He hadn't expected a rushing current underground, though he honestly didn't imagine much. This green light, what exactly was it? The light shone all about, it was a reflective surface. It looked slimy, but in damp places like this what didn't. He barely had to shove the thing forward, it was being pulled beyond his control. It wasn't exactly a safe ride, or smooth for that matter. The ice collided with a wall, and shot itself directly upwards toward the surface. It was then that Reiki had noticed these plates that had stuck to the ice during their travels. When they breached the surface, Reiki nearly immediately opened the top of the ice to allow fresh air to rush in. Letting one of the many green plates to fall down towards him. He caught it, like whatever, being afraid to touch something was a little late now. "This isn't metal ..." He knocked on it several times to hear the sound made. What type of noise was this, hollow. Maybe it was metal. He motioned the ice towards land so they could step off, Reiki immediately recognized the place upon giving it any attention. "This has to be someone's idea of a cruel joke. This is where that monk prayed for the drought to end." A hand went to his hip, the right, as he stepped off the make shift ice raft. His left hand still holding onto the green scale. One of many that could be seen flooding the waters as the ice settled into a single layer.
Though this seemed a lot different than anything he had seen before. Not only were the mushrooms ridiculous, but the people here were crazy. Literally, killing each other. Maybe they missed an announcement about murder. Maybe Reiki wasn't listening. Though the correlation was quite clear, when they died the waters rose. One could take it as coincidence, but being this far in. It would seem foolish to rely on such a thing. Reiki secured the scale, and slowly made his way to one of the large mushrooms. He made a makeshift plate of ice and lifted the scale towards one of the larger mushrooms until the scale had touched it. "Someone should probably check on those people that were just fighting."
STATISTICS
CHAKRA:: 280//280 200/266 STAMINA:: 260//260
TECHNIQUES
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Dcme
Jellisha
AandOE
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:23 pm
S H I N S E T S U Eirlys||Bukijutsu||Genin||"Frost Witch" ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗ It seemed her caution was not unfounded. The rushing currents that swept the dome along, the crash into the wall at the far end followed by the uncontrollable rise. It was a wonder how the ice didn't crack under the pressure. The second they made it to the surface Eirlys stepped off the ice and onto solid ground, never happier to be standing on pavement. The ice was nice, but she would have much preferred to not be found in such a situation where her longevity was not a certainty. "I have never been here before." Nor have she heard the tales that revolved around this entire shrine and its history. She wasn't completely oblivious, but simply had no interest on the topic. At the time at least. Right now however it wasn't possible for her to be anymore fascinated than she already was. She had gotten a piece of the history back on the top when they had been at the waterfall, and now she got a little refresher course when Reiki mentioned the monk and his prayers. Eirlys was nonplussed by the events taking place before her, only able to stand and watch as the bodies dropped to the ground, lifeless and warm. "What is this?! What's happening here?" The sight of murder was not what was strange. That was something seen or heard of every single day. No. It was sight of massacre in such a holy place between prelates and monks. Eirlys was the first to approach the scene, cautiously of course. She wanted to take a closer look, and though this might fall into the category of reckless abandon, she had to find out what was happening.
So, their next destination was or had to be, the man shrine. To the pleasantry leading over however were battles taking place; Ayon watching with sadness in his eyes as the combatants took aim at one another. Upon seeing their death, a hand shot out instinctively while red eyes shook. Why? Why were they doing this to one another?! "Those people. ." He hated death. To be around it even now made the blonde sick to his stomach, but what could be done? With their lives taken, the waters edge about the group began to rise even higher now; causing him to turn to stare, then look back at the dead bodies not too far away. These deaths, were they causing the villages tide to go haywire? "Reiki, Airlys. We're going to that shrine." Following suit to the young lady, Ayon moved along with the others in tow. What exactly laid inside would probably be the end all be all to this; that was one hope, but it was just that. Hope. Hope for all this craziness to just come to an end. "Watch yourselves. We have no idea what's here or how many more people are infected by that. . whatever that was. Don't let your guard down for even a second."
He was on high alert, constantly scanning about with his Sharingan in tow and making sure to not miss a beat of anything that might be going on. Stopping though at the bodies, Ayon gave them once over to make sure nothing was out of the ordinary - avoiding physical contact so he, at the least, could avoid contracting their madness.
Used Sharingan
Misujage
Jellisha
AandOE
> o > < o < > o > What's next?!
