Following Atsuko's lead, she put her hands together to cast something defensive as well. While Atsuko had a fire whirlwind going, she needed to add to the confusion. She generated a thousand suiton needles that floated above and around the flame whirlwind. Anyone who made it through the whirlwind would be assaulted by all of her needles.
USED: Sensatsu Suishou [ Thousand Flying Water Needles of Death ] Rank: B Official Description: The user will hold a single hand sign, and then gather water from existing bodies of water or molecules in the air in preparation. The water will then rise into the air, where it will take the form of long senbon needles. The senbon can be held stationary in the air for as long as the user sees fit, but after they have been launched, they cannot be stopped, except by outside forces. It should also be noted that the user may create any number of senbon, from one [1] to one thousand [1,000], using this technique. Guild Description: See official description. The strength of each individual senbon weakens as more are created, totally B-rank damage regardless of number.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:52 pm
The researchers shook their hands and stretched their necks as Houou unlocked their bindings, at which point the group as a whole seemed to grow significantly more relaxed. The insides of their bindings would appear to have seals etched into them, though their purposes were unknown.
"Extreme lithotrophs, very territorial, prehensile fur," the researcher answered Taketori as succinctly as possible. "Most suffer from severe muscle atrophy at this point. Lift and turn the three latches at the base of their stands to move them."
The chitchat would come to a decisive end after Houou lodged the cage in the door and the others started launching attacks. Like a herd of spooked animals, they scampered into the back room through the small opening left in the roots, taking cover by simply not being in the line of fire anymore.
Atsuko's whirlwind and Artemis' water needles bore down on the purple mist, stirring it up and pushing it back to reveal a waist-height metal wall and a net that stretched from floor to ceiling. The net sparked violently when the center of the storm grew near, after which the wind would die down. As a result, the water needles would spray all over the tunnel interior, eliciting a chorus of swears and the sound of metal being punctured. Taketori's bone bullets suffered mixed effectiveness, with some of them causing shouts of pain from the enemy group and some ricocheting off the wall with heavy thuds.
"They're after the eggheads! Take 'em out!" Such was the order shouted by someone behind that metal shield. There was a chorus of affirmatives, but--perhaps as an indicator of how many had been injured by the previous attacks--relatively few actions. One lightly armored person stood up from behind cover and whipped out a scroll. They unfurled it and fired a hailstorm of senbon and kunai into the room, blanketing the central area in a blast of ammunition that would shred bookshelves and shatter some of the glass tanks. One person tried to attach a cord to the net, only to immediately detach it and shed their armor, which had both caught fire and was melting. One other person briefly popped up and fired a pair of small paper balls from a sling toward the cage and Houou, each of which would explode shortly before impact.
Techniques used: Projectile rain (B), paper ball explosives (C). ((Talk about a strong opening. Zephyr, I'll count it as a full 6 for now since I'm not sure. Coded messages below.))
Houou was so focused on the cage and it’s possible inhabitant, that he was completely negligent of skirmish that was occurring behind him. Peering into the vine wrapped cage houou suddenly felt an intense heatt and tremendous pressure against the back of his head. There was no time to react or do anything, the explosives algae already detonated just a few feet away from him. With his body already positioned inside the small entrance he left, houou found himself being propelled forward into the cage. The explosion was enough to scorch Houou’s flesh and hair leaving him in excruciating pain. His body slammed against the bats and wood, bouncing his body back like a bag of sand. As Houou lay smoldering in the cage he began to fall unconscious, his last images being that of the inside of a cage. Not even a soul inside to rescue, hour could he let himself get so carried away with rescuing everyone to the point of dropping his guard like a rookie.
"Brother, beware!" Taketori shouted at Atsuko as he quickly slid past the Uchiha and took position directly in front of him for the incoming rain of kunai and senbons. His bones created a thin layer underneath his skin and he brought his arms up in a cross-guard position to protect the soft points on his face, namely his eyes. Kaguya bones were harder than steel and were impervious even to chakra steel of simple weapon techniques. Using his body, he became a shield for Atsuko and anyone else in the direct line of fire behind him, most of the attacks richocheting off the thin layer of hardened bone he had created. This combined with the armor technique he had active and his sheer Fortitude allowed him to weather the storm. However, with his eyes covered he couldn't see the paper balls that launched past him towards Houou and the cage.
