary as the woman in blue or rather one of her clones steps coolly out of the shadows with all the fury of a mother bear. Moving out from behind the corner Lahlil made her way running to the defense of the animals as well. Pulling more sand out from beneath the snow to be at the ready for use of a larger shield if she needed. The nearer she would get to the animals Lahlil also pulled out her tiny flute and quickly played a tune to hopefully ease their trauma, and make them easier to scoop and run if she needed to. Kaiteki Uta [ Comfort Song ]
Jutsu used: [65] Chakra spent Nenkin no Yoroi [ Armor of Sticky Gold ] - B Rank Nenkin no Yoroi is a ninjutsu that ecompasses spider like techniques. Taking advantage of the user's body that has the ability to create a form of metal, they are able to create an armor shell to protect their body. The user is able to emit this technique from their mouth and sweat glands. When the liquid hits the air it hardens around them protecting them. This can form a barrier against an opponent who attacks their internal chakra using techniques such as chakra absorption or even the gentle fist style. The rank determines the strength of the webbing and can be broken by a technique of one rank higher than it, or equivalent rank of Katon. This bonus ends at S rank meaning and the S+ rank version of this technique doesn't exist. This technique lasts until the user ends it or the armor is broken by an enemy technique.
Suna no Tate [ Shield of Sand ] - C Rank Suna no Tate is a Ninjutsu technique created by the Shukaku demon imbued into Gaara. The shield that protects Gaara does so under its own will. Since the time Gaara was a baby, the sand incarnation Shukaku has protected Gaara using this shield of sand. When needed, Gaara can also use his own Chakra to control the sand to act as a barrier. Because the protection is reliant upon how quickly the Shukaku demon can respond, it is possible a fast enough Shinobi can bypass the sand and strike Gaara. If the shield fails, Gaara uses his Suna no Yoroi to act as secondary protection from attack.
Kaiteki Uta [ Comfort Song ] - D Rank By playing an instrument, a calming aura fills the space and calms the emotions of all within save the user. Requires an instrument, and does not differentiate between friend and foe.
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:58 am
Evanescently Magnificent
Ergo War
The snowmen in masses began to be absorbed by the opened vortex. The gates plan seemed to be working. Furthermore, the shadow clone successfully intercepted the snowman as the energy waves sliced clean the frozen water guy. This irked the hovering spirit. A violin was played loudly which negated the sounds of the comforting song Lahil played. The sounds also overpowered the sucking sound of the loud vortex, in part because the technique was also being frozen shut by a powerful wave of ice. Once the space in between the gates were frozen shut, snowmen resumed form. A group of them formed together to make one giant snowball as it the medicine ball sized creation flew off toward Bastet at the top of the gates. Finally, the kittens inside the sand shield would find ice slowly starting to form in the sand itself. It wouldn't be long until the ice consumed the sand and broke it into pieces.
(Snowmen turning into a giant snowball attack: B boosted to A via korabo Ice will consume sand shield in two post. Gates were frozen shut by an S-ranked power).
Saiko ran as fast as he could into the area as he noticed what he was going on. The boy knew bast could handle herself but, he wanted to help regardless. "Start searching for the person involved in this. I'm going to help Bast and see if she can help us." The boy would say as he took off. The boy would immediately start to form handseals as he looked up at the snow ball that was created by the snowmen. "Hope they don't mind a bit of fire." If anyone paid attention, both of Saiko's hands were forming a different string of hand seals as he molded different chakra. The boy would then aim his hands at the snow ball. Once he had an aim, he would throw the a small black ball at the snow ball. If the small black ball hit the snowball, it would be completely engulfed a black cloud of electricity and fire.
● Makaze [ Devil's Storm ] B Rank upgraded to A Rank via korabo ● Kaen Hisame no Jutsu [ Incinerating Hail Technique ] B Rank upgraded to A Rank ● ●
Kumurai Kaicho
Mattysandwich
Jake23482
Ergo War
Evanescently Magnificient
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:57 pm
Well this was a right pickle. Her techniques were getting frozen left and right with no end in sight. At least she had some backup. That horrible violin noise had to go too; whoever was playing it was way worse than Tetsu, and that wasn't something Bast felt like sitting through.
