Rai Dojo (Currently: Destroyed)

[H4X]

A lightning bolt hit one of the spires. A moment later Lina was blinking somewhat confused as she stood at the top then slowly slid down towards the ground .
"Huh, guess that does make for an easy landing."

After a moment to survey her surroundings she walked down to the basement, disappearing behind the supply room door.  

[H4X]

After her rest Lina exited the Dojo and walked to a spot of dry earth.

She looked around then after a few moments dropped her armor and weapons to the ground near a flat dry section of earth. Leaving her in the sleeveless black skintight bodysuit she sometimes favored under her armor. She followed that by dragging one foot, drawing a line. After a while she had a large square drawn on the ground. She tossed her boots next to the pile of her gear.

She soon was in the center of the square. She projected two barriers, on opposing sides then started wall jumping between the two, gaining altitude till she was at the height of the spires.
"Well... here goes everything"

The barrier walls dissipated after Lina spring-boarded for one last time. She then kept jumping between barriers that flickered to life for a split second. Eventually she began an Aerial Kata. Still substituting barriers to touching the ground, slowly gaining altitude as the Kata progressed.  

[H4X]

She began spiraling around as she rapidly increased altitude till she continued into a rapid spin, forming a barrier around one arm as it shifted into a form with three Talon tipped fingers. She formed a massive negative charge, wincing as the Resulting Lightning was pulled into the strongest point of her barrier at her talons. Slowly following her down as the electricity arced around her.

Her rotation began to accelerate as she plummeted towards the ground. The building charge gathering into a sphere between the talons.
"Picture that energy signature, enhance it... focus it..."
The lightning finished striking as the negative charge wore out. Her decent continued.

As she neared thirty feet from the ground all the electricity in her hand changed, it felt closer to the Rai energy in her body, but something was off.
'All or nothing.... now'

"Burst Pulse"
The words that left her lips were but a whisper behind the noise that came out of her technique. A small, but very unfocused beam of Rai left her hand with enough force to halt her decent at ten feet before flinging her back right before the energy behind her technique ran out.

There was a small but deep hole in the ground in the square where the center of her technique impacted. The area for the majority of the impact was earth, blackened from a lightning strike.

Lina lay on the ground and coughed a few times, blinking as she raised the arm she had launched the technique from. Her scales were solid black to the elbow joint but still held back the damage.

Lina slowly rose to her feet and walked on shaky feet towards her gear and began the slow task of wrapping her arm.
"Defiantly a trump card at best... suicide technique at worst... I'll have to rely on it for a while longer I suppose"
She looked at a scroll attached to her armor and shook her head before laying back down on a patch of earth and watching the sky.  

[H4X]

She rolled over and began jotting down notes in the earth.
"35% excess in returned kinetic energy. 40% wasted as static."

She flipped to her feet and walked over to the scorched earth.
She crouched down and began again with writing notes.
"75% of blast unconverted. 20% of converted energy maintained stability."
She looked at her arm.
"Barrier power was 27% of needed."

She clutched her head at the purely imagined headache before speaking her thoughts out-loud.
"So mimicking it's current output without technology would take 1200% of my reserves if I didn't form a storm."
She ticked off a few things.
"Only 700% if I used technology limited to contemporaneous origin."
She sighed.
"I suppose this is another technique that needs to be boxed."  

[H4X]

She looked up at something in the air before shaking her head and thinking aloud to herself.
"Burned through all that I'm safe using of my energy reserves and then some."
She winced a bit as her hand returned to it's normal shape, the blackened scales still looking burned, though occasional gleams of very polished looking silver was showing through in some of the worst parts where the bandages had loosened.
"I suppose hand to hand practice isn't a good idea with this, nor strength training."
She thought for a moment before shrugging.
"I guess I could go fix Harris, that little droid is good at pissing off people and I do miss his company when he actually drops the act."


After a short time inside the dojo she returned outside, a small sphere shaped machine that looked like it had always been made of patchwork, two bags, one full of metal objects, the other filled with crystal. A few tools were residing in an emptied kunai holster as she set about her work, deciding to work outside to see if anyone was going to show up.  

[H4X]

A somewhat small Leopard walked towards the dojo.
It approached Lina calmly, stopping at ten feet behind her and waiting.

Lina didn't look from her work as she said calmly.
"I taught you better then that now didn't I?"

The leopard's tail swished angrily before it turned into a woman, the moment the woman finished transforming a pile of clothing appeared at her feet which she set about getting dressed in.
"You didn't teach me anything, impostor."

Lina rolled her eyes but kept her back to the woman.
"If that's true then why do you care? I mean all I am then is an innocent little girl who you tried to kill, right? So what got this in your head?"

"Whenever you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely is the truth. You can't be in two places at once after all."

"Still no answer to the first question Kinuko. Oh and please don't butcher that quote, it's bad enough you use it when you truly do not know it's meaning." She sighed "Just because your perceptions say the implausible is impossible does not make it truth."

A Ki Bo-Staff flickered to life.
"So you say you can be in two places at the exact same time, within hundreds of feet of each other, while one of you denies knowing the other, where the other is a completely different species!?"

"Of course, it's always so awkward to meet yourself after all, believe me I've done it on a few occasions."
Lina kept working on the small machine, some lights on it were starting to flicker.

"I'm getting sick of your word games impostor, what do you mean by that exactly, clone techniques?"

"No, I mean meeting the past version of yourself, after all if a future version of yourself crashes your wedding you realize in the end you have to follow her footsteps."

Kinuko stood there blinking for more then a few moments.  

[H4X]

"You're insane, aren't you?"