Hearing the explosion behind him, Taketori glanced back in time to see the scorched body of Houou blast into the cage. With anguish and rage, Taketori let out a great roar that echoed through tunnels. Raising both hands, he closed his eyes to shield them from the incoming projectiles and slammed his hands down on the ground, flooding it with chakra directed at the UHV soldiers down the tunnel.
"SAWARABI NO MAI [ Dance of the Seedling Fern]!" He shouted as spikes began to erupt from the ground in front of him. Hundreds of bone spikes, going from the ground to the ceiling, would erupt out of the ground down the corridor, impaling those who weren't properly armored and crushing those who were into the ceiling, the sheer number holding them immobile.
"WITNESS ME!" With another war cry, he charged directly into the bones, fusing with them that allowed him to merge with the forest of bones he created as he sought to see the damage he had done to the attacking force and to find out, still hidden, if any other reinforcements were on their way. The bones should give his allies a chance to recover and run triage on Houou and anyone else who may have been hurt from the onslaught and the bones could be cleared out with a sufficiently powerful technique.
First Class: Bloodline ____Discipline → Thoroughbred: Your maximum chakra pool and maximum stamina pool are both increased by {10} points, and you receive an additional {05} points to each pool whenever you rank up. Additionally, when you perform bloodline techniques above Rank D, you are refunded {05} chakra or {05} stamina, depending on which energy was used. ( If chakra was used, you recover chakra; if stamina was used, you recover stamina; if both were used, you recover both. ) Second Class: Taijutsu ____Discipline → Berserker: Your external training and devotion to taijutsu has allowed you to have moderately increased Strength and Fortitude, making attacks overwhelm physical taijutsu techniques of the same rank or lower. Additionally, your hardened body allows you to utilize your physical taijutsu techniques to negate ninjutsu techniques of the same rank or below.
---- Sustained Jutsu [4/6] --- Invigorating Armor Rank: B :: Armor Description: An advanced Armor technique that was actually developed by a struggling young practitioner of The Kaiser Fist. This technique, like Stimulating Armor, allowed him to maintain his peak physical potential; While active, this armor generates a thin aura of Chakra and prevents the user's strength and fortitude from being reduced below normal levels, while also granting a mild increase to both as well. Lasts for six posts.
---- Offensive Activation [02] ::: Thoroughbred Refund [05 Chakra] Sawarabi no Mai [ Dance of the Seedling Ferns ] •Rank: B • Sawarabi no Mai is the fifth of five dance forms. After activating the level two cursed seal form, Kimimaro quickly grows a multitude of tall spikes from his body to create a large forest of bone. While in this form he himself can merge into the bone trees to attack his target from whichever spike he wants. Also: The last of Kimimaro's five dances. Countless bones rise from underground, which can be as many as thousands, up to the tens of thousands. The blades of bone indiscriminately slaughter whoever stands on the ground's surface. Furthermore, if this fails to bring down his foe, Kimimaro can become one with the bones, which in turn can allow him to attack an enemy unnoticed. Out of all the techniques shown through the Shikotsumyaku abilities, this dance is the only one that is ninjutsu, rather than a taijutsu. • Can be used without the level two cursed seal form, but the forest is now considered small, numbering only in the hundreds. Merging with the forest takes a C-ranked amount of chakra per post, outside of the level two cursed seal form. Those within the level two cursed seal form do not have a merging cost. ---- Supplementary Activation [03]: Merging with the forest [C-rank] ::: Thoroughbred Refund [05 Chakra]
Artemis was pleased at how well their offense was going -- the UHV was completely unprepared for their own onslaught, and it was ever strengthened by the two newcomers to the group that Artemis was certainly proud to call her family. She did a lot of ducking to avoid shrapnel and projectiles, though it was a good thing that it didn't seem like an entire army was coming up to face them; they had dampened their forces considerably with their offense.
