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The figure that was stabbed by the magical weapon vanishes with a weak murmur. All the while Schi straps his morning bow onto his left arm and loads it with a strange arrow with a laced tip, he opens a bag of them that he carries on his back by unzipping the sides. The two other clones standing behind the one who was then stabbed by Zeke, quickly leaped back off the roof away from the swordsman, running into the Hidden Heaven village streets. Zeke is kept well in range with Schi's loaded Morning Bow, not giving away his position, he lowered himself onto a knee and waited to take the shot. Watching closely if the strange swordsman made a move for the sword he was surly bound to be shot.

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When Zeke notices the other breathing first Schi summons the stronger version of clone that can actually hold onto items that he had. Schi had done stealth missions with clones before so he knew how to move them quietly. The three stronger clones he summoned rallied behind him and took explosive tags from Schi's ninja pouch that was on the back of his pants. They took them and sprinted into the town looking to make some holes in the ship. As Zeke hears Schi breathing, The Shinobi knew that he had been caught, how could he hear him from behind the building next to the orphanage? Schi was training to be an stealthy projectile based marksmen and a ninja for years! There was NO possible way the this other normal looking individual could smell, detect, or see him. It didn't matter but he couldn't take his mind off of it. Schi stood up and yelled at Zeke who neared the sword. Schi glares at Zeke pointing the loaded cross bow at him. His other arm had been raised with a kunai wrapped with an explosive tag and his tattoo's looked as if they had come alive and danced across the young Shinobi's arm. Then the boy realized something just then, The bottle of 'god knows what' effected Zeke's ability to hear. Quickly the clones changed there original tactic of blowing holes in the ship to using the explosive tags to blow them selves up in different parts of the town. They each holding five tags blow them selves up,making holes and some dents in the stronger parts in the bottom of the ship from the blast radius and caused a defining roar of a loud explosiveness inside the village of Hidden Heaven. That would surly make Schi's ears bleed but the two clones that were after the sword in the first place covered his ears and kept him safe while all this is happening. It would be even worse for Zeke since the metal, cylinder, hollowed formation of the ship the two were on only caused more damage to Zeke from echo. All Schi's clones are now gone till he makes some new ones since the weak ones poofed after the eruption of sound, and the stronger version blew themselves up from the plan.

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Well it was surely disappointing, the moment that Zeke had actually grabbed hold of the blade, his opponent had appeared to have figured out exactly how he had managed to locate him. His opponent would aim their crossbow directly at him, even as the explosions were generated, sending a large booming bang around the area, Zeke's eyes would widen. The overwhelming sounds that had come over the area from the explosion, would send him tumbling over the side of the roof top, both his own sword and the sword he had been trying to obtain in either hand as he went crashing to the ground. The sheer pain from his very ear drums shattering, would completely cut off his own concentration towards what he had been doing, his only thoughts being to hold tightly due to the pain alone, as he slammed back first directly into the ground, a gasp of air escaping his lungs from the impact. Zeke would find it hard to move for a moment, only able to lay there in stunned silence as he felt the blood drip down either side of his head from his ears. The white sparkles of hitting the ground so hard beginning to fade away by the time he managed to begin to sit up, sliding the sword he originally had in his possession back into it's shealth, before bringing his gaze to look upon the new blade that he had just gained from the roof top. "Well this is a very nice blade..." He would say, although his words would be oddly off sounding, and a puzzled expression would come across Zeke's face. He didn't hear any sound when he spoke, further more other then the annoying buzzing that was the actual lack of hearing he now possessed. Zeke couldn't hear much of anything at all, which was an experience that he had never had to deal with before. Planting the silver blade of the new sword into the ground, he slowly used it to bring him to his feet, immediately staggering slightly, his balance alone actually seeming to be off center as well. Something that it would take a little while to get used to. Zeke's light purple eyes, now slightly blood shot from the effects of the audible stun, slowly rose to look about the area as he took in the odd effect of the cube like barrier that had appeared to form around him, his main concern being who caused such a barrier, and why?

Zeke's overwhelmed form would stagger slightly as he continues to regain his balance, although as his eyes adjusted and he began to look downwards at the remainder of the area within the barrier he frowned slightly, it would seem that the one who had made this barrier was none other then the male that he had noticed on the roof top earlier, and now they were standing before his opponent in a rather obvious way. Although by the time he really noticed they were talking to each other, or at least that was what he assumed they were doing, it would appear that his first opponent was stepping out behind the cover of the darkly dressed male who had interrupted in a way. Although he did not have a good deal of balance just yet, and it appeared that his opponent was actually raising some sort of weapon at him. Zeke watched as the male fires what appears to be an arrow in his direction, giving him very little time to actually react to this attack as it stood. Although suddenly a barrier of chakra would form up in from of him, effectively placing a barrier between him and the arrow that the opponent was sending towards him. Using the timing itself to be well enough, that he could actually block both the arrow and the kunai that was shadowing it as well. Zeke shook his head slowly as he removes another Elixer bottle from the pouch at his waist, popping the cork off of it and raising it to his lips. The Elixer of Life being that of a healing elixer, something to get rid of the majority of the damage he had sustained, including any permanent damage from the loud sounds of the explosions. Although he wouldn't be able to hear for a while, he at least will be able to hear in the future and that is what counted.

His barrier appeared to do just as he had intended it to do, stopping the obvious attack in it's tracks and even the unseen attack that he had just noticed now. Of course by doing so it would appear he had left himself in a sorrowful situation. Without having the time to actually replace the elixer bottle, Zeke simply released it causing it to drop to the ground and shatter in an instant, as he immediately grabbed a new one from his pouch. Drawing the new elixer upwards and snapping the cork out with his thumb, he drank the new elixer even as he had begun to move out from behind his defensive structure of magical energy. The moment the contents reached his lips, it's effects would activated in order to further advance this game they seemed to be playing. His movement speed would immediately double in velocity as he took off way from his barrier, the barrier itself would vanish in an instant as soon as he had moved out from behind it, Zeke actually making a straight movement forwards and to the left. With luck, he would run directly passed the arrow before it would manage to lash out as it had intended, meaning the odd tendril holding the arrow would need to turn completely around in order to strike him, and with luck he figured that would be a challenge seeing as the male was focused on striking him with the crossbow once again. Reaching his free hand behind his back while sliding the new sword he had acquired into his belt beside his other weapon which he normally used by choice, a slight twist of a chord there and with luck the blade would be locked in place without a shealth for a while. The moment the weapon was secured, Zeke made a swift movement to the right, with the anticipation of the arrow heading his direction at his back, the hand behind his back whipping outwards and facing towards the opponent. A blast of magical energy would be launched forwards with the flick of his hand, the basic Hex technique shooting quickly towards his opponent, although this wasn't just any normal Hex technique, nearly after leaving his hand as it shot rapidly towards Schi, multiple shuriken would scatter outwards from inside the Hex, appearing like a rain of rapidly spinning stars towards the opponent and Damian, of course at least for Damian should he remain still the stars would breeze passed him without harm. Schi on the other hand would not be so lucky, thus pinning him between a blast of pure energy or a couple dozen shuriken slamming into his body. All the while Zeke continued to rapidly move forwards towards his opponent in order to close the distance and continue the attack. Since the opponent wanted to play it long range, it was about time he moved forwards and lessened the gap between them a little.