Fear and Blood [Hunter]

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There was something terrible in the air, tonight.

She couldn’t remember how she ended up here in Yugakure. Was it a vacation? A mission? Perhaps they were just passing through to other pastures? It was simply going to be a stop over. Everything was going to be fine. They would go back home, smile, and everything would be fine.

Then she started finding the corpses. Fresh, bloody, yet lifeless. In just a night, her friends had turned from living beings to slowly rotting hunks of meat. It made her hopeless, scared. And, more importantly, it made her angry.

Moving down an abandoned street, 20m wide and 100m long before turning off into other streets, Kikuko would form the seal of confrontation before beginning to walk, a poof of smoke enveloping her. Being at the farthest end of the street and straddling the middle at the 10m mark, Gafas would silently alight upon her left shoulder as jitters would jump up and down her entire body. She knew that Gafas had begun to draw nature energy immediately upon her summoning- a trick the two had worked out over the course of their partnership. Something had to be here. Something was hunting the people of this town. Perhaps human, perhaps animal. And in that feeling, there was an even more terrible sense.

The sense that soon, she would be next.

[238]

Calculations:

Summoned Gafas [40AP]
Nature Stacks: [2/6]

New AP Total: [1310/1350]

Spoiler:

It was on this very night that Kikuko found herself in an unfamiliar and scary place, Yugakure no Sato. This village was a terrifying place located deep within one’s dreams which served the purpose of testing one’s abilities- at a cost. Survive this nightmare and reap the rewards, but fail, and lose everything.
 
This nightmare started off by our hero finding those closest to her slain mercilessly in the streets, hunted by a ghoul who at one point long ago, walked the Earth as a living and breathing shinobi. Now- they were nothing more than a shell of a person, occupied by an insidious evil.
 
The evil presence stalked Kikuko at a distance far enough to ensure that they would be able to operate undetected by suppressing their chakra. The ghoul would revel in each emotion that rushed through her body as she looked helplessly upon her loved one’s corpses- knowing there was nothing that she could do to save them.
 
The realm of Yugakure was dark and the only light that emitted was that from the moon above and the occasional flickering oil lamps that were scattered throughout the village on various buildings. Now that the Kukuko was in a distraught state, it was time for the Ghoul to put an end to her suffering. The ghoul followed the girl as she walked down the street. As he did, he performed 5 hand seals (Dog - Bird - Hare - Monkey – Horse) and upon completion, the ghoul’s entire body would become completely invisible to the naked eye. The undead continued to stalk Kikuko at the distance of 20M.
 
3 Meters prior to Kikuko stopping in place, the ghoul would activate a technique that would release yin-yang chakra from their tenketsu points to create a spatial shell around their body that was not visible to the naked eye. Once Kikuko would stop, so would the ghoul, maintaining the 20 meter distance between them. Just as she stopped, the ghoul would weave 11 hand seals (Rat - Ram - Snake - Tiger - Bird - Rat - Ram - Snake - Tiger - Bird – Ox). Upon completion, the ghoul would target a location, 3 meters behind Kikuko’s back and 1 meter above the ground, generating a dome of invisible, pure gravitation energy that would expand until it reached a 15M radius.
 
If Kikuko failed to withstand the gravitation force created by the ghoul’s jutsu, then she would find herself rendered completely paralyzed, and so would her summon.  

WC: 416

Spoiler:

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The gentle tickle of air on the chin. A cold shiver up her spine. Walk, walk, walking. She would have walked up until she had stopped moving when suddenly-

Her chakra senses pinged from the five meters of chakra sense she had passively about herself. Something behind her. Something fast and expanding.

‘Kikuko! Put up some walls!’

Without even pausing to wait for Gafas to finish talking she would already be forming a hand seal, forming the seal of confrontation at a speed of 75 even as Gafas would fly through a series of ‘hand signs’ at the same speed. The moment she began her seals, she would immediately begin flight, Kikuko being brought along due to being held by her strong little legs- moving one meter forward during which she would complete the signs for Tailwind. Immediately upon completion, Gafas would accelerate to 125 speed and take a diagonal path to a resting height of twenty five meters five meters forward from her original location- raising 6.5 meters for every one meter forward.


twenty five meters upward, moving one meter forward for every five meters upward. After a meter of flight, during which the hand seals would complete, Tailwind would activate- causing her to accelerate to 125 speed.

From the ground, 25 meters to her direct back and 10 meters to her direct front, two Rashomon walls would rise at 80 speed and power- blocking off avenues of escape as they with the addition of the entranceless buildings would form a rudimentary trap. From the fact that she couldn’t see anybody in front of her, and the fact that the attack was coming from behind her she would have to make that split second decision- that somebody was in fact ambushing her from behind. Each being fifty meters high, twenty five meters long and five meters thick, they would cut somewhat into the buildings on each side- thankfully, Kikuko wasn’t afraid of collateral damage at the moment.