Artemis flinched at the noise of glass shattering, which shouldn't have been very considerable amongst the absolute chaos of their epic adventure, but it was reminiscent of the night the UHV attacked her neighborhood in Sasagi and killed her adoptive grandmother. She was frozen was a solid minute; if not for Taketori's quick thinking and defense, she'd have been sliced a billion times by the scroll's inventory. When she found the strength to move again, she couldn't help but turn away from their forward venture and take a glance at the shattered glass just to calm her nerves, convince herself that she wasn't going to experience the same night again.
Instead, she discovered the freed prisoners staring at the inside of the cage, a smoldering, familiar form inside. "Houou!" She instinctively shouted, their personas and aliases completely forgotten in her panic. Her heart was in her throat as she ran over to where he was, quickly analyzing his injuries as being explosive-related. The projectiles that moved passed Taketori must've struck him. Oh god. She grabbed his shoulder, turned him over so his head was resting on her lap and other hand, though she had to be extremely careful because of the tender exposure of his head.
She tried to piece together his wounds, figure how drastic they were, but everything in front of her was distorted beyond her tears. "Houou..." She choked out. "Houou, please. Please, look at me. Please, I know you're still there." She gave him the lightest shake, then a harder one when he still didn't respond. "Houou, you selfish son of a b****, look at me! Answer me!" She hissed between clenched teeth, grip tightening on his shoulder. She held onto him for dear life.
Reluctantly, she closed her eyes and dropped her head, cowering under the low cage roof. She was barely above Houou's face, her tears leaving her cheeks and landing on his. His wounds were too severe. He was the only one familiar with the idiosyncrasies of eiseijutsu; her ninjutsu prowess couldn't hope to transfer over to such a delicate art. There was nothing she could do.
There was nothing she could do.
"Houou," she whispered. "How can you dare to leave me so early? Houou, we haven't done enough yet. We still have places to see, people to meet. There's so much left for us, how can you be ready to go already? Houou... please. Please stay with me. Just a little longer, I promise. We- we can get help." She sniffled and smiled down at him. She gave him just a slight nudge, but her heart was in it. If he had any last words, they would be delivered on his own strength, and not her meddling.
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 1:23 pm
Atsuko was busy with his focus on the attackers that he didn't realize what had transpired until after Taketori charged into the frey with a bellowing roar and his eyes had a chance to see the cause. With his sharingan it was all to much detail at once, as if he was seeing it in slowed down time. Every wound, every inch of burn flesh, it overwhelmed his senses as his mind was thrown back to the many moments in his life where he witnessed such tragedy. His sharingan flickered to black irises as his mind reeled in shock. They had been in such control but that was lost now, for the moment.
"Asumo keep guard for a moment" he managed to choke out after a few seconds. There was nothing more he wanted to do right now then to stop things, pull them out of there, and leave to a hospital but the part of his mind that still clung to reality told him that wasn't an option right now. His pet jumped off of her masters shoulder and put herself between the tunnel and them, on guard in case any enemies slipped through.
He went to Houou's side next to Artemis, placing a hand gently on her shoulder. The look on his face showed his pain but his voice was kept steady, even if only to try to keep to control for just a few moments longer. Then he looked to Houou. The flood of memories again smacked into his mind in waves. Deep down he always knew this risk when they had formed the group. They were as close as family, acted as such, and always kept things light hearted when they weren't working but the realities of being a shinobi were always there. Waiting. To face this reality however was leaving him nearly at a loss of words. None of them were medics except Houou. If they moved him he might just die from that and they wouldn't know, even without the knowledge of medicine it was obvious the wounds were fatal.
Quickly reaching into his pack he pulled out one of his pain pills and gently would place it on Houou's lips, if he was willing. It would dissolve in his mouth and rid him of the pain immediately. It wouldn't fix things, it would just give them a moment. And ease things. If he was unable to find his voice from the pain before he would be able to speak now.
"Houou. I am so sorry..."
Those were the only words that came to his mind. His voice seemed to age backwards, he almost sounded like a child. He was the youngest of the group but that rarely showed. Except for now.
