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Vale arrived on the mountain it seemed while Joker was in Hidden Heaven collecting the other Dragon in the exams he had neglected to collect Vale and the trip here was a real b***h as well, he had found Joker… who told him about the exam and took his right arm as the price for being late. But Vale wasn’t stupid the wound had long been cauterized. Looking up at the top of the mountain he smiled it didn’t matter that he lost an arm or was without any special clothing. His Dragon soul Merged him and his dragon together completely sure it only meant either one or the other was able to be out at the same time but it also gave him the handy ability to switching bodies. He did just that. The form of his Frost Dragon was soon brought onto the Earth as he became the secondary prospective.

The female Frost Dragon Eingana opened her eyes the chill of the air feeling pleasant on her scales. “You heard the man get to the top of the mountain… and watch out for hawks.” Vales voice said with a chuckle, for obvious reasons, sure they were giant hawks but like hell Eingana was a dragon he doubted they’d be good enough to kill his dragon, “Of course.” Her voice rumbled in her mind. Eingana crouched down her muscular leg poised to lift on she jumped and her wings came down powerfully for a second nothing happened and then a few more flaps and Eingana was airborne, a few more flaps and she gained altitude surveying everything that her brilliant white eyes could see which needless to say was a lot it wouldn’t take long to reach the gate but there was the matter of getting the elusive key.

After Izaya finished up enough meat to fill his stomach, he turned off the air in the tank and meditated a little to accommodate himself with the higher altitude. Only thing that was the pits about higher elevations was that one needs a long time to adjust to the sudden change in oxygen levels. About a few minuets of meditating, he was well enough to move without feeling like he needed to throw up and looked around. An ice dragon or whatever the hell it was, was flying towards the summit of the mountain. That was not a big worry, not by much at the least until it reaches him. He noticed that a few had entered into a cave down below at least halfway up the mountain so that was interesting. Finally, a girl had banded together several dinosaurs into a chain of charging flesh and teeth. That on its own was an impressive sight but then again, she was an Uchiha and those creatures may just be under a genjutsu... Izaya pulled out an explosive tag from one of his pockets and then placed it onto the air tank that he had, knowing full well that it would hinder his movements in the long run. Using his telekinesis, he lifted the gas tank and launched it off the summit, and into the snow about 50 meters down before the exploding tag detonated. The resounding explosion and tremors the tank made would cause the higher snow to loose from the mountain side and start an avalanche that would easily bring all the snow from the top towards the ground below. All Izaya had to do now was wait for someone to get trapped in there and die or better yet, be alive an somewhat conscious so that Izaya could kill that person later and get the key out of their head. Izaya sat down afterwards and started to meditate a little more, trying his best to adjust to the lack of oxygen where he was, feeling a little better as time went on.

Shikyo Uchiha
"Alright... Rip them to pieces." Shikyo says simply as she extends a hand forwards towards the three shinobi that were rushing forwards towards her new fiends from a prehistoric age. The seven dinosaurs would charge forwards towards the three chained shinobi that were running forwards. She was prepared for this, apparently only one of them had actually continued to be trapped in her genjutsu. That was a good sign, maybe she would let that one live and kill off the rest of them? An interesting concept in itself though it would be fun otherwise. A slight rumbling had the dinosaurs stirring beneath her before she herself had drawn her gaze to them. A decent sized avalanche was headed their way, it was a good thing that they were a decent distance down the mountain now. With the dinosaurs were heading forwards she would continue to stand upon the center one until it reached the group. All seven dinosaurs rearing their heads and roaring loudly, before opening their mouths wide and attempting to bite down upon the three individuals all jaws opening and then chomping downwards. Shikyo herself would leap off the back of the center dinosaur, sending herself sailing upwards into the air and spinning her body within the air in order to actually be upside down above her opponents. It was about time that someone did some killing before this avalanche covered everything and made it too difficult for the keys to be received. Thrusting her hand forwards in the air, her entire arm appeared to disappear completely and into a black hole like appearance in thin air. A soft humming from behind the Hyuuga, aiming for that one small degree that was behind them. That one angle to which the Byakugan eyes could not read, it was a fun thing knowing a little about the familiar clans of your own village, especially when you're training with them. You find out a few helpful bit of information, like a weakness to a 360 degree sight. By the time the soft humming would be heard, the attack would have gone through, the blade of sound known as the Oto Hasaki would have carved clean through their neck and spinal column at that angle. Shikyo grins wickedly as she draws her hand back into the black hole that she had used the black hole punch technique with. With her dinosaurs leading the way as a distraction, she would hopefully have taken out one of the males and lead the others to be killed by the dinosaurs themselves. Her hands coming together in an instant in order to make a single hand sign, vanishing in a body flicker technique in order to move downwards and to the bodies, if they hadn't died she would finish things off here, a long black blade appearing in her hand as she slashed it towards the male beside the Hyuuga, aiming to cut straight into their throat and neck as well.