Meanwhile, she would be scanning the surroundings for any sort of danger- and found nothing.

‘Gafas, what’s going on? Is it the attacker?’

‘I don’t know! But there’s some sort of distortion below us. It’s large, and it covered my full range before we escaped it- so at least ten meters away. Probably more. Whatever’s causing this, they’re doing it at range.’

Doing it at range, and she couldn’t see anybody around them for some distance. Was it perhaps a disguise technique? She knew one of her own- Hiding with Camouflage. Was it a similar one? Or perhaps the very same? She wasn’t sure, but it didn’t hurt to be cautious. Immediately after forming the seal of confrontation she would form the seals of the tiger, bird, ox, monkey, rat and the bird, she would then designate the space ten meters behind and five meters above her starting position above as the origin for the technique- 20 meters from the front Rashomon. Five meters above the ground the Devouring Sphere would expand rapidly in a 10m radius at 80 speed and power, the ball of volatile black chakra swallowing everything in its path- and hopefully whatever assailant was stalking her.

‘Do you think we got it, Gafas?’

‘I just don’t know, Kiku. Stay sharp.’

That...was not reassuring.


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Calculations:

Kikuko:
(100+ chakra means all costs paid have 25% AP reduction.)
Devouring Sphere: 30AP
Double Rashomon: 60AP
Chakra Sensory
Gafas: 40AP

Total: [1180/1350]

Total AP:
Nature Stacks: 2/6

Gafas:
(85 chakra means all costs have 15% AP reduction.)
Tailwind: 34AP

Total: [816/850]

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The ghoul watched the small bug on her shoulder begin to miraculously lift their target into the air. At the moment her feet left the ground, the ghoul would begin to sprint towards her at their max speed in order to close the gap. Although the ghoul could not fly, they needed to be as close as possible to harm them. The girl weaved hand seals as her companion lifted her through the air, and upon completion, two large walls would begin to form. One behind the ghoul, and one in front of them both, and once they would fully form, they would lock them both within a makeshift enclosure.

The ghoul would continue their sprint and whilst sprinting and prior to Kikuko reaching a resting height of 25M, the ghoul would finish weaving four hand seals (Dragon > Rat > Hare > Bird). The ghoul, now underneath Kikuko, would launch a technique that did not require hand seals just as Kikuko would begin to ask her summon “What’s going on?”. 5 meters below her, a point is selected, and a sphere is created, spreading up to 10M in radius. If Kikuko did not move out of the way fast enough, the sphere would close the 5M gap underneath her, and continue to grow 5M above where she currently was, consuming anything in its path.

Spoiler:

The ghoul had caught itself in its own jutsu, the black mass spawning on the ground next to the ghouls’ feet and expanding to consume them, as well as destroying the clashing jutsu. Although undead, the ghoul could feel the pressure created by it’s own jutsu and the damage that the self-infliction had caused. The ghoul would cancel their jutsu and it would fade away by the time that the girl reached the end of her trajectory path of 25 five meters overhead and a few meters forward from the ghoul’s current location.

The ghouls own jutsu had put his own jutsu, Hiding with Camouflage, on cooldown, causing the invisible assailant to become visible to the girl. The ghouls’ eyes glowed blue from down below with spite, their eyes fixated on Kikuko. Feeling the affects of their mistake, the ghoul formed seven hand seals (Monkey -> Ox -> Snake -> Ram -> Tiger -> Dog -> Boar) and upon completion, the ghouls body would become coated with an aura comprised of medical chakra.

Spoiler:

The ghoul watched as brilliant blue wings erupted from his targets back overhead. The blue hue of Kukuko’s wings were reminiscent of the ghouls own soulless eyes which staired onwards. “Garrahahhah” The ghoul moaned in frustration. A few moments later and 5 meters in the air above the ghoul, a series of six portals would open and from each, a tentacle would be produced. The ghoul had found himself in a sick online video. Feeling confident the ghouls chakra armor would protect him, he would begin to formulate some hand seals, but the speed of the tentacles were too much and before the ghoul could complete said hand seals, the tentacles would secure them with lightning grip and terrible strength. The ghoul could feel his lifeless bones cracking underneath the pressure of the tentacles. Another tentacle would bat him towards another and now flying through the air, until he was secured one more and then dragged into one of the portals from which the tentacles came. Feeling helpless and angry whilst being dragged away, the ghoul would let out another grotesque sound, “Ggrrrrahhhhahhah!” The portal would close up leaving Kukuko alone, as the sole survivor of this match and the ghoul would spend the rest of his days floating through the void.
 
Wc: 212
Twc: 1026

[Mission Complete/ Kikuko Wins!]

Claims:

4,000 Ryo = 8200 New Total Fu
20 AP = 182 New Mission AP Total Fu
20 Bonus Ap = 451 New Bonus AP Total Fu


1026 towards Strength of 100 2417 Previous WC. 3443/4000 New Total 
8 Tickets 

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