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:14 pm
Dcme
Jellisha
The bodies were just as thus, and no more. Their clothes had been sent to tatters from their in-fighting, with no attention paid to the honorable grounds they tended. Once beautiful, now in ruins, such a place was defiled. The very small shrine was only a tiny blip on the training grounds that constituted the surrounding environs, as this was mainly a place to practice Suiton techniques. Even now as it was covered in various fungi and shells, remnants of stone pillars relating the basics of water release dotted the landscape. With the fighting here finished, a calm silence remained. Clashes of metal on metal could be heard emanating from the direction of the rest of Kirigakure, their high pitches sailing through the air clearly.
Misujage
Reiki's caution with the shell was not unfounded, his sense of danger more acutely aware than at the beginning of the mysterious events. As the shell abruptly bumped into one of the large mushrooms, tiny brown caps popped up on the light green side. Standing there, the caps would quickly grow, feeding upon an unknown source until they bloomed, spores puffing into the still air.
He would back away, slowly levitating the scale somewhere off towards his right. Wary of the new blossoming mushrooms that seemed to grow. He wanted to give them their space, lest they did something foolish like explode. His eyes tensed as they seemed to ... release something new. Spores? Awkward, not only because these had a separate effect. But because he hadn't seen brown mushrooms before. His hands signed, and the heavy saturated air would turn to a light snow. Catching the spores and letting them settle down slowly, but the space around him would continue. The frost creeping over everything, if these mushrooms took so much water than surely they were moisture prone to their very core. They would freeze, all of the water around him in a small area. Well, relatively small compared to larger sources. It was about the size of a pond of water, the circumference of the circle that froze the mushrooms. Frightened that they would once more contaminate him, and that once again he would turn into some burden needing to be protected. "Ayon, can you find any more spikes in chakra? It sounds like the villagers are rioting the same way these people did." And if more people continued to die, then the waters would continue to rise. The mushrooms would continue to grow. But alas, what did the fuuin symbols have to do with this?! Everything else had a connection, what were they missing. Why were doors and windows locked from passage. Was there more than one anomaly tormenting their village?
STATISTICS
CHAKRA:: 280//280 195/266 STAMINA:: 260//260
TECHNIQUES
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Dcme
Jellisha
AandOE
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:51 pm
S H I N S E T S U Eirlys||Bukijutsu||Genin||"Frost Witch" ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗ They were all very much dead. Whatever their reason had been for fighting could only be a wonder. Then again, what she happen next got her thinking. Just as the spores started to fly from the mushroom and into the air, Eirlys began to question whether these had something to do with the strange way that people have been acting. If she had been at the hospital before to witness the scene where Reiki had gone out of control then she would have been able to answer her own question with a bit of certainty. It could be speculated that the means by which the mushrooms passed on their disease to everyone was both waterborne, airborne and could even be passed through physical contact with either the mushrooms themselves or an already infected individual. Eirlys could see why Ayon had been so upset before when she had almost made direct contact with the strange green glow that she knew nothing about. Maybe she would have been in such a state of frenzy where she would have attempted killing her own friends. Reiki seemed to have learned too as he formed the handsign and started making the gestures that had become so familiar. The small workings taking place in the air were minuscule at best, but she could tell what was happening. The boy was freezing the moisture int he air in and around the spores that had gathered and were wafting through the wind. It was well played, as most living things such as these mushrooms found extreme cold to be unbearable, and Reiki had played on this weakness. It was time they stopped being the butt of the joke and started taking preemptive action. Another Hatsuyuki formed beside her and the two hovered low to the ground close by. "There is nothing we can do for them now. We must proceed. I have a feeling we are about to find the reason for all that has happened." She followed close by Ayon as he walked towards the shrine. They were going deeper into this one holy now turned sinister place, and the feeling at the pit of her stomach could not be swayed with reassurances. Something would go terribly wrong. She could feel it.
Spikes of chakra? Well, he could certainly look around to check. The sharingan began to spin rapidly within; scanning every nook and cranny to see if anything could be out of place around the village. In the distance, he did see the sparks of war going on within the village, but they weren't yet needed for something of that magnitude. He didn't want to give up on figuring out what in the hell was going on around this area first. After finalizing a basic search, his eyes looked on over to the shrine, giving it a long hard stare. "There's people fighting in the village. The place is in complete chaos." What were they going to do? Not too long ago he'd heard an announcement to go help where they could, but. . . No. This was more important. They would undoubtedly stop this place from sinking! "The more people die, the more the waters rise. When you eat the mushrooms, you go insane. Messing with those weird symbols causes them to react in a hostile manner. None of this is connecting. . . ." And then, something else happened. Reiki's green scale that he was toying with touched a nearby Mushroom and spores went sailing through the air. Ayon took a step back, only in case these spores were dangerous much like the mushrooms themselves.