EDIT* (Forgot about the Genjutsu Kane is apart of)
The sickle blade would melt in her hand, making her eyes widen and harden slightly. Her other hand whisking the wooden fan portion of the Gunbai around and aiming to sweep it right into her opponent's head. She didn't want to let them get any sort of upper hand, even if they did have some sort of melting ability. Using the chani attached to the now melted sickle, she thrust it downwards and tugged the chain to the side slightly, aiming to trip her opponent up in the chain while they were moving. The Genjutsu version of Shikyo continuing to combat her opponent, despite what was happening outside of the Genjutsu itself.

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Lucius Jonz
Thankfully for him, he had been hanging off the side of a mountain when the avalanche had formed over head. Crashing over him and simply raining over him and leaving him in a pleasant little safe zone from the avalanche. He begins laughing once again, as his hand slips off the kunai that was holding him up and he starts to hang with only one hand for a moment. Soon pulling himself up and grabbing hold of the kunai once again. He would continue from there, moving upwards towards the top of the edge where the snow had all but blown over and down the mountain itself. Apparently he was much higher up then he thought he was.

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[You're not all free'd. One key per person on the chain. One key was used, therefore Kane was free'd, and your two characters are still attached to each other on the chain.]

Shikyo Uchiha
It was a pity that her prey had appeared to get away so simply, of course they didn't do a very good job. Using a substitution jutsu so plainly without tact or regard did not leave much to hide from the eye. Nevermind the fact that despite being a makeshift team, their very team work was going to end up being a decent downfall. Not only was Shikyo able to view them as they used their attempt at a distracting substitution technique, her eyes closing and opening with a simple blink in order to reveal the Sharingan she normally keeps hidden, she was able to draw them back into the very same trap that they had been forced into the first time. Since they had so painfully forgotten her original attack upon them, they would be finding themselves engrossed in it once again. Shikyo would appear before Adell and Logan would even be able to move themselves away with this Substitution. Using the Illusion Flicker technique, also appropriately considered the Genjutsu Flicker. She had caught them straight back into the trap to which they should have been expecting. Immediately a Shikyo would appear before either of them, each raising the same weapon this time. The black sword she would have used to slice off Adell's head. Whether or not they had seen this before, it wouldn't matter. To each other it would seem like nothing is happening at all, despite their reactions. The Shikyo before them attacking with swift slashing aiming to cleave them right in half. They had gone the wrong path in this agenda, they viewed yet another body flicker technique like it was anyone else's ability. As such, instead of a substitution where they were running away within the smoke. They were instead standing beside their exploding tagged rock. This time she had placed a bit of a twist onto her Genjutsu, of course it wasn't meant to keep them in place, just to disable their own jutsu. At leas through the shock of the technique alone anyways. Shikyo grins to herself, her entire body shooting forwards away from them in order to avoid the incoming avalanche, spinning on one heel she would snap six kunai from either hand forwards. Aiming two forcefully to the back of either opponent's spine, and the other four towards their final ally who had apparently released themselves from the chain that connected him to the other two. It was a warning shot, after all, if he wanted to join with their deaths he could. She had no issue with that. The moment her kunai left her hand, Shikyo's hands would snap together in order to form hand seals. *The first set being nothing more then a simple body flicker in order to get herself a decent distance from the explosion that was taking place before her as soon as that was done she would continue with further handseals. Immediately bringing her hands to her lips, fire emitting from her mouth in small bursts of fireballs. The first two aiming towards the two opponents, predicting movement in case they were snapping themselves out of the genjutsu by now and hadn't been struck yet. The remainder were aimed at the barrage of snow that had finally reached their position at close to the mountain's lowest point. Moving backwards as fast as she was able, Shikyo would use her Mythical Fire Flower technique, which she had already begun using in order to blow away smoltering holes into the snow that was tumbling her way. As such, breaking pieces away in order for her to prevent the snow from reaching her body itself. Her hand flicking a single kunai forwards and upwards into the air like that of a fishing line, sending it sailing towards a nearby cliff face on the other side of the avalanche she would release her last ball of fire and then yank on the now embedded kunai, pulling herself through the opening and onto the other side of the snowy destruction that had been heading her way. Of course dodging such a thing in this way, wasn't really the best of choices, her coat ripping and tearing from the slight dragging of what snow had struck her, when she had gone through the avalanche itself.