With the snowmenball as the most immediate threat, Bast decided that evasion was her primary concern. Rather than deal with dodging on top of the gate, she stepped back and halfway fell off of it, catching herself with the Tree Walking Technique just as the snowmenball flew mere centimeters over her head and/or was obliterated by a well-placed black ball. With the snowmenball no longer her problem, she whipped out some wire and fired off a cutting wave of Chakra in the general direction of the strange spiritual presence above everything.
"Thanks for the assist," the Bast that had moved behind the cats told Lahlil. "Can you get them out of here?"
The clone near the original Bast made a hand seal and used the Wind Dragon technique. As soon as the dragon formed, it released three Wind Explosions toward random points in the snowy yard just to agitate the snow and keep it loose. The last clone--the one that had sliced up the evil snowman--landed in a snow drift and took a few moments to pull itself out.
__ He eventually arrived to a secluded private residence with an architectural design seemingly built for the introvert. Tetsuhiko found the silence of snow enveloping it did more to aid this aesthetic. Much to his dismay, it was being ruined by the sound of horrible violin scratching and combat. When he arrived he already had Caesar, Castor, and Io out and ready for use. Iron sand swirled around them as Tetsuhiko charged into the area in pursuit of whoever was responsible for the desert village's sudden snap of winter. Upon arrival, he noticed Saiko,Lahlil, and Bastet-sensei all in opposition with a giant snowball. Immediately, Tetsuhiko waved his hands as Io rode around on her levitating bull chariot twenty feet above the snowball. Suddenly, an enormous plume of fire erupted from the bull's mouth to collide with the snowball and the snowmen. As he did this he continued to remain at a distance standing with Caesar and Castor. He would now wait for Hanako, the sensor, to rejoin them and aid him in finding this perpetrator. In the mean time, Tetsuhiko did whatever he could to aid in the battle from a range.
_______________ ☼Out Of Context☼ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Tetsuhiko enters the stage!
Hanako of the Kurama family arrived behind Tetsuhiko and Saiko, a little slower as she was not the physical type, but not enough to the point were it was a matter of playing catch up either. She just seemed to fall to the rear of the group, which honestly, is were she belonged anyway given her skillset. With the order to look for the perpetrator, the genjutsu specialist nodded in response, offering no words in order to focus on the task at hand. The others seemed to have the combat matters under control anyway.
As Hanako's Sakkakugan glared bright red with the eerie glow that some might even find demonic, she kept scanning the area around her for chakra forms that could potentially be linked to the snowmen, like the one she had caught a glimpse of at the Academy. "Come out, come out...wherever you are..", she said in a low mutter, more to herself than to anyone in particular. If they were in the area, it was highly unlikely that the mastermind behind the snow and constructs made of it would be able to hide from her.
Lahlil's heart skipped a beat as she saw the ice quickly overcome the sand shiled that she had made for the animals. The moment she was close enough, Lahlil dived forward and scrambled the kittens from the soon to be death trap. Wrapping them as much as she could within the warm confines of her shirt, Lahlil could only find the effort to nod at Bastet's command. It was a surreal feeling being in a fight. Like everything was moving so fast and she had no idea what to do. Scanning with her Sakkakugan to search for through the clouds she hoped that she would be able to find any kind of trace of whoever was causing all of this, but no matter how hard she tried her eyes just couldn't pick up enough detail to find a distinguishing form around the clouds. All in all that didn't leave her with very many options. There was a sand jutsu that she could try to ferret out location of hidden enemies, but the snow and cold would simply cause it to clump in the air and shatter on the ground.
