Welcome to Gaia! ::

It seemed as though the slime girls weren't going to stop. That didn't make much of a difference to Tes. She would stand and take the strikes of the slime girls who, after impact with her, would become attached. They would freeze upon her skin. The purple creatures that accompanied Tes would rush the slime girls and tackle into them in an attempt to pin them only to fly into their mouths. With the slimes halted on Tes' end, hopefully, she supposed she would answer a question that puzzled her now since her beloved creatures had been devoured. With Ella present, if she was destroyed in doing so, she would be sealed away to be revived again later. She wondered if what Shaneko said to Ella was true. She wondered where the insides of the slime girls would lead. Each homunculus heard Shaneko. It was just a matter of who cared to see or not. Tes would tear away from the slimes she believed she'd captured and leap into the mouth of a slime that the creatures had attempted to tackle. After entering the slime girl would hopefully freeze over due to Tes' freezing attribute.

Tes had more than a mere three creatures. One was running along the ground to follow after Sai and Ella. It could sense its masters presence fade but continued onward after Ella and Sai. "I'm kind of bored of just running."

"I'm not, Ella," sighs Sai continuing to run. Ella turns her head to him and frowns. She then leaps onto Sai's back while taking an odd mask from inside her dress. Already aware of what Ella planned to do, Sai continues running while gripping Ella on his back. Ella aims all ten of her fingers at the running slimes after equipping the mask to her face and shoots her fingers outwards, "Stabbing Fingers," she would state. As soon as the fingers either hit their target or missed and hit somewhere near the slime girls an explosion would occur. The mask now strapped to her face is the Blast Mask and a favorite of hers. As they ran they kept clear visual of their target.

It seemed Tes had foolishly lunged head first into an attack thinking her creatures had been devoured when they were perfectly fine... well, when they weren't. She could have dodged the punch of the slime girl had she not been running towards the slime girl in order to be eaten too. She could already feel the heat of the punch from the few feet she had left between her and her attacker. She could possibly survive a blow from the slime girl. But that was a tiny possibility. Who could save her? Who was fast enough? The Ever-Active Genjutsu clone of Reina's soul fragment appears behind Tes in the form of a creature known as Kill Joy. This was the homunculi genjutsu clone created by the real version of Reina's spirit and it was plenty fast to make it to Tes before the blow was struck. But the speed of her catching up to Tes in time would spell out her being unable to stop. She flings down a raised arm and knocked Tes down to the ground with a very loud crash. The punch of the slime girl is thrown and strikes Kill Joy clear in the face. Kill Joy lingered on the fist of the slime girl, her face burning away, before blasting back and away from her. She crashes through some trees before being caught by her other half. A woman by the name of Mystic who was the true homunculi that housed a portion of Reina's soul. She slows in her run and lays down Kill Joy. She only examines her before flinging her up and onto her shoulder. Kill Joy was out cold and for good reason too. Now she wouldn't have to go through a painful death. Her head was barely intact. But Mystic wouldn't let that stop her. She returns to running through the village with the rest of the homunculus. Who would make their presence know next?

Tes stands from the crater in the ground and cracks her neck. "That was lucky," she mutters as she levitates from the ground. "I could have defended myself though," she snorts. Chakra whips around her as she extends a hand out in front of her. The chakra around her increases as a scythe begins to take shape. She begins twirling the scythe as it finally takes form as her Chakra Scythe which was the same as her Zoto Clan Scythe. "Time for a little payback, you slimes. You're going to pay for trying to punch me when I give you a free meal!" She swings her scythe and launches flames from it to strike the ground near her creatures. They fly off and into the forest to be picked up by the various running homunculus. She was using the natural attacks of the scythe and wasn't using any type of technique to launch the flames. "How much pounding with this scythe can each of you take," she mutters aiming the scythe at the remaining slimes.

