Rai Dojo (Currently: Destroyed)

[H4X]

She looked at him then calmly went on. "This form has about a hundredth of the strength my full dragon form had before I lost my ability to transform, my size makes the scales stronger against blades but give no protection against blunt trauma. My fox form can't use fox fire... I will tell you I know how the technique works, how it should work, but I just injure myself trying. That form can manage the basic animal shapeshift, and if I struggle I can manage something that's not entirely unlike that henge technique I've seen used, it won't break like a henge, but it's so much harder to keep up that it's useless. It's weaker then this form but it's faster to make up some of the difference. Each form has it's own energy reserves as best as I can tell, or at least if I wear myself entirely down before the change the other form usually is fine aside from mental fatigue." she stopped for a few to think something through.

"You saw my body's burnout before, as best as I can tell if Ren's technique is like a few I fought before with similar eyes... well it will do the same as that burnout. My chakra will be gone... what I start drawing on then... it's something corrupted from it's normal form... the one who created me will unwillingly start giving me energy... That's not the problem though, whatever else in there screws with my head, the more of that tainted energy in my system the less control I have. I suppose you should know that when that form's out my body's just chakra made solid... After I fought neko I had to get rid of my arm from a different taint, after that I broke what was keeping me from hitting the point where burnout happens."

She thought for a bit more "I know a pair of sealing techniques that I picked up from someone at this academy who swore me to secrecy and as far as I'm concerned still outranks you. Aside from that plenty of variations on the basic exploding seals, human summoning, object summoning, and the runes for a bag of doubled holding.... the door I have rigged up downstairs. Really that's everything" she shrugged. "Though considering the leak you all seem to have for my know information around here it's not like it matters, I mean Kaimen and Tier aren't going to let their secrets be recorded anywhere."

She just started ticking off random things. "I can cook some bizarre meals, keep having the age I look regress on me meaning I usually end up looking too young to drink. Fourteen obscure hand to hand martial art styles, two of which are mixes of the rest, and the other two being based around either of my forms. My weapon use consists of, the most common is single large sword style, though I can use two-sword style, I'm proficient in bo-staff fighting... the two stick fighting I did before was using the same motions as my two-sword fighting style when I switch to short-blades. I'm a decent shot with some ranged weapons besides the ninja tools."

The randomness continued "Let's see, I've been told I have monkey feet in the sense that I can half throw a knife using my toes, can't grab a weapon with my tail, but I usually can use it to trip someone up. Got the memories of a forge master in my head though they're useless to me since I don't have fire techniques or his materials. Never seen a solar eclipse but supposedly I could end up exploding on one... never sure if that was a joke or not though. Plenty of wartime tactics in my head for troop deployment. A grease-monkey-like habit of taking things apart and fixing them, anything from basic technology to mage-tech and some stuff that people have ripped off from science fiction I can fix if I get parts and tools. I've been told I have keen eye for blowing things up but that's probably just another joke.... Can't set a VCR clock even if I can build one... never understood that one honestly. I remember some potion making tricks, but the only stuff I've been able to find supplies for around here are about ten different hangover cures if I actually waste the time gathering the herbs and brewing it." she thought for a bit longer.

"Yeah, that's all I can think of." she said, blink blinking a few times. Idly pulling the hilt off the large sword on her back, revealing a smaller blade attached to that and beginning to polish it. Whether she did this to annoy Dazing or not was anyone's guess.  

[H4X]

She looked at Dazing simply then shrugged. "Depends... Before I was a blood-clone I was someone who dropped dead in a desert that was half dragon and half fox similar to how I am now. Someone who didn't get a burial, someone who's scrambled memories were dropped in a clone that survived what killed her. My true form though... well I've had plenty of time to think on that, and when you're as ancient as I am you realize whatever form you've been in the longest is your true form. I suppose by genetics I'm a mix between Ishira and her Brother's mother and the blood from a storm dragon of the same family of the real Lina of the house Sarket if you must know."

She thought for a bit then shrugged. "My true form in the sense of what a blood clone is though... well it's something that doesn't conform to anything other then a human shape, it's a mass of blood and life energy that shifts to whatever form it suits, though my body is... gifted... by the fact that my bones are real this time around."

She had a very evil smirk on her face as she started the last part. Her tone made it hard to tell if she was just screwing with dazing for flirting with her or not. "If you mean who I'm drawing my power from when I run out of my own... it's the one who brought me back from the dead the last time. Ishira's dear brother has the life force to spare to make a living body, but then again curse someone with immortality and they usually find all sorts of insane tricks to attempt that draw upon their life energy, he had to be especially careful when making my replacement body so that it wouldn't age but still be mortal... as you can tell he screwed the aging part up. The other half of that power, the taint as I call it is a demon that's bound to my brother's life energy, it was summoned to kill him... but as you can guess that isn't exactly going well."  

[H4X]

She followed... silent after all she had said.  

[H4X]

After a while the tram arrived at the dojo and Lina got off. She disappeared to her room for a few minutes before heading back up to the training grounds, wearing her normal equipment.

She looked around then went to forming a simple flat barrier between her hands, increasing the strength till it was opaque.
"Nah, not quite"
She disrupted the technique then thought for a bit.
"If everything I've done in the past year and a half is just the same techniques over and over then this shouldn't be that hard"  

[H4X]

She stopped thinking and tilted her head to the side as she looked. "Hello?" the woman asked, curiously at seeing someone else at the dojo. "Hmm, you look familiar, have we meet?" she asked, somewhat confused. Her eyes looked at his leg for but a moment.  

[H4X]

She turned her eye towards his motions. "Someone healed your leg very recently?"

She then walked closer slowly and sat down on the ground so she'd be closer to eye level considering her somewhat unusual height.  

[H4X]

"Interested in Reeve? ... he taught me all but one Rai technique which is just the new guy's revision on the basics. I only realy got to train with him the first two weeks after I arrived though... I really barely knew him after that in the end, we'd talk, he'd give me something to figure out on my own... After that I've had plenty of downtime. I suppose if nothing else the only technique I've had work at all has been the basic barrier technique he taught me... I've actually managed to win a couple of fights with just that and taijutsu." she chuckled a bit at the end.

She looked down at her plate armor. "I'm guessing not like this though?" she asked, curiously. She seemed to get a bit twitchy at looking around as she waited for the answer.  

[H4X]

She chuckled "Ah, had me worried, thought one of the people I've been avoiding came back" she tilted her head to the side at the weapon comment, before superstitiously looking over her shoulder for the hilt she knew was there. A moment later she shook it off and thought about his other question.

"I probably don't have the best view of Reeve compared to everyone else, he was nice and helpful when I first met him.. I can't say how long it's been anymore, never was good with dates but I think it's been about two years. But then after my initial training he always had something keeping him busy elsewhere when the pressure wasn't on with the chaos that kept breaking out at the old academy. I had some talks with him outside training and work, but usually I was giving information. I suppose that's all I really know about him... Guess I'm not helpful there either, huh?"

She rubbed the back of her head. "I'm a bit useless around here as you can guess. Taijutsu types are worthless for the most part and my Rai affinity is pointless since everything but my defense gets completely negated... and as the new guy says" she made the quote unquote gesture "This is Lightning. The best defense is offense." she broke into full laughter after saying that. "But... if they want to... fight giant robots like Ninja I'm really useless even by his standards" her voice was clearly saying she wasn't letting something on that she should have.