That's when it struck her. Perhaps she could convince them to reveal themselves of their own accord? It certainly was a long shot but with that wicked violin having blocked out the effects of her song but it was worth a shot, especially if Bastet's attack couldn't find it's mark. [1/2] Using her chakra to amplify the effects of her voice, by weaving her chakra into every syllable she would be able to convince or rather make her request seem more favorable to her enemy. Though she didn't know much about whoever was attacking them. Lahlil quickly learned It was a common trait among those in power to underestimate the situation while they believed they could win, and why bother attacking someone like Bastet if you didn't think you could win? [2/2] (Forgot to learn the weaker version of the technique before I could use this one)
No mater what she did she would have to get her technique through the sounds of battle however, and that is when Lahlil recalled a genjutsu that she had plenty experience with. After all her academy PE teacher had used it to yell at her nearly everyday. It was only from memory but Lahlil was certain that she could replicate it's genjutsu based effect to increase the sound of her voice. [1/1] Forming her chakra to first make sure that her voice would carry through the commotion of battle, Lahlil would first make sure whether or not Bastet's attack was enough to draw her out of her hiding place. If it was not, then Lahlil would shout out with her chakra enhanced voice. "What kind of coward hides from a bunch of genin and has snowmen do all their dirty work?! If you're really so strong then show yourself!"Tokitsukeru no Koe [ Voice of Persuasion ] + Hekireki Koe no Jutsu [ Thunder Voice Technique ]
Jutsu Used: [35] Chakra spent Hekireki Koe no Jutsu [ Thunder Voice Technique ] - E Rank This Genjutsu is very simple. Upon its execution, the target is made to hear the user's voice at an astoundingly amplified level. This is a Genjutsu often used by academy teachers to awaken students that fall asleep in class.
Tokitsukeru no Koe [ Voice of Persuasion ] - B Rank Requires Jouho first be known. This Jutsu applies all the effects of Jouho at a heightened level. In addition, the user can now make requests of his listeners and, assuming they are not too unreasonable, they will be favorably considered. However, this technique is still limited in its level of influence. For example, someone using this technique may be able to convince an enemy to retreat, but probably not to surrender. Also, the Jutsu remains much less effective against impassioned people, especially if the anger is directed at the user. Requires the previous version to be known first.
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2017 12:18 pm
Evanescently Magnificent
Ergo War
Brooy
Kumurai Kaicho
Jake23482
Fire, lightning, and iron sand dominated the area. The fusion bolt used by Saiko cleared through the initial field of snowmen. Then Tetsuhiko's puppet did swift work with flamethrowers. Finally, Bastet proved herself capable once more with her cutting attacks. Still though, the snow resumed. Snowmen returned. They were about to attack when Lahil did the unexpected. Her boom overpowered the sound of the violin and forced the spirit to hear her. It was then that the genjutsu in her voice was powerful enough to trick the spirit into unveiling herself, revealing a young girl, not even old enough to graduate from the academy, with two pig tails and skin as pale as ice. She had two fairy wings which fluttered and kept her afloat. Her left hand had her wand while the right carried the violin.
"Who are you calling a coward you no good witch?!" She snarled. Her voice reached a high octave as she sung a note and a barrage of icebergs. Each one was incredibly dense and way too strong for her to counter. As she performed the attack, however, she realized that she disobeyed her orders. She was not to engage directly in combat with them until they had the Pumpkin King dead. The Snow Queen demanded it. With a pouty face she screamed as snow swirled around her. The noise ended when the snow fell, and she was gone from sight. The moment she left, however, the snowmen lost their sentience and the snow stopped.
(Twenty feet Solid Rocks of Ice: S-ranked in Power, four shot in total Sugar Plum Fairy leaves, threat is gone after you deal with nightmare attack.)
Saiko looked up into the air as the other Sakkugan user's taunt seemed to do it's trick. 'That's who's causing all of this mayhem?' Saiko thought to himself as the young girl came out of hiding. It was rather strange to know that someone so much younger than him was so much stronger than himself. However, the girl's full strength quickly came into view as the girl made four large ice bergs. Well, Saiko wasn't gonna let this ship sink. However, he knew he was going to need more help to stop these things. Saiko was going to learn this jutsu in the academy but, it was apparent that he needed to learn it now to help with the situation. It was the shadow clone technique. Saiko figured that it was just like any other clone jutsu that he had previously learned. The boy rose up his right hand and started to form the necessary hand seals for the technique. As the hand seals were formed, the chakra in his system would start to move. Saiko took a deep breath as he started to form the last hand seal. With his chakra he would push it out and make a clone standing next to him. Just a single one as that was all he needed. "Alright let's do this."
