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An abandoned village sits at the foot of the castle. It seems that the inhabitants have left a long time ago for some unknown reason, yet everything seems to have been just left. Each house furnished, toys within rooms, clothing within the draws; yet everything is covered in a thick dust. What happened to this village is unknown but at the center of the village is a large stone slab with an odd seal on it. It seems that this slab has a place for one to lay one's hand upon. The slab has the symbol of a snakes fang dripping venom is on it.

Hearing the crack of thunder and the flash of lightning above him, Kei acknowledged the signal that Kashin had given and dropped his hand onto the slab as he allowed his chakra to flow into the stone and activate the seal. "Here's where things gets interesting." Kei said as he leaned back to survey the area.

The raven haired ANBU looked at his quarry with a careful eye as he simply stated his name by way of introduction, "Kei." Obviously she was a guardian of some sort, forged of some kind of aquaeous solution and imprinted with a personality. She was weaponless but with a title like Cobra Fang, he reckoned that she was probably a expert in toxins, a subject he himself had dabbled in and was progressively becoming more familiar with.

Still her appearance tickled the back of his mind, as if he should recognize her but he was unable to. "Who are you to me? Why do you look so familiar?" Kei questioned Limstella as he watched her, his hands hung at his side but much like her he was unarmed at the moment.

Kei shook his head slightly, "I see no reason to fight you; you protect an abandoned keep with your true self long since gone to dust. Why not lay your weapons down and be at peace?" the ANBU asked still without drawing a weapon from his arsenal, that was not to say he was unprepared to do so. With seals impressed directly against his skin, the raven haired warrior was never without a weapon close at hand.

Kei sighed but grudgingly accepted the terms, "Very well, I shall end you and grant you the peace that you deserve." the ANBU said as he raised both of his hands and made a handsign that corresponded with one of the seals tattooed upon his flesh. With a pulse of chakra and a small column of smoke that appeared in front, a simple tube of metal was clasped in between his hands.

With a deft twirl, the weapon came to life as a blade of wind flowed out from one end and formed an invisible okatana that stretched out before him. Sharper enough to slice through steel and with all the weight of a hollow metal tube.

Swiping the blade before him with an almost laconic stroke, a sickle of air rushed from the blade and skimmed low across the ground before altering directions and curving upwards sharply and with incredible speed to decapitate the shadow of the merchant once called Limstella.

(Alas, I have returned from yet another hellaciously long abscense. I apologize profusely for my vanishing act but circumstances beyond my control arose.)

Making a slapping motion with his hand, Kei ushered a gust of wind that swept the pair of needles dramatically off course. Analyzing his opponent once more, Kei considered the repurcusions of taking this battle into close quarters. A needle was much easier to defend at a distance.

Lowering the metal tube to his side, the ANBU returned the weapon to the inside of his haori where it disappeared back into its seal. Forming a set of rapid seals, Kei raised his right hand into the open air infront of him as he whispered, "Devil's Tail Technique."

A sphere of wind formed before Kei's open palm and sheathed his arm as a hair thin cord began to spiral from the back of his fist to the crook of his elbow. A double-bladed whip of wind, measuring twenty-five paces and capable of traveling at supersonic speeds using the tapering formation of a bull whip.

Slashing his hand before his chest, the weapon acted as an extension of Kei's own arm, traveling beyond the rate at which the eye could see; it was plotted on a course that would slice the figment of the past from hip to shoulder.

Kei leapt to the side and making a quick check of the wind he darted forward, when the smoke bomb burst the prevailing winds would keep him upwind of the toxin. By closing the gap between himself and his target, the raven haired ANBU slashed his hand towards the remnant and directed the whip to leap forward, the jutsu quickly reached its terminal velocity and broke the sound barrier as it moved to decapitate the woman.