But. . what if the spores were the answer to something? He didn't know exactly what to do, but. . he couldn't just not do anything! "Air-chan, check out the shrine. Be careful. Reiki. . get more of those green scales. Use them on different color mushrooms and see what happens. If more spores pop out, contain them using your ice. . . Maybe these spores are the answer to something." They were lost playing sherlock holmes. . . and at this point, what else could they do. ". . If anything, we'll need to see how those spores effect a human being. I'll play test subject this time." They had no other option.
Used Sharingan
Misujage
Jellisha
AandOE
Checked for spiking chakra. Checked the shrine. Checked everything. >:C
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:02 pm
Dcme
Jellisha
Misujage
Inka's Katon ninjutsu could be seen well from this location, and the resulting glow from the ambient Fuuinjutsu would light up the sky in Ayon's eyes. Elsewhere, other symbols would light up as psychotic citizens battled each other and the Anbu, their fights spilling over and through the passable Fuuin. Spikes of chakra could be seen as some of the higher up shinobi flew among the rooftops in the distance, relentlessly chasing their prey. Here, though, the tiny shrine was all calm, except of course for the raising waters, mushrooms, and shells. Looking down into the water, the chakra was still thicker there, but the under current would make returning to its depths more than difficult. If only the water could be drained at a faster rate than it was filling. All of this new information was certainly needed, to help the rest of Kirigakure, and it had been quite a long time since this group had sent word to the administrative folks, hadn't it?
Bug came. Saw s**t. Flew back to Akemi. Patrolling is so convenient when you have bugs to do it for you.
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:35 pm
This was odd, more so than he would have liked. It was probably best not to touch the water anymore, keeping the frozen land frozen as long as he could. Though towards its edges, the water seemed to have grown quicker. Why, he wasn't sure, but they couldn't go back the way they had come. Getting to this shrine was already problematic, and yet all he could do was think. Think on the scales they had encountered before. Weren't there, mushrooms growing out of those scales. And these mushrooms here, they reacted to the scales. Though not only that, were much larger than the mushrooms they had seen before. He froze, and looked down to the ice beneath his feet. What wall did they hit when they came to this shrine. And why, did it all of a sudden shoot them upwards. Maybe he was thinking into it too much, but if his guess was right. They were standing on something quite large. Something with mushrooms growing out of its scales. He held a handseal and the ice around him burst. The sudden kill spears of ice, normally used to protrude upwards would shoot down instead. Out of the opposite surface of the layer of ice he had created. If the ground didn't break, if it didn't pierce the way he was sure it should. Then ... undoubtedly. This group had stumbled into the wrong den. "And we're all dead ..." His lip quivered through those barely audible words. Waiting for the results of his assault.
STATISTICS
CHAKRA:: 280//280 195/266 STAMINA:: 260//260
TECHNIQUES
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Dcme
Jellisha
AandOE
Misujage
Saint
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JellytheBeany
Omnipresent Noob
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:59 pm
S H I N S E T S U Eirlys||Bukijutsu||Genin||"Frost Witch" ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗ Everything grew even stranger as the seconds went by. This had been the longest day of her life, with good reason too. She had never had to do so much one one day, never been through so much in the same, and having your mind play tricks on you was not a good thing; ever. Eirlys left the small group and went further into the shrine just as Ayon mentioned she do so. It would be best for them to split up and cover more ground. The others could handle things out here, was what she was thinking as she went further inside, getting lose in the distance. The Shinsetsu looked around the large room, not absorbing the beauty of the place as they were being faced with what might be the end of their village. She could not really take it all in as she would have liked. Placing her hand against the far wall, Eirlys rubbed slowly, gently, feeling the hard surface and knowing that she should have figured something by now, but she couldn't quite wrap her mind around it. Turning off to the right, she spotted an area dotted with the same light green that she had seen before, and she walked towards it curiously, looking down at the sizable green patch. "Oh!" she exclaimed, taking a few steps back just as another large mushroom shot up from the patch and reached its full height in seconds. Eirlys stepped forward cautiously and placed her hand gingerly on the mushroom's surface, feeling it despite caution telling her otherwise. Nothing untoward happened though, and she could have sworn that while trailing her hand across the smooth surface she felt something move. It could have been chalked down to paranoia but she wasn't so sure about that either. Looking down at the base she noticed the same pulsing green that they had been seeing ever since they stepped foot into that cavern. For some reason she remembered what had happened when Reiki had touched the mushroom with the shell, and then she remembered where the shell had come from in the first place. Several of them had collected against the ice dome as they had traveled through the water. Staring at the ground for another minute, she played connect the dots. The water levels were rising. Mushrooms grew at the water's edges, they had bumped into something quite large on their way here and had been forcefully expelled upwards as a result. The mushrooms in here were much large than the ones they had seen before and to top it all off, shells had surrounded the outer regions of the wall they had hit. Eirlys almost jumped out of her own skin as her pale skin grew paler still, finally coming to a conclusion, one that she hoped she was wrong about. Power walking back to the group she found herself almost shouting. "We might have a slight problem on our hands." Her form became visible just as Reiki shot the ice spikes downwards in an attempt to impale the ground, and it was then that Eirlys figured that the boy had come to the same conclusion that she did. His words in the end did not inspire confidence however, and she in turn looked to Ayon for guidance.