Saiko immediately started to form different hand seals with both of his hands. The boy's clone would do the same thing, making the same hand seals as his original. In front of the two boys, the ground would start to become crystallized. Both Saiko and his clone added to this almost pool of crystal, helping each other increase it in size. However, crystal wasn't the only thing being made here. Katon chakra was being added by both Saiko and the clone to get the desired effect that Saiko wanted. What Saiko was doing required an immense amount of focus. It was one of the most difficult things he had done but, he knew he needed to do this. The adrenaline pumped and it told him to fight. At the end of all of the handseals, four dragons would suddenly come flying out of the ground from the crystallized area. Each dragon was of their own design. Their structure was made out of crystal but, the entire dragon would be covered in fire as each of the dragons shot out at a different ice berg. Saiko watched as they went to stop the ice bergs, hoping that he did what he was supposed to. If the jutsu worked, each of the fire dragons would crash into the ice bergs and stop them from coming any closer. After the jutsu was completed, the clone disappeared and Saiko, well, he needed to sit down.
● Kaen Hisame no Jutsu [ Incinerating Hail Technique ] Upgraded to S rank via Korabo x 2 ● Hashō Kōryū [ Tearing Crystal Falling Dragon ] Upgraded to S rank via Korabo x 2 (4 dragons made in total, S+ rank in toughness) ● Shadow Clone jutsu ●
Kumurai Kaicho
Mattysandwich
Jake23482
Ergo War
Evanescently Magnificient
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 6:33 pm
And here came the cavalry. Bast was a bit curious about her own technique missing and the effectiveness of the Genjutsu, but this wasn't the time to think about that. The creature had manifested and then fled, leaving behind a mess of ice for them to clean up.
"Pen and paper!" she shouted. Two of her clones responded by using the Wind Retrieval technique to get the items and then rushing over to deliver the items. She took pen in hand and put it to paper. She needed something simple. She drew a simple image.
A straight crest of earth shot out of the ground under the ice bergs just in time for Saiko's attack to go off. That bought her enough time to sing a short verse in a loud, piercing voice. The Triple Rashoumon would rise out of the earthen slope to intercept the icebergs and their debris.
"Break the glaciers!" she barked at everyone present as she ran toward her Rashoumon. "I'll handle the cleanup!"
"Get down," the remaining clone told Lahlil. It formed a few hand seals and slammed its hands into the ground, raising up a curved shield to provide cover. "Can't have the cats getting hurt."
__ Paper rained down from the sky. The slips of loose leaf fluttered through the area as they latched onto the debris which would have collided with the Bastet clone protecting Lahil and the cats. As the debris got closer, the paper swirled on top of the shield as Hikaru formed from it. His right hand extended toward the falling ice shards as he then formed a fist. The paper which were latched on the shards revealed themselves to be explosive notes as they synchronized their explosion to completely evaporate the debris, leaving the shield unused. While Tetsuhiko was supposed to be the team member designed for the dramatic entrance, Hikaru felt the need to protect his teacher. He turned and looked down at the Bastet clone and the girl with the cats. "Snow?" He asked simply. There was a lot in this situation he didn't understand. If anyone would explain it to him, it was certainly Bastet.
__ With a wave of his hand the puppeteer retracted Io from the area after the attacks seemingly worked."The glory of pyrotechnics." Tetsuhiko thought with a light chuckle before he began walking towards the others. In the distance he saw Saiko forming an impressive amount of either ice or crystalline dragons, he could not tell. After that he saw paper fluttering in the air. "Oh brother." Tetsuhiko scoffed as Hikaru,his explosive origami "artist" teammate came into his view. Once he made his way to Bastet and the others he made his presence known. "The Iron Prince has returned to the stage!" He then struck a triumphant post. After that he resumed his normal status and allowed his iron sand to continue to swirl about and his triad of puppets to remain stationary.
