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Hidden Steel

Hedoro continued playing the flute, the melody beginning to quicken as the pace of battle shifted. She could feel the hundreds, possibly thousands, of flower petals beginning to fly towards her. She wasn't sure if they were going to explode like the last attack, or if they had something else in store. It might be better to just avoid them altogether, rather than risk finding out. But could she dodge them? And if so, could she do it while continuing to play her flute? She intended to find out. As she began to prepare, the flute's sound grew louder, as she began playing more forcefully. At the same time, the branch she was standing on creaked suspiciously. Aside from that, she did very little to avoid the attack. Shifting her flute to a more central position, approximately at the small of her back, while still maintaining the melody, wasn't too difficult, but she also had to deal with the incoming flower petals. She was expecting them to explode again, so she braced for impact, and continuing increasing her density. She extruded part of her mass to envelop most of the flute, leaving just a small portion exposed to allow the sound to continue pouring forth. The flower petals struck her, surprising her when they didn't explode. Instead, they were razor sharp. As they bit into her pseudo flesh, they tore her rags and ribbons up to even more of a shabby state than what they already were. But aside from that, they didn't appear to be quite as successful as the last time, thanks in part to Hedoro's increased density, and also her actively focusing on holding herself together this time. She had let herself fall to pieces before, and Slade hadn't fallen for it, so there was no reason to think he would this time. And still, the flute's music continued filling the air.
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Bounding forward, as Hedoro is caught int he spiral of flower petals. Slade draws the whip from where it was on the ground, raising it above his head, he then makes a series of slash like motions with it. The rose whip slashing with great speed, thanks to the Kagon Retsuzanshi technique. Causing the ability to be able to break apart the body with this whip alone. Hopefully for the time being, that was enough to destroy both the liquid body of his opponent, and the flute that was held in his opponent's grip. This was all he could think of doing, cutting her to pieces and then moving away in the hopes of destroying the concept of her playing this song. Whatever it was, it may be a bad thing if she managed to finish it in any fashion. Leaping backwards, as he tosses the whip back and over his shoulder so it winds around his arm. Slade makes more hand seals, this time causing another slab of rock to emerge from the ground, and attempt to slam down onto his opponent, just like he had done before. If his whip was ineffective. Then this stone may be able to crush the flute. Or so Slade figured.

Slade frowns slightly, whips of some kind of liquid substance was matching him strike for strike as he attacks. he had to not only strike, but dodge the attacks of the whip that she was casting in his direction. Attempting to dodge most of the water based attacks, he was actually hit by one or two of the strikes. With the fact that Hedoro was a liquid base, his body's Lightless Photosynthesis technique allowed for any liquid that had attempted to enter his body, to be absorbed and turned into physical energy for him to use. He grins, raising a hand and using the Rock Control technique and causing the stone to shift in order to slam down onto Hedoro as it it was following her. The technique that was once the Avalanche Tomb, it was now a controlled projectile that was going to be used to crush Hedoro and the flute in order to end the song. Slade moved backwards, in order to clear a good distance away from his opponent again. Hopefully that would make things easier for him to continue fighting. His plant like composure allowing his cuts to seem to sew themselves together like a fabric.

Moving rock of this level, was a great deal of strain upon Slade's mind. Causing him to remain still in the spot that he stood. Only his hand being able to move, as he adjusted the projectory of the large rock once again, in order for it to crash through the trees and strike at Hedoro. The still active Tree World Construction technique allowed for him to use the branches of the trees in order to swing down and attempt to halt his opponent in their steps since they would be smacking into her in order to slow or even halt movement. Slade shakes his head slightly, he didn't know about what effects Hedoro's substance may be able to grant onto his body, but seeing as he had converted it almost as soon as it had entered from anything like water, into pure energy, Sade figured any effects it may have were now lost in that conversion. Standing there almost stiffly, as he watches the rock shift and hopefully strike. Slade simply waits to see if he could pull off something to take him into an advantage over his opponent. At least this once.

Hidden Steel

Hedoro could feel the various branches around her beginning to rouse themselves into a frenzy, lashing out at her to try to hinder her escape from the flying rock. Plans whirled through her mind as she tried to decide on a course of action. Her song had almost finished, she just needed a little bit more time! She felt the connection with the small piece of her substance vanish, and wondered what Slade had done to kill part of her. She felt a small flame of irritation rise up in her, how dare he kill a part of her! Yes, it's unique properties might possibly still be inside of him, but the notion that he had taken a part of her and killed it made her forget her earlier plan of giving him a quick and relatively painless death. He wouldn't have felt any pain if she had drained him dry of all liquid and chakra. But now, now she would make him regret what he'd done. She actually growled at this point, and several dozen tendrils emerged from her body, each bearing a glowing kunai. They all lashed out wildly in every direction, each kunai able to cut through anything, without damaging it. This was the same technique she had used before, that had pared the trees of so many branches. Now, her target wasn't just the trees, it was the rock that was coming ever closer. In the back of her gelatinous mind, she recognized Slade seemed hard pressed to control the large mass of rock. How would he handle controlling a hundred? As she cut and slashed, branches and chunks of stone were separated from their original mass, left to either fall or be held aloft by Slade's technique, if he could handle the added strain. As Hedoro hacked her way forward, she changed direction, now bearing down on Slade. And still, the music did not stop. Now it had changed it's pitch to a frantic, manic melody, a tune that raced within the blood, that drove one to the point of insanity, and beyond.
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Akira thought about it. THis was going to be bad, but he had to finish this fight. No more worry for the civilians. Akira sighed. He had to prepare for his next move quickly. He smiled as the puppet rose again.

"Why don't you stop what your doing and just look into my eyes and see the determination of my soul."

That was all Akira said, but his words were laced with the instructor genjutsu , which should be enough to make the Joker listen to Akira for just a little time and all Akira would need is a mere two seconds to cast the Kikuta Glare on the Joker, paralyzing him.

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(( joker jumped from the building that we were both on...Leaving only his Exploding Puppet.O)))

Hidden Steel

Hedoro felt Slade stop in his tracks, and smiled, knowing that the Genjutsu had finally taken root in his psyche. She slowed her own approach, but still, it didn't take long at all before a pair of hands reached out to him and grasped hold, finding purchase on his body before beginning to absorb the liquid from his body. He was likely so enmeshed in the illusion that he wouldn't feel a thing, although even if he were aware, the first step was only barely noticeable, a drying of the mouth.
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