Ella frowns seeing as her Stabbing Fingers didn't work. She tugs back on her fingers that grew out in order to impale the slime girls. Afraid the slime girls might have tried something in eating her fingers she does something most wouldn't do. At the point where her fingers hadn't entered the mouths of the slime girl she scrape her fingers together until they all sever. She fought back screams and simply winced. She continues recoiling her fingers to see that much of them had been cut of. It didn't matter much to her. Using her Regeneration Orochi she could continue to dish out blood. Her fingers were just stuck like that for a while. She sticks one hand, clean of the slime that might have clung to them, into her mouth and then turns on Sai's back to shove her other hand into him mouth. He grins widely as his eyes surge red. As the slime girls fly towards them Sai leaps upward and then down hard on a tree branch. He uses the strength of his legs to shoot him up higher once he propels from the tree branch. He flies through the air almost as if he had leapt on his own. He continues flying forward, increasing the distance between him and the slimes only a little. They had gotten too much closer to them after Ella's little trick. Eventually the slimes would be right at their heels. That would be when they would stop running and try to end them.

Trap them? The slimes currently tailing Ella and Sai and fighting Tes would find doing too much of anything to harm them to be almost impossible in their current situation. Situation? What situation? They hadn’t noticed it yet but they were about to. Something was slowly taking over them. Their forms were slowly reacting differently than they were supposed to. What was doing it? No, it couldn’t be the poisonous blood, could it? It should have taken effect a while ago, right? No, no. It wasn’t the POISON but it was the blood. There was more purpose to Tybalt taking the form of blood to attack the slime girls. Yes, he had put a little of himself into them. How else would the Hynes blood work? It had to stick within the slimes which also meant a part of Tybalt was with them for the time being. But Tybalt was safe. Any part of the slimes that might have gotten on him he hadn’t kept. They struck him and he gave them the Hyne’s Blood. It was a distraction. He was returning the parts of them that might infect him back to them along with a part of himself. No part of them lingered on the actual Tybalt. In the time the slimes ran and shifted their form or altered it, Tybalt was within them and altering them using his homunculus abilities and those of his own. He had mixed completely with them with their constant shifts in form and their running. Their substance constantly shifted which was perfect. Tybalt, was indeed a tricky one. He came and fled and the slimes thought nothing of it. At any rate, the bits of Tybalt were using Fusion to rapidly fuse with the slimes, which was easy, and slowly gaining control over them. He was also using Hydra rejuvenation in order to increase the pieces of him in size. But it’s to regenerate a lost limb! The pieces of him were bits of lost limbs. The pieces of Tybalt could survive away from his actual body because of him being a homunculus. So this was possible to do. Whenever the slimes would think of doing one thing or try to harm a member of Tybalt’s group, they would resist somewhat but not completely. That would give each of his comrades enough time to dodge, defend, or attack at any point in time. For now the slimes could resist but soon they would be unable to and would become clones of Tybalt, basically, who was all the way on another end of the forest. He was, however, fully aware of everything taking place using the pieces of him that were consuming the slime girls.

Tes stares forward as the slime would lunge for her scythe but would falter a little. It seemed to not want to eat the scythe. Tes didn’t understand. The scythe is soon being consumed anyway. It didn’t matter much to Tes. The closer the critter came, the better. Tes would expand her scythe so the mouth of the slime was open wide enough for her to slip in. Any attack that came to knock her off course would be negated by her chakra barrier. That was her point in changing form. She was going to find out where the slimes lead. As she had explained before, she was curious. She wanted to know. She figured she wasn’t needed too much anyway. With her creatures around she wasn’t necessary. Besides, she couldn’t see without them near her anyway so keeping her around wasn’t very useful.

Sai and Ella continue running and not stopping as they feast on Ella’s blood. After having her fill, Ella removes her hand and stops her Orochi Power from regenerating her blood. Sai instantly knew what she planned, as he often did, and continues draining her of blood.

