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Mavericks goal for today was basic training once again. He had no specific goal eccept the aquisition of strength. With his sensei otherwise occupied, he figured he do this alone. There was still a craving for a moving target but that was something to worry about at a different time. He moved up to the shoreline...the sereen shore and looked out ot the water littered with trees and other such items. It seemed so peaceful and calm...it even calmed Sin a bit within him. Looking out for but a moment more, he finally pushed all the thoughts to the back of his mind. He glanced over the area at the large rock formation sitting directly over a section of wtaer. Someone had used it once before for test dummies and had left their dummies hanging from the arch of the stone formation. This would be his target, the dummies still lingering from a training past. He glanced to the items and nodded slowly to himself.

((it's like a solid rock sticking straight up with polls extended out and the dummies hanging from the polls at different hights.))

He moved over the water, applying his chakra as he stepped onto it with ease and walked further in. He placed a considerable amount of distance between himself and the dolls and closed his eyes. The sound of hte birds chirping soon fell on deft ears as he had tuned out the entire world and nothing lay before him but the very dolls he seeked to destroy. A quick motion drew the blood shuriken from his cloak. He unfolded the large thing and stretched his arms back to prepare and soon he tossed the shuriken toward the dummy.


[[DC: 10 =1D20 + range bonus(4) or melee bonus(4)]]
[[He losses 1 CP for each turn after this one due to him staying on the water and doing other activities.]]

[[1]]

[[7+4=11]]

The twin Fuuma...their sounds were like music to the ears of the dark youth. He wasn't the best at any of this but he was making a lot of the right moves and he was making them fast. He dashed hard back to an area near his original position to catch the return of the Blood Shuriken. He didn't even stop to catch the item as it flew back toward him. His hand extended and he caught it and kept on his path. He couldn't stope...stop for anything and he knew he'd be dead. Moving at a realativly high speed, he made his way around to the side of the dummy and began another attack. This time, he reached within his jacket to grip something different. A quick flash of his hand moved something from within to without and through the air sailed a regular shuriken. It went sailing into the air aimed right toward the rib area of a third dummy.
[[2 hit]]
[[2/14CP]]

[[3]]

[[15=pass]]

It worked just as he had imagined it. Of course, he didn't stick around to wait and see if it was succesfful. Doing so could easily get someone killed. On the battle feild, the evenironment was always changing, always evolving and those who stand still stand dead on their feet. He had learned that a long time ago through no faultof his own or anyone he knew, he just knew it. Moving again at a fast pace, he heard the sound of the two shurikens slicing into the dummies and sailing off. The whirling rapture of the sounds made Maverick feel a bit of joy I guess would could say but he didn't dwell upon it. Instead, he continued on his path carrying empty hands. His path was taking him towad the rock formation that held up the dummies. He moved up the face of the rocks, using the wall walking exercise. But this was no walk, this was a full on dash up the side of a shere cliff. Further and further he ran till he came to the top, near where the dummies where extended from. With a quick thrust of his legs, he released himself from the wall and pulled from his jacket two Kunai, one in each hand. Their black lacing made them blend in perfectly with his black cloathing and would make this perfect as he flipped back twoard one of the dummies. He didn't mean to land on it, simply to slash it in passing with one of hte kunai.

[[4 hit]]
[[4/14CP]]

[[5]]

[[13+4=17 pass]]

The sweet sound of something tearing under ones own power was always something that sent a cihll down most peoples spines and Maverick was no exception. He felt the resistance of the old clothe to his kunai's tearing into it but it wasn't much the old dummy could do. A large rip was cut into the 3rd dummy and Maverick went sailing past the rest of the way to the ground. He landed with a sliding momentum upon the water. He had reapplied his chakra moments before hitting the water's surface and slide to a perfect stop kicking up a small wave of water.

The water's surface hadn't even settled before the boy was off again. The target this time was the aquisition of his two Fuuma Shuriken which had begun their return veture. He plucked the two objects from the air after having placed his Kunai back into his bag that rested within his cloak. The Shuriken held firm to his hands as he dashed around the rock formation. He was trying to get a better vantege point and soon came out from the blind side of the dummies, the rocks, with a surprise...there was nothing there.

The water still made sounds as if someone was upon it but there was no one there. He had vanished from sight. But in reality, he was taking a slow walk up the side of the rock formation. By purpose, he was lossing rocks from the formation with the Shurikens so that they would make sounds as if someone was still walking around or dropping into the water. His actual feet moved quietly up to the top of the formation, above the dummies where he preped himself for a Sneak Attack. Placing the Shuriken back within his cloak, he withdrew the two kunai again and leapt down toward the hanging dummies, aiming for the back of the first dummy.




[[5 hit]]
[[5/14CP (no chakra used last turn)]]

[[7]]

[[12+4=16] pass]

The sound of chains rattling could be heard from the disturbance caused by Mavericks Kunai stabbing into the head of the dummy. He forced it in fairly far and ripped it out as he continued his decent down the side of the dummy. He continued his decent, seeing the third dummy extended far to far out for him to reach with his hands and decided the best he could do was leap or throw. A cautious person probably would have thrwn the kunai and continued their dash down the side of hte rock face to reamain safe but Maverick was far from normal. He knew the only true wayto gain anything was to take risks. Sometimes they paid off, sometimes they didn't. Either way he had to make a decision as he was coming up uon a point that would be the last step befor ehe wouldn't be able to make the jump anymore.

He jumped and slashed toward the dummy.

[[7 hit]]
[[7/14CP]]

[[9]]

[[10+4=14 pass]]

The kunai sailed quikcly thorugh the air. It made a loud whistling sound as it moved, slicing he air with ease. Moving quietly as possible while running along the water (ok, oximoron), he moved within a rather odd pattern. He had figured what he'd do for his next attack and the solution to if the enemy is still alive after a sneak attack came to him. If possible, one goes back into hiding. He moved and leapt into the air releasing another kunai from his hand into the air at the first dummy again and soon, when he touche dthe water again, he disengaged his chakra and sank beneith the water on purpose.


[[9 hit]]
[[9/14CP]]

[[11]]

[[19 + 8(swimming skill)= super pass]]

Having not seen the target again, he knew that it would be equally hard for them to see him under the water and so he began his attack. It was to be another sneak attack from below. He moed quickly back up to the surface moving as fast as possible and finally came from benieth the water, breaking the surface for a quick slash of his hand upward. He spotted the dummies at hte last moment and attacked performing another sneak attack!(DC: 10 agian)

[[9 hit]]
[[11/14CP]]
[[swim success]]

[[13]]

[[13+0(sneak attack skill) = 13 pass]]

The kunai came directly up from the depths of the water and sank directly inot the back thigh of the first dummy. Mavierick shot out of the water and landed on his feet upon the water, having reapplied his chakra. He wabbled a bit, he was running low on chakra and he knew it. His next couple of attack would have to take him closer to the shore so he didnd't fall into the water and die. Moving quickly again back, away from the three dummies, he decided one more attack was inorder. he slide to a stop causing another wave of water to splash about. As he slide, he felt his body ense in attencipation for what was coming next. Reaching into his cloak, he pulled forth the Ocean Fuuma Shuriken once more. The shuriken fit well in his hand and the sound of it opening pleased him. It was a stiff, grated sound but it spelt doom for those who felt its wrath. Spinning quickly to give more momentum, Maverick felt the moment perfect and let loose the Shuriken with the second hidden below it. He was abusing Shadow Shuriken but it only meant he was getting better with it.

[[10 hit]]
[[12/14CP]]
[[swim success, sneak attack success]]

[[14]]