● Sharingan 3 Tomoe - Active ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● Targeted Immunization (Fear) ● ●
◆￤ Inventory
● Pain-Murderer [x9] - An extra-strength painkiller. Take one to abolish all pain in the body. ● Field Medic's Kit - Includes several types of hypodermic needles, precesion scalpels, sanitation kits, adrenaline boosters, and even cauterizing tools. ● Focus Pad [x5] - A soft cotton pad that focuses Eiseijutsu onto the areas covered by it. This drastically reduces recovery time after being treated with Eiseijutsu. ● Kumo Pass Seal ● Communicator ● Base Key ● Dragon Mask ● Lost Robes - (Rasengan Stored) - -
The explosions left a ringing in Houous head that wouldn’t stop until Artemis’ voice rang through. The sound was shallow and the pain was so excruciating that he didn’t have the fortitude to even open his eyes. The urge to sleep was too powerful to resist. It felt like he could fall asleep right here on the spot and wake up fine in a few hours. However the moment he decided to give in to the sleep, he would taste something bitter on his lips. This odd sensation would bring Houous mind back to the present moment, allowing him to open his eyes only to see the blurred images of Artemis an atsuko. He knew that he was in a bad spot. The explosion had caught him off guard and he still didn’t even know the severity of the situation. With all of his remaining strength, houou lifted is arm and placed his hand on Artemis’ cheek and smiled
“It’s my own fault for... cough...trying to save everyone again.....man Roxas is going to laugh when he hears cough this one.”
Houou then looked at his oldest friend Atsuko and then back to Artemis. Tears welled up in his eyes because the image of them was so distorted, probably by blood and the trauma his eyes just went through after slamming into the inside of the cage. Suddenly houou heard the battle cries of Taketori and Asumo as they ripped through the UHV troops. Houou was fighting to keep his eyes open and began coughing up lots of blood. He knew he had to do something to save everyone,if they were to stand a chance in this battle. Houou attempted to reach for the one active marble and the two spare, but he was soon struck with an intense pain. The marbles rolled out of his hand and toward Atsuko. Coughing up blood once more houou tried with all of his might to get out one last set of words.
“D..don’t let them get away with this cough COUGH.....i couldn’t..have asked...for......a..........betterrr.........faamii-l.....”
Houous hand slowly slid off Artemis’ cheek and landed on his chest. His eyes drifted shut as he forced the last words out. He seemed to die with a smile on his face, thanks to being able to share those last few seconds with his family.
[Techniques Used]
Chakra
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:28 pm
As Houou breathed his last breath, the crowd of researchers flew into various states of panic. Some dove under their desks to hide from a second assault they were sure was coming, some started turning over furniture out of a hysteric response, a couple started beating the lifeless hunks of meat that had been filleted in the tubes, and the scrawny researcher would stare at the corpse, mouthing words with no air behind them, his eyes seeing but not comprehending.
Taketori's assault would carve through the remaining troops in the hallway, impaling most and pinning only a couple to the ceiling. The scroll that had filled the room with so much weaponry was shredded. The net was split wide open by one column of bone. Though the effects of the marble preventing the cave in had passed, the bones held the ceiling in place.
Taketori would see out into the main mineshaft if he went to the other end of the hallway. It was bright as day with all the spotlights present, but the shadows cast by the minecarts were darker than the darkest night in Giman. Overall, the mineshaft was only a couple hundred feet long and the hallway they were in was at about the midway point along it. It was cavernous, though, with little cover and few obstructions to impede vision. To the right was a path leading down, ending in a cave that appeared to have a smooth white floor and some explosives in it, clearly without anything else even from the rogue's vantage. To the left the mineshaft went upward, ending in what looked to be a warehouse-type area with two doors leading off of it: a large shutter and a smaller metal door similar to the one that had led to the researchers. There were a few pockets of soldiers setting up walls similar to the one used in the hallway, and one group was already unfurling scrolls to open fire on the forest of bones. The soldiers out here were fairly well-armored, but not to the same extent that the group by the research area had been.