Enough time had passed to where the slime girls should have been completely taken over. Apparently that was not the case. The forming Tybalt's were only bits of limbs while the fused and grew and couldn't reveal to Tybalt if he had successfully taken control of the slimes or not. It seemed the slime girls had discarded the Hynes blood a time after having it placed into them. The hint of resistance that Tes saw and took as an opening was nothing more than the slime girl allowing Tes to be swallowed. All apart of the slime girls plan, it seemed. As Tes got devoured she could feel a tugging on her chakra, as if it were being torn away. She was rapidly being zapped of chakra as she got eaten. She struggles, not wanting to be transported somewhere without chakra then relaxes a moment. She contemplates on whether it would be best to see what she could and then be destroyed in her being without chakra or staying and not seeing where the slimes went. Then she begins fighting again. It was pretty much useless. The slime girl was planning to devour her and was set on it. Just when Tes was about to be completely consumed the slime stops. Everything goes numb for Tes. Any method of discovering the locations of anything gone. She couldn't sense and couldn't see but felt her chakra stop depleting.

Sai and Ella continue to run as the slimes draw nearer. They seemed faster than before. Using the boost of Ella's blood, Sai increases his speed to try and level his speed with the slimes but with little effect. The slime girls still kept coming and still outpaced him. They would catch them soon. Other homunculi in the area close in on the area where Ella and Sai were -some falling behind due to them being slower, some easily keeping stride with Ella and Sai, and some even matching the speed of the slimes to some degree- with the strong in the inner ring and far outer ring. There were so many of them. But not needed. The slimes began setting their traps then stopped. Ella and Sai continued running but slower as the homunculus around stop and watch the slimes. As soon as the slimes made their way to a particular point, the homunculus made for the docks to group up in case things went bad. Ella tugs on Sai shirt to tow him towards the directions the slime girls went only for Sai to continue towards the docks to the others Something was happening though no one knew what.

At the docks Mystic was seen holding the lifeless body of Kill Joy though she was a bit happier then most would be about a dead companion. Tybalt carried Tes in his arms, her body limp. Various homunculus held the creatures that accompanied Tes, all unconscious but one. For a moment Sai and Ella consulted what to do with themselves but soon heard the chime of the bell Naomi gave Ella. Sai grimaces as Ella listens to the voice say, "Return to the place. We can do no more now." Ella growls angrily under her breath before fanning a hand to the surrounding homunculus. They all race to the water as Ella leaps from Sai's back. Ella was bent on awaiting the objective to escape or swipe her soul when she was disposed of.Sai stands patiently at her side.

Every other homunculus had gone from the area, or so Ella made herself believe. She had sent them away but their silent presence made the area seem crowded. Ella was a bit steamed that they disregarded her orders but soon forgot all about it upon seeing Than. She examines him briefly before she notices Sai smirk. "Interesting weapon you have there. There aren't very many of those lying around," states Sai, his eyes settled on the revolver in Than's hand. Ella rolls her eyes over to Sai to examine his face before setting her gaze back on the descending Than. She didn't even think on her response.

"I'm pretty sure I'm alive. You look half dead yourself. Those slimes couldn't have been that hard to fight, now could they?"

"We wouldn't know, we were running," snorts Sai as Ella elbows him on the arm. Now, they weren't at all surprised by Than's random and dramatic entrance but this newcomers entrance did start them a little. Sai slips into a crouch as soon as the light filters into the area. Ella's eyes dart around like a ball in a pinball machine but she remains in one place. She sets her gaze on the calm Than but can't base much on him. He was always calm in otherwise unsettling situations. Finally Sai stands upright and relaxes. Ella looks at him and then smiles widely at the new arrival. Just the person she and Sai wanted to see.

"Hello, little one." Ella was one to talk. She looked years younger than the child before her. "My name is Ella," she lazily raises her right hand and slaps her hand against her chest. "And this boy here is Sai," she states reaching her tiny left hand over to Sai and tugging on the strands of hair she could reach. He flinches with each pull but it didn't hurt in the least to him. Once another new arrival comes, Ella dances nearer to the girl that had greeted her before. She looks her over with her eyes before she smiles wider. "It's nice to finally meet you," she states bluntly as if it wouldn't seem odd to know someone she'd never met. Sai stands calmly where he is and begins chatting with Than.