Shadows of people fighting in the distance. Echoes of dying citizens and ninja. Chakra signatures disappearing by the multitude. Ayon stared to the rim of the distance towards Kirigakure, biting down on his lower lip. What in the world could they possibly do here to stop this havoc?! Something, anything. It seemed like everything was just getting worst over time. Turning back to Reiki, he watched while blinking to himself; seeing the young man completely ignore him and focus on the water, then to the ground below. But why? Why was he suddenly paying mind to the dirt beneath their feet? "Reiki, what're you. ." The waters edge. For some reason, the chakra was still far denser below it than anywhere else. . Chakra being beneath water for no reason? And on top of that, the water was steadily getting higher with each passing moment, but they had no way to possibly stop it. Not with their arsenal of jutsu, but. . Ayon had other abilities to rely on. Yes, his eyes had helped him greatly and his Genjutsu was extremely powerful, but he had something more. At his core, the one thing he truly excelled in was control of chakra.
He'd learned from the academy and from his mother - using chakra to enhance ones own blows to optimal level and cause mass damage. As Reiki had his own reasons for attacking the earth, Ayon didn't even attempt to question it. He believed in his friend no matter what. Though it had yet to be seen by anyone, this was a technique he'd mastered long ago. The ability to produce incredible strength at the drop of a dime. Breathing inward, then outward, he slowly reeled his arm back; chakra charging to its intended point as fire further built on the limb. Looking like some form of spear with the head being his own fist. Stopping only in the moment to look over at Airlys as she looked at him, softly smiling to comfort her. "Don't worry. We'll be fine." He uttered before turning and striking the ground with intense speed. The power from said assault would most likely cause the entire area to fissure as katon chakra exploded from the initial mark. A combination of two jutsu made a fine mix of intense energy!
Used Sharingan Emperors Flame Commandment [A] Strong Arm [Oukasho Level (D)]
All those in attendance would take witness as their techniques pummeled the ground in many successive strikes. Out from where they had arisen in the water, a man of unparalleled beauty rose to the surface, face down into the water. Floating over to the iced over portions, he washed up on the make-shift shoreline, coughing up bits of inhaled water as he shivered on the spot he lay.
STATISTICS
CHAKRA:: ??/?? STAMINA:: ??/??
TECHNIQUES
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Dcme
Jellisha
Misujage
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:31 pm
Nothing, nothing at all. Maybe he had overreacted for no reason at all. Odd, even the sound of fighting from the Village had killed itself off, as it were. Maybe, this was all over. Someone had found out how to stop these effects from happening any longer. He calmed before the sight of white hair caught his eye from the murky depths. Eyes widened at the mere sight of what he saw. Hands going to his chest and abdomen, to feel if he was still there. Before looking behind him to see if those he had come with were able to see him as well. He didn't look at them but for a brevity before turning back to the vision of himself washing up against the shore. Was this ... was he dying?! Did he have to save himself before he died? Was he even able to. He didn't have time to think of this, he had to act ... before he, it died. "Hang on!" Foolish, being taken in by mere appearances. But Reiki ran until he was about a yard from the sputtering man. Not daring to get any closer until he was sure of what exactly this was. "A-are you okay? My name is Reiki." His right hand went to his chest, kneeling a bit to the one whom appearance mocked his own. Almost fearing the porcelain doll would mimic his voice and words as well as his appearance. This was all if, he even continued to exist.
Everything, everything is fine. He had overreacted for no reason at all. Certainly, the sounds of fighting from the village had killed itself off, as it were. Perhaps, this was all over. Maybe someone had found out how to stop these effects from happening any longer, or maybe not. Flicking his luscious eyes open, Reiki blinked a few times, adjusting to the new surroundings. "My name is Reiki. Why do you look like me?" Sitting up into a kneel, his left hand went to his chest on instinct. The other man was kneeling, looking him up and down like he was some kind of freak. "Ayon, Eirlys, what is going on here?" A concerned look came over him, causing Reiki to furrow his brow. Why did these people agitate him so much? Shivering, the white haired man drew his other hand up to clasp together the other, and looked down at the ground between the two Reikis.
