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 Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:43 pm
Something moved through the tunnels. It was a figure, only slightly visible by the dust it displaced. The light seemed to be bending around whoever was there.
Lina kept her breathing quiet and her steps light. There was a cloud of dust spiraling around her as she walked, the dust was what was bending the light around her, on her side it looked like a mirror with static aside from directly in-front of her eyes, where an illusion was showing her what was outside the 'technique'. She started to feel the slightest hint of a presence with her chakra and Rai senses. Her tails swished gently behind her, hiding her footprints in the dust.
After that Occasionally a small tag would appear on the walls as the figure moved, zig-zagging along the tunnel.
'Just get the kid and get Reeve to use the Return scroll, that's all it'll take.'
The thought was thought, but not in the body that was in the tunnel.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:17 am
Ishira crossed her arms and waited for the thing to stop. Her body was aching and she wondered if she hadnt gotten the soap off her skin earlier and if they had entered the wounds on her body. She cursed Neko in her head for not leaving her fox enough to heal the new wounds, but at least her arm was no longer busted. That reminded her, she looked down at the metal wrapped around her arm and messed with it, twisting it slightly and relaxing her arm to see if she could get it off. It didnt, and wouldnt bug at all for her. She glared, then looked at Neko and sighed. She needed rest but they would be there soon, even though the ride took forever, a lot of time had past, and many new things had come to mind. Her sister was near, she could feel it, though she didnt know where, which was more or less because she wasnt her fox. Then how did she feel it? Was it more of a blood thing? Ishira wondered and then took note the Kyuu was being quiet again.
Ishira opened her mind to her weapon, turning the switch on to the connection and a flood of confusing emotions ran through her. Ishira didnt flinch, probably because it wasnt that long ago that she was like that herself, but she waited. She waited for Kyuu to sort through the questions and then speak. She could tell though, that it wouldnt happen any time soon, just like Nekos silence... She hated it, she needed something to occupy her mind from thinking about the one thing that would drive her nuts now.
"Neko, can you take this brace off me yet... My arms healed..." She said as she felt the pang of loneliness flush through her. She didnt have her Hikari anymore, nor her darkness again. They were torn from her body until the training was over, which was frustrating because she feared the training wouldnt be over in time. What would happen if they attacked Neko and her like this? Granted Neko could take the spell instantly, with one touch to her, but what if they had been separated? Could he take the spell then? She shook her head, it was no good to think about it.
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Ishira Tsubasa Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:04 am
Lina might very easily run out of explosive tags before she reached the base that Neko's men had established. The complex was much older than anything Neko could have built,, and stretched through the countryside for at least a few hundred miles. If she was paying attention, she might notice that these tunnels ran right under several established villages and towns. There were a few patrols in the tunnels nearby the base, only going out a few miles from where the Progeny were.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:36 pm
Lina hadn't wasted as many tags as one would expect given she sensed her sister at relatively the same time as she herself had been sensed. She compared her sister's movement to landmark direction. and stopped with the tags, continuing along the tunnels. Her ear twitched a few times, but she kept moving, changing her tactics by searching for what she associated as Dalcon's electrical frequency.
Her mind had noticed the differences in Ishira's energy signatures. It wasn't something she was unfamiliar in sensing the differences between since she had come to the academy. She noticed the speed and hints of machinery and changed her direction towards the likely place they came from.
'She's not worth the effort.'
Lina shook her head and kept walking, the whole while being hidden from even many of the special eyes. Her tails swishing gently to keep the dust spread instead of leaving her tracks. Her mind was focused in on Dalcon, but those that had made appearances infront of Lina would likely still get notice if her sense picked them up.
Her mind told her there may be civilians above at some point, but at the same time her mind also told her just how many could be Neko’s workers and forces if he tried that at his base. She already knew she’d take the cold blooded approach if that was the case. If nothing else several dozen lifetimes of war had put that simple fact into her head, leave survivors of your enemy and they will beg for help, give them enough to where their lives aren’t ruled by survival and they will seek revenge. The ninja twist was to not get caught, or find the way to make those who survived blame others.
She kept walking, comparing one of her explosive notes to the GNA’s designs, then again to that which she had pulled from Neko’s sealing database. It was obvious which design she had chosen, and obvious to her which ones likely would only partially explode, while leaving scraps to be found.