"So you are a Jounin now? Do you plan on becoming Fuhrer? Ella seems..." he looks over at the grinning Ella then back at Than, "satisfied with how we are living now. So she's won't be the village ruler. But it needs one. Who knows when another freaky attack like this one might come around?"

Sai watches him and, for an instant, was surprised by the disappearance of the weapon but took it as nothing soon after. Than didn't just appear different to Sai because he was unusually covered in blood or even because he was now a Jounin. Sai could sense the power of Than even at a distance. It was instinctive for Sai to measure up people. It couldn't help it. His curious nature provokes him, at times, to analyze someone as much as he can. "I haven't heard Alchemy Nation used in a while. Maybe because there are very few BORN citizens." Sai lived there with Ella but he wasn't a native. That's what he meant. "I suppose now is a good time to start calling you Fuhrer," states Sai with a slight smirk. He knew Than was deserving of such a rank. His progress since Sai had last seen him was incredible. Then again, Sai stayed the same. He hadn't level up or grown in strength in any shape, form or fashion.

Ella was always warned not to gaze into the eyes of someone she didn't truly know but Ella felt safe. Not because her homunculi were around but because Sai was there. Ever at her side since... Ella gazes into the eyes of the small girl and they hold the same look in one another's eyes. Like they were older than they were. For Ella it was mainly from her having been resurrected so many times before but the girl seemed naturally older beyond her years. Ella wondered if the cutesy act was nothing more than amusement for the girl. Ella digs her right foot in the rather soft soil. She rambles her thoughts for a way of saying, 'Hey, I want to take a portion of your soul.' Ella nibbles at her bottom lip a little in frustration, which Sai notices and grimaces a little at before returning his attention to Than. "I wanted to ask a favor of you. I know this woman who is in an organization. She says she knows you. Naomi, ring a bell? She probably never even introduced herself or anything so asking that was stupid. Ugh! Okay, here's the thing. I wanted to ask you if I could... take a portion of your soul. Yeah, it's a little straight forward but... I really needed the soul of someone of your background. I mean, you can get something from me, if you want to. What about a move I have? I have some moves hardly anyone knows." Ella wondered if she was even making any sense. She was nervous. She didn't want to lose the girl by saying something stupid or hiding the truth or playing stupid. She needed this girl. She had contemplated on giving out a fake name before out of habit but found that that was dumb. Honesty was key in an odd situation such as this one.

Sai smirks before shifting his gaze to the person he hadn't seen before. Never. Not in past memories of others or his own. Not even in his travels had he seen the man before. He narrows his eyes slightly before returning his gaze to its care free and easy-going gaze he held when he chatted with Than. "Who is that there? I've never seen him before..." Sai then laughs before adding in, "Fuhrer?" He shifts his gaze over to the male as Ella watches Nirvana contently. Ella hears the interest in her voice and her mind goes blank. What move could she offer? What move would the objective, or Nirvana as she is properly called, want? An entire minute passes before Ella speaks again. She stops digging her foot in the dirt but continues nibbling at her lip. "How about... a move that lets you shape shift into animals? No, no. You wouldn't want that. I'm not even sure you can use that. Hmmm. How about a move that can make it where you can't be puppeted? No, no. That's a double edged sword." Ella ponders as Sai slowly slides his eyes over to her direction.

"What about something involving souls, Ella? She does specialize in those types of things," he thinks to her. She flashes him a cheesy grin then smirks at Nirvana.

"Okay, I got one. What if I gave you a move to not only seal souls and use them but will enable you to use said soul AND anything that goes with it. PLUS you can use that souls chakra. You take the greater chakra and everything! How's that ability in exchange for your soul fragment?