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"Note to self: Must get awesome reiatsu manipulation skills, just to get snake eyes..."

Scratching at the chin of his mask for no real logical reason, he watched as Vice-Captain Suri of Squad 5 began her demonstration of Hado 31. Despite the lack of kick put into it, Nicholas was impressed, having seen the effects of it already in the previous W.A.H (War Against Hollows).

"Okay, let's break the incantation into small manageable, memorable parts shall we? Ye Lord- easy enough. Mask of blood and flesh- A vizard reference perhaps? All creation, flutter of wings-Hell butterfly? Ye who bears the name of man- Fine, fine. Inferno and pandemonium-just as the name suggests. The sea barrier surges-...? March on the south."

Nicholas rubbed at the temples of his mask.

"Wow, who ever came up with these kidos incantations musta been high...stupid overly flowery and dramatic speeches..."

"Ye Lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, The sea barrier surges, march on to the south." Sky blue reiatsu crackled in his hands as he posed, Son Goku style before crying: "Hado 31: Shot of Red Fire." Under his breath, he muttered "And doooom." in an overly dramatic and flowery way.

There was a pause. A bird chirped in the background, along with some crickets and squirrels. Nicholas cocked an eyebrow behind his mask and blinked.

"Well that was anti-"

Boom.

An reiatsu overload explosion later, Nicholas blinked through the slits of his mask, wondering how and why his mouth tasted like ash, and where half his hair had gone

"Oh my God...I finally got a haircut..."

Nicholas sniffed, though the effect was ruined by the fact that he actually looked like a boy now...

"Wait a tick. The explosion happened at the front of my body...how on Earth did it get my ponytail...?"

He tilted his head up thoughtfully, while his large brimmed hat continued to burn, his mask stayed stained by black ash and the front of his robes gave off smoke.

"One more time!"

:Alarmed at the explosion, Suri quickly flicked her left thumb, loosening her zanpaku~to. With a deft motion, she unsheathed the blazing white katana and rapped Nicholas on the head and shoulders. Ice instantly coated his burns, soothing the sizzling.

"Foolish," Suri commented. "Never let your concentration waver when performing a kidou. Especially the first time."

She turned to Raw, who was working hard at memorizing the incantation. Although his mutterings were inaudible to her ears, deaf by Nicholas' explosion, she could make out the words his lips were forming.

"Raw, be careful of the recoil when you fire, and please, focus on the boulder, unlike Nicholas," Suri shot the first student a pointed look to show him that she was serious. The now silver eyes were hard, warning him that too many careless mistakes would result in a ban from future kidou training until he showed a bit more maturity. "Nicholas, I would like you to try again, but do not put too much energy into the shot. As for the eyes - it's not very easy to obtain. Years of simple reiatsu manipulation will not help you any more.":

Raw stepped his feet apart, letting his nails dig into the ground, and he braced himself for something he has never encountered before. Something told him that this was going to be a recipe for disaster, and that he was going to singe his fur. Accidents are commong, and he would not be exempt from the possibility of getting hurt.
He raised his reiatsu slightly, being cautious, and gathered the majority of it concentrating on his fingertips. He formed a small ball, very tiny, and decided that is would be better to just use that for initial contact with the kidou's enchantment.
"Ye lord, mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of man!" he paused, unsure if they were the correct words.
"Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!"
He finished it, and the reiatsu ball flared, and sudenly launched into the air, spiraling into the coulds and exploded in a warming bright display. It was almost like, 'fireworks' to Raw. Fireworks intreagued Rawtoon ever since he found out that fire could be packaged and used like that. He was amazed, but then felt rediculous because he forgot to ever aim the hadou at anything at all. He was simply so suprised that it worked that he just let it fly off into oblivion.
But since he was going easy, it was not big enough to really count. He decided he would be cautious, but actually try and make something lethal with his next try. After all, this was something special, being able to burn one's opponent..
Raw smiled at the thought of the same heat he trained through for so long weighing down on someone else!

