Character's Age: 27 but hasn't aged physically due to him being ageless.
Significant Change: Since the Cloud warrior failed the Jounin exams, a flame has been ignited back into the Cloud warrior; one that was put out after his graduation of the Xim academy and coming to this planet. That desire was to be the best swordsman of his time. However after his bursts of power and studying the gloves of magnus, Reiko takes his goal further(besides traveling back home) and has went from becoming the best swordsman of his time to becoming one of the most powerful warriors of all time. As a result he has acquired an appetite for more power. Has been marked by the Bear Seal covering his entire left shoulder/tricep. At the moment is it in its second stage. This resulted in increased muscle mass, allowing his physical strength to reach the bodybuilder zone up to a max of 600 pounds.(looks similar to S.S Broly physique wise, not legendary super saiyan broly) His speed has also increased as well from the seal, reaching the zone of an Olympic athlete. The cloud warrior also grew 2 inch claws, which he keeps hidden in his gloves of magnus, with one glove underneath his gauntlet (seen in in picture).
What Have they Done Over the Last Years: If the last three years could be described into one word, it would be Power. The last three years have certainly challenged and changed Reiko’s views. But before those three years could be described as power, there was the aftermath of the Chunnin Exams. Yes, after the exams the Hidden Cloud warrior was bitter about the results. He felt worse knowing and that Asuka, while they weren’t on the level of friendship like Jeremy and Kai has excelled him in performance, reaching the level of Jounin. It helped that he had nothing he could learn anymore at the Hidden Cloud, because after the exams he refused to step foot on the Hidden Cloud grounds. He kept this oath until he would reach the level of Jounin. Instead the Hidden Cloud warrior spent most of his time in the once destroyed but now rebuilt Hidden Gears, claiming the place as his new territory. Now that he exiled himself temporarily, he could focus more on his training.
Being aware that the level of Jounin was only a name and didn't one hundred percent determine one's ability in battle, Reiko continued to train. However it seemed as if his training and performance had reached an unfortunate plateau; his performance had never increased, just remained stagnant. This was put into effect and proven multiple times when he participated in the Chunnin Exams that came that year; failure, nothing but failure had come from the Hidden Cloud warrior. One year had passed since his original failure and no progress was obtained. To make matters worse Reiko and his crew still had no plan, no real approach to their situation of getting off the damn planet; Sonya was also out of reach. Reiko was in random states of depression, and frustration for almost a month, curing those aliases temporarily by getting into adventures with Jeremy/Kai and even saving their asses on more than one occasion and Vice-vesa when Reiko was outnumbered by Illir, the bo staff warrior from Hidden Waterfall. It was only when the beginning of the second year approached where Reiko had to really take a good look at himself. He saw where he was before and where he was now and came to the conclusion that while he was stronger physically, he had gotten weaker in the passion category. In other words he had lost his passion, his desire somewhere after the exams to become the greatest swordsman of his time. With that passion he not only took on obstacles, he wished for them so that he could become stronger in the end. His passion took him to new heights in his performance. It was his passion and desires to be the best that brought him here and somewhere down the line that fire was extinguished. If Reiko was going to get past this plateau and get back home stronger, he needed to have that passion again.
That process began where he began to study more about his element and his new weapon, the gloves of Magnus. Reiko was already a bit aware of his new weapons he received at Hidden Waterfall from Jeremy and the abilities that came with it. But it was the Gloves of Magnus that had the most potential to become the deadliest of weapons in his arsenal. After he couldn’t learn anymore from Jeremy or on his own he decided that perhaps the previous owner could teach him more. He was going outside of the box like he did after his Xim graduation, learning anything from any source to help him become the best. After getting a track of him thanks to Jeremy the man didn’t want anything to do with the gloves and couldn’t offer Reiko any training since he left them behind years ago. However, what he could do was tell Reiko the location of where he got the gloves and see if Reiko can find more information there. So Reiko decided to head to an unknown, remote location, where he was at the source of the gloves. As he was about to reach the point of giving up and looking elsewhere the gloves began to vibrate violently and new pathways opened for Reiko. These pathways lead to strange tetrahedron devices; inside of them contained holographic recordings of Virgil Hawkins along with the true owner of the gloves: Erik Leshnerr.