Atsuko couldn't help but smile weakly at the statement. There still had been radio silence and they hadn't found a body yet but....it wouldn't be far fetched to say he was gone. He'd stay by Houou's side until he seemed to finally let go, saying "Don't worry. The UHV will pay...and this world will find peace".
He would put a couple of fingers to Houou's neck, confirming the lack of pulse before he'd motion for Artemis to stand back. From his hand grew a small mote of fire that he'd gently press against Houou's body. The body would turn to ash swiftly, then to nothing in only a few moments. They couldn't afford to carry him all the way back, not as they stood right now. Houou had died protecting them and Atsuko wouldn't let that sacrifice go in vain. Standing up he'd clear his throat to grab the attention of the scientist, a serious expression now being dawned.
"Alright I need ALL of you to listen! If you want to get out of here alive you will need to follow my orders, those of you that want to stay can feel free but we are getting out of here and NOW" He flicked on his comms so he could speak directly to Taketori and his team would hear his voice clearly as he moved towards the tunnel entrance "Taketori I need you to move out of the tunnel. I am going to clear a path through your bone spikes so that we can get back to the roof of the tunnel entrance that we used to get in here. Once we get to below the hole Shalamoana will form a stair case for us using the snow he had used previously. Using that stair case we will exit up with as many of the scientist as will follow and seal it behind us. Then we head straight to the surface, dispersing from their with the information"
He wanted to stop, he wanted to have a chance to let Houou's death be more then just a flashing moment, but they couldn't afford it. They would get out of here alive, then they could give him the proper memorial that he deserved. "Asumo, split yourself with shadow clone to cover us if we are attacked" Atsuko stated as he reached the mouth of the tunnel that was now covered in bone spikes. From his hand a rasengan would form and once he knew Taketori was out of the way he'd smash it against the bones, crumbling them to dust and sending them scattering across the floors opening up the path once more. Meanwhile his pet would split into 5, 4 shadow clones with a 100 chakra each being formed and surrounding Atsuko. Finally he'd throw in another marble that would hold the ceiling and the surroundings up.
"Alright. Those of you who want to get out of here will follow us! The rest of you can stay if you'd like but we are getting out of here. Asumo will be mixed through the crowd so we can move in a fast fashion and any threats will be handled. Let's go!" Pet Chakra: 115 / 625 ________________________________________________________________ ◆￤ CHAKRAx 313 / 625x◆￤ STAMINAx 190 / 430x◆￤ RYOx 2575x◆￤ ACx 10750 ◆￤ TAMER / NINJUTSU x◆￤ C-RANK ROGUEx◆￤ SHISHINx◆￤ UCHIHA x◆￤ DRAGONxxxxx
◆￤ Passives
● Sharingan 3 Tomoe - Active ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● Targeted Immunization (Fear) ● ●
◆￤ Inventory
● Pain-Murderer [x9] - An extra-strength painkiller. Take one to abolish all pain in the body. ● Field Medic's Kit - Includes several types of hypodermic needles, precesion scalpels, sanitation kits, adrenaline boosters, and even cauterizing tools. ● Focus Pad [x5] - A soft cotton pad that focuses Eiseijutsu onto the areas covered by it. This drastically reduces recovery time after being treated with Eiseijutsu. ● Kumo Pass Seal ● Communicator ● Base Key ● Dragon Mask ● Lost Robes - (Rasengan Stored) - -
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Shou Senju
time and timor
Pad Chief
ZephyrsBlade
Ergo War
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 2:41 pm
" Let us go." Shalamoana announced solemly to the crowd. Shalamoana began channeling his energies to create more hatsuyuki with a handsign before manually creating a softer pillar of snow inside the tube raising up to the top. Even if Shalamoana did have his purposes he was surprisingly weak he felt. He would have to grow stronger. It was unacceptable that a warrior such as himself was unable to help his newly sworn brother.
"Into the snow. I will manipulate it so you all get thrown out at the top." He announced before pushing his bird into the snow. He began to create a current in the snow pushing those inside it up. First the bird and then anyone else who could follow.