"I've been told such on multiple occasions. I never really care what others think however. Sanity is in the eye of the beholder and all that."

"You really believe you're her. You really believe someone like you knows the three thousand years of her life? And yet you still never show any of her techniques. She would have met my first attack in kind, not resorted to pointing to a weakness of mine."
She was tapping her foot impatiently, the staff beginning to glow as her anger rose.

She began putting the casing on the small machine, still not turning from her work.
"Life, death, time, those are three constants for most. Techniques change over time, some grow weaker others stronger, the changes are so gradual most never notice how they change over time. Likewise a person isn't defined by the memories in their head, I could claim to be any number of people but I'd still be who I am. I have her memories, more of them then she does, but I claim her name only because it still is my most familiar name. Everything about me could change, but a name's just a name, You could still think of yourself as Kinuko Raiddaughter but use the name Kinuko Kiato after all."

"And why would I not take his last name, instead of calling myself as his daughter?"

"Because we both know that name is to die, he wished that much didn't he? Though your game of picking these memories is beginning to bore me"
The casing was soon on the machine and it began to float slightly, a few moments later and a small compartment opened, one that hadn't been on the inside.

"I'm still don't see any proof you're who you claim you are"

Lina opened a very old looking small box, it gave a his of air being sucked in. The contents inside the box looked to have survived to age well. Lina threw a pendant, made from a color changing crystal, from the box over her shoulder to Kinuko before standing up and walking over to grab one of her swords by the hilt, leaving it in the ground as she watched Kinuko's face for a reaction.

"What's this?"

"Something your mother planned to pass on to you, though you politely declined and showed her an older pendant. I'd think a tracker would recognize something that was around someone's neck. Perhaps her choice of weapon was more likely to catch your eye though."
Lina twisted the hilt of her favored blade and removed a machete, one that looked both aged and still as though it had never been sharpened again since it was made. She offered the blade for closer inspection.

Kinuko just ignored the gesture. She glared at the woman.
"I still refuse to believe this isn't just a trick, but I'll take my leave. I'm tired of your insanity"
The woman's clothing disappeared as she returned to the form of a leopard and left.

"It seems today shall be a dull day after all. What do you think Harris?

"Bleep Bleep Bleep"
The small machine dropped to the ground, it's eyes suddenly lit up blue with some form of text mirrored in each eye.

"Vashaden"  

[H4X]

Lina looked at the machine's insides for a short while longer before standing up and tossing it into the air.
"Force Reboot, cmd L-27 Zeus"
She tapped her foot as she watched the machine begin to float.

A few seconds later and it's eyes lit up. It's voice was not like the child's toy it had seemed before as it asked.
"Protocol Request?"

"Unfreeze Harkonnen Block 27, full inventory, complete update required"

"Roger Roger"
The small machine floated off, a moment later the sounds of the door somehow being opened and closed was heard.

Lina rolled her eyes, annoyed that her helper would still make jokes when given priority orders. She looked around for a while before walking to the dojo and grabbing a power line for a recharge.
"I shouldn't have tempted fate that day... too much in my mind that shouldn't see day. All that witch's creations that someone could attempt to duplicate. If nothing else I suppose I may have to abandon the Raiden, at least for a while... too few mind readers in the past centuries to know the lack of a stray thought, and if that robot that attacked is as I think it is then I can't rely on the Raiden's defenses, the witch didn't design them to last this long. Maybe keep a few other blocks tied in but I can't risk much."  

[H4X]

A beeping started coming from her bag. Lina pulled out something similar to the prop holographic eyepieces that had been appearing around the towns and put it on, blinking as text started scrolling down the screen.
"So... it begins, yes?" she asked out-loud, seeming to be just talking to talk as she beginning to fiddle with her braided hair.  

[H4X]

After a while Lina walked down to the basement, pulling a very large ring shaped object out of the door using her strength. She dropped it out in the grounds and returned into the room.

The ring lay flat on the ground. It was made of metal that looked as though the paint had been worn off by age, four block like protrusions sticking out evenly distributed along the edges.  

[H4X]

The ring lifted off the ground and took to the air. It was headed on an intercept course to the target.  

[H4X]

A Raiton shushin impacted one of the lightning rods with Lina flinging herself down and retreating into the basement.
She skidded into the Door as she dispelled her skates. Once in the hallway inside she went down a few rooms, ending up in some room where metal shutters on the inside of the windows were mostly closed, much more daylight shining in onto the ground then was outside.
She walked over to a table and took some magnifier to the pills and began to examine them before dropping a few of them into a small slot on the table.

After a bit she left the room, gathering objects from lockers at random and tossing them into a first-aid style box. She picked up her pocket-watch and a few other things before changing into something more normal for the weather. Feeling silly about bothering to change at the Kaze dojo, but realizing she needed something with more pockets then a spandex bodysuit.

As the time she gave herself started to draw to a close she returned to grab a vial of medication that now was on the table and a printout that sat underneath it. She tossed the printout into a pocket and put the pills into a box.

She left the dojo walking on foot this time before shushining back to outskirts of the kaze dojo.  

[H4X]

After arriving at the Dojo Lina blinked a few times upon inspecting her door.
She glared at the damaged door but shook her head.

"Ok, I guess my offering of sleeping quarters other then the normal ones here is out for now"
A few muttered curses before she blinked at the door marked Barracks a short distance away, blinking in suprise at the hallway filled with doors to rooms.

"Just pick a room I guess, Just me and the drunk here normally so if it smells like booze it's probably his."

She made her way into an empty room before falling onto the bed.

((Room's spinning so I'm off to bed for real now))