Hanako, seeing the strange being manifest from the taunt of a fellow kunoichi with the same eyes as herself stopped to analyze it in the brief moments it was there in sight. It was an interesting sight to behold, but that sense of wonder was interrupted by the incoming attack. She had no way to stop it, and no way to assist in providing additional artillery to blowing up the large shards. The green-horn genjutsu specialist did what she knew best and took up a defensive position near Saiko, relying on him, as her impromptu group leader to throw his own capabilities with ninjutsu to good use. Whether or not this was recognized was of no consequence, but it was out of tactical advantage, not cowardice. Foolishly throwing herself into a threat she lacked the tools and skillset to handle beyond sensory and manipulation was foolish, and anyone with the same wavelength of mental process would likely have done the same thing.
Mattysandwich
Brooy
Kumurai Kaicho
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:45 pm
Stunned that her techniques would even be capable of working against someone who was obviously a skilled ninjutsu master. Lahlil stood with a blank expression as a tiny child, one who couldn't have be any older than herself with little fairy wings a flutter hurled four massive ice comets directly at her. Thoughts escaped her as she felt like she was watching everything in a slowed down version of time. She knew that she should do something, but the time her bod started to react she knew it would already be too late. That is until the comets met with a shining fire dragon. Four of them in fact. The ice immediately shattered into multiple smaller pieces that were mixed with bits of crystal that glimmered in the sunlight in the most beautiful form of destruction she had ever seen. That was when a form materialized in front of her in a blur of motion. Flashing hand seals faster than she could keep up with, Bastet brought her hands down on the ground causing the earth to rumble under her feet. A curved shield of earth raised in front of them. Meanwhile three massive doors, that were of a perfect likeness their previous counterpart, also erupted from the ground and protect them from the remaining ice shards.
All of this happened so fast that Lahlil only had seconds to process it all. In the end she found she was smiling. A smile which soon erupted into a fit of the giggles that was so strong it brought tears to her eyes. Confident that the doors would hold from the remaining shards, Lahlil shuffled up next to the Bastet clone. Still getting her laughing fit under control the young girl offered up the adorable kittens to their owner. The little creatures beginning to mewl as they caught sight of their master. "I can't see her anymore.. with my Sakkakugan I mean.. so um I think it's safe." Looking back down to her wards, Lahlil shifted them to be out of the cold that was thankfully dying down. "They might need a blanket or something to warm up and I don't know if you wanted me to step into your house-" Halfway through her sentence Lahlil looked back at the house that lay partial in ruins from all the broken glass everywhere. "Oh right.. uhmm.. I'm sorry.."
A ghostly figure appeared on top of the Rashomon gates Bastet had summoned. The figure appeared transparent and static like at first, but then materialized into a semi-transparent form. When it did, it revealed a overly tall, skeleton man in a very fashionable outfit. He looked around as he started to fidget with his bowtie. "Testing... testing..." He repeated. When he was able to look down and see all of the suna ninja, his face erupted with sheer passion. "Saiko! Bastet! Ferrah! And Tetsuhiko! Oh boy am I glad to see you." He exclaimed even though his body kept phasing out and his words cut out with it. "Oh you all seem to be in excellent health. I'm glad none of you diedyet to that dreaded Snow Queen and herhorrible Sugar Plum Fairy." He said sincerely.
Hanako of the Kurama family arrived behind Tetsuhiko and Saiko, a little slower as she was not the physical type, but not enough to the point were it was a matter of playing catch up either. She just seemed to fall to the rear of the group, which honestly, is were she belonged anyway given her skillset. With the order to look for the perpetrator, the genjutsu specialist nodded in response, offering no words in order to focus on the task at hand. The others seemed to have the combat matters under control anyway.