Raw tried to do as she said, and when he gathered the ball again, he accidentally put too much power into it, creating a medium-sized reiatsu ball. Suddenly a lightbulb went off in his head as he saw that it would be too destructive for this hadou, so he aimed his hands at his staff, throwing the ball, and it instantly went into a whispo form, as the glowind red substance was absorbed into his weapon's crystal at the top.

"'Ah, I am sorry. Let me try again, this time I will get it, I hope.." Raw said, rubbing the fur on his arm nervously.
He took his stance again, and made a tiny red reiatsu ball, and made sure to hold it steady with his palm as the tool of the trade here. He aimed at a rock, one that was sizable large. He wanted to see the effect of his works.
he then shouted the incantation, "Ye lord, Mask of blood and flesh, All creation, Flutter of wings, Ye who bears the name of man; Inferno and pandemonium, The sea barrier surges, March on to the South."
The little red ball lit up, and flared shortly before creating a huge blast, that arched forwards making a wide cylinder of fire, that projected and consumed the rock!
Woah, I am doing it! Look at the red light, in all its brilliance gleaming. He slightly glanced at Nicholas, and grinned a toothy grin.
He felt proud, for even though the other shinigami had more sontrol over his spiritual powers, Raw just was thankful he had what he did here. He then looked back, and ceased efforts put forthin into the kidou, seeing the charred black rock, shinigani like it was just spraypainted jet-black or something.

[edited sweatdrop thats why we train, eh, right?]

((This may be my last post for a month or so, I'm going overseas tomorrow...So, I'll be finishing off this kido training here...2 attempt minimum rights?))

"Too much caused it to backfire...too little doesn't do enough..."

Nicholas began playing around with the amount of reiatsu he held in his two hands, humming something under his breath as he worked away, before he readjusted his hands and got into a comfortable position.

"Our phaser's are at the ready Captain..." He muttered under his breath in a flat voice.

"Ye Lord. Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, The Sea Barrier surges, march on to the south!"

The ball of red flames in Nicholas' hands flared, its warmth washing over Nicholas as he leant forward, eyes focused on the boulder before him.

"Hado 31: Shot of Red Fire."

The kido...hado...ken...thing, shot forward, striking the boulder and taking off a small portion of the top, before exploding in a brilliant display of red light that illuminated the field.

Nicholas hanged his head.

"My aim still sucks..."

Raw looked over at his weapon, and then the rock again. He was ready to give it his all this time, and wanted to make sure that he was able to perform good with this particular kidou. It was easier to him than he thought, since fire was an element he was familiar with.
He gathered a small energy ball again at his palm, and watched the glowing red in all its intensity. The glow of it shone against his dark fur, and Raw's mind drifted to the thought of the fact that he had the best of both worlds right now, but the disadvantage was that he lacked in one. Since Raw was from another world where he was born of the wolf-people tribe, he had the form and abilities of a werewolf, but not the full-brute strength. When in his natural wolf-form he was restricted to the boundarys of a natural shinigami, just a fur-covered huge one. But he sucked with his reiatsu, and using kidous, which put him at a disadvantage as a shingiami if he did not have his zanpakuto or staff.
Which was why he had to strengthen himself with this hadou, and he channeled his reiatsu as he yelled out, "Ye lord, Mask of blood and flesh, All creation, Flutter of wings, Ye who bears the name of man; Inferno and pandemonium, The sea barrier surges, March on to the South! Hadou # 31:Shot of RedFire!"
He shot the blast off, and a narrow flame that was concentrated shot out to the rock, then it increased and then dissapated as Raw fell to his knees, with a large doggy-ish grin on his face.
"How was that, eh" he coughed and finished, " Vice captain Suri?"

(( He did, actually. I started his training but he hasn't been around since. If you'll be active in the next few days there are a couple people who need training. ))