[Summary in case you are confused: (If this does seem to be against some sort of logic, and mine is flawed. Feel free to ask a mod)
Your characters watched her body flicker.
Doing so activates a genjutsu. The genjutsu causes your mind to perceive Shikyo appearing out of no where and attacking you. Such an attack should logically halt your attempts to flee, seeing as the attack is her appearing in front of you while you're trying to get away.
As such, hypothetically voiding your substitution jutsu in it's tracks, seeing as you weren't able to actually flee.
With this said; the act of negating the genjutsu would need to come into effect. With time of the essence, by my logic you will be engulfed by the snow regardless of if you break the genjutsu or not.

Other then that, the kunai are to make sure you're dead should you survive the snow, and the fire to back up the kunai if you begin running to get away.
[/shrug] Your move, it should be just the two of you now.] [Don't mine all the striked s**t. I'm apparently seeing things or something.]

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Lucius Jonz
There wasn't much for him to do, with the last of the snow dropping over him a minute before, all Lucius did was swing back and forth on the kunai he was holding and laugh. A sharp screech sounding off just over his head, as he looks upwards and grins even wider, would that be even possible. "Why hello there birdie!!!! Are you going to give me a lift!?" He says, before making cooing sounds like that of a small bird in it's direction. By the way the large man eating eagle was circling, it certainly wasn't too fond of the cooing that Lucius was making. The eagle would swoop down, grabbing him by the legs with it's large talons and ripping him off the cliffside with one majestic motion. Hanging upside down now, Lucius would immediately begin to sway back and forth with the bird's flapping wind motions, whistling a merry tune and attempting to lean backwards in order to look down at the ground below. "Isn't the snow so pretty, Birdie?! I love the snow!" He says before laughing rather happily and twisting his body a little, with the twist came a simple flip as his hands grabbed hold of the bird's legs and it gave a loud squawk. It's legs moving frantically as the beat of it's wings come off rhythm and it slowly begins to plummet. "Good idea Birdie! Lets get a better look at what's going on!!" He says excitedly as he claws his way upwards and placing himself on a sitting position ontop of the large man eating eagle. Grabbing hold of the tufts of feats on it's head and neck and yanking this way and that until the bird began moving in the direction he wanted it to go. "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" He screams, his voice echoing over the mountain tops as he steers the large bird to the side, sending it towards the top of the mountain and the door. Perhaps they had actually opened it by now? He hadn't seen anyone in a while, but maybe the avalanche meant they had opened the door or something?! He grinned and released some feathers to pat the bird's head. "Good Birdie. We will be friends!"