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"All right, stand back," Rachel said, adjusting her glasses. "I'm going to show you everything I know how to do right now. It's not much, but..." Taking a deep breath, she crossed her arms in front of her just like she did at the mall when she was fighting with Seiya. As she did so, six arms sprouted up from the ground, grabbing at the air.

"I can control their actions mentally from here," she explained as the arms lined up synchronously and began snapping their fingers. "Each one can also take independent actions - they need not all be doing the same thing." By way of demonstration, each arm began swaying in a different direction. "However, the weakness of this technique is that anything that happens to the arms happens to my real arms, too, and causes the clones to disappear." Snapping her fingers, the arms winked out of existence.

"All right. Next..." she said, pausing for a few moments to gather her power again. This time, six legs came through the wall they were standing next to, feet kicking wildly. "Just like arms, I can also duplicate my legs. I doubt you want me demonstrating this on you in particular, but I can also cause these extra limbs to grow out of other peoples' bodies." She nodded at the cloned limbs, and they disappeared once again.

"Okay, last one..." She pointed toward the ceiling, which now had about a dozen eyes staring back at the two of them and blinking every few seconds. "This one is mostly useful for surveillance - to see things at odd angles or long distances without having to move around myself," she explained. The eyes disappeared.

"That's about it," she said, shrugging her shoulders. "I may be capable of more once my powers develop further, but that's what I can manage for now. Six duplicates is about the average I'm capable of producing, unless I strain myself. I'd say I could probably get double that if I really poured everything into it..."

Rachel nodded back at Nobara, folding her arms and leaning against the wall. "Yeah, if you were to poke or shoot out one of those eyes, the same thing would happen to my real eye." She brought a hand up to rub at her eye just at the thought of something like that happening. "Every technique has a weakness, I guess," she said, shrugging. "It just means we have to be careful. If I bring my arms up to restrain someone, and they break through and snap one in half, I'm going to have a broken arm to deal with for the rest of the fight."

Feeling she had gotten her point across, she once again leaned up against the wall as Nobara started to demonstrate her own abilities. Squinting a little to see the speck on the wall, she kept her eyes focused on that point as Nobara cocked and loosed her arrow. Before she could even blink, the arrow was sticking out of the wall, exactly in the spot the speck had been.

"Pretty impressive," Rachel said, whistling a little. "Nobody back at home is that good a shot with anything. My family tends to focus on hand-to-hand stuff," she explained, hoping this would get Nobara to show a little more pride in her skills. "So, we've got... uh... the stuff I do, and your archery. How do you want to handle this? I hold stuff down, you pincushion it?"

(( eek How long has it been since I posted here? So sorry Shadow! I've been really busy for the past weeks.))

"Heh, well that's good... I was hoping you wouldn't expect that since I'm a girl..." Korena scratched her head nervously. "Anyway, don't worry about it... Maybe by the time I do fight you, my control over it will be better... But sure, I'll go to the courtyard with you," she smiled brightly. "I just came from there."

Adin threw down his own shadows and breathed deeply. The shadows stood around him as four more appeared. Adin cracke dhis neck as he drew his sword. The shadows did the same. " Shadow training Warm-up end. Lets start with level 4....GO!" he said as he began to bat away shadow blades. At first, he stayed pace with the shadows, but a slice over his shoulder. He was getting slower. He decided to take his mind off home and start fighting. He then defeated the shadows in seconds, but then several more appeared. The more he knocked them down, the more rose to fight him.

Glissa watched warily as he put on his little fire works display. Slowly she crouched down and dug her fingers into the ground. The black leathery wings once again sprouted from her back, and at the same time a black ink like substance flowed from where her fingers were in the ground, swirling across the ground in intricate paterns. Then as Tam lunged at her from above, she began flapping her wings furiously in order to slow his speed a little. But it didn't seem to help at all so she braced herself. The flaming sword dug into Glissa's arm just as Lu's hand had done earlier, but she felt no pain. The other flame-thrower was singing the skin right off her left side.

"Is that all ya got, kitty-cat? Think fast!" She hissed at him, fangs bared. Suddently, the black magic swirling through the ground directly underneath Tam shot up out of the ground and began wrapping around his arms, legs and neck, slowly squeezing tighter and tighter. Gut Glissa was still worried about that sword of flames. It was incredibly sharp. She could feel it still digging through her flesh. There should have been a large amount of blood, but she figrued it was being burned away.

Lu's attention was fully pulled back into the battle, the jewel on her wrist not completely back to normal...well normal black anyway. She smiled as she watched her friends. True that because of Glissa actually being a real demon she had a high advantage and would make the better partner durring the star test due to her immunities to apprently most attacks, Tam too did have some tricks up his kitty sleaves...make that fur.

She wanted closely leaning against the wall quietly not wanting to get in the way but still in her mind she set on her adgenda to look for this kid...this so called dangerous kid. She folded her arms, how dare he insult someone of her age and calliber she could have taken off his head if she wanted to. Clenching her fist she growled angryly but there was nothing she could do about it now. Just ignore it Lu, everything will fall into place later.

Adin stood in the middle of a large assembly of shadows. He couldn't tell how many there were now. The room was now to small to contain them all. Adin Readied himself as the shadows moved closer. Shadow arrows sped towards him as several shadow archers had hidden themselves in the ranks. Adin blocked the arrows with his sword and barely had time to block a sword attack. He then pushed away his attacker and readied his weapons. " Two Hundred Man Body Count. Shadow Training....Start!' he shouted as every shadow leaped for him. Arrows shot to kill and blades pointed to his heart. Adin clicked his tounge and he was consumed in purple light. He then disappeared in and out of existance. Each time he reappeared, a shadow was slain. This time they did not get back up. Adin was took quick for the shadows. Within moments, all two hundred had been slain.
Adin let out a calm breath. He could hear the Teacher clapping. Then the teachers voice filled the room. " Well done Adin, but not good enough. Just about any student with their amazing abilities could have done that. There was nothing really special about that." the teacher said boreingly. Then Adin smirked. " Yes sir, but you must take into consideration. Each shadow has every ability I have. Every shadow is just as strong as me. So I just defeated myself two hundred times over, and more." The teacher nodded, still not impressed. Then Adin walked up to the glass and showed the teacher his eyes. They were glassed grey. Adin had blinded himself the whole time. He ran his hand over his eyes and they returned to their normal purple. The teacher nodded with a smile. " That'll do it." he said impressed.