From what Reiko obtained from the holocrons, Erik had left these recordings because while he had a bad reputation and playing antihero, hero and villan at times, he wanted an apprentice. Someone he could mold at a young age to be by his side as his apprentice of magnetism. After he shortly observed the holocron of Erik, Reiko unlocked more of the potential of the gloves, when he was able to magnetically manipulate the holocrons to his bidding. Reiko collected the holocrons and began to study them. With the ability of magnetism of Erik Leshnerr and both magnetism and electro kinesis of Virgil Hawkins, Reiko began to slowly learn more about electromagnetism, the manipulation of both electricity and magnetism. After his journey things were looking up for the goldenrod Cloud warrior. He broke out of his plateau and was becoming stronger from now till the end of the three year period. Shortly after his journey he was showing more signs of regaining his old power back when he unlocked more secrets about the Xim style which improved his swordplay greatly. The Cloud warrior had also obtained what was known as a beast seal after defeating over 100 Chunnin over the number 2 headband. Originally he planned to keep it secret with the hopes that the cycle would be broken but with his passion lit again he wore it at times to see the obstacles that came at him and if he was strong enough to overcome them. After he had defeated the warriors he visited the nightsister after accepting her offer and received the Beast Seal of the Bear. Almost immediately he felt the effects take over him; increased muscle mass, strength and speed. After the seal she told him that the later stages would require willpower and that the seals would stay with the soul forever. But Reiko didn’t care, seeing as how he was one step closer in becoming powerful enough to go back home and powerful as a whole.
With this new passion and power over magnetism, Reiko easily became a favorite at Hidden Gears, performing small to difficult tasks with ease, which in return allowed him and his crew access to information that did nothing but help them slowly create blueprints which revealed their weapon on how to leave this planet. What Reiko also had access to was more help from a female warrior named Laura Yennik, a kid from the streets with brains, brawn, and looks, something not seen everyday in a street thug. With her brains she found out about Reiko’s plan and would keep hush hush about it and offered her services if he allowed her to make the trip with him back to his planet and if he trained her as well. Furthermore, Reiko has also discovered that even though they’re stuck on this planet, there has been talk of something from strangers called the “World Hidden In Fantasy”; this place is supposed to have a dimension door which would take one to numerous dimension across the universe. But perhaps the exclamation point of it all was when the Cloud warrior was ambushed by warriors hired from the village he arrive at and where his journey began…Hidden Cloud.
The Hidden Cloud warrior put up a great fight but each of the warriors were at least twice if not triple the level of Reiko, who even though he had achieved much power, was still a chuunin. Plus he was hit with a virus that was eating away at his lifeforce from one of the warriors, since they were aware of his link with the electric element. It almost as painful as the demon fight back on his original planet but one thing didn’t change and that was he was reaching the point of death. With all of the power that he had obtained over these years it still wasn’t enough it seemed if he was to protect himself along with the ones he cared about. That was when he felt an unknown force surge throughout his body. In less than seconds it had healed Reiko of his injuries and not only eradicated the warriors instantly but somehow manipulated their timeline and erased it from ever happening. Since that night, Reiko had did small research about it in secret, keeping that event hidden from everyone, including Rose. It was a level of power that he had never experienced before. For that short moment he was practically immortal, omnipotent. Not only has that has forever lit the flames of his desire to master what was inside of him, but it was as if he had been reborn. Not reborn as the Hidden Cloud warrior, Xim warrior, Goldenrod Marauder or the elite of electromagnetism, but something greater
Reiko was now reborn as the Phoenix.
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