‘The things I do’
She shook her head and kept walking. Reeve had been nice to her several times throughout her arrival at the GNA. Neko had been nicer though. She tilted her head to the side as she walked. Reeve had betrayed her, as had Neko. Neko was the mastermind however. They both used something that everything she knew told her to ensure it didn’t stay in existence and yet she had let Reeve live. Her mind shifted the blame to Neko, especially after Ishira went running to him. Ishira… Ishira and she had had aggression towards her sister before, but this was unusual. She clutched her forehead as she kept moving, this long walk going on far more then she’d like given her choice of stealth.
Lina sniffed the air, growling for a moment as she noticed the smell of sulfur mixed with blood. A hellfire shushin had been used down here recently. She took that as a cue and let her stealth become more rushed. She formed Rai skates and blurred forward, spreading her senses as she raced through the tunnels. Her distortion effect was likely to be noticed by strong human eyes at the proper angle and lighting, but electronic screens wouldn’t see the difference.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:35 pm
Lina would nearly make it to the staging area before being interrupted by two solitary Nin, each one displaying a blank headband. They had sensed her when she picked up her pace, and were already patrolling one of the few tunnels leading to the headquarters. They threw up a steel wall, much like the ones already in the tunnels, only this one wasn't as aged. They sunk into the walls and waited to cut her off.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:49 pm
Lina kept on course. Something blinked a few times and she kept moving towards the wall, slowing down suddenly as the wall came into view. Her illusion was centered in-front of the wall. A circular hole started to appear as a Rai sphere impacted the metal, slowly molding it out.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:59 pm
Neko placed two fingers on Ishira's brace, letting it uncurl from her arm before lifting it and curling it back up, stowing it away in his cloak. He stepped out of the tram and into an exit, sending a brilliant pulse of soft rai through the corridors as he left, to throw off Lina's senses, hopefully. He emerged in the field and stretched a little, looking in the direction of Durem.
"Let's get there quickly.I have something for you to do after you rest..."
He flashed Ishira a small grin and dashed through the forest, keeping an eye on his student, seeing if she could keep up.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:06 pm
The Nin would see the rai sphere melt through their wall and wait. They held off until just a moment after the rai stopped crackling, and melded the wall again, sending sharp, thick spikes criss-crossing through the hole, closing it off again, and making sure anything that might try to slip though wasn't happy. This action, however, have away their positions in the earth to either side of Lina.
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:21 pm
The illusion dispelled, revealing nothing where the sphere had been melting into the wall.
Lina stood on the opposite side of the wall. A rapid shushin and shape-shift had put her on the other side before the sphere had failed. She slammed her hands into one wall and polarized the metal of the walls in the immediate area with her attempt at a temporary self sustaining barrier to keep the nin from reforming, rapidly flipping to the other wall intending to do the same.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:22 am
The other Nin quickly moved away from the wall Lina was dashing towards, instead opting to reform from the ceiling. He dropped down towards Lina, unleashing a storm of ceramic senbon, laced with a numbing poison, down at the woman as he fell.
((Sorry about that wait, stuff's been crazy lately X.x))
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:28 am
Lina tilted down letting the needles break against her armor, then suddenly flipped into the air, a large chunk of steel plating armor over her boots suddenly being swung around with inhuman speed as she kicked the Nin. She landed on her hands and flipped back right-side up, taking a stance.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:32 am
The Nin caught the boot in the gut, yelping as he was flung far down the hall. He landed on his feet and skidded for a few meters, hunched over and grimacing in pain. Nin2 took his chance to move underneath Lina, and force the ground underhand to bend and warp, attempting to wrap around and immobilize anything it could touch.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:41 am
Lina formed her Rai skates and shot forward. Her hand grabbed a kunai and had melted it into dust as she formed her sphere attack. The metal dust would be superheated and spinning rapidly as she slammed it into the downed Nin. She inverted herself, putting the base of her rai skates on the ceiling, preparing to pull herself up the rest of the way if anything warranted it.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:51 am
The downed nin was decimated, literally ripped to shreds before he could muster a defense. Nin2's attacks were too slow, but still continued after Lina, even on the ceiling. She could easily outrun him on her skates, and the staging area wasn't too far off. she could feel the faint impulses of ten of the Progeny, and probably fifty other Nin.
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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:39 pm
Lina twitched, by now this had to have alerted someone. She switched tactics quickly. Her presence was masked again as she formed the illusion again.
Three different illusions suddenly spread out and rushed away towards the large group. None of them were displaying chakra or electrical signals.
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