Something goes Awoo in the Night

The creature snarls in clear frustration as flesh fails to catch under its claws, her hand coming away only with tattered remains of Pinocchio's halloween costume. It ducks down, about to leap towards the boy to instead rip its face off in her jaws, when the chains of Pinocchio's weapon wraps around her and squeezes. The wolf snaps its jaws forward savagely, spittle flying through the air, straining against its bonds. Pinocchio's bonds could hold Murata, but this isn't Murata anymore. Who knows how strong this creature could be?

It lunges forwards with arms tied precariously, teeth snapping towards Pinocchio, held from his face only by Mitsu intervening and getting his weapon around its throat. The creature shrieks in a blood-curdling roar, struggling against its bonds as it hits the ground with a loud thud.

In a whirl of fur and steel and blood, it whirls around in an attempt to get back on its feet - and with a 'pop' one of its arms bursts free, surging through the air towards Mitsu's face with a speed far beyond that of the shinobi its emerged from. At the same time, it leaves itself open to Pinocchio, presenting him perhaps the only chance he'll get to put this creature down. If he doesn't, the nightmare may grow beyond all logic, the beast mercilessly hunting them - their feet feeling heavier and heavier, as though they are running in place - until they awaken in their beds from the feeling of teeth around their throats.

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Murata wakes up.

Silver moonlight bathes her room. She pulls herself upright in a cold sweat, mind shakily returning to reality. The beginning of a killer headache throbs behind her eyes, and she gets out of bed, stepping towards the bathroom to get a glass of water as Princess stirs on the bed from her absence.

The dreams swim in her head, details fading but the core remaining the same. She splashes her face with water. Of course the anxiety is getting to her, she should have expected nightmares. She looks back out into her apartment, suspecting that the ANBU will be in tomorrow to begin moving her things into the Kage Estate, and she sighs and takes her water back to bed.

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TWC: 1,000

His teammate lunged. Everything seemed to go awkwardly silent as pinochio focused on his taijutsu training. With the gates open he knew there was one answer to the thread ahead of him. He released the weapon, swinging it to continue to wrap around murata as he drew one hand in front of his face. Closer and closer the creature came, until he could feel the breath on his palm. And then a closed fist tapped the back of the hand, and his technique released.

He couldn't actually tell if the daytime tiger had done it's job. Instinctively he leaned back as the threat closed, and his feet slid out from under him as heels pressed into yielding ground. It was wet leaves. He slipped. THe white energy obscured his vision up to the point when his head cracked hard against a root perfectly positioned to take him from the conscious world. Everything faded to black and...


he woke up! His body jolted at the shock of the dream, sending him sprawling off the chair set at the head of Saya's kitchen table. THe table flipped, the chair flipped, he unfortunately did not flip, and he found himself laying on the ground looking up at the ceiling. It felt like there were several sewing needles stuck into his back. Ah. Yes. THe small tomato shaped pin cushion was laying on the ground behind him. That was quite unfortunate. With a shrug he sighed. At least he wasn't getting eaten by his teammate.

(TWC 1253 putting 1253 towards twin rising dragons (1253/2750) and 24 ap then mission complete so also claiming 6k ryo, 30 ap, and 8 haloween tickets! exit topic closed after they leave! )

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The last thing Mitsu can see is the glint of their claws as they come to his face. The reflection of the moon shining in the pale white, so close to his eyes he could almost feel it... And then.

The harsh ringing of his alarm clock. The faded colors of the hazy and misty morning in kirigakure stream through his blinds into his room. His hands instinctively go to his throat, touching, feeling... Nothing. His heart thumps in his chest, his breathing is heavy, tears well up in his eyes. But he clings to himself. He clings and keeps quiet. Because he knows if he were to be too loud there would be worse to deal with. But after not long he was fine. What... was all that? He thinks. He stands up on shaky legs out of bed. Looking out to the streets of kirigakure beyond his household complex and seeing naught but the streets filled with mist.

Ah well. Might as well get breakfast ready. With that thought Mitsu heads off into the quiet halls of his home. The rest of the family asleep, some tossing and turning in their slumber plagued by terrors similar to what he had just finished. But he was free. For now at least. So he cooks and cleans and gets ready to face the day after the sleepless night.

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(Sorry about taking so long here, forgot that i never finished this one >.>)
[Exit Claim]

Mission
6100 Ryo
30 AP
8 tickets

(25% Max Stat Discount)
Jutsu
1011 WC towards Temple Style: Bark v7.2 [1011/2062]

Exit

1,000 WC going to unlearning 5 Strength and training 5 Speed
Training Tempest: Single Cell for 1,000 words

Claiming Mission Rewards
6000 Ryo
30 AP
8 tickets

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