Taketori wanted to charge in head first. His blood was boiling and his emotions were running high. In close-ranged combat, he was hard to stop. All he had to do was close the gap through the main mining area to the other tunnel. The steel walls and nets weren't a problem for him... Yet it wasn't the solution. Shishin needed him. His people needed him. They would not be able to properly recover if he died in vain, deep underground where the moon did not shine. That, it seemed, was the difference between his way and the way of these Hidden Villages. The lives of those soldiers he killed were cheap. Not to him, they had families and people who relied on them too surely, but to the soldiers themselves. That was no way to live life.
He made no grand proclamation. He soaked in the situation - Houou was dead. That much he knew. As Atsuko prepared to Rasengan through his bones in the tunnel, Taketori stepped out of his forest, glaring down the tunnel where the UHV soldiers were preparing scrolls to open fire. Touching the walls of the tunnels, he channeled in another Sawarabi no Mai [ Dance of the Seedling Fern ]. Rather than offensively, this would be used to seal off that part of the tunnel itself. This should cut off the UHV from attacking as they prepared to evacuate the scientists with Shalamoana's snow techniques.
The bones sprouted from the ground, walls, and ceiling in a thick, spiral motion outwards from Taketori. Hundreds of bone spikes would completely close off that corridor like a multitude of calcium-based blast doors. Their 360 degrees of orientation reinforced each other more so than a regular bone spike alone would, like a shield wall. Added with the notorious hardness of Kaguya bones and the UHV would have a difficult time digging this out.
Taketori would wait for the others to evacuate, standing by his [ Dance of the Seedling Fern ]. He didn't know what else the UHV had in store but if he needed to refresh the bone spikes before everyone left, he was ready to do so. "Let us depart this place." [OOC]:
First Class: Bloodline ____Discipline → Thoroughbred: Your maximum chakra pool and maximum stamina pool are both increased by {10} points, and you receive an additional {05} points to each pool whenever you rank up. Additionally, when you perform bloodline techniques above Rank D, you are refunded {05} chakra or {05} stamina, depending on which energy was used. ( If chakra was used, you recover chakra; if stamina was used, you recover stamina; if both were used, you recover both. ) Second Class: Taijutsu ____Discipline → Berserker: Your external training and devotion to taijutsu has allowed you to have moderately increased Strength and Fortitude, making attacks overwhelm physical taijutsu techniques of the same rank or lower. Additionally, your hardened body allows you to utilize your physical taijutsu techniques to negate ninjutsu techniques of the same rank or below.
---- Sustained Jutsu [5/6] --- Invigorating Armor Rank: B :: Armor Description: An advanced Armor technique that was actually developed by a struggling young practitioner of The Kaiser Fist. This technique, like Stimulating Armor, allowed him to maintain his peak physical potential; While active, this armor generates a thin aura of Chakra and prevents the user's strength and fortitude from being reduced below normal levels, while also granting a mild increase to both as well. Lasts for six posts.
---- Jutsu Activation [01] ::: Thoroughbred Refund [05 Chakra] Sawarabi no Mai [ Dance of the Seedling Ferns ] •Rank: B • Sawarabi no Mai is the fifth of five dance forms. After activating the level two cursed seal form, Kimimaro quickly grows a multitude of tall spikes from his body to create a large forest of bone. While in this form he himself can merge into the bone trees to attack his target from whichever spike he wants. Also: The last of Kimimaro's five dances. Countless bones rise from underground, which can be as many as thousands, up to the tens of thousands. The blades of bone indiscriminately slaughter whoever stands on the ground's surface. Furthermore, if this fails to bring down his foe, Kimimaro can become one with the bones, which in turn can allow him to attack an enemy unnoticed. Out of all the techniques shown through the Shikotsumyaku abilities, this dance is the only one that is ninjutsu, rather than a taijutsu. • Can be used without the level two cursed seal form, but the forest is now considered small, numbering only in the hundreds. Merging with the forest takes a C-ranked amount of chakra per post, outside of the level two cursed seal form. Those within the level two cursed seal form do not have a merging cost. ----
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Odoeb
Pad Chief
Shou Senju
Ergo War
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:35 pm
༄༄༄┤Zetsuou Vongola├༄
~D-Rank~~Shishin Rogue~~Eiseijutsu~~Bloodline~
Chak:: 410/410 Stam:: 180/180 Ryo: 0 AC:0
Personal-Infamy:0 Public-Infamy:0
When everyone began making their exit, young Zetsu had a choice to make. He could sit here and loose his mind like the other researchers, or he could take these shinobi up on their offer. One of them had already come this far and gave his life trying to free everyone he came into contact with, Zetsu heard the female shinobi yell Houou. He couldn’t let this mans sacrifice be in vain. When One of the shinobi vocalized the escape plan, giving the researchers a chance to escape with them, Zetsu didn’t hesitate. Breaking sight with Houous now charred body, Zetsu turned to the lead researcher and then looked around at al of the other hysterical scientists that would possibly die in the mines.
