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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 12:53:40 GMT -4
The stone giant tried to defend itself, but it was summond from the same ground that Oki had found her hot spring in, and Clai and frozen the water that was in it, jumping clear once more, and the dragon could have it's way with the giant...
Clai nodded to Oki, appreciating the team work, and ran to join his teammate on top of the hotel. It seemed this was going to be a quick battle...
If Oki had any sense of what was going on behind her, she might dodge the next attack - but if not, she was about to be struck by the same giant ninja star that Yuki had caught earlier - the sneak attacks he was talking about...
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 13:01:55 GMT -4
Oki was so focused on the giant's destruction that she didn't notice the attack coming. As the stone crumbled, the star hit her in the middle of the back. Her concentration shattered, the dragon lost its form and the water fell heavily to the ground. Her eyes gone wide, Oki too pitched forward, the taste of copper strong in her mouth.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 13:10:59 GMT -4
Gria cackled as she easily dodged Zia's attacks with her claws, which were now far longer than when she had been sharpening them in the pool of water. Gria continuously back flipped away as Zia charged... Until Zia too fell into a trap, landing in a pit of spikes - from which blood sprayed up, and then the ground closed over it again...
Clai and the other water user were too busy on the hotel top fighting Beiru to help Oki right now...
Once again, it depended on if Oki saw the attack coming or not. She would see a shadow loom over her, but it may have been too late to react as the one Yuki had warned her of - the corpse looking 12 year old boy delivered a hard feild goal style kick for Oki's chin...
"That's right brother!" Gria screamed. "That is Kazeitami's wife! Kill her!"
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 13:21:58 GMT -4
Oki's head was still spinning as she hit the ground, and she noticed the shadow just as the boy's foot came into view. It connected with her chin, snapping her head back forcefully and sending her sprawling. She gasped as she hit the ground, the impact dislodging the star, and then bounced. She came to rest, sprawled on her side, and she tried to raise herself up with trembling arms. Her body was on fire with pain, and she could feel the hot blood as it poured from the wound in her back. She was gasping, and knew she'd never be able to move fast enough.
Her eyes darted around, and she was forced to accept that she was alone with the corpse, that there was no chance of rescue.
Her hands shook as she started to form the seals... Boar... Dog... Bird... Monkey.. Ram..
She watched with horror as the boy came closer, heard Gria's jeering, and tried to swallow the blood that was filling her mouth.
"Kuchiyose... no Jutsu," she panted and collapsed as the smoke appeared.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 13:24:50 GMT -4
There was a screech of a hawk as Ikihane siezed his moment and ripped through the dead fleash of Oki's attacker, leaving several feathers dislodged in the scraggly hair from where he attacked the throat. Dispite the gaping wound, there was no blood. There were however, sigils on the feathers that now were attached to the corpse, and as Ikihane departed from his attack - the corpse not fast enough to grapple the small hawk, the feathers began to burn as they were actually exploding tags...
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 13:28:14 GMT -4
Mine roared angrily, standing protectively over Oki's prone form once the smoke cleared. She watched the hawk attack and crouched, ready to spring on anything that might remain of the corpse after the exploding tags.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 13:31:06 GMT -4
The tags exploded, removing a significant portion of the boy's head, but the corpse remained unphased it seemed - and he continued his agressive attacks against anything close to him...
When he saw the lepord, he began to form hand seals - which is to say, if Oki noticed, that he was mirroring exactly the hand seals that Gria was using not far away...
Darkness started to encircle all of them...
The other cloud nin abandoned Clai to fight Beiru on his own for now, and was running to try and help Zia out of the earthy trap she'd found herself in, and try to deal with Gria at the same time...
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 13:33:47 GMT -4
Oki was in no position to see anything, but Mine was. Her powerful hind legs bunched, and she leaped up and over the corpse, charging instead at Gria with her fangs and claws bared. She snarled when she came close, preparing again to leap, only this time at the living woman's throat.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 13:41:49 GMT -4
Gira smiled and excepted the attack, unfortunately, as the darkness grew to surround them as well, Mine would find that she had just fallen for a kiwarimi, and was instead attacking the throat of the other Cloud nin - at least, that cloud nin would hope that Mine realized it...
The corpse, in utter darkness, reached for Oki, trying to grab her by the scruff of the neck and whip her around, hopefully slamming her back into the ground as well...
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 13:49:27 GMT -4
Mine pulled up as short as she could, landing on the cloud ninja and forcing him to the ground, but leaving him otherwise unharmed. She turned and, seeing the corpse reaching for Oki, swiped at the empty air in front of her. Four long, sharp daggers of ice formed and short towards the boy.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 13:52:10 GMT -4
The lot of them, from the corpse's jutsu, would now find themselves in unnatrual pitch blackness, and he paid no heed to the daggars - perhaps didn't even know they were coming, and all four of them dug into it's back...
His main focus was, as Gria said, Kazeitami's wife, and his effort was still to wring the life out of her by the neck, grabbing and slamming her into whatever he could find if she couldn't get away..
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 13:56:35 GMT -4
Oki's eyes fluttered open as she was grabbed by the throat and she choked, clawing at the hands that held her. She was spent. She felt weak and cold all over, but she struggled. She tried to bring her legs up, plant her feet on the chest of the corpse and push outward, either to break his grip or pull his arms loose from their sockets. She didn't care which, she just wanted those cold, clammy hands away from her.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 14:02:33 GMT -4
The corpse slammed her into the ground once by her throat before her legs found purchase, and Oki certainly did succeed in her atempts to get away from the corpse when she pushed away from him. Unfortunately, she only got away from the corpse himself, the arm was still attached to Oki, and the cold decaying hand still around her throat, trying to choke her...
The boy didn't even seem to notice that he'd been sundered of his arm, and lurched after her again with the other one...
Beside Mine, the Cloud nin recovered from his inept attack and turned, looking blindly for his opponent... He didn't find Zia though, she found him, and he too ended up with a large star in his back...
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Post by Oki on Sept 3, 2009 14:08:41 GMT -4
Oki was seeing stars, but she manged to pry the hand away from her neck and she tossed it well away lest it find her again. She then rolled off to one side as Mine charged, leaping for the corpse. As Mine attacked, Oki forced herself up to her feet and spied the star that had been lodged in her back. She staggered toward it grimly.
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Post by Yuki on Sept 3, 2009 14:12:15 GMT -4
The corpse flailed against the lepord attack, but while the massive cat was on its back, it seemed impossible to dislodge it.
To its great disadvantage, while in this darkness, not even Gria could see to help it... While Mine might not be able to kill the chakra created corpse, she would no doubt be able to dismember it enough - eventually - to be able to stop it from being a significant threat long enough to find and stop Gria...
The cloud nin at the other edge of the darkness continued to cry out in pain as more and more stars impacted with his back, no matter which way he turned it... As it stood, he was as good as dead, as was Zia if she couldn't get out of the earth...
Outside the darkness, battle between Beiru and Clai waged on amid the screams of patrons rushing out of the hotel to find refudge...
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