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Nightmare watched Aokawa coming and then tensed her muscles.
"...Fifth gate open..."
There was an intense surge of chakra and she quickly raised her hand and caught the edge of the blade like a vise and held onto Aokawa's sword looking at him calmly.
"We may have stolen this body but with our power it can be used to it's true potential. With no limitations and nothing to can stand before us...Maybe the death of one of your allies will show you your limits..."
Nightmare looked past Aokawa and smiled at Himoto.

Not being able to believe that Nightmare was able to catch his sword bare handed Aokawa looked at her with a shocked expression on his face 'how in the world..' Aokawa thought but he soon snapped out of hit realizing she had opened her fith gate, hearing the words she spoke confused him but he quickly understood what she meant when she smiled at Himoto, becoming completely enraged Aokawa shouted "third gate open!!!" and suddenly there was a surge of chakra around his body, using his new found strenghth he ripped his sword from Nightmare's hands "you b***h!! if you even think about touching her i'll kill you!!" he screamed as he made a vertical swing of his sowrd aimed for her midesction

Ryu continues to watch the battle. He counts how many people are above water and notices one is missing. He looks around but cant find out who. Then he realizes who "With those wounds do you think Icchiro can swim?" he yells out to them from on top of maradas statue, trying not to get involved with the battle.

Icchiro hung limply over Takeo's shoulder and groaned his strength was failing him and he didn't have much long to be concious and worthy of helping. His dog Zack was making a weak doggy paddle over to him and Takeo and panted loudly having somehow managed to hide it out behind some rocks and survive the giant wave. "Damn it's like theres no limit to her ******** strength!... We're screwed... We need to get out of here..."

saotome looks down at the ground "to live in that kind of world where I must bow down to your laws..." Saotome looked back up at nightmare and stand in defiance "I rather die on me feet with my head held high!!!" Saotome takes out several of his senbon and throws them at nightmare as he emplaced lightning chakra into them to create a stronger cutting edge.

Nightmare stood and watched as the senbon struck her in the chest and cut clean through and went out through her back and left small holes that soon began to seep shut. She then tensed her raised fist and brought it down so had it forced all the water under her to surge up and out around her until she was standing on solid ground again then as all the water began to rush back to fill the empty space she called out.
"Eight Gate Open!!!!"
With that her body gave off a birght light and she began to spin at a high speed and the water swirled around her and everything seemed to slow down as everyone saw her pull all the swirlling water behind her right fist and threw a godly right hook pointed in Himoto's direction and the water she'ld gathered made the shape of a massive fist and as it traveled it laid waste to everything in it's path.

afer saotome witnessing that move he finally realized something "thats it!!! the eight gate is the key I think I might know how to defeat nightmare" saotome heads toward behind aokawa and talked low enough for him and himoto to hear "nightmare is capable of healing wounds right because of this killing her would be impossible due to that eledia she possess her body is simular to reanimation we cant simply cut her down she will keep comming but by learning this I noticed something......her body's stamina still has a phsyical limit" saotome looks at the group "here is the thing nightmare's constant finishing technique would be inner gates but we know this puts an incredible strain on the muscles and tendons of the body because of this the user can recognize at a peroidical to abandon the technique once the strain takes to much of a toll on the body, constant state in this form can easily overload and destroy the muscles and tendons but nightmare regeneration isnt a regenerating technique its a reanimation technique meaning the seal must be comming from somewhere but not from her internal chakra the key to defeating her relies on the darkness eledia if we can detach her from the sword she will be incapacitated" saotome quickly analyzed nightmare very well as he examined closely looking at the muscle impulse throughout her body "the eighth gate releases so much energy that the muscles explode and destroy themselves killing the user but with that sword death dont really fit in the equation with her we might as well try cutting water with a stick...not really happening we can approach this in two different manors we can provoke her fight long enough in the eight gate stage for her muscle fatige to become reanimated and sever her form the sword but we might not last that long or somehow completely sever the flow of chakra from the blade to her arm since the blade itself is not affecting the energy surrounding her but the energy within her meaning that her chakra network is physically a part of that thing so severing the connection would be our best option though your body is mainly suffering fatigue from the inner gates I dont know how much you can withstand aokowa but these are the best options we have" saotome looked dead serious as he explained his plan.

"That's a very good plan you have... But your friend makes a good point how long will you last? Maybe four, five seconds... And there's no mortal on this planet strong enough to stop us... This body has only been fell once and has been risen a god!"
Nightmare was whispering from right in the circle of her enemies, she'ld used her final gates speed to move within the shifting shadows on the water and move nearly undetected. She stood with her arms across her chest looking down on her foes with a look of dry confidence, and complete lack of any other emotion.