“This is our chance...”
Houou muttered so that the head researcher could pick up what he was saying.
“i will take my chances and attempt to escape. You would be wise to do the same... ”
Zetsu then motioned for the head researcher to follow along, pulling at his lab coat to help him keep pace they ran for the large man who had created a large mound of snow. Jumping into the snow with the head researcher, the pair anxiously awaited their ascension into the upper part of the mines. Sitting their in the brisk snow, staring up at the van sized hole in the ceiling, Zetsu didn’t know why, but tears began pouring down his face at the very thought of his freedom. And it was all thanks to that masked man’s kindness. Zetsu would never forget the face of the man who literally freed him from his chains.
Everything was slow motion but also a blur. In one moment, she was holding Houou. In the next, he was utter ash. In one moment, Atsuko was calling out an order - though it sounded like a different language or silence or absence. In another, she was suddenly being ushered out of the tunnel and to the surface through a tunnel of snow. It was white and blank and too much and the coldness of it didn't register against her already numb body and why wasn't Houou in her arms anymore?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:39 am
The scientists evacuated as the sounds of metal on bone filled the mine. They would escape easily into the dingy tunnels above and head toward the nearest exit, but one would hang back.
"We can't thank you enough for all you've done," they'd say to the nearest person. "I'm truly sorry for your loss. I don't know who you are or why you came, but the person who started this all is still down there. While they're still around, I'm sure this will only happen again, maybe worse next time. Can I ask you to kill the head of the mine? You can take whatever money you find."
Below, Taketori's wall held fast against the rain of steel. Then the sounds of the onslaught ended and there were voices on the other side of the wall. Moments later, there would be an explosion powerful enough to shake the ground in the tunnels above and crack his wall. They were attempting to blast their way through.
Odoeb
Shou Senju
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 2:57 pm
༄༄༄┤|Zetsuou Vongola|├༄
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~D-Rank~~Shishin Rogue~~Eiseijutsu~~Bloodline~
Chak:: 410/410 Stam:: 180/180 Ryo: 0 AC:0
Personal-Infamy:0 Public-Infamy:0
The scientists words moved Zetsu to lift himself out of the snow. The moment he said that this could happen again, Zetsu thought of the man who had just died trying to save him from this fate. Houou’s sacrifice would have been in vain if they just left now and allowed this man to continue his tyrannical reign in the mines.
“i agree... we can let these people rebuild this operation after Houou gave his life saving us. If he could face such dangers for the sake of other, then so can we!”
Zetsu said with rage in his eyes. He could tell that the shinobi wanted to escape without suffering any more casualties. Unfortunately they were outnumbered and surrounded by possible enemies. Suddenly. Stays face lit up, he remember the guard would talk about a nearby room with explosives being stored there. If Zetsu was fast enough he could retrieve some the explosives and use them.
“Please hold them here!”
Zetsu yelled as he ran down and to the rightmost path. After a few seconds of sprinting. Zetsu would slow to a hault in the white room. The stone floor was smooth as steel. Then Zetsu would scam the room for the Explosives, in hopes to find a way for them